[newbie-it] aiuto-rivoglio i miei dati
Ho installato Mandrake 8 su una partizione del mio hard disk, per prova, bello veramente, unico neo (x me) è che non mi fa vedere il resto del disco, cioè tutti i miei dati, c'è qualcuno in grado di aiutarmi?
R: [newbie-it] aiuto-rivoglio i miei dati
Hai windows nell'altra partizione? - Original Message - From: Vincenzo Manenti To: mandrake newbie-it Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 11:36 AM Subject: [newbie-it] aiuto-rivoglio i miei dati Ho installato Mandrake 8 su una partizione del mio hard disk, per prova, bello veramente, unico neo (x me) è che non mi fa vedere il resto del disco, cioè tutti i miei dati, c'è qualcuno in grado di aiutarmi? Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che ti paga: clicca qui Sponsor:Curarsi con le erbe Clicca qui
Re: R: [newbie-it] aiuto-rivoglio i miei dati
Ciao, hai installato lilo come boot-loder nel mbr record? se si riprendere i dati sarà facile ferdi --- Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Hai windows nell'altra partizione? - Original Message - From: Vincenzo Manenti To: mandrake newbie-it Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 11:36 AM Subject: [newbie-it] aiuto-rivoglio i miei dati Ho installato Mandrake 8 su una partizione del mio hard disk, per prova, bello veramente, unico neo (x me) è che non mi fa vedere il resto del disco, cioè tutti i miei dati, c'è qualcuno in grado di aiutarmi? -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che ti paga: clicca http://www.email.it/f Sponsor:Curarsi con le erbe Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=5d=2001-8-31 __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
Re: [newbie-it] aiuto-rivoglio i miei dati
Il 07:36, venerdì 31 agosto 2001, hai scritto: Ho installato Mandrake 8 su una partizione del mio hard disk, per prova, bello veramente, unico neo (x me) è che non mi fa vedere il resto del disco, cioè tutti i miei dati, c'è qualcuno in grado di aiutarmi? Secondo me sei troppo generico nell'esporre il problema. Comunque sia... le soluzioni possono essere due a prima vista. Prima soluzione: 1) crea un dischetto di boot per mandrake; 2) inserisci il cd di windows e avvia il sistema in modalità `con supporto cd-rom', dopo di che scrivi `fdisk /mbr' e riavvi il computer. Seconda soluzione: 1) apri mandrake control center; 2) vai nella sezione avvio e imposta come boot loader `grub'; 3) riavvia il sistema e salvi capra e cavoli. Una eventuale terza soluzione richiede che ti spieghi meglio. ciao Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Allegato: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie-it] Chi ha il KDE 2.2 per mdk8
On Thursday 30 August 2001 14:46, you wrote: Il 09:21, martedì 28 agosto 2001, hai scritto: On Wednesday 29 August 2001 18:26, you wrote: Salve a tutti, vorrei acquisire il KDE 2.2 stabile. Data la mia connessione lenta (modem 56K) vorrei chiedere se qualcuno che l'ha già acquisito potrebbe mandarmene una copia su cd-rom. Chiaramente pagherei tutte le spese necessarie :-) Ciao Sandro Ciao, io ho scaricato kde 2.2, se mi dai il tuo indirizzo te lo spedisco... Ciao, ti ringrazio per la cortesia. Ti ho spedito un messaggio privatamente ma non so se ti è arrivato. Il mio indirizzo è: Sandro Porrazzini via della Cooperazione 25 05100 Terni (TR) Nel ringraziarti anticipatamente ti prego di indicarmi le modalità con cui posso rifonderti le eventuali spese che sosterrai. Ciao Sandro -- -- OKreZ -- www.hampcake.com -- Ok appena ho 1 minuto ti spedisco il cd coi pacchetti del kde 2.2 !
Re: [newbie-it] domanda stupida
On Wednesday 29 August 2001 16:04, you wrote: ciao a tutti domanda stupida potrei sapere cos'e' esattamente un daemon? grazie Marcello Un daemon (demone) e' un programma che gira in background, tipo lpd che gestisce la stampa, usbd che gestisce l'usb, etc... -- -- OKreZ -- www.hampcake.com --
Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness
Please keep this off list. Again, respond to me if neccsary, and Isaac off list. This is not the appropriate place to expounde your moral beliefs. This is a linux help list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Epson USB scanner on Mandrake 7.1
Hi, I cannot install Mandrake 8 and so I would like to install an USB Epson scanner (1240) on my Mandrake 7.1 system but kernel 2.2.15 does not support USB scanners. Is there any newer kernel working on 7.1 supporting USB scanners? Thank you to everybody Renato -- Renato Tognaccini, Dipartimento di Progettazione Aeronautica, Universita` di Napoli Federico II, Piazzale V. Tecchio 80, 80125 Napoli, ITALIA. tel.: +39-0817682179 fax: +39-0817682187 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] icons and sounds
Hi Is it possible to use windows icons (.ico) in KDE and is it possible to change things like startup sounds and shutdown sounds? Thanx Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] CPU question
I have a BP6, with 466 celerons in it - clocked at 75 Mhz each rather than 66. This gives me a pair of 525 MHz little fellas. They run fine under 2.2.13 (from MDK 6.5) without a hitch. They did cause kernel messages under the 2.4 kernels APIC CPU1 error or suchlike. Dropping them down from the 78 Mhz they were at to 75 made them a little happier. Overall, I think you'll be very lucky to get a pair of CPU's which will be stable at 100 Mhz. As you have the BP6, you can increase the bus speed in little jumps - just keep going up until they either get too hot or start being flaky. Then back down one and things should be OK. You have got some decent cooling fans in there haven't you Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: civileme [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 10:37 AM To: Pascal Goguey; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] CPU question On Friday 31 August 2001 01:59, Pascal Goguey wrote: Hello, I am running Mandrake on a Abit motherboard (Abit BP6) with dual celeron. It looks like the smp kernel works fine. The celerons I use are quite old (400 MHz) and their FSB clock rate is 66 MHz. I was thinking I would upgrade to more recent CPUs (about 800 MHz each, 100 MHz FSB). But I was told that the 100 MHz celeron may not run an SMP machine. In fact, it may work on a single processor only., so there is (according to that person) no point in upgrading. Does anyone have data about this issue? Does anybody use a BP6 with 100 MHz celerons? Thanks, Pascal Yes, the BP6 and a few other boards were the only ones that ever made dual processor Celeron systems. You can buy overclocking SMP certified warranteed Celerons from err, the people who could help you are out of business http://www.computernerd.com/whatwentwrong.html Anyway, the original Celeron had the multiprocesing pins messed up. The moire recent ones had the pins disconnected internally (more properly, never connected at all). Intel was very cautious about letting the Celeron compete against its Pentium II/III/IV line and has always kept it crippled in some regard. Ity is likely that you _can_ overclock some celerons, especially older slower ones simply by kicking the bus to 100. A 300MHz Celeron becomes a 450 when properly cooled and placed on a 100MHz bus, but above 366, the processors had to be individually tested, which is what Computernerd did so very well. Civileme File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hello and Keyboard Map
Hello to everybody in the list, Just a few line to present myself: my name is Pierre Houben, I'm not Italian but ... I live in Italy, I work in Theatre like technician, and I'm a Macintosh user from about three years and just by chance, this is my only experience with computers, no windows or unix in my backgrounds. I just installed Mandrake 8.0 for PPC two days ago on my Pismo PowerBook, 400 Mhz, G3 series. No problems at all, thanks to a friend of mine RedHat user for years, but we couldn't solve two problem: 1) there is no mapping for the Italian or QZERTY keyboard, the one you have to press shift to write the numbers, the only choices are: - US - France - Germany These options can be found during the installation and running HardDrake, no other possibilities were found. Is there anyway to build the mapping or, better, to install the Italian mapping ? 2) there must be a conflict between the Mac and the Mandrake clock, one of the two is running two hours in advance, no possibilities to set them at the same time; any ideas ? Thank you Pierre Houben Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Not prompted for other cd's during installation
ISTR, that under low memory circumstances, 6.5 wouldn't prompt for the 2nd CD either. Memory (pardon the pun) is hazy on this as I only read about it on this very list about 1.5 years ago. I think 32 meg was OK with 6.5 though - people installing with 16 and 24 meg were having grief. You can always just install the RPM's you want from the 2nd CD after you've got a working system though... Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Isaac Curtis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 7:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Not prompted for other cd's during installation Nope, definitely not a single-cd install cd. It's the same cd that, if I pop it in the computer right beside this one, will pop up the prompt for the other cd's. Any ideas? - Isaac Michael D. Viron wrote: Anguo and Isaac, Usually this is because it is part of a single CD install distributed with a magazine (not always, but usually). If this is the case, and you have a fast enough connection plus a cd burner, download the iso's off the ftp site and burn them to CD. If not, buy them from one of the online e-tailers for cheap ( usually $5 or $6 US). I've installed Mandrake 7.2 and 8.0 on everything from a P75 up to a PII, and it has always asked after the second CD, so it's not because of the hardware. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:14 PM 08/28/2001 +0800, you wrote: I had the same problem as you. On a pentium 120mhz 32mb ram, the install didn't ask for the second cd. I did run mandrake but many applications were missing and software manager wouldn't run on such low resources. On a duron 750mhz 256mb ram, I had no such problem. I guess there's no way around it. Just install manually what you need on your old box. Anguo [EMAIL PROTECTED] banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - I'm reinstalling 7.2 on a pretty old box (Eve - 266 MHz PII, 32MB Ram, junker - Everex Monitor, etc) and I am not getting asked whether or not I have the other - cds (I have the boxed version with 7 cds). I started an install on the - computer right beside it (Speedy Gonzalez - 866MHz PIII, 256 MB Ram, etc) and - I got prompted about the other cds right off without any trouble. So my - problem is I can't install all the packages and software I want and need - because it doesn't ask me for the other cds that are ready and waiting to be - used. Two points of note: - - 1. It did the same thing the first time I installed it (on Eve, Speedy was - and has always been fine), I just want to take advantage of this reinstall to - get it right. (original install was a week or so ago, for what it's worth) - - and 2. I get warned about being low on system resources at the beginning of - the install, but I completed it with the graphical installation when I - originally installed the system, even tested X a few times without ever - hanging. I can go through a text install but I don't get prompted for it there - either. - - Any ideas? - - Regards, - Isaac - - - - We are convinced that freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, - and that socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality. - - - Mikhail Bakunin (www.infoshop.org/faq) - - Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit File: message.footer
Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness
jennifer wrote: Please keep this off list. Again, respond to me if neccsary, and Isaac off list. This is not the appropriate place to expounde your moral beliefs. This is a linux help list. You didn't hesitate to post *your* moral beliefs to the group, so why is it that you don't follow your own advice? I am sorry if you can't understand that there are social implications to Linux and open source, beside your own. The line between the technical and the social aspects at some points become blurred. That is why we see these kind of posts on a regular basis. This thread is not an isolated incident. No one is doing it to tick you off. It seems to me that you are confusing the role of the machine, with the role of the person using the machine. Until you can grasp that some people use computers to expound their moral beliefs, and how that affects the technical aspects, I don't have any desire to have a private conversation with you. Please respond to this *on* list, where everyone who is affected by these decisions you have made for the whole list can see it. You obviously don't understand what I was getting at in my earlier post, because once again, I am looking at ! ! someone begging the question. You are telling me that it is not appropriate, because it is not appropriate, but have not offered any reason why. I am not trying to be difficult. If you give me a good reason, I will seriously consider it. with all due respect, your personal opinion, sans explaination thereof is of no more interest to me than mine is to you. Is there some documentation to back up what you are proposing? When I subscribed, the only hard rule I saw was about spam. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ximian mines for gold in Linux desktops
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:15, Charles A. Punch wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:36, Mark Johnson wrote: Just FYI... http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5096249,00.html If you can afford it and it suites your needs I would encourage you to support Ximian and purchase their products. It would be a shame to see them go under like Ezeal... Think of it as a donation?!? Ximian have a much more sound business strategy than do Eazel. I don't think that they'll go bust. However, it seems you need a pretty powerful machine to run the GNOME desktop. I've got a 900MHz/512MB, and running GNOME is a dog compared to KDE, it's too bad really. I'm sure a lot has to do with having a slow hard-drive but I'm surprised how much disk access there is while running GNOME. I have a Pentium II 350 and GNOME runs fine for me. KDE doesn't run badly, but not as well as GNOME. If you have a 900MHz system and GNOME is still slow, then there's something wrong. I have 1.2 MHz with 512MB and GNOME runs slightly faster than KDE as well, but it seems to crash (freeze up) when I open too many apps. It's probably some conflicts somewhere that I havn't discovered or the fact that it's not the latest version. This is the one that came with 8.0 (from cheapbytes). I am planning on getting the powerpack when 8.1 comes out so I haven't uograded, but thanx to Shridhar whose comments about GNOME made me curious enough to give it a second try (I tried it several times before and had given up). Due to his advice in a previous post about GNOME, I know now that I will like it much better when I learn how to make it work properly. It is much more configurable than KDE. By the way Sridhar, is GNOME compensating you for the plugs? (LOL). I wish! I started using GNOME back in the 1.0.x days, when Enlightenment was the default WM. It was way ahead (IMHO) of the latest KDE version at the time, 1.1.x, which I found to be too Windows-like (i.e. too much like what I was escaping from). I learned to really appreciate the immense configurability of GNOME + Enlightenment/Sawfish, configuring my keyboard so that I seldom have to touch the mouse. While I still like KDE, I still feel that it's geared too far towards the Windows crowd. It may be more integrated, but it's nowhere near as powerful or configurable as GNOME (although it's still light years beyond Windows). Of course, that's just my opinion :-) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmail problem
Hi all, For some reason kmail no longer allows me to save, print or otherwise work with attachments. If I left click on them, nothing happens, if I right click the only options I get are open url and copy to clipboard. This is true for all types of attachments, text, .ps, .pdf, etc. The copy to clipboard doesn't seem to have any effect. Any ideas how I might get at my attachments? Thanks, Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hello and Keyboard Map
[EMAIL PROTECTED] banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - Hello to everybody in the list, Welcome to Linux and to Newbie@Linux-Mandrake. - 1) there is no mapping for the Italian or QZERTY keyboard, the one - you have to press shift to write the numbers, the only choices are: ... - Is there anyway to build the mapping or, better, to install the - Italian mapping ? You didn't say if you use KDE or Gnome. I assume you are using KDE. Go to the KDE Control Center (click on the icon of a screen with a green coat on) Go to Personalizationkeyboard layout and choose your primary keyboard (Italian). You can choose another layout (french, british or whatever) so that you can easily can switch from one to the other. - 2) there must be a conflict between the Mac and the Mandrake - clock, one of the two is running two hours in advance, no - possibilities to set them at the same time; any ideas ? go to the Mandrake Control center (KConfigurationotherMandrake Control Center) - enter root password which is system date and time - Thank you De rien. Anguo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] WoooHooo!!! Hard disk upgrade, but now a problem.
Hi all, I have just got the opportunity to swap my Western Digital 20gig 7200rpm (three month old) drive,, and I have chosen a 61.4 gig IBM 7200rpm drive to replace it, (also upgrading the box to 512mb ram) I have heard many bad things about the WD harddisks, so when a friend needed a new big hard drive for his 233mmx system, I did a deal and now I am rearing to go with the IBM. should make a nice combo But I don't want to have to reinstall the whole thing again if I can avoid it The 20 gig is currently divided into partitions like /tmp /home /var/ /usr etc etc... and running Reiserefs everywhere possible. In windows systems, I used Ghost many times to just mirror the old drives onto the new ones,, Is there anything at all like that for linux? I hate the idea of the hours I am gonna waste getting it all perfect again on the new drive (the old one, install is 2 months old, got it perfect and it has an uptime of over a month now. (web and mail server)) , so I was hoping there was a shortcut I could make...to save me the reload any ideas? any suggestions would be much appreciated. kindest regards Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] icons and sounds
Robert MacLean wrote: Hi Is it possible to use windows icons (.ico) in KDE and is it possible to change things like startup sounds and shutdown sounds? Thanx Robert I am not sure about your questions, but GNOME is a lot more configurable than KDE and you can change various sound settings in Gnome Control Center. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CPU question
Hello! Anyway, the original Celeron had the multiprocesing pins messed up. The moire recent ones had the pins disconnected internally (more properly, never connected at all). Intel was very cautious about letting the Celeron compete against its Pentium II/III/IV line and has always kept it crippled in some regard. Ity is likely that you _can_ overclock some celerons, especially older slower ones simply by kicking the bus to 100. A 300MHz Celeron becomes a 450 when properly cooled and placed on a 100MHz bus, but above 366, the processors had to be individually tested, which is what Computernerd did so very well. Civileme In fact, what I would like to know (sorry, muy question was badly formulated), is whether Intel modified the newer chips so that it is IMPOSSIBLE to run even on a dual processor board. The 2 400 MHz I have run fine, the kernel 2.4.8 smp loads, and the performance tells me that it is really running fast. Same for BeOS, where I get the dual CPU load properly displayed. I am just worrying about the upgrade. Will I get 1 cpu at 800 MHz / 100 FSB or 2? Thanks, Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Modem won't work after kernel upgrade
Hi all, I upgraded the kernel from the rpm files as stated in the security alert. I did the iptables and lm-utils with the rpm package manager. I used the instructions that came with the security alert. rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.7-12.3mdk.i586.rpm etc. Rebooted with no problems. But now my modem gives me the error of modem is busy. I checked my rc.local file and my setserial line is still there. I use Kppp to connect to the net. I then checked the PCI stuff and it reads differently than before. Instead of the port being 0xdc00 as it was it now reads dc00. It dropped the 0x. I checked my log file I keep on all changes, etc, etc. I use an Action Tek 56K internal, model PCI56012-02. My setserial line is as follows setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550A irq 10 port 0xdc00 spd_vhi Any suggestions to get back in to Linux (mandrake 8.0) would be greatly appreciated. I am in windows now. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to work oo my PC from school?
Hello Guys What should I do to be able to work on my PC from school. I want to be able to mount a directory in my PC to a virtual directory in the school PC. = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CPU question
On Friday 31 August 2001 01:59, Pascal Goguey wrote: Hello, I am running Mandrake on a Abit motherboard (Abit BP6) with dual celeron. It looks like the smp kernel works fine. The celerons I use are quite old (400 MHz) and their FSB clock rate is 66 MHz. I was thinking I would upgrade to more recent CPUs (about 800 MHz each, 100 MHz FSB). But I was told that the 100 MHz celeron may not run an SMP machine. In fact, it may work on a single processor only., so there is (according to that person) no point in upgrading. Does anyone have data about this issue? Does anybody use a BP6 with 100 MHz celerons? Thanks, Pascal Yes, the BP6 and a few other boards were the only ones that ever made dual processor Celeron systems. You can buy overclocking SMP certified warranteed Celerons from err, the people who could help you are out of business http://www.computernerd.com/whatwentwrong.html Anyway, the original Celeron had the multiprocesing pins messed up. The moire recent ones had the pins disconnected internally (more properly, never connected at all). Intel was very cautious about letting the Celeron compete against its Pentium II/III/IV line and has always kept it crippled in some regard. Ity is likely that you _can_ overclock some celerons, especially older slower ones simply by kicking the bus to 100. A 300MHz Celeron becomes a 450 when properly cooled and placed on a 100MHz bus, but above 366, the processors had to be individually tested, which is what Computernerd did so very well. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How to work oo my PC from school?
Someone probably knows better than me, but if firewalls and VPNs do not get
in your way you might be able to mount a share drive via Samba or NFS
depending on your particulars.
To mount with Samba from a linux machine to a windows machine:
root@morpheus {/home/mjohnson} $ mount -t smbfs -o
username=username,password=password share-on-windows
directory-on-linux
To mount with NFS:
root@morpheus {/home/mjohnson} $ mount -F nfs host:remote-directory
local-directory
Other than than you can always port forward FTP on your home PC and transfer
files, which is probably faster and safer, but not as much fun
-Original Message-
From: OOzy Pal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 7:52 AM
To: newbie
Subject: [newbie] How to work oo my PC from school?
Hello Guys
What should I do to be able to work on my PC from
school. I want to be able to mount a directory in my
PC to a virtual directory in the school PC.
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Regards,
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Re: [newbie] 486 and Mandrake
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 00:01, Robt. Miller wrote: I want to install Mandrake on a 120mhz 486 with 64mb ram. I was just about to order the 8.0 CD and saw in Google that I should possibly be installing 7.0 instead. Is this the case? If so, how can I download it and install it without a CD burner? Is my hardware adequate for whatever version I install? Many thanks for your help, I'm anxious to get started. What are you going to do with the 486? If it's destined to be a firewall/server, then Mandrake SNF would be the best for you. If not, then perhaps you should look at Red Hat, since it is current and is compiled for i386 processors. Alternatively, you can look at 'compact' distros (made for low-power machines) like Peanut Linux. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PCI modems
If anyone on this list is successfully using a PCI modem I would appreciate knowing the model. It's a jungle out there when it comes to finding out about linux-compatibility in modems. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCI modems
mrc wrote: If anyone on this list is successfully using a PCI modem I would appreciate knowing the model. It's a jungle out there when it comes to finding out about linux-compatibility in modems. -- Michael Michael: The best map through the jungle is at www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html. You'll find out which modems are real modems and which modems aren't, and what, if anything, can be done about it. Regards, Carroll Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installation in a loop.
Hi I am trying to install MD 8.0 dualboot on hdb with an existing W2k installation on hda. My system's information is at the bottom hereof. I have done some earlier installations with the same set of disks, also dual boot w2k on two different HDs to test and play with Linux before installing it for use on my work computer. All those installations have gone smoothly. This time, after selecting the language, the installation skipped all other installation steps to go directly to partitioning the HD. I select hdb, deleted all existing partitions and selected auto allocate. Next a dialogue box comes up with just: An error occurred, swap area needs to be. And OK. Just that. Well what does the swap area need to be...? I tried to change that, but it only allowed me to take swap from 243 to 244Mb even if I made /home much smaller, i.e. there is enough space for swap to be changed up or down in size. And this is where the installation process stops, going back to the start of the partitioning process, etc. Any clues? TIA Lex. CPU: Athlone 1GHz Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Mainboard, GA-7ZM RAM:500 and whatever Megs Acer DVD HP CD Writer 3900 series Graphics card: ASUS AGP-V300C Series Acer 77c Screen; USB Wheelmouse; 3Com US Robotics Voice Fax Modem 56K Soundblaster Live Soundcard Windows 2K on hda 27Gig hdb empty (previously had w2k on) 3.9Gig And o yes, there's a SCSI card for the HP Scanjet scanner and a HP Laserjet printer attached too. winmail.dat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WoooHooo!!! Hard disk upgrade, but now a problem.
look up on dd disk dump copies mbr the lot! Let me know if you still have probs - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 2:14 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] WoooHooo!!! Hard disk upgrade, but now a problem. On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Franki wrote: Hi all, I have just got the opportunity to swap my Western Digital 20gig 7200rpm (three month old) drive,, and I have chosen a 61.4 gig IBM 7200rpm drive to replace it, (also upgrading the box to 512mb ram) I have heard many bad things about the WD harddisks, so when a friend needed a new big hard drive for his 233mmx system, I did a deal and now I am rearing to go with the IBM. should make a nice combo But I don't want to have to reinstall the whole thing again if I can avoid it The 20 gig is currently divided into partitions like /tmp /home /var/ /usr etc etc... and running Reiserefs everywhere possible. In windows systems, I used Ghost many times to just mirror the old drives onto the new ones,, Is there anything at all like that for linux? I hate the idea of the hours I am gonna waste getting it all perfect again on the new drive (the old one, install is 2 months old, got it perfect and it has an uptime of over a month now. (web and mail server)) , so I was hoping there was a shortcut I could make...to save me the reload any ideas? any suggestions would be much appreciated. kindest regards Frank Well you can make exact copies with dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc Or you can make some bigger partitions on your new drive and use this on a mounted partition by partition basis cp -a /usr/* /newusr/ Whewre you edit your partition table to include the partitions you have made on your target drive into the table on your current drive (and you make the partitions in the same order if not the same size so that /newusr is hdc8 if /usr is hda8. Once done with that, you put hdc in primary master position, boot from the rescue CD by the usual method, and # mount /dev/hdax /mnt # x is the number of your root partition # chroot /mnt # /sbin/lilo # sync Then hit the reset switch and remove the CD. You will be nbooting in business. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] WoooHooo!!! Hard disk upgrade, but now a problem.
Thanks Guys, I will think hard and work out what the best method is.. I have a CD with all the updates on it, so I might just tar a few directories and go with that if I did go with something like Ghost, then I'd just have to redo all the partition sizes to work with the new drive anyway.. so it might be better to just do a fresh install... I'll see how I go I guess.. Thanks again, rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Saturday, 1 September 2001 5:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lin; Franki Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] WoooHooo!!! Hard disk upgrade, but now a problem. On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Franki wrote: Hi all, I have just got the opportunity to swap my Western Digital 20gig 7200rpm (three month old) drive,, and I have chosen a 61.4 gig IBM 7200rpm drive to replace it, (also upgrading the box to 512mb ram) I have heard many bad things about the WD harddisks, so when a friend needed a new big hard drive for his 233mmx system, I did a deal and now I am rearing to go with the IBM. should make a nice combo But I don't want to have to reinstall the whole thing again if I can avoid it The 20 gig is currently divided into partitions like /tmp /home /var/ /usr etc etc... and running Reiserefs everywhere possible. In windows systems, I used Ghost many times to just mirror the old drives onto the new ones,, Is there anything at all like that for linux? I hate the idea of the hours I am gonna waste getting it all perfect again on the new drive (the old one, install is 2 months old, got it perfect and it has an uptime of over a month now. (web and mail server)) , so I was hoping there was a shortcut I could make...to save me the reload any ideas? any suggestions would be much appreciated. kindest regards Frank Well you can make exact copies with dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc Or you can make some bigger partitions on your new drive and use this on a mounted partition by partition basis cp -a /usr/* /newusr/ Whewre you edit your partition table to include the partitions you have made on your target drive into the table on your current drive (and you make the partitions in the same order if not the same size so that /newusr is hdc8 if /usr is hda8. Once done with that, you put hdc in primary master position, boot from the rescue CD by the usual method, and # mount /dev/hdax /mnt # x is the number of your root partition # chroot /mnt # /sbin/lilo # sync Then hit the reset switch and remove the CD. You will be nbooting in business. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Mandrake has taken a few elements from Ximian GNOME for Mandrake 8.0. However, Ximian's official Mandrake 8.0 packages are even better. Things are smoother and faster than in 8.0 (especially Nautilus), and there are a few extra little niceties like Doorman and Red Carpet. Do you think that MDK 8.1 will have the full version of Ximian GNOME? I don't have a cd burner and out here in the sticks, it's impossible to get broadband that supports Linux. If 8.1 will not include it, is there perhaps a RPM or something that would reasonably download over 56k? ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 We the Users, in order to form a more perfect system, establish priorities, ensure connective tranquility, provide for common repairs, promote preventive maintenance, and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our processes, do ordain and establish this Software of The Unixed States of America. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] TELNET help! Please?
it is, telnet is started by inetd or xinetd (depending on what you have installed..) if its xinetd, go into /etc/xinetd.d and check the telnet entry... make sure it doesn't have disable=yes in there, also, it might not hurt to comment out the +=USERID lines for logon success and logon failure,, I had problems once until I did that.. I also usually add a line to the effect:only_from = 192.168.0.1 #or whatever your ip is... adds that little bit more protection, expecially since telnet doesn't have alot to start with. swap to ssh, its just as easy.. load and install ssh and ssl on your linux box.. for windows clients, download Terra Term Pro and the ssh addin (free) (this is your telnet capable client prog, ssh and telnet work much the same once connected.) then download Ixplorer, which is a ftp type frontend for putty, which is a dos ssh ftp (scp) client.. all of that is free, and if you download Ixplorer which has putty built in, then its as easy as... give it a shot... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marchetti, Peter Sent: Saturday, 1 September 2001 12:27 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] TELNET help! Please? I have read every man page, searched the web 12 dozen times...tried EVERYTHING I can think of...telnet WILL NOT let me log into my server. If anyone would like to help me out, please drop me an e-mail...I'm losin my mind here... I thought telnet was supposed to be easy to use? Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem won't work after kernel upgrade
On Friday, Aug 31, 2001, Maureen L. Thomas wrote: I upgraded the kernel from the rpm files as stated in the security alert. I did the iptables and lm-utils with the rpm package manager. I used the instructions that came with the security alert. rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.7-12.3mdk.i586.rpm etc. Rebooted with no problems. But now my modem gives me the error of modem is busy. I checked my rc.local file and my setserial line is still there. I use Kppp to connect to the net. I then checked the PCI stuff and it reads differently than before. Instead of the port being 0xdc00 as it was it now reads dc00. It dropped the 0x. I checked my log file I keep on all changes, etc, etc. I use an Action Tek 56K internal, model PCI56012-02. My setserial line is as follows setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550A irq 10 port 0xdc00 spd_vhi Just a shot in the dark, but have you tried changing it to 'port dc00' just to see what happens? -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.7-12.3mdk - Uptime: 10 days 12 hours 37 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] TELNET help! Please?
Telnet is easy to use, but it's starting to be phased out because it's
insecure.
The odds are, if you're dealing with a Mandrake 8.0 install, the telnet
server is not installed. As I recall, it's not set to install
automatically. But run this command to determine if the server is
actually started.
[timh@r2d2 timh]$ rpm -qa | grep telnet
gnome-telnet-2.4-2mdk
telnet-0.17-7mdk
ktelnet-0.7b1-7mdk
As you can see, I don't have the telnet server installed. The RPM
you're looking for is telnet-server-0.17-7mdk.i586.rpm. As I recall,
it's on the first CD.
Try:
rpm -ivh telnet-server-0.17-7mdk.i586.rpm
Then try and telnet to the machine. However I would suggest you find
the OpenSSH RPMs on the disc, install those and leave telnet server
unistalled.
[timh@ericekong mandrake80]$ ls -la openssh* | awk '{print
$5,$6,$7,$8,$9}'
130192 Apr 13 10:14 openssh-2.5.2p2-3mdk.i586.rpm
31197 Apr 13 10:14 openssh-askpass-2.5.2p2-3mdk.i586.rpm
11513 Apr 13 10:14 openssh-askpass-gnome-2.5.2p2-3mdk.i586.rpm
213305 Apr 13 10:14 openssh-clients-2.5.2p2-3mdk.i586.rpm
151961 Apr 13 10:14 openssh-server-2.5.2p2-3mdk.i586.rpm
Those would be the RPMs you'd need to install. Hope that helps ya.
tdh
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[newbie] Software Manager(rpmdrake) frustrations
Hi All, Could someone tell me why I can't add a new source for rpms and get it to actually work? Every time I add new one the software manager doesn't appear to look at the new source. I have had absolutely no luck adding an ftp location. The Security update part doesn't work either. Nothing is found when updating the list of mirrors and manually typing the location is useless as well. TIA Bryan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Software Manager(rpmdrake) frustrations
I went through the same thing today... there were no url's listed, and it wouldn't update the list... In Mdk7.2 in my case,, for some reason, all the url's in the normal updates section disappeaared.. so I setup the dev section and opened one of the FTP urls in netscape, then I chanced the url to just mandrake from mandrake-cooker and browsed to the updates directory,,, copied the url back into software manager and off it went.. make sure the url points only to the updates directory, not the specific version of mdk inside it,, software update will open that directory by itself... worked fine for me.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bryan Harper Sent: Saturday, 1 September 2001 1:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Software Manager(rpmdrake) frustrations Hi All, Could someone tell me why I can't add a new source for rpms and get it to actually work? Every time I add new one the software manager doesn't appear to look at the new source. I have had absolutely no luck adding an ftp location. The Security update part doesn't work either. Nothing is found when updating the list of mirrors and manually typing the location is useless as well. TIA Bryan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Configuration Files (repost)
(I'm reposting this because it never got answered and I had flagged it because I was waiting to hear a response. Thanks to anyone who can help. - Isaac) Hello! In my system, I see .bashrc, .dosemurc, .kderc, /etc/bashrc, /etc/inputrc, /etc/rc.d etc. etc. etc. 1. What does rc stand for, as opposed to conf? 2. I read that /etc is for miscellaneous files...isn't it *only* for configuration files? 3. Global user settings are stored in /etc, while personal ones are stored as /home/username/.somethingrc, right? Any help is appreciated! Thanks, George ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SNF packet forwarding problem.
John Turnbull wrote: I am sorry to repost this request, but I have still not managed to turn on forwarding in Mandrake SNF (original description follows). I do know a little more. I have managed to install a different firewalling distro - smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org), so I do know that the problem is not due to some HP proprietary hardware weirdness. How would I turn on forwarding, manually, in SNF? Thank you again. John T John Turnbull wrote: I have installed Mandrake SNF on an elderly HP Ventra with a 200MHz Pentium Pro in a test-bed configuration. I have it set up with eth0 (ne2k-pci card - 192.168.3.34) connected to the LAN side of my network and eth1 (3c59x - 192.168.4.34) running through a crossover cable to a laptop acting as a stand-in for the internet. From the HP firewall, I can ping both of its NICs and can also ping the 'internet' (laptop - 192.168.4.65) and any internal machine (say: 192.168.3.45), so the TCP/IP stuff seems to be fine. I can connect to the HP firewall with either ssh or Mandrake Security (port 8443: I intentionally set it up to allow both) from either the LAN side or the 'internet' side, but I cannot connect from the LAN side to the internet side at all. Mandrake Security - Restrict Access lists Firewall Rules on and Mandrake Security - Internet Access lists Access Status Down and no amount of poking 'Start' or 'Stop', in any combination, seems to change its status. . . sigh Any hints on how I should proceed would be appreciated. Thank you in advance. John T (BTW what does 'Test' do?) John, The command line solution can be found on page 216 of the Linux Network Administrator's Guide by Kirch Dawson (O'Reilly Associates). Depending on your kernel, one or more of these two line commands should take care of you. Try each of them until one works. After each attempt go to one of the LAN-side boxen and ping 216.239.39.100. That's the IP for www.google.com. If you get no response, you need to move on and try the next pair of commands for IP forwarding. If you get a response, try pinging www.google.com. If you can ping the IP but not the domain name, you need to setup DNS and I can tell you how to do that, too. Anyway, here's those commands, don't forget to su into root and remember that everything is case sensitive: # ipfwadm -F -p deny # ipfwadm -F -a accept -m -S 192.168.0.0/24 -D 0/0 (if your home network is different from 192.168.0.0, change the command to suit your network, just don't forget the /24 at the end, the same holds for the next pair of commands if these don't work) # ipchains -P forward -j deny # ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d 0/0 -j MASQ and, lastly: # iptables -t nat -P POSTROUTING DROP # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING DROP -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE In that last case you will want to change ppp0 to the appropriate ethernet device if you are connected through a DSL/cable connection on one of your ethernet cards, as opposed to a dial-up connection like these instructions assume. Anyway, if you need any more help feel free to post again because I've learned a lot of networking stuff and I can recite the NetAdmin's guide like scripture now. Good luck and please let me know if this works for you. In Solidarity, Isaac Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. (Don't let the bastards grind you down) - The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] WoooHooo!!! Hard disk upgrade, but now a problem.
Ghost and Partition magic will both automatically resize Linux ext2 partitions for you... The problem is that if the /boot partition is beyond the 1024 track limit (does this still apply anyone?). You should make a Linux boot disk then use Ghost to transfer your partitions to the larger drive. If you have a separate /boot partition you'll have no trouble running Lilo after booting from a floppy to get Linux to recognize the new partition sizes for the boot up. I've done this and it works. -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Franki |Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 12:19 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] WoooHooo!!! Hard disk upgrade, but now a problem. | | |Thanks Guys, I will think hard and work out what the best method is.. | |I have a CD with all the updates on it, so I might just tar a |few directories and go with that | |if I did go with something like Ghost, then I'd just have to |redo all the partition sizes to work with the new drive anyway.. | |so it might be better to just do a fresh install... | |I'll see how I go I guess.. | | |Thanks again, | | |rgds | |Frank | |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme |Sent: Saturday, 1 September 2001 5:15 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lin; Franki |Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] WoooHooo!!! Hard disk upgrade, but now a problem. | | | | | On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Franki wrote: | Hi all, | | I have just got the opportunity to swap my Western Digital 20gig | 7200rpm (three month old) drive,, and I have chosen a 61.4 gig IBM | 7200rpm drive to replace it, (also upgrading the box to 512mb | ram) | | I have heard many bad things about the WD harddisks, so when a | friend needed a new big hard drive for his 233mmx system, I did a | deal and now |I | am rearing to go with the IBM. | should make a nice combo | | But I don't want to have to reinstall the whole thing |again if I can | avoid it | | The 20 gig is currently divided into partitions like /tmp /home | /var/ /usr etc etc... and running Reiserefs everywhere possible. | | In windows systems, I used Ghost many times to just mirror the old |drives | onto the new ones,, | | | Is there anything at all like that for linux? | | I hate the idea of the hours I am gonna waste getting it |all perfect | again on the new drive (the old one, install is 2 months |old, got it | perfect and it has an uptime of over a month now. (web and mail | server)) , so I was hoping there was a shortcut I could make...to | save me the reload any ideas? | | | | any suggestions would be much appreciated. | | | kindest regards | | | Frank | |Well you can make exact copies with | |dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc | |Or you can make some bigger partitions on your new drive and |use this on a mounted partition by partition basis | |cp -a /usr/* /newusr/ | |Whewre you edit your partition table to include the |partitions you have made on your target drive into the table |on your current drive (and you make the partitions in the same |order if not the same size so that /newusr is hdc8 if /usr is hda8. | |Once done with that, you put hdc in primary master position, |boot from the rescue CD by the usual method, and | |# mount /dev/hdax /mnt # x is the number of your root |partition # chroot /mnt # /sbin/lilo # sync | |Then hit the reset switch and remove the CD. You will be |nbooting in business. | |Civileme | | | | | BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Sanchez;Jose;M FN:Jose M Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ORG:Net Results, Inc.;Lan Support TITLE:Lan Support TEL;WORK;VOICE:301-972-8271 TEL;HOME;VOICE:301-972-8507 TEL;CELL;VOICE:301-502-0151 TEL;WORK;FAX:301-349-2201 TEL;HOME;FAX:301-349-2201 ADR;WORK:;301-972-8271;17206 Spates Hill Road;Poolesville;Maryland;20837;United States LABEL;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:301-972-8271=0D=0A17206 Spates Hill Road=0D=0APoolesville, Maryland 20837= =0D=0AUnited States ADR;HOME:;;17206 Spates Hill Road;Poolesville;Maryland;20837;United States LABEL;HOME;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:17206 Spates Hill Road=0D=0APoolesville, Maryland 20837=0D=0AUnited States URL: URL:http://opjose.homeip.net EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REV:20010825T134515Z END:VCARD Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Midnight commander in Single Network Firewall
Hi there! Last few day's I spend my time with installing SNF (Single Network Firewall) from Mandrake, and I must say it look realy good. I'm not complete a newbie at linux, but don't have so much expirience with mandrake. But I have a few questions. First: Is there a complete FAQ about the SNF ? Second: I have have problems using ICQ (from my win2k workstation) behind the SNF. It says, can't connect the ICQ server. Has someone an ID how to get this working? Third: By trying to changes some configurations I was looking for Midnightcommander and couldn't find it. Is there a possibility to install it? I try'ed to install it with rpm --install and then a mc.rpm, but then it complaines about perl missing... Forth: Is it possible to run a xwindows version on the NFS? So lots of questions, but I hope someone can help me with this :-) Greetings and thanks in advance!! Draconis 42? 7 and a half million years and all you can come up with is 42?! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuration Files (repost)
Well I have no idea why .*rc files are used. But I know they're basically personal config files. /etc is basically full of config files and information files. There are some scripts in there to start services. Things like /etc/modules.conf are really just informational config files. You can edit that yourself, but for the most part, Linux is what makes changes to that. But there are still things like /etc/sendmail.cf, or /etc/hosts, /etc/bashrc. If you go into /etc/init.d you will find the scripts that are used to restart services. Like /etc/init.d/network, sshd, http, postfix and more. You can do a ls in /etc/init.d to see everything in there. .*rc files that are in $HOME, are used to over ride the default *rc files. If you check, there's already a /etc/bashrc, and more. Those are looked at as soon as you get a prompt, or as soon as you run an app. Those are the defaults. Now you can edit those, but if you have several users on that one machine, they may like/want the changes you made to the config file. So you make changes to the $HOME/.bashrc instead of /etc/bashrc. The $HOME/.bashrc and files of that nature are copied into the home directories when the user is created. Those files are copied directly from /etc/skel. On FreeBSD, it will actually ask you if you would like the skel files to be copied, and you can say yay, or nay. In Linux, it does it with out asking. I'm not sure if the person that posted this message to start out with will see this, but I hope this answers somebody's questions. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 2:04pm up 15 days, 19:49, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 | (I'm reposting this because it never got answered and I had flagged it | because I was waiting to hear a response. Thanks to anyone who can help. | | - Isaac) | | Hello! | | In my system, I see .bashrc, .dosemurc, .kderc, /etc/bashrc, /etc/inputrc, | /etc/rc.d etc. etc. etc. | | 1. What does rc stand for, as opposed to conf? | | 2. I read that /etc is for miscellaneous files...isn't it *only* for | configuration files? | | 3. Global user settings are stored in /etc, while personal ones are | stored as | /home/username/.somethingrc, right? | | Any help is appreciated! | | Thanks, | George | ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] glibc and LM 8.0f2
Anybody happen to know what version of glibc comes stock with LM 8.0 f2? I also need some instructions on uninstalling a newer version to install an older version. -Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuration Files (repost)
on 8/31/01 1:13 PM, Tim Holmes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I have no idea why .*rc files are used. But I know they're basically personal config files. rc stands for resource configuration. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome
You can download the RPMS from a Ximian FTP mirror. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Charles A. Punch wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Mandrake has taken a few elements from Ximian GNOME for Mandrake 8.0. However, Ximian's official Mandrake 8.0 packages are even better. Things are smoother and faster than in 8.0 (especially Nautilus), and there are a few extra little niceties like Doorman and Red Carpet. Do you think that MDK 8.1 will have the full version of Ximian GNOME? I don't have a cd burner and out here in the sticks, it's impossible to get broadband that supports Linux. If 8.1 will not include it, is there perhaps a RPM or something that would reasonably download over 56k? ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 We the Users, in order to form a more perfect system, establish priorities, ensure connective tranquility, provide for common repairs, promote preventive maintenance, and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our processes, do ordain and establish this Software of The Unixed States of America. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuration Files (repost)
Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Isaac Curtis wrote: (I'm reposting this because it never got answered and I had flagged it because I was waiting to hear a response. Thanks to anyone who can help. - Isaac) Hello! In my system, I see .bashrc, .dosemurc, .kderc, /etc/bashrc, /etc/inputrc, /etc/rc.d etc. etc. etc. 1. What does rc stand for, as opposed to conf? conf = configuration, and usually contain configuration files. rc is pretty much the same thing. 2. I read that /etc is for miscellaneous files...isn't it *only* for configuration files? Traditionally /etc contains configuration files, but it also contains boot up scripts, etc. 3. Global user settings are stored in /etc, while personal ones are stored as /home/username/.somethingrc, right? Yes. Any help is appreciated! Thanks, George ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Carte Trident
Hi ! I had to reinstall LM 7.2 because I changed a lot of things on my machine. Now I have the same old problem: X doesn't work. I have read here that my card -Trident 3D 975- may be the problem. Do you actually think so? Because if so, I will change it, because I'm sick and tired of video troubles. What video card you know that works very well under Linux, please? May be you know how to make the card work. I know it IS possible because I reached in the past, but I had to change the X server to FBDev. But I forgot how to do this :-) What specs do you need to think about? My machine is a Pentium II 350 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM, and Linux is on hdb (hda is windoze). hdb has 15 Gb. I'l appreciate any help G le D --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hotmail like platform for linux?
Just curious, would anyone out there be interested in a web based email system that can be used with say Evolution or KMail or something. For example, I have a hotmail account which makes things really convient when travelling because you can always check email where ever you are. But I actually don't prefere to read and write from a web based email system. However, hotmail is integrated with Outlook Express so I can use my hotmail account just like my other SMTP/POP3 email accounts and this makes things quite nice. It would be nice if mandrake or ximian or whoever could provide a web based email accounts that are integrated in KMail or Evolution, I would dump my hotmail account and go for a mandrake or ximian account instead and then I could be one step closer to running linux 100% of the time. Anybody think this would be a good idea? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hotmail like platform for linux?
Hotmail doesn't have pop or imap access? Wiggie. If they did you could access it that way. Anyhoo, you could use this program from a box thats up all the time: http://www.hawkins.emu.id.au/gotmail/ On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Mark Johnson wrote: Just curious, would anyone out there be interested in a web based email system that can be used with say Evolution or KMail or something. For example, I have a hotmail account which makes things really convient when travelling because you can always check email where ever you are. But I actually don't prefere to read and write from a web based email system. However, hotmail is integrated with Outlook Express so I can use my hotmail account just like my other SMTP/POP3 email accounts and this makes things quite nice. It would be nice if mandrake or ximian or whoever could provide a web based email accounts that are integrated in KMail or Evolution, I would dump my hotmail account and go for a mandrake or ximian account instead and then I could be one step closer to running linux 100% of the time. Anybody think this would be a good idea? -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] hotmail like platform for linux?
hotmail is not using pop3, but outlook express is setup to interface with their http setup.. so I use that occasionally too. yahoo offer free email accounts and you can access them using either web or true pop3.. I have fetchmail collecting my girlfriends mail from her yahoo account and delivering it to a local mailbox for her every 15 minutes... works great.. rgds frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Arthur H. Johnson II Sent: Saturday, 1 September 2001 7:14 AM To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: Re: [newbie] hotmail like platform for linux? Hotmail doesn't have pop or imap access? Wiggie. If they did you could access it that way. Anyhoo, you could use this program from a box thats up all the time: http://www.hawkins.emu.id.au/gotmail/ On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Mark Johnson wrote: Just curious, would anyone out there be interested in a web based email system that can be used with say Evolution or KMail or something. For example, I have a hotmail account which makes things really convient when travelling because you can always check email where ever you are. But I actually don't prefere to read and write from a web based email system. However, hotmail is integrated with Outlook Express so I can use my hotmail account just like my other SMTP/POP3 email accounts and this makes things quite nice. It would be nice if mandrake or ximian or whoever could provide a web based email accounts that are integrated in KMail or Evolution, I would dump my hotmail account and go for a mandrake or ximian account instead and then I could be one step closer to running linux 100% of the time. Anybody think this would be a good idea? -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ModemBlaster help...
Ever since I've installed the new Shuttle MB, I've had no ISA slots so I lost my 56k Diamond Supra internal ISA modem, which ran great. I've been limping along on a Practical Peripherals 28.8 external which works ok. I picked up an external 56k Creative ModemBlaster today. I switched the modems out and booted up. Kudzu reported that my serial modem had been removed (which I expected) but then did not find the ModemBlaster and install it. (which I did not expect). Anyone have a ModemBlaster working with 8.0, and if so, how? Thanks. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Port Forwarding
Hey All I want to port forward a port. I current use iptables with the following chains. OPEN FTP PORTS AND FORWARD $IPT -A INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 123 -j ACCEPT $IPT -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -d $EXTERNALIP --dport 123 -j DNAT --to $FTPMACHINE $IPT -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -d $INTERNALIP --dport 123 -j DNAT --to $FTPMACHINE Bastically, I am forwarding port 123 to the internal address with an ftp server ($FTPMACHINE). The problem is that if someone behind a firewall attemps to login the ftp, they can not see the directory list even with PASV enabled. My understanding is that to machines behind two different firewalls cannot talk to each (ie ftpclient cannot talk to ftp server is they are behind two different firewalls) Is there anyway to bypass my firewall and send all data on port 123 to $FTPMACHINE? Thanks Nadin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Oh boy! I done it now! (kinda long)
Hey gang, Well, I finally got my CD with the KDE 2.2 on it. I placed everything in a folder in my /home directory and then as root, I opened up package manager and tried to install everything...dependency errors. Fine. I downloaded and installed everything I needed, but kept getting this: kdegraphics = 2.1.1-3mdk is needed by kdegraphics-devel-2.1.1-3mdk Since I had that installed I was stumped, so I tried a suggested solution to installing KDE 2.2... I did this in a console: urpmi -v --auto --force *.rpm Everything seemed to install, and I did a reboot just for the heck of it. Aurora came up and ran like normal, but after it was done, and I get to the small window to choose which user, I had 5 new ones, so I chose John, like normal, and kde. It seems to do everything correctly but when the kde xwindows should come up, I get an xterm window. I type in startx, but I get this every time: Xlib:Connection to 0.0 refused by server Xlib:Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key giving up xinit:Unable to connect to x server xinit:no such process (errno 3): server error Before any of that though I got a small message telling me to try removing /tmp/.X0-lock and restart...I did, but it made no difference. I'd really like to get back into my Linux, especially since I haven't backed-up my customer db yet. Does anyone have a clue if this is possible without reloading Linux? I have also tried getting into the gui from the console and cli, but it comes up with the same stuff I wrote above. I sure would appreciate any help with this guys...I hate having to boot into windows! Thanks in advance. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 31/08/2001 Use Linux for freedom!** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hotmail like platform for linux?
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:50:41 -0500 Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: MJ Just curious, would anyone out there be interested in a web based MJ email MJ system that can be used with say Evolution or KMail or something. For MJ example, I have a hotmail account which makes things really convient MJ when MJ travelling because you can always check email where ever you are. But MJ I MJ actually don't prefere to read and write from a web based email MJ system. MJ However, hotmail is integrated with Outlook Express so I can use my MJ hotmail MJ account just like my other SMTP/POP3 email accounts and this makes MJ things MJ quite nice. MJ MJ It would be nice if mandrake or ximian or whoever could provide a web MJ based MJ email accounts that are integrated in KMail or Evolution, I would dump MJ my MJ hotmail account and go for a mandrake or ximian account instead and MJ then I MJ could be one step closer to running linux 100% of the time. Try yahoo. It is web based, but can be set up to act as a pop/smtp account. Just enter pop.mail.yahoo.com and smtp.mail.yahoo.com in the appropriate spots in your kmail (or better, sylpheed) mail program along with you account info an it works just fine. No need for hotmail ;o) Mike -- I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. --Tom Waits _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows
Mark, Thanks for the response! Really appreciate it because I couldn't get mcopy to work as I expected. Downloaded DOS2UNIX.EXE (for win32) from http://www.bastet.com/software/software.html -- seems to work fine. (I don't have an ftp server on either computer, and, for security / loading reasons, don't plan to set one up, but it is helpful to know, especially when I deal with other sites.) Randy Kramer Mark Johnson wrote: use FTP in ASCII mode... it'll auto correct linux to dos and dos to linux for ya... Also, check freshmeat.net, they probably have a dos2unix/unix2dos utilities for linux. Solaris comes with this utility... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows
civileme, Thanks! Very simple! Randy Kramer civileme wrote: On Friday 31 August 2001 13:57, you wrote: I'm going to need to transfer text files back and forth between Linux and Windows regularly for some period of time. Open those mounts on your machine with a file manager like Konqueror Then drap 'N drop Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to Remove queued print files
I have used lprm . I also removed all print files using Cups Administration--Jobs . but my printer keeps spewing out garbage. lpq says there are no jobs and printer is idle.so does Cups Admin but each time I turn on my printer it starts printing junk (one line or so per page). I have re-booted the machine and still print junk. How do I delete queued print jobs? Where are they in cups? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] a dumb postfix question
Would anyone know where the spam controls for Postfix are? I can't seem to find them. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Scanners on usb
Renato I found this archived mail of great help when I installed my scanner http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg72833.html Derek On Friday 31 August 2001 03:30, you wrote: Hi, I cannot install Mandrake 8 and so I would like to install an USB Epson scanner (1240) on my Mandrake 7.1 system but kernel 2.2.15 does not support USB scanners. Is there any newer kernel working on 7.1 supporting USB scanners? Thank you to everybody Renato -- Renato Tognaccini, Dipartimento di Progettazione Aeronautica, Universita` di Napoli Federico II, Piazzale V. Tecchio 80, 80125 Napoli, ITALIA. tel.: +39-0817682179 fax: +39-0817682187 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Maureen's Modem
Hello Maureen, 1. Delete your present connection and run set-up again. 2. Make your modem /dev/ttys0 . 3. Make sure your log-on is PAP or CHAP - they aren't interchangeable. 4. Try a connection that you know to work. Hope it helps. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: PCI modems
Lo Michael If you can find one Dynamode do a cheap internal or external modem. Mine works fine with doze or Linux. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to set Default paper size?
Where is the kprint config file? How can I change the default paper size ? Mdk 8.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows
Tom Brinkman wrote: Well, I don't understand. If it's a dual boot situation, you surely don't need floppy's. AND you don't need anything extra to mount windoze partitons. Your properly configured fstab and normal kernel with vfat enabled should be able to work with windoze partitions, other than NT's ntfs. Just to satisfy your curiosity, it's two separate computers, thus the need for floppies, or, for example, smbclient. The only thing you might run into is /n (line feed) differences. Linux does it properly, windoze doesn't. Well, cept for DOS's 'edit'. If you move or copy a txt file to windoze, open it with 'edit' and then save it. Then even brain dead windoze editors will be able to display it properly. Ahh, that's helpful. I tried Notepad, Wordpad, and Word. Word works, but it's a little cumbersome. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] gtkhtml error
I just have installed Pronto (an email client) without dependencies problems, but when I run it I get the following error: [carlos@localhost carlos]$ pronto [carlos@localhost carlos]$ gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf is not initialized, please call gconf_init before using GtkHTML library aborting... Any idea? Thanks Carlos Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't run scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d
Hi, There's a very strange behaviour I noted when I try to create a script in the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory (logged as root, of course), and give it execute permissions. After creating that script by means of the KWrite editor (let's say it's name is xxx), when I run it ( ./xxx), I get the following message: bash: ./xxx : no file or directory as if the file wasn't there. If, on the other hand, I copy any of the scripts that are in that directory (cp crond xxx), and afterwards modify my xxx script, I can run it with no problem. Any idea of this behaviour ? Thanks in advance. Aldo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] icons and sounds
Changing the startup and shutdown sounds in KDE is fairly simple. Go to the KDE Control Center, and open up the Look and Feel section. Click on System Notifications and in the right side of the window, open the KDE System Notifications section. There you will see 2 entries labeled KDE is Exiting and KDE is Starting Up. If you open each one of those, you will notice that you can turn on or off a sound associated with each, as well as choosing your own personal sounds. Hope that helps! On Friday 31 August 2001 04:22 am, you wrote: Robert MacLean wrote: Hi Is it possible to use windows icons (.ico) in KDE and is it possible to change things like startup sounds and shutdown sounds? Thanx Robert I am not sure about your questions, but GNOME is a lot more configurable than KDE and you can change various sound settings in Gnome Control Center. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Asst. Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Registered Linux User # 218330 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing Mandrake on Apple G3..please help!
Hi, I'm attempting to install ML 8.0RC1-1ppc to an Apple B/W G3 minitower. This system has two scsi hard drives, where one is the original drive from apple (IBM 9.1Gb Deskstar scsi-2) and the other I added (IBM 18.2Gb Ultrastar scsi-2). I'm booting the Mandrake installer from a CD... and all is well until the wizard reaches the point of selecting a drive/identifying a partition. It returns an error about not finding a recognized drive. I'd like to install onto the original drive (9Gb disk) and already have half the drive available for Linux. So, how do I make my drive recognizable to the installation wizard? Any assistance is greatly appreciated!!! TIA, -=Bill William Kalarness Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness
On Friday 31 August 2001 10:50, Eyedeal wrote: I guess this will come as no surprise - I'm having problems with my video card. Its a trident 9750 agp. My monitor is LG studioworks 440Si and my mandrake version is the old 6.1 Any ideas ?? Much appreciated 6.1 is no longer supported but the 975/9750 works fine if after install you edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and in the Device section put Option noaccel You might need Option sw_cursor as well. Once you have 6.1 running nicely, you had best go to one of the securrity update sites and get the kernel we issued in April and install it. It is a very very solid kernel. Civileme _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Off Mailing list
At 14:19 8/26/2001 -0400, you wrote: milim1 wrote: How do you get off the mailing list ? See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Test/UnsubscribingFromMailingLists. You can also check the headers of every email from this list. Just saw it there myself. Dean -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trident 9750 video (was: Linux, Borders, and social consciousness)
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 00:50, Eyedeal wrote: I guess this will come as no surprise - I'm having problems with my video card. Its a trident 9750 agp. My monitor is LG studioworks 440Si and my mandrake version is the old 6.1 Any ideas ?? Much appreciated I used to have that same card about a year ago. After mounting an extensive research effort, I concluded that the card was worthless in GNU/Linux. I have heard that some people have managed to get it working by using the noaccel option in their /etc/X11/XF86Config file (that's all I remember, I'm afraid), or by using 24-bit colour. I have never managed to make this work myself, but I suggest that you try it before doing anything further. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WoooHooo!!! Hard disk upgrade, but now a problem.
Don't imaging apps take sector-by-sector copies? If so, that should mean that they can copy any type of filesystem, since they don't have to be able to read the partition data. On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 00:47, Lin wrote: Hi, I use use Drive Image by Power Quest to back up my windows configurations when upgrading my hardrive, I am not certain if it will work with linux dough, maybe others could help us. Eric On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Franki wrote: Hi all, I have just got the opportunity to swap my Western Digital 20gig 7200rpm (three month old) drive,, and I have chosen a 61.4 gig IBM 7200rpm drive to replace it, (also upgrading the box to 512mb ram) I have heard many bad things about the WD harddisks, so when a friend needed a new big hard drive for his 233mmx system, I did a deal and now I am rearing to go with the IBM. should make a nice combo But I don't want to have to reinstall the whole thing again if I can avoid it The 20 gig is currently divided into partitions like /tmp /home /var/ /usr etc etc... and running Reiserefs everywhere possible. In windows systems, I used Ghost many times to just mirror the old drives onto the new ones,, Is there anything at all like that for linux? I hate the idea of the hours I am gonna waste getting it all perfect again on the new drive (the old one, install is 2 months old, got it perfect and it has an uptime of over a month now. (web and mail server)) , so I was hoping there was a shortcut I could make...to save me the reload any ideas? any suggestions would be much appreciated. kindest regards Frank -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WoooHooo!!! Hard disk upgrade, but now a problem.
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Franki wrote: Hi all, I have just got the opportunity to swap my Western Digital 20gig 7200rpm (three month old) drive,, and I have chosen a 61.4 gig IBM 7200rpm drive to replace it, (also upgrading the box to 512mb ram) I have heard many bad things about the WD harddisks, so when a friend needed a new big hard drive for his 233mmx system, I did a deal and now I am rearing to go with the IBM. should make a nice combo But I don't want to have to reinstall the whole thing again if I can avoid it The 20 gig is currently divided into partitions like /tmp /home /var/ /usr etc etc... and running Reiserefs everywhere possible. In windows systems, I used Ghost many times to just mirror the old drives onto the new ones,, Is there anything at all like that for linux? I hate the idea of the hours I am gonna waste getting it all perfect again on the new drive (the old one, install is 2 months old, got it perfect and it has an uptime of over a month now. (web and mail server)) , so I was hoping there was a shortcut I could make...to save me the reload any ideas? any suggestions would be much appreciated. kindest regards Frank Well you can make exact copies with dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc Or you can make some bigger partitions on your new drive and use this on a mounted partition by partition basis cp -a /usr/* /newusr/ Whewre you edit your partition table to include the partitions you have made on your target drive into the table on your current drive (and you make the partitions in the same order if not the same size so that /newusr is hdc8 if /usr is hda8. Once done with that, you put hdc in primary master position, boot from the rescue CD by the usual method, and # mount /dev/hdax /mnt # x is the number of your root partition # chroot /mnt # /sbin/lilo # sync Then hit the reset switch and remove the CD. You will be nbooting in business. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound card and cd player
At 16:49 8/26/2001 -0400, you wrote: OK. What is the difference between on-board sound and a sound card? SW On-board sound is just an el-cheapo sound card built into the motherboard. They can almost always be turned off in the BIOS. This is advantageous because many folk like to upgrade to a nicer sound card without using more resources. The technology isn't any different than onboard IDE ports, serial ports, USB ports, parallel ports, etc. Dean -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- To do is to be. To be is to do. Do be do be do. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem won't work after kernel upgrade
LURKER here, I feel sure you are aware of this, but; the PNP in the BIOS should be set to OFF. I changed my setting and my MODEM took off like, well it works now. At 04:46 AM 8/31/01, you wrote: Hi all, I upgraded the kernel from the rpm files as stated in the security alert. I did the iptables and lm-utils with the rpm package manager. I used the instructions that came with the security alert. rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.7-12.3mdk.i586.rpm etc. Rebooted with no problems. But now my modem gives me the error of modem is busy. I checked my rc.local file and my setserial line is still there. I use Kppp to connect to the net. I then checked the PCI stuff and it reads differently than before. Instead of the port being 0xdc00 as it was it now reads dc00. It dropped the 0x. I checked my log file I keep on all changes, etc, etc. I use an Action Tek 56K internal, model PCI56012-02. My setserial line is as follows setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550A irq 10 port 0xdc00 spd_vhi Any suggestions to get back in to Linux (mandrake 8.0) would be greatly appreciated. I am in windows now. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com TIA, 'd' [EMAIL PROTECTED] San Antonio, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] TELNET help! Please?
I have read every man page, searched the web 12 dozen times...tried EVERYTHING I can think of...telnet WILL NOT let me log into my server. If anyone would like to help me out, please drop me an e-mail...I'm losin my mind here... I thought telnet was supposed to be easy to use? Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] TELNET help! Please?
On Friday 31 August 2001 12:26, Marchetti, Peter wrote: I have read every man page, searched the web 12 dozen times...tried EVERYTHING I can think of...telnet WILL NOT let me log into my server. If anyone would like to help me out, please drop me an e-mail...I'm losin my mind here... I thought telnet was supposed to be easy to use? Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmmm, did you try ssh? Same functionality as telnet without the security hassles. It may be that your telnet server isn't running or that the port is blocked. If you selected HIGH security the chances are good that this has already stopped telnet. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows
I'm going to need to transfer text files back and forth between Linux and Windows regularly for some period of time. I think I've found one way to do it -- using mcopy with the -a (or -t ??) option, but I thought I'd ask for other suggestions. I'll start out transferring on floppies (today) but fairly soon use smbclient to mount some Windows partitions on my Linux machine. Thanks, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows
use FTP in ASCII mode... it'll auto correct linux to dos and dos to linux for ya... Also, check freshmeat.net, they probably have a dos2unix/unix2dos utilities for linux. Solaris comes with this utility... -Original Message- From: Randy Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 12:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows I'm going to need to transfer text files back and forth between Linux and Windows regularly for some period of time. I think I've found one way to do it -- using mcopy with the -a (or -t ??) option, but I thought I'd ask for other suggestions. I'll start out transferring on floppies (today) but fairly soon use smbclient to mount some Windows partitions on my Linux machine. Thanks, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Midnight commander in Single Network Firewall
On Friday 31 August 2001 14:06, Draconis wrote: Hi there! Last few day's I spend my time with installing SNF (Single Network Firewall) from Mandrake, and I must say it look realy good. I'm not complete a newbie at linux, but don't have so much expirience with mandrake. But I have a few questions. First: Is there a complete FAQ about the SNF ? Second: I have have problems using ICQ (from my win2k workstation) behind the SNF. It says, can't connect the ICQ server. Has someone an ID how to get this working? Third: By trying to changes some configurations I was looking for Midnightcommander and couldn't find it. Is there a possibility to install it? I try'ed to install it with rpm --install and then a mc.rpm, but then it complaines about perl missing... Forth: Is it possible to run a xwindows version on the NFS? So lots of questions, but I hope someone can help me with this :-) Greetings and thanks in advance!! Draconis You absolutely must _NOT_ use mc or any editor to make changes on SNF itself. That is why they were left off. For example, /etc/resolv.conf is loaded every boot from another file. Most of the configuration is automated by rules you set up. Do ALL your configuration from the web interface. Use a graphics browser like netscape from another machine in the network. Login as admin, not root, and use the admin password you set up. The URL will be https://(IP of SNF):4143 And you will see how to keep port 4000 open for ICQ as soon as you use the web tools and wizards. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows
On Friday 31 August 2001 13:57, you wrote: I'm going to need to transfer text files back and forth between Linux and Windows regularly for some period of time. I think I've found one way to do it -- using mcopy with the -a (or -t ??) option, but I thought I'd ask for other suggestions. I'll start out transferring on floppies (today) but fairly soon use smbclient to mount some Windows partitions on my Linux machine. Thanks, Randy Kramer Open those mounts on your machine with a file manager like Konqueror Then drap 'N drop Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows
On Friday 31 August 2001 05:36 pm, Randy Kramer escribió: The only thing you might run into is /n (line feed) differences. Linux does it properly, windoze doesn't. Well, cept for DOS's 'edit'. If you move or copy a txt file to windoze, open it with 'edit' and then save it. Then even brain dead windoze editors will be able to display it properly. Ahh, that's helpful. I tried Notepad, Wordpad, and Word. Word works, but it's a little cumbersome. Randy Kramer Actually it's been a long time since I ran in to the the differences between U*nx handling of carridge returns, line feeds, new lines, whatever, between Windoze (and everybody else) in txt files. Linux must be gettin more tolerant ; Just thought it was worth mentioning that 'edit' in M$ products still does it right if you save a u*nx created file with it. I suspect it's the only M$ editor that adheres to ASCII standards. FWIW, if you need to do batch conversions for '\n' between U*nx and DOS (windoze), do a Google or ftp search for 'unix2dos'. I believe there's also 'dos2unix'. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall
Hi all, Few days ago I sent out a long message regarding first time installation woes. Amit and Dennis were kind enough to respond but alas their suggestions has not solved the problems. So I will split the issues into byte sizes in order to encourage more suggestions. Since installing Linux 8 I have lost my triple windows boot. I.e. Win2K Pro, Server and Win98. Can anyone think of the command for installing uninstalling LILO??? I have already booted into Mandrake boot disk. Selected F1 at main menu. Typed rescue. At the [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U when this did not work I tried the lower case -u. Still did not work. Can anyone help? Sincerely Siavash Sefidvash Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall
I forgot to mention that [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U gives an error message about command not being found same for the lower case u. Cheers Siavash -Original Message- From: Siavash Sefidvash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 September 2001 00:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall Hi all, Few days ago I sent out a long message regarding first time installation woes. Amit and Dennis were kind enough to respond but alas their suggestions has not solved the problems. So I will split the issues into byte sizes in order to encourage more suggestions. Since installing Linux 8 I have lost my triple windows boot. I.e. Win2K Pro, Server and Win98. Can anyone think of the command for installing uninstalling LILO??? I have already booted into Mandrake boot disk. Selected F1 at main menu. Typed rescue. At the [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U when this did not work I tried the lower case -u. Still did not work. Can anyone help? Sincerely Siavash Sefidvash Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall
On Saturday 01 September 2001 12:36 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: I forgot to mention that [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U gives an error message about command not being found same for the lower case u. Cheers Siavash -Original Message- From: Siavash Sefidvash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 September 2001 00:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall Hi all, Few days ago I sent out a long message regarding first time installation woes. Amit and Dennis were kind enough to respond but alas their suggestions has not solved the problems. So I will split the issues into byte sizes in order to encourage more suggestions. Since installing Linux 8 I have lost my triple windows boot. I.e. Win2K Pro, Server and Win98. Can anyone think of the command for installing uninstalling LILO??? I have already booted into Mandrake boot disk. Selected F1 at main menu. Typed rescue. At the [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U when this did not work I tried the lower case -u. Still did not work. Can anyone help? Sincerely Siavash Sefidvash Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: what about lower case lilo -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows
I use a texteditor called TextPad www.textpad.com it will open unix files and save as the same with having to convert them. Its also a great general editor with tons toys. my $0.02 Steven - Original Message - From: Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 1:57 PM Subject: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows I'm going to need to transfer text files back and forth between Linux and Windows regularly for some period of time. I think I've found one way to do it -- using mcopy with the -a (or -t ??) option, but I thought I'd ask for other suggestions. I'll start out transferring on floppies (today) but fairly soon use smbclient to mount some Windows partitions on my Linux machine. Thanks, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] uninstalling a tar and zip file
Hi guys, I went to the rpm.net site and downloaded the checkinstall rpm now I get this after double clicking the file and typing checkinstall at the prompt. Checkinstall 1.4.1 Copyright 2001 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran This software is released under the GNU GPL The checkinstallrc file was not found at: /usr/local/lib/checkinstall/checkinstallrc Assuming default values. I cant find /usr/local/bin/installwatch. I cant continue. Either install installwatch or modify the INSTALLWATCH variable in this script, then run checkinstall again. Ok...so I get the point that Installwatch can not be found. The mandrake cooker website shows that it is one of the files installed and now I dont see it anywhere. WHat am I doing wrong with this RPM? TIA Todd -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] uninstalling a tar and zip file Hi Todd, You can find it at http://www.rpmfind.com. Just search for checkinstall (no version number) and the cooker version should pop up at the top of the list. If you still have trouble, here's a direct link to the file: ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/contrib/RPMS/checkinstall-1.4.1-1mdk. i586.rpm Miark - Original Message - From: Todd Zashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 5:19 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] uninstalling a tar and zip file Civilme, I checked the cooker. No such file or I am not seeing or missing something. Thanks, Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 8:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Todd Zashin Subject: Re: [newbie] uninstalling a tar and zip file On Friday 24 August 2001 17:02, Todd Zashin wrote: Hi. I recently installed a package called nkfs that I got off of CalderaSystems web site. I want to now uninstall what I installed. I unzipped and tar the archived file and did the make procedure. Now, I want to uninstall what I installed. How do I go about reversing the action? Sincerely, Todd Zashin Computer Operator Trico Electric Cooperative 5100 W. Ina Rd. Tucson, AZ 85743 520.744.2944 xt. 1331 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well go to cooker files and get yourself a copy of the checkinstall rpm. Then install the whole thing AGAIN (a full-meal deal!) except instead of make install you use checkinstall then rpm -e nkfs Civileme Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Prelude how to start?
Since it looked pretty interesting I thought I would go ahead and download prelude and try it out on the 8.0 2.4.7-12 kernel. It untarred and installed just dandy. Only thing is I'll be durned if I can figure out how to start it up. The Documentation is up to the usual skeleton and only a coder could figure out what it means type writeup. S, has anyone tried it out from the tar file and if so how do you make it go? TIA for any you dummy, all you gotta do is.. help. : P -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hotmail like platform for linux?
On August 31, 2001 08:04 pm, Tim Holmes wrote: For lack of a better explanation, what you're doing with Outlook Express and Hotmail is IMAP. You're viewing the remote folders and the information in it. It may not be IMAP they're actually running, but in a way, that's what they're doing. Actually, OE talks to Hotmail using HTTPMail. I looked into this about six months ago. I saw some source for Linux on Souceforge, it was a version 0.1. Microsoft purports that it's a legit mail protocol, yet they have never released any specs for it! Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows
need to do batch conversions for '\n' between U*nx and DOS (windoze), do a Google or ftp search for 'unix2dos'. I believe there's also 'dos2unix'. And don't forget 'tr' and/or 'sed', both of which can do these batch conversions, and much more. Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCI modems
I recently bought US Robotics 3com PCI 5610A modem. I have been in contact w/US Robotics and I inquired about this modem. They have a model 5610 which is a winmodem but they tell me that the 5610A is a hardware modem. ($70 to $90) I had it up and running for about a week and then I kept getting a No Dialtone message when I tried to connectin Linux or Windows! I was told that they are having a problem w/a receiver circuit not closing and making the modem believe the phone line was off hook! They had me send it back to them and they would send me back another! Anyway, that's the jist on this particular modem! Good Luck! Roger mrc wrote: If anyone on this list is successfully using a PCI modem I would appreciate knowing the model. It's a jungle out there when it comes to finding out about linux-compatibility in modems. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit -- A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCI modems
I have the pci 5610 (as harddrake calls it) and have never had a bit of trouble with it. A simple setserial with kernels 2.2.x and nothing but setting up kppp in kernels 2.4.x. It cost like $80 or so back in the fall of '99 I guess it was. -s On Friday 31 August 2001 09:41 pm, R C wrote: I recently bought US Robotics 3com PCI 5610A modem. I have been in contact w/US Robotics and I inquired about this modem. They have a model 5610 which is a winmodem but they tell me that the 5610A is a hardware modem. ($70 to $90) I had it up and running for about a week and then I kept getting a No Dialtone message when I tried to connectin Linux or Windows! I was told that they are having a problem w/a receiver circuit not closing and making the modem believe the phone line was off hook! They had me send it back to them and they would send me back another! Anyway, that's the jist on this particular modem! Good Luck! Roger mrc wrote: If anyone on this list is successfully using a PCI modem I would appreciate knowing the model. It's a jungle out there when it comes to finding out about linux-compatibility in modems. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] install Star Office freezes mouse mdk80
Trying to run/complete the installation of Star Office 5.2 freezes my MS Intellimouse and stops install dead in its tracks. I've tried installing from the CD and from a 90+ MB download. Same results. Any ideas? Athlon 850, Epox MB, 128mb RAM, Mandrake 8.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Floppy distro
Anyone know where I can find a Linux distro that will fit on a floppy. It seems like I heard about this somewhere, but can't seem to find one now. Even the Peanut Linux I checked our required a cd rom. I just got a 486 with no cd rom. I would prefer a free one that I can download, but have not ruled out buying a cheap one. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Floppy distro
Anyone know where I can find a Linux distro that will fit on a floppy. It seems like I heard about this somewhere, but can't seem to find one I think the Tom's Root-Boot disk set can fit on a floppy (or two). Ob- viously there's not a whole lot that can be stuffed onto one or two floppies, but it's a decent starting point for a small setup. Slackware is still (as I recall, it's been sometime) set up so that the various components can be put on floppy disks. ShalomOut David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ModemBlaster help...
On Saturday 01 September 2001 01:07, you wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: actually I don't think kudzu will find an external cause it won't need drivers or any thing like that. I would go to the KPPP setup and choose the ttyS0 or ttyS1 and put in you ISP server ip addresses etc and then see if it won't connect. . That's how I got my external running. You can test it before you are out of setup. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Hi Dennis, thanks for the reply. Well, it does find the external Practical Peripherals modem (albeit it calls it a generic serial modem) and will remove or add it as I hook it up. It won't find the Creative modem though. I did choose the option to keep the current generic serial modem setup, and I can connect. Its odd though. My old internal Diamond Supra 56k ISA modem showed connects of 57600. The external 28.8 Practical Peripherals showed connects of 26400. The external 56k Creative is showing 26400 as well... ;-( Are you using KPPP? If so go into the setup and check on modem where it sets the speed. You should be able to set it for 56k or 112k and then your connection speed should jump up. By the way, I don't know if you know it but the speed shown is 56,000 bits but what is actual transfer is more like 4.5 kbytes per second. This means that 8bits equal a byte and there is a start bit and a end bit on each byte so divide 56 by 10 and you get 5.6bytes, but FCC only allows up to 5.3 B/s transfer so that is the best you can expect. I never get it mostly I get around 4.5. Sorry if I am telling you what you already know, but it fascinates me how numbers get thrown around and they aren't what they appear. Let me know if you have any problem setting the modem speed. And anyone who sees my math above as messed up, please jump in here and put it straight. I hate it when I get stuff like that wrong. : ) -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 01:30, Charles A. Punch wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Mandrake has taken a few elements from Ximian GNOME for Mandrake 8.0. However, Ximian's official Mandrake 8.0 packages are even better. Things are smoother and faster than in 8.0 (especially Nautilus), and there are a few extra little niceties like Doorman and Red Carpet. Do you think that MDK 8.1 will have the full version of Ximian GNOME? I don't have a cd burner and out here in the sticks, it's impossible to get broadband that supports Linux. If 8.1 will not include it, is there perhaps a RPM or something that would reasonably download over 56k? I e-mailed Civileme about that a few weeks ago. He said that Mandrake often take stuff from Ximian GNOME and incorporate it into their own version (it's all GPL, after all). I suggested that they have a look at the ximian-doorman, ximian-utils and red-carpet packages. They appear to be considering ximian-doorman and ximian-utils, but red-carpet is out because it apparently doesn't check dependencies as well as Mandrakesoft would like (and probably also because it offers the same functionality as MandrakeUpdate, possibly creating confusion amongst users). Ximian's priorities at present are existing GNOME users (it's much easier to keep existing users than to find new ones), the corporate desktop (through partnerships with Red hat, Sun and HP) and the underprivileged (schools, poor nations, etc.). They are not as focussed on the consumer desktop as KDE. This, in turn, puts Mandrake Linux support as a low priority, since it is KDE-centric and is focussed on consumers in richer nations (selling via Wal-Mart, etc.). This is the main reason why Mandrake 8.0 support was so slow in arrival. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting CD burner
On Friday 31 August 2001 07:08 pm, David Park wrote: I am currently having trouble mounting my CD Burner. Can some one please tell me how I should define it in fstab. I have created a directory under /mnt but I am confused because under Harddrake,it is listed twice - as an IDE device and SCSI device. ie hdd and scd0 TIA David Well, mine looks like: /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 it's on another machine that still tries to use supermount obviously, that's with 8.0 and kernel 2.4.3-20mdk. If you've disabled yours, you can copy/paste then supermount -i disable. You're supposed to have two entries for burners in your harddrake. It's the links that probably make the difference. /dev/cdrom2 is linked to /dev/scd0 with permissions like: lrwxrwxrwx and then in lilo you need an append= hdc=ide-scsi Then as root, open userdrake and put cdwriter in your user's group. If that don't do it for you, I've got a how-to written by civileme somewhere I can dig up for you. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mounting CD burner
I am currently having trouble mounting my CD Burner. Can some one please tell me how I should define it in fstab. I have created a directory under /mnt but I am confused because under Harddrake,it is listed twice - as an IDE device and SCSI device. ie hdd and scd0 TIA David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows
Tom Brinkman wrote: Just thought it was worth mentioning that 'edit' in M$ products still does it right if you save a u*nx created file with it. I suspect it's the only M$ editor that adheres to ASCII standards. FWIW, if you need to do batch conversions for '\n' between U*nx and DOS (windoze), do a Google or ftp search for 'unix2dos'. I believe there's also 'dos2unix'. Tom, Thanks for the followup. I've downloaded both of these (they came together in one package) for win32. I'm sure they are available for Linux also, but right now it's most convenient to use them in Windows. Thanks, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....
Mark Weaver wrote: nah...i've had my head buried in some PERL scripts pretty deeply the last couple of weeks and i only come up for air when my boss forces me to have lunch or something. that, or one of the users calls up and can't figure out why the monitor is black simply because it's not plugged in. It worked when they went home for the day! evil grin -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ I understand smile. Anyways, for those who are truly interested I think the link is: http://www.geekcruises.com HTH! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall
On Friday 31 August 2001 06:31 pm, Siavash Sefidvash escribió: Few days ago I sent out a long message regarding first time installation woes. Amit and Dennis were kind enough to respond but alas their suggestions has not solved the problems. So I will split the issues into byte sizes in order to encourage more suggestions. Good idea, often one question per topic (post) is the best. Since installing Linux 8 I have lost my triple windows boot. I.e. Win2K Pro, Server and Win98. Can anyone think of the command for installing uninstalling LILO??? lilo -u [device-name] BUT, if there's any problems, boot windoze, and from a DOS prompt try 'fdisk /mbr' to clear the master boot record. I have already booted into Mandrake boot disk. Selected F1 at main menu. Typed rescue. At the [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U when this did not work I tried the lower case -u. Still did not work. Can anyone help? Tho I've never needed to do it, I suspect you didn't include the device name, ie, (usually)lilo -u /dev/hda and it is case sensitive, so use lower case. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall
On Saturday 01 September 2001 12:46 am, Peter Watson wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2001 12:36 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: I forgot to mention that [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U gives an error also -ul or -U -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
