[newbie-it] differenza kernel
Ciao a tutti dopo aver installato la MDK 8.1 sul mio PC ho la necessità di avviare il kernel 2.2.19, premetto che ho partizionato l'HD con il supporto reisefs e tutto va bene, l'unica partizione che non è reiser è la /boot avvio linux con lilo. Allora ho modificato il lilo.conf inserendo i comandi per avviare il kernel 2.2.19-19mdk poi un bel lilo -v e tutto va liscio come l'olio al riavvio il kernel mi dice che non è supportato il reiserfs che opzioni devo dare a lilo per far partire il kernel 2.2 su partizioni reiser ? devo nel caso usare uno degli altri kernel 2.2.19-19mdklinus o 2.2.19-19mdksecure ? che differenza c'è tra questi? ciao e grazie Rodolfo
Re: [newbie-it] [OT] star office 5.2
--- Cinzia Delogu [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ho scaricato star office 5.2 dal sito della sun, ma il file è in formato *.bin; che cosa posso utilizzare per masterizzarlo? ...Dovrebbe essere l'eseguibile di installazione. Puoi masterizzarlo come un qualsiasi file: non si tratta di un' immagine iso. Ciao! Steo. __ Iscriviti al Meglio della Settimana, la newsletter di Yahoo! Per saperne di più vai alla pagina: http://it.docs.yahoo.com/buongiorno.html
Re: [newbie-it] differenza kernel
--- Rodolfo Colombo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ciao a tutti dopo aver installato la MDK 8.1 sul mio PC ho la necessità di avviare il kernel 2.2.19, premetto che ho partizionato l'HD con il supporto reisefs e tutto va bene, l'unica partizione che non è reiser è la /boot avvio linux con lilo. Allora ho modificato il lilo.conf inserendo i comandi per avviare il kernel 2.2.19-19mdk poi un bel lilo -v e tutto va liscio come l'olio al riavvio il kernel mi dice che non è supportato il reiserfs che opzioni devo dare a lilo per far partire il kernel 2.2 su partizioni reiser ? devo nel caso usare uno degli altri kernel 2.2.19-19mdklinus o 2.2.19-19mdksecure ? che differenza c'è tra questi? Il kernel 2.2.x non supporta il reiserfs, e non credo che esistano degli accrocchi per aggirare il problema (il supporto ad un filesystem deve essere compilato nel kernel). Il kernel 2.2.19-19mdklinus dovrebbe essere il kernel standard 2.2.19 mentre il 2.2.19-19mdksecure dovrebbe contenere delle patch per la sicurezza, ma non ne sono sicuro. Ciao! Steo. __ Iscriviti al Meglio della Settimana, la newsletter di Yahoo! Per saperne di più vai alla pagina: http://it.docs.yahoo.com/buongiorno.html
Re: [newbie-it] SUSE 7.3
Francesco Speranza wrote: Anche se questa mail-list e' dedicata a Mandrake volevo porre un quesito sulla distribuzione di Suse. Sto cercando di scaricare Suse 7.3 da uno dei siti italiani (ftp.uniroma2.it/linux/suse/suse/i386) ma noto che la quantita' di MB da scaricare e' enorme ( molto piu' di un singolo CD forse bisogna scaricare solo alcune Dir ) ed inoltre non ho alcuna idea su come iniziare l'istallazione ( a parte un file setup che pare funzioni sotto DOS )e infatti non so come fare per organizzare questi files in uno o più CD di installazione ( non c'e' un file iso ...) . Qualcuno che ha pratica con Suse potrebbe aiutarmi a risolvere questo quesito? Francesco SuSE a differenza di Mandrake, non distribuisce le immagini iso delle proprie distro (solo quelle delle versioni vecchie). ricostruire il CD di installazione e` quasi impossibile. Dovresti prenderti tutto, sapere come distribuirlo tra piu` CD o come sostituire alcuni file con dei link simbolici, avere un programma di installazione da Cd che non so se sia presente, fai prima a comprarti la distro ufficiale. :-( E` quello che vogliono, facendo giustamente arrabbiare diverse persone. L'unica alternativa, se hai una linea ISDN o DSL, e` quella di scaricare l'immagine del floppy di istallazione (quello che hai trovato) e poi fare direttamente l'installazione da rete. I pacchetti saranno direttamente installati sul tuo Pc senza passare da un CD di installazione. ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] [OT] star office 5.2
Cinzia Delogu wrote: Ho scaricato star office 5.2 dal sito della sun, ma il file è in formato *.bin; che cosa posso utilizzare per masterizzarlo? Lo masterizzi come un file normale all'interno di un CD con anche altri file. Non e` un'immagine iso. Per installarlo dai da un Xterm il comando: # tuo-file-di-star-office.bin /net e segui le istruzioni mettendo tutto in /usr/local/OFFICE52. E` fondamentale il /net altrimenti potra` usarlo solo chi lo ha installato (es. root) Poi, dovrai ripetere una mini installazione per ogni utente facendogli dare /usr/local/OFFICE52/../bin/setup. ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] SUSE 7.3
Il 15:31, lunedì 28 gennaio 2002, hai fatto finta di scrivere: Anche se questa mail-list e' dedicata a Mandrake volevo porre un quesito sulla distribuzione di Suse. Sto cercando di scaricare Suse 7.3 da uno dei siti italiani (ftp.uniroma2.it/linux/suse/suse/i386) ma noto che la quantita' di MB da scaricare e' enorme ( molto piu' di un singolo CD forse bisogna scaricare solo alcune Dir ) ed inoltre non ho alcuna idea su come iniziare l'istallazione ( a parte un file setup che pare funzioni sotto DOS )e infatti non so come fare per organizzare questi files in uno o più CD di installazione ( non c'e' un file iso ...) . Qualcuno che ha pratica con Suse potrebbe aiutarmi a risolvere questo quesito? Francesco se vuoi puoi risolver il problema comprando linux co attualmente in edicola: ha allegata infatti la suse 7.3! _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie-it] kernel 2.4.16 la vendetta
Ho cantato vittoria troppo presto... In realtà niente di tragico: 1)il computer con il nuovo kernel, semplicemente non ha nessuna voglia dispegnersi automaticamente; esegue tutta la routine di spegnimento, arriva al messaggio halting system, quindi al power down...e li rimane con il cursore lampeggiante, costringendomi a chiudere a mano. 2) Questa è marginale, ma ho notato che con linux si tende a diventare dei perfezionisti; al momento del boot con aurora (new-style qualcosa), la stella di mdk azzurra (quella per intendersi dove a volte appare accanto la faccina triste) risulta sgranata, quasi ci fossero dei problemi di resa grafica; utilizzando però poi il computer questi problemi non si riscontrano affatto, anzi.. Sempre avido di conoscenza, rispettosamente vostro Fabio
[newbie-it] ps and pdf viewer
Salve a tutti, ho un problemino con il ps and pdf viewer di mandrake. Non stampa. Tutte le altre applicazioni stampano regolarmente. QUalcuno di voi ha trovato i setting giusti? Luigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata U.Dini Via Bonanno Pisano 25/B, 56126 Pisa, ITALY Tel.: +39/050/844745 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] Ricompilare il Kernel
Ciao a tutti, ieri sera ho tentato la mia prima ricompilazione del Kernel sul mio MDK 8.1. Volevo fare in modo che il sistema vedesse il masterizzatore come SCSI seguendo quanto citato sugli How-to per masterizzare. Dunque ho lanciato da /usr/src/linux make menuconfig ed ho modificato, stupidamente, solo le opzioni che mi servivano, pensando che tutte le altre fossero già configurate in modo corretto. Peccato di presunzione perchè poi ho realizzato che, siccome la ricompilazione parte dai sorgenti, avrei dovuto settare tutte le opzioni necessarie. Vabbè, ho reinstallato tutto. Mi chiedo xrò, se non ci sia un modo per modificare solamente le opzioni necessarie, partendo magari dal kernel già compilato e funzionante sul mio sistema. Potete aiutarmi? Non esistono degli elenchi aggiornati con spiegazioni chiare dei vari moduli presenti nel Kernel (2.4.8)? So che in menuconfig e xconfig, esistono delle info, ma non sono troppo esaustive. Almeno per me che sono niubbo... Ah, dimenticavo, in xconfig, è possibile caricare le opzioni del Kernel da un file di configurazione pre esistente. E' solo un sistema di salvataggio dati (che so, se mentre imposto le funzioni del kernel mi scappa la pipì... posso salvare e ricominciare? :-)) oppure posso caricare da qui le opzioni del kernel funzionante? E se si, come? Caspita, quanto ho scritto, scusate, sono logorroico anche quando scrivo... Saluti e ringraziamenti a tutti. Alessio. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Ricompilare il Kernel
..Niubbo? A questo punto non so se devo darLe del Voi... Comunque, sono fresco di compilazione, e ti posso suggerire quello che ho capito io.. In /boot dovresti trovare un file config-2.4.8-26mdk o giù di li (sono su Win quando scrivo e-mail, cribbio!!); comunque appare con l'iconcina del file di testo. Carica quel file e avrai la configurazione di default che attualmente hai sulla tua mandrakkia.. Da li, buona fortuna.. Fabio - Original Message - From: Alessio Vicini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 2:22 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Ricompilare il Kernel Ciao a tutti, ieri sera ho tentato la mia prima ricompilazione del Kernel sul mio MDK 8.1. Volevo fare in modo che il sistema vedesse il masterizzatore come SCSI seguendo quanto citato sugli How-to per masterizzare. Dunque ho lanciato da /usr/src/linux make menuconfig ed ho modificato, stupidamente, solo le opzioni che mi servivano, pensando che tutte le altre fossero già configurate in modo corretto. Peccato di presunzione perchè poi ho realizzato che, siccome la ricompilazione parte dai sorgenti, avrei dovuto settare tutte le opzioni necessarie. Vabbè, ho reinstallato tutto. Mi chiedo xrò, se non ci sia un modo per modificare solamente le opzioni necessarie, partendo magari dal kernel già compilato e funzionante sul mio sistema. Potete aiutarmi? Non esistono degli elenchi aggiornati con spiegazioni chiare dei vari moduli presenti nel Kernel (2.4.8)? So che in menuconfig e xconfig, esistono delle info, ma non sono troppo esaustive. Almeno per me che sono niubbo... Ah, dimenticavo, in xconfig, è possibile caricare le opzioni del Kernel da un file di configurazione pre esistente. E' solo un sistema di salvataggio dati (che so, se mentre imposto le funzioni del kernel mi scappa la pipì... posso salvare e ricominciare? :-)) oppure posso caricare da qui le opzioni del kernel funzionante? E se si, come? Caspita, quanto ho scritto, scusate, sono logorroico anche quando scrivo... Saluti e ringraziamenti a tutti. Alessio. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] Estrazione singoli file da archivi .tar
Ciao, una domanda: si può (e, se sì, come) estrarre da un file .tar un singolo file ? E come fare per metterlo subito dove voglio ? Può andare qualcosa del tipo tar opzioni per ora a me ignote file.tar singoloFile path/singoloFileNuovo ? Grazie anticipate, Alberto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] Grafica
Cioa a tutti vorrei sapere perche non riesco a settare una risoluzone piu alta di 1028*768 a 16bit con il menu di mandrake 8.0. Che file dovrei cambiare manualmente ed in che modo, vorrei capire il motivo percui se aumento la risoluzione non mi si vede piu niente, funziona solo la modalita riga comando.
Re: [newbie-it] Ricompilare il Kernel
Darmi del Voi?!? Ma siamo pazzi?!? Già sono brutto di mio, se poi divento anche rosso... Scherzi a parte, Fabio, grazie mille per il tuo suggerimento, stasera stessa provo. PS per inciso, fino a prova contrario sono io a doverti dare del Voi: tu hai ricompilatoio ancora no... Ciao E grazie ancora. -- Alessio Vicini, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/29/2002 Il Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:05:09 +0100, Fabio Manunza mi ha scritto: ...Niubbo? A questo punto non so se devo darLe del Voi... Comunque, sono fresco di compilazione, e ti posso suggerire quello che ho capito io.. In /boot dovresti trovare un file config-2.4.8-26mdk o giù di li (sono su Win quando scrivo e-mail, cribbio!!); comunque appare con l'iconcina del file di testo. Carica quel file e avrai la configurazione di default che attualmente hai sulla tua mandrakkia.. Da li, buona fortuna.. Fabio - Original Message - From: Alessio Vicini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 2:22 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Ricompilare il Kernel Ciao a tutti, ieri sera ho tentato la mia prima ricompilazione del Kernel sul mio MDK 8.1. Volevo fare in modo che il sistema vedesse il masterizzatore come SCSI seguendo quanto citato sugli How-to per masterizzare. Dunque ho lanciato da /usr/src/linux make menuconfig ed ho modificato, stupidamente, solo le opzioni che mi servivano, pensando che tutte le altre fossero già configurate in modo corretto. Peccato di presunzione perchè poi ho realizzato che, siccome la ricompilazione parte dai sorgenti, avrei dovuto settare tutte le opzioni necessarie. Vabbè, ho reinstallato tutto. Mi chiedo xrò, se non ci sia un modo per modificare solamente le opzioni necessarie, partendo magari dal kernel già compilato e funzionante sul mio sistema. Potete aiutarmi? Non esistono degli elenchi aggiornati con spiegazioni chiare dei vari moduli presenti nel Kernel (2.4.8)? So che in menuconfig e xconfig, esistono delle info, ma non sono troppo esaustive. Almeno per me che sono niubbo... Ah, dimenticavo, in xconfig, è possibile caricare le opzioni del Kernel da un file di configurazione pre esistente. E' solo un sistema di salvataggio dati (che so, se mentre imposto le funzioni del kernel mi scappa la pipì... posso salvare e ricominciare? :-)) oppure posso caricare da qui le opzioni del kernel funzionante? E se si, come? Caspita, quanto ho scritto, scusate, sono logorroico anche quando scrivo... Saluti e ringraziamenti a tutti. Alessio. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Estrazione singoli file da archivi .tar
Probabilmente, da X... (KDE, Gnome...) puoi cliccare sul file Tar che ti si apre. Prendi il file che ti serve e lo trascini nella cartella che ti interessa. Credo funzioni, però non ho mai provato... Fammi sapere. Ciao. -- Alessio Vicini, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/29/2002 Il Sun, 27 Jan 2002 10:56:17 +0100, Alberto Zanoni mi ha scritto: Ciao, una domanda: si può (e, se sì, come) estrarre da un file .tar un singolo file ? E come fare per metterlo subito dove voglio ? Può andare qualcosa del tipo tar opzioni per ora a me ignote file.tar singoloFile path/singoloFileNuovo ? Grazie anticipate, Alberto
[newbie-it] Masterizz.
Un saluto alla lista. Vorrei consigli sulla scelta di un masterizzatore per il mio Mdk 8.1. Eventualmente link su elenchi consultabili. Grazie Roby
Re: [newbie-it] Scheda di rete
Alle 00:07, martedì 29 gennaio 2002, mike ha scritto: cut perchè non dsattivi aurora per vedere che tipo di errore hai? cut Allora mike, ho disattivato aurora e con il riavvio in modalità testo ho avuto la possibilità di configurare (Kuduz!!) la scheda che immediatamente è stata caricata. Naturalmente sul mio modesto sistema in fìeri aurora non vedrà ma più la luce; l'ho riesumata solo per un riavvio così da sincerarmi della scomparsa di quella scheda nell'angolo basso sinistro dello schermo. cut #route (ad eth up e eth down) così controlli come hai settato le rotte ed ecco le rotte rispettivamente pre e post eth0 (pre)..# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo (post)..# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo default localhost.local 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 E adesso la connessione. 2)Volendo comunicare il risultato alla ml mi sono connesso e con mia grande.. gioia.. ho scoperto di viaggiare alla velocità di 0,0 kbs. Per essere più preciso: ero connesso ma kmail restava inchiodato sulla trasmissione dal primo pop questo potrebbe proprio essere un problema di DNS.. ti basta aggiungere un - search tuodominio nameserver tuonameserver - in /etc/resolv.conf e col browser non andavo da nessuna parte qualunque fosse l'indirizzo digitato. idem, con un IP uscivi? Ho controllato le impostazioni della connessione e del modem, quest'ultimo provandolo anche con windows. cut ok, il caricamento della rete ti carica la rotta che hai impostato, generalmente eth0 diventa il GW per la tua rete, ma tu, a meno di avere un router, navighi con ppp0 come GW devi settare kppp in modo che ppp0 diventi default gateway quando (e solo allora) sei connesso, sostituendo anche i dns locali con quelli assegnati dal provider Non sono mai uscito con un IP. A parte questo, ho dato uno sguardo tra i vari tool grafici e all'interno di alcuni files. Ho fatto anche qualche timido tentativo ma prima di fare grossi danni vorrei avere le idee più chiare. Questo è il mio /etc/resolv.conf # search localdomain search localdomain nameserver 192.168.0.2 # ppp temp entry Tu mi dici di aggiungere quelle due stringhe che mi hai indicato. Mi connetto con inwind e quindi suppongo che il mio dominio sia inwind.it ma per il mio nameserver non so proprio cosa pensare. Per il settaggio di Kppp ho notato che il profilo default per la connessione mi indica come interfaccia ppp0 e quindi suppongo che sarà sufficiente disabilitare il default route tra le impostazioni della connessione. Per i dns assegnati dal provider sul sito di inwind mi indica un IP per il dns primario e nulla per il dns secondario. Insomma mike, ho già avuto modo di verificare la tua squisita disponibilità... mi manca poco, lo sento, non mi abbandonare alla fine del sentiero. Dirti grazie mi sembra poco. -- syd
Re: [newbie-it] differenza kernel
Che intendi con il kernel 2.2.x non supporta il reiserfs? basta che non sia la partizione di swap o quella di boot (o quella dedicata a Win...) per il resto il reiserfs è utilizzabile come gli altri anzi, per il 2.2.x, è preferibile. Ciao, Germano Il kernel 2.2.x non supporta il reiserfs, e non credo che esistano degli accrocchi per aggirare il problema (il supporto ad un filesystem deve essere compilato nel kernel). Il kernel 2.2.19-19mdklinus dovrebbe essere il kernel standard 2.2.19 mentre il 2.2.19-19mdksecure dovrebbe contenere delle patch per la sicurezza, ma non ne sono sicuro. Ciao! Steo.
Re: [newbie-it] unsubscrive
Il 18:44, martedì 29 gennaio 2002, hai scritto: unsubscrive
Re: [newbie-it] Estrazione singoli file da archivi .tar
Metodo 1) tar -xvf nome archivio nome file da estrarre In questo modo estrae nome file da estrarre da nome archivio e lo mette nella directory corrente. Metodo 2) se proprio non vuoi metterti già nella directory dove deve essere estratto il file puoi provare con tar -xvf nome archivio nome file da estrarre -C nome directory l'ultima opzione fa (o dovrebbe fare) sì che le operazioni siano svolte come se ci si trovasse nella directory nome directory quindi penso che il nome archivio si debbe adeguare a questo comportamento. N.B: nome file da estrarre deve corrispondere esattamente a quello con il quale quel file è stato archiviato quindi fatti listare i file dell'archivio Metodo 3) Consultare la infopage o la manpage di tar ( info tar man tar) Ciao, Germano Il 10:56, domenica 27 gennaio 2002, hai scritto: Ciao, una domanda: si può (e, se sì, come) estrarre da un file .tar un singolo file ? E come fare per metterlo subito dove voglio ? Può andare qualcosa del tipo tar opzioni per ora a me ignote file.tar singoloFile path/singoloFileNuovo ? Grazie anticipate, Alberto
Re: [newbie-it] differenza kernel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 10:10, martedì 29 gennaio 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] differenza kernel, Stefano Salari ha scritto: --- Rodolfo Colombo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ciao a tutti dopo aver installato la MDK 8.1 sul mio PC ho la necessità di avviare il kernel 2.2.19, premetto che ho partizionato l'HD con il supporto reisefs allora, il reiser la mandrakkia l'ha introdotto con la 7.x che montava un 2.2.xx-yy.mdk. Stabilmente è stato introdotto nei kernel linus a partire dal 2.4.1, ora, non ci giuro, ma il 2.2.19.yy.mdk (*mdk* !!) dovrebbe averlo il supporto reiser. Il nocciolo potrebbe essere piuttosto nell'immagine da caricare all'avvio, cioè, - -se compili includendo il supporto reiser nel kernel non devi generare initrd.img - -altrimenti devi generarla (#mkinitrd initrd-2.2.19.img 2.2.19) e farla caricare dal lilo (cosa che comunque mdk esegue abitualmente) il problema, semmai, è nella diversa versione di reiser tra un 2.4.x e la vecchia serie 2.2.x guarda: bash-2.05$ cat /proc/fs/reiserfs/version ReiserFS version 3.6.25 [built into kernel] questo è il reiser che uso sulla mia slack, sicuramente simile come versione al tuo, controlla se il supporto che può darti un 2.2 sia alla stessa versione; il rischio è che, seppure riesci a avviare con un 2.2.19 più o meno patchato tu corrompa il filesystem !! Siccome la serie 2.2. è ancora mantenuta, è probabile che la mdk, o la Suse abbiano rilasciato delle pezze per gestire un reiser versione 3.6.x - -- bye miKe Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.16-pk @ hp Xe3 R.U.# 219755 - S.R.U.# 705 - R.M.# 110932 - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8VumnYp6jtgQnzC0RAjCnAKCJoAM+VFWIGhfArxRkGhKyH8PqugCbB7sN xTylEuqss4RqQD7pneyZdPo= =Lp5u -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Kernel 2.4.16
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 19:13, domenica 27 gennaio 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Kernel 2.4.16, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: vedo con piacere che continui col cross posting... Uhm.. a questo punto mi sorge spontanea la domanda: cos'è 'sto cross-posting che tanto ti secca? Pensavo potesse essere l'inserire più di un indirizzo nel campo destinatari, cosa che non ho più fatto.. Se ho errato non so di errare, a questo punto.. Illuminami.. :-) questa è arrivata su Linux C... Da: Fabio Manunza [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Linux C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] oltre che su newbye... ..non mi secca..(infatti ti rispondo) ma è vietato, su altre ML ti avrebbero fatto nero.. ;) Ciao, e grazie per le dritte, ti farò sapere se il parto avverrà con successo! Fabio di nulla - -- bye miKe Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.16-pk @ hp Xe3 R.U.# 219755 - S.R.U.# 705 - R.M.# 110932 - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8VIC3Yp6jtgQnzC0RAvuDAJ0ci+xtCrXa/ASRPFy4Vv/AK3GNTQCgt/IV lXHGltnEZkx645cDBZkSvWo= =/Avp -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Alcatel Speedtouch USB
Segnalazione per Marco Forti: ciao Marco, sono l'altro Marco, ho seguito il tutorial alla lettera, ma arrivato al comando modem_run non c'è niente da fare malgrado opero come root e l'eseguibile è presente nella /usr/local/bin la risposta è: comando non trovato. preso da rabbia avrei anche fatto il make install dello speedmgmt . (ho fatto danni ? che mi consigli ?). il driver era rigorosamnte quello da te consigliato: speedtouch-1_0.tar.gz sono o non sono sfigato ? saluti Marco - Original Message - From: Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 11:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Alcatel Speedtouch USB Ringrazio Marco Forti per la cortesia, Troppo buono :-) Di seguito troverai le risposte alle tue domande (che spero possano aiutarti a capire meglio i passaggi necessari all'installazione). Se però mi permetti di darti un consiglio prova a seguire tutti i passaggi che ho indicato nel mio mini tutorial dall'inizio alla fine ... poi fammi sapere - risposte ai tuoi quesiti Molti step sono simili ai tuoi, ma essendo io un principiante ho incon trato degli intoppi: Procedendo secondo la tua sequenza e ricordando che lavoro per ora sul Mandrake 8.0, queste sono le mie difficoltà: - ho costruito ed installato lo speedtouch (nessun problema) Di driver per lo speedtouch non ne esiste solo uno, hai scaricato ed installato quello che ho consigliato nel mio minitutorial ? - ho costruito ed installato l'hotplug (nessun problema) Potevi farne a meno, è bacato e probabilmente non lo userai mai! ho costruito ed installato lo speedmgmt (forse non dovevo installarlo ? ) devi solo decomprimerlo (essendo in formato tar.gz devi decomprimerlo come descritto nel tutorial e copiare solo il file mgmt.o nella directory /usr/share/speedtouch/) - ho letto di ricompilare il kernel per il supporto CONFIG_PPP e il CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY, ma sinceramente non so come si ricompila il kerne l con queste integrazioni. A mio avviso con Mandrake 8.0 non dovresti aver bisogno di ricompilare il kernel! il comando ./MAKEDEV ppp è sconosciuto al mio computer, allora ho prova to sia col ppp-2.4.0-mdk installato da CD, sia col ppp-2.4.0b2-2.i386.rpm scaricato da rete. il comando ./MAKEDEV ppp serve a creare le devices (periferiche) ppp nella directory /dev nel caso non fossero già presenti. Per prima cosa accertatene spostandoti nella directory /dev con il comando cd /dev poi con il comando ls ppp* guarda se ottieni un output (elenco di file che iniziano con ppp) e solo se non vedi files che iniziano con ppp dovrai utilizzare il comando ./MAKEDEV ppp (che funziona anche dal tuo computer ma solo se sei nella directory /dev). - del file /etc/resolv.conf non me ne aveva mai parlato nessuno Io consiglio di modificarlo solo perché ho notato che l'uso dei DNS automatici con l'opzione usepeerdns crea in Mandrake 8.1 (almeno a me) qualche problema così è meglio indicarli esplicitamente nel file /etc/resolv.conf - il file /etc/ppp/peers/adsl lo ho creato, ma non so se esiste lo /usr/local/bin/pppoa2 Puoi accertartene con cd /usr/local/bin/ ls pppoa* ti fa vedere i file che iniziano con pppoa (probabilmente avrai sia pppoa2 che pppoa3 - dei files chap-secrets e pap-secrets non ho capito bene il gioco dell'asterisco, ho comunque messo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * miapassword * devi mettere il tuo username (quello comunicato dal tuo provider ... attento che non necessariamente deve avere @dominio.it, ad esempio BBB di telecom ti fornisce uno username senza @tin.it per collegarti) tra virgolette poi uno spazio poi un asterisco tra virgolette poi la tua password tra virgolette ed infine un altro asterisco tra virgolette esempio: pippo * p1pp0 * - il comando modem_run -m -f /usr/share/speedtouch/mgmt.o da me era: modem_run -m - f /path/to/mgmt.o (comunque modem_run è comando sconosciuto) attento /path/to/mgmt.o è solo un esempio che in italiano suonerebbe come: /percorso/di/mgmt.o quindi esattamente /usr/share/speedtouch/mgmt.o in quanto a modem_run questo esiste se hai usato il driver di Papillaut (quello consigliato nel mio tutorial) e funziona solo se lo lanci da root e non da utente - infine pppd call adsl (non fa nulla) diciamo che non da output ... per vedere se ha dato buoni frutti basta lanciare subito dopo il comando ifconfig ppp0 (da root) ... se da un output probabilmente ha funzionato. Ciao e fammi sapere Marco marco.forti[at]iol.it - la mente è una cosa meravigliosa tutti dovrebbero averne una !!! -
Re: [newbie-it] Scheda di rete
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 18:14, martedì 29 gennaio 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Scheda di rete, syd ha scritto: Allora mike, ho disattivato aurora e con il riavvio in modalità testo ho avuto la possibilità di configurare (Kuduz!!) la scheda che immediatamente è stata caricata. ahhh!! benemerito kudzu!! ma poi, non è più bello vedere scorrere a video tutte le informazioni, piuttosto che vedere pinguini che fanno le smorfie?? ;) [snip] E adesso la connessione. Non sono mai uscito con un IP. intendevo dire, anzichè scrivere www.nomedelsito.. inserire http://ip.del.sito.xx A parte questo, ho dato uno sguardo tra i vari tool grafici e all'interno di alcuni files. Ho fatto anche qualche timido tentativo ma prima di fare grossi danni vorrei avere le idee più chiare. Questo è il mio /etc/resolv.conf # search localdomain search localdomain nameserver 192.168.0.2 il problema è che hai impostato il tuo IP (o comunque un ip di una inesistente macchina collegata alla tua rete) come nameserver!! mettici quello del tuo provider aggiungi : search dominio_provider nameserver ip dns.provider in teoria qualsiasi ip di un qualsiasi dns dovrebbe funzionare, ma per fare le cose per benino.. se non conosci il numero ip del tuo provider te ne mando alcuni io: tiscali 195.130.224.18 inwind 212.141.53.123 tin 194.243.154.62 activenet 62.94.0.1 per il futuro, ti basta un $ping dns.nomedeldominio per avere restituito l'indirizzo ip del dns chiamato Per il settaggio di Kppp ho notato che il profilo default per la connessione mi indica come interfaccia ppp0 e quindi suppongo che sarà sufficiente disabilitare il default route tra le impostazioni della connessione. se usi kppp devi abilitare l'opzione Assegna il Default Route a questo gateway non è necessario che disattivi i dns locali durante la connessione, ma non fa neanche male, acceleri un pò evitando richieste a un nameserver inesistente (usi sempre quello _attivo_ del tuo provider) Dirti grazie mi sembra poco. capirai.. - -- bye miKe Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.16-pk @ hp Xe3 R.U.# 219755 - S.R.U.# 705 - R.M.# 110932 - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8Vw+PYp6jtgQnzC0RAgo2AJ4v0AF37vYM76xh3euCkhPYMiPqJgCfXjTt xzcNjetblj7v4wZVpVyQJCw= =1ko6 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] differenza kernel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 18:43, martedì 29 gennaio 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] differenza kernel, Germano ha scritto: Che intendi con il kernel 2.2.x non supporta il reiserfs? guarda che ha ragione, reiser è stato inserito solo dalla 2.4.1!! se lo trovi in kernel della serie 2.2.x è solo perchè alcune case (mandrake, suse) patchano i sorgenti del kernel per includere funzionalità non ufficiali basta che non sia la partizione di swap o quella di boot (o quella dedicata a Win...) per il resto il reiserfs è utilizzabile come gli altri anzi, per il 2.2.x, è preferibile. ?? forse sai qualcosa che noi ignoriamo... - -- bye miKe Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.16-pk @ hp Xe3 R.U.# 219755 - S.R.U.# 705 - R.M.# 110932 - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8Vw+SYp6jtgQnzC0RAvSjAJ0d85rhgcvlu+UPq44C5bO6m1b6LwCghxag 1H6JoRDgXr1ycC26C2Wem6k= =Pm0j -END PGP SIGNATURE-
R: [newbie-it] grazie mike
vorrei scancellarmi dalla lista...grazie -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di miKe Inviato: martedì 29 gennaio 2002 0.07 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie-it] grazie mike -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 19:55, domenica 27 gennaio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] grazie mike, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: vga=normal = bingo! Tutto qua. Gli altri problemi sono scomparsi con l'avvio da HD, come subodoravo... Il sottoscritto c'ha mdk8.1 con 2.4.16. Effettivamente una bella soddisfazione.. Grazie Fabio non ringraziare, il lavoro l'hai fatto tu! - -- bye miKe Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.16-pk @ hp Xe3 R.U.# 219755 - S.R.U.# 705 - R.M.# 110932 - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8VdmZYp6jtgQnzC0RAiW9AKC8KaaQ3N+sFw4QDGEMDW7Huz2+PACfTILI wydKeNyTFLgYZ7D+yFFs5pw= =36BW -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Alcatel Speedtouch USB
Alle 22:29, martedì 29 gennaio 2002, hai scritto: Segnalazione per Marco Forti: ciao Marco, sono l'altro Marco, ho seguito il tutorial alla lettera, ma arrivato al comando modem_run non c'è niente da fare malgrado opero come root e l'eseguibile è presente nella /usr/local/bin la risposta è: comando non trovato. Forse quella directory non è nel PATH. Hai provato a lanciarlo direttamente dalla sua directory ... cioè: cd /usr/local/bin modem_run -m -f /usr/share/speedtouch/mgmt.o Fammi sapere Ciao Marco la mente è una cosa meravigliosa tutti dovrebbero averne una !!!
Re: [newbie-it] differenza kernel
Come posso cancellarmi da questa lista? Grazie Roberto
[newbie-it] Si blocca all'arresto - usb
Ho appena reinstallato Linux, ma quando cerco di spegnere si blocca... c'è lo scanner collegato alla porta usb, prima avevo risolto il problema, c'era qualcosa da modificare in un file.. non ricordo più, Qualcuno sa dirmi cosa devo modificare? Grazie. Simone.
Re: [newbie-it] Si blocca all'arresto - usb
- Original Message - From: Simone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 1:06 AM Subject: [newbie-it] Si blocca all'arresto - usb Ho appena reinstallato Linux, ma quando cerco di spegnere si blocca... c'è lo scanner collegato alla porta usb, prima avevo risolto il problema, c'era qualcosa da modificare in un file.. non ricordo più, Ho fatto un giretto con google, credo di aver trovato, dovrebbe essere nel file /etc/modules.conf dove va modificata la riga alias usb-interface usb-uhci in alias usb-interface uhci Ciao ciao.
RE: [newbie-it] unsubscrive
Per tutti i sapientoni in lista: è ovvio che ho provato a scrivere unsubscri*e (dove *=b) un milione di volte e non ce l'ho fatta! Altrimenti non sarei qui a chiedere aiuto. E'altrettanto ovvio che l'header del messaggio non contiene informazioni utili su come muoversi, altrimenti non avrei chiesto aiuto! Ho anche detto prego a chi mi ha ringraziato, quindi sono anche gentile. Non posso più seguire la lista, ma si è iscritto un mio bravissimo collega che farà questo ingrato lavoro. A questo punto ho dei dubbi che questa lista sia stata un consiglio giusto. La scritta unsubscrive è stata la mia ultima ratio (non pretendo che Voi sappiate che vuol dire). Evidentemente capisco, anche se non giustifico, chi usa parole grosse contro la lista. P.S. a mia ultima unsubscri*e è di oggi, credo sia la quindicesima. Ciao e scusate lo sfogo. Gigli Cesare wrote: unsubscrive oppure scrivi alla ML un messaggio con la parola 'unsubscrive' senza errori (scrive - scribe). Avevo detto di scriverlo giusto, io l'ho scritto sbagliato apposta Altrimenti non sarebbe arrivato in lista. Non credi? ciao, andrea
R: [newbie-it] Si blocca all'arresto - usb
Ti posso chiedere che scanner è? Grazie Luca Ho appena reinstallato Linux, ma quando cerco di spegnere si blocca... c'è lo scanner collegato alla porta usb, prima avevo risolto il problema, c'era qualcosa da modificare in un file.. non ricordo più, Qualcuno sa dirmi cosa devo modificare?
RE: [newbie-it] unsubscrive
Per cancellarsi dalla lista basta andare sul sito di Mandrake http://www.linux-mandrake.com selezionare mailing list sul lato sinistro nel riquadro SUPPORTO, selezionare annulla iscrizione inserendo l'indirizzo e-mail con il quale ci si era iscritti. Ciao Marco Forti - La mente è una cosa meravigliosa, tutti dovrebbero averne una!!! -
Re: [newbie] Another One: Workspaces
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:22:47 -0800 (PST) Pauljames Dimitriu [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Thanks to all for the answer to my floppy problem. Here's another (I hope) simple one. I accidentally deleted my workspaces menu from my desktop. How do I get it back? Also, how do I make it so each workspace can have a different wallpaper. I know these are easy questions, but believe it or not, I'm actually learning this stuff. Thanks to all, Paul if you are using KDE, your answers lie on the KDE control center (its one of those default icons on the taskbar). go to the Look'N'Feel Section and customize your desktop. im not using KDE much so anybody can jump in to provide more details. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-rw
FLYNN, Steve wrote: Daft question, but what is UDF? I've never understood some of the odd types of CD you can create. UDF is the file system created on a CDRW which enables you supposedly to use it as a supplementary hard disk - dragging and dropping files to it etc. (Though you have time to grow a beard while it actually does it.) I have managed to get linux to read, though not write, to UDF formatted CDs by using the command: mount -t udf /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 This, on my system at least, has to be done as root. Also, I don't always seem to be able to unmount it afterwards. -- For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. -- Frequent Flyer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] cd-rw
Well... Sorta! UDF is based on ISO 13346. It only supports max 1 gig files (notice the UDF structure on a Home Video DVD uses a VOB size max 1 gig) and only supports 8.3 filenames, so no LFN's here! But DVD-r uses an extension to UDF called m-UDF. It is a combo of UDF and ISO 9660 (Bridge), therefore enhanced proerties! Search the net, this is a standard so there will be plenty of info! jlc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Graham Watkins Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cd-rw FLYNN, Steve wrote: Daft question, but what is UDF? I've never understood some of the odd types of CD you can create. UDF is the file system created on a CDRW which enables you supposedly to use it as a supplementary hard disk - dragging and dropping files to it etc. (Though you have time to grow a beard while it actually does it.) I have managed to get linux to read, though not write, to UDF formatted CDs by using the command: mount -t udf /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 This, on my system at least, has to be done as root. Also, I don't always seem to be able to unmount it afterwards. -- For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. -- Frequent Flyer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Posting FROM a Perl script
do you mean just printing the html code? print some stuff I want to look like a web page; if you print the text/html header, and put that in a script (preferably with the other associated html tags) it will print the results.. its really very simple, and with the CGI.pm module, it gets even easier... what is it you are trying to do? rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Miark Sent: Friday, 25 January 2002 3:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Posting FROM a Perl script Hi all, I can't seem to find anyplace that describes how to POST data _from_ a Perl script to the WWW. Every hit I get with search engines is a page that describes the other way around. Anybody know of a tutorial or site that covers what I need? Merci, Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Another One: Workspaces
Thanks to all for the answer to my floppy problem. Here's another (I hope) simple one. I accidentally deleted my workspaces menu from my desktop. How do I get it back? Also, how do I make it so each workspace can have a different wallpaper. I know these are easy questions, but believe it or not, I'm actually learning this stuff. Thanks to all, Paul __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sed or awk or ?
Hi, I think you will have to supply some more details for a meaningful answer (like where do you find the names of these files) but if, for instance, you have all the file names in a file, you could run sed/awk on that file (to change, e.g., the line processed21c45.wav to mv processed21c45.wav adi21c45.wav) and then run the file that you get (source filename). If all your files are in one directory, you could get that file using ls -1 dir | filename (or do it all in one line, as in ls -1 dir | sed ... | filename ) Moshe * Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020126 06:54]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have hundreds of files to be renamed! for example processed21c45.wav to adi21c45.wav I've found how to use sed to change 'names' inside files, but no the file name itself. TIA Ricardo Castanho - -- delivery NOT reliable = [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Para mais informa??es veja http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjxSNdcACgkQqJymTCNNyXH+WwCaAi3EuKr/X/3KCglzfmRJ+Ziv tLIAni7WhukNnqxhAZ3Ips6vv34tw5ZW =5KpU -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Linux, cause i reboot less often than windows users reinstall... -- Moshe Kaminsky (Home) 08-9471073 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sed or awk or ?
*why didn't i see this one before?* or maybe you could use the KRename project which could be searched for in freshmeat.net ciao! On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:23:08 +0200 Moshe Kaminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Hi, I think you will have to supply some more details for a meaningful answer (like where do you find the names of these files) but if, for instance, you have all the file names in a file, you could run sed/awk on that file (to change, e.g., the line processed21c45.wav to mv processed21c45.wav adi21c45.wav) and then run the file that you get (source filename). If all your files are in one directory, you could get that file using ls -1 dir | filename (or do it all in one line, as in ls -1 dir | sed ... | filename ) Moshe * Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020126 06:54]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have hundreds of files to be renamed! for example processed21c45.wav to adi21c45.wav I've found how to use sed to change 'names' inside files, but no the file name itself. TIA Ricardo Castanho - -- delivery NOT reliable = [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Stuck Inside my LAN
I installed ML 8.1 on my desktop at my college office (dual boot with W2K). I automatically got onto the network using DHCP, but can only browse pages within the college network--and I can read my e-mail. I asked my SysAd for help, but he, being a backward fellow, was furious that I had installed Linux on my desktop (I guess he thinks I am going to use it to set up my own server or something) and refuses to help me. My W2K goes onto the WWW using automatic detection, along with a script that goes: http://proxy/script/proxy.pac I tried to plug this script into a few different places in the Mandrake Network settings, but to no avail. Is it possible that the problem is something that I have missed within the Mandrake configuration, or will I just have to go over my Sysad's head and force him to give me the settings I need? Regards, Chuck - Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJK-English Dictionary http://www.acmuller.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] completely dead rpm database.
I think I just fixed it.. I went to /var/lib/rpm and moved out all the files in there. (I put them into another directly in /home) then I copied just the base files, like packages and left out any DB files.. then I did rpm --rebuild --vv and it plodded away for 20 minutes, and now I have a working rpm again.. I don't know what was broken though.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: ngn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 25 January 2002 11:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] completely dead rpm database. I experienced the same that you had!!!.. I have my RPM Dbase dead just after an install, and I re-install LM I've tried with a lot of rpm commands so far, but I did not get any satisfactory result - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 1:13 AM Subject: [newbie] completely dead rpm database. Hi all I have a completely dead rpm database... I can't do an rpm --rebuilddb it sits there for hours doing nothing till I kill it.. I can't install any rpms, and I can't remove any, it just sits there doing nothing... should I delete the DB and then try to rebuild it? if so, where is it? is it necessary to to an expert/upgrade to fix the problem? any suggestions would be great and much appreciated. other then that, the system is working fine.. I just went to install kernel 2.4.17.7mdk-1-1mdk to see what it was like on a slower system (P233mmx 160MB ram) but I can't install it or anything else.. the problem was I had a dud fstab, which was trying to mount my partitions on the wrong bus, (hdc instead of hdb, hdc is the cdrom,,, I fixed that, and got the system back up, but I still can't install anything... any ideas anyone? rgds Frank 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] Wine Question
On Thursday 17 January 2002 02:40, you wrote: Which version of Wine are you running? I just installed the CodeWeavers installation and it works great. I've got that version installed and have downloaded a program I wish to install. It's a self installing exe. How do I accomplish the install. Is it just wine filename.exe or is there something I'm missing. I ask, because I tried this and it failed with multiple, multiple, multiple errors. Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD burning setup
If you look at Jorg Schillings page for cdrecord you will note that there is a firmware upgrade for the Plextor PX-W8432T http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/firmware.html It is also referenced on the Plextor Technical support page http://www.plextor.be/english/technical/download2.html and the README for the upgrade specifically mentions this drive http://makecd.core.de/ftp/FlashROM.readme The only thing not mentioned is what the upgrade actually does? I think we can probably conclude that you need to upgrade the firmware of the drive before it will work :( derek On Monday 28 January 2002 23:55, RichardA wrote: Chris, Tried mkisofs. Had all sorts of fun (confused my /tmp with system /tmp, hacked way through man pages, realised many years of Windows experience useless). Eventually got a 1.2 MB test.iso. Then: [root@drina richard]# cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=2 -dummy /tmp/test.iso Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'PLEXTOR ' Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W8432T' Revision : '1.07' Device seems to be: Generic CD-ROM. cdrecord: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported CD/DVD-Recorder found on this target. cdrecord thinks my CDRW is an ordinary CD-ROM drive? Richard Chris Keelan, Sunday 27 January 2002 20:54: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 14:23:45 +, RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] spilled a can of spare bits all over the network, which arranged themselves like so: Am I right in thinking that root cannot have permission problems, so this is about scsi settings? Well, that's a definite maybe. I'd like to see if we can get some more troubleshooting info, so let's start at the hardware and work our way up. cdrecord can find your CDRW. That suggests to me that it's been installed properly. Try making a test iso in a temp directory. I'm going to pretend you've copied file1, file2, file3 into /temp (a total of say, 25Mb). As root, # mkiso -r -J /temp/test.iso /temp/file* Then do: # cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=2 -dummy /temp/test.iso This is a dummy burn and won't actually toast a CDR. Watch the debug output carefully (anyone know how to pipe this to a file?) If that works, then both your CDRW and the underlying cd-burning programs are configured correctly. This, then may be a problem with gcombust which I won't be able to help you with, since I burn everything via command line. If it doesn't work, let us know what errors occur. - C Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail and Abiword problems mandrake 8.1
SNIP I gave up on kword because I couldn't get the printing side of it sorted, a real shame because I really liked kword for WP. I use OpenOffice.org instead. If you are referring to the problem with kword printing everything all compressed, that bug is fixed in koffice1.1.1 As usual Texstar has an RPM on his site that works great. derek skinky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Posting FROM a Perl script
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 06:15, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Wow! now I'm really geeked! I checked out http://www.perlmonks.org/ and there is a ton of resources there. Makes me feel the way I did when I first discovered Mandrake! Makes me wanna stay up all night and play till I can't code any more cause my eyes won't stay open and I keep missing the keyboard.-- daRcmaTTeR Yep, I just entered the monastery myself - great place. BTW, if you see someone called solri lurking around, that's me. Am currently downloading all those Perl modules you mentioned. Problem is, I'm also having to download all the dependencies (though at least Software Manager means I can do it all automatically - way to go!). Robin -- Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted. Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT AOL and Linux
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:25:52 -0500 Anuerin G.Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:25:59 -0500 daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:36:07 -0500 Anuerin G.Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: seems like it AOL was _not_ buying RH, but a merger in the future may happen... http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/020122/n22119518_2.html ciao! That is just _SO_ wrong! i think i banged my head on the desk too hard but what was '_SO_ wrong!' ? was the link i posted a FUD? ciao! no... :) what is SO wrong is that AOL is/might be buying RedHat and doing the same thing to it that it's done to Netscape! Yikes!! there goes the neighborhood. :( -- daRcmaTTeR - Registered Linux User 182496 - 7:05am up 22 days, 21:37, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.41, 0.28 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Copying Files to Floppy
Is the floppy formatted as a FAT (i.e. Windows/DOS) disk or is it formatted as an EXT2 (i.e. Linux filing system) floppy? If you shove a windows formatter floppy,. Linux will see it, recognise it and adjust the copy process accordingly. You should be able to boot into Windows, open up the floppy and see your files. As for the command, to copy abc123.txt you would cp abc123.txt /mnt/floppy/ Should work... -Original Message- From: Pauljames Dimitriu [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 7:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Copying Files to Floppy I'm sure this is a very easy question to answer and I'm being very brain deaded about it How do you copy a file to a floppy drive via terminal? Is it cp filename /mnt/floppy? Everytime I try this and I do an ls in the /mnt/floppy directory, it shows up. However when I bring it to a Winblows machine, I can't see the file. Help??? __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com 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
RE: [newbie] How to work PCMCIA
I've never managed to get my Psion GoldCard PCMCIA card working. This is a 56K fax modem and 10/100 Ethernet card. It gets detected at boot and correctly identified, but I then get (type by hand - any typo's are mine) cs: cb_config(bus 5) cs: could not allocate 512 IO ports for cardbus Socket 1 kernel: Trying to free non-existant resource (-01ff) epic_cb:RequestIO: Out of Resource Anyone got any clues as to what I can fiddle with to work what the problem is (card using incorrect resources and whatnot?) and how to fix it (i.e. where do you specify which resources the card should use). I've been through the PCMCIA HOW-TO, and it should, according to the HOW-TO, be working now, but it's not! :( -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 12:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] How to work PCMCIA Well first check you have rpm kernel-pcmcia-cs loaded. Next check your pcmcia cards are able to be recognised. In a root terminal type probe You should then be told which model of pcmcia bus adapter you have fitted, and how many sockets. Next open Mandrake Control CenteHardwareNetwork cards Is your pcmcia card shown? If it is and a kernel module is shown then your card almost certainly is already working, you just need to assign IP addresses etc. If it is not listed then look for /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia The first line of this file should read PCMCIA=yes the second line will probably say PCIC=i82365 Next take a look at /etc/modules.conf It should contain the line pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start If that is all OK then your computer should automatically recognise the pcmcia card on boot and insert the correct module. Note : Netconf will NOT show the module. That does not mean it is not working. You can still use Netconf to set IP address etc. HardDrake WILL show the module HTH derek = Original Message From YUKKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Hi all i wanna use PCMCIA for 3com 5C589C with mandrake 8.1 at Vaio C1XE but it's not working now what i have to check it?? *?`?`*?`?`*?`?`*?`?`*?`?`*?`?`* Yukki (Yuki Ikuno) Sing a song is my life [EMAIL PROTECTED] *?`?`*?`?`*?`?`*?`?`*?`?`*?`?`* --- The Fastest Browser on Earth. Get your FREE download of Opera at http://www.opera.com/download/ --- 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
RE: [newbie] Copying Files to Floppy
I have the same problem. cp filename /mnt/floppy . I then cd /mnt/floppy, ls and my file is listed as well as the rest of the contents of the drive. I then remove the disk put it in my windows pc and dir a dir on it and all the original files are there but the new one is not. It is a windows formatted floppy. Now if I mount /mnt/floppy I get an error saying that the drive is already mounted. Also how do you unmount? I try the unmount command which I read about in a book and I get a bash error. No command found. Thanks. PK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 7:36 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Copying Files to Floppy Is the floppy formatted as a FAT (i.e. Windows/DOS) disk or is it formatted as an EXT2 (i.e. Linux filing system) floppy? If you shove a windows formatter floppy,. Linux will see it, recognise it and adjust the copy process accordingly. You should be able to boot into Windows, open up the floppy and see your files. As for the command, to copy abc123.txt you would cp abc123.txt /mnt/floppy/ Should work... -Original Message- From: Pauljames Dimitriu [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 7:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Copying Files to Floppy I'm sure this is a very easy question to answer and I'm being very brain deaded about it How do you copy a file to a floppy drive via terminal? Is it cp filename /mnt/floppy? Everytime I try this and I do an ls in the /mnt/floppy directory, it shows up. However when I bring it to a Winblows machine, I can't see the file. Help??? __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com 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] DSL 2 Connect
Hello Everyone, I am new to Mandrake and I have installed 7.1 Deluxe ,I have had for about a year or less, on my laptop. The problem is I am trying to connect to the internet and I have a pmcia card with modem and ethernet on one (linksys). Linux see the modem and tries to connect to the internet through the modem but I need to be able to connect through the otherside, ethernet side since I have DSL. How can I make Mandrake use this as the internet port? TIA "Got Oracle?" RuckChat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: Click Here Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to work PCMCIA
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 14:21, you wrote: I've never managed to get my Psion GoldCard PCMCIA card working. This is a 56K fax modem and 10/100 Ethernet card. It gets detected at boot and correctly identified, but I then get (type by hand - any typo's are mine) cs: cb_config(bus 5) cs: could not allocate 512 IO ports for cardbus Socket 1 kernel: Trying to free non-existant resource (-01ff) epic_cb: RequestIO: Out of Resource Anyone got any clues as to what I can fiddle with to work what the problem is (card using incorrect resources and whatnot?) and how to fix it (i.e. where do you specify which resources the card should use). I've been through the PCMCIA HOW-TO, and it should, according to the HOW-TO, be working now, but it's not! :( A while back I had a problem with my serial connection to my gsm not working whereas the pcmcia card worked fine. It all came down to IRQ and i/o conflicts. Have you checked those options? -- Harm Bathoorn. Sudden Death!! Microsoft Office demands it's serial-code AGAIN!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] .xsession-errors
Is it just me or everyone get ever growing .xsession-errors files for each userid who uses X? Mine seem t be full of: kicker: WARNING: KDE detected X error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9 Major Opcode 14 Anyone got any clues as to why I get these errors and more importantly, how I can get rid of 'em? Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst Tel: 01603 680086 ** 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] apt
Hi, saw this on http://freshrpms.net/ 02 Jan 2002 - Happy new year to everyone! And as a special gift to all of you Red Hat Linux users, I bring you at last my packages apt-get-able ;-) All you need to do is to install the apt package found here, run apt-get update then you're all set! A simple apt-get install ogle_gui will for instance retrieve and install ogle, libdvdread and libdvdcss automatically for you, even gtk+ if you don't have it ;-) will this work with mandrake? Or is there something similar? Walter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] personal organizer
for my money (okay, it's free, but whatever), i've really liked the newly released Evolution ... has the features of outlook (mail, contacts, calendar, etc.) but without the bugs and viruses that plague the MonopolySoft product ... - Original Message - From: Mario Michael da Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:50 AM Subject: [newbie] personal organizer | Hello, | I need to use some sort of organizer that will keep track of my todo | tasks etc. and provide an alarm as and when a deadline approaches etc. | Something on the lines of M$ Outlook in windblows. I have tried | korganizer, but am dissapointed coz i can't get the alarm to work. I | do not use KDE as my default desktop, even though KDE is installed. I | use enlightenment as my window manager and will not change to kde in | the near future. Any one out there know of any thing that may help or | perhaps i am missing something in korganizer ? | | Thank You, | Regards, | mario | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com | _ 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
[newbie] saytime - no /dev/audio
I have working mdk 8.1. Sound is working normally. I have installed program saytime which tells current time. It worked in mdk 8.0 and RH 7.1. It is not working in mdk 8.1. It says there is no /dev/audio. I did ln -s /dev/sound.dsp /dev/audio. now it says device or resource busy What to do? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] That perl problem again
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 06:03, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:13:49 +0200 on the second CD of the two CD install set you've got there are a bunch of rpm packages for PERL. Install them to your system and this should take care of the problems you're having. I can't remember exactly which one is specifically which is why I suggested installing them all. Well, I've installed everything that isn't obviously useless, and got a bit further, but now make fails a short way into reading any Makefile.PL (doesn't make any difference whether I'm using make on a downloaded file or using install with the CPAN module). Maybe I should go back to the monastery, but in the meantime a question --- If I compile Perl from source, am I likely to break anything? Will installed modules still work, even if Perl is in a different directory? Robin -- Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted. Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Bastille in LM 7.0?
My installation runs LM 7.0. I've been reading previous mails from newbie and expert lists and think Bastille will solve my firewall and redirection problems. I'vebeen already advise to move into LM 8.1, but since this is a rather key installation want to make sure that there is no way to install Bastille on LM 7.0. If this is possible, where to download it. Thanks, Mario.
Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port
Brian Parish wrote: I have made a similar setup work. Just be aware that while windoze uses the IP address on the printer to find it, CUPS is using a hostname, so you need to put an entry for the printer in /etc/hosts so it can find it. This is slightly off the point, but I've been wondering -- does CUPS run on top of Samba? I.e., must Samba be running for CUPS to work? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] personal organizer
Hello, I need to use some sort of organizer that will keep track of my todo tasks etc. and provide an alarm as and when a deadline approaches etc. Something on the lines of M$ Outlook in windblows. I have tried korganizer, but am dissapointed coz i can't get the alarm to work. I do not use KDE as my default desktop, even though KDE is installed. I use enlightenment as my window manager and will not change to kde in the near future. Any one out there know of any thing that may help or perhaps i am missing something in korganizer ? Thank You, Regards, mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Printers
Lee, Thanks for the followup reply! Lee wrote: I have read that there are smart cartridges out there. Given that the whole idea of cheap printers is to sell expensive ink, it makes a sort of warped sense, doesn't it! Yup -- sad! Anyway, there's no surprises in mine except the shape fills 80% of the apparent ink space with air. What a rip off. I did find out that you need to fill the cartridge befor it is completely empty or right when the computer warns of impending doom. I let it go dry the first time and the printing was iffy for days after. Being my first refill try, I thought it was the ink I bought, but it cleared up and has worked fine through several more refills. My guess would be that ink dried in the holes in the print head -- there are ways to attempt to clean them, but none that works consistently for me. (I bought a head cleaning solution that I think consists of alcohol and dishwashing soap -- you dilute and soak the head -- I've tried ultrasonic, and wiping the head with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol -- sometimes I get it, sometimes I don't. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] using wvdial with ifup
Hi all, I want to setup my dialup script to use wvdial only... ie the connection aspect uses only wvdial.. instead of using it as a chat script with parameters passed to it.. the reason is simple.. my isp uses several different routers, and wvdial is the only method I have of connecting consistantly as it dynamically responds to prompts.. whereas a fixed dialup will only work with one router type, if I get allocated another type, the connection fails.. (took me ages to find out why I was having problems.) so I thought if I could config my ppp0 to work using the default wvdial for the connection, I could use ifup ppp0 to connect and have it use wvdial.. then I could bring up my virtual IP's as well. presently wvdial works great by itself, typing just wvdial to connect.. but it doens't bring up any virtual IP's like ppp0:0 and ppp0:1 and ppp0:2 etcetra.. thats a problem for me, since that server does email for several domains each with its own IP address.. Anyone got any ideas of how I might go about this? rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] That perl problem again
Robin Turner wrote: On Tuesday 29 January 2002 06:03, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:13:49 +0200 on the second CD of the two CD install set you've got there are a bunch of rpm packages for PERL. Install them to your system and this should take care of the problems you're having. I can't remember exactly which one is specifically which is why I suggested installing them all. Well, I've installed everything that isn't obviously useless, and got a bit further, but now make fails a short way into reading any Makefile.PL (doesn't make any difference whether I'm using make on a downloaded file or using install with the CPAN module). Maybe I should go back to the monastery, but in the meantime a question --- If I compile Perl from source, am I likely to break anything? Will installed modules still work, even if Perl is in a different directory? Robin Robin, It just sounds make itself is broken in some way. Why not just reinstall the package for make first and see what happens then? daRcmaTTeR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apt
There is urpmi for Mandrake. A simple urpmi ogle_gui would give you the same result bye suka Am Mit, 2002-01-30 um 04.14 schrieb Walter Logeman: Hi, saw this on http://freshrpms.net/ 02 Jan 2002 - Happy new year to everyone! And as a special gift to all of you Red Hat Linux users, I bring you at last my packages apt-get-able ;-) All you need to do is to install the apt package found here, run apt-get update then you're all set! A simple apt-get install ogle_gui will for instance retrieve and install ogle, libdvdread and libdvdcss automatically for you, even gtk+ if you don't have it ;-) will this work with mandrake? Or is there something similar? Walter 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] Xinetd Based Services
Chargen generates random characters I believe. Never found a use for it. daytime sends back the date and time echo just echos back whatever was fired into it time send back the local time (Note that these are my descriptions - they may not be particularly accurate) They are all pertty much used for test purposes. None are necessary and none have anything to do with telnet or ftp. Leave them switched off or firewalled. -Original Message- From: SoloCDM [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:16 PM To: Linux-Mandrake Newbie Subject:[newbie] Xinetd Based Services What do the following xinetd based services provide? chargen: off chargen-udp: off daytime: off daytime-udp: off echo: off echo-udp: off time: off time-udp: off Also, do the above services have anything to do with telnet or ftp? -- Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list/newsgroup address and my email address in To:. * Signed, SoloCDM 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
Re: [newbie] Copying Files to Floppy
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 13:20, Paul Kraus wrote: I have the same problem. cp filename /mnt/floppy . I then cd /mnt/floppy, ls and my file is listed as well as the rest of the contents of the drive. I then remove the disk put it in my windows pc and dir a dir on it and all the original files are there but the new one is not. It is a windows formatted floppy. Now if I mount /mnt/floppy I get an error saying that the drive is already mounted. One of the ways Linux is faster than Windows is in the way it uses memory as disc cache. Linux will load all the files in use into unused memory. So when you copy a file to your floppy, linux is in fact writing it to cache memory. When you list the contents of the floppy it is in fact listing the contents of the cache. The physical floppy does not get written until you unmount the disc, or Linux needs to free up the memory for some other purpose. So when you just pop the disc out, it has not yet been written and so you do not see the file on your windows computer. This is also the reason why Unix systems do not like sudden power downs. The discs may be out of 'sync' and you get problems next time you boot. For that reason you should nowdays be using one of the Journalling file systems such as Ext3, XFS, or ReiserFS. Also how do you unmount? I try the unmount command which I read about in a book and I get a bash error. No command found. Thanks. Well you have to use the correct command The command to unmount is umount Not very intuitive, but thats how it is. Personally I prefer to use kwikdisk to mount/unmount It saves having to remember all this stuff. derek PK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 7:36 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Copying Files to Floppy Is the floppy formatted as a FAT (i.e. Windows/DOS) disk or is it formatted as an EXT2 (i.e. Linux filing system) floppy? If you shove a windows formatter floppy,. Linux will see it, recognise it and adjust the copy process accordingly. You should be able to boot into Windows, open up the floppy and see your files. As for the command, to copy abc123.txt you would cp abc123.txt /mnt/floppy/ Should work... -Original Message- From: Pauljames Dimitriu [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 7:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Copying Files to Floppy I'm sure this is a very easy question to answer and I'm being very brain deaded about it How do you copy a file to a floppy drive via terminal? Is it cp filename /mnt/floppy? Everytime I try this and I do an ls in the /mnt/floppy directory, it shows up. However when I bring it to a Winblows machine, I can't see the file. Help??? __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com 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
RE: [newbie] How to work PCMCIA
I can do - where do I start looking? For example, if I wanted to force the card to use IRQ5, where do I set that kind of thing up? (I suck at the PC config bit!) -Original Message- From: Harm Bathoorn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How to work PCMCIA On Tuesday 29 January 2002 14:21, you wrote: I've never managed to get my Psion GoldCard PCMCIA card working. This is a 56K fax modem and 10/100 Ethernet card. It gets detected at boot and correctly identified, but I then get (type by hand - any typo's are mine) cs: cb_config(bus 5) cs: could not allocate 512 IO ports for cardbus Socket 1 kernel: Trying to free non-existant resource (-01ff) epic_cb:RequestIO: Out of Resource Anyone got any clues as to what I can fiddle with to work what the problem is (card using incorrect resources and whatnot?) and how to fix it (i.e. where do you specify which resources the card should use). I've been through the PCMCIA HOW-TO, and it should, according to the HOW-TO, be working now, but it's not! :( A while back I had a problem with my serial connection to my gsm not working whereas the pcmcia card worked fine. It all came down to IRQ and i/o conflicts. Have you checked those options? -- Harm Bathoorn. Sudden Death!! Microsoft Office demands it's serial-code AGAIN!! 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
Re: [newbie] How to work PCMCIA
I cannot help with that particular card, but have you tried the PCMCIA mailing list at the sourceforge page? There is a folder for most pcmcia cards around, and the guy who runs the list is very helpful so long as you demonstrate you have tried to get it running. derek On Tuesday 29 January 2002 13:21, FLYNN, Steve wrote: I've never managed to get my Psion GoldCard PCMCIA card working. This is a 56K fax modem and 10/100 Ethernet card. It gets detected at boot and correctly identified, but I then get (type by hand - any typo's are mine) cs: cb_config(bus 5) cs: could not allocate 512 IO ports for cardbus Socket 1 kernel: Trying to free non-existant resource (-01ff) epic_cb: RequestIO: Out of Resource Anyone got any clues as to what I can fiddle with to work what the problem is (card using incorrect resources and whatnot?) and how to fix it (i.e. where do you specify which resources the card should use). I've been through the PCMCIA HOW-TO, and it should, according to the HOW-TO, be working now, but it's not! :( -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 12:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] How to work PCMCIA Well first check you have rpm kernel-pcmcia-cs loaded. Next check your pcmcia cards are able to be recognised. In a root terminal type probe You should then be told which model of pcmcia bus adapter you have fitted, and how many sockets. Next open Mandrake Control CenteHardwareNetwork cards Is your pcmcia card shown? If it is and a kernel module is shown then your card almost certainly is already working, you just need to assign IP addresses etc. If it is not listed then look for /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia The first line of this file should read PCMCIA=yes the second line will probably say PCIC=i82365 Next take a look at /etc/modules.conf It should contain the line pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start If that is all OK then your computer should automatically recognise the pcmcia card on boot and insert the correct module. Note : Netconf will NOT show the module. That does not mean it is not working. You can still use Netconf to set IP address etc. HardDrake WILL show the module HTH derek = Original Message From YUKKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Hi all i wanna use PCMCIA for 3com 5C589C with mandrake 8.1 at Vaio C1XE but it's not working now what i have to check it?? *?`?`*?`?`*?`?`*?`?`*?`?`*?`?`* Yukki (Yuki Ikuno) Sing a song is my life [EMAIL PROTECTED] *?`?`*?`?`*?`?`*?`?`*?`?`*?`?`* --- The Fastest Browser on Earth. Get your FREE download of Opera at http://www.opera.com/download/ --- 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
Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 15:22, Randy Kramer wrote: Brian Parish wrote: I have made a similar setup work. Just be aware that while windoze uses the IP address on the printer to find it, CUPS is using a hostname, so you need to put an entry for the printer in /etc/hosts so it can find it. This is slightly off the point, but I've been wondering -- does CUPS run on top of Samba? I.e., must Samba be running for CUPS to work? Randy Kramer No... CUPS is independent of Samba. If you have CUPS running in several computers they are all aware of each others printers, and you can print to any of them. I think they can also print to any printer Samba is aware of. Not sure about that as my printers are on Linux machines. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sco Telnet
Ok I was able to configure our sco app to use the linux xterm settings. It works great in the console and the a telnet to the box. But if I use the telnet app then everything gets all messed up. I get upside down question marks everywhere. Even though the app is set to xterm as well. Very odd. Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com
Re: [newbie] How to work PCMCIA
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 16:06, you wrote: I can do - where do I start looking? For example, if I wanted to force the card to use IRQ5, where do I set that kind of thing up? (I suck at the PC config bit!) well you can take a look at /var/log/syslog if there are any conflicts or shares. /etc/pcmcia/config.opts tells you which irq's are reserved for pcmcia -probably 3, the file is fairly self explanatory. Then check whether for instance the Infra Red port is sharing the same irq for instance (there could be more devices). I don't what you've got (I dropped in fairly late here) but if you can change settings through the BIOS, then that's easy enough. In my case I had a Thinkpad with a moronic windoze like BIOSinterface that doesn't give any real options- one needs a special configuration program that runs under DOS to change irq settings. -- Good Luck, Harm Bathoorn. Sudden Death!! Microsoft Office demands it's serial-code AGAIN!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Copying Files to Floppy
Paul Kraus wrote: I have the same problem. cp filename /mnt/floppy . I then cd /mnt/floppy, ls and my file is listed as well as the rest of the contents of the drive. I then remove the disk put it in my windows pc and dir a dir on it and all the original files are there but the new one is not. It is a windows formatted floppy. Now if I mount /mnt/floppy I get an error saying that the drive is already mounted. Also how do you unmount? I try the unmount command which I read about in a book and I get a bash error. No command found. Thanks. I can help you with the second problem, not the first -- the command is umount (no n after the first u). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] applixware
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 08:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of the word it's StarOffice, at least originally, but the code is open to the public to modify and improve. so -- star office is only modifyed and worked on by Sun, but open office is worked on by anyone who wants to get involved. am i right about that?? Yes, but about once a year Sun grabs the OO source back, tarts it up with some new fonts and such and presents it to the PHB's as the *new* and *improved* StarOffice ... -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port
Derek Jennings wrote: Randy Kramer wrote: This is slightly off the point, but I've been wondering -- does CUPS run on top of Samba? I.e., must Samba be running for CUPS to work? No... CUPS is independent of Samba. If you have CUPS running in several computers they are all aware of each others printers, and you can print to any of them. I think they can also print to any printer Samba is aware of. Not sure about that as my printers are on Linux machines. Thanks! BTW, WRT your second last sentence, Linux boxes running CUPS can print to Windows boxes using TCP/IP based SMB (which is what Samba was written to do for Linux) -- this is how I currently print from my Linux boxes. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mail from root
I remember at one point on 7.2 having recieved an email from my system about how things were going, logs etc. How did that work? How can I set it up again on 8.1? - 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] personal organizer
Having the stock evolution installed in 8.1, is it difficult to upgrade to the latest? - Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 09:46, Kenn Yahoo wrote: for my money (okay, it's free, but whatever), i've really liked the newly released Evolution ... has the features of outlook (mail, contacts, calendar, etc.) but without the bugs and viruses that plague the MonopolySoft product ... - Original Message - From: Mario Michael da Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:50 AM Subject: [newbie] personal organizer | Hello, | I need to use some sort of organizer that will keep track of my todo | tasks etc. and provide an alarm as and when a deadline approaches etc. | Something on the lines of M$ Outlook in windblows. I have tried | korganizer, but am dissapointed coz i can't get the alarm to work. I | do not use KDE as my default desktop, even though KDE is installed. I | use enlightenment as my window manager and will not change to kde in | the near future. Any one out there know of any thing that may help or | perhaps i am missing something in korganizer ? | | Thank You, | Regards, | mario | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com | _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com =_1012314882-762-3705 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ 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] saytime - no /dev/audio
If you have devfs enabled (which it is by default in 8.1 ), then your audio device will be /dev/sound/audio or /dev/sound/dsp Try making a symlink ln -s /dev/sound/audio /dev/audio HTH derek On Tuesday 29 January 2002 14:46, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have working mdk 8.1. Sound is working normally. I have installed program saytime which tells current time. It worked in mdk 8.0 and RH 7.1. It is not working in mdk 8.1. It says there is no /dev/audio. I did ln -s /dev/sound.dsp /dev/audio. now it says device or resource busy What to do? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] EVOLVE
Are there any tool to import an outlook pst to evolve? Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com
Re: [newbie] Starting Apache + PHP
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 03:20 pm, Andre Dubuc wrote: The problem with my LM8.0 configuration for Apache is that it doesn't have those lines AddType in any of the .conf files! I wondered what they were talking about -- and I have checked them all! In desperation, I finally decided to go source. I d/l the binary from Apache, and after my first attempt, I still cannot see my test file. I'll have to check my PHP config. I think my version of Apache is pretty recent. You don't have a file commonhttpd.conf in /etc/httpd/conf? Maybe do a find? This is about half-way through my commonhttpd.conf, and I just uncommented the last two lines: # AddType allows you to tweak mime.types without actually editing it, or to # make certain files to be certain types. # # For example, the PHP 3.x module (not part of the Apache distribution - see # http://www.php.net) will typically use: # #AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 #AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps # # And for PHP 4.x, use: # AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps I guess the nice thing about installing it from Mandrake disc is that it's already configured. I didn't touch any PHP file. Is moving up to 8.1 (or soon, 8.2) an option? Perhaps, that's the problem: I'm unclear where any files that I make should go. Are they supposed to be put in the /htdocs area in apache's directory? Will they work from elsewhere? I've also set up a /public_html directory in personal home directory. My web files go in /var/www/html. If your root is /htdocs, that's where I would put them. I'm not sure but what you may need to give permission to normal users to use PHP. Maybe try alt.os.linux.mandrake, a PHP or Apache group. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] personal organizer
No, you can get the rpm and all the required dependent rpms from the cooker. Just put them in a directory. Become root and say: rpm -Uvh * (without the quotes) and you should be in business. Here is a list of what you'll need off the cooker: evolution-1.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpmlibgal19-0.19-2mdk.i586.rpm evolution-pilot-1.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm libGConf1-1.0.7-2mdk.i586.rpm gtkhtml-1.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm libgtkhtml20-1.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm libcapplet1-1.5.11-1mdk.i586.rpm That includes the stuff required to sync to a PDA. Hope that helps Brian On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 05:41, Paul Rodríguez wrote: Having the stock evolution installed in 8.1, is it difficult to upgrade to the latest? - Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 09:46, Kenn Yahoo wrote: for my money (okay, it's free, but whatever), i've really liked the newly released Evolution ... has the features of outlook (mail, contacts, calendar, etc.) but without the bugs and viruses that plague the MonopolySoft product ... - Original Message - From: Mario Michael da Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:50 AM Subject: [newbie] personal organizer | Hello, | I need to use some sort of organizer that will keep track of my todo | tasks etc. and provide an alarm as and when a deadline approaches etc. | Something on the lines of M$ Outlook in windblows. I have tried | korganizer, but am dissapointed coz i can't get the alarm to work. I | do not use KDE as my default desktop, even though KDE is installed. I | use enlightenment as my window manager and will not change to kde in | the near future. Any one out there know of any thing that may help or | perhaps i am missing something in korganizer ? | | Thank You, | Regards, | mario | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com | _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com =_1012314882-762-3705 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Copying Files to Floppy
As an addendum, you can force Linux to sync all mounted devices, via the 'sync' command. I think Linux auto-sync's every 5 seconds, so if you pop of the floppy during the 5 seconds after the copy command has finished and before Linux sync's the physical disk, you'll end up with nothing on the physical disk. Oh yes, root will need to issue the 'sync' command - I don't think ordinary users can perform it. -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 2:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Copying Files to Floppy This is also the reason why Unix systems do not like sudden power downs. The discs may be out of 'sync' and you get problems next time you boot. For that reason you should nowdays be using one of the Journalling file systems such as Ext3, XFS, or ReiserFS. ** 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
RE: [newbie] How to work PCMCIA
No confilicts in Syslog other than the one's I posted when I insert or remove the card. The IR port on my Inspiron 3600 doesn't work, neither in windows nor in Linux, so I've assumed it's FUBAR'd. As it's a fairly old machine, the BIOS isn't the most configurable I've ever seen. I think I'll have a sniff around the /etc/pcmcia config files and fiddle with stuff until it works. Is there aynthing in Linux which can dump information about DMA, IRQ's in use and memory address ranges being used - the kind of info I have to boot into Windows to get from My Computer properties panel? All of my Unix experience comes from AIX 6000's and Dynix based Sequent boxes so I'm not to clued up on IRQ's and PC based stuff. -Original Message- From: Harm Bathoorn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 5:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How to work PCMCIA On Tuesday 29 January 2002 16:06, you wrote: I can do - where do I start looking? For example, if I wanted to force the card to use IRQ5, where do I set that kind of thing up? (I suck at the PC config bit!) well you can take a look at /var/log/syslog if there are any conflicts or shares. /etc/pcmcia/config.opts tells you which irq's are reserved for pcmcia -probably 3, the file is fairly self explanatory. Then check whether for instance the Infra Red port is sharing the same irq for instance (there could be more devices). I don't what you've got (I dropped in fairly late here) but if you can change settings through the BIOS, then that's easy enough. In my case I had a Thinkpad with a moronic windoze like BIOSinterface that doesn't give any real options- one needs a special configuration program that runs under DOS to change irq settings. -- Good Luck, Harm Bathoorn. Sudden Death!! Microsoft Office demands it's serial-code AGAIN!! 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
RE: [newbie] Starting Apache + PHP
Sounds to me like to you don't have all the necessary apache rpm's installed. I'd recommend you go into software manager, select flat-listing and enter apache in the search box. Install anything which is shown. -Original Message- From: Andre Dubuc [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:21 PM To: Todd Slater Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Starting Apache + PHP On Tuesday 29 January 2002 13:43, you wrote: Andre, I just got php up and running (I think) without a fuss. I'm using Mandrake 8.1 and I installed php, php-common, php-manual_en, and php-mysql. Then, I went to the Apache configuration folder--on my system /etc/httpd/conf. I opened commonhttpd.conf with vi, and scrolled down to the part about php. I just uncommented two lines (remove the #) about AddType blah blah .php and saved it. I stopped httpd. I started httpd I looked for the most basic script I could find because I don't know anything about it, and found a date one here: http://www.terrabyte.dc.com.au/phpscripts.php3. I put that in my web directory (renamed the text-file .php) and called it and it worked! I don't know if that will help or not. Todd Thanks Todd, The problem with my LM8.0 configuration for Apache is that it doesn't have those lines AddType in any of the .conf files! I wondered what they were talking about -- and I have checked them all! In desperation, I finally decided to go source. I d/l the binary from Apache, and after my first attempt, I still cannot see my test file. I'll have to check my PHP config. Perhaps, that's the problem: I'm unclear where any files that I make should go. Are they supposed to be put in the /htdocs area in apache's directory? Will they work from elsewhere? I've also set up a /public_html directory in personal home directory. I'm having all sorts of fun installing/uninstalling and generally messing about with these programs. Sure is a great way to find out where everything is, and how everything is inter-related. Too bad it doesn't work! Regards, Andre -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. Remember in your prayers the suffering souls in Purgatory. May God bless you abundantly in His love! For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ 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
RE: [newbie] Copying Files to Floppy
Something which can help in situations likes this is the man -k command. For example, man -k mount will give you all man pages which have anything to do with 'mount' including 'umount'. It's the same as the apropos command. Works well when you know the area of interest you want to find out a comman for but don't know the exact command. -Original Message- From: Randy Kramer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 5:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Copying Files to Floppy Paul Kraus wrote: I have the same problem. cp filename /mnt/floppy . I then cd /mnt/floppy, ls and my file is listed as well as the rest of the contents of the drive. I then remove the disk put it in my windows pc and dir a dir on it and all the original files are there but the new one is not. It is a windows formatted floppy. Now if I mount /mnt/floppy I get an error saying that the drive is already mounted. Also how do you unmount? I try the unmount command which I read about in a book and I get a bash error. No command found. Thanks. I can help you with the second problem, not the first -- the command is umount (no n after the first u). Randy Kramer 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
RE: [newbie] mail from root
Are you talking about tripwire? It mails syslogs, mail logs and suchlike to root on a weekly basis (or whenever you want actually). man tripwire and have a play - I think it's what you're after. -Original Message- From: Paul Rodríguez [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 6:40 PM To: newbie Subject:[newbie] mail from root I remember at one point on 7.2 having recieved an email from my system about how things were going, logs etc. How did that work? How can I set it up again on 8.1? - Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com 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] modules.conf Problems
My /etc/modules.conf file has somehow been corrupted. My machine boots but with many errors. I am running Mandrake 8.1 on a Athlon 600mhz machine. I just installed 8.1 over Christmas break and everything went well and it worked fine. I haven't used the Linux side of my machine lately and when I booted it the other day it started giving me many errors about my modules.conf file and different modules it was loading. I can not specify what it says in the logs because its the same machine as im using now and the Linux side has no network access due to these errors. The only thingthat I have changed since its worked and it not working is I swapped my network card. The first time I bootedLinuxafter that swapofnics hardrake came up andtold it to remove the old configuration and configure the new card then I said migrate my network settings to this new card. Once I did that the machine locked up andsince then I have been getting the modules.conf errors. Any suggestions on how to fix this? I don't have a clue and any help would be greatly appreciated. Ira
Re: [newbie] .xsession-errors
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:11:01 - FLYNN, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Is it just me or everyone get ever growing .xsession-errors files for each userid who uses X? Mine seem t be full of: kicker: WARNING: KDE detected X error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9 Major Opcode 14 Anyone got any clues as to why I get these errors and more importantly, how I can get rid of 'em? i suppose this is internal to whatever WM you are using. seems like there still are a lot of things to do between the interfaces of the WM and the XServer, or maybe its just a matter of cleaning up code ;-) . ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] saytime - no /dev/audio
On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 06:46, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have working mdk 8.1. Sound is working normally. I have installed program saytime which tells current time. It worked in mdk 8.0 and RH 7.1. It is not working in mdk 8.1. It says there is no /dev/audio. I did ln -s /dev/sound.dsp /dev/audio. Can I assume that the above is a typo? You want to link /dev/sound/dsp - /dev/dsp You indicated /dev/sound.dsp -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] modules.conf Problems
Probably the easiest thing to do would be to boot from the install CD, select expert and update, choose to install nothing and let the installer do its stuff. Should put things back as they should be without touching any of your data. Brian On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 14:55, Ira M. Bargon III wrote: My /etc/modules.conf file has somehow been corrupted. My machine boots but with many errors. I am running Mandrake 8.1 on a Athlon 600mhz machine. I just installed 8.1 over Christmas break and everything went well and it worked fine. I haven't used the Linux side of my machine lately and when I booted it the other day it started giving me many errors about my modules.conf file and different modules it was loading. I can not specify what it says in the logs because its the same machine as im using now and the Linux side has no network access due to these errors. The only thing that I have changed since its worked and it not working is I swapped my network card. The first time I booted Linux after that swap of nics hardrake came up and told it to remove the old configuration and configure the new card then I said migrate my network settings to this new card. Once I did that the machine locked up and since then I have been getting the modules.conf errors. Any suggestions on h! ow to fix this? I don't have a clue and any help would be greatly appreciated. Ira Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] saytime - no /dev/audio
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 07:05, Ric Tibbetts wrote: On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 06:46, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have working mdk 8.1. Sound is working normally. I have installed program saytime which tells current time. It worked in mdk 8.0 and RH 7.1. It is not working in mdk 8.1. It says there is no /dev/audio. I did ln -s /dev/sound.dsp /dev/audio. Can I assume that the above is a typo? Yes. You want to link /dev/sound/dsp - /dev/dsp You indicated /dev/sound.dsp I get garbage sound now. Waht to do -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hda5 critically full
HI, I wrote: In the KDE Control Center it would seem that hd is in three sectors /dev/hda5 ext3 3.36 (mount point: /) 99.9% full! Thanks for the info received on what to do. I immediatly found that i had been keeping copies of the CDs I'd been burning, and fixed that, which took care of the immediate problem. Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: seems like the allocated space for the / partition was too small. this happened to me when i allocated just 100MB to that partition and /tmp was heavily used. I think it may be big enough if i maintain it well. And am using this oportunbity to learn do this. Question: Coming from a Windows env. I am familiar with easily knowing which file is on which storage device. I understand that it is nice to have a virtual environment - to hell with knowing what devices run it, however as the administrator i need to be able to know what is on each device. How can i check that? first thing to do is to make sure that no unnecessary files are hogging the space in /tmp. I have posted of the contents tof /temp below, using $ ls -al what might I need to explore further there? there are tools out there but i have no experience using them. the route i always take is to re-install Mandrake, use expert install (its really easy if you pay attention and read what's in there), and pay extra attention when it comes to the part that you partition your hard disk. Hmm, this does seem complex as I did not set up my own machine. I am tempted to give it a go For learning on another machine, not this one which I work on! ~~~ On Monday 28 January 2002 12:18 pm, Erylon wrote: Since your hda5 is larger than 3 gig, I would hazard a guess that your /var/log files are filling it. Check your /var/log and see if it isn't really large (500 K would be about the max it should be). If that's where the problem lies, you can safely delete all the gzipped log files, and edit your /etc/logrotate.conf to prevent it from happening again. Remember, the log files belong to user root. Just a guess, e. Thanks for that. will do some pruning. I will also explore the /etc/logrotate.conf I can see that as the user i have authority to delete some files but not others. I can go into root and do it all but is that wise? Some of the files have permission for an admin group? Should I as root give myself admin authority? This is getting a bit off topic but I d be interested in a discussion on how to work with the root / user potential of Linux. Perhaps there is a good article on it somewhere? Walter ~~~ 597 walter@psybernet:/tmp (03:53:32) $ ls -al total 88 drwxrwxrwt 13 root root 4096 Jan 31 03:41 ./ drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Jan 14 03:45 ../ -rw---1 walter walter221 Jan 20 16:34 dcop245ZXu -rw---1 walter walter221 Jan 22 22:57 dcop2nylRB -rw---1 walter walter221 Jan 30 04:39 dcop8x61gw -rw---1 walter walter221 Jan 23 16:15 dcopaJPjFH -rw---1 walter walter221 Jan 20 22:35 dcopcavrYu -rw---1 walter walter221 Jan 30 15:24 dcopqdJe7u -rw---1 walter walter223 Jan 28 04:16 dcopwMSndN drwxrwxrwt2 xfs xfs 4096 Jan 30 15:24 .font-unix/ drwx--2 walter walter 4096 Jan 26 01:11 .gftp-walter/ -rw---1 walter walter354 Jan 29 05:07 gtkrc-Q0p13A drwxrwxrwt2 root root 4096 Jan 30 15:24 .ICE-unix/ drwx--9 walter walter 4096 Jan 31 03:27 kde-walter/ drwx--2 root root 4096 Jan 25 06:01 ksocket-root/ drwx--2 walter walter 4096 Jan 31 03:41 ksocket-walter/ drwx--3 walter walter 4096 Jan 30 15:25 mcop-walter/ srwxrwxrwx1 walter walter 0 Jan 31 03:31 medusa-idled-service= drwx--2 walter walter 4096 Jan 30 15:25 orbit-walter/ srwxrwxrwx1 walter walter 0 Jan 30 15:56 OSL_PIPE_501_SingleOfficeIPC_1666104904= drwx--2 walter walter 4096 Jan 28 13:58 .sawfish-walter/ drwxrwxrwx3 walter walter 4096 Jan 30 04:21 soffice.tmp/ -r--r--r--1 root walter 11 Jan 30 15:24 .X0-lock drwxrwxrwt2 root root 4096 Jan 30 15:24 .X11-unix/ 597 walter@psybernet:/tmp (03:53:32) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] saytime - no /dev/audio
There is only dsp and mixer in /dev/sound with ln -s /dev/sound/dsp /dev/audio I get garbage sound. What to do? On Tuesday 29 January 2002 21:23, Derek Jennings wrote: If you have devfs enabled (which it is by default in 8.1 ), then your audio device will be /dev/sound/audio or /dev/sound/dsp Try making a symlink ln -s /dev/sound/audio /dev/audio HTH derek On Tuesday 29 January 2002 14:46, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have working mdk 8.1. Sound is working normally. I have installed program saytime which tells current time. It worked in mdk 8.0 and RH 7.1. It is not working in mdk 8.1. It says there is no /dev/audio. I did ln -s /dev/sound.dsp /dev/audio. now it says device or resource busy What to do? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] fd0 not installed? available?
All, I have just installed LM 8.1 and like it very much. Except...I can't get my floppy disk working. I need it under Vware to be able to boot into Win2k, and I need it to be able to transfer files from one machine to another. When I try to access it, it tells me fd0 is not a valid block device or something similar. Below is a copy of my fstab /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 This is what I get when I try to mount the floppy mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device]# mount floppy mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device Can anyone tell me what is going wrong? Thanks, Wayne __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] personal organizer
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:20:24 +0530, Mario Michael da Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I need to use some sort of organizer that will keep track of my todo tasks etc. and provide an alarm as and when a deadline approaches etc. Something on the lines of M$ Outlook in windblows. I have tried korganizer, but am dissapointed coz i can't get the alarm to work. I do not use KDE as my default desktop, even though KDE is installed. I use enlightenment as my window manager and will not change to kde in the near future. Any one out there know of any thing that may help or perhaps i am missing something in korganizer ? GNOME calendar (gnomecal) and Evolution have worked quite well for me. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Ok, the guy who made the netfilter Makefile was probably on some really interesting and probably highly illegal drugs when he wrote it. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Starting Apache + PHP
Hi Steve, Well that option has been fully explored: I installed everything! Still no go. I just received my LM8.0 Update disk today and dumped my original config, reloaded everything, and I was very surprised to find the http.conf file exactly like the one that has the missing AddType lines. I didn't bother with the update disk -- I've already downloaded the Apache binary and have source PHP 4.1.1. This version of Apache has the AddType lines that can be uncommented. Now it seems to be more of a question of permissions for the php files. (At least I've seen the run-tests.php in action!) I don't know what was messed up with the stock LM8.0 config, but my guess, from examining the updates, is that PHP had caused a problem. I seem to luck-in with these no-go installations ! Anyway, It's been a great learning experience! (This is terribly excellent fun! Much better than the boring ...has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. At least this way I can mess it up some more! :) Thanks for your suggestion. Regards, Andre On Tuesday 29 January 2002 17:13, you wrote: Sounds to me like to you don't have all the necessary apache rpm's installed. I'd recommend you go into software manager, select flat-listing and enter apache in the search box. Install anything which is shown. -Original Message- From: Andre Dubuc [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:21 PM To: Todd Slater Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Starting Apache + PHP On Tuesday 29 January 2002 13:43, you wrote: Andre, I just got php up and running (I think) without a fuss. I'm using Mandrake 8.1 and I installed php, php-common, php-manual_en, and php-mysql. Then, I went to the Apache configuration folder--on my system /etc/httpd/conf. I opened commonhttpd.conf with vi, and scrolled down to the part about php. I just uncommented two lines (remove the #) about AddType blah blah .php and saved it. I stopped httpd. I started httpd I looked for the most basic script I could find because I don't know anything about it, and found a date one here: http://www.terrabyte.dc.com.au/phpscripts.php3. I put that in my web directory (renamed the text-file .php) and called it and it worked! I don't know if that will help or not. Todd Thanks Todd, The problem with my LM8.0 configuration for Apache is that it doesn't have those lines AddType in any of the .conf files! I wondered what they were talking about -- and I have checked them all! In desperation, I finally decided to go source. I d/l the binary from Apache, and after my first attempt, I still cannot see my test file. I'll have to check my PHP config. Perhaps, that's the problem: I'm unclear where any files that I make should go. Are they supposed to be put in the /htdocs area in apache's directory? Will they work from elsewhere? I've also set up a /public_html directory in personal home directory. I'm having all sorts of fun installing/uninstalling and generally messing about with these programs. Sure is a great way to find out where everything is, and how everything is inter-related. Too bad it doesn't work! Regards, Andre -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. Remember in your prayers the suffering souls in Purgatory. May God bless you abundantly in His love! For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ 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 -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. Remember in your prayers the suffering souls in Purgatory. May God bless you abundantly in His love! For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hda5 critically full
hi, i have inserted wherever appropriate what i have learned as a 7 month newbie. please take it only as points to do some more research on as i am not entirely sure in their validity (but for me they are the truth unless stated otherwise by more experienced users *grin*) On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 04:16:04 +1300 Walter Logeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: HI, snip Thanks for the info received on what to do. I immediatly found that i had been keeping copies of the CDs I'd been burning, and fixed that, which took care of the immediate problem. Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: seems like the allocated space for the / partition was too small. this happened to me when i allocated just 100MB to that partition and /tmp was heavily used. I think it may be big enough if i maintain it well. And am using this oportunbity to learn do this. Question: Coming from a Windows env. I am familiar with easily knowing which file is on which storage device. I understand that it is nice to have a virtual environment - to hell with knowing what devices run it, however as the administrator i need to be able to know what is on each device. How can i check that? check the mountpoints. if you have the tree package installed, use it to generate a somewhat ASCII-graphical breakdown of your partitions (tree / , tree /home, tree /usr, etc). type mount (no additional parameters) and all directories under root ( those with names coming after /) which are neither mounted by the fstab (/tmp for example) nor links to other subdirectories (/bin) are probably under the root partition. if you dont have the tree command, du -ah will do as well. remember to output the contents of du and tree to a file so you could peruse it on your whim. last option is to go to konqueror (or any file manager with tree view capabilities). first thing to do is to make sure that no unnecessary files are hogging the space in /tmp. I have posted of the contents tof /temp below, using $ ls -al what might I need to explore further there? there are tools out there but i have no experience using them. the route i always take is to re-install Mandrake, use expert install (its really easy if you pay attention and read what's in there), and pay extra attention when it comes to the part that you partition your hard disk. Hmm, this does seem complex as I did not set up my own machine. I am tempted to give it a go For learning on another machine, not this one which I work on! its easy. my first try was pretty good. i only re-installed because i didnt know that /usr should be large enough since its the windows equivalent of the Program Files directory (installations go here). ~~~ On Monday 28 January 2002 12:18 pm, Erylon wrote: snip Thanks for that. will do some pruning. I will also explore the /etc/logrotate.conf I can see that as the user i have authority to delete some files but not others. I can go into root and do it all but is that wise? Some of the files have permission for an admin group? Should I as root give myself admin authority? This is getting a bit off topic but I d be interested in a discussion on how to work with the root / user potential of Linux. Perhaps there is a good article on it somewhere? snip rule of thumb. root user is for administration only and for doing things when you are sure you know absolutely what you are doing. if the file has other permissions, then you should not be mucking with it unless you need to. root is too powerful to be used daily. i think there was a chapter on the Mandrake Manual and in the mandrakeuser.org/docs about this. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] .xsession-errors
FLYNN, Steve wrote: Is it just me or everyone get ever growing .xsession-errors files for each userid who uses X? Mine seem t be full of: kicker: WARNING: KDE detected X error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9 Major Opcode 14 Anyone got any clues as to why I get these errors and more importantly, how I can get rid of 'em? Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst Tel: 01603 680086 Well it is a warning-level diagnostic that the kde folks didn't have time to fix and it does not affect operations of KDE. As to how to get rid of it, make a cron job to mail you the contents of xsession errors once a month and then echo \n .xsession-errors.. should do the trick Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fd0 not installed? available?
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 21:24, you wrote: All, I have just installed LM 8.1 and like it very much. Except...I can't get my floppy disk working. I need it under Vware to be able to boot into Win2k, and I need it to be able to transfer files from one machine to another. When I try to access it, it tells me fd0 is not a valid block device or something similar. Below is a copy of my fstab /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 This is what I get when I try to mount the floppy mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device]# mount floppy mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device Can anyone tell me what is going wrong? Thanks, Wayne __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com chances are you just need to create a new floppy icon. Right click on the desktop somewhere that there isn't an icon and a screen will pop up, choose create new floppy device and a new screen will pop up. Click on the Device tab. In the space to the right of device is a downarrow, click on it and scroll to the /dev/fd0 and highlight that with the pointer. Then click on the General tab and click on the floppy icon picture. This will give you a choice of icons for the desktop. Pick one of the 3 floppy icons and then click on OK. You will have a new icon on the desktop. Right click the new icon, stick a floppy in the slot and click on mount. If the screen doesn't pop up with the floppy files then left click on the new floppy icon and it should open. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reboot..how often
I've seen servers that have uptime measured in a few hundred days with no problems at all (I've personally admined one that was up for almost 3 months before we had downtime due to a power outage). About the only time that you should have to reboot (or shutdown) the system is either when you upgrade hardware or update the kernel. Other than that, there isn't a need to. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 09:34 PM 01/29/2002 -0800, you wrote: I run a linux server, that hosts multiple chat servers. I used to do this on Windows 2000 and required a reboot at least once a week. I am curious now that I've switched to Mandrake Linux 8.1 how often should I reboot to clear things out to avoid unwanted down times, here is my uptime information 10:30pm up 12 days, 2:01, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 If I know how often It needs to rebooted I could setup a script to do it and tell my customers that its down every blah blah time for a blah blah amount of time... ?? Any ideas? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Reboot..how often
I run a linux server, that hosts multiple chat servers. I used to do this on Windows 2000 and required a reboot at least once a week. I am curious now that I've switched to Mandrake Linux 8.1 how often should I reboot to clear things out to avoid unwanted down times, here is my uptime information 10:30pm up 12 days, 2:01, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 If I know how often It needs to rebooted I could setup a script to do it and tell my customers that its down every blah blah time for a blah blah amount of time... ?? Any ideas?
Re: [newbie] EVOLVE
Paul Kraus wrote: Are there any tool to import an outlook pst to evolve? Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company (216) 267-5775 Voice (216) 267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com http://www.pelsupply.com We are working on one called transfugdrake that will make windows migration easier, but there are still bugs... Look in a cooker mirror and you will likely find it. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
