Re: [newbie-it] Manuale C per linux
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:38:55 +0100 Benedetto Santarella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dove posso trovare (naturalmente in rete) un manuale C che mi spieghi l'uso delle librerie Linux??? incomincia con man gcc man (sezione) istruzione-C http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/ ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Manuale C per linux
Andrea Celli wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:38:55 +0100 Benedetto Santarella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dove posso trovare (naturalmente in rete) un manuale C che mi spieghi l'uso delle librerie Linux??? incomincia con man gcc man (sezione) istruzione-C http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/ ciao, Andrea http://www.hyperbook.it/ w linux ciao francesco p.s benedetto per favore controlla il tuo reply to ...punta a [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.0
On Wednesday 30 Oct 2002 5:50 am, aaron wrote: Hi I just finished installing mandrake 9.0 and am a bit bewildered. I look at /mnt/cdrom and in konqueror I see a lock on the icon. My scsi cdrom drive also has a lock on it. I can't access the drive from the command line. I can't chmod I can't chown. I have one cddrive with no lock on it but the disc shows all the content locked I am guessing this is due to the supermount but don't see any documentation on this. Is there a CD in the drive? (Not an audio CD, as that is not a file system and cannot be browsed.) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IBM P50 monitor...help?
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 07:22, bascule wrote: i had this with a panasync, in X if i altered the brightness the noise would disappear, it happened after i upped my nvidia drivers and went after i upped them again but i can't say for sure that video drivers were the problem bascule Hello, Umm, do you mean software brightness or the brightness control on the monitor? (I'll need to restart my X server after i get offline - dialup) Thanks! _nasturtium Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] if i add/+ ram 128mb.my mdk 8.1. is it stable? old swap 257 ram sd 128 make by auto partition when
if i add/+ ram 128mb.my mdk 8.1. is it stable? old swap 257 ram sd 128 make by auto partition when i am install.How to do? 1.dont chang any thing but add ram coz my sd ram cant find to my m/b 2.add ram and +swap 3.analize swap = 2X of sdram ? 4.i use I586 compatible I686 5.isa sound card 6.int rockwell hsf con i can use it to day frist time i connect net with mdk.feel sorrow:) i want marry with girl not computer :) sawaddee __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Clock settings
at konsole type ti + tab text command will show command about ti*** when u want to use command type man command but i cant read:( have Thai language? sawaddee --- Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd, I use Win4Lin and the same thing happened to me. When I corrected the time today, it took. Miark On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:09:35 + Todd Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you're right. I never saw a setting in BIOS, but I'll check again. I never did boot to windows. I only used win4lin. It was wierd because I was up during the time change, and it worked fine. I actually left the machine on and when I came back in the morning, it was 2 hrs behind. That's when started messing with the kde clock settings and when I rebooted, the time was 6hrs behind (like KDE was assuming that the hardware clock was set to GMT) Todd Richard Urwin wrote: The background is that MS sets the hardware clock in local time, whereas *nix sets it to GMT and handles local time in software. Actually I would be suprised if it was the BIOS, did you boot Windows at some point? That would have changed the hardware clock. Since Windows takes care of it, I don't see a BIOS manufacturer designing such a feature. It would be wrong whatever OS you ran. If it was a feature of the BIOS I would expect there to be an option to turn it off. -- Richard Urwin, Private No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: 29 October 2002 11:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Clock settings Todd Franklin wrote: OK here's my problem: Daylight savings time took effect the other night. My BIOS seems to be capable of taking care of this itself. KDE did too. So now my clock was 2 hrs behind. I used the KDE time and Date configuration, and set it to the correct time CST (central standard time GMT-6) and then when I rebooted, kde reported time 6 hours behind. In other words, KDE thinks the bios clock is set to GMT. But in boot-up, linux reported the proper time. So this time I set KDE to unspecified (UTC) and now the BIOS, KDE and Linux boot-up report the proper time. However, Netscape mail tags all my messages in GMT. Can somebody tell me the proper way to fix this problem. Todd Possibly you don't haveKED - Control Center - System - Date+time set to your local ? It ought to then read your system clock and adjust it,but somehow it makes little mistakes , so just alter it. John 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.0
Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 30 Oct 2002 5:50 am, aaron wrote: Hi I just finished installing mandrake 9.0 and am a bit bewildered. I look at /mnt/cdrom and in konqueror I see a lock on the icon. My scsi cdrom drive also has a lock on it. I can't access the drive from the command line. I can't chmod I can't chown. I have one cddrive with no lock on it but the disc shows all the content locked I am guessing this is due to the supermount but don't see any documentation on this. Is there a CD in the drive? (Not an audio CD, as that is not a file system and cannot be browsed.) derek You bet and I tried a few. I had just deleted debian (too much bother at this stage in my life) they worked fine then. In mandrake 8 all was fine. I am seeing a picture of a lock on the icons and also on the contents on the inserted cd of the one drive that doesn't have the lock thanks 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] how automatically load drivers for ISA soundcard?
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 05:49, joe wrote: I am running ML 8.2 on an old pentium with an ISA soundcard. Every time I restart i have to use modprobe opl3sa2 to get my soundcard working. Is there any way to automate this? TIA for your help. Just add opl3sa2 to /etc/modules and it will be auto-loaded at next boot. Good Luck, Harm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
SV: SV: [newbie] Internet connection
I got a solution from other side, and now I am on the internet from Linux. For possible other readers with the same problem: log on in a root terminal session. execute: /sbin/route -n any line starting with 0.0.0.0 means that it is a default route which should be removed by /sbin/route del default Then by a text-editor open the file /etc/sysconfig/network and remove any linies beginning with GATEWAY or GATEWAYDEV Reboot, and now it works like a dream connecting with Kppp. Once again, thank you Kaj. Bruno Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Clock settings
Thanks Miark Nice to know I'm not alone :-) Miark wrote: Todd, I use Win4Lin and the same thing happened to me. When I corrected the time today, it took. Miark On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:09:35 + Todd Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you're right. I never saw a setting in BIOS, but I'll check again. I never did boot to windows. I only used win4lin. It was wierd because I was up during the time change, and it worked fine. I actually left the machine on and when I came back in the morning, it was 2 hrs behind. That's when started messing with the kde clock settings and when I rebooted, the time was 6hrs behind (like KDE was assuming that the hardware clock was set to GMT) Todd Richard Urwin wrote: The background is that MS sets the hardware clock in local time, whereas *nix sets it to GMT and handles local time in software. Actually I would be suprised if it was the BIOS, did you boot Windows at some point? That would have changed the hardware clock. Since Windows takes care of it, I don't see a BIOS manufacturer designing such a feature. It would be wrong whatever OS you ran. If it was a feature of the BIOS I would expect there to be an option to turn it off. -- Richard Urwin, Private "No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato." -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: 29 October 2002 11:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Clock settings Todd Franklin wrote: OK here's my problem: Daylight savings time took effect the other night. My BIOS seems to be capable of taking care of this itself. KDE did too. So now my clock was 2 hrs behind. I used the KDE time and Date configuration, and set it to the correct time CST (central standard time GMT-6) and then when I rebooted, kde reported time 6 hours behind. In other words, KDE thinks the bios clock is set to GMT. But in boot-up, linux reported the proper time. So this time I set KDE to unspecified (UTC) and now the BIOS, KDE and Linux boot-up report the proper time. However, Netscape mail tags all my messages in GMT. Can somebody tell me the proper way to fix this problem. Todd Possibly you don't haveKED - Control Center - System - Date+time set to your local ? It ought to then read your system clock and adjust it,but somehow it makes little mistakes , so just alter it. John 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
[newbie] NFS Part II
Hello again, now I have sampled more info when I try to mount the NFS-server on my client machine I get error message: mount: RPC: The program is not registred. I log into the server box and do the command rpcinfo -p and in the info that comes up I get the portmapper and statusports. I am missing something I am sure but which files am I missing. I hope that helps Best Regards, Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to install windows and still have lilo?
joe wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 18:15, Michael Notforyou wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:58, joe wrote: I wanted to thank everyone for their helpful suggestions and pose some related questions: I tried to install XP in my fat32 partition, but it refused to install there. Does XP want to be the first partition on a disk (starting from cylinder 0)? I don't think it particularly cares. It does, however, need to be in a primary partition OK so I used fdisk to create a primary partition and set it active, XP still wouldn't install into this partition, I thought perhaps because I hadn't formatted it. Used trusty boot disk to get back into mandrake, ran diskdrake and got this terrifying error: I can't read the partition table of device hdb, its too corrupted for me :( I can try to go on, erasing over bad partitions (all data will be lost) The other solution is to not allow DrakX to modify the partition table (the error is extended partition: more than one normal partition in extended partition. Do you agree to loose all partitions? y or no? Help. Well if this were me I would let XP's own partition and formatting tools do the job, and see how that gets on, also if XP is like W2k it doesn't much like multiple primary partitions, though I believe you can force it.Most of the Windblows newer OS's prefer one primary, one extended containing any number of logical dos partitions. John John Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NFS Part II
On Wednesday 30 Oct 2002 8:54 am, Anders Lind wrote: Hello again, now I have sampled more info when I try to mount the NFS-server on my client machine I get error message: mount: RPC: The program is not registred. I log into the server box and do the command rpcinfo -p and in the info that comes up I get the portmapper and statusports. I am missing something I am sure but which files am I missing. I hope that helps Best Regards, Anders Do you have nfs-utils-clients RPM installed in your client machine? And have you exported your NFS shares in your server? Your /etc/exports file should contain your shares in a format like this /home 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw) and then in a root terminal enter exportfs -ra A convenient way to mount NFS shares is using the NFS mount GUI in Mandrake Control Centre. Be sure to unmount NFS shares before shutting down either server or client, or else it takes ages to time out and shut down. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Eterm customization
Some months back somone on this list (IIRC Shane or DarkLord) said they stumbled on a file that allowed you to tweak the ETerm console for pix, text size, etc. I'll be damned if i can find it in the archives though. Can someone pls tell me the name of the file its whereabouts in MDK's directories? TIA --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NFS Part II
Do you have nfs-utils-clients RPM installed in your client machine? Yes, although the server-utils didn't seem to be installed on the server machine, but that is now fixed And have you exported your NFS shares in your server? Your /etc/exports file should contain your shares in a format like this /home 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw) yes and then in a root terminal enter exportfs -ra Yes Now when I do the rpcinfo -p I get the mountd as well, but not nfs which should be there, what I notice when I try to restart the service in Mandrake control center is that it says rpc.mountd [Failed] [OK], can this have an effect of some kind? On a related note, has anyone tried to burn CD-ROM's via NFS and how has that worked? /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problems Installing NVIDIA drivers on a DELL laptop
Dear all, I'm trying to setup MK 9.0 on a DELL C840 laptop. The onboard card is a Nvidia GeForce 4 440 with 64MB DDR RAM and the LCD screen is able to 1600-1200 / 32 bit color. I downloaded the drivers from Nvidia, but I'm not able to set them up. Does anyone did this setup before? TIA Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kdevelop Again.
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:50:08 + Michael Baca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After several try's, I decided to goto www.kdelelop.org and download it. So know I have another problem. The binaries listed are for KDE - kde-i18n-af3-3.0.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm Where do I get the binaries for kdevelop? Or is that it. Maybe I'm missing something but in ML9.0 I get: [frans@dolphin frans]$ rpm -q kdevelop kdevelop-2.1.3-6mdk [frans@dolphin frans]$ kdevelop [frans@dolphin frans]$ After [frans@dolphin frans]$ kdevelop a GUI came up and I clicked cancel. Kdevelop is in my K menu under applications development development environments btw. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NFS Part II
On Wednesday 30 Oct 2002 10:40 am, Anders Lind wrote: Do you have nfs-utils-clients RPM installed in your client machine? Yes, although the server-utils didn't seem to be installed on the server machine, but that is now fixed And have you exported your NFS shares in your server? Your /etc/exports file should contain your shares in a format like this /home 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw) yes and then in a root terminal enter exportfs -ra Yes Now when I do the rpcinfo -p I get the mountd as well, but not nfs which should be there, what I notice when I try to restart the service in Mandrake control center is that it says rpc.mountd [Failed] [OK], can this have an effect of some kind? What is rpcinfo ? I do not have it installed on my computer (or an rpc service) , but NFS works perfectly. BTW: 'kwikdisk' is handy to mount NFS shares if you are using KDE, or 'usermount' if you are using another WM derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Some questions regarding a new load of ML 9.0
Hi all, Just about to start reloading one of my PC’s which needs to have Win98SE (for the Munchkins games), Win2000Pro (My study - yawn!) and ML 9.0 (FUN!!!) Before I start, a few questions ☺ …. 1. Do I have to load Windoze first? 2. If I do have to, will I need to use the advanced install mode for Linux to ensure I don’t overwrite the Windoze partitions? 3. If I turn off PnP (as I saw suggested in a recent post), will my PnP stuff still work in Windoze? TIA, DaveA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LM8.0 crash recovery
Dear all, I have a linux Mandrake 8.0 box which crashed yesterday when I tried to mount the iso image of for cd1 LM9.0 to a dir in / as root. An initial hardware reboot seemed to work ok, however at some stage it failed and the screen went black. Since then I cannot boot without using the rescue option on the LM8.0 installation cdrom. (I tried the tomsrtbt disk but that fails with message: LILO Error 0xFF.) at the prompt, I don't really know what to do. The suggestions at MU.org don' t help at the moment as no fs is mounted. When trying to do a mount e.g. mount -t ext2 /dev/hda7 /mnt/disk -o ro I get unknown device. Can anyone help what to do next ? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.0
On Wednesday 30 Oct 2002 8:35 am, aaron wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 30 Oct 2002 5:50 am, aaron wrote: Hi I just finished installing mandrake 9.0 and am a bit bewildered. I look at /mnt/cdrom and in konqueror I see a lock on the icon. My scsi cdrom drive also has a lock on it. I can't access the drive from the command line. I can't chmod I can't chown. I have one cddrive with no lock on it but the disc shows all the content locked I am guessing this is due to the supermount but don't see any documentation on this. Is there a CD in the drive? (Not an audio CD, as that is not a file system and cannot be browsed.) derek You bet and I tried a few. I had just deleted debian (too much bother at this stage in my life) they worked fine then. In mandrake 8 all was fine. I am seeing a picture of a lock on the icons and also on the contents on the inserted cd of the one drive that doesn't have the lock thanks Sorry if it seemed a dumb thing to ask, but you would be surprised how many people have asked that question without having a data CD in the drive :) Maybe your /etc/fstab file is incorrect. Here is what mine looks like :- none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umas k=0 0 0 (Note I am using scsi emulation that is why it is /dev/scd0 instead of /dev/hdc) If you are not using supermount, then of course the CD has to be mounted before use. If you are using supermount, any attempt to mount the CD will just screw up supermount. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NFS Part II
What is rpcinfo ? I do not have it installed on my computer (or an rpc service) , but NFS works perfectly. Hmmm...interesting, I am following the NFS howto and rpc comes with NFS-package if I have understood it correctly BTW: 'kwikdisk' is handy to mount NFS shares if you are using KDE, or 'usermount' if you are using another WM Thanks, I should look into thatit might be an alternative...I will get back to you all if things aren't working properly. Thanks for your help so far /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KonCD
On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 10:30 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 7:53 am, Anne Wilson wrote: KonCD appeared to recognise my ide cdreader, so I hoped to use it for a disk copy. I got the following error: /usr/bin/cdrecord: No such file or directory. No read access for ''. Error, Exit status: 2 I have checked that permission are set to give access to the group cdwriter, of which I am a member. What does the . signify, I wonder? Any ideas as to the problem would be gratefully received Probably a stpid question but do you have cdrecord installed? Sorry - wasn't ignoring you, I've been away. Yes, I can see it - owner root, group cdwriter, and I do belong to the group. I have checked that permissions are set for group. I'm stuck Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Some questions regarding a new load of ML 9.0
DaveA wrote: Hi all, Just about to start reloading one of my PCâs which needs to have Win98SE (for the Munchkins games), Win2000Pro (My study - yawn!) and ML 9.0 (FUN!!!) Before I start, a few questions ⺠â¦. 1. Do I have to load Windoze first? Generally a good idea. You can do it the other way round, but you'll then have to set aside a partition (/dev/hda1) for Windows, and you'll need to reinstall lilo afterwards, as Windows overwrites the boot sector. Not worth it. 2. If I do have to, will I need to use the advanced install mode for Linux to ensure I donât overwrite the Windoze partitions? No, the standard install will resize your Windows partition if necessary, but won't overwrite it. 3. If I turn off PnP (as I saw suggested in a recent post), will my PnP stuff still work in Windoze? Yes; the two systems are completely independent. Sir Robin -- You almost never hear that word computer anymore, do you? They're part of everything now. They used to be boxes with keyboards, you know. - Tad Williams Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.0
Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 30 Oct 2002 8:35 am, aaron wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 30 Oct 2002 5:50 am, aaron wrote: Hi I just finished installing mandrake 9.0 and am a bit bewildered. I look at /mnt/cdrom and in konqueror I see a lock on the icon. My scsi cdrom drive also has a lock on it. I can't access the drive from the command line. I can't chmod I can't chown. I have one cddrive with no lock on it but the disc shows all the content locked I am guessing this is due to the supermount but don't see any documentation on this. Is there a CD in the drive? (Not an audio CD, as that is not a file system and cannot be browsed.) derek You bet and I tried a few. I had just deleted debian (too much bother at this stage in my life) they worked fine then. In mandrake 8 all was fine. I am seeing a picture of a lock on the icons and also on the contents on the inserted cd of the one drive that doesn't have the lock thanks Sorry if it seemed a dumb thing to ask, but you would be surprised how many people have asked that question without having a data CD in the drive :) Maybe your /etc/fstab file is incorrect. Here is what mine looks like :- none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umas k=0 0 0 (Note I am using scsi emulation that is why it is /dev/scd0 instead of /dev/hdc) If you are not using supermount, then of course the CD has to be mounted before use. If you are using supermount, any attempt to mount the CD will just screw up supermount. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I looked in the archives and I guessed that the problem was related to the supermount issue. I have a strong feeling I should just remove it. I have no problem with mounting drives. i am currently on my windows partition. (no internet in lin yet) I will reboot and try this out and let you know. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Some questions regarding a new load of ML 9.0
HI, I was of the impression that Windows 98 needs to be loaded first before linux or Win2000 since it completely formats the *WHOLE* hard disk. Am I wrong? Thannks... Tadimeti Kesav KEANE INDIA Ltd. E9 - E12, SDF NEPZ NOIDA - 201 305 U.P, INDIA Telefon: +91-120-456 8210 (211) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. Do I have to load Windoze first? Generally a good idea. You can do it the other way round, but you'll then have to set aside a partition (/dev/hda1) for Windows, and you'll need to reinstall lilo afterwards, as Windows overwrites the boot sector. Not worth it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Some questions regarding a new load of ML 9.0
Hi Aaron, Thanks for that advice (and to the others that have responded!) When you say I also write my boot info to the MBR so that windows doesn't erase it if I have to reinstall - how do you achieve that? Are you talking about LILO's boot info? Do I get the choice where to put that? (Done it a coupla' times now and can't remember - Yes, I AM blonde) TIA, DaveA -Original Message- From: aaron [mailto:aamehl;bezeqint.net] Sent: Wednesday, 30 October 2002 9:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Some questions regarding a new load of ML 9.0 DaveA wrote: Hi all, Just about to start reloading one of my PC’s which needs to have Win98SE (for the Munchkins games), Win2000Pro (My study - yawn!) and ML 9.0 (FUN!!!) Before I start, a few questions ☺ …. 1. Do I have to load Windoze first? 2. If I do have to, will I need to use the advanced install mode for Linux to ensure I don’t overwrite the Windoze partitions? 3. If I turn off PnP (as I saw suggested in a recent post), will my PnP stuff still work in Windoze? TIA, DaveA I always install windows first. I also write my boot info to the mbr so that windows doesn't erase it if I have to reinstall (a common windows occurence) I didn't see the post that mentions turning off pnp but I have never had to mess with this. (is this related to an isa device??) lol Aaron 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] NFS Part II
On Wednesday 30 Oct 2002 11:17 am, Anders Lind wrote: What is rpcinfo ? I do not have it installed on my computer (or an rpc service) , but NFS works perfectly. Hmmm...interesting, I am following the NFS howto and rpc comes with NFS-package if I have understood it correctly BTW: 'kwikdisk' is handy to mount NFS shares if you are using KDE, or 'usermount' if you are using another WM Thanks, I should look into thatit might be an alternative...I will get back to you all if things aren't working properly. Thanks for your help so far /Anders Anders. This is the procedure I use to start NFS on Mandrake 9.0 (or 8.2) First install nfs-utils RPM, then 1/ Define the /etc/exports file 2/ exportfs -ra 3/ On client machine open Mandrake Control CentreMountPointsNFSMount Points (any required RPMS get automatically installed) 4/Press 'Search servers' button. Select the required server, click on '+' to see shares available. 5/ Press Mount Point button, select a mount point (It will be created for you) 6/Press Options button, select any required options (I normally select 'user' and 'noauto') 7/ Press 'Mount' button Thats it done.. when the GUI exits it writes the /etc/fstab file for you. Subsequently I use kwikdisk to mount/unmount the shares whenever I need them. (In kdeutils RPM), or usermount ( in usermode RPM) Note: netfs, nfs and nfslock services should be running derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Some questions regarding a new load of ML 9.0
Kesav Tadimeti wrote: HI, I was of the impression that Windows 98 needs to be loaded first before linux or Win2000 since it completely formats the *WHOLE* hard disk. Am I wrong? Best to install W98 first, thenW2k, then linux, all in seperate partitions, if you have W98 installed somewhere make a W98 bootdisk and use fdisk@ the A:prompt to create the first(primary) partition for W98, then let W2k 's own partition tool that is part of the install CD1 create a partition for W2k,left to it's own devices it will create a logical in and extended dos partition) leave all the linux partition to diskdrake, Alternatively you can use dos fdisk, or Partition Magic to create all the partitions first and then merely format each partition as and when required by the install programme. W98 requires that it's partition be formated before W98 install begins. I use PM and make sure that one primary with one exteneded dos partition containing any number of logical dos partitions is created as this is the way the newer OS's like it these days , though I'm told you can force multiple primary dos partitions. However some OS's don't like it. John John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to install windows and still have lilo?
Joe, I wouldn't use 'fdisk' of any kind to create an XP partition fro your installation. Use your 'fdisk' to clean-up what you have done so that you are back to just the Linux installation. Load your XP Pro CD and shutdown the computer. Boot back up, let the installation program begin. What should happen is that you will be brought to the partitioning screen that shows you the 'foreign' Linux partition as well as free space that has not been partitioned as yet. I have found that with XP Pro, as long as you are not using the whole drive as one partition, it will give you the options of NTFS, HPFS, or FAT32. At this point, you highlight the unpartitioned volume and pick the FAT32 format. If you cannot get to this point (you did mention something about corruption noted in MDK?), you may have screwed up your FAT and lilo to the point where you are now in deep 'do-do'. If reloading lilo, and doing what I just suggested doesn't work, you need to get try to back-up your /home directory with the intention of wiping and starting over. If you do wipe everything out and start over, let me tell you what I just did as of last night (I have a 40 GB hard drive): 1) Wipe all the partitions out. Since Linux is already on the drive, use MDK's fdisk to wipe all partitions. Do not use MS-DOS/Win fdisk for removing the Linux partitions! 2) Once you have written to disk from fdisk, shut the computer off. This is very important! 3) Boot the computer to an Win 98 boot floppy disk that has 'fdisk' on it. Type this command at the DOS prompt: fdisk /mbr 4) Load your CD-ROM with XP Pro. 5) Shutdown the computer once more. This is again, very important. You must clear all the memory registers before starting over. 6) When you get to the screen that shows your completely pristine hard drive in its wonderfully unadulterated splendor, highlight it and press C to create a new partition. 7) Decide on the capacity that you want to give XP Pro, and how much you want to leave for MDK. In my case, I gave 30 GBs to XP Pro since I know that I will need the room and must have operating space there, as well. That left me with 8 GBs of space for MDK 9.0 (enough for me, at this time.) 8) Because you did NOT use the whole hard drive, you will be asked what format you want for this partition. If you really want to FAT32, pick it, and I would strongly recommend that you do NOT take the Quick option. Hard drives fail over time, and new ones are not always virgins. It's a fact of life. The extra time you take now to insure your drive is fully usable saves potential headaches later. :-) 9) Once you have completely installed XP Pro, remove your CD and replace it with your MDK 9.0 CD #1. With respect for your time in this, I recommend not loading any more into XP Pro at this time than is necessary to get it properly working. If something goes wrong with your Linux installation and you have to start over, it's best not to worry about time wasted on loaded programs and frills right now. 10) Do a complete and correct shutdown from XP Pro. 11) Start up, and allow MDK's boot from the CD #1. Follow instructions as you normally would. I would pick Expert/Install. 12) When you get to the screen that asks you how you want to partition your Linux system, click with your mouse on the area that has NOT been partition as yet. Then click on Auto Allocation button. Decide whether you have the room and care over having a separate partition for /usr, or just for /home (simple). 13) Complete your installation to your heart's content! This is how it worked for me. So flawlessly that I was pretty much ready to genuflect and kiss the penguin's ring. Everything works great, too, in both O/S's. They are playing so well together, I almost want to cry! The only thing that I have yet to change is the timing in lilo upon boot-up. I want lilo to sit there and wait for me to select the O/S I want, not pick one after so many seconds. I hope this helped. Sorry if anything was already very obvious to you. I figured it best to err on the side of caution. Good luck on whatever you decide to do. T - Original Message - From: joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 1:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] how to install windows and still have lilo? On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 18:15, Michael Notforyou wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:58, joe wrote: I wanted to thank everyone for their helpful suggestions and pose some related questions: I tried to install XP in my fat32 partition, but it refused to install there. Does XP want to be the first partition on a disk (starting from cylinder 0)? I don't think it particularly cares. It does, however, need to be in a primary partition OK so I used fdisk to create a primary partition and set it active, XP still wouldn't install into this partition, I thought perhaps because I hadn't formatted it. Used trusty boot disk to get back into mandrake, ran diskdrake and got this
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.0
You bet and I tried a few. I had just deleted debian (too much bother at this stage in my life) they worked fine then. In mandrake 8 all was fine. I am seeing a picture of a lock on the icons and also on the contents on the inserted cd of the one drive that doesn't have the lock I have the same problem, but turning off supermount clears it up for me. su, then supermount disable should enable you to manually mount the disks and get to the content. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] how to install windows and still have lilo?
T!!! Your e-mail (which I've snipped - sorry) was masterful! Well done Sir! I've just gone through a similar procedure this evening and am even now installing ML 9.0. I was a bit worried it was going to overwrite my Windoze partitions (98SE Win2K-PRO) but so far, so good! Last time I installed ML I chose Expert (NOT!!!) and somehow started NFS which wouldn't unmount. This list has been very helpful in resolving that, but I needed 2000 instead of XP Pro for study purposes so decided to blow the whole lot away and start afresh. Had fun getting rid of the old partitions, but luckily I have a DOS utility called Partition Manager which is much less flaky than good old DOS FDISK. Pity the fdisk /mbr switch is undocumented, isn't it? Such a handy command... Once again, thanks for your 'mail - it was an enjoyable read! DaveA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Technoslick Sent: Wednesday, 30 October 2002 10:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] how to install windows and still have lilo? Joe, I wouldn't use 'fdisk' of any kind to create an XP partition fro your installation. Use your 'fdisk' to clean-up what you have done so that you are back to just the Linux installation. Load your XP Pro CD and shutdown the computer. Boot back up, let the installation program begin. SNIP I hope this helped. Sorry if anything was already very obvious to you. I figured it best to err on the side of caution. Good luck on whatever you decide to do. T - Original Message - From: joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 1:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] how to install windows and still have lilo? On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 18:15, Michael Notforyou wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:58, joe wrote: I wanted to thank everyone for their helpful suggestions and pose some related questions: I tried to install XP in my fat32 partition, but it refused to install there. Does XP want to be the first partition on a disk (starting from cylinder 0)? I don't think it particularly cares. It does, however, need to be in a primary partition OK so I used fdisk to create a primary partition and set it active, XP still wouldn't install into this partition, I thought perhaps because I hadn't formatted it. Used trusty boot disk to get back into mandrake, ran diskdrake and got this terrifying error: I can't read the partition table of device hdb, its too corrupted for me :( I can try to go on, erasing over bad partitions (all data will be lost) The other solution is to not allow DrakX to modify the partition table (the error is extended partition: more than one normal partition in extended partition. Do you agree to loose all partitions? y or no? Help. (not a Logical DOS Drive in an Extended DOS Partition as MS Fdisk calls it). Will I have to delete my / partition and re-install mandrake after XP? or... Is there anyway for me to move my mandrake partitions without losing data, and if so how? I thought I remembered reading that diskdrake could do something like this (when resizing), but do not see any options for moving partitions. Again, TIA. On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 23:40, Todd Flinders wrote: An easier way is to just make a boot disk (you can use the dd command or the Mandrake Control Center). After installing Windows, boot into GNU/Linux using your boot disk. After you log in, become root and type: /sbin/lilo -v That will reinstall lilo. On Sunday 27 October 2002 12:46 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 11:00:54 -0700 joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know XP is going to take over, how can I get a boot loader back without installing mandrake again? Can I just use the update option on the cd and not choose any packages to install? Yes, just run it as an Expert/Upgrade. Since this involves a hd change the install may ask which is your / partition. Be sure you know and input it correctly or you will screw your drive. Charles --- Life's too short to dance with ugly women. -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 -- *Michael Notforyou* Registered Linux User #197888 Registered Linux Machine #166780 LINUX ON A COMPAQ PRESARIO 700 SERIES: http://www.quack-net.com/presario/ //42! 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] Eterm customization
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 04:37, FemmeFatale wrote: Some months back somone on this list (IIRC Shane or DarkLord) said they stumbled on a file that allowed you to tweak the ETerm console for pix, text size, etc. I'll be damned if i can find it in the archives though. Can someone pls tell me the name of the file its whereabouts in MDK's directories? TIA --- Femme Yes maam. /usr/X11R6/share/Eterm/themes/Eterm/MAIN For menu alterations there is also /usr/X11R6/share/Eterm/themes/Eterm/Eterm.menu By all rights these files should be in /etc/X11, but Eterm and Enlightenment hail from a very early time in Linux's history, and the authors are not only slow to come into compliance with existing filesystem conventions, but are also VERY slow to new releases. This is a serious window manager used by a very large group of people, enough that it should merit more serious attention. HTH, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Eterm customization
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 04:37, FemmeFatale wrote: Some months back somone on this list (IIRC Shane or DarkLord) said they stumbled on a file that allowed you to tweak the ETerm console for pix, text size, etc. I'll be damned if i can find it in the archives though. Can someone pls tell me the name of the file its whereabouts in MDK's directories? TIA --- Femme BTW the system will also recognize ~/.Eterm/themes/Eterm/MAIN according to the docs. This of course is for local only effect. And yes it's wierd to have a configuration file buried in a themes subdirectory. L8r, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Capture?
On Friday 18 Oct 2002 7:20 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Bryan Tyson wrote: On Friday 18 October 2002 12:42, Roger wrote: In 8.2 I had a program that was part of the default install, that I used on a fairly regular basis to make screenshots. I think it was called Screen Capture? Maybe it was just called screenshot in the menu. Does anyone know what it's name is, and what the package I need to install is? Could you be thinking of KSnapshot? Yep, thats the one. I was thrown by the change in name in the BlackBox menu. Thanks, Bryan. Although the menu item in 8.2 was Screen Capture, the app was KSnapshot, so if it's been changed to that on the menu it perhaps is a step in the right direction. I know there is a balancing act between saying which app you are about to run and giving an idea as to what it does, but where the purpose is clear in the name I would prefer to stick to it. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NFS Part II
Thanks, this did not help...but I at least get another errormessage now...feels like I am getting closerNow I get: mount: wrong type of filesystem, erranous flag, error in superblock on 192.168.2.8:/home/anders, or too many mounted filesystems. I let Control Center write to /etc/fstab /Anders Getting closer. It is probably something really simple. Couple of things to check. 1/ In your /etc/exports file there should not be any spaces between the subnet mask and the (rw) access. 2/ If you can see the share displayed in the MCC GUI, then the share is obviously being exported. But have you been putting anything in the /etc/hosts.allow, and /etc/hosts.deny files ? Mine are both blank. 3/ Is the portmap service running? (Not sure if it is needed, but mine is running) 4/ Do you have a firewall running on that interface? (That would kinda kill NFS operation) (BTW: NFS is not very secure and should not be used on any Lan segment which is not 'trusted'. ) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Some questions regarding a new load of ML 9.0
Having done hundreds of dual/triple boot installs, I've always found that the most reliable way of doing the installs, was to start with Mandrake. Simply setup the partitions like I've indicated below, but remember NOT to format or mount any of the Windows partitions. Keep in mind that the whole concept of this kind of install means that ALL downloads, and user-created files (ie; documents, graphics, copies or backups of emails and address books,etc.), should be configured to automatically go to the /archive partition. For example, if you right-click your MS Windows My Documents folder, and click on Properties, then select the Move button and browse to the /archive partition (more about this later), where you should have already created a My Documents folder. Both MS Office and OpenOffice will be happy with this, although you may have to tell them where My Documents is located. Once you've done this, most office suites will use this as the new default location. When setting up your partitions in the Mandrake install, your last partition - in this example /archive (should be pretty big on a 30Gb drive), MUST be formatted with FAT32 so that ALL operating systems will see it easily. Later when you boot into Windows (either one), re-format the partition again with Fat32. The basic premise with this system, is that the only things which will reside on any of the Windows or Linux partitions will be operating systems and/or programs, but BUT user-created data ! Any graphics, music, documents, downloads (for Windows or Mandrake), etc., must be stored on the /archive partition, which you can also name as Archive in Windows for ease of use. This way, if you ever need to re-install any O/S at all, your personal files are completely safe from potential damage or accidental deletion and you can still have your anti-virus programs do regular scans of the archive partition. Once your Mandrake install is done, and before you do any updates or tweaking, go ahead with your Windows installs in order of age - ie; Win98, then Win2K. Each in turn will make itself the default O/S, so rebooting back into it will happen automatically. When all O/S's are installed, re-insert your first Mandrake CD, and do an Expert-Upgrade. this will take about 2 minutes, and Mandrake will now detect ALL the Windows partitions, and setup mount points for them. When you get to the bootloader section of the Upgrade, you'll see that all of your operating systems are listed here, so choose your default O/S of preference (do I have to state the obvious here?), and finish the rest of the Upgrade as usual. Mandrake will show your existing network, printer and video settings, so you can just run through this part easily, and that's it. LILO will now take over as your boot-manager, and will provide easy selection of those other O/S's that you have accidentally or inadvertently installed! LOL ! This may sound like a lot of work, but you should only have to do this once, and knowing that your critical information and downloaded data is pretty safe, really helps. It also allows you to re-install any of the operating systems safely. Of course, when installing a newer version of Linux, leaving your /home partition alone should also leave your desktop settings, bookmarks, etc., alone. It's the only time that not formatting a partition is usually a good thing! One word of caution,...Always backup your personal information and data files before attempting any installs. Here's my suggestions for your partitions in the order they should appear in Diskdrake during install; Based on a 30 Gb hard drive,... 1) Windows 98 - 5 Gb.'s 2) Windows 2000 - 5 Gb.'s 3) Mandrake (any version) - 5.25 Gb.'s (/ partition = 3.5 Gb.'s, swap partition = 250 Mb.'s, /home partition = 2.5 Gb.'s 4) Remaining space becomes /archive ( as seen in Mandrake) or D:\Archive partition ( as seen by both versions of Windows)=14 Gb.'s approximately. Order of installation; 1) Mandrake on third set of partitions 2) Windows 98 on first partition 3) Windows 2000 on second partition 4) Mandrake Expert Upgrade One last note - You may have to open the Disk Management section of Computer Management in Administrative Tools located in Control Panel of Windows 2000 one time before it sees the Archive Partition. After that you should be in good shape. Lanman On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:02, Brian Parish wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 22:49, Kesav Tadimeti wrote: HI, I was of the impression that Windows 98 needs to be loaded first before linux or Win2000 since it completely formats the *WHOLE* hard disk. Am I wrong? Thannks... Tadimeti Kesav The correct sequence for windoze installs is always oldest first. i.e 98, then 2000 in this case. Your understanding is incorrect however as 98 requires a partition to have been created before you start to install it. That partition can be any size you like though. As other posts have indicated, you can just reserve hda1 for 98,
Re: [newbie] Some questions regarding a new load of ML 9.0
Excellent! Next one I do, I am going to do it this way -- MDK, first. Thanks, T - Original Message - From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:59 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Some questions regarding a new load of ML 9.0 Having done hundreds of dual/triple boot installs, I've always found that the most reliable way of doing the installs, was to start with Mandrake. Simply setup the partitions like I've indicated below, but remember NOT to format or mount any of the Windows partitions. Keep in mind that the whole concept of this kind of install means that ALL downloads, and user-created files (ie; documents, graphics, copies or backups of emails and address books,etc.), should be configured to automatically go to the /archive partition. For example, if you right-click your MS Windows My Documents folder, and click on Properties, then select the Move button and browse to the /archive partition (more about this later), where you should have already created a My Documents folder. Both MS Office and OpenOffice will be happy with this, although you may have to tell them where My Documents is located. Once you've done this, most office suites will use this as the new default location. When setting up your partitions in the Mandrake install, your last partition - in this example /archive (should be pretty big on a 30Gb drive), MUST be formatted with FAT32 so that ALL operating systems will see it easily. Later when you boot into Windows (either one), re-format the partition again with Fat32. The basic premise with this system, is that the only things which will reside on any of the Windows or Linux partitions will be operating systems and/or programs, but BUT user-created data ! Any graphics, music, documents, downloads (for Windows or Mandrake), etc., must be stored on the /archive partition, which you can also name as Archive in Windows for ease of use. This way, if you ever need to re-install any O/S at all, your personal files are completely safe from potential damage or accidental deletion and you can still have your anti-virus programs do regular scans of the archive partition. Once your Mandrake install is done, and before you do any updates or tweaking, go ahead with your Windows installs in order of age - ie; Win98, then Win2K. Each in turn will make itself the default O/S, so rebooting back into it will happen automatically. When all O/S's are installed, re-insert your first Mandrake CD, and do an Expert-Upgrade. this will take about 2 minutes, and Mandrake will now detect ALL the Windows partitions, and setup mount points for them. When you get to the bootloader section of the Upgrade, you'll see that all of your operating systems are listed here, so choose your default O/S of preference (do I have to state the obvious here?), and finish the rest of the Upgrade as usual. Mandrake will show your existing network, printer and video settings, so you can just run through this part easily, and that's it. LILO will now take over as your boot-manager, and will provide easy selection of those other O/S's that you have accidentally or inadvertently installed! LOL ! This may sound like a lot of work, but you should only have to do this once, and knowing that your critical information and downloaded data is pretty safe, really helps. It also allows you to re-install any of the operating systems safely. Of course, when installing a newer version of Linux, leaving your /home partition alone should also leave your desktop settings, bookmarks, etc., alone. It's the only time that not formatting a partition is usually a good thing! One word of caution,...Always backup your personal information and data files before attempting any installs. Here's my suggestions for your partitions in the order they should appear in Diskdrake during install; Based on a 30 Gb hard drive,... 1) Windows 98 - 5 Gb.'s 2) Windows 2000 - 5 Gb.'s 3) Mandrake (any version) - 5.25 Gb.'s (/ partition = 3.5 Gb.'s, swap partition = 250 Mb.'s, /home partition = 2.5 Gb.'s 4) Remaining space becomes /archive ( as seen in Mandrake) or D:\Archive partition ( as seen by both versions of Windows)=14 Gb.'s approximately. Order of installation; 1) Mandrake on third set of partitions 2) Windows 98 on first partition 3) Windows 2000 on second partition 4) Mandrake Expert Upgrade One last note - You may have to open the Disk Management section of Computer Management in Administrative Tools located in Control Panel of Windows 2000 one time before it sees the Archive Partition. After that you should be in good shape. Lanman On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:02, Brian Parish wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 22:49, Kesav Tadimeti wrote: HI, I was of the impression that Windows 98 needs to be loaded first before linux or Win2000 since it completely formats the *WHOLE* hard disk. Am I wrong? Thannks... Tadimeti Kesav The correct sequence for windoze installs is always oldest first. i.e
Re: [newbie] NFS Part II
Couple of things to check. 1/ In your /etc/exports file there should not be any spaces between the subnet mask and the (rw) access. No space between 2/ If you can see the share displayed in the MCC GUI, then the share is obviously being exported. But have you been putting anything in the /etc/hosts.allow, and /etc/hosts.deny files ? Mine are both blank. Both blank, well, there are a few commentlines but that doesn't matter or should not at least 3/ Is the portmap service running? (Not sure if it is needed, but mine is running) Yes, it is 4/ Do you have a firewall running on that interface? (That would kinda kill NFS operation) Not that I am aware of, we do have a router that connects us to the internet but that should not have any effect that I can figure out at least (BTW: NFS is not very secure and should not be used on any Lan segment which is not 'trusted'. ) Fortunately our LAN is small, only 6 boxes all in all, and we are only NFS'ing between two of them /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dependency-question
Hello again, this time I have a question about breaking dependcies...this is the case, I would like to try and upgrade XChat to 1.8.9 or higher instead of 1.8.7 that I have today...unfortunately 1.8.9 requires Perl-Base 5.8.0 that is not on 8.2 of Mandrake. Is it possible to remove the perl-base 5.6.x via GnoRPM, then install Perl-Base 5.8.0 or do these dependencies have to be exactly the ones that goes with 5.6.x. I am not sure if that was coherent LOL. I have not tried to compile XChat from source, I could do that perhaps. Best Regards, Anders signing off for today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] compile C with GCC in mandrake 9
Hi Today I installed mandrake 9 on my computer, the first i try to make list a simple program ( C language ) just output the text on console. but after i compile the source file like this #gcc -o helloworld helloworld.c the console apears warning about no newline in... i forget the warning. but the result of compilation success, i can see the file executable apears with command ls. and I try to run this file like this ./helloworld... the result it's still ok, no problem, but i don't like if every compile source.c i still show the warning... what should I do? Teddy __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.
On Saturday 26 Oct 2002 4:08 am, you wrote: I would suggest that you turn off html format in your posts and stop posting with 24 point type. If there are special circumstances (poor eyesight or something) please accept my apologies for the rant. - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Oddly enough, I needed a magnifying glass to read this :-) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Permissions
On Saturday 26 Oct 2002 8:08 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 26 Oct 2002 1:08 pm, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, I have a partition on my drive which is purely for all my mp3s, downloads etc. The partition is FAT32 so that I can access it from Windoze too. The drive is automatically mounted on boot as root with full permisions on everything. I assume full permisions as it is FAT32 not ext2 etc? Although I can copy stuff to the partition as any user, it complains about not being able to change the permissions of the file I am copying. Is there anyway that I can mount the partition as the user I normally use? Is that a good idea? Thanks for any help, Jord In your /etc/fstab entry for the FAT32 partition add the option quiet . You will then not get that annoying message. derek It's normal, because windows doesn't use permissions. Derek's suggestion will take away the agro, but you can just ignore it if you prefer Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kernel error message from /var/log
All, I am getting an unusual error message on my server in the var/log file. kernel: martian destination 0.0.0.1 from 172.16.1.6, dev eth0. Does anybody know what this means. It is an mdk 9.0 box. Thanks, Tony. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:David.Hamnett-Taylor;BCPSoftware.com immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wondering about 9.0 pre-orders
On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 10:25 pm, you wrote: has they been shipped? anyone got theirs? No, and I haven't heard anything from Mdk either Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compile C with GCC in mandrake 9
El Mié 30 Oct 2002 15:39, teddy wl escribió: Hi Today I installed mandrake 9 on my computer, the first i try to make list a simple program ( C language ) just output the text on console. but after i compile the source file like this #gcc -o helloworld helloworld.c the console apears warning about no newline in... i forget the warning. but the result of compilation success, i can see the file executable apears with command ls. and I try to run this file like this ./helloworld... the result it's still ok, no problem, but i don't like if every compile source.c i still show the warning... what should I do? Teddy The warning you are getting is probably no newline at end of file ..i think it means that the last character of your program is in exactly the last line of the file, the warning just pops up because that could mean a broken/incomplete file. just add a couple of blank lines at the end of your file. Hope it works. -- Damian -- Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.(The Dalai Lama) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NFS Part II
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 04:22 am, you wrote: Be sure to unmount NFS shares before shutting down either server or client, or else it takes ages to time out and shut down. derek Hi Derek. HmmI don't have that problem here. I never umount my NFS stuff before closing down - and all goes well. I've got my main comp as server and my 2 sons comps as clients. It does take a little bit longer if I shutdown my main comp first, but shutting down either client doesn't take any longer. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Eterm customization
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 04:37 am, you wrote: Some months back somone on this list (IIRC Shane or DarkLord) said they stumbled on a file that allowed you to tweak the ETerm console for pix, text size, etc. I'll be damned if i can find it in the archives though. Can someone pls tell me the name of the file its whereabouts in MDK's directories? TIA --- Femme Hey there Femme! I don't remember anyting about the text size, but I've always copied pictures/backgrounds that I liked into: /usr/share/Eterm/pix and then edited these files: pixmaps.list scaled-pixmaps.list tiled-pixmaps.list following the format thats already in each file. I get the cool backgrounds I want that way. With Eterm up/active, hit F1 and it will bring up a config window. I've not played with it much TBH though. Hope this helps ya! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] wondering about 9.0 pre-orders
Title: RE: [newbie] wondering about 9.0 pre-orders -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] wondering about 9.0 pre-orders On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 10:25 pm, you wrote: has they been shipped? anyone got theirs? No, and I haven't heard anything from Mdk either Anne Note at Mandrakestore says they ship end of October-first of November. They should be going out the door as we type. : ) Dennis M.
Re: [newbie] how automatically load drivers for ISA soundcard?
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 01:36, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 30 October 2002 05:49, joe wrote: I am running ML 8.2 on an old pentium with an ISA soundcard. Every time I restart i have to use modprobe opl3sa2 to get my soundcard working. Is there any way to automate this? TIA for your help. Just add opl3sa2 to /etc/modules and it will be auto-loaded at next boot. I believe this was exactly the info I was looking for, thanks to everyone for their replies. Good Luck, Harm 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] how automatically load drivers for ISA soundcard?
joe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am running ML 8.2 on an old pentium with an ISA soundcard. Every time I restart i have to use modprobe opl3sa2 to get my soundcard working. Is there any way to automate this? TIA for your help. Try to run sndconfig This work in MDK 8 9 with my ISA SB16. maaxflyer. ñ. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems Installing NVIDIA drivers on a DELL laptop
Em Qua 30 Out 2002 07:38, Aguet, Pierre escreveu: Dear all, Have you tried the rpm's or the src.rpm's? Because you have to dl the src.rpm, rebuild to your system, install and customize your /etc/X11/XF86config-4... That's the only way! I can't tell you about you laptop, specifically, but I've made several ones work this way as recommend by people in this list! and the expert's! HTH Ricardo I'm trying to setup MK 9.0 on a DELL C840 laptop. The onboard card is a Nvidia GeForce 4 440 with 64MB DDR RAM and the LCD screen is able to 1600-1200 / 32 bit color. I downloaded the drivers from Nvidia, but I'm not able to set them up. Does anyone did this setup before? TIA Peter Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo E-mail Protegido Terra. Scan engine: VirusScan / Atualizado em 23/10/2002 / Versão: 1.3.13 Proteja o seu e-mail Terra: http://www.emailprotegido.terra.com.br/ -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Setihome user == http://counter.li.org/ Get Counted! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NFS Part II
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 03:54 am, you wrote: Hello again, snip Hmm, lemme just walk thru some stuff on mine and maybe it will help point you in the right direction: Client computer: 3 main files to edit: /etc/exports, /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny I'm using /home/darklord/tmp as my export here. My /etc/exports file looks like this: # /home/darklord/tmp 192.168.0.2(rw) /home/darklord/tmp 192.168.0.3(rw) (if you make any changes to /etc/exports on a running system, don't forget to update it with exportfs -ra) My hosts.deny and hosts.allow are blank. The point here is just make sure that you aren't blocking out your own computers. If you wanted to restrict access to your comps, then /etc/hosts.allow should look something like this (fill in your IPs', of course): portmap: 192.168.0.1 , 192.168.0.2 and /etc/hosts.deny would be: portmap:ALL All of these (daemons) should be running, on client and server, I think: rpc.portmap rpc.mountd, rpc.nfsd rpc.statd, rpc.lockd (if necessary), and rpc.rquotad (I think nfs-utils does the above) Make sure portmapper is doing its thing: rpcinfo -p should give you something like mine: [rootdarkforce darklord]# rpcinfo -p program vers proto port 102 tcp111 portmapper 102 udp111 portmapper 1000241 udp 32768 status 1000241 tcp 32768 status 3910022 tcp 32769 sgi_fam 1000111 udp610 rquotad 1000112 udp610 rquotad 1000111 tcp613 rquotad 1000112 tcp613 rquotad 151 udp 32770 mountd 151 tcp 32770 mountd 152 udp 32770 mountd 152 tcp 32770 mountd 153 udp 32770 mountd 153 tcp 32770 mountd 132 udp 2049 nfs 133 udp 2049 nfs 1000211 udp 32771 nlockmgr 1000213 udp 32771 nlockmgr 1000214 udp 32771 nlockmgr Client machine: I created a directory called public on both my sons comps: /home/zerocool/public /home/jeremy/public I put these lines into their /etc/fstab files (so they would automount) darkforce:/home/darklord/tmp/home/zerocool/public nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0 darkforce:/home/darklord/tmp/home/jeremy/public nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0 If you change your /etc/fstab, then just do (as su) a mount -a to update. I got all of this information (and much more!!!) from this site: http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/client.html Hope this helps. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
