Re: [newbie] Getting win98 back
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 19:24 +1300, SnapafunFrank wrote: Had a PII system at work that started to physically fry itself. Removed the hard disk and subsequently found it to be sound . In another up to date system I installed winXP and xandos ( will be changing to mandrake when I get the boss to 'support' it by actually coughing up some cash to help the effort here.) Physically installed the win98 hard drive as slave into this system before installing linux. Lilo recognized win98 OK but when I try to boot into it - no noise at all. So I suspect that win98 doesn't understand the new motherboard - maybe. What I would like to do is to be able to boot win98 because of some propriety software installed there. I am able to see the hard drive and all the file system OK so no worries there at present. I do know that if I use a rescue disk that I will lose the capability of running some of these programs. One thought is to copy the registry ( when I can remember where it is ) - rescue the win98 installation and then rewrite the registry with the saved one. I have been running linux ( Mandrake10 Official at present ) for so long now that I have forgotten most of this stuff. Anyone here been able to get something like this to work? And yes, if neseccary I am prepared to install Mandrake over xandros. The folk at work like things straight forward and a basic installation of Mandrake and KDE will get them using and eventually accepting linux. To recap, how can I boot win98 on hdb1 when win98 had been installed from a previous hardware system without having to re-install win98? A few months ago, I had a problem with my laptop CD drive. I borrowed an almost identical laptop from a friend, the only difference being the video card, put in it my hard drive and reinstalled XP and Mandrake 10. Then, I placed my hard drive back in my laptop, hoping that I didn't need to install every thing again. Well, Mandrake detected the hardware change and booted without problem. XP was simply unbootable, no matter what I tried.After fighting a few hours with it I decided to spend the 6+ hours reinstalling XP and its patches, MS Office and its patches, Autocad, and so on. I hope you better luck with W98. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] modify iptables
I setup my firewall through webmin, but have accidentally put the following rule at the bottom and now cannot get back into webmin. I have messed around a little with the syntax but can't change it back. What is the command for changing this to ACCEPT instead of DROP? DROP all -- !eth0 any anywhere anywhere Thanks Jay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting win98 back
Had a PII system at work that started to physically fry itself. Removed the hard disk and subsequently found it to be sound . In another up to date system I installed winXP and xandos ( will be changing to mandrake when I get the boss to 'support' it by actually coughing up some cash to help the effort here.) Physically installed the win98 hard drive as slave into this system before installing linux. Lilo recognized win98 OK but when I try to boot into it - no noise at all. So I suspect that win98 doesn't understand the new motherboard - maybe. What I would like to do is to be able to boot win98 because of some propriety software installed there. I am able to see the hard drive and all the file system OK so no worries there at present. I do know that if I use a rescue disk that I will lose the capability of running some of these programs. One thought is to copy the registry ( when I can remember where it is ) - rescue the win98 installation and then rewrite the registry with the saved one. I have been running linux ( Mandrake10 Official at present ) for so long now that I have forgotten most of this stuff. Anyone here been able to get something like this to work? And yes, if neseccary I am prepared to install Mandrake over xandros. The folk at work like things straight forward and a basic installation of Mandrake and KDE will get them using and eventually accepting linux. To recap, how can I boot win98 on hdb1 when win98 had been installed from a previous hardware system without having to re-install win98? -- Regards SnapafunFrank The problem is that Windows is not on the first hard drive. Windows 98 is dumb - it expectes to be on the first primary FAT partition on the first hard drive. If it is not, it doesn't know what to do. You have to make some changes to your lilo.conf to fool it into thinking it is one the first drive. (This is a FAQ...) Try something like this: other=/dev/hdb1 table=/dev/hdb map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 label=windows The map commands make Windows think that your second drive is your first drive. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modify iptables
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 22:55, Jay Warwick wrote: I setup my firewall through webmin, but have accidentally put the following rule at the bottom and now cannot get back into webmin. I have messed around a little with the syntax but can't change it back. What is the command for changing this to ACCEPT instead of DROP? DROP all -- !eth0 any anywhere anywhere Thanks Jay __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com don't worry. Used my brain a little bit and figured this rule would not stop me logging into webmin from another pc to fix it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Amarok fans
For any of you Amarok fans out there, you may have seen there is a beta for 1.2 out. I have been playing with it and it has some cool new features, including an option to use mysql as the database backend. There is more news and the announcement here http://amarok.kde.org. If anybody would be interested in trying it out, but is scared off from trying to build it from source, I have packaged for Mandrake 10.0 and 10.1 with and without mysql support. Packages for 10.0 and 10.1 using the sqlite database engine, which was the way 1.1 shipped are here. For 10.0 without MySQL http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/RPMS/amarok-1.2-beta1.2gkm.i586.rpm For 10.1 without MySQL http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/RPMS/amarok-1.2-beta1_101.3gkm.i586.rpm If you want to try out the version with MySQL support, you need these For 10.0 with MySQL http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/RPMS/amarok-1.2-beta1_sql.2gkm.i586.rpm For 10.1 with MySQL http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/RPMS/amarok-1.2-beta1_sql_101.3gkm.i586.rpm Please note, I can't provide support for amarok. I packaged these for myself for testing and am making available for those that would like to try them. Any info on bugs and how to deal with issues are best resolved by using the amaork website, kde bug database and the amarok mailing lists. Remember it is a beta. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting win98 back
On Monday 29 November 2004 15:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The map commands make Windows think that your second drive is your first drive. Mikkel On most of the newer BIOS'es you can change the boot order of IDE1 or 2that way you can boot yer W98 too. Lilo on IDE1 and winboot on IDE2 mbr -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting win98 back
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 29 November 2004 15:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The map commands make Windows think that your second drive is your first drive. Mikkel On most of the newer BIOS'es you can change the boot order of IDE1 or 2that way you can boot yer W98 too. Lilo on IDE1 and winboot on IDE2 mbr In the BIOS I work with, the first IDE drive is IDE0. While changing the boot order in the BIOS would work, you would have to do it each time you want to change the OS you are booting. Now, you could install LILO on the windows drive, but that would be tricky, as Lilo uses the BIOS settings when booting, but it does not know how the BIOS maps the drives when it does the install under Linux. It would probably be about like setting up Lilo on a mixed SCSI/IDE system that boots off the SCSI drive. Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] xinetd - can't get client address - transfer endpoint is not connected
The subject says it all - I'm having to start up xineted to run imap, see this quite a bit in my syslog - any ideas? Problem or ignore it? -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:46pm up 1 day, 3:01, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.14, 0.19 The bogosity meter just pegged. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Shutdown strangeness
I've just upgraded to Mandrake 10.1 (downloaded via FTP) and while everything seemed to go OK on the installation, I notice something strange when shutting down. If I use logout | turn off computer, then the PC powers down within 5 seconds, and the next time I boot up, I get messages that the system appears to have been shiut down uncleanly, and I need to check the drives. If I open a terminal window and run a shutdown -h as superuser, then everything happens as I was used to under 9.2, i.e. the whole process takes about 30-45 seconds, and going this route, I don't get any complaints on next boot up. Going via the menus on 9.2 used to work as expected. Did something break at 10.0 or 10.1? I'm really just curious, now I know the problem shutting down through a terminal session is an acceptable workround, although it would be useful to fix the problem just in case my wife has to close the system down when I'm running Linux. The hardware, should you think it makes a difference, is a Gateway PIII/450 with 256MB of memory, multiple booting 98, XP and Mandrake via GRUB. All three OSes are on separate drives, the disk with 98 on it is the boot drive, Mandrake is on the third hard drive. Not entirely sure what other information might be relevant, so ask away And yes, the problem is reproducible, always the same results for each method of shutting down. BTW, don't overestimate my knowledge of Linux. I know just about enough to navigate round the file system and to run up Kylix amd Kontact. That's why I'm posting to this list. Thanks, Brian. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] login sounds
Hi, Where can I adjust/change the login theme sound? I use KDE on LM10. tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Buying a 10.1 set?
At 11:38 PM 11/26/2004 -0500, you wrote: I found this link at the LinuxToday website (http://linuxtoday.com/): http://linuxcentral.com/catalog/?prod_code=L000-298id=C1CVxyL3GGdCB They have the PowerPack 6 CD set for $14.95 US. That does _not_ include the manuals, box or support. In contrast, MandrakeWorks wants $89.90 US and the MandrakeStore gets 79.90 Euros for the _full_ PowerPack -- manuals, nifty box, and support -- plus some free time at the MandrakeClub. snip! Note: I've never had any dealings with LinuxCentral -- I'm more of a Cheapbytes guy. -- cmg FWIW I just got the Powerpack from them, it took about a week for the cd's to arrive. This was the first time I have ordered from Linux Central. Now to find the time to do an install. Richard *** Richard Hackwith Sacramento CA[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] less without pagination
Hi All, I have a strange issue with some Japanese files that gets processed by an application. Time to time, application fails due to 'invalid characters'. Invalid character is something like '^@' (without the quotes). Interesting thing is that when I look at the file with vi or cat it, it does not display these characters inside '', it just shows '' as if there is nothing in between. If I use emacs or less command; however, I can see the invalid characters. So, I was wondering if it is possible to use use less like cat so that maybe with a parameter it would print the whole file from beginning to end without stopping at every page. I failed to see an option but maybe I missed it. Any ideas? Thanks, Adil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] grip not ripping in 10.1
RickSisler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greg Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 28 November 2004 11:47 pm, RickSisler wrote: Raffaele BELARDI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Grip did work in 10.0 (and in 9.0, 9.1 etc). Now it appears to rip the audio cd, but the wavs it produces contain only null bytes. Same result using the command-line cdparanoia. I can listen to the audio cds all right with grip, and also listen to mp3 with xmms. Only ripping is not working. Hi raffaele, I have the exact same problem, did you find a solution ? Grip is working fine here on a 10.1 install. Are you trying to use Grip's built in cdparanoia library or the system cdparanoia. If using cdparanoia from the command line gives the same result, it sounds like a problem with cdparamoia and not grip. Try switching to the grip cdparanoia. -- /g Greg and Stephen, I was using Grip's builtin and so changed to the system cdparanoia with the same results. But it worked from cli with: $ cdparanoia -B -- -1 and sounded good. Well, cdparanoia from Grip, either builtin or not, doesn't rip the track. I also tried Stephen's method of forcing ide-scsi with no change, same result. I added this device to Grip's config for ripping, which would then just fail. I did install ripperx and it works with no errors or problems using cdparanoia as it does. So, I like Grip, but I'm still reading the documentation, and have yet to search google, and the Grip mailing list for any solutions. Thx for the help, I will post any findings. -- RickS Registered Linux user #338463 Mdk 10.1 OE - Linux 2.6.8.1-12mdk@ http://counter.li.org gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 pgpsF02i6Ws0T.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Profile User in Mandrake
Dear All, I want ask a question about mandrake 9.1 I'm going to install it become data server with profile user and path drive (Mapping Drive) for each users but I don't knowshow to do that if anybody knows about that please help me or give me some advice for clue Regards SG
Re: [newbie] Getting win98 back
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 29 November 2004 15:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The map commands make Windows think that your second drive is your first drive. Mikkel On most of the newer BIOS'es you can change the boot order of IDE1 or 2that way you can boot yer W98 too. Lilo on IDE1 and winboot on IDE2 mbr In the BIOS I work with, the first IDE drive is IDE0. While changing the boot order in the BIOS would work, you would have to do it each time you want to change the OS you are booting. Now, you could install LILO on the windows drive, but that would be tricky, as Lilo uses the BIOS settings when booting, but it does not know how the BIOS maps the drives when it does the install under Linux. It would probably be about like setting up Lilo on a mixed SCSI/IDE system that boots off the SCSI drive. Mikkel Thanks for all the interest and assistance. To-day at work I was able to get the old Win98 up and running after wading through heaps of re-boots for driver conflicts AND am now able to run the old Netscape Communicator 4.73 and interact with the emails buried therein albeit 'chunky' because of a graphic driver conflict. The missing component was within lilo.conf [ table=/dev/hdb ]. I need to simply Enter/Return at the beginning to get through. Now back to the ongoing headache of moving the email across to Mozilla running under WinXP to make the boss happy. Then roll on Mandrake. He ( the boss ) is now very interested now he sees things working again because of Linux. Running Netscape Communicator 4.73 I do not see any means of Exporting the email. Elsewhere it was suggested that I merge the *.msl files with Mozilla's *.sbd files. Sounded great at the time but I have now discovered that Netscape files are *.snm and I cannot find any *.sbd Mozilla files, only *.xpt. So any ideas how I can get the 1.2Gigabytes of email moved over to the new system for the boss to use? Remember I have WinXP AND Linux dual booting OK on the primary hard drive so have options available I hope. Er... one other point to remember. I will need to be using a compatable email client when within Mandrake also so will need the end result of this first step to WinXP to be compatable for that next step. Still, one step at a time. For those interested in the relevant entry within lilo.conf : other=/dev/hdb1 label=Win98 table=/dev/hdb map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x81 map-drive = 0x81 to = 0x80 So, if you cannot help me here, I hope this may be of assistance to you in some way. -- Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Shutdown strangeness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 Nov 2004 01:06, brian wrote: I've just upgraded to Mandrake 10.1 (downloaded via FTP) and while everything seemed to go OK on the installation, I notice something strange when shutting down. If I use logout | turn off computer, then the PC powers down within 5 seconds, and the next time I boot up, I get messages that the system appears to have been shiut down uncleanly, and I need to check the drives. If I open a terminal window and run a shutdown -h as superuser, then everything happens as I was used to under 9.2, i.e. the whole process takes about 30-45 seconds, and going this route, I don't get any complaints on next boot up. Hi, Brian. I've not seen that problem with either 10.0 or 10.1, so I suspect it is a peculiarity of your system. Have you browsed the various files in /var/logs to see if there are any clues? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBrB2ekFAvMr/nNX8RAgI7AJ9TK7r0Pia6k2hW9boovyadUYA3cgCdEDuY C5GDwhiHAvKT25SrES25QQU= =J+2o -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Shutdown strangeness
brian wrote: I've just upgraded to Mandrake 10.1 (downloaded via FTP) and while everything seemed to go OK on the installation, I notice something strange when shutting down. If I use logout | turn off computer, then the PC powers down within 5 seconds, and the next time I boot up, I get messages that the system appears to have been shiut down uncleanly, and I need to check the drives. If I open a terminal window and run a shutdown -h as superuser, then everything happens as I was used to under 9.2, i.e. the whole process takes about 30-45 seconds, and going this route, I don't get any complaints on next boot up. I have the same symptons, using kde 3.2.3 or 3.3 on a Dell latitude laptop. I figured Mandrake broke something in kde in mdk 10.0 but I tried Gentoo, with kde 3.3 and got the same scenario. I haven't solved it yet, but work around it by booting into runlevel 3, and manually starting X. doing halt after kde stopped works ok. (I suspect one of the unclean shutdown also killed my battery, but I'm not sure) -- /Björn --- http://lundin.homelinux.net Registered Linux User No. 267342 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
