Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1
- Original Message - From: Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 10:14 AM Subject: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1 Hello all, Please forgive this basic question, I couldn't find the minimum requirements for MD 10.1 anywhere. the worst part is I'm actually running 10.1 on this pc. Also, Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. Its for my mother, who wants to have a go on the Internet, I set her up with my old pc as above running XP but its infected with spy ware after only 2 days from a clean install, Mum forgot to start zonealarm before she went online. Tim I have Mandrake 9.1 running on a Penntium 200 with 64Mb Ram. It's a little sluggish running KDE but I'm sure one of the lighter window managers would work pretty quick. HTH Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I'never seen this before
- Original Message - From: Randall D. Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] I'never seen this before On Sunday 06 March 2005 12:01 am, Aron Smith wrote: I have 2 systems both running Mdk 10.1 there is one monitor connected with a KVM switch. tonight it started flipping from one computer to the other on a 4 sec cycle any body seen this before? Check your KVM switch. Many KVM switches have a key combination to put it in auto scan mode, which allows you to cycle through each PC with a delay which you can usually set. It sounds like you might have inadvertently found the key combination needed for that... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Acquire Technology, LLC Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.acquire-technology.com I also have a KVM switch. I use CTRL CTRL F2 to switch between computers. CTRL CTRL F1 sets auto scan and it switches every 4 seconds for me too. To switch off auto-scan, I just have to hit CTRL CTRL HTH Al Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Web Service or What
- Original Message - From: SigmaX [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Web Service or What BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Going thru a career change here and it looks like I'm going to need a web page. After I research all the answers you kind folks replied with, I'm sure I can layout and design a web page (s). Here is my question: - should I just buy space on someones server like www.register.com for $4.95 a month or take one of my many boxes here and build a server and rent an address like www.no-ip.com ? I'm really confused about what would be the easiest and cost LESS. TIA, BJ Well if you already have an internet connection that's up to par for a server (As in it's high-speed and your ISP allows servers), and you already have a box lying around (You'd only need a high-end server for extremely trafficed HTTP sites, or maybe things like ASP pages), than I would say setting up your own server would be ideal. Just grabbing an old Pentium II or whatever, plopping a default mandrake install on it with apache, and plugging your web site into /var/www/html is about all it takes :-). Registering a .com address would probably costyou about $15 a year, as opposed to $50 (At a better-than-average deal) a year for a basic web hosting package from an ad-free web-service provider (Like me). Alternatively you can get a www.[yourname].cjb.net subdomain from cjb or a similar organization for free, though if I remember there's on occasional popup for IE users (Which makes up roughly 2/3 of browser users and falling). Anyway, that's my yammer for the evening, Cheers, SigmaX -- Registered Linux Freak #: 366,862 If you think of MS-DOS as mono, and Windows as stereo, then Linux is Dolby Pro-Logic Surround Sound with Bass Boost and all the music is free. Also, if your using your own server, you could try www.dyndns.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Norton Ghost
Hi all, Is there a freeware app similar to Norton Ghost? TIA Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
- Original Message - From: Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 11:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there? Deedee wrote: I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable than MSWord and has as many features (all of which convert very nicely to MSWord, even though MSWord converts in an iffy manner to other things). The only real issue concerns VBS -- OO cannot convert it. If you need VBS, you need MSOffice. Sorry, what do you mean with VBS? Thanks, Rodolfo VBS = Visual Basic Scripting HTH Al Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT - Secure (ish) Win XP Setup
Hi all, I have to setup a Win XP box. I think I remember somebody on this list saying something about what services should be shut down and which software firewall / antivirus / anti spyware should be installed prior to allowing said box access to the internet. But I can't find it in the archives. I have a cdrw in the Mandrake box so I can download anything which needs to be installed for XP. Any help would be appreciated. TIA Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Update site for Mandrake 10 official
snip Many thanks, have gone with the download all optionI love this broadband stuff..Wish it was available in New Zealand :(:(:(:( Regards Al I'm wondering how mant CD's were required? -- Regards: Hoyt Not including Mandrake itself. 12 cds for Main,PLF,Contrib and Updates. after using WinRar to compress it all into 700Mb files 1 file per cd HTH Al Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Video Software
Hi! Is there an equivalent software like DVD2SVCD for Mandrake 10? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kernel version
Hi all I've googled, looked through the how-to's, Twiki'd FAQ'd, and everywhere else I can think of. There are hundreds of pages of help for upgrading the kernel. Most of it incomprehensible:) But I cannot find how to tell what version I currently have. Anybody TIA Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel version
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 06:19, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 06 January 2004 11:57 am, al wrote: Hi all I've googled, looked through the how-to's, Twiki'd FAQ'd, and everywhere else I can think of. There are hundreds of pages of help for upgrading the kernel. Most of it incomprehensible:) But I cannot find how to tell what version I currently have. 'uname -r' Many thanks to you and Charles. I'm using 2.4.21-0.13mdksmp are there any known issues/bugs ? do I need to update? if I need to update, which version should I update to? TIA Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel version
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 12:15, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:04:51 +1300 al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do I need to update? You did not say what release of Mandrake you are running. BTW you are aware that the smpkernel is for multi-processor systems (more than 1 CPU). Charles Mandrake 9.1 running on a dual p200 (well, 199 anyway) 256Mb (32Mb x 8 x 30pin) Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] wget / download managers
Hi all Can anybody recommend a good download manager? or can anybody tell me what i'm doing wrong with wget? I've been using wget, but on dialup it doesnt seem to work to well. It's fine as long as I stay connected, if there are any errors at the other end or it loses itself, it resumes great. But I just had to disconnect to use my phone, and when I reconnected wget did nothing. So I stopped it by using ctrl-c and started again...wget url and instead of resuming, it started again from the beginning. TIA Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wget / download managers
On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 14:45, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 05 January 2004 08:14 pm, al wrote: But I just had to disconnect to use my phone, and when I reconnected wget did nothing. I suspect, based on my own experience with a dodgy DSL router (until I figured out what the problem was) that wget is pretty network aware. If you disconnect and then redial the connection, you are getting a new IP address and wget does not make the connection between the old file request and the new IP address. So, it basically just sits there waiting for the old connection to start back up. If you got the exact same IP address, wget might resume the transfer. I say might because it is possible that the server you are pulling from will time out the connection and then I don't think that wget can restart it without making a brand new request. So I stopped it by using ctrl-c and started again...wget url and instead of resuming, it started again from the beginning. If you Ctrl-c, you may be interrupting the shell command but wget itself is probably happily running along in the background waiting for the transfer to start backup. You should try to issue a killall wget to make sure that all active connections are killed before you try to restart the transfer. I usually run wget from a shell script with all my command options included by default, so that may just be me. Then, run wget with a -c (for continue) on the command line and it will resume partial downloads instead of restarting them. By default, it does not overwrite files but will resume if you tell it you want it to. Note, if you have a lot of sudden stops and starts, it is possible for things to get corrupted and for the resume to either not work or actually corrupt the file, only happened to me once when I was doing a lot of background maintenance including messing with the internet connection but it did happen. many thanks...just started again at 20% VEEERRRYY helpful using dialup to download an iso at around 700Mb beats starting again Thanks again Brian Cya Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ftp server setup
First of all, many thanks to all of you who have helped me with other issues. Thanks Sharrea, the autostart script for kde works great. Now, my next question I would like to setup an ftp server on my linux box so that I can transfer files to and from work. What ftp server software would you recommend as the easiest to setup? and how to set it up? TIA Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Connection two mandrake boxes via ethernet
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 03:34, maziar h wrote: I am trying to conncet two linux boxes together directly via their NIC cards but they are unable to recognize each other. there is no connection and I can't ping the other one. I have set everything including IP address and subnet mask correctly and they are on the same subnet. the interfaces are up and running (I checked them thru ip route and ifconfig). I can't think of a reason why they can't see each other, maybe I gotta set something with ARP. I wan to know if someone has done this here before or this is only a hardware problem or incompatibility. BTW. both of their nic card are 3com. thank you maziar What kind of cable are you using? Is it the straight through patch cable as would be used to connect to a hub? or is it a crossover cable. You need a crossover cable. HTH Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Autostart in KDE.
HI all. First of all, many thanks for all your help in getting Samba to work. I have it working now, maybe not perfectly, but it does enough. :):) Now, I've managed to figure out how to make KDE start a program for me. My question is, How can I make the program go to another desktop? Currently it starts in Desktop 1 I'd like it to start in Desktop 4 (out of my way) TIA Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba help please?
- Original Message - From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba help please? On 12/7/2003 at 5:51 PM Al Destiny wrote: Hi all, I have MDK 9.1 setup on an old box to link with my XP box. Samba seems to work great as a server...I can browse my home dir from the XP box. But I cannot see any files on the XP box from Linux. I can browse the network. I can find the XP box. I can see the share name ddrive (I know, not very imaginative, but it does the trick..I know what it is.) After opening ddrive there are no files shown. Any ideas what I could be doing wrong??? TIA Shaz *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** Is there a user on the XP box that is identical to the Samba box? This sounds like a permissions issue. Make sure that the new user not only has a password that is common to both boxes, but is also in the same workgroup. Speaking of Samba, has anyone tried Samba 3.0 ? Anything to know in advance about it? Lanman XP User/Password:al/11 Linux User/Password: al/11 Easy passwords huh? but only temporary till i can get it all up and running how I want it to be. How do I change workgroup with Mandrake? I know how to change XP, but it wants a reboot(as usual with M$) but I've heard that linux very rarely needs rebooting. Also, I keep hearing about Webmin as a configuration tool...where/how do I find it??? TIA Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Samba help please?
Hi all, I have MDK 9.1 setup on an old box to link with my XP box. Samba seems to work great as a server...I can browse my home dir from the XP box. But I cannot see any files on the XP box from Linux. I can browse the network. I can find the XP box. I can see the share name ddrive (I know, not very imaginative, but it does the trick..I know what it is.) After opening ddrive there are no files shown. Any ideas what I could be doing wrong??? TIA Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't boot after install
Sorry it's taken so long to get back to you, but I don't get much time with my computer these days. I now have Linux booting by putting bootloader on Floppy. Many thanks for your help. Will start a new thread for my Internet/network/Samba problems when I get some more time. Shaz - Original Message - From: Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't boot after install On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:07 am, many eyes noted that Al wrote: Hi all, I have a dual Pentium 200 cpu system with 256mb ram (8 x 32Mb 30pin) 8 x SCSI HDD 4 x 4Gb 4 x 8Gb attached to an AMI Megaraid controller with 16Mb ram Matrox Millenium 4Mb video card (ex server) I have attempted to install Mandrake 9.1 many times, each time I have done a complete hardware level format of the physical drives from the RAID controller then made 2 (two) logical drives the 4 x 4Gbs together and the 4 x 8Gbs together in RAID 5 to give me approx 13Gb and approx 26Gb. I have also attempted to install Redhat 9.0 and Mandrake 9.0 It seems to go through the install process fine. Under both wizard and expert configuration. (I'm no expert, but have worked with M$ from DOS 1.1 upwards so figured I might stand a chance of understanding some of the setup in expert) Finished install and time to reboot. Remove CD from drive and reboot. Before LILO or GRUB I get: L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 etc.. until it freezes. Usually about 1/2 screen of 40's Then no LILO or GRUB. I've tried FDISK/MBR from a win98 bootdisk then RESCUE from the Mandrake CD1 to recreate LILO. No error messages, everything fine... But still no boot. Just L 40 40 40 40 40 etc... Any help would be appreciated. TIA Shaz I had an experience something like that on a Mandrake 9.1 install but the number was 99 99 for half the screen. But I can't recall what I did to fix it. Usually keeping copious notes, in this case I did not, probably because I was so perturbed by this behaviour. I seem to think that I installed the bootloader badly. Try the install, and create the bootloader on floppy alone; if you have already attempted to put it on /dev/hda1 or the MBR and failed. Where are you trying to put the bootloader? Always give as much information as possible. But this might well be a raid issue? Sorry can't suggest more at this stage. Charlie. -- Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death nor actual difficulty in our life. Shunryu Suzuki This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 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] Can't boot after install
Hi all, I have a dual Pentium 200 cpu system with 256mb ram (8 x 32Mb 30pin) 8 x SCSI HDD 4 x 4Gb 4 x 8Gb attached to an AMI Megaraid controller with 16Mb ram Matrox Millenium 4Mb video card (ex server) I have attempted to install Mandrake 9.1 many times, each time I have done a complete hardware level format of the physical drives from the RAID controller then made 2 (two) logical drives the 4 x 4Gbs together and the 4 x 8Gbs together in RAID 5 to give me approx 13Gb and approx 26Gb. I have also attempted to install Redhat 9.0 and Mandrake 9.0 It seems to go through the install process fine. Under both wizard and expert configuration. (I'm no expert, but have worked with M$ from DOS 1.1 upwards so figured I might stand a chance of understanding some of the setup in expert) Finished install and time to reboot. Remove CD from drive and reboot. Before LILO or GRUB I get: L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 etc.. until it freezes. Usually about 1/2 screen of 40's Then no LILO or GRUB. I've tried FDISK/MBR from a win98 bootdisk then RESCUE from the Mandrake CD1 to recreate LILO. No error messages, everything fine... But still no boot. Just L 40 40 40 40 40 etc... Any help would be appreciated. TIA Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing software problems
How do I install a software on Mandrake 9? I am a brand new user and I cannot figure out how to install any software or programs. I have a cd with slackware and other programs that I cannot install into Linux. I am getting frustrated, but I dont want to give up, so someone help me. Thanks. _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] XMMS Bookmarks (Favorites)???
I am familiar with Winamp for Windows' Bookmarks feature. Is there a similar way to store and retrieve bookmarks (favorites) in XMMS? Thank you very much. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Star Office as RPM ?
Thank you Michel, I downloaded star office in binary format from Sun's website, and as you said installing it was as easy as clicking on a .exe But since this was brought up, would any of the list gurus please kindly post a short list clearifying how do u know how to install the diffirent types of files ? I mean something like a small list : - file.rpm will be installed by the rpm - option command - file.bin with bla bla command - when to use the ./ , when do u need to chmod the file before u install ...etc Many thanks in advance to any volunteer :-) But really, installing either OpenOffice or StarOffice from the installation binary is about as hard as clicking on install.exe in a windows system. You should not need to install either from source. 1. go to www.openoffice.org 2. follow instructions there to download install641_linux_intel.tar.gz 2a. Go make several cups of coffee - this is a big file! 3. Open a terminal and use cd to go to the directory where you downloaded the file , for example cd /home/a_user/downloads ENTER 4. untar and gunzip the file (use the winzip-like kab application if you like, otherwise just use tar -xvzf install641_linux_intel.tar.gz ENTER from the command line, without the quotes of course). A directory called install with lots of files in it will be formed. cd to it: cd install ENTER 5 Now run the command ./setup ENTER 6. Follow the on-screen instructions Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kylix
from where I can download a full free kylix version, with all the components tabs their, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Network
If I want to have a network of one server let us say three stations, I in windows we use WINDOW NT Server for the server and WINDOWS NT workstation for work station now what about LINUX, do we have OS for sever and other for work stations, or is their any special installation for both thanx in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How can I determine if I'm root in a script
check also the value $USER
it should give root for root
or try this which is tricky
username=`who am i | awk '{print $1'}`
now $username holds the logged in user name
juts copy the line above as it is don't forget the ` this tills linux to
execute what is inside
-Original Message-
From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 11:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] How can I determine if I'm root in a script
In reply to Mark Johnson's words, written Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:18:02 -0500
Check the value of $UID. It should be 0 for root.
Paul
I'm trying to write a bash script to install some files but it must be run
as root. Is there a way that I can get my script to check to see if it has
root priviledges and if not exit out?
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[newbie] SMS
I need to build an SMS application, don't know any thing about the subject any help will be highly appreciated Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OT: Life of a CD -R
If I understand u then check the links http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO/index.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html -Original Message- From: Mohammed Arafa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: Life of a CD -R hmmm.. well has anyone any idea of the yamaha 16x, mitsumi 16x or the sony 16x writers? specifically, is there anything bad about them and are they mandrake compatible? i ask as i m thinking of buying a cd rw thanks - Original Message - From: ngn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 8:12 PM Subject: [newbie] OT: Life of a CD -R Hi folks!!! I have a stupid doubt... but is a doubt at least... I Have a HP CD - R 9300 Series 10x8x32 and i'm wondering how many burnings it will support. I heard from a friend that this number is of 500 copies??? it is true?? I suppose that they are very few Thanks a lot!! Nicolas Gomez 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] Installation
I have WINDOWS ME installed in my computer, one physiacla HD 40GB, partioned as (C,D,E,F) each 10GB (FAT32), I wanna install linux from HD using HD.img, I have dowloaded the files to my C drive, is it possible to make the F drive is the linux drive, or how can I have linux installed on my computer, and keep my windows, but I don't wanna install linux under windows. thanx in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Making CD of mandrake8.1
I have downloaded the mandrake8.1/i586 from the ftp server, it is 942MB, one dirctory is 823MB (\mandrake\Rpms) I need to copy the files to CDs, which should i take and how to distribute the files between more than one CD Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Browser Problem
Dear List, Running LM7.2; whenever I use Netscape 4.75 or Konqueror for a few minutes browsing, it _always_ shuts down (or more approriately, the application dies), and I'm returned to the desktop or worst to the login screen. Any ideas? Thanks
[newbie] Win2000 Partition
Hi! How can I set LM7.2 to see a Win2000 partition? Thanks!
[newbie] KDE Problem
Hi, I'm running LM7.2. Whenever I login into KDE I randomly get kicked back to console mode. All my hardware is recognised. Any ideas from the gurus? Thanks a lot!
Re: [newbie] demon PPPD
Verify if ppp is installed by opening a terminal box as root and type: "rpm -q ppp" (without the quotes). If ppp is installed, "ppp-2.4.0-3" will appear or "ppp not installed" if not. HTH Emiliano Ogando wrote: Ive a PIII 550, 64 mb ram, Modem US robotics ext. and Mandrake 7.2 The problem is that I cant connect to inet because when I use KPPP, its display a message error that say: "demon PPPD is no installed" What is the problem???
Re: [newbie] Halt Command
Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try... Best regards, Al "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Hi. Sometimes this is the motherboard/chipset combination. I had something like this happen (as have others). What you have to do, as su/root is: use vi, kedit, (fill in word processor here) Go in to /etc/rc.d/init.d/ and edit the file "halt" at the very bottom line, remove the "-p", so that the line ends up looking like this: eval $command -i -d That should do it. You'll wind up with text at halt or shutdown that says something like "the system is halted". Then it will be safe to power down your machine... Hope this helps! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] pppd Not Working
Done that. Still no go, still coming up with pppd error. "E. Stewart" wrote: Try using port ttyS3or you can just make the symbolic link yourself. After that /dev/modem should work.
Re: [newbie] pppd Not Working
Done that. Still no go, still coming up with pppd error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try /dev/ttyS3 and see if it comes up then. Barry :-)
[newbie] Dual Boot
Installed LM 7.2 on secondary master hard drive. When booting up the only available os to boot is linux. Windows 2000 (installed in primary master hard drive) is NOT available in the boot menu. List members previously suggested that LM 7.2 will automatically detect Win2000. How do I include Win2000 in the boot menu that LM has installed? Thanks for your help. (I thought installing LM would be simple :-((( )
Re: [newbie] pppd Not Working
I am setting up and trying to connect to the internet as 'root' user. Christopher Molnar wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2001 12:07, you wrote: Done that. Still no go, still coming up with pppd error. "E. Stewart" wrote: Try using port ttyS3or you can just make the symbolic link yourself. After that /dev/modem should work. do you have the rights to the port? ugo+rw?
Re: [newbie] pppd Not Working
A real modem :-) I've never used a winmodem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What modem are you using? It may be what is refered to as a windows only modem. Barry :-)
[newbie] Halt Command
Hi! Running LM 7.2. The system reboots ok but when I issue the 'halt' command it hangs up and errors/segmentation faults appear. What is causing this? Thanks!
RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux
But Excel2000 has a LOT more functionality than Lotus 123 version 1 had! Plus Lotus 123 ver 1 cost (not counting inflation) MORE then than the professional version of Office 2000 (including Word, PowerPoint and Access) cost now!! PLUS the 8086 PC cost 3 times (not counting inflation) MORE than my p3-800 PC !!! IF you consider inflation where the dollar is now only hlaf as valuable, I think things have gotten MUCH better, and this is a bad comparison, don't you Paul? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 11:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Revenant wrote: Have you noticed that the OS is getting bigger and bigger? They are pushing our resources to their limits. shrug Our resource limits are increasing. Most software aims to take maximum advantage of the hardware available. Now that the industry standard machine is a PIII, I'd be disappointed if the OS didn't have additional functionality. But not more speed. Lotus 1.2.3 version 1 that ran on the original 8086 is equally fast as excel2000 on the 800Mhz P-III. Paul -- Save our trees: Stop printing tax forms! http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Here's a quick rule of thumb, don't install every package, especially ones that you don't know or specifically need, you could be creating security holes. Go look around for security documents, it'll show you things that you need and don't need. Also, mandrake7.1 (and 7.2) has a security level feature in in drakconf, set it to maximum. --- Anthony Daniell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats true, I believe that linux should not become like windoze windoze sucks and makes people lazy. Been their done that and now am learning linux. I installed suse linux 7 pro and with 3417 apps it took about 6.5 gb of my hard disk. There is so much in linux. I looked through the minues in kde and was surprised at how many apps I have installed now. I am having a ball learning linux. When I learn't windoze it was easy it does every thing for you. Linux lets you make mistakes and teaches you how to fix these mistakes, Linux is the real os My 2cents worth Regards Anthony Daniell David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Mark Johnson wrote: FYI, I asked for 6 button mouse for Christmas! yhs: 1 2 3 1+2 1+3 2+3 1+2+3 count 'em. Windows users have bad habits. Pandering to them has seriously harmed linux software, and continues to do so. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Hostname
You can fire up linuxconf, or I think hosts are defined in /etc/hosts --- Geoff Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where in the startup files is Hostname set? I'd like to permanantly change my hostname. Currently, the hostname is my ISP IP address (???) GT __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] install mandrake
Yes sure, don't "upgrade" but just go for a full blown installation (format partitions good thing too). Don't forget to backup old important files. --- Michael zhao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can i install mandrake to substitute the redhat on my computer? thanks, Michael __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] mounting cdrom problems
mount /mnt/cdrom --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/14/2000 6:35:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mount /mnt/cdrom shouldnt it be 'mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom' ~Lance __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
RE: [newbie] Fw: 7.1 hardware bug
Good luck buddie, I have a problem with my Adaptec 2940UW also, the only thing I gotten from anybody on ANY message boards, forum or newsgroup is a song and a dance. One gentleman suggested I change SCSI controllers, I'm took a different route I'm downloading Redhat 7 as we speak. It's funny that version 7.0 worked soemone tweaked the kernel or something I think to add 'raid' capabilities and the problems started. I thought Mandrake would be the best distributions but (as I noted before) I'm looking at others. I admin SCO Unix boxes at work and they have less general functionality than linux for the most part but at least they do work with Adaptec controllers. In Mandrake's defense Adaptec does not support the Linux community. But not many people are going to ditch hundreds of dollars worth of equipment are they? Let me know if find out something. Oh by the way on the Mandrake website (trouble shooting for Mandrake 7.1 I think) there's a 'special' cdrom.img file that includes support for the aic7xxx controller family. It might work for you. HTH, Al -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pete Smith Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 11:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Fw: 7.1 hardware bug - Original Message - From: "Pete Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello I have been using Mandrake 7 for some time without problem. However I have just put a new? motherboard in my linux box. The board is a Gigabyte GA-586DX which has a built in scsi card. when I try to intsall either V7 OR V 7.1 I get through the first stages of install then get the message "Installing driver for adaptec|AIC-788ou (module aic 7xxx)" this is the correct card !!! The settup then freezes and does nothing at all. I have tried disabling the scsi card in bios but the same thing happens,anyway I would of course like to use the scsi at some stage although at the moment nothing is connected to it, Pete Smith Can any one on this list help??? P;eeeze. Pete
Re: [newbie] Printer Help
Hi, I'll give that a try. My Panasonic is a dot matrix :-( Alan Shoemaker wrote: ALI have a KX-P4420 (laser) and it runs perfectly (and has done so since I started using Linux with RedHat 5.2) when I set it up as a HP Laserjet (the earliest, simplest one). Extrapolating that info, I'd say that your best bet is to pick an early HP that resembles (in function) your KX-P1150 and set up with it. Alan
[newbie] Printer Help
Hi! I'm running Mandrake 7.1 and my Panasonic printer (KXP1150) is not recognised by it. I have tried all the nearest settings available offered by printool to no avail. Any help greatly appreciated Thanks!
[newbie] Partitioning an existing W98 drive on Toshiba laptop
I want to install 7.1 on my Toshiba Satellite 4080XCT laptop which currently has Win98 installed with no partitioning. I do not want to re-install Windows or lose any of my current data. I have plenty of space for a 1.5GB partition for Linux. Will the utilities in 7.1 allow me to partition my drive without re-installing Win98, and if so, will I be able to selectively boot Linux or Windows? If necessary I will purchase Partition Magic but would like to avoid the expense. What is recommended? ata
Re: [newbie] Star Office Install
Hi Tim,
Issue the command:
"chmod 777 starofficefilename.bin"
without the quotes and then single/double(?) click the file and it will
install.
HTH
Al
=
Tim wrote:
Hi all,
Just spent FOREVER downloading Star Office 5.2 from the Sun site ("only" 100
MB ... dunno why it took all day. My ISP will blame net-congestion, Sun
would blame my ISP ... in any case the file's here).
Ummm...
It's a file ending in .bin I can guess "binary" BUT double-clicking (or
just clicking) gets me nowhere(!). Nothing is associated w/ ".bin" files.
I'm going to go after it from a few angles; but would appreciate any help.
Have never successfully installed Star Office, or anything else in Linux,
for that matter. Sort of frustrating for a guy who's installed/run software
in about 4 other operating systems
I'm running Mandrake 7.0, in KDE. Seems REALLY nice. Just have to get my
"sea legs" with it.
TIA for any help!
--tim
[newbie] Boot floppy file requre
Hay Im new user too i need a help I need boot floppy for Mandrake 7.1 Can somebody send me file called ( rawwrite.exe ) My Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: semtets [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Problems with configuration Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:50:10 +0700 Hello ! I'm new to Linux, so problems arise everyday. Working on Mandralke 7.0, I cannot reach any computer in net after rebooting. Pings are not passing anywhere. Then I start linuxconf and as a next step just quit (activating changes, which I haven't made). Everything starts working. I can reach everybody in the World. That means that all configuration files are correct, but why they don't load properly ? What's up? Can somebody help me ? Gennady Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Disk Space?
df -k should show total and free disk space in Kbytes for all drives. How can I tell how much disk space I have free on a drive?
[newbie] tmp/
Greetings! Can I safely delete sub-directories and files on the tmp/ directory? Or are these needed by the system? Thanks!
RE: [newbie] Upgrading kernel
Thank you, Charles. I will have to wait till I get home to get the exact errors. The problem was that the system would not boot. An entry had been added in the Grub list for the new kernel, but when selected, booting would stop at some point along the way. I was not able to boot from the rescue diskette, either. That is why I re-installed. As I said, I will try upgrading tonight and see what happens. Maybe I should learn to do it the proper way! One interesting thing that I noticed on the last re-installation was that part of the installation of the security programs actually worked. All the other times, it would fail saying that it could not connect. This time, it seems that most of the programs installed. The two openssh programs failed due to some error reported by Mandrake. Al Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Some guy hit my fender, and I said to him 'Be fruitful and multiply', but not in those words." ~ Woody Allen -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 10 July 2000 4:24 A.M. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Upgrading kernel Al I do not use the ReiserFS. I have used Man Update on 2 machine and upgraded to kernel 16 with no problems. I don't know if I can help with your problem, if not maybe others can but we need to know what actually happened. What error did you receive? What was your system doing that caused you to feel you needed to re-install. Charles - Original Message - From: "Wilson, Al" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 1:27 AM Subject: [newbie] Upgrading kernel Hello, all, Has anyone been successful upgrading the kernel using MandrakeUpdate? I have tried a number of times, but always end up having to re-install. Any instructions (that work) would be appreciated. Oh, yes, I am using ReiserFS and Grub. Al Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Upgrading kernel
Mark, you have a good point about LILO. I will try installing LILO and then upgrading. Do you know whether LILO will take over nicely from Grub if I just run LILO? After I switch to LILO, I shall try the upgrade again. Just out of curiousity, did you try the xemacs upgrades from MandrakeUpdate? Al Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Some guy hit my fender, and I said to him 'Be fruitful and multiply', but not in those words." ~ Woody Allen
[newbie] Upgrading kernel
Hello, all, Has anyone been successful upgrading the kernel using MandrakeUpdate? I have tried a number of times, but always end up having to re-install. Any instructions (that work) would be appreciated. Oh, yes, I am using ReiserFS and Grub. Al Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Netscape Cache
Greetings! I hope I am not the only one to have this problem :-) I have set up Netscape Navigator to store in cache the web sites that I visited. However, when I log out and re-log in and open Navigator (without connecting to the net), I usually get an error saying that it cannot find the site that I've just visited. Is this normal? Are there any particular settings that I may have missed? Thank you for your help.
[newbie] VMWare Win98
Greetings! I have successfully (after so much tinkering) installed VMWare. My problem now is how do I format a *virtual disk* to a FAT32 one so that I can install Win98? Thank you for your help.
[newbie] Wine VMWare
Greetings! I am having extreme difficulty in making Wine or VMWare work on a Mandrake 7.1. I have tried numerous options and read the man pages for both of these but no joy. I only wish to run MSMoney :-) Which of the two (if I get it working) is easier to use? And are there any Linux programs like MSMoney? Any help or link is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Re: [newbie] Wine VmWare
Now downloading it at the moment and will give it a try... Thanks Alan Shoemaker wrote: Aljust my personal opinion, but I think that the program available at the below URL is a better alternative than messing around with trying to get M$Money functional on a Linux machine. http://moneydance.net/ Alan
Re: [newbie] Wine VmWare
Hi, From your statement below, am I correct in assuming that I have to install Win98 (to run MSMoney) on top of VMWare? Thanks Ralph Day wrote: I just downloaded VMWare 2.01 last night and it installs just fine on LM 7.1. I haven't finished installing Win98 yet on it. HTH - Ralph
Re: [newbie] Wine VmWare
Hi, The data contained in my MSMoney file goes back 4 years and are very important to me. I just hope MoneyDance has an import utility fot my data. Thank you for your help! Alan Shoemaker wrote: Aljust my personal opinion, but I think that the program available at the below URL is a better alternative than messing around with trying to get M$Money functional on a Linux machine. http://moneydance.net/ Alan
[newbie] Problem with Xwindows.
I'm having a problem with Xwindows, I tried to configure it but when it was done the window came out huge and it was shifted to the right. I tried to choose different resolutions but it didnt fix the problem, I tried different monitors and it didnt fix the problem either, could it be my video card? i have an "Intel i810" video card, which is not listed, so i chose the "Intel i740". Someone suggested I use "xvidtune" but that didnt work, instead it gave me an error and said "unable to display". If you have any suggestions or know how to fix this problem, please tell me. Thank you. Ashraf M. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] I need help with X Windows.
After Installing Linux, I came to Configure Xwindows, but the screen always comes out too big and shifted to the right. I tried using different resolutions but it was no use, and changing the ver/hor for the monitor didn't work either, the window was the same big size and in the same place not even moving. Can someone tell me how I can fix this? Thanks. Ashraf M. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Cannot Access Website Mail
Greetings! This is my first mail to the group. I successfully installed Mandrake 7.1 (my first adventure to the Linux OS!). My problem, however, is that I cannot access any website or download any email. I can connect and login to my ISP without any problem. For instance, if I type http://www.netscape.com, I get the error message that it cannot connect to this name server. What am I doing wrong? What do I need to do to access any website? Any help from any guru would be highly appreciated! Unfortunately, I am still using Win98 to get help :-( Thank you and best regards, Al
[newbie] Windows Emulator
Greetings! Is there any Mandrake Windows emulator program that can access MS Money files? Any URL pointing to the right direction greatly appreciated. Thank you and best regards, Al
[newbie] Useful Mailing List (was: Worthless email list)
- Original Message - From: Ot Ratsaphong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Worthless email list Hi folks, I've just joined the list and have been lurking for the last week just to get a feel for the list. I emphathise with Richard but I don't think the list is worthless. I'm still searching for a list that I can relate to. I'm still hoping I can get some help from this list. I'll do help others with what I know. [big edit] I think that this list has been quite useful to me. I haven't personally had any real problems, but I feel that reading the experiences of others has often helped keep me from causing an 'experience' of my own! The biggest problem I have with this list is the sheer volume of it. I try to sift through it to find the stuff which might be relevant to me but sorting through forty or fifty messages a day to find something useful is a skill I have not yet mastered. But I do find it worth my time to make the effort. Al
[newbie] Problem updating xemacs
Hello, all. Is anyone having trouble using Mandrake Update to update emacs. Mandrake Update lists four packages to update, but I keep getting two errors: file /usr/bin/xemacs from install of xemacs-21.1.-7mdk conflicts with file from package xemacs-base-21.1.8-3 file /usr/bin/b2m from install of xemacs-extras-21.1.9-7mdk conflicts with file from package emacs-20.5-3mdk The result is that I cannot update emacs. I can find nothing in the way of help for Mandrake Update. Also, is there a way to tell which mirror I have selected? Which mirrors are updated most frequently? I cannot find a mirror with the kdesu update on it. Where are the RPMs stored? Are they added to the existing RPMs on my drive? So many questions; so few answers. Thank you, Al Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [[newbie] Installing tar.gz files]
to install a tar.gz file simply give the command in an e-term tar zxvf and this will extract the directory and then once this is done then look for a something called configure and run that in root. remeber you must type the absolute path like /home/star/program name/configure and then if there are no errors run gmake and if no errors pop up there run make install and then run make clean and keep the directory because if you need to uninstall a program just go to that directory and type make uninstall Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
Re: [newbie] Graphical FTP server
Hi, I think you should try using gFTP .. On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:15:05 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking to download QUITE a bit from an FTP server, In windows, I always used Ws-Ftp, I'm looking for a similiar program or just something graphical would be nice. With Netscape I can only download one file at a time, I want to download directories. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks, Jason === --- Jason M. Shatto A+ Certified Technician email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] telnet/ftp/http cr.dyndns.org Computer Renaissance - Cincinnati email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.recycledcomputers.com --- ___ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit http://freeworld.excite.com
