Re: [newbie] Samba Question
Gidday Mithrilhall
Sorry, I could have given more detail. Samba can have it's own password and user list
as
well
Webmin is a https web browser based administration program which you can use from a
win pc
To use it point a web browser at https://your_server_ip_address:1
If it's not installed you'll have to do this (I'm a newbie as well) you'll need ssh
(secure shell? hence the s in https) as well.
If it's installed choose the Servers tab and pick Samba. From there make sure you
choose the option to convert unix users to samba users and the option to keep them in
sync. (Can't remember exactly the way they've put it)
Have a good look around and play but before you do make a backup of the samba conf
files,
they're somewhere in /etc.
Don't forget to scroll down and hit the restart samba button each time you use it or
no
changes will occur.
All this is a bit vague I know but it's all from memory.
HTH
max
Mithrilhall asked Monday, February 04, 2002
Where do I find webmin. I am still very new to Linux.
As for users and passwords. I have the same user and password combo on my
Linux and Windows XP computer.
Max suggested
Gidday Mithrilhall
I know nothing of XP, but I am using Samba (via webmin).
Do you have a samba user of the same name and password?
In webmin it's easy, you tell it to convert all linux users to samba users.
rgds
max
I'm setting up Samba and I think I have just about everything perfect. I
have a user on the linux computer (Ex. login name: bob password: test) and
I
have the same user on my Windows XP computer with the same login name and
password.
When at my Windows XP computer I do a search using the IP of the linux
computer and it shows this:
Name Folder Comment
192.168.1.3 unknown
If I double-click the IP address shown above I get a login prompt and I
type
in the username bob and the password test but it never logs in. It
just
keeps giving me the same prompt. If I go to the linux computer and open
Network Monitoring I can see that it is sending and receiving but I
can't
figure out why it's not letting me log in.
If anyone can help me with this I would greatly appreciate it.
Mithrilhall
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Re: [newbie] backup app for LM 8.0
Gidday Lyvim and Jim (and others) I have to say thank you to you guys for answers to questions I was going to ask soon, and thanks to Mike for asking. rgrds max On Saturday 02 February 2002 18:28, you wrote: Mike, I know how bad it can be when you're starting from ground zero. I had the same problems when I had to learn IBM Dos version 2 from scratch by myself. The syntax can be arcane and hard to understand at times. Plus, the man pages are not oriented to new users. The best source of information for new users are HOWTO resources, which list concrete real world examples, put forth in no nonsense easy to understand format. I appreciate these resources greatly because I did not have them 15 years ago when I got a generous crash course by an asshole administrator. There are many HOWTO's, but after checking I found precious little in the way of tar information. This was a little disturbing, as tar is a heavily used resource in the UNIX world. On discovering this, I empathized with your situation even more. To access this information locally on your system, assuming you've got a Mandrake system and I don't have any reason to assume otherwise, put the following in your browser: file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/index.html If by chance the docs are not installed, go to the following net resource: www.linuxdoc.org Since this is a new user's list, there should'nt be any subscribers that have any misplaced preconceptions concerning a list member's foreknowledge about anything regarding Mandrake Linux. Having said that, your original question concerned backup programs. That in itself tells us alot about what you are asking. First, whenever you are talking about a script or utility that does backups, it's generally desirable to be able to grab everything in a given location, plus save permissions and ownership information; not to mention the hidden .dotdirs. That's generally what backup programs do. If you tend to back your stuff up to CDRW like I do, you might want to make a tar.gz archive of your directory. In my case, I like to save the home user's directory to a tar.gz archive, then put it on CDRW temporarily until I've upgraded the system to the next latest distro. The following command will save everything unilaterally and keep all ownership and permissions information verbatim: cd /home tar -zxpvf /tmp/storage/home_dir.tar.gz * If you then want to view what you've done after you complete this, you go to the /tmp/storage directory and type: tar -ztpvf home_dir.tar.gz This doesn't do anything but pull a list of what's in the archive. The z option on the tar command line tells the program to process the archive with gzip, which gives it a respectable compression; saving you alot of space. Hope this gets you started. Email again if you've got further questions. LX shane wrote: tar springs to mind. If I knew how to use tar to backup / or /home I would not have asked the question. would you mind to tell me how to do this ? Just smugly saying tar ( Duh ) springs to mind, doesn't really answer the question. For anyone reading this , most of us when we ask a question , we mean Ok, HOW do you do that? Mike _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba Question
Gidday Mithrilhall
I know nothing of XP, but I am using Samba (via webmin).
Do you have a samba user of the same name and password?
In webmin it's easy, you tell it to convert all linux users to samba users.
rgds
max
I'm setting up Samba and I think I have just about everything perfect. I
have a user on the linux computer (Ex. login name: bob password: test) and I
have the same user on my Windows XP computer with the same login name and
password.
When at my Windows XP computer I do a search using the IP of the linux
computer and it shows this:
Name Folder Comment
192.168.1.3 unknown
If I double-click the IP address shown above I get a login prompt and I type
in the username bob and the password test but it never logs in. It just
keeps giving me the same prompt. If I go to the linux computer and open
Network Monitoring I can see that it is sending and receiving but I can't
figure out why it's not letting me log in.
If anyone can help me with this I would greatly appreciate it.
Mithrilhall
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[newbie] Unable to log on to Samba - Error writing 4 bytes to socket 5: ERRNO = connection reset by peer
Gidday All I've got a problem accessing my schools samba server. When I left Friday everything was working but there had been a power cut overnight and no access this morning. The problem occurs both from pc's (win98) that are setup for domain logins and pc's that are still peer to peer. Samba is the primary domain controller. I'm way over my depth in here Can ANYONE help? PLEASE From /var/log/samba/log.smb I get: [2002/02/02 18:09:52, 1] smbd/server.c:main(641) smbd version 2.0.10 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 [2002/02/02 18:12:36, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(540) write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 5: ERRNO = connection reset by peer [2002/02/02 18:12:36, 0] lib/util_sock.c:send.smb(754) Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. Exiting When connecting from a PEER pc the error is the same except for ERRNO = connection reset by $ From the console I get: [2002/02/02 18:12:36, 0] lib/debug.c:check_log_size(314) check_log_size: open of debug file /var/log/samba/log.smb failed using console The log was large so I cp log.smb to log.smb.old and then deleted the contents of log.smb Hoping someone has some idea of what I've done/has happened TIA rgrds max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unable to log on to Samba - Error writing 4 bytes to socket 5: ERRNO = connection reset by peer
Gidday again Some more info. Mandrake 8.0 On the domain controlled pc, it gives me the standard failed to provide valid username or password but on the peer pc, it gives me a network is busy error. As well another error on bootup that may be unrelated is: Feb 2 17:59:14 files sendmail:/usr/sbin/sendmail:error while loading shared libraries: libsfio.so.1999: cannot load shared object files: No such file or directory TAIA max Gidday All I've got a problem accessing my schools samba server. When I left Friday everything was working but there had been a power cut overnight and no access this morning. The problem occurs both from pc's (win98) that are setup for domain logins and pc's that are still peer to peer. Samba is the primary domain controller. I'm way over my depth in here Can ANYONE help? PLEASE From /var/log/samba/log.smb I get: [2002/02/02 18:09:52, 1] smbd/server.c:main(641) smbd version 2.0.10 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 [2002/02/02 18:12:36, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(540) write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 5: ERRNO = connection reset by peer [2002/02/02 18:12:36, 0] lib/util_sock.c:send.smb(754) Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. Exiting When connecting from a PEER pc the error is the same except for ERRNO = connection reset by $ From the console I get: [2002/02/02 18:12:36, 0] lib/debug.c:check_log_size(314) check_log_size: open of debug file /var/log/samba/log.smb failed using console The log was large so I cp log.smb to log.smb.old and then deleted the contents of log.smb Hoping someone has some idea of what I've done/has happened TIA rgrds max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wanted, easy to administer Web Based Email
Gidday all Does anyone know of / have experience with, a good Web Based Email system that I can install on a server running LM 8.0? I need it to be secure, easy to administer, and easy to use. TIA max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cron
snip Gidday Derek and everyone else I've been using webmin from a Mac and I can't for the life of me, get it to accept the certificate It asks again and again if I want to continue and I can't find anywhere to turn it off. You wouldn't know of a cure would you? TIA max well I'm assuming you are accepting the certificate? Have you tried a different browser? Otherwise I have no idea derek Yes, good assumption. Tried IE 4.5 for Mac and Netscape ?.? They both refuse to accept the cert and ask on every page. Kinda frustrating, but at least Webmin does now work. Thanks for the try, max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tiny Emacs
Charles Muller wrote: I am trying to learn how to use the Emacs package that came with ML 8.1, but the program runs as a tiny window in one corner of my screen, with microscopic menu fonts. Is there a way to make this window larger, with larger menu fonts? Regards, Charles Muller and Mario wrote: asbestos suit on Hello Charles, If you don't already know emacs, may i suggest you try vim, or gvim ? :o) it's much easier, and once you get used to it, you will find that it makes life very very easy. If you need any help with learning vim, i would be glad to help out. just mail me, and i'll reply first thing on monday morning when i get back to work, or i'm sure that there will be a lot of vimmers on this mailing list only too eager to help out. Thank You, Regards, mario asbestos suit off Gidday Mario You wanna be careful wearing asbestos, You might be safer copping the flames rgrds max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cron
Derek said on Thursday, January 24 A nice way to administer cron jobs is with webmin Just install the webmin package and put https://localhost.1 in a browser URL line. You will get a warning message about a self certified certificate the first time you run it. Just accept it. Note https not http, and if it does not work check the webmin service is running. Webmin allows you to configure almost every aspect of your computer in a simple manner, and even works remotely. HTH derek Gidday Derek and everyone else I've been using webmin from a Mac and I can't for the life of me, get it to accept the certificate It asks again and again if I want to continue and I can't find anywhere to turn it off. You wouldn't know of a cure would you? TIA max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] internet monitoring
Paul Kraus asked on Thursday Is there a way to setup up Linux so that it restricts access to all internet sites that I don't specify? Can this be done an a user/usergroup setting. Example. I only want some people to only be able to access. www.cnet.com (and all child sites www.cnet.com/*.* ) and I want management to be able to access 5 or 6 more sites. Can I do this with a Linux box between my network and my dsl router? Can I also set it up to had out ip addresses? There is windows software (surf control) that does this same thing but it cost around 2 grand and then you have to have another win2k server setup so all of a sudden my cost for this little task is around 5 thousand. Gidday Paul For the windows machines you could look at Surf Rat. I can't remember if you can set up the sites yourself or if it is a safe surf plugin. Worth a look HTH max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Users and groups not working in Webmin 0.84
Gidday all I have Webmin 0.84 and Mandrake 8.0 When I go to Webmin https://192.168.1.1:1/useradmin/edit_user.cgi (that's .../edit_user.cgi ) I get a page that shows me the heading and no form below it to enter new user information. (I seem to be able to do other things OK like add and delete groups) Has anyone had this trouble before and if so how did you fix it? I went to the webmin site but their bug fixes started at version 0.85 and the was no apparent mention of this problem and searching with google didn't bring anything relevant either. I'm using using IE for mac to access Webmin. When I view the source for the page the html is incomplete and I'm wondering if this is the cause of the problem. Could someone withWebmin 0.84 please send me a copy of their edit_user.cgi so I can compare. TIA rgrds max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Who Is Gary? (GeniusWeb)
R C asked on Sunday, December 16, 2001 3:28 AM Who Is Gary? (GeniusWeb) rant Seems obvious to me that the best way to deal with this is to email the personal address for Gary that was supplied, and ask him to sort it. He probably didn't think about changing his subscription address. Had you done this first, it may have been fixed in hours, maybe even minutes. If something like this bugs you, you should take action, show initiative, save us the hassle of having to delete both the autoresponders email and your many complaints. We all have our pet hates, and if we all got motivated in those areas and got something sorted and fixed, we save others the minor irritation of having to set up rules to ignore the problem. Like Mark Weaver, my pet hate is hoax virus warnings, they really get up my nose, and I really get up the nose of those foolish enough to send them to me. What a waste of time and bandwidth these things are! Also, they cast so much FUD on new users. (my 71yo Mum is a brand new user) /rant regards max Can anyone tell me who Gary is? Everytime I send in a question to this list, I get this in return: Thanks for your email. Gary is no longer employed by GeniusWeb.com Inc. For technical support, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] For quotes on CGI script development, or other services that we provide, send emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] He has left [EMAIL PROTECTED] as his new personal email address if you need to contact him. It doesn't seem to matter what subject the email has, I keep getting it Thanks -- Tell me something..and I forget. Show me something...and I remember. Let me do somethingand I understand! --- Registered Linux User 244036 Since August 2001 - LM Open Source = Freedom 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] Problems accessing Samba when having 2 mandrake servers
Gidday Folks I'm just trying to add another linux box to our system. It's to be a samba server. It's got 7.2 on it. Samba appears to be working ok. We have a gateway, firewall, proxy, postfix mail server using 7.2 as well. Somehow samba is being used for the mailboxes on this machine. Now the problem. I can ping both to and from the win98 PCs for the new server but I can't seem to access this PC in any other way. Something on the original box keeps giving me access denied when I try to get the new box. I've been trying to access swat, linuxconf, or webmin by typing in something like 192.168.1.5:1 in a browser from a win98. Where do I start to look? What other info do you need? TIA max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fetchmail config. for more than one collection point
Gidday Frank Like I said I know nothing about fetchmail, and I'm pretty much a newbie, but that would be the first thing Id do to figure out if it's a problem with Yahoo or something else. It seems like something else. Bit weird to let you put more than one address to collect mail from and then not have it work. Pure stab in the dark but have you tried to put set postmaster postmaster set bouncemail set no spambounce set daemon 20 in a second time so that each collection address has it? If that works maybe you could trim lines back out until you find what you need to have in there. Otherwise is there a fetchmail specific list maybe? rgrds max yes,, I did that, then it checked the yahoo and not the other one.. I would take that to mean that one fetchmail rc file could only contain one mail server. but if that is the case, why does fetchmailconf allow you to add as many as you like? rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anke Max Sent: Wednesday, 5 December 2001 8:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] fetchmail config.. Gidday Frank Don't know anything about fetchmail but I have a silly question. Have you swapped the two around and put Yahoo first? rgds max Frank asked on Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:38 PM I have a small fetchmail problem.. I have a .fetchmailrc file in /root that is supposed to check a few mail accounts and make delivery to a few local users.. so the file looks like this (with some detail changes obviously, to hide some confidential info :-) ## set postmaster postmaster set bouncemail set no spambounce set daemon 20 poll mail.vianet.net with proto POP3 user 'frankieh' there with password 'myPassWd' is 'franki' here options fetchall poll pop.mail.yahoo.com with proto POP3 user 'charmaine' there with password 'somechick' is 'charmaine' here options fetchall ## so, my question is this, why does the first email seem to be the only one collected??? the yahoo account doesn't seem to get collected.. anyone know why? Also, since I am running this as a deamon, should I add fetchmail to /etc/ppp/ip-up.local ?? so it starts when the dialup is completed? Any help, suggestions, slander, or anything else would be much appreciated. rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fetchmail config..
Gidday Frank Don't know anything about fetchmail but I have a silly question. Have you swapped the two around and put Yahoo first? rgds max Frank asked on Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:38 PM I have a small fetchmail problem.. I have a .fetchmailrc file in /root that is supposed to check a few mail accounts and make delivery to a few local users.. so the file looks like this (with some detail changes obviously, to hide some confidential info :-) ## set postmaster postmaster set bouncemail set no spambounce set daemon 20 poll mail.vianet.net with proto POP3 user 'frankieh' there with password 'myPassWd' is 'franki' here options fetchall poll pop.mail.yahoo.com with proto POP3 user 'charmaine' there with password 'somechick' is 'charmaine' here options fetchall ## so, my question is this, why does the first email seem to be the only one collected??? the yahoo account doesn't seem to get collected.. anyone know why? Also, since I am running this as a deamon, should I add fetchmail to /etc/ppp/ip-up.local ?? so it starts when the dialup is completed? Any help, suggestions, slander, or anything else would be much appreciated. rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrading kernel-2.4.13-12mdk.i586.rpm problem
I'm no guru. In a situation where I have something which depends on another and vice versa I put them all into an empty dir and use # rpm -Uvh * This seems to work well. rgds max Hello, gurus! I am using Mandrake 8.1 and I just downloaded the kernel-2.4.13-12mdk.i586.rpm and iptables-1.2.4-2mdk.i586.rpm available in the speakeasy.rpmfind.net site. I tried to install the new kernel and iptables using the commands of: # rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.13-12mdk.i586.rpm and # rpm -Uvh iptables-1.2.4-2mdk.i586.rpm and vice versa but I wasn't able to install those packages. It depends to one another. So I decided to open my kongueror browser and click the kernel first and automatically installed it using RPM Software Manager. And I was asked if I'll forcely install it and I clicked the YES button. And when it was successfully installed, I also clicked to install the iptables package. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Still no printing in LM8.1!
Gidday Marcia I have no experience with printing in Linux so this is a long shot. I had untold problems with printing just the odd file on the 14 iMacs at our school and it turned out to be 3 out the many installed fonts just locked up the printer whenever they were used. The error messages I got were in no way helpful and it was mere trial and error to beat it. The errant fonts were something like School...? Needless to say these fonts have been deleted. Maybe this helps rgds max Marcia asked on Wednesday, December 05, 2001 5:39 AM I have been reading everything and doing everything I can think of to get my Epson Stylus Color to work with LM 8.1. I wrote for help about a week ago and nothing that has been suggested has worked. I even reinstalled LM 8.1 and the exact same thing happened again. The printing worked with the test pages then even worked at first with kword and abiword until I changed the default settings. I noticed that it works as long as I do not try to add xpp or change settings. Unfortunately the default settings are not acceptable so I have to adjust but once I do then the printing stops completely. I have checked files and I get messages such as device or resource is busy. Then when I check the queues they show all of my jobs are processing or pending but nothing prints. I am even tempted to get another printer even though I know it is not the printer. I even tried it again in Windows 98 to make sure and of course it works. I am tempted to put my Windows 95 as dual boot on this machine just to get some printing again. If anyone can help with this I will be very appreciative. Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] empty messages anyone?
Anuerin G. Diaz reported on Monday, November 26, 2001 4:40 PM hi, i just received one from parthysomething with the body saying No Message Collected the rest has its message attached. i dont see a reason why text attachment should not be viewed. but maybe its just a matter of personal preference. ciao! Gidday Anuerin Sorry about the delay (been in hosp 4 days) It's cause I'm running windoze and I don't trust anything much. I've renamed the windows scripting exe, locked up everything I can, deleted all unneeded programs, and use Zone Alarm. My ISP filters for viruses. Should really stop using OE but have 5 yrs of emails I want to access. You might ask why not Linux, but the simple answer is, I can't get it to work on the net yet. In fact I can't even get it to work my home network yet. More to do with hardware than anything. rgrds max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] booting in console mode and seeing booting logs to diagnose problem
Gidday Anguo You couldn't download one of those linux on a floppy distro's and boot from that could you? (Tomsboot?) I'm only guessing here. Then you could make the changes you need to and reboot. Also I've read somewhere about a command something like chroot where you can (I think) change from one running kernel to another. Regards Max Anguo asked on Friday, November 23, 2001 6:53 PM for help booting into linux Ouch! I just saw this: http://www.linux.com/howto/LILO-crash-rescue-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.4 You MUST make emergency boot disk from time to time and whenever you make changes to the partition. Insert a blank floppy which, of course, I didn't do... so the partition table on the boot floppy doens't correspond to the existing one. There isn't much change though.. just one more partition cut out of the empty remaining space on the hard disk... What now? - Original Message - ±H¥óªÌ: Anguo I dual boot win98 + Mandrake 8.1 Questions: 1- How can I use the boot disk to boot into the console mode rather than the graphical login? Problem: KDE or any other window manager won't start anymore. The graphic login only has two options: previous and failsafe, neither of which get anything started. There are quite a few error messages that appear during the machine booting sequence. I'd like to see what they are so that I can solve (with your precious help) whatever problem there is. I recently added a new FAT32 partition using diskdrake and then formated it under win98. I needed the new partitions so that I could install office2000. (I unfortunately still need that because of the lacking chinese support under linux - I still haven't been able to get it working properly). I think part of the problem is related to this (something about too many partitions being mounted...). 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] newbie Has anyone settup a G3 Server with PPC LM in a school
Gidday All This Mac serves 14 iMacs and has 8.6 on it. I've got no software that I can track what the students are doing. I'm not allowed to spend the $1800 odd to upgrade so that I can use stuff to set filespace and printing quotas, track who was on what iMac doing what. Has anyone settup a G3 Server with PPC Mandrake with logging and hopefully even the ability to view what's happening on student screens? Thanks for your time max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot floppy: no initrd.img
Gidday Hugo I've been using part.exe which is a powerful partitioning tool and has a boot manager that is capable of running up to 31 OSs from 31 different partitions http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ Could be worth a try? HTH Max - Original Message - From: Hugo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 7:15 PM Subject: [newbie] Boot floppy: no initrd.img Hi, First and foremost, I would like to apologise for the lengthy mail, but I am sure those that are willing to help me will find the info. important. Please note that there may be some incorrections because I am on another location/machine at the moment and am writing this from some notes I took at the time. I am newbie at Linux/Unix and attempted to install Mandrake Liniux 8.1 on a AMD 200+ with 64 Mbytes of RAM and two volumes (4 and 1.5 Giba respectivelly). On volume 1 I hada (have?): a) Dos partition of 100 MBytes (for booting) b) FAT 32 w/ Win95 (+/- 2G) c) NTFS (a little less than 2G) On volume 2 was: a) Free for Linux (/dev/hdb) I proceeded with the install and made a boot floppy as per indications and placed the LILO on a dev/hdba1 (dos). Please note that I had attempted installing RedHat Linux on volume 2 and got it working using the loadlin boot (from Win95). I gave up though, because I could not install my devices (hence the install w/ Mandrake 8-}). The Linux volume is partitioned as follows: a) 1.3 Giga for / b) 78 Mega for /swap c) 131 Mega for /home The boot from dev/hdb1 worked fine. The only problem is I lost my NT boot. Lilo indicated 2 OSs: dos and NT. When I select dos, the NT's booting application runs. I then select windows 95 and this executes and boots w/ no problem. When I select NT from either Lilo's on boot.ini's menus, NT fails to boot because NTDETEC fails. Before proceeding with a replacement of the MBR or a reinstalation of NT I tried booting with the floppy. I wanted to do this not to waste another 2 days installing Linux (2 attempts on a very slow machine). This failed! The Lilo session error message is as follows: SysLinux 1.48 MandrakeLinux Copyright 1994-1999... ...boot your LinuxMandrake system from /dev/hdb1... Could not find ramdisk image: initrd.img I atempted to use Mandrake's control center and I also executed the command manually. Any of these attempts produced the same result: the file initrd.img was in the floppy but with size 0. (After some searching) I then proceeded with: mkinitrd --omit-scsi-modules --omit-raid-modules -v 2.4.8-26mdk This generated a initrd.img file which I then copied to the floppy. This worked fine. I can actually boot. When I execute. mkbootdisk --verbose --mkinitrarga --omit-scsi-modules --mkinitrarga --omit- raid-modules --mkinitrarga -v -- device /dev/fd0 --compact 2.4.8-26mdk I get the following result: formatting /dev/fd0... done copy /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.8-26mdk... done Creating initrd image... Rootfs is not ext3, there is no rootfs special options, and no modules are needed-- not building initrd image. done. setting up syslinux... done. Question(s): what am I doing wrong? Is this an indication of more problems? BTW, the machine using KDE seems very sluggish, especially on application booting and I have not been able to isntall all devices (more on that in another e-mail). TIA. Hugo 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] Tripwire-1.3.1-1.tar.gz
Gidday G So what would one use in addition to (instead of) tripwire and how can things trick tripwire? Thanks Max g answered Anuerin G. Diaz on Monday, November 12, 2001 6:32 PM Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: and what does tripwire do anyway? basically, it is a file security monitor data base for files to monitor changes. it is ok, but there are better ways, as files can be tricked to not show changes that tripwire checks. it is useful, but not to be used alone for security. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.
Gidday All Franki, I like it but the paragraph below has a problem. I think it would be better to put it this way. This is not necessary. You may have full functionality but we just can't guarantee it, and neither can anyone else other then Microsoft and its partners. Max This is not necessary you may have full functionality, we just can't guarantee it, and neither can anyone else other then Microsoft and its partners. /body /html 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] Unable to mount root FS on 07:07
Gidday Randy Just a stab in the dark. Have you tried removing the added memory? On one occassion that I know of, 3 individual sticks were faulty and were producing all kinds of weird problems. My friend replaced one stick while trying to track down an intermitent problem on a windoze pc, and the problem was still there. After a few more hours of troubleshooting, thought it pointed to faulty memory again and this time put the current mem into another pc and sure enough, this pc now had weird problems. Mem test was fine on boot up on both PCs. Another trip to the local hardware store and try again. Still no go in either PC. (one batch of 20 sticks, and this guy got all 3 faulty ones, for the same repair job, the others were fine) I think the moral of the story is Don't trust nuthin' unless you've tested it yourself Max Randy Sweeten said on Sunday, October 21: I searched Google and other search sites as Sridhar suggested, and found little. Other folks have had this error, but none of the message threads included the solution. I did discover the actual error is best described by the line: request_module[block-major-7]: Root fs not mounted. The references to 7 and 07:07 are some kind of location descriptors, and the problem is most likely partition related. I booted from a install floppy and got into rescue mode. An fdisk -l /dev/hda gives the following: Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 12032 2048224+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1022, 15, 63) should be (1022, 31, 63) /dev/hda2 2033 14913 12984048 f Win95 ext'd (LBA) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1022, 15, 63) should be (1022, 31, 63) /dev/hda5 2033 81286144232+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 8128 149136839752+ b Win95 FAT32 Does anybody know what this means, and if it is related to my problem? And maybe some hints on fixing it? - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mandrake Newbie List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Unable to mount root FS on 07:07 On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 20:28:22 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help! I'm running Mandrake's Linux for Windows, and all of a sudden I cannot boot up Linux. Boot screens show: request_module[block-major-7]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 07:07 Kernal Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on 07:07 I did nothing in Linux that I know of; it's possible my daughter booted into Linux by mistake and turned off the power to get out of it. (It's hard to get a confession out of a 9 year old!) I added memory since the last time I booted Linux, and I was experimenting with a USB tape drive in Windows, but did nothing about it in Linux. And I tried removing the USB tape drive and rebooting Linux, to no avail. I can boot up to an Linux install disk and get to the rescue mode. What do I do there? I don't know about this specific error, but I have found that Google and Google Groups can be great for searching for this kind of thing. Go to them and try entering something like Unable to mount root FS on 07:07. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The three Rs of Microsoft support: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall. -- -- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Flip Disk
Gidday Dechao
You could try to get hold of a copy of nortons utilities for mac.
When I started my current job, they had lost a Mac server harddrive (and didn't have
it backed up) and I rebuilt it using nortons.
It was tediuous, I had to run it many many times before I got 99% of the data back.
It would run for a while, fix a few errors and then appear to lock up. Reboot, try
again, get a bit further etc..
Another way would be to buy some data recovery software from somewhere like
www.lc-tech.com (I'm sure there are others)
I used their software 3 years ago when windoze lost a whole pile of data (that also
wasn't backed up). It wasn't able to rebuild the directory tree but managed to get
the data ok (It was a bit expensive)
Isn't there a second FAT (on all discs that use FAT)? Somewhere I recall reading
something about it and a way of (or tool for) replacing the first table with the
second, but I've no chance of remembering where. :-{ Sorry.
As I'm a newbie with Linux, I haven't come across anything in this area.
Hope this helps
Max
Dechao Wang asked on Friday, October 19
I know this may be off topic, but any ideas or help with this would be
very useful!
Is there any possibility of trying to recover data from my corrupted
drive?
The drive is a portable 20Gb Amacom 'flip disk', that apparently has a
Toshiba hard drive installed. It has USB connectivity is configured
for
PC (although I used it on a mac it contains about 15Gb of data from a
mac). I have already returned it to Amacom but besides saying that the
'FAT' (file allocation table?) was corrupted, they couldn't do anything
with
it.
Many thanks in advance!
Dech
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Re: [newbie] All your numbers are belong to us
On Friday, October 05, 2001 4:43 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan said That's a pity. I bet it was slashdotted. On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 19:29:48 -0500, Michael D. Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The website of course no longer exists -- it comes up as a 404 error when you try to access the main index page. big snip Have you tried to search on google and get the cached page? Regards Max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] shift causes beep? (and fans stop)
Gidday All On Friday, 5 October 2001 2:08 AM, Manuel Drake wrote: snip Good call, willdo soon... just lost a fan on my Slack server, so the fun goes on... I don't know how many others bother, but when I get a fan that starts to get noisy or stop I get a syringe with some light oil and poke a very small hole in the sticky label in the middle of the fan, and squeeze some oil into it. You need to find the hollow behind the label or of course the needle won't go in, and come in from the top so as to keep the oil from running back out. Saves having to remove the power supply, or buy a new fan and best of all takes less than 2 mins to get the computer up and running again. Then you can decide whether or not to replace it at a more opportune time They usually go for another 12 mths or more. I don't think I would do it on the CPU fan but hey in an emergency, it's worth remembering. Regards Max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] failed dependencies: menu 2.1.5-29mdk conflicts with rpm-3.0.5-27mdk
Gidday All I'm trying to upgrade some stuff on a mandrake system and need to upgrade rpm to version4 but I get the following error when trying to first upgrade to ver3!# rpm -Uvh rpm-3.0.5-27mdk.i586.rpmerror: failed dependencies: menu 2.1.5-29mdk conflicts with rpm-3.0.5-27mdk When I tried "rpm -Uvh --force rpm-3.0.5-27mdk.i586.rpm" I still get the same error.What can I do to overcome this problem?(I've backed up rpm using "tar cvf rpm.Backup.tar /var/lib/rpm" in case I break something) thanks max
