Re: [newbie] Install problems...
go to http://www.linux.org and do a search for laptops. It will give you the Linux laptop page. There are some links there that go to pages that give info about installing linux on a winbook. - Original Message - From: Michael D. Kirkpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 2:48 PM Subject: [newbie] Install problems... I have a WinBook Laptop computer and I am trying to figure out how to install Mandrake RH6.0. I can not get the computer to recognize the CD-ROM drive. Here is what is going on... 1. I insert the removable floppy drive and boot from the boot disk. 2. When I get to the point where it asks me to pick which cd-rom drive to use, I remove the floppy drive and insert the cd-rom drive with the CD #1 in it. 3. I went through the entire list for CD-ROM drivers and it can not find the cd-rom. 4. It is not SCSI. I have an external CD-ROM drive as well that hooks up to the parallel port as well. I tried it and it can not be found. The CD-ROM is a "Backpack". I tried Fdisk the hard drive and copied the 9 files from the boot disk to it to see if it may be a problem from swapping the CD-Rom with the Floppy drive. I can not get it to boot from the hard drive. I fdisked the hard drive using DOS 6.0 fdisk utility and formatted it. I copied the boot disk to the hard drive and it would not boot from the hard drive. I just need to install Apache web server and X-Windows so I can show off a working copy of my web site when I am on the road. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Re: [[newbie] modem install ]
I have a USR 56k modem that is not a winmodem and works fine under Linux. It is not a PCI card. You have to read the box VERY CAREFULLY and make sure that the modem inside it is not a winmodem. The other thing is that the non-winmodems usually cost more. It's true that USR doesn't exist as a separate company since they were absorbed by 3Com, however, they still sell modems under the USR Brand name. All external modems are serial modems. Their ISA internal modems are not Winmodems unless labled such. I believe them may make ONE PCI modem that is not a Winmodem, but am not sure on that one. From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] modem install ] Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:41:06 -0500 On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, you wrote: Does USRobotics sell serial modems? Not really...US Robotics doesn't exist as a separate company any more...they're owned by 3Com. ;-) (I know...gnit picking, but hey... G) John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] emu10k1
1) "unload all existing soundcard drivers, including soundcore?" (if this step requires compiling the kernel, i am going to need really detailed instructions because i would not even know where to begin :-) , if not, what else do i have to do?) Usually sound card drivers a loaded as modules. Modules are pieces of kernel code that can be dynamically added or removed from the running kernel. If you type the command 'lsmod', it will show you a list of the currently loaded modules. Most likely you will see soundcore, soundlow, sound, sb, and probably a few others. To unload the modules you use the command 'rmmod module' where module is the name of the module that you want to unload (get those from the lsmod). One thing to note is that some modules require that other modules be loaded in order to be able to run. The dependencies are listed on the right-hand side of the list. If you unload the three modules I mentioned above, and all of the dependant modules, you will have unloaded the existing soundcard drivers. 2) "remove all old soundcard references from /etc/conf.modules" (if this is the sound card i had during the install of linux do i have to perform this step, if so how?) use an editor such as pico, emacs, vi, etc. to edit the file /etc/conf.modules (you have to be root to do this). You will see lines that define the parameters for the soundcard modules. Before you edit the file, make a backup of it. Then go into the file and comment out the references to the soundcard drivers that you already removed (in fact you might want to do this first). 3) "know if my kernel is compiled with version information?" This one I'm not sure about as far as Linux Mandrake goes, but usually the kernel is compiled with version information turned on. It refers to the modules being marked with what version of the kernel source they were compiled from. Hope this helps -Ben
Re: [newbie] Samba Perl
http://www.samba.org - Original Message - From: Mark Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 10:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba Perl You mentioned you has Samba running correctly to where your Linux box was seen in your network neighborhood. Any suggestions as to where to find the best info on getting this set right?
Re: [newbie] pine setup
Are you using your box as a web server? If not, then the fact that httpd failed loading shouldn't hurt you. You won't be able to view the default web page that has links to some of the documentation (if you installed it), but otherwise no big deal. - Original Message - From: Dreja Julag [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 2:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] pine setup I get a message while booting about httpd failing. Is this bad? I have gotten a few times before, but I don't think that it keeps me from doing anything. Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20177604
Re: [newbie] make xconfig error
There is one other Makefile in one of the subdirectories. I can't remember where it is right now. Do some looking around, it is in one of the directories that is one level below /usr/src/linux - Original Message - From: Siu Fai Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 11:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] "make xconfig" error I experienced the exact problem, any files should I modify other than Makefile? SF Earl Karch wrote: OK. I edited Makefile and removed "preferred-stack-boundary=2". I ran make xconfig. I ran make dep. But when I tried to run make zImage got the same "preferred-stack-boundary=2" error. Which file should I edit this time? Steve Philp wrote: It means Mandrake never tested their packages before they shipped them. The kernel will not rebuild as they distributed it unless you edit the Makefile. Change to the /usr/src/linux directory and use your favorite editor to edit Makefile. Search for 'preferred-stack-boundary=2' and remove it. Save the Makefile. Now do your kernel compile and all will be well. It's been a month, where's the fix Mandrake?? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fom it-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ex ceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium -mcpu=pentium -march=pentium -ffast-ma th -fexpensive-optimizations -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functio ns=2 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -DCPU=386 -c -o init/main.o init/main.c cc1: Invalid option `preferred-stack-boundary=2' make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1
