Re: [newbie] How do I quit X when it starts automatically?
Ty Mixon wrote: What I usually do is start X/KDE automagically, and if I want to work in a console use CTRL+ALT+F123456 to get to a console. Best of both worlds that way. Ty, What do you do to go back to X/KDE? Brian in Fremont
Re: [newbie] another mail sever problem?
Manny Styles wrote: Is anyone else getting messages over again (ie: a message that was sent 3 or so days ago that keeps returning). It could just be me, but I want to be sure before I report any problems about the mail server to my ISP. Manny Styles Yes, Manny, I thought it was just me but there have been a lot of repeats. Brian in Fremont
Re: [newbie] sound card
Alex Bailey wrote: Hi, I just fried my sound card or something to that effect and I was wondering if there are any recomendations on a sound card for a dual boot,Windows 98 being the other system. Thanks,Alex I have a SoundBlaster AWE32 in two systems and both work perfect in both Linux and Win98/NT without having to do anything special or jump through any hoops. Brian in Fremont
Re: [newbie] Remove partial Linux Partition
Bob, I have had this happen twice and found that I had to start the install over again and use fdisk or cfdisk to remove/delete the offending partitions. DOS/fdisk and PM will not be able to do so. It might be a good idea to abort the installation after deleting the partitions and boot up DOS or run PM and verify that all is well before starting the installation again. If you use Disk Druid or Linux fdisk to mess with partitions in an extended partition it seems to cause the problem so I install the primary root partition outside of any extended partition. Brian in Fremont Bob wrote: I was installing Linux on a second partition on a second harddrive. After I built the Linux partition layout using Druid, it took and error trying to write the new partition information and told me I needed to reboot in order to continue the install. Now I cannot get Linux to finish the install. It fails right after it asks which drive to install from. I want to remove the Linux partition and restart the install but I can't get rid of it. Partition Magic says there is no partition there. FDISK says there is an extended partition with logical drive but when I try to delete the logical drive so I can delete the partition, FDISK says there are no logocal drive. Anyone have a program that can remove a partition no matter what? __ Thanks, Bob HoP 4 Life [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cottage/9239/ ICQ: 5760810 AOLIM: bobifmd National Wrestling League (NWL) - www.nwlwrestling.com House of Pain Wrestling Federation (HoPWF) - www.nwlwrestling.com WildSamoan ProWrestling Training Center - www.WildSamoan.com Declare your PC a Microsoft-free zone _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] newbie [re : Star Office]
Bluebottle wrote: Brian in Fremont You've just upset us all as we are waiting to get such luxuries, in general, over here. With all the will in the world we still have to wait for the stagecoach :-) John the Nadger John, Sorry about that. I am also sorry that I will be moving in a couple months and will have to give up the high speed connection and go back to 56k. I don't even know yet if I can get 56k, may be even slower. For now, I must download all the big files I need before the move. Brian in Fremont
Re: [newbie] Re: Star Office
Stuart, Sun just bought StarOffice/StarDivision and now when you go to the StarDivision site you end up at the Sun site. It is still free from Sun. ( and well worth the price) g BTW, just signed up for cable modem and tried the download from Sun and it took under three (3) minutes. I was pleasantly surprised as my original download from SD took like you say over four hours. Brian in Fremont Stuart Burbridge wrote: Hi guys, It was the February 1999 cover disc of PC Plus which gave away StarOffice 5.0. I have tried several times to install it both into Caldera 1.3 and into Mandrake 6. but with no success. It either complains that I don't have the correct library files (although Mandrake has) or it then can't connect to the Xserver. In the end I downloaded version 5.1 (it's 70 megs and took about four hours but it's still free software). That installed perfectly into Mandrake first time with no problems. I cant say I've done much with it yet. But I have played a little with the Windows version to be sufficiently impressed to go for the big download. Stuart
Re: [newbie] Questions about dual booting
Russ, The only way to change partition size and add or delete partitions without losing data is with Partition Magic or Partition It. The standard dos fdisk will destroy the data for sure. I would not live in this current world without Partition Magic from PowerQuest. (and I don't work for them) You can reduce the size of a partition with PM and then install LM in the free space. If this is a huge drive, you can move the DOS/Windows partition up a little and when installing LM, put the /boot partition at the beginning of the drive. (below the 1024 limit) Hi John, May I please ask how you did it? If the disk was one big partition, how did you partition it without destroying the data, then how did you get Linux to install with out destroying the DOS partitions. Thanks Russ - Original Message - (Russ)--- Did you do the Linux install after Windows was installed or did you set it up all at once? -- Windows was already installed when I got this machine and installed Linux. Never had a problem. You should ALWAYS install Windows first.
Re: [newbie] Install cannot find filesystems
"Richards, Donald D." wrote: You're using a rather large disk, like I am, and the installation documentation refers to the need to have the starting starting cylinder of the root partition under a certain number (I think it was either 1024 or 2048, but it's in the documentation). This could be your problem, given the size of your first partition... Don, You have the right idea, but in this case, you may be in error. I doubt that fdisk or Disk Druid would prevent you from setting up the partition above 1024. The problem really is booting from a partition above that limit. I really think his problem has to do with the udma66 drive. I am also unable to set up a boot partition on a udma66 drive, but I can put a boot partition on another drive and then the rest of the "stuff" on the udma drive. I would recommend going to the WD site and reviewing all the info they have there on the subject and perhaps look every where possible for more info.. Brian in Fremont
Re: [newbie] fstab
Bert Bullough wrote: Can someone give me an example of their fstab entry ( preferably one with an entry for mounting a windows partition) so that i can see what i am doing wrong. Thanks. Bert, These work for me: /dev/hda2 /mnt/dosc vfat rw,gid=100,umask=2 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/dosd vfat rw,gid=100,umask=2 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/dosf vfat rw,gid=100,umask=2 0 0 where hda is for the first hard drive and hdb is for the second. RW is for read/write, gid=100 is for ability to use from the group ID of 100 of which I added my user id. To know for sure what the hdxx numbers are you can run fdisk and see them. /sbin/cfdisk /dev/hda or /sbin/cfdisk /dev/hdb etc. All of the above needs to be done as su or root. Then you should add with the mkdir command a folder for dosc, dosd, etc. Here's how: mkdir /mnt/dosc mkdir /mnt/dosd Brian
Re: [newbie] SCSI problems
Scott, Yes, that line is in my /etc/conf.modules, in fact it is the first line. Do I need to recompile the kernel to get it to work? Brian I just can't seem to get my SCSI devices to work without running insmod. I did what is suggested on the LM home page updates about running initrd but that didn't help. My SCSI card is listed properly in modules.whatever. Any help will be appreciated. Brian Do you have alias scsi_hostadapter yourmodulename in /etc/conf.modules ? scottw
Re: [newbie] modem problems.....
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: Are you sure you can't use ttyS0 and ttyS1 instead? /dev/cua? devices are obsolete and have been replaced with ttyS devices. If they don't work, did you do anything odd to them (disable the serial ports in BIOS or something like that)? LLaP bero I will have to go back and check. Seems I just tried in sequence till I got one to work which, if my memory isn't really fried, was cau1 for serial port 2 on my motherboard. Oh wait, that is the one for the mouse. Now I am confused. I checked on my test system running Mandrake 5.3 and you are correct, I have it set as ttyS1, not cua1. Now I need to check on this machine. BTW, I have another machine set up with a PCMCIA modem and haven't yet figured out how to get it going with Mandrake 6.0. Any hint on what device to use? Brian
Re: [newbie] modem problems.....
Tigani B wrote: Hi, I'm sorry if mine is ot. I need help to solve my problem with my external modem. My External Hayes Accura V.34 + Fax modem can't be detected by LM 6.0. I've tried to set the link manually from /dev/ttyS0, ttyS1, ttyS2 (one by one each time) to /dev/modem, but it can't work too. I also have tried to use the modemtool comand but still it can't be detected and can't work till now. I tried in minicom to initialize the modem and to dial out but can't work too. I even tried in Linuxconf but the same. The modem works well in Windoze :). Could anybody help me? Tigani, I think it might work if you try cua0 or cua1 depending on if it is on serial port 1 or 2 respectively. That is the only selection that works with my external modem. Brian
Re: [newbie] Swap
JM, You are right. You need at least DOS or a DOS boot floppy to run PM. Brian JM wrote: I don't think PM from PowerQuest works on linux. I have linux on my drive. I don't have anything that resembles windows. I know there is a command while in root. I remember reading it about it. I don't recall the source though.
Re: [newbie] Swap
JM wrote: I have a humnm I think 60M of swap partition. I did this because I chose workstation installation and automatically assigns this number. My question is : How do I change this to a 100M for example? I think Partition Magic from PowerQuest might work to increase the size but I have never tried it so don't take my word as gospel. Brian
Re: [newbie] mouse problems (hey gurus, need some help!)
Jose, I forgot to mention, that when you change a mouse setting with mouseconfig you need to run Xconfigurator again to get the info into the Xfiles. I found this out when I converted from a serial mouse to a PS/2 mouse on one machine. Brian Jose Alberto Abreu wrote: Brian Erikson translated his thoughts to electrons: Jose, Sorry, but my change to dev/psaux didn't fix the problem. Darn it. This mouse, actually a SCSI Kensington trackball worked before and I don't know what caused it to stop. I was able to get it to 'almost' work by selecting the one Kensington mouse in the mouseconfig list but it still jumps to the left side whenever I move the mouse to the left at all. I haven't given up and will report back when and if I get some better results. Brian mhmmm... My mouse is completely uncontrollable, leaving KDE useless. I have a Genius Netmouse that works fine in windose... I could try to get another mouse, but, considering that there's a "Genius Netmouse" setting in Mouseconfig, I doubt that works... Could it be something more serious, like a bug in KDE or something? My mouse worked fine in RedHat 5.1 with some other window manager. Jose Alberto
Re: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: "Mandrake is dead. The whole idea behind Mandrake was to integrate KDE with RedHat. Now that RedHat has KDE as an option, what's the need for Mandrake?" Idris, Well I have installed both RH6.0 and Mandrake5.3 and the Mandrake installation is much better even tho older. I think Mandrake will do a wonderful job on the next release and will more than likely be worth the money. Brian
