[newbie] 10.1 Official ISOs for x86_64
I am more than slightly confused. I want to upgrade my community 10.1 edition. I know I can urpmi it (read the twiki and found it very helpful). However, I was being lazy and started to look for ISOs to make installation/upgrade from CD instead (blessed to have highspeed bandwidth to spare). I can't find them. No mention on the mandrake site, none squirreled away on the ftp sites I visited, just a bit torrent that will take 3+ days to finish. And now they are releasing some 10.2 RCs. So what part of the puzzle am I missing to get ISOs of the x86_64 10.1? PS Gmail user. Reply to list please. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dual layer DVD recommendations?
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:22:00 -0500, Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any recommendations (or horror stories) for a dual layer DVD drives? I am looking at the Sony DAU 710A ($90 - $100) and the LiteOn SOHW-1213S. ($80). Mike I am happy with my LG 4120 12x dually. Also surprisingly happy with my (unknown previously to me brand) Benq single burner (1610) - so much so that I would seriously look at upgrading to Benq again when needed. Never burned a dually though with them. YMMV Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD-R playback on Linux - slightly OT
I have seen similar sites before, but this is the first one that google gave me: http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers click on the player name to see a list of likely to work DVD brands. There are definitely other sites out there as well. HTH. On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:30:37 +, Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi lads and lasses Does anybody know if it is possible to play finalized DVD-R disks with mplayer/xine/ogle? I have just installed a Panasonic DVD recorder and recorded a test disk with cable TV input. The disk plays back fine on the LCD television but the aforementioned players fail to read it at all under Mandrake 9.2. The disks are 4.7Mb recorded at 3x. Commercial DVDs play back without a problem in all three. Would DVD-RAM fare better? I chose DVD-R for permanent recording of some 20 year old videotapes which I would like to review on a PC or laptop. The front panel light flickers a bit and then a report comes back that libdvdread and libdvdcss failed. I have no idea if there is any encryption. An error window also appears with a message implying that there is no disk in the drive or that the medium is invalid or that there is a permissions problem (there isn't). Grateful for any leads. There does not seem to be any information on this particular topic on the web. -- Len Lawrence -- Be nice to people on the way up, because you'll meet them on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] kaffeine: All Video Drivers failed to initialize
Hi all. I have been enjoying Kaffeine for a month or so now, but I recently got the above error when starting Kaffeine now (it doesn't start at all - ie, no music files even). hint 1 - I recently installed a second DVD burner on the machine (Benq 1610). Thought that its installation was separate from the appearance of the error, but I could wrong. hint 2 - Mplayer now works 100% on my machine. Previously, it wouldn't load anything from DVD or music or video clips (assumption - that I didn't/don't have my cdrom/dvd spinners correctly referenced), but now it works great. Could use it instead of Kaffeine (I like the gui of Kaffeine better though). tried - repaired Mandrake. Also removed and reinstall Kaffeine, but nothing. running - 10.1 community on x86_64. Haven't done a complete update recently, so that will likely be my next step. Google wasn't much help, maybe this list can do better in giving me some advice. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Is this possible?
Why would anyone want to convert a DVD quality movie and downgrade it to SVCD standard? I have been buying wy too many CD-Rs and need to use them up some how? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cd/dvd drive not recognizing another disk on insertion
Hey all. As a new convert, I'm perplexed at several things, but this thread is about I can read/write to the first disk that I put into my cd/dvd burner drive. But as soon as I take it out, and insert another disk, Konqueror tells me that there are zero files on the new (data filled) disk. Now I thought I had this problem licked by being careful about mounting/unmounting, but that doesn't seem to work 100% - to be clear, mounting/unmounting was working when just reading the data disk, and then unmounting it before ejecting it. Then I tried to make a ISO in K3B and then I got the zero files when browsing to the data DVD again. Problem is also solved by restarting Linux, but that obviously isn't a long term solution. I am just going in through mnt/cdrom. Do I need to make a mnt/dvdrom or something? Background: drive is a LG 1610 dual layer DVD burner Mandrake 10.1 Community on x86_64 PS On google, reply to list thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: cd/dvd drive not recognizing another disk on insertion
Answered off list. The answer was in supermounting, via the MCC. Thanks again. On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 16:38:19 -0800, Bruce Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all. As a new convert, I'm perplexed at several things, but this thread is about I can read/write to the first disk that I put into my cd/dvd burner drive. But as soon as I take it out, and insert another disk, Konqueror tells me that there are zero files on the new (data filled) disk. Now I thought I had this problem licked by being careful about mounting/unmounting, but that doesn't seem to work 100% - to be clear, mounting/unmounting was working when just reading the data disk, and then unmounting it before ejecting it. Then I tried to make a ISO in K3B and then I got the zero files when browsing to the data DVD again. Problem is also solved by restarting Linux, but that obviously isn't a long term solution. I am just going in through mnt/cdrom. Do I need to make a mnt/dvdrom or something? Background: drive is a LG 1610 dual layer DVD burner Mandrake 10.1 Community on x86_64 PS On google, reply to list thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 04:01 pm, Alan Ianson wrote: On Tue Feb 3 2004 12:47 pm, David Reid wrote: I'm preparing to install Mandrake 9.2 to dual boot with Windows XP on my laptop. It's my first install and I've reduced the NTFS partition using Partition Magic 8.0 to make 9Gb of the 20Gb disk available. Ideally, I'd like to install LILO/GRUB on the MBR but I've read reports of non-windows boot loaders being considered a virus (by XP or the BIOS or Virus software I'm not sure which) and advice to retain the XP boot loader and to place LILO/GRUB on the boot partition. Does anyone know if this is still a consideration? I'd really appreciate it If someone could also tell me whether it's easier/better to create the Linux partitions with Partition Magic before starting the install or to leave the install process to create them for me. I've been using Windows/XP, FreeDOS and various distro's of linux with lilo as the boot loader for quite a while. I haven't had any ill affects from having lilo in the MBR. I will second that.. I wonder why you used partition magic. Mandrake 9.2 worked flawlessly to repartition and grab the free area from my Windows XP NTFS partition. There was only one thing I had to do which was defrag the drive to get the space open. Anyway I have been running about 2 months now without problems.. Bruce Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Setting Path in the environment.
I would like to set path in the environment and can not seem to find it.. In my past (a long time ago!) you set path for the current shell by editing the .profile. Now under BASH I thought I read that there is supposed to be .bash file but I don't seem to have one.. Also I would like to add this new directory for all users on my system...and of course for any new users I would add... Can some one tell me where in Mandrake to set default paths for all users and how to set a custom path for a specific user? Thanks in advance, Bruce Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing Mandrake 9.0 on Toshiba laptop
Today I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. Or I tried to, anyway. I simply used the standard install CD's (downloaded from the Mandrake site). They booted just fine, and the install ran without a hitch. I did get one message telling me that some of my hardware required proprietary drivers and referring me to www.linmodems.com. I figured this message was specifically about the modem, and since I don't plan to be online with this computer I ignored it. After installation, the system wouldn't boot up - it always hung on Starting pcmcia devices ... or something to that effect. Everything up to that point, however, worked fine. What have I done wrong? How can I fix it? = - No, I'm a good man. I'm just not a very good wizard. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] More X troubles
Hello; After a completely new install of Mandrake 8.2 I'm having trouble starting X. It will start, but after a *long* time - 10, 15 minutes. It gives the error message: Local host name lookup failure. Creating new .Xauthority : /home/usr/.Xauthority Any notion of what causes this or how to fix it? Thanks. = - No, I'm a good man. I'm just not a very good wizard. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Localhost lookup failure
Upon running startx after a fresh install of Mandrake 8.2, I received the error Local host name lookup failure Creating .Xauthrity: /home/usr/.Xauthority In addition to this, X takes a *really* long time to come up - like 10 or 15 minutes. Does anyone know how to fix this error? I tried running linuxconf and changing/re-accepting the hostname. No luck. Any help would be appreciated. = - No, I'm a good man. I'm just not a very good wizard. __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the old versions?
--- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Zink wrote: Hey; I'm having trouble getting 8.2 to install on my machine. I'd like to try 8.0 or 8.1, but the Mandrake download site only points to 8.2, 7.1, and 8.0 for PPC. Where do I find the others? What sort of machine? Did you try booting from CD2 and selecting an alternate install image? 8.2 is far better than the other two, and most problems we have seen is that a machine will not read well what another burned (wither media or the devices preparing or reading it). You can find older ones at a limited selection of sites like ftp.proxad.net Civileme I'm working with and IBM Aptiva, AMD K-6 350 MHz, 192MB RAM. I've tried installing 8.2 and 8.1 now (thanks for the help, guys) and will soon try 8.0. Both 8.2 and 8.1 boot, ask if I want to install, and then tell me they are Unable to uncompress 2nd stage RAMdisk because of some sort of hardware error. 7.1 installed without any problem. Yes, I did burn the CDs on another computer. Anywork around there that you can think of? I don't understand what you mean by booting from CD2 and selecting an alternate CD image. Where can I read about that? = - No, I'm a good man. I'm just not a very good wizard. __ 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
[newbie] Where are the old versions?
Hey; I'm having trouble getting 8.2 to install on my machine. I'd like to try 8.0 or 8.1, but the Mandrake download site only points to 8.2, 7.1, and 8.0 for PPC. Where do I find the others? = - No, I'm a good man. I'm just not a very good wizard. __ 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
[newbie] Clearly missing something
I recently acquired the source code for an Intel NIC card driver (from an Intel web site). The documentation tells me to use make install to compile/install the driver. Unfortunately, that command gives me the message bash: make not found or something like that. Likewise, man make produces No manual for make or whatever. You get the picture. I gather I am lacking some fairly basic program. What does it seem to be and how do I get it? Any hints would be much appreciated. = - No, I'm a good man. I'm just not a very good wizard. __ 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
[newbie] Mandrake 8, Vibra128 sound card, midi
Hope someone can help. i am trying to get mandrake 8 box with a creative Vibra128 soundcard to play midi direct to the card. Sound works well generally on this system, and I can use timidity and kmidi sequencers to play mids, but anything that tries to access the midi device direct seems to fail, e.g. kmid gives error ERROR: Couldn't open /dev/sequencer to get some information and windows progs under wine give error unable to open midi device I have done a MAKEDEV sound to make sure the /dev devices are there. What I really want to achieve is for a prog running under wine to be able to play midis. Is there something else I should be doing? Should I be trying to pipe this through a sequencer (timidity??) somehow?? Has anyone got this combination of MD8, Vibra128 and midi sequencer to work? Any help gratefully received. Bruce Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues
Miark wrote: Anthony and all, During installation of 7.2 1) I want to make a boot disk, but it fails: An error occurred, mkbootdisk failed 2) When I try to install lilo or grub, it fails: Installation of bootloader failed The following error occurred: Fatal: open /dev/hda: No such file or directory 3) When I test X, it fails, saying: (WW) xf86ReadBIOS: Failed to open /dev/mem (No such file or directory) 4) On occasion, lilo will load, but when I boot to Linux, it says, Kernel panic: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 I'm not sure what 03 is, but I have to assume 5 refers to hda5 which is mounted at /. But everything up to this point in the installation pretends to work, including the installation of all the packages. I've tried reputedly, about a dozen attempts so far. I tried making Ext2 partitions with the Mandrake installer and with Partition Magic 6 in Windows. I've tried using Ext2 partitions as well as ReiserFS partitions using the Mandrake installer. I've tried installing from a CD-RW that I burned from the downloaded ISO, and I've tried installing from a CD-R, even of a different brand. I've tried diagnosing problems with my HD with both Partition Magic 6, and with Norton's Disk Doctor 2001, and there aren't any problems. And Windows has no problems accessing its own partitions, of course. I've tried wiping the mbr so that lilo or grub get a clean shot at installation (although not in conjunction with these other things). If my computer had a neck, I would choke it to death. What is going on?!! Miark - Original Message - From: "Anthony" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 7:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues So what exactly is the problem? I don't think ReiserFS filesystems do bad sector checking. At least I don't remember getting asked that when I formatted my Linux partitions to that. Have you tried jsut checking the swap partition and then moving on? Nobody has even guessed at my problem yet, but I have more clues that may help you help me. Here's the full scenario: I'm installing 7.2 for dual-boot with Win98. When I get to DiskDrake in set-up, I choose to make the three following partitions: * Logical, ReiserFS, 5 GB, mounted at / * Logical, ReiserFS, 1 GB, mounted at /home * Logical, Linux swap, 500 MB It says that it's formatting the Reiser partitions, but it only says that for about 2 seconds. Then, when it asks which partitions on which to check for bad sectors, it _only_ lists the swap partition. If I go back and make the Reiser partitions Linux native, then everything is fine. Well, it's as close to fine as it will get. Now I remember somebody on this list saying that what I want to do is possible. Were they wrong? How do I implement ReiserFS and make it work? Miark -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit. Did you set your Linux boot partition below the 8Gb point? 73 -bruce-
[newbie] Security
When using L-M 7.1 with KDE 1.?, I was able to have only root shutdown or restart. Using L-M 7.2 and KDE 2.01, I have configured login screen using login manager and set it for root only. Even after setting to "root only" there is no restriction as to who can shut down. Anyone can walk up and hit shutdown without logging in. Any suggestion or help would be appreciated. Thanks, Bruce ____ Bruce Douberley Computer Technical Service [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Tape Backup
Can anyone suggest a compatible scsi card and tape unit. I have a SUN(conner CTD8000H/R-S) external scsi tape unit 4.0gb/8.0gb using DDS2 120m tape. I have extra tapes so if this can work, it will be a great savings. But the SCSI card is the other matter. I have checked out the SuSE site and settled on the Adaptec 2940U. Any help or ideas? Thanks, Bruce Bruce Douberley, TSP [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] cut/paste under KDE
Dear newbie list reader, I'm fairly new to Mandrake, adjusting from having used RH for several years. Under RH and KDE, I'm very used to the X Windows cut and paste feature (just select it with the mouse pointer, then press both buttons on my MS mouse to paste it into another window, field, etc.). This feature doesn't work under MDK/KDE. I do alot of work using KDE's Konsole. When I press both buttons, a pop-up menu appears rather than pasting the selected text. If I try to paste to another application nothing happens. If I try to first copy like MS Windows has you do (^C) then nothing happens. Well, in Konsole, it aborts the current line and gives you another prompt. Is there an easy to get this to work. I really rely on cut/paste *alot*. Thanks, in advance. Bruce -- Bruce W. Mohler 858-826-2675 (voice) SAIC/Secure Business Solutions 858-826-5112 (fax) Sr UNIX system administratormailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Semper fi -- so much entropy, so little time -- Of course my password is the same as my pet's name. My dog's name is tur5%kee, but I change it every 90 days.
[newbie] kde vs gnome vs java
Just installed Linux Mandrake 7.1, and the latest IBM Java V1.1.8 Under Gnome, a java app I use a lot (PolarBar eMailer) works fine (except for another problem for another email). But under KDE the mouse left click does not properly select list items. Menu items are selected OK though. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that under KDE, all it takes is a single click to launch an app from the desktop, whereas with Gnome, it is a double click. So how can I change KDE's default mouse behaviour to be more like Gnome's? I see nothing in the configuration dialogs... (By the way, I couldn't get the default Kaffe version of java to work at all with Polarbar Mailer) Thanks, Bruce. __ Bruce LaZerte Grandview Lake in Muskoka Ontario, Canada
[newbie] kernel patches
Just installed Linux Mandrake V7.1 (Helium) with kernel 2.2.15-4mdk. Was having a problem with accessing all the files on a remote smbfs directory, and the folks at www.samba.org told me to patch and recompile the kernel up to 2.2.18-pre8 to fix it. So I downloaded the necessary patches from ftp.kernel.org and tried it. Problem: the patches expect a plain vanilla kernel. They don't want to patch the existing mandrake -4mdk mod. Errors abound... So, does mandrake have special patches that can get me up to 2.2.18-mdk-pre8 ? Or what should I do? Bruce __ Bruce LaZerte Grandview Lake in Muskoka Ontario, Canada
[newbie] No go on notebook
Ok I'm defnately a newbie to Linux trying to install Mandrake 7.1. After full install it won't get past initilisation and dies just before xwindows starts. Message is "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 07:07 ??? I fear it may be my video card? as I'm using a sony laptop with a nice TFT screen, which of course was not in the setup. Is there a way to get "most" laptop screens supported? Any help'd be great Bruce Christopher Molnar wrote: On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Mark wrote: I have a few questions, was wondering if anyone could help? W only works as root. I want all users to see who is on. They can do this using Finger, but I'd rather have W work as I'm so used to it. It displays the header for W, but no username or user info. I tried changing the permissions on the utmp file, but to no avail. what about "w" not "W" ? I just checked and it works here (mdk 7.1 developer install). Finger Command does not retain info once a user logs out. So when I finger user, it says they have never logged in. I'm not sure on this one either. I will open a bug on this one. Thanks. And finally, YTalk, it runs, but will not contact the other user that I'm trying to talk to. How do I get this to run? Is this a process that has to be started? I have never used... sorry. Hope that helps a little. -Chris
Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
Jim, I've had similar problems with mine. What I found is that if you use the cd player to eject your music cd, then; the cd works fine or if it doesn't; just keep the cd player on screen and us it to eject the cd's. I know it's weird, BUT; it worked for me. Sorry, can't help you on the remainder. Hope it helps. Bruce :-) Jim wrote: I still haven't recieved any help with this and since upgrading to 7.1 it seems worse I installed MD 7.1, I have a creative cdrw 4224 and I can play music on it just fine under linux, however when I go to access it for files, the light comes on and after a few minutes I get an error message that the contents of the directory /mnt/cdrom can not be displayednow the weirdI can't eject the cd and the light stays on. If I don't completely power down the machine the cdrom isn't recognized by the bios on the reboot. If I completely shut down the power for the recomended 15 seconds and turn it back on my cdrom is back in the boot list again. Can anyone help me with all this weirdness? I am running an AMD K6-3 450, 128 mb ram, on a gigabyte MB, with the Ali Aladdin V AGPset rev 5. I have had problems with the cd-rw in linux from the begining and haven't gotten it fixed, but it never removed it from the bios before...what gives here? Jim
Re: [newbie] changing back to kde
I have already tried running "setup", but I get a "command not found" error message when I try. Bruce Go to a terminal either in root or su and type "setup" without quotes. Then go to desktop configuration and choose the one you want - Original Message - From: Bruce Endries [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 10:13 PM Subject: [newbie] changing back to kde I re-installed Mandrake 7.0-2 today, and found that somehow I had configured X to start up with gnome. I want the kde desktop. Is there an easy way to change it to kde? Thanks, Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Consulting (607) 433-2677 _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Consulting (607) 433-2677
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA hung
"Bruce K. Patten" wrote: Mandrake 7.0 runs beautifully on my Toshiba Satellite after a fresh install, but upon rebooting later, it gets down as far as "Starting PCMCIA" and just hangs there. I used the recommended install route and there is no other OS on this machine. WaddoIdo now? OK, I solved my problem; just hit "I" on boot up and answer "Y" to all setup questions except PCMCIA.
Re: [newbie] Problem mounting CDRW
Lonnie; Check your "dmesg" file; this will tell you what linux thinks your cdrw is. I basicly have the same type of setup. Linux however senses my cdrw as being connected to a scsi device. Therefore; I had to change the settings in the "ftab" file. In your "ftab" it (cdrw) maybe maybe listed as somthing like (hdc or the like); you may have to change ittosomething like "sd0" (this is what mine is sensed as). But, again; check the "dmesg" file. Usually, it'll be at the very end of the file. I know I probably confused you; I'm confusing myself. Anyway good luck. This list server is VERY helpful. Bruce :-) - Original Message - From: Lonnie Marvena To: Newbie Linux Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 7:43 PM Subject: [newbie] Problem mounting CDRW Hi Hi! I just installed Mandrake 7.02 and it works great but I thought mountinga cdrom was automatic? I have1 cdrom and1 cdrw (Smart Friendly CD Pacer RW2224). Mandrake installed icons on my desktop for both cdrom and cdrw but the cdrw will not mount. It is set up as follows /mnt/cdr2, Supermount and /mnt/cdr2 . I havebeen unable to find doc's on this CDRW but am wondering if it is just setup wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks Lonnie
[newbie] PCMCIA hung
Mandrake 7.0 runs beautifully on my Toshiba Satellite after a fresh install, but upon rebooting later, it gets down as far as "Starting PCMCIA" and just hangs there. I used the recommended install route and there is no other OS on this machine. WaddoIdo now?
Re: [newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive
Martin; Glad it worked. Just to set the record straight. I am very new to Linux, however; dos and windows I'm not. Fat and MSDOS mode are 16 bit, they typically can only handle the 8.3 filenames (this is the old system), the new system VFat is 32 bit and can handle the long file names. This is why when you enter a dos window from win95/98 and you try "dir" the long filenames will not be displayed. It will only display the first 6 characters of the filename with a tilde "~" and some number that dos assigns it with the extension. I also mentioned that you should check the "dmesg" file, this tells you what linux thinks your drives are. On my system my second cdrom(RW) and my zip drive are sensed by linux as SCSI devices (as sd0 and sda) which they are not; there IDE. About the 4 (hdc4), not sure; but; again if you look in the "dmesg" file you'll see what your drives are being assigned at by linux. Bruce :-) Martin Foster wrote: Hi! This is the one that works: mount -t msdos /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip Many thanks to you and everybody else for solving the problem. Your help is much appreciated. Next question(s) :-) Why hdc4 and not hdc? Can I put an entry for mounting the Zip drive in /etc/fstab? What is "supermount"? Regards, Martin *** On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote: Ummm, Well, first of all it won't be /dev/sda because it is IDE, so it will be /dev/hdc, /dev/hdd, /dev/hab (most likely one of those three depending whether it is master or slave and cabled to channel 1 or 2, second, /dev/hdd4 would mount a FACTORY formatted Zip, and it is unlikely to be vfat but rather fat or msdos fat handles longer file names so should be the choice. third (and you probably got this right to get the error message), the form of the mount command is mount -t fat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip or mount -t msdos /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip Fourth, a simpler way to do this is to use DrakConf/linuxconf to set up the filesystem and let it do the work for the options and the mounting. Civileme Martin Foster wrote: Hi! OK, I've done all that but I still can't access the drive. "Mount" tells me that "vfat" is the wrong file system. Any further ideas please? Regards, Martin On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote: Martin; To mount your internal zip drive; 1st - open a terminal window; 2nd - change to directory "/mnt"; 3rd - make a directory for it (I used "zip"); 4th - now mount it. i.e. cd / cd /mnt md zip cd / mount t- vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip The "sda4" in "/dev" maybe different on your machine. Check the "/var/log/dmesg" file to see what your system thinks it is. Also note that you cannot eject your zip disk until you umount the zip drive. Hope this helps; Bruce :-) Martin Foster wrote: Hi! Just having spent a couple of days installing and configuring Mandrake, I find that I can access all my drives *except* my internal ATAPI Zip drive. Can someone please tell me if it's possible to access it and if so, how? Regards, Martin
Re: [newbie] display blinking
I had this problem when I tried installing Corel Linux, I found this in their FAQ. And it worked for me. I'm not sure if it's the same problem - but; on my machine, the only time the keyboard was active (you could type) was when the screen was visible (get you timing right). At the prompt (when it appears) type "killall kdm" (without the quotes). Once you've accomplished this (it took me a little while). Go to directory "/usr/X11R6/bin", and run "XF86Setup" (without the quotes). The directory and application names are case sensitive. Now these is the directory and application in Corel Linux. I'm not sure if there the same in MD. I didn't have any (well not much) problems with my video in MD as with CL. Hope this helps Bruce :-) - Original Message - From: alex.avellaneda To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 4:53 AM Subject: [newbie] display blinking I just installed mandrake but as it loads, the screen is blinking every 4-5 sec.; I guess it's got to do with the refreshing rate or something (my display: LCD, TFT, I haven't got any doc for its config).Could you help?Thank you. to reply remove the REMOVEME from the address
[newbie] RPM problems
I am new to Mandrak, switching from Caldera. I have tried to install Canvas 7 in rpm form, and even Mandrak openssh rpm and all failed. Seems rpm is screwed. I did get an error msg that I can not dupe a the moment but seem to remember cant access lib6 /var/lib/rpm/requiredby.rpm (I know /var/lib/rpm/requiredby.rpm was part of the error.) I can not install new RPMs often X will shutdown the KDM window. Any ideas? -- Best Regards, Bruce
[newbie] Path updating
Hi, I upgraded to Sun's JDK 1.2.2. It is located in /usr/local/jdk1.2.2/bin, however the orginal Mandrake JDK is located at /usr/bin/java and I can not make my system reconize the new location. I seem to recall a file that hold this info, similar to the old DOS config.sys. What/where is the Mandrake equalivent? I have tried to update /etc/profile, and home/.bashrc but no dice -- Best Regards, Bruce
Re: [newbie] cable modem
I use Linux with a cable modem on RoadRunner, and it works great. Why don't you try this: Run LinuxConf. Go to Networking, then to basic host info. Then select the tab for your network card (eth0). Click on the optin for DHCP. Back out of LinuxConf, activating your changes. You may have to reboot, I don't know. That's ALL I have to do to make RoadRunner work with Linux. Maybe it will work for you. It's worth a try. Good Luck! Jacob Aaron Holbrook wrote: well I just called them again to try and get the information. They said that they cannot give it out because it changes all the time and they cannot assign a "static address" to me. I ran netcfg and set my eth0 to active, saved, closed the window and tried to ping. It didn't work so i went back into netcfg and my eth0 was inactive again.
Re: [newbie] zip drive problem
Jon wrote: Mani Abreu wrote: Nope. Just tried that, here's the result: mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?) I read that the problem may be that the kernel is loading the drivers for the line printer first, before parport/ppa driver. How do I change the order around? Mani forstfed wrote: On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote: Well, try just doing the mount now. See if that does anything. Well, I tried that. Here's what I got after typing "insmod ppa": /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Any ideas? I really want to get this thing resolved. Mani forstfed wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: This is what worked for me: As su in a terminal window: mkdir /mnt/zip insmod parport insmod ppa mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip make sure there is a disk in. You have to umount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip to eject the disk, then mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip again when you insert another disk. Ed Geez, You guys made me dig my old zip drive out of the closet to test this problem and you know, it didn't work either. Tried it on a RedHat 6.1 and a Mandrake 7.0-2 machine. Hardware works as I made a DOS boot disk with guest.exe on it. Worked fine with Redhat 5.2 and Slackware 3.6 some time ago with the commands listed above. I also looked at modules loaded and tried it without any modules and in init 1 hand loading modules. Since the kernel for Mandrake 7.0 came from Redhat 6.1 (Recompiled) I wonder if perhaps lp (or another parallel port using service) support was built into the kernel instead of as a mod. Question! Does anyone out there have a parallel port ZIP working on Mandrake 7.0-2 or RedHat 6.1? If so, can you please tell us how you did it? Give out with the port setting in the BIOS, Kernel you used and anything else you think might help. I am going to try recompiling a kernel to see if I can get it working. I don't really know if this will help; but check out the attached "text" file. I come from the Linux Gazette. Bruce :-) Zip Drive Mini-HOWTO Kyle Dansie, [EMAIL PROTECTED] v2.4, 10 January 1999 This Document provides a quick reference quide on setting up and using the Iomega ZIP drive with Linux. __ Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1 Home of this document 2. Quick Start 3. Configuring a kernel for the ZIP drive 3.1 SCSI version 4. The ZIP drive 4.1 Parallel port version Zip100 4.2 SCSI external version 4.2.1 The ZIP ZOOM host adapter 4.3 The SCSI Internal version 4.4 The ZIP Plus - IMM driver 4.5 ATAPI version 4.6 IDE version 4.7 USB version 4.8 ZIP250 version 5. Using the ZIP drive 5.1 Fdisk, mke2fs, mount, etc. 5.2 An existing DOS formatted disk 5.3 Re-format as a native Linux disk 5.4 fstab entries 5.5 The ZIP Tools disk 6. Performance 7. Frequently asked questions 7.1 Can I plug a printer into the parallel ZIP drive ? 7.2 Do you plan to support EPP/ECP ports in PPA ? 7.3 Can I run Linux from a ZIP drive ? 7.4 Can I boot from the ZIP drive ? 7.5 Why does Iomega use partition number 4 ? 7.6 How can I have the disk mounted at boot time ? 7.7 What happens if there is no disk inserted when I boot ? 7.8 Can I use the parallel drive as a real SCSI disk ? 7.9 Can PPA be used with Iomega's parallel port tape drives ? 7.10 Will PPA work with the parallel port SyQuest EZ135 ? 8. Getting more current information __ 1. Introduction The Iomega ZIP drive is a popular, removable media disk drive. It is avaliable in several versions. · Parallel Port · SCSI · IDE - ATAPI · Plus The most popular seems to be the Parallel port version. It has been around a long time and it is low cost. The SCSI version has also been around for a while but it needs a scsi card that many people do not have already, so it it not quite as popular. The ATAPI version now seems to be more available. The Plus is the newer version of the ZIP drive. It has the capability to detect what port its plugged into, scsi or parallel. This document will focus on the Parallel port version, but also offer some tips for other versions. This document incorporates information collected and published by others, in particular: · Grant Guenther, [EMAIL PROTECTED] · Scot Wilcoxon, [EMAIL PROTECTED] · Joe Mack, [EMAIL PROTECTED] · Byron Jeff, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thank them for their important contributions, and acc
Re: [newbie] DOS based directories
Vern; Even if you in DOS under windows, you can not say do "cd /program files/". Does under windoze uses the tilde "~". Under DOS in windows to change to directory "Program Files" you would type "cd /progra~1/" without the quotes or if you had another directory named "Programs", it would be "cd /progra~2", etc. Windoze dos keeps the first 6 characters of the directory name and assigns the tilde "~" plus a numeric from 1 to 9. I do not know what it would do if you had more than 9 directories named "program". Hope this helps. Bruce :-) Oliver Stieber wrote: if your setting up paths in wine.conf just type them in as you would under dos eg [wine] path=c:\windows\system32;c:\windows;c:\dos;c:\program files\myprogram windows=c:\windows i'm not sure how you setup drives, as i'm on NT at the moment and can't remember how i set the up @home there's a man file for wine configuration in wine.configure and a few more in the wine doc's path -Original Message- From: vern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 March 2000 18:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] DOS based directories Hello All, I'm presently experimenting with Wine (windows emulator) not the drink! I have a question as to how Linux recognizes two word directory names? ie: /Program Files/ How do you represent the space between words? I have tried the following: "Program Files" "Program_Files" "Program%20Files" The last one came from watching how X represents them. I have tried all the above from the command line and nogo. This may be an easily found answer but I keep overlooking it! Thanks! Vern
Re: [newbie] CD-ROM disappeared
Lawrence Koga wrote: Hello, This is what happened. I installed Mandrake 7.0, running dual boot with Win95. After the install of Mandrake 7.0, I boot with KDE. I can boot and run KDE as XWindow. I can sign up as root, everything seems to work. My cd-rom cannot be opened. When I click on the cd-rom icon, I get an error message that the device cannot be opened. When Linux is loading the cd-rom is found as "hdd". I checked the /etc/fstab file and it is mounted, iso=9660. I even tried at boot "Linux hdd=cdrom" When I boot in Win95 the cd is present and usable. What to do? How do I get my cd back and working? Thanks in advance. Please contact me if you wish to discuss this further. Thank you, Lawrence M. Koga WEB Hosting Consultant VERIO WEB Hosting 560 Gateway Dr. Napa, CA 94558 USA Toll Free USA: 800-226-7996 ext. 5176 Canada 800-340-3269 ext. 5176 International: 707-256-1990 ext. 5176 Direct: 707-251-5176 FAX:707-256-2942 Attn.: Lawrence M. Koga If you order on-line please include "176 Lawrence" in the service rep field. TECHNICAL SUPPORT: email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call them at 1-877-874-6265 option 4, then option 2 Lawrence; What's your "/var/log/dmesg" say. It displays what linux thinks you have attached to your system. Bruce :-)
Re: [newbie] fixed it
Yup! I must have. If your upgrading your monitor to a newer one, I would imagine that it would be able to handle your current resolution. Then, once you got into KDE you could run drakconf adjust to your new monitor and different resolution. If the monitor or resolution you selected wasn't right, you could use the "ctrl-alt-backspace" to return to KDE and try again. I learnt the hard way. When I tried to change my monitor and/or resolution to something else and either my monitor and/or video card didn't like it; my screen would go completely black and sometimes my monitor would just go to sleep. Before I found out about using "ctrl-alt-backspace", I would restart my computer because I thought at that point that I had too. But, linux does have some nice safe guards. Bruce :-) KompuKit wrote: I'm not sure you understand... I need a safe default setting...BEFORE I changeover to the new monitor...so that when I do changeover...I'll still be able to view the login screen...etc...and then be able to bringup drakeconf... to change the xconfigurator...etc...to the new settings for the new monitor...not go back to the prior settings... Bruce Hilliker wrote: KompuKit wrote: okay, somehow...I was just about able to see more clearly... on subsequent reboots...and was then able to click and open drakeconf...to change the monitor settings...and res now I'm back in Linux...thank God ! What I want to know is this... I haven't changed over to the new monitor yet...but did changover to a Acerview 34T 14" for the time being... until I go get the new one tommorow... the new one is a Hitachi 17" about a year old. don't know the model number yet. anyway, how can I set the settings...BEFORE rebooting to the new monitor,once it's installed...and not let this happen again...where I couldn't see to change the configs. what is a safe setting to use...like perhaps a default...when switching over to the new one...? -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit=== When you run into that problem with resolution, monitor, vid card and you lose the screen - all black or the such; try using the "ctrl-alt-backspace" (without the quotes) combination - usually this will bring you back to your prior settings. Bruce :-) -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
[newbie] KDE/Gnome background image
Hi; Wondering if someone could explain to me why - if I select a jpg image for my background in Gnome, it looks as good as it does in my windoze environment. But, if I try to use the same image as a backgound in KDE it's real grainy and I can't seem to get the resolution any better. Any ideas. Thanks - Bruce :-)
Re: [newbie] Real Player
Antonio Carlos Ribeiro Nogueira wrote: Anthony Huereca wrote: Did you got RealPlayer to run under Linux? I visited the site and didn'f find a version for Linux. Sincerely Antonio Carlos Antonio; Go to their website - click free download (Real Player 7); when you select download from that page; it will ask you which OS you want. Bruce :-)
Re: [newbie] fixed it
KompuKit wrote: okay, somehow...I was just about able to see more clearly... on subsequent reboots...and was then able to click and open drakeconf...to change the monitor settings...and res now I'm back in Linux...thank God ! What I want to know is this... I haven't changed over to the new monitor yet...but did changover to a Acerview 34T 14" for the time being... until I go get the new one tommorow... the new one is a Hitachi 17" about a year old. don't know the model number yet. anyway, how can I set the settings...BEFORE rebooting to the new monitor,once it's installed...and not let this happen again...where I couldn't see to change the configs. what is a safe setting to use...like perhaps a default...when switching over to the new one...? -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit=== When you run into that problem with resolution, monitor, vid card and you lose the screen - all black or the such; try using the "ctrl-alt-backspace" (without the quotes) combination - usually this will bring you back to your prior settings. Bruce :-)
Re: [newbie] ZIP Not installing...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lance, I have tried both 'insmod' and 'modprobe' for 'ppa' and 'parport'. No luck either way, even have done the 'lsmod' to check for the listing, NOTHING. After having some probs with one way of installing should I do the 'modprobe -r' to remove any installs that were from other attempts? don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00:00:09 +0200 Lance Borden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, now for my NEWBY question, I did the 'insmod parport' and 'insmod ppa' then 'mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/ZIP'. The message comes back as "mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?)" Where would I find a driver? You might first try 'modprobe ppa' instead of 'insmod...' Seems like when I was setting up my zip drive, they said the command had changed. I'm running mdk6.1. Also, you can do 'lsmod' after modprobe to get a list of installed modules -- naturally, you should see them in the list. Finally, for my purposes, I only need 'modprobe ppa' and not parport (however, I do notice that doing 'modprobe ppa' will install the parport module -- strange, huh? Or maybe it's all bundled together now, I don't know!). Lance YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. Don; check your "/var/log/dmesg" file, this will tell you what linux thinks it is. or just include it and just maybe someone can help. I have found this list very very helpful. Bruce :-)
Re: [newbie] x windows problem cp
curtis patrick wrote: i have a voodoo 3 and when i am tryin to change the resolution, i run XF86Setup and i get a green line at the top of the screen and it like freezes, whats wrong. i dont like editing the conf file i always screw it up. and have to reinstall. what can i do Try using the "ctrl-alt-backspace" with the quotes. Bruce :-)
Re: [newbie] sound
Dan wrote: I am using Mandrake 7.0 so far everything went well.install.graphics... This is my first try at Linux and so far I am impressed. One major problem I am having,however, is my sound. I am using a Turtle Beach Montego 2 sound card(aureal semiconductor/vortex 2 as Linux calls it). I tried installing the drivers from linux.aureal.com but got a kernel error message. I tried turning on and off PnP,sndconfig says the card is not supported. Any hope? Thank You in advance! Dan Schlosser Dan; I had the same problems. I have an Aureal Semiconductor, Vortex 2 Pro. You can go to http://www.4front-tech.com , they all sorts of sound drivers. It cost me $30; but, it was worth getting my sound to work. Isn't linux great -- Bruce :-)
Re: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem
curtis patrick wrote: do you know where there are conexant winmodem drivers for linux, i tried to swap with my other computer which had lucent chipset. but it wouldnt work. (dont ask). so i am gonna try and get this conexant soft56k working. - Original Message - From: steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 4:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem curtis, go ahead and try it. The instructions come with the lucent download and the program told me what I was doing wrong. (I had to get a new kernel) It figures out what port the lucent is on and creates the /dev/modem link to match it. Try it! Shouldnt hurt anything. (famous last words) Original Message Follows From: "curtis patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 17:30:24 -0800 do you think my winmodem will work it is a lucent chipset. - Original Message - From: steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:05 PM Subject: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem For those needing some confidence to try the Lucent winmodem drivers, even *I* was successful. I am using the Winmodem now. I am using RH6.0, I had previously updated it to a 2.2.9-27mdk kernel. I downloaded the Lucent Zip file. It contains a readme to follow. Running ./ltinst it came back and said this module was compiled for kernel 2.2.12-20 I went to rpmfind.net and downloaded the kernel 2.2.12-20.i386.rpm and installed it. Changed my lilo.conf and ran lilo. Rebooted then tried ./ltinst again. Worked! Fired up Kppp and changed the device to /dev/modem and it worked. (I was using /dev/ttyS1 on an external courier modem) Cool! Kernel in rpm format in which you don't have to compile it. http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/6.1/i386/kernel-2.2.12-20.i386.html Lucent driver: http://www.linmodems.org/#linmodems Get the linux568.zip file. fwiw steve __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Try http://www.linmodem.org or it maybe http://www.linmodem.com it's one or the other. Hope it helps. Bruce :-)
Re: [newbie] sound help
curtis patrick wrote: how do you configure sound in mandrake 7.0-2 Curtis; From a terminal session (CTRL-ALT-F1) (CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to xwindows) and login as "root"; then type sndconfig (this is automatic; if that doesn't work; try) sndconfig --noprobe (this is manual, and you'll have to have info on your card I/O, IRQ, DMA; if that doesn't work) go to http://www.4front-tech.com they have all sort of sound drivers for linux. You can download a free trial to see if it works; if it does, you'll have to pay. Hope it helps. Bruce :-)
Re: [newbie] Questions, Questions!
The problem is, I do not have any SCSI devices; there all IDE. Linux just thinks there SCSI, I don't know why? Lothar picks up my sound card, but; places it in the "other" catagory? I'll try the "sndconfig" manually. Also, thanks Hugh; Sound Blaster always (well). It was/is a good fall back in windoze also. I'll try it. Don't you just love linux. I can't believe how much better my system runs. Thanks again - Bruce :-) KompuKit wrote: I believe you can MANUALLY use sndconfg to setup your soundcard...if it doesn't do it auto...that is, if, it supports your specific card. It also looks as if you have a lot of scsi devices...have you tried LOTHAR in drakconf Bruce Hilliker wrote: Hi to all; Could use a little (or a lot) of help. A little background. My System: Processor:AMD K-7 550 mhz Memory: 128K HD:Western digital 13.9G Sound: Aureal Semiconductor, Vortex 2 Pro Video:S3 Inc., Savage 4 Modem: Newly purchased 3COM 56K voice/fax external - just for Linux Zip Drive: Iomega internal CDROM 1: Toshiba DVD-ROM, SD-M1302 CDROM 2:Sony CD-RW CRX100E When I decided to start using linux, I started with Corel Linux. I even purchased the "Deluxe" edition for the 30 day free installation support. Well I installed Corel Linux, it found all my devices except my modem (understandable (winmodem at that time) and my video card (not acceptable)). After 7 emails, 2 phone calls to tech support (voice mail), 2 calls to sales and 120 days later, I still haven't heard a word. So I removed Corel Linux and purchased Mandrake V7.0. After installing Mandrake, it did not find my sound card, it's also having problems with my Sony CD-RW. I would like to be able to get my sound card working (sndconfig tells me that Vortex 2 is not supported, however; that is what I used under Corel Linux to get it going - go figure), and be able to use my CD-RW, at present; I can read from it but thats it. I am current using Kermal version 2.2.14-15mdk. I've seen on this list where people are using Mandrake 7.02. Is there some other way of getting it other than downloading it from the ftp site, 671M will take me forever to download. Actually I started last night and gave up after 12 hours. I would appreciate any help/comments. I have included my "dmesg" as of 03/25 and my "fstab" (below). If you guru's need to see anything else, just let me know and I'll be more than happy to share them with you. dmesg: Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Tue Jan 4 22:24:20 CET 2000 Detected 548959269 Hz processor. ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 547.23 BogoMIPS Memory: 63976k/66496k available (1092k kernel code, 416k reserved, 948k data, 64k init, 0k bigmem) Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k) Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized L1 I Cache: 64K L1 D Cache: 64K L2 Cache: 512K CPU: AMD AMD-K7(tm) Processor stepping 02 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb480 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:00 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 39, VID=1022, DID=7409 PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: WDC WD136BA, ATA DISK drive hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1302, ATAPI CDROM drive hdd: CD-RW CRX100E, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: WDC WD136BA, 13042MB w/1961kB Cache, CHS=1662/
Re: [newbie] Unable to access cdrom or floppy
Peter; I'm getting the same error messages. The way I got around it was to create two new folders under "/mnt". I probably should have used the originals "cdrom2 and floppy", but; I'm new to linux and didn't want to screw anything up. Anyways, I created "cdrw" and "afloppy", then; mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/afloppy mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrw Worked like a champ. But, what a pain typing all this in each time. I will be looking into something a little easier. But, for the meantime; it'll do. I have other fish to fry. Hope this helps. Bruce :-) "Peter H. Hackett" wrote: When I try to access the cdrom or floppy from either command line or desktop, I get an error such as : /mnt/floppy: Input/output error (same goes for cdrom). They both show as mounted and are in the fstab, but I'm at a loss. Any Ideas?? Thanks... _ Peter H. Hackett
[newbie] Abit wb6 Video
Does anybody know what video card to select, for the abit wb6 mb which has an intel 810e onboard video DC133 according to the abit manual. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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[newbie] Getting to the Internet
Hello I have tried tech support also but whoever can help first is appriciated any suggestions on providers for the internet. MSN doesn't support Linux as far as I can figure. I have tried altavista and freewwweb both without success. Are there any internet providers in the Linux 7.0 complete, which is the package I bought? Thanks Bruce __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Samba
I've seen the same thing many times. Here are some suggestions: 1. Make sure you have a linux username and password that exactly matches your windows username and password. 2. Make sure that you have a samba share that is useable by the particular user. 3. Make sure that you have the samba share configured in smb.conf for the particular user, or make it a public share (writable). 4. Make sure smb.conf is configured to use encrypted passwords. 5. Make sure you add the linux/windows user to the encrypted password file by using the command: smbpasswd -a XX where XX is the linux/windows username. You will be prompted for the password. Then try it again. Bruce Date sent: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:23:31 -0600 (CST) From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Samba Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you log in as your unprivileged user? If so, your problem is probably that you aren't allowing guest logins to your share (you can do this by adding "guest ok" or something like that to the share). Also, check which user account you have set as your Samba guest account. DvB On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Gerry Doyon wrote: Sounds like an "encrypted password" problem. I bet when you click on the sahre in Network Neighborhood it asks for a password for the a share with "$" in it. If so, you must enable password encryption in your Samba setup. Keith wrote: Hi all, I seem to have Samba up and running after many days of pulling my hair out,and now have another problem.I can see my 2 windows machines and my linux files (i am using LinNeighborhood) and can mount and use the windoze file systems no problem.Now on my windoze boxes i can see the linux box but cannot access it,its asking for a password and i cant for the life of me find out where to put this password.Swat has no offering for a password when i set up my shared linux files.Any suggestions welcome. Thanks -- Keith
[newbie] Use of Mandrake as a server platform
Greetings all; I have been playing with Mandrake at home for a while now, and am considering introducing it at work for use as a fileserver platform for a small (30 or so machines) fileserver using Samba. The one thing that I am concerned about is doing backups. I currently back up about 4GB of data to tape every night, and I'd like to know if anyone out there has a suggestion as to what kind of program to use to do this task. I occasionally need to restore a file or group of files. Is TAR up to a task like this? Is there another program I should be looking at? Thanks in advance. Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Consulting (607) 433-2677
Re: [newbie] /etc/fstab
Is Steve Philp awesome or what? It worked perfectly! Problem #1: I compiled 2.2.3 and implemented it no problem, but I was getting permission errors on /dev/hda3 (128 meg swap space - i verified code 83) Solution was: chmod 600 /dev/hda3 Problem #2: Invalid argument setting swapon /dev/hda3 Solution was: mkswap /dev/hda3 and thenswapon /dev/hda3 (even though mkswap was set at installation, switching to 2.2.3 kernel must have altered something?) Many thanks to the Linux Community! Bruce Newland [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 14, 1999 8:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] /etc/fstab Bruce Newland wrote: Hi all, I am having a problem with my swap file and I believe it is the /etc/fstab entry. Here is the line of fstab: /dev/hda3 swapswapdefaults0 0 Here is what happens when I try to set swap to /dev/hda3: [root@pepper /]# swapon /dev/hda3 swapon: warning: /dev/hda3 has insecure permissions 0660, 0600 suggested swapon: /dev/hda3: Invalid argument [root@pepper /]# I have hunted high and low for more docs on fstab, but to no avail. Any Ideas? Check the permissions on /dev/hda3. They're probably "brw-rw". Use this: chmod 600 /dev/hda3 to change them. It's rather odd that you're getting a problem with this. Checking my swap partition in /dev shows that the permissions are 660 also, but I haven't seen any errors. If changing the permissions doesn't work, check the partition type (fdisk -l /dev/hda) to ensure it's set to Linux swap. Also, did you run 'mkswap /dev/hda3' before attempting the 'swapon'? -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] linux penguin
How do I get rid of the penguin after boot-up on my mandrake 5.3 box? I like the compilation info and the processor+ ram info, but the penguin is getting on my nerves. Bruce Newland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] /etc/fstab
Hi all, I am having a problem with my swap file and I believe it is the /etc/fstab entry. Here is the line of fstab: /dev/hda3 swapswapdefaults0 0 Here is what happens when I try to set swap to /dev/hda3: [root@pepper /]# swapon /dev/hda3 swapon: warning: /dev/hda3 has insecure permissions 0660, 0600 suggested swapon: /dev/hda3: Invalid argument [root@pepper /]# I have hunted high and low for more docs on fstab, but to no avail. Any Ideas? Bruce Newland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] /etc/fstab
Ok, chmod 600 /dev/hda3 solved the warning portion of my swap prob, now what about the invalid argument? Bruce Newland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] iso CD image
Amidst all the problems you guys are handling, I thought I would just let you know that I downloaded the Mandrake distribution CD-ROM image from ftp.cs.univ-paris8.fr, wrote it to a CD, and successfully installed Mandrake on the first try. This is a great idea, and I hope you continue it as versions go on... Thank you, Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Consulting (607) 433-2677
