Re: [newbie] fonts etc. in rc1
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 03:08:09PM +0300, Florian Struck wrote: honest; looks REALLY AMAZING . A few days ago i sayd in the mandrake irc channel that MDK 8 will make the hop into mainstream someone answered that linux will make the hop if someone develops a browser as fast and good as IE This may or may not be public opinion, but I think the main barrier to our entry is the lack of a finanacial application that can do what Quicken does (or a collection of tools/scripts/utilities to provide the equivalent functionality). That, coupled with an Office compatible program such as StarOffice, could very well be the leaping block that prepels us onto the generic user desktop. Plus, advanced functions for Webmain/Linuxconf are required so that regular non-geeks can modify their systems easily. YMMV and the opinions expressed are those of the author alone. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] help configuring network card
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:18:12AM -0700, Tyrak Sunstorm wrote: detect the card properly, but when I try to assign an IP address, it doesn't take. I can't ping the address of the card I assign, or the default gateway. I can It makes sense that if you can't ping the card itself, you won't be able to ping the gateway. Post the results of the following: ifconfig route -n ls /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts Then (as root) run 'ifup eth0' and see what results you get. All of this can be done from the standard config utils, but I want to see ALL error messages that might appear. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] changing 24 hr clock to 12 hr clock
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:02:45PM -0500, David Travis wrote: How do I change the clock on KDE 2.1.1 to 12hr time instead of 24 hr time. Right click on the clock Select Date Time Format The dialog box that pops up is going to be for selecting your locale. You can select NorthAmerica-US and it will convert the format for you, or you can do it manually by selecting the Time and Dates Tab and converting the %H to %l (lower case L). -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] changing 24 hr clock to 12 hr clock
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:02:45PM -0500, David Travis wrote: How do I change the clock on KDE 2.1.1 to 12hr time instead of 24 hr time. Addendum: Forget to say in the last email that you must restart KDE for it to take effect. If in runlevel 5, logout and then log back in. If in runlevel 3, logout then startx again. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] boot error
"Mcintosh, Duncan" wrote: Have you tried at boot up to run linux single?. That should get you started. To find the answer I duplicated the problem he had. The answer is no, you can't specify runlevel 1, nor can you specify init=/bin/sh. The problem is that in all of these methods, the linux kernel still tries to pass off control to init. init quickly dies and you are left with a kernel panic. I sent him a private reply because in the process of finding the answer, I found something that was a little disconcerting, namely how easy it was to get root on the machine. I am thinking over things before I publicize it. In retrospect, I don't like how easy it was to get root in this case. Of course, if you have console access to ANY x86 machine, getting root is trivial. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] How to copy a floppy?
Gordon Packer wrote: one floppy disk to another? I want to make a copy of my boot disk without To copy from floppy to hd dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename.img To copy from hd to floppy (the same way you make your boot disks) dd if=filename.img of=/dev/fd0 man dd for more info. dd can be used for lots of interesting things like wiping out the MBR when fdisk /mbr doesn't work or is not available. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] how to triple-boot? i.e. with 2 Mandrakes?
Syamsul Anwar wrote: How do I insert an entry in GRUB or Lilo such that I'd have the option to boot from either Mandrake installation? Grub makes things very easy. I'm not a grub expert, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out. What I've written below is a hack that I did for lilo to boot FreeBSD, Debian, and RedHat all on someone's laptop. First, look at it from a system-wide point of view? Which distro is liable to stay the same for a while and which is likely to change? If you're installing Mandrake Betas on hdb, then hda is probably going to be the one that will be most stable. With that in mind, think of Mandrake 7.2 on hda as your "base" for control. I assume that you have a seperate /boot partition for Mandrake Beta. Simply mount it as /boot2 or something like that in Mandrake 7.2. Then modify lilo.conf by adding an entry for the Beta kernel image (which is now mounted on /boot2). Save it and run lilo to record the changes. If it reports no errors, reboot and try it. From this point on, any changes you want to make to the boot structure can be made from the Mandrake 7.2 system. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] Intel inside Idiot outside
"Mcintosh, Duncan" wrote: Im looking for documentation for linux for an idiot. Iv checked a bunch of sites but they all seem to be different. How to configure the kernel A to Z. There is a help key in many of the screens when you do "make menuconfig". Do you need more information than what's provided? Are you looking for theory? I don't know that there is one concise document or series of documents that go into that detail. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] file server
Mattias Segerdahl wrote: Well, For a fileserver you don't need that much cpu or ram, but ofcourse hard drives... You would probably be best of reading about samba in this case, Agreed, but one addition. Get SCSI hard drives. You will not be impressed with the speed of IDE drives. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] Enlightenment ScreenSavers
Meph Istopheles wrote: 'xset s noblank' Yes. I've tried it, but it's ignored. Are you sure it's noblank...? Positive. I will say that I have worked on one system that I absolutely could not get it to stop blanking. My next suggestion would be to look in the BIOS, but now I'm guessing. How about: xset -dpms #turns off dpms -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] Alan - Help, I can't take it anyore. Trying KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.01
g wrote: I downloaded kdelibs-2.01-2mdk.i586.rpm and it is sitting in the download directory w/all the other files? each says it needs the other. You can specify more than one file on the command line to be installed. Assuming that all the required rpm files are in ~/rpms, you can do the following: rpm -ivvh ~/rpms/* and it will install them all (providing that all dependencies are met). If it complains about more rpm dependencies, download those and repeat. Be aware that you can mess some things up by upgrading only partially. You seem to be ok as you're only trying to upgrade KDE from 2.0 to 2.01. If you were trying to upgrade from 1.x to 2.x, that would be a different story. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] Weird compile-time error for GAIM
Nathan Russell wrote: -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux/CORE perl.c:34: EXTERN.h: No such file or directory perl.c:38: perl.h: No such file or directory perl.c:39: XSUB.h: No such file or directory The hints are all there, just not easy to pick out. (answer below) Look at how it's specifying that one of the include directories for header files is /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux/CORE. Then look how it complains how perl.c tried to include some files (EXTERN.h, perl.h, and XSUB.h). Put two and two together and... Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Not doing anything wrong. Missing some headers. Install the perl development rpm. rpm -ivvh perl-devel* -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] Need help installing 2 NICs
Lon Lentz wrote: 2 identical ISA NE2000 comp. cards. Win98, on the same machine, recognizes same here both of them and sets them okay. I'm assuming I have to get Linux to recognize these before I can assign them as eth0 and eth1. The installer You must first know the io and irq addresses for both cards. Then put them in order as below (eth0 is 0x300,10 and eth1 is 0x320,11 on my machine) From a RedHat system, but should be about the same. This is in my rc.sysinit somewhere after the swap is enabled. action "Forcing network modules" modprobe ne io=0x300,0x320 irq=10,11 -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] compiling kernel
s wrote: BTW is there any guide to intalling glibc 2.2 on mandrake. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/Help___How_To/Glibc-2_2/glibc-2_2.html The only thing he missed was also putting /usr/local/lib in the ld.so.conf file. Almost everything that gets installed from source will put things in the /usr/local/ heirarchy. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] Bootnet.img problems
Adam Willcox wrote: I know this is supposed to be a mandrake forum but I commonly see posts about Suse and other distributions. I'm currently using Mandrake 7.1 but not wanting to buy any more cd's but still wanting to upgrade I decided to attempt a network install of redhat. If anyone knows how to do a network install of mandrake please let me know. I cannot read cd-r's, so going the .iso route is out of the question. Anyway, my problem is the bootimage is 1.40 mb large and anyone who's used a floppy knows that it's hard to get the theoritcal 1.44 mb size I don't understand your question, but the procedure to make boot floppies from the provided images for RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, and FreeBSD are all the same: dd if=bootnet.img of=/dev/fd0 -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: Griff, you're fired Re: [newbie] stupid ftp server broken
Chubby Vic wrote: running inetd and in.ftpd produces same result, Are you running proftp, wu-ftp, or other for your server? Are you running inetd or xinetd? Is ftp configured in inetd and there is already a proftp server running? Try turning off inetd and see what happens (if you get connection refused, then I'm wrong). -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] Machine hangs in X
Alan Rolfe wrote: Could anybody tell me why my machine hangs when i try and run X Quick test. If you hit Ctrl-Alt-F1, does it go back to the text screen? If so, then press Ctrl-F7 and see if it pops up with something that looks like a desktop. I've seen numerous cases with machines that get their address via dhcp that X appears to hang. It's actually running, but something network related causes it to delay the display. This is a shot in the dark though. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: Griff, you're fired Re: [newbie] stupid ftp server broken
Chubby Vic wrote: I am trying to use wu-ftpd and yes, when I kill both xinetd and inetd I get connection refused, but when I turn it back on I still get A search on google shows that 500 is a "syntax error" with wu-ftp. Look in your logs to see if it's telling you anything (/var/log/messages). http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/WS-19980605-bk16.htm -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] Machine hangs in X
CB wrote: Quick test. If you hit Ctrl-Alt-F1, does it go back to the text screen? If so, then press Ctrl-F7 and see if it pops up with something Sorry. Alt-F7. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
