Re: FW: [newbie] No sound from CD Player
Try the same thing I sent to the list earlier: "I think I answered this for somebody else yesterday. do an ls-l on your cdrom you will find that it is a link to some other filename and the other name does not have the necessary permissions. whatever name the file points to (--) do a chmod on that file (booted as root, of course) to at least 444. Best of luck. --doug" At 12:26 12/12/2000 +1300, you wrote: Wilson wrote: Tried your suggestion, didn't work. The cd wil play you can see the time counting up but no sound. There is no problem with mp3's and system sounds. Thanks for the suggestion. Have you made any hardware changes to your box? Check your cables from Sound card to CDrom drive (should be a skinny one say 3mm (1/8th ") dia cable with flat connectors Do you dual boot? Can you play cds in the other opsys? Cheers -- ICQ#: 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] booting up - a real newbie question
At 09:40 12/10/2000 +, you wrote: Apologies for the silly question in advance, but I have found this a bit of a riddle. I have managed to install Mandrake 7.2 deluxe on my machine, but when it reboots, it does so straight into Windows 98se and not Linux. Could anyone tell me what I have done wrong, and what I need to do to sort this out. I used the recommended method and installed into an "empty" section of my disc -- i.e. not using space in existing windows partition, but a portion of my disc shown as empty. I feel that this might have something to do with the problem. Many thanks, John First: are you watching as the system boots up? Is there a question as to which operating system the computer should use? You may have the boot loader defaulting to load windows in the absence of any other command. If not, then: Since you obviously have no files of interest on your Linux system, it would make most sense to reinstall. WATCH the install. There has to be a point where it says to make a boot disk. Do so. There should also be a point where it asks about where to install LILO (or maybe GRUB). The boot loader should be in the mbr if you want to dual boot. Tell the computer so. If you do this it will work. When you reboot the computer, you will get a message similar to the following: LILO boot loader to run Windows, type windows if you type windows, that's what you'll get. If you type nothing, or type linux, then that's what you'll get. N.B. Some versions of mandrake default to windows, so the wording may be the other way around. I'm not actively using Mandrake at the moment, but have done so fairly recently. If it defaults to windows, and you are not watching (you have 5 seconds to answer) then that's what you'll get if you do nothing.
Re: [newbie] Perl error message on locale
At 12:05 12/10/2000 -0600, Dennis wrote: Whenever I use an editor like gedit i get the error message seen in the attached screen shot. Hope it's ok to send something like this, it's the first time i've tried and I don't know how resource intensive it might be for others to recieve. -- Dennis Myers registered Linux User #180842 Please don't attach any attachments. One _must_ assume that any attachment contains a virus that will run on MS. (No, I don't use MS's mail progs., but... That said, I would like to know how to access fireworks type graphics without having to send them money. (I'm writing from MSW now, since I have a problem getting to the SuSE site in Linux.) Maybe Linux just reads these .pnm files, I don't know.
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
It was actually me that originally wrote One of the "bad habits" is having to double-click when a single click will do. For those of us who use both OS's it's quite distracting, and I think the Linux way makes more sense. So it's only kde that does it. Good! I'm glad that someone has had the guts to break the mold. But it _is_ distracting to use both systems. Anyone know how to modify MS windows to use just one snap? --doug, wa2say
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
One of the "bad habits" is having to double-click when a single click will do. For those of us who use both OS's it's quite distracting, and I think the Linux way makes more sense. Another bad habit of MS is always having to say "yes you may" whenever you want to print something. I hope Linux _never_ does that! I don't know how many times I've walked over to the network printer and found nothing because I forgot to say, "yes you may." (There are certain procedures in which I would not mind having to say "yes you may," like formatting a drive with data on it, or rm'ing the kernel.) Linux also puts things in unobvious places--RPM does it all the time--so MS is not alone here. And you can usually find the files in either system, with a little dilligence. The _big_ advantage with Linux, is that you can fix something-- or at least you can ask the list, and someone will tell you how to fix something--instead of blindly reinstalling and hoping the problem goes away. I'm not happy that config files live all over the place, but at least they are there _somewhere_ and you can read and write to them. See how much luck you have dealing with MS's registry! (I wonder why Unix (and Linux) don't have a /config directory, with all of and nothing but the configuration files in it?) At 11:08 AM 12/05/2000 -0900, you wrote: prob'ly things like d/ling plugins that automagically are installed and the user doesn't even know where they are... generally anything which performs Bill's stated goal of making the workings of the computer or any part thereof completely invisible to the user... just my guess...please correct me if I am wrong Mark Johnson wrote: what would be an example of a bad habit? -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 9:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Well said Jozef! Well said! Actually, I don't hate Windows, I just HATE the bad habits that have become part and parcel of the entire windows experience.
RE: [newbie] Dual Boot
At 12:24 AM 12/04/2000 -0600, Abraham Pinzur wrote: If you're willing to spend $30, you can download Partition Commander URL? - Av - -- Av Pinzur / Crisp Graphics [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crispgraphics.com/~newav /snip/ And attached a .vcf file. Please turn off your .vcf generator. It's some kind of microsoft plot to fill up my machine with useless attachments.
Re: [newbie] Old wp5 files
Any modern version of WordPerfect will read them. Probably MS Word will read them. (You obviously must run Windows to do that, or maybe Wine works?) Try StarOffice. I don't know if that works or not, but it's free. --doug At 01:51 12/03/2000 -0600, you wrote: Hello list Anyone know where I can find something to convert or read old wordperfect 5 files? thankya thankyaverrimuch
Re: [newbie] CD-Rom Permissions
Someone on the SuSE list told me how to solve this: do ls -l cdrom (or whatever your mnt file is called). It very likely points to something else. The output looks something like this: ls -l cdrom cdrom - sdc1 change the permissions on whatever the file that is pointed TO. I made mine 444, don't know if that's the best, but it seems to work. --doug At 08:27 12/03/2000 +0100, you wrote: On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, R. Edward McCain wrote: Create a group "cdwriter" in linuxconf, add yourself to that group, and then change the group permission on /dev/scd0 (or scd1, whatever the writer really is) to the group 'cdwriter' (chgrp cdwriter /dev/scd?) As my machine now shows: [paul@internet paul]$ ls -l /dev/scd0 brw-rw1 root cdwriter 11, 0 Sep 27 12:31 /dev/scd0 Paul I have the same problem - and no sound :-( -- I've just started tho. I need to hit the man's and rfc's and see why I got no cd's or sound. Machine Specs attached. On Sat, 02 Dec 2000, you wrote: I tried to get my cd-r working in 7.2 and now when I access both my reader and writer I get the I don't have permission to access it. I've tried creating new icons and everything please help me. mike -- I would only believe in a god that loves to dance. (Zarathustra) http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] partition info destruction
All may not be lost. If you can run a floppy version of Linux, or an older (manual) install, use Linux's fdisk to set the partition information for that old DOS partition to be fat32 and "active" or bootable, or whatever they call it, save what you have done, and reboot. You _could_ get lucky. This should not make things any worse, anyway. At 06:27 PM 11/27/2000 +, you wrote: That partition is gone. You should never have told it to install there. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 6:34 PM Subject: [newbie] partition info destruction Ok, this is what happened... I was running Windows, and bought Linux-Mandrake 7.2. I installed it with the custom option, as i had already installed 7.1 a couple of times. when it got to the point to decide how to install it on my harddrive, i chose the option "install to free space on Windows", which i thought would create the necessary partitions, and 'steal' the space from windows. Beforehand i had defragmented windows. when i clicked into the "install to free space on Windows" option, the system froze.(AI could move the mouse, but the system would not respond to the mouse or the keyboard navigation of the options... I proceeded to press ctrlaltdel. the system rebooted, but instead of booting normally it asked for me to enter the location of my command.com file, i entred c:\windows\command.com but to no avail. When i booted with my win 98 boot disc it told me that it had not found a valid FAT16 or FAT32 partition on my drive, and that i should use fdisk to make one. i used fdisk and it told me that there was the windows partition (i could tell because of the size), but that it was a non-DOS partition. I tried using norton disc doctor, but that didn't help because it could not see a drive to examine... I desperately need help, because i've got important stuff on the windows partition... I started Lnx-mdk 7.2 setup again, just to see what the partitions looked like etc. but the 'only' option of how to install was to use all the space (ie. no option to use the space that was not being used by windows - win does not use all the space on my harddrive; the rest is empty) I know this is not exactly a linux question, but my guess is that some of you will also know something about windows. Thanx a lot... creaktop -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
RE: [newbie] gates gets linux
"The Cube" --Corel's email journal for Linux users-- which came out just a few days ago says that they are actively working on a new Linux release. For what it's worth, that's what it says. At 11:06 AM 11/27/2000 -0500, you wrote: I also read an article that says Corel is thinking about spinning off the Linux OS. Cheers, Andy /snip off the rest/
Re: [newbie] Grub/LILO--why?
I am presently running another distro than mdk, so I'm not familiar with grub. Why would one want to use grub instead of the usual LILO, especially now that LILO can load anywhere? --doug At 19:07 11/24/2000 +0100, Paul wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Kelly, Christopher wrote: Ok, here today's question. I recently upgraded my winblows OS and it overrode my grub. I used the rescue disk and I can get into Linux now. It is however, using LILO to boot. How can I get it back to grub? Log in as root, go to /boot/grub, and run ./install.sh Next boot you'll see grub again Paul
Re: [newbie] word processors and my Applix review at last
At 14:00 11/23/2000 -0700, you wrote: /snip/ i have just recently tried out ApplixOffice and posted a brief review and some screen shots on my web site. Applix claims (i can't really say for sure it is or isn't) a Linux native program, not something ported. i found it mostly useable... a few odd things notes for the wish list, but so far it is the best of what i have seen. the review is at: http://ontheflyphotography.1stcyberhost.com/linux04.htm later dayz.. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /snip/ lotsa quote Yes, I am sending this from W98/Eudora, but I CAN ACCESS the net from Linux. And do. I wonder whether a review from someone who, by his own admission (in the review), cannot access the Internet from Linux is worth much. I have my own troubles with linux, and I would not presume to present a review of serious software unless I had full control of the system on which it runs. (To the extent that the system allows control, of course.) It would be like me running a review of some program on a MAC, a machine I dislike because of its "I know better than you" attitude, like Windows. I know nothing about actually working on the MAC. You seem to know fairly little of actually working in LINUX. I would suggest that you save your reviews until you are competent in the environment, and then I will welcome them. --dm
Re: [newbie] LinuxCad (was Visio replacement)
A year or so ago, I asked on one of the lists about LinuxCad, and at that time received a reply from someone who was really torqued about it. He said that you had to buy all kinds of add-ons, and that it was really buggy. He was so p.o.'d he offered to send me his copy! Now I know that there is a new version, so what I'd like to know is if anyone out there has bought and used it. (I don't really care about Visio, but I would very much like an AutoCad clone.) If you or anyone reading --especially anyone with AutoCad experience-- has used the latest version, I would appreciate your opinions. Thanx. --doug At 06:55 AM 11/16/2000 -0500, you wrote: LinuxCAD claims to be a Visio replacement. I've asked them about file compatibility, etc. and they claim to be a "full featured" replacement. I don't know if that's for Visio 2000 or Visio 5.0. Frankly, I've never tried it out just because that's low on my priority list. The third party ER tools we use with Visio are much too Visio specific to work correctly in Linux. :-( http://www.linuxcad.com/ So is there a Visio-like tool for Linux or not? I'd like to know, too. Thanks.
Re: [newbie] LM7.2/Macmillain -- KDE2 IS FINAL!!
And how are you going to be able to tell when the CD in the box at Borders or wherever was pressed? H? Particularly without opeing the box! At 03:21 PM 11/14/2000 -0600, you wrote: Dear friends: Good news! I am happy to report that I was WRONG. I just heard from Kevin Loane at Macmillain. I placed a call to him yesterday afternoon and just heard from his this afternoon. He told me that he had investigated the situation concerning LM7.2/KDE 2.0 Macmillain official version (Complete and I assume also DeLuxe) and ASSURED me that the official version which will come out on Nov. 28 contain newly printed CD's which do include KDE 2.0 Final, NOT a beta. I repeate: KDE 2.0 FINAL. So, it appears the rumors are wrong and that LM 7.2/Macmillain will have the latest KDE 2.0 Final. It would nice to hear this confirmed from Mandrake, as well. If so, I would say that was a very wise move by Mandrake, and I am sure we all appreciate it. Thank you. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher RUS: http://www.websher.net SHK: http://www.shakespeareindex.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Which Filesystem?
At 07:51 AM 11/08/2000 -0500, you wrote: What is the difference between the ext2 and ReiserFS filesystems? What are the pros cons of both? I going to be doing a fresh install on a computer, and want to find out which I should pick. What I have read on the various lists and URLs is the following: Reiser "keeps a copy" of everything until it is written to a file, so it can survive power failures much better, and the equivalent of fsck runs a lot quicker. Reiser is slightly slower in operation. (I don't know where it keeps the copy, or how.) The MSWin program Explore2fs probably does not read Reiser. (If anyone knows better, please let me know.) There are times when E2fs is very useful to me, so I have not used Reiser myself. --doug
Re: [newbie] Windows
At 08:01 AM 11/01/2000 -0700, Jason Cunningham wrote: When I installed Linux for the first time I wiped out my Windows Partition. How do I re-install it under Linux. I am using ver 6.1. I want to be able to use both Windows Linux. My Windows OS was 95. Thanks, Jason Make a boot floppy for Linux. You'll need it, because Windows will rewrite the mbr, and your LILO will be unavailable. Do fdisk, and make sure there's a place for the Windows partition. It must be a primary. If there is, then make one, and set it for the Windows fs, and make it bootable. SAVE before exiting fdisk. Install Windows. Make sure it works right, etc. Boot up your machine on the boot floppy, mount your Linux partitions, and run LILO. That ought to do it. (If I have left out anything, someone's sure to tell us.) Good luck! --doug
Re: [newbie] Does anyone know how to set up a HP Deskjet 722C to work with Linux Mandrake 7.1?
At 09:47 AM 10/30/2000 -0500, someone wrote: Hi, /snip I've tried several times to log in under root, and use the printer configuration under DrakConfig, but now I can't get the printer to print out a test page! I was wondering if that might be because there were jobs in the print queue that couldn't print, blocking even a text only job from working. But, I couldn't find out how to access the print queue. /snip/ -Dan IIRC, there is a command, lprm -p printername that will clear the print queue. I don't know if this is your problem, but I can attest that the print queue is a tenacious beast! Good luck. --doug
[newbie] Re: Sorry, wrong list!
Sorry, wrong list! (I had asked a SuSE question here.)
Re: [newbie] Advice on Library Versioning in Linux
I think you're asking on the wrong list. Try the "expert" list. Probably most of the folks reading here do not even understand the first of your questions! (I speak for myself, of coourse.) --doug At 11:48 AM 10/25/2000 +0100, you wrote: Hi, I'm new to Linux but I cut my teeth on SVR4 so I'm pretty familiar with Unix like systems; but I'm stumped on this one. I'm trying to build a program that uses the mesa3d libs the package (freedraft-0.38) uses the standard GNU configuration tools which are normally very effective. In this case however it is not finding the requisite libraries even though they exist. The problem seems to be due to library versioning I can make the configure scripts work by symbolically linking (for example) libGLU.so.1 to libGLU.so but this seems to me to be wrong in that I shouldn't have to do this if library versioning is working properly. I have run ldconfig as well as checking that /etc/ld.conf.so contains an entry for the path where the libraries are stored all to no avail. Can anyone help here??? I also have a minor configuation query. When working on SVR4 it was possible to run man on the console and then press the DEL key to kill it and get back to the command promt without the screen being cleared. This was very conveniant because the remnants of the manual page were left displayed thus making typeing the syntax of an unfamiliar command less of a memory feat. I can do this in any of the terminal windows supplied. As soon as I press q to get out of less the screen is cleared. I would like to change this behaviour but I don't know whether it is a function of man less or the terminal app. Any ideas??? Regards, Colin H. Close [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions
At 08:08 10/23/2000 +1000, Rod Baxter wrote: Running in safe mode will slow your disk access down a lot. Run defrag from within windows and it will be much quicker. It might even cure your problem. In safe mode windows is not very smart! If you need to use windows, consider going to windows ME, its much quicker, and seems to have far less problems. Regards,Rod /snipped off all old stuff/ The few I have spoken to who have tried ME have found that there are some programs that won't run, and hardware incompatibilities. I don't have details, and I won't run and get them, since I have no intention of using ME. I think the only thing faster in ME is bootup, but could be wrong. (I'm trying to get away from this MS OS, but I'm here at the moment since I had to help my granddaughter with Eudora setup.) I find that KMail has a lot of Eudora's capabilities, BTW, and sets up the filters in similar fashion. --doug, wa2say
Re: [newbie] ReiserFS or ext2 ?
At 10:10 AM 10/16/2000 +0200, someone wrote: I have a Compaq Presario 5726 (unfortunately), and ReiserFS have proved to be the ONLY partitioning system that is stable enough, and with enough errorcorrection - systems to make my machine reliable. The problem is that i somehow loses information about where the harddisk locate some of its files, I acually lose directories and parts of files in both DOS - partitions and standard Linux - partitions. ReiserFS have strong enough errorcorrection to cope with the problem! I am deeply impressed, recommend it to everybody concerned about loss of data. Ketil Has anybody seen a utility that will let you read a Reiser fs from Windows? (Like Explore2fs does for the ext2 fs.) If so, what's it called, and where is it to be found?
Re: [newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall
I'm not sure I understand your question, but what if you use a Linksys BEFSR41 router as your firewall? Then connect the various computers to the router. Will that work? (I'm not into any computer games outside of the occasional solitaire or Windows Pinball (really well done, I think!)) But I do have the router, and you can set it up to stealth (hide) your computer completely! (You need the latest software from the net.) And it's easy. Even I can do it! --doug, wa2say At 10:09 10/16/2000 -0700, someone wrote: Hoping for some help here: I previously had the following setup within my network at my residence. 1 Linux box w/ 2 NIC cards. 1 connected to the DSL modem, and 1 to a HUB where other computers throughout the house are connected. I configured NIC 1 for the IP address given to me by my DSL provider, and configured the other NIC for the private network IP range 196.168.x.x. Next I configured IP Forwarding and Masquerading, and alas had everything set up and working perfectly. Some online games won't allow duplicate IP addresses to be seen on the game server, and as all computers within my private net were sharing the 1 IP address provided by the DSL provider, only one computer at a time to could be gaming. I've recently acquired a different DSL package, which gives me 5 static IP address, so I should be able to configure my network as I hoped. Obviously, I could have just put all computers, and the DSL modem on my HUB and life would be good from a gaming perspective, however, I would very much like to have a firewall installed that helps protect against intruders. Under this scenario, I'd have to install a firewall on each PC to gain some protection...what a hassle. What I'd like to do is configure my Linux box like I had before, but replace the Private network with additional IP's that I gained. I tried setting this up, but fell short after realizing that Linux acting as a router can't route unless there are two different networks (IP sets) to route between. Since all my machines IP's belong to the same network (IP set), I can't "route" per se. What I came across were some HOWTO's on bridging+firewall. Essentially the bridge creates a virtual NIC that binds the two together, and I place the firewall (IPchains) on this virtual NIC. I configured it, set it up, and appear to be accomplishing my goal. The firewall stuff is working on every machine, and of course gaming is now a reality. In summary, my question is this. Is this the best/only approach I can take in setting up my environment? Is there a way to accomplish this by setting up my own route tables? The reason I ask is because when everything is "idle" on my network, I see blips on the DSL modem about every 3 seconds or so. I've narrowed it down to the bridge stuff, as I can bring the bridge down, and the blipping stops. I don't know what is happening, and I don't believe that the bridge is impacting performance much, still I don't know, so I thought I'd pose the question to the experts out there. Thanks in advance, Mark Wignall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Help! I know nothing of networks!
When you set up your Linux OS, it should have found your ethernet card, and it should have asked you if you have DHCP, which practically everybody has. You say yes, or whatever the correct answer is, and the installer will do the rest for you. Perhaps your ethernet card is not really compatible. Now that you have it configured, you will have to answer a lot of questions in jargon I don't understand, and the DOC's and HOW-TO's do not bother to explain. The damned installation program is smarter than I am! If you just installed the system, and your MS Windows runs right, then start over, answer the questions re your ISP's domain, etc, that come up with the install routine, and your internet will run right out of the box. The install routine questions are in English. The ipconf (or whatever it is) questions are in jargon that most of us newbies do not understand, and the docs don't even touch on. At 19:08 10/06/2000 -0400, you wrote: hello everybody. I have a machine running Mandrake 7.1. I have an NE2000 compatible ethernet card. I connect to the internet using a cable modem (I have Road Runner and live in NY's capital region). Tell me, how do I set this up and connect to the internet? I already went into EtherDrake (thankfully it finally recognized my card after recompiling the kernel) I have kernel 2.2.15. I'm new at networks, so please be somewhat specific. Thank you! Joe
Re: [newbie] LinkSys Cable Router Linux MAndrake 7.1
I ran Mandrake 7.0 and it automatically found the LinkSys and set it up, and I was on the net without doing anything. I have since installed SuSE 7.0 on the same machine with equal ease. (I'm DHCP to an adsl.) How to config it manually is beyond my capability, since I don't understand the terminology well enough to answer the questions the config routine asks. At 09:48 AM 10/04/2000 -0400, you wrote: Hi: I was wondering if my LinkSys cable router will DHCP an ip to my Linux b0x. I have a working nic card, and my other machine[98] connects with no problems. If I set my netconfig to DHCP, and netdevice eth0 and irq: 5 , would that accept the dhcp. I love linux, but hate to config it ;) Would love some responsethnx guyzN`galz Dominick aka: FLUIDNYC
Re: [newbie] Long wait times when starting applications
At 11:28 AM 10/03/2000 -0400, someone wrote: hard drive light is a big indicator It's not much of an indicator if your computer is on the floor, as mine is. I agree, some kind of wait indication would help, but better optimization would help a whole lot more! In a message dated 03-Oct-00 10:05:47 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It takes so long for these apps to startup, I wish that there was a "wait" cursor to let me know that I did successfully start the application and then I can go about my business until it finally comes up.
RE: [newbie] Configuring my internet connection.
At 06:50 PM 10/01/2000 -0700, someone wrote: Okay, Of course the best way to for you to do this is with ifconfig. type man ifconfig for the instructions. But given that you seem to lack an adequate understanding of IP routing maybe the best thing instead . . . /snip/ start with the basic host configuration and on the first line enter "name_of_your_box.your_domain.TLD ^^^ I know you're trying to be helpful, but this confuses the dickens out of me. Is the "name_of_your_box" your username on the net, or "localhost" or what? Does it matter? Is "your_domain" your ISP's name? If not, what? What's TLD? Fortunately the latest version I installed (SuSE 7.0) figured all this out for me.
Re: [newbie] Formating IDE HD
Find a distro that has the old text installation on it (RH 5.2, for instance) and run that. When you get to the option for fdisk, delete any and all existing partitions of size or type. Don't forget to "save" the results. You should then see that there is the whole disk available to partition. I have seen instances where it was next to impossible to get rid of NT, but Linux's fdisk will do it. (If you don't have an old distro, I _think_ that tomsrtbt has fdisk on it, and you can run that from a floppy.) Let the group know if this works. --doug, wa2say At 11:31 PM 09/27/2000 +0200, you wrote: Hello. I have been trying to install Linux Mandrake in my old computer and now I cannot create a Linux partition. Starting form my 1.2 Gigabyte IDE-HD with Windows NT4 system, I first deleted the ancient NT partition and created a new PRI-DOS partition (using fdisk). When I tried to reformat the HD (using the DOS format command) I found that only 4M existed !!! I have tried using MIPS to shrink the DOS partition and create a Linux partition (at least 1G) unsuccessfully. MIPS gave an error in the boot record. Then I tried to install Linux Mandrake 7.0 from a diskette using rawwrite but I got the "no partition available" error. I would like advice on how to define a partition for Linux (at least 1G). The BIOS does not allow me to boot from CD. Thank you.
Re: [newbie] Installing 7.1 hangs at formatting boot partition
If there is still a manual install on the CD, then use it. When you come to fdisk, use fdisk to delete all partitions (except your Windows, if you have that on the same drive) and save the results. Now shut down, and run your install routine. I had a problem like this with some distro (I think it was Corel.) Not guaranteed, but it does answer your question! :-) (If there is no manual install anymore, you'll probably have to find an old distro, or perhaps d/l tomsrtbt and use that.) At 07:39 AM 09/26/2000 -0500, Mark Johnson wrote: I had 7.0 initially and decided to upgrade to 7.1 via a complete reinstall. I did the Custom - Development install type and chose the auto-allocate feature for partitioning the drive because I wanted everything blasted away. However, installation hangs when trying to format the boot partition every time (I tried about 3 times). I finally tried the automatic installation, the formatting of the partition went fine but when it got to the actually installation of the OS in hung while trying to install the LinuxConf packages (if I had to guess this is about the spot on the disk the the original boot partition was and got hung up again...). What up here, why would it be hanging on the formatting of the partitions? Is there a way I can make sure all the boot information is stripped off the drive and that it's entirely clean before doing the install?
RE: [newbie] Hard Drives
Please never send attachments to the list. I just have to go and find it and erase it. (If I would run it, it might be a virus.) At 12:32 09/21/2000 +0800, L. H. LOO wrote: Greetings from a 'lurker'. I think there is typo in the message below, please cross check with this from PCWORLD, OCT,2000 : At 20-09-2000 05:34 PM, you wrote: 7gb partitions in fat 32 will give you 8mb clusters, go larger and they double to 16 32 mb clusters and I'm not sure but Im sure if you did one partition on a 60gb drive it would even double again to 64mb clusters.
Re: [newbie] Typing special characters
What is the GR key? I don't seem to have one on a standard American keyboard. --doug At 09:21 09/21/2000 +, Carolina Kohler wrote: Hi, Thank you for your help, all of you. But non of the things you told me helped, I must have a strange keyboard. :( I tried all possible combinations and at the end I FOUND IT! It's ALT GR + 4 (on the upper part of the keyboard, not on the numeric one on the right). I hadn't tried the ALT GR key before. That is on my keyboard, I don't know if it would work in others. Cheers, Carol^ /snip/
[newbie] OT: eudora question: German
Does anybody know how to write umlauts and ess-tsets in Eudora for windows? The ALT commands always bring up some kind of window having nothing to do with fonts. I don't know where else to ask this, so pardon me please. (If I could get mail to work in Linux, I wouldn't be using this. Maybe when SuSE 7.0 comes.) --doug
Re: [newbie] EXT2
I don't know what "peanut Linux" is, but most distros have an install routine that will make your partition and write the ext2 fs on it. If you have some kind of minimum size Linux (judging by the name) you could still use RedHat or Mandrake install disk to partition and write the fs, and then just cease the install and go over and install Peanut on the fs you just made. But I'm surprised that "Peanut" does not have this capability. Have you tried? OTOH: It may be necessary to remove any unwanted partitions on the disk you want to install to, and then make new blank ones with your install routine. I found this to be true with SuSE 6.4. Good luck. --doug At 19:50 09/20/2000 -0500, you wrote: I have a drive I am trying to put peanut linux on. I need the drive to be ext2. Can anyone direct me as to how to do this. I only have win machines up right now (as far as a bootable disk.) Thanks
RE: [newbie] Typing special characters
When I ran RH Linux 5.2, the only one I ever got mail to work on, I could use the alt + xxx to get special characters, just like I could do in WordStar so many moons ago. I.e., alt +241 (on the number pad) gives the plus/minus sign. I can't do it in Eudora, unfortunately. I wish I could. I need umlauts and things like that.) At 18:46 09/20/2000 -0500, you wrote: i always thought that was shift+the key beside 1 :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carolina Kohler Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 6:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Typing special characters Hi everybody, I have a sort of silly question: How do you type in Linux the following character: ~ In Windows or MS-DOS it's Alt-126, but that doesn't work in Linux, this time I've had to copy and paste it on this message. Thank you, Carol^
Re: [newbie] 2nd Harddrive question
LILO itself remains on your Linux fs. It writes a little modification to the boot sector of your bootable drive (whichever you tell it that is). The modification allows you to tell your machine what bootable partition (on any drive) to boot up. When you start the install, the program will ask you where you want to install Linux. You will then tell it which disk you want it on. It will let you set up partitions on that disk, and then it will let you write file-systems onto those partitions--what DOS users call formatting. HTH. --doug At 09:11 PM 09/10/2000 -0700, you wrote: I ordered a 2 hardrive (15.3 Maxtor) for Mandrake 7.1, my question is does Grub or Lilo install on the first part of my drive (one for linux) or on my win98se drive (windoze)? I thought I heard someone say it goes on Win98 drive instead of Linux one, but it does not seem to make since, since BIOS uses whatever drive i tell it to use it can be on eaither one...am i correct on this? Second question, when i put in cd to boot to the new drive does the Mandrake install give me a option to format drive, or do i have to figure out how to format drive before install of mandrake? And how would i do that if it is blank..? Thanks, markOpoleO
Re: [newbie] 2nd Hardrive question
LILO itself remains on your Linux fs. It writes a little modification to the boot sector of your bootable drive (whichever you tell it that is). The modification allows you to tell your machine what bootable partition (on any drive) to boot up. When you start the install, the program will ask you where you want to install Linux. You will then tell it which disk you want it on. It will let you set up partitions on that disk, and then it will let you write file-systems onto those partitions--what DOS users call formatting. HTH. --doug At 09:11 PM 09/10/2000 -0700, you wrote: I ordered a 2 hardrive (15.3 Maxtor) for Mandrake 7.1, my question is does Grub or Lilo install on the first part of my drive (one for linux) or on my win98se drive (windoze)? I "thought" I heard someone say it goes on Win98 drive instead of Linux one, but it does not seem to make since, since BIOS uses whatever drive i tell it to use it can be on eaither one...am i correct on this? Second question, when i put in cd to boot to the new drive does the Mandrake install give me a option to format drive, or do i have to figure out how to format drive before install of mandrake? And how would i do that if it is blank..? Thanks, markOpoleO
RE: [newbie] Cable Modem.
At 21:27 09/08/2000 -0400, you wrote: That's waht my sisters boyfriend says. He installs cable for @home. Nevertheless, my cable is ridiculously variable. As high as 150K and as low as 500k on a daily swing. Like clockwork everynight between 3 and 10pm My conneciton is as slow as a 56k dialup. My experience with DSL is that it is a little slower then cable is when cable is maxing itself out but it is also dependable and consistent! Abe /lots of stuff snipped out/ I have noticed even with T1 at the office, the internet slows way down around 3 ~ 5 PM. I have a feeling it's kids coming home from school and logging on in huge numbers, but maybe I'm all wet. I don't think it's just your cable. (I have ADSL here, BTW, and I like it fine, but then, cable Internet's not available here.) --doug
RE: [newbie] Installing packages
You could still use RPM. From a terminal window: $ rpm -Uvh foo-2.0-1.i386.rpm --doug At 12:47 09/09/2000 -0500, you wrote: KPackage and rpmDrake aren't in the menus, there's no configuration-Packagin, and they don't work from the console. Do i have to re-install Mandrake? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Marshall Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 8:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing packages I looked in the gnome and KDE menus and i don't see kpackage.is it an archive extraction-installation program? Is there a way to get a list of all the mandrake packages like in the install? Mandrake seems to be pushing Kpackage into the background in favor of its own rpmDrake. You should be able to find kpackage on the Kmenu though, just deeper in the tree than normal. In 7.1 it's under Configuration-Packaging-Kpackage. Of course you can just type kpackage on the commandline too. This is one example of the dynamic nature of the GUI for Linux management that causes me to use this stuff in a limited way. It'll be great once stabilized but it's a moving target right now. Cheers --- Larry
[newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!!
I hedged an answer yesterday. It will probably work. But here's the scoop from the horse's mouth: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/heliumlast.php3 Good luck. --doug
RE: [newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100
There's a review in (or linked from, I forget which) LWN--Linux Weekly News--by theDukeofURL about running Abit's Gentus Linux, ver 3.0, on a KA7-100 board. Apparently the installation went reasonably smoothly. I'll find out for myself pretty soon--I just bought one of those boards, and it came with a disk marked ABIT GL6.2E. I hope this is the latest release, (3.0) but I don't know. The newest files are dated April 2000. According to the Duke, the Gentus is based on Rawhide. Does anybody know when Rawhide came out? There is an ABIT website, but it says nothing about Linux that I could find. Best of luck. If you find out anything I haven't mentioned, please pass it on to me. At 12:24 09/03/2000 -0700, you wrote: I built an Athlon system about 3-4 months ago and started out with the Abit motherboard which would NOT work even after trying 2 different boards. I switched to Asus K7V and it works great! I haven't really heard anything good about the onboard ATA100 nor abit for Athlon. My system is as follows: Asus K7V Athlon 700 Matrox G400 SoundBlaster live 512 MB RAM 2x 20 hdd's Win2k pro, server, Win98, Linux-Mandrake 7.1, and have had Suse 7.0 loaded all at the same time without problems. Mike Has anyone managed to get any distro to work with an AMD Athlon Thunderbird an Abit KA7-100 motherboard ? machine runs windows NT fine, installs Redhat, but it fails with a kernel panic when trying to start for the first time, Gentus Linux ( rebadged Redhat supplied with the motherboard) would not even complete the installation and Caldera wouldn't install (fortunately it failed quickly :). The machine is not overclocked.
Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!!
I would go to Linux and run fdisk. Bring up the partition list and see how the "missing" partition is typed. I would guess that for some reason it is no longer marked as a fat32 partition. If that's the case, then change the type so that it is, save the change, and reboot. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE! Good luck! --doug At 19:31 09/03/2000 -0600, you wrote: I have 2 hard drives. One has Mandrake installed on it. The other has 2 windows partitions (C and D). Windows is installed onto the C: Drive and D: has all of my personal windows files. On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Ok...first question. Is this "partition" we're talking about on a seperate drive from the one that contains your windows installation? I'm assuming, of course, that this is the case. At any rate, if you can see the files and the partition for that matter while running Mandrake then they're still and haven't been deleted. And Linux hasn't moved them. For what ever reason though Windows can no longer see this partition. If you can move the files to another drive. Preferably the partition which contains your Windows installation and we'll go from there. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed| ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496 On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, John I. Azeke wrote: I was looking at some of my windows 98 mpeg files under L. Mandrake 7.1 yesterday and when I rebooted the computer into windows, The partition of windows that contains all of my personal files was gone! Confused, I went back into Mandrake and the partition was still present with all information. I don't know why I can't see it under Windows. When Mandrake is performing its shut down sequence, There is a FAIL on "stopping identd services" I have tried: 1) detecting new harware under windows... No Good 2) unmounting the drive under Linux before restarting... No Good Can anyone help me?
Re: [newbie] i give up
Stop trying to load Linux from Microsoft! If you bought the Mandrake package, you have a boot disk. Use it! If you bought the program from Cheap-Bytes, or thereabouts, or if you downloaded the program from the Internet, there is a boot routine on the CD or on your download. If you don't have a boot floppy, then you must make one using rawrite (a DOS routine, provided on the CD). I really hate it when someone says RTFM, but in this case, that's the way to go. Read the instructions in the manual, or on the CD, or in your download. You say you have DOS and Windows, so you can certainly run rawrite. Then boot on the installation floppy you have just made, and all will be copacetic. --doug At 13:15 09/04/2000 -0700, you wrote: ive tried booting from the cd and loading from dos and from windows like it says and all i get is a blue screen just as it starts loading i ran a diag and it says that memory was improperly accessed and the gid.exe was the cause
Re: [newbie] Viewing Source Code
What you are looking at with all those funny symbols is __binary__ code, i.e., what the compiled source looks like. What you want is the __uncompiled__source__ as the man said in his reply. Then if you modify the source, you will have to recompile it before you can run it. Hope this is a little clearer. --doug At 06:57 AM 08/29/2000 +0100, you wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Robin Regennitter wrote: Hi Everybody, I was wondering how do I view the source code of any program. I tried using various editor and developing tools. All I got is a bunch of symbols and letters. How am I suppose to modify a program if I cant understands these multi symbols and letters? Did you install the sources from the Sources CD? They should be in /usr/src/linux or /usr/src/Mandrake somewhere (not sure, I don't have them on disk) Paul -- If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] Reiser Fs
My Italian is not good enough to answer in your language. The Reiser fs keeps copies of data before writing new data, so it can be restored to some semblance of usefulness after a disk crash (due to power loss, etc.) It's supposed to be a little slower, but if you have to fsck, it's supposed to be a __lot__ faster. Explore2fs will __not__ read the Reiser from Windows 9x or NT, AFAIK. Hope that helps. --doug At 10:58 PM 08/28/2000 +0200, you wrote: Voglio reinstallare Mandrake 7.1 e so che è possibile impostare il file suystem a Reiser Fs anziché ext2. Ora, siccome sono un newbie (moolto newbie) vorrei chiedervi la differenza fra i due file system e i vantaggi (e/o svantaggi) del reiser... ho letto che è un file system journaled ma non ho la più pallida idea di che cosa significhi. Grazie e ciao a tutti Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Wine: How to start?
wine [/path] /filename.ext i.e., wine /mnt/dev/hda1/aclt/acltwin.exe would mount and open autocad lite. I have had problems with the files directory associated, but the program opens. With more work, or copying the necessary files to a directory in Linux, things should work better. But that's the general idea. I'm just fooling with it now, but would like to get all of this stuff to work, not being all that happy with the MS attitude. . . . --doug At 08:36 08/29/2000 -0700, you wrote: Been trying to figure out Wine - how exactly do you use it? I can't get it to even start. Thanks
Re: [newbie] OS Sucks-Rules-o-Meter
Whoever you are: DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS TO THE LIST. NOT EVER! Of course I erased it. I'm not crazy. I don't need any viruses or other gadgets. DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS. NEVER! At 18:34 08/29/2000 +, you wrote: For anyone who hasn't seen this, it really is quite intersting http://srom.zgp.or
Re: [newbie] Reiser FS
My Italian is not very good, but I think that you asked if you could replace the ext2fs with the Reiser fs under 7.1. Yes, you can. Or if I read it wrong, you can do it the other way. Tell the diskdrake what you want. Both options are available, AFAIK. I can't tell you in Italian, but the journaled fs has a lot of advantages, and only one disadvantage: I don't believe that there is a way to read/write Reiserfs from Windows/DOS, now, but there surely will be. Si, e posso. Buona fortuna--doug At 10:09 08/27/2000 +0200, you wrote: Ciao a tutti, voglio installare la Mandrake 7.1 e so che c'è la possibilità di sostituire il file system ext2 con il reiser fs. Ho letto che è un file system journaled ma essendo un ipernewbie non ho la minima idea di cosa significa. Qualcuno può aiutarmi spiegandomi i vantaggi e, se ci sono, gli svantaggi di reiser fs rispetto a ext2. Grazie. Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Fw: zip disk drive
If your disk is VFAT, Linux will think the fs is on partition 4. So you need to set up your fstab to look for (frinstance) /dev/hdc4. At 09:40 PM 08/14/2000 -0700, you wrote: I had to subscribe again in order to get any of the emails again. Any help with the zip drive would be great. I have a dual boot system with Windows 95 and Linux Mandrake 7.0. I have 2 hard drives and an Atapi internal IDE zip drive. It is supermounted but I do not know how to access and use it. Thanks for your help. The rest of the needed information for this zip should be below. Marcia - Original Message - From: Marcia Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 10:12 PM Subject: zip disk drive Dear Anyone, First of all, I have not received any emails from this group for 2 days now. Is anyone else having this problem? Second of all, I finally have my internal Atapi Zip drive supermounted in Mandrake 7.0 but I cannot access it. I click on the zip icon and I get the same error message that I was always getting-can't find dev/hdc4 in /etc/fstab. How do I create an icon to work with my supermounted zip disk?How do I access my zip with or without an icon? How do I save files and place them into my zip disk? Any assistance will be appreciated. Thank you very much. Marcia P.S. I am very impressed with how everyone is so helpful here. I have come a long way in a short time with Linux because of this group. Thank you.
[newbie] Re: newbie: zip disk
My first attempt to reply to this (from work) bounced. I'll try again from home. Since I emailed it to myself, I will try and clean up the stuf, but no guarantee. If your disk is VFAT, Linux will think the fs is on partition 4. So you need to set up your fstab to look for (frinstance) /dev/hdc4. At 09:40 PM 08/14/2000 -0700, you wrote: I had to subscribe again in order to get any of the emails again. Any help with the zip drive would be great. I have a dual boot system with Windows 95 and Linux Mandrake 7.0. I have 2 hard drives and an Atapi internal IDE zip drive. It is supermounted but I do not know how to access and use it. Thanks for your help. The rest of the needed information for this zip should be below. Marcia - Original Message - From: Marcia Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 10:12 PM Subject: zip disk drive Dear Anyone, First of all, I have not received any emails from this group for 2 days now. Is anyone else having this problem? Second of all, I finally have my internal Atapi Zip drive supermounted in Mandrake 7.0 but I cannot access it. I click on the zip icon and I get the same error message that I was always getting-can't find dev/hdc4 in /etc/fstab. How do I create an icon to work with my supermounted zip disk?How do I access my zip with or without an icon? How do I save files and place them into my zip disk? Any assistance will be appreciated. Thank you very much. Marcia P.S. I am very impressed with how everyone is so helpful here. I have come a long way in a short time with Linux because of this group. Thank you.
Re: [newbie] M$ Free
At 07:47 PM 07/29/2000 -0500, you wrote: Today I successfully installed Mandrake 7.1 (Maximum Linux Disk) on a 3+ gig partition that used to hold a useless Win98 installation. /snip/ . One thing that blows me away is how clean and sharp the display *looks*. The only glitch I have noticed is an occasional "quiver" -- the display sort of vibrates horizontally. Anyone know what might be causing this? Other than that, I am very impressed with this. I have the GNOME panel running (Helix I think) in conjunction with XFCE, and it is truly amazing to behold. Thank you Mandrake! Phil Is there any kind of device with a motor or a transformer in it near to your monitor? If so, move it away, or unplug it, and see if the jitters go away. --doug
Re: [newbie] safe to download to Win95 dir?
I have done so at times. What happens, is Windows converts some of the dots in filenames to underlines. Apparently RPM doesn't care. But you have to tell RPM the name the file actually has on your system. I.E., if it has underlines rather than dots, then when you invoke RPM, use the underlines. The other solution is to rename the file. Windows seems to tolerate filenames with more than one dot, it just doesn't save them that way off the Internet. Or cp the file to your Linux system and rename it back to what it was sent as, but I don't think this is worth the trouble. --doug At 02:05 07/29/2000 -0400, you wrote: This is probably a silly question. When downloading linux/unix files (i.e. a .tar.gz or .rpm files) from the internet, is it safe to save them in a Win95 directory? Is there anything I should do to protect/preserve file attributes/permissions? I've got to do this on my home machine as I've got a Winmodem (I know, time to get a real modem) and I'd like to confirm that I can update my Mandrake distro safely. Any help/guidance would be appreciated. -- Attorney, (n.) A person legally appointed to mismanage one's affairs which one has not himself the skill to rightly mismanage. Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary" Registered Linux User #180033
