[newbie] X font server
Hello, after trying to install sawfish I have trouble with my X font server and can't start X. Error: FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: can't connect: errno=111 Failed to set default font path ' /usr/.etc..' Fatal server error. Could not open default font 'fixed'. Any help fully appreciated. Eric
RE: [newbie] Fatal Server error?
Have the same pb too. Indeed xfs is not running. But after several reboots the result is the same. So I would reinstall XFree86-xfs but rpm says 'package already installed' and stops. When I do an rpm -e XFree86-xfs... then rpm says 'package NOT installed' ! By an rpm -q XFree86-xfs... rpm says 'package not installed'. An rpm --rebuilddb failed also. What can I do ? Eric -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 8:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Fatal Server error? On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' Hi John, I had something similar happening too. According to the Mandrakeuser.org site it was a problem with XFS (X server) not running, and it was so indeed. After a reboot my problem was fixed. If it does not work for you, you might have to "upgrade" to fix whatever went sour. umm.. what does that mean? When I installed Mandrake 7.1 I chose to install the XFree 100dpi fonts and I didnt install the normal 75dpi fonts. It worked well for awhile then this happens. Is this related to the server crash in anyway? How can I solve this? I doubt that this has to do with the server crash. I have the 100dpi installed also, and that never gave me problems. Paul -- Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] HP
Want to buy a HP printer ? This is what I received from HP-support: (received 06 jul 2000) Thanks for E-mailing, Eric. Thank you for contacting Hewlett-Packard's Customer Care. I understand you are looking for a Linux driver. Overview Linux is a UNIX (R) clone available free of charge on the Internet. There are also several distributors of the Linux operating system including Debian, Red Hat, Caldera, Slackware, and S.u.S.E. Linux is a true 32-bit operating system solution and is becoming a rival to MS-DOS (R), Microsoft (R) Windows and OS/2 in the personal computer market. Hewlett-Packard is not supplying printer drivers for the Linux environment at this time, November of 1999. ISSUE: Most HP DeskJet and Professional Series printers will operate in the Linux environment using drivers supplied by Linux. Linux supports a wide range of HP printers. If MS-DOS or some other operating system can access the printer from the parallel port, Linux should be able to access it also. SUMMARY: Most HP DeskJet and Professional Series printers, with the exception of host-based printers, will function in the Linux environment using drivers supplied by Linux. Hewlett-Packard has not written Linux drivers for HP DeskJet or Professional Series printers at this time and does not support printing in the Linux environment. Performing a printer self-test should test basic printer functionality. Please visit our Hewlett-Packard Customer Care web site at http://www.hp.com/support/deskjet for additional technical and troubleshooting information and the latest printer software updates. Once again, thank you for contacting Hewlett-Packard's Customer Care. NOTE: Our advice is strictly limited to the question(s) asked and is based on the information provided to us. Problems and solutions may depend on the nature of your system environment and various other parameters that are unknown to HP; therefore, HP cannot assume any responsibility or liability. Please be advised that technical information changes as new data becomes available, therefore, HP recommends that you check back at our Customer Care web site located at http://www.hp.com/go/support regularly for possible updates. Hewlett-Packard shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages in connection with the use of this information.
Re: [newbie] special script for isdn devices ?
Alexander Skwar wrote: On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:57:13PM +0200, Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 11:03:58PM +0200, Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: Paul, take a look at www.millenniumx.de. Sure, kISDN is kinda nice, but how do you use your ISDN setup when X is not running? Alexander Skwar The (good) OLD way. I think this is not a serious question. It's not more serious than someone suggesting kISDN. I know how to setup ISDN "the good old way" :] He, a kid af 21 years old speaking about 'old way'. I thougt it, so why ask it, to lose our time ? www.linux-france.org/article/connex/ISDN. Sh*t, I knew I should have been better in French class at school... I'm sorry kid, you wouldn't be accepted ! Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191 Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
Re: [newbie] LILO Mandrake 7.1
Wienand Drenth wrote: With older versions of Mandrake and corresponding LILO, the Linux partition had somehow to start before cylinder 1023 (roughly speaking). However, for LILO version 21.4.4 this barrier seems broken. Question: does Mandrake 7.1 come with a LILO that supports placement of the boot loader after cylinder 1024? I.e. can one use large partitions. And does anyone have any experience with it? Thanks for any insight! Wienand Drenth AMHA the /boot patition must be entirely before the 1024st cyl. But, if your hd is an LBA there must be no pb. Eric
Re: [newbie] urgent help
Qt-2.1.1 is separate from 1.44. So 1.44 is not uninstalled ! If you didn't. Now you have 2.1.1 and 1.44 installed. Must be ! If you uninstalled 1.44, reinstall that package. Insert your CD and install flopyy. Do an upgrade and select it. Eric KompuKit wrote: I tried to upgrade qt-1.44 in 7.0 air...to qt 2.1...and when I rebooted I can't startx...can someone please help...with specific directions... on how to UNINSTALL the newer version...and go back to the old version from off my CD? -- ===KompuKit=== Kit GoinsICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] openmail
has anyone installed openmail in linux ?? If yes, how did you ? Thanks. Eric
[newbie] Another vision.
Indeed. Started with a little VICTOR 25 years ago,more a calculation machine who's could also type letters and has his own programming language. After that a little computer without HD (not available), just a floppy 5 1/4. Just a 8086 chip. Then 8286, 8386,8486, etc.. Programmed in assembler, basic, after that 'C' coming up, so did it in C. (Watcom, Microsoft, Borland) and stays 18 years in console with DOS. Unix was to expensif and more destinated to big company's. Have seen come-up Linux, minix, etc... Not usefull enough for business. After that windows, an adventure for me ! Mouse ? Didn't know ! A year ago I'v started Linux, I like it and support it. I mean, Windows and X is modern, easy to use, why not use it ? After all, why do we have a car ? I know, I know.. I encourage everyone to use THE BEST, THE EASYST, THE MOST BEAUTIFULL WHAT IS AVAILABLE and WHAT THEY LIKE! Also the help. I like a nice screen (just as I like what beautifull)the grr, hummm, wheee, of my soundcard, and not a stupid black screen;had it 18 years you now ? And if there is some I can't do in X,there is xterm, console, etc... Of corse this is NOT destinated to any person, but to all people thinking they are profs using (exclusively) the keyboard. BUT ONLY MY PERSONNAL VISION. Eric I forgot; have a lot of old computers, keyboards, monitors, printers on my garret.
Re: [newbie] Free space available?
Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! I just don't know how to know the free space available in any partition 8-) Thanks. - Joan Tur - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ibiza - Spain Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Run 'kfsstatus', 'free', 'gnome system monitor', etc..
Re: [newbie] special script for isdn devices ?
Alexander Skwar wrote: On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 11:03:58PM +0200, Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: Paul, take a look at www.millenniumx.de. Sure, kISDN is kinda nice, but how do you use your ISDN setup when X is not running? Alexander Skwar The (good) OLD way. I think this is not a serious question. If I'm wrong, take a look at www.linux-france.org/article/connex/ISDN. Eric
Re: [newbie] Two printers in Mandrake 7.0?
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear anyone, I have Linux-Mandrake7.0 Complete and successfully configured my Epson Stylus Color printer. I would like to use a 2nd printer with this-an Okidata Ole 400 laser printer. I use them both with my Windows 95.May I do this with Linux? How can this be done? Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Marcia With xpp ! ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric
Re: [newbie] special script for isdn devices ?
Paul, take a look at www.millenniumx.de. Never pbs any more. Eric Paul wrote: On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Quaylar wrote: does anybody of u know whether theres a special script under mandrake that creates the isdn devices ? i experienced that my update to ver 7.1 deleted somehow my isdndevices. isdn4linux faq tells me that theres a script called "makedev.sh" that should create them. but i cant find this file in my isdn4k-utils package from mandrake.nor does the package of redhat offer it... maybe theres some redhat specific script ? Yikes, I am not glad to read this!! I use ISDN also, with 7.0, and I'd hate to lose the ISDN connect through just an upgrade!! And this while an upgrade from 6.1 to 7.0 went just smoothly. Is there anyone out there that can assure me that I don't hit this?? Sorta scared now, since I have the upgrade CD's here... Paul -- You need legs if you don't have courage )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Printer Epson
When in KDE click on 'Drakconf'. Then click on Printer configuration. Eric Gustavo Halperin wrote: Sorry, but I don't understand what is mean : and set-up your printer and spool. Can you explain to me please. Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: Try to reconfigure your printer with: Drakconf, printer, and set-up your printer and spool. Eric Gustavo Halperin wrote: I have the printer Epson Stylus Color 670 The Linux Mandrake was know this in the configuration hardware, but when I send any think is not print, What I can to do
[newbie] To the GRUB users
Hi guys, Well, I decided to try the GRUB bootloader instead of LILO. Need help to do it. Hard-disks: 2 /boot installed at HD1 hda5 = logical partition in extended. / installed at HD2 = primary partition. To try it, I want to boot from the floppy (fd0) No pb with 1024st cyl. are LBA's. Thanks in advance.
Re: [newbie] Realplayer and icons etc.
Dennis Myers wrote: Here I am with all indications that real player 7 down loaded and installed. It shows up in RPM/files and is set in /usr/bin and usr/local with a whole bunch of /usr/lib files. Ok, how do I know it is working? It also shows up in /usr/local/netscape/plugins. I don't know if or how I should put an icon on the desk top or on the tray ala MS Windows. Any ideas on if I installed ok and how to make an icon, any icon for that matter. Hi Dennis, download a file to play at http://frederik.hubbe.net/plugger/test.html after that simply click on it. Eric
Re: [newbie] Star Office 5.2
Federico Silva wrote: -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: miércoles 5 de julio de 2000 12:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Star Office 5.2 On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, you wrote: The one thing about Windows that I liked more than in Linux was installing programs. If you are honest most will admit that installing programs in Linux can be both fustrating and exasperating. Well someone has at last shown a light at the end of the tunnel. Sun has released Star Office 5.2. I download it for both Windows and for Linux. Yesterday I installed in Win2000 and today I decided to try the install in Linux, hoping that it would not require to much hair pulling. Do you know what I had to do to get Star Office to install in Linux? I had to click on the file. It actually had it's own installation program and installed itself. The GUI was even the same as that used in the Win installation. I was shocked. Happy but shocked. I had never before seen a Linux program do this. My one hope now is that more companies and developers will follow Sun's example and treat Linux users with the same degree of concern and support as they show Window users. If you want to try it the URL is www.sun.com/staroffice The Linux download is 93MB and you need to run the installation program as user not as root. Charles :-) I don't agree Charles. What's wrong with rpm? Easy to install and uninstall. If all the various software vendors and developers began devising their own 'automatic' installs, I suspect utter chaos, and a lot of broken distros would shortly be the result. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] I totally agree with Tom. Even Microsoft agrees, as the new Windows installer features .msi files that behaves in a *simpler* way as rpm does. Of course it opens it dialogs and all but I think that should be left to the first time you run the program. Unified installation keeps track of system wide program dependency. My .002 cents. -f. I totally agree with Tom too ! Eric
[newbie] PMfirewall
Hello list, I setted-up PMfirewall with the help og Dennis Myers. Very impressive. All ports closed. This on a STANDALONE WORKSTATION Not connected to a network ! I recommend it fully. Eric
Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Programs
Patrick Dyer wrote: How do I uninstall programs which were installed from files of type *.tar.gzip or *.tar.Z? Can someone help me please. patrick __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ In the dir with you installed the tar file untarred: make uninstall Do not work everytime. Eric
Re: [newbie] listname
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLEASE, I have registered my LINUX mandrake 7.0 and cannot access the support email system. My question is how to install staroffice 5.1? Please help or point me in the right direction. Thank you Manuel Desa *.rpm or *.tar.gz install ? For an rpm install: install the package as root. Login as user and simply do a /opt/Office51/bin/soffice in a term. If *tar.gz install: Go to the dir Office51 is installed and do ./setup Then same as above as user. Eric
Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Complete installation
Marcia Waller wrote: Larry Marshall wrote: that it is an option but a technician told me it is not anyway. My Bios setup is C,A,SCSI. Should not that be changed to the floppy first and how do I do that? I am a true newbie and have not done much on the Setup My guess is that you've got an Award BIOS. Yes, you can change it. With the cursor over this option, hit the page up/page down keys and you'll see that you can step through several options. If you want to boot from the CD, simply set it before your C drive and stick the Mandrake disk into the drive before rebooting. Don't forget the F10 Save step before leaving the BIOS. next. Linux is not installed yet. May I install Linux another way such as text installation through DOS without uninstalling bootmagic or partition magic? I appreciate your help with this. I have contacted I'm not exactly sure why you want to install through DOS. Especially if you're a newbie, your best bet is to make your CD bootable and insert the Mandrake disk. It'll step you through all the steps of creating not only a Linux installation but it'll set up LILO for you and help you make a boot floppy in case you need one. Cheers --- Larry Dear All, Thank you for your help. All of your suggestions led me to the right solution. Yes, I have an Award Bios and the technician was not correct about not being able to change it. With all of your help I was able to make the necessary changes. I am very grateful for your help and everyone seems to have very good advice. I was actually able to start the installation process and it is almost done except I chose not to do the root password, I did not know what to do about my Iomega zip drive and I have a Data Switch hooked up to 2 printers. One of the printers is connected to my UMAX Astra 610P scanner. One printer is an older EpsonStylus Color and the other is an Okidata laser printer. I am not sure how to get these configured. Also, when I got to the desktop page and it asked for my user name and password of course I supplied it but it claimed they were invalid. May I go back through the graphic installation program again and straighten some of these things out without creating a problem with what I have already installed? I think I have to go ahead with doing the root password, too. Again thank you very much for all of your help. I was just about ready to return my Linux to the store after struggling for 1 and 1/2 weeks. Marcia Login as USER ! Then type 'su' and enter your root passw. There is a way to do it, but for security raisons don't login as 'root'. If you like it, setup kdm with your KDE Control Center and log-in in X, therefor change in /etc/inittab the 3 to 5 or at boot type 'init 5'. Eric
[newbie] Openmail
Hi all, is there anyone whos has experience with Openmail ? To set-up and configure it correctly. What are your impressions ? Eric
Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Complete installation
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, Thank you everyone who gave me wonderful advice. Unfortunately I found out that my CD rom is not bootable. In the Bios setup it shows that it is an option but a technician told me it is not anyway. My Bios setup is C,A,SCSI. Should not that be changed to the floppy first and how do I do that? On the start-up press 'del' key. A screen look-up and point to that line where you can chose your start-up disk. Then press an arrow-key to change to A,C, etc... I am a true newbie and have not done much on the Setup screen. Also, may I install by graphical installation or text installation through MS-DOS? I have made the floppy for graphical with For the text install copy with rawwrite (in dos) the text_install.image to a floppy. Now you can install with the floppy in text mode. Hummm the txt_install.img is found on your CD /dosutils I think. rawrite but how do I do it for text installation? I have already done the partitions with Partition magic and I have Bootmagic installed. Those applications seem to be OK but I cannot get the Linux boot disk or Linux Installation CD to boot the installation screen so that I may install Linux. In other words I have bootmagic and partitionmagic on and the next step was to boot up so that I may install Linux through the CD next. Linux is not installed yet. May I install Linux another way such as text installation through DOS without uninstalling bootmagic or partition magic? I appreciate your help with this. I have contacted Yes, boot etc. is NOT necessary. Withe the text install you can go from FDISK to DISKDRUID. FDISK is to set the partitions and DISKDRUID to set the mount-points. Linux-Mandrake support days ago several times but I have received no answer. I have looking through everything that I can find in documentation and other Linux sources but have not found the answer yet. I appreciate anyone's input. I do have a Pentium 200 MHZ with 2 IDE hard drives one with 2.5 gigs and the other with over 8 gigs. I have 96 megs of memory and everything else should be compatible from my research. As a reminder my hard drive is already partitioned through partition magic and Linux is not installed yet. Thank you very much for your help.Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie] Installation problems...
You are right. Don't do the X test. And SCSI test if you haven't. All goes well. Eric Bouropoulos Andreas wrote: Hello there, I have some trouble installing Mandrake on my system and would like some help. The problem is that, when I boot from a disk (being created by rawrite using cdrom.img), installation starts normally, and I get into the graphical user interface. I select the keyboard map and stuff, but when the installer reaches the 'SCSI detection' step the system freezes. I downloaded the patch you give, and put it in the boot disk under the name 'patch.pl'. At the boot prompt, I entered 'linux patch' as it is said, but still, the problem persists, and the system freezes when it reaches the 'SCSI detection' step. What do I have to do to make the patch work? Also, I tried to install Mandrake using the 'txt_boot.img'. In this case, the installation of packages would finish, but then again I would have problem starting the X server. I choose the monitor from the list, and then it detects my graphics card correctly. When it tries to start the X server for testing my settings, the screen would blink a few times, and then a message would appear saying that an error occurred and X server could not be started. I would appreciate it if you could help me a little bit and tell me what to do. Below is my system description in case you need it: Pentium-MMX 166MHz 48MB RAM Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 2MB (BIOS 1.04, rev L) Opti 924 Soundcard and I have three hard disks: 1GB (FAT32), 528MB (on which I install linux) and 100MB(FAT). Sony CDROM 2x Modem 56KBps Also, the installer freezes at the SCSI detection step, on the Celeron-466MHz I use. Thanks for your help.
Re: [newbie] 2nd Hard Drive
Jason Angus wrote: Got a question for all of you Linux Experts out there. I am buying a new Hard Drive this weekend, I want to have Windows 98 on the master drive and Linux on the slave. I want to know how to address installing Linux in that environment and how will Linux see that second disk \hda2? Thanks, Jason With FDISK set-up your 2d HD = hdb as slave. See your BIOS that a slave will be available.(I think so) Then make partitions with it as fallows: / +- 600MB = primary /usr = big one +- 3G = logical /usr/local = to maintain your own progs. +- 800 MB = logical. /home = depend about the nbr of users = logical. /boot = +- 30MB (to maintain different kernels) = primary And a swap partition = 2xyour RAM = great max 256MB. /usr/local and /home are important because when a new install is necessary they must no reformatted and you preserve your data. Resumed: 2 primary's and 1 LINUX extended (83) divided with /usr, /home, /usr/local. Then by the install, setup your partitions as above with diskdruid. I recommand to do the install in text mode = custom. To do that, in dos or windoooz, get rawwrite from your CD, run it and select txt_boot.img to save it on your floppy. Then continue with this floppy to install. Another recommandation: Select EVEYTHING (if there is enough room= +- 1.3G) After that you can desinstall later the packages who's are not necessary for you. This method prevents several pbs in the next future. Warning: I think the new packages don't need /boot be installed before the 1024st cylinder. If this occurs, make room on the 1st HD (windoooz) and install there your /boot as hdaX (x depends about the partitions who's reside on the first HD. Normaly windooz take only 1 primary partition at all. In this case the totaly HD (1st) is used by windooz. To make room if necessary, several steps must be taken without pbs, but ask me how to do exactly BEFORE. Eric
Re: [newbie] Removing Linux Partition
This Linux partition on your first HD can be changed to a windoooz extended partition. But be carefull, /boot of linux must reside in totaly before the 1024st cylinder to be safely. So you can setup an extended dos partition and a primary Linux /boot partition on your first HD. To do with FDISK. Eric Jason Angus wrote: Same guy here that proposed the new hard drive question earlier. I have linux installed on a drive now residing along with Win 98 (rather peacefuly I must say). As I said before I am going to put Linux on a seperate 6 gig drive all by itself. How do I remove the Linux partition on the drive that has Windows 98 on it too, without causing harm to 98...? Is this even possible? Many thanks, Jason ps Thanks for all the help with the new drive question. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] group setting of named.
Hi guys, named failed. Say group is not set ! What group is needed by named ? Thanks in advance. Eric
Re [newbie] Problèmes techniques
Alain COULOMBEAU wrote: J'ai installe Linux Mandrake 7.0 a partir d'un CD-ROM joint a PC Expert n? 95. Apres quelques deboires dus a mon inexperience sur lesquels je passe, je viens de reinstaller Linux avec succes, mais aussi quelques problemes. 1. Apres installation, impossibilite de relancer WINDOWS 98 : une suite de 01 01 01... defile sur l'ecran des la tentative de boot sur IDE 0. Je peux relancer WINDOWS apres avoir fait "fdisk/mbr" a partir de la disquette de demarrage de WINDOWS 98. Quant a LINUX, il se lance a partir de sa disquette de demarrage. Comment eviter ce probleme et pouvoir choisir entre LINUX et WINDOWS au demarrage sans le secours d'une disquette LINUX ? Evidemment lilo. Pour cela reintroduit ta disquette install et fait un UPDATE sans rien sélectionner, à la fin on te demandera de'installer lilo. Dis oui. Et lilo est reinstallé. Maintenant si tu ne peut pas travailler avec lilo, il reste la possibilité d'utiliser LOADLIN. Eric 2. Je n'ai pas pu installer mon imprimante, ce qui est genant. Elle est assez ancienne. C'est la NEC Silentwriter SuperScript 610 (laser). J'ai essaye de l'installer a partir d'autres imprimantes que vous proposez, sans succes. Comment faire fonctionner mon imprimante avec LINUX ? 3. Pourrai-je installer mon scanner : COMPEYE Simplex 1236C ? Ma configuration : Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.1998 Mise a niveau utilisant CD OEM complet /SrcDir=C:\WIN98TMP /IQ /U:x IE 5 5.00.2919.6307 Duree : 0:06:51:19 Mode normal Sur "GDO" en tant que "Alain COULOMBEAU" Authentic AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor 350 MHz. 128 Mo RAM 27% des ressources systeme libres Fichier d'echange standard sur le lecteur C (3989 Mo libres) Espace disponible sur le lecteur C : 3989 Mo sur 4994 Mo (FAT32) Espace disponible sur le lecteur D : 1017 Mo sur 3045 Mo (FAT32) Lecteurs C et D : un seul disque de 8 Go. LINUX est installe sur un second disque independant de 13 Go. Merci de votre reponse. Alain COULOMBEAU 2, rue du Champ du Loup 63670 LA ROCHE BLANCHE France Tel. : 04 73 79 40 75 e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] trouble with 7.0 deluxe install and lilo
When setup LILO did yu select also DOS ?? If not resetup LILO with lilo.conf and run lilo. Take a look at info or man lilo. Or at page 275 of your User Guide and Reference Manual. If it don't help you can utilise loadlin. Eric MC -Original Message- From: Lance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 6:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] trouble with 7.0 deluxe install and lilo can somebody please help me with the problem below in my original post? thanks. On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Lance wrote: hi everyone, i recently bought (macmillan) mandrake 7.0 deluxe and am having trouble with the install, mostly getting lilo to work. i have 2 drives in my machine with windows 2000 professional on a 20gig, and a master-slaved 6gig i want to run mandrake on. i start the install by booting off the cd, setup my linux partitions automatically and go through the rest of the install ok. i install lilo to the mbr and configure X and it tells me to restart. i remove the boot disk and cdrom, restart, and all i get are "cascading" 1's and 0's...i power down, start up with the boot disk i made and lilo gives me *no* option for my windows partition that sits on the other hard drive. i get into linux/kde with the floppy boot disk and add the win partition to lilo in drakconf and try rebooting without the bootdisk and i get 1's and 0's again. if i start with the bootdisk i'm ok, but i cannot choose to boot into windows 2000. at this point i got a little freaked out and had to overwrite my mbr to get access to windows again, and have been hesitant to go any further with mandrake since i've got 10 gigs of critical data on my windows 2000 drive/partition that i must be able to acesss at all times for work. my system specs are 300mhz AMD, 128 ram, 3dfx voodoo 2000, and on-board crystal pnp sound. i should also note that i have norton antivirus2000 installed on windows, and i'm wondering if maybe that is keeping lilo from writing itself to the mbr? i am a former suse user and am new to mandrake/red hat, so any help with this would be greatly appreciated! really looking forward to going back to linux after a 6 month hiatus...many thanks! best regards, lance *Lance C. Yarema ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * * Computer Admin/Web/Tech * * Dept. of Counseling Educational Psychology * * University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada * * Phone: 775-784-6637, x2074 * * PC/Mac/UNIX Network Tech:* * Computing Telecommunications * * Desktop Services 775-784-1540, x1* * Final Answer Web Design Computer Solutions * * Reno, Nevada * * 775-324-1529 * * email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]*
Re: [newbie] test, ne pas lire
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Re: [newbie] pbm cdrom à l'installation de la mdk 7.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bonjour, j'ai une mdk 6.0 et j'ai essayé de l'upgrader en mdk 7.0. le pbm, c'est que l'installation se lance depuis le cdrom et puis ça bloque sur "Initializing CDROM" J'ai même laissé tourner 30 min, mais rien à faire ça bloque. Le serveur X n'est même pas lancé, je n'ai rien touché, à part appuyer sur entrée quand il y a le super logo et que ça mets "boot:" J'ai essaué en expert mais j'ai le même problème: ça bloque sur "initialising CDROM" merci d'avance @+ olivier __ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement) Bonjour, pourquoi toutlemonde veut toujours installer ou upgrader en CD ? Avec des programmes d'installation qui parait-il rends les choses plus faciles ? A part cette remarque j'ai pas rencontre de tel pb:-) Il-y-a un pb avec le joli prog d'installation de mdk de la 7.et j'utilise que le text-mode. Prends ta disquette d'installation et fait le en text mode.(custom) Cela devrait marcher, etant donne que tu n'a pas de pb avec ton CDROM ?? Sinon explique exactement ce qui se passe. Courage. Eric
Re: [newbie] Oh say can you C??
vern wrote: Hello, Where to start? I am still in the transition mode, coming over from the darkside (microsoft/DOS/windows/BASIC etc.) I tried to learn C about 10 years ago, when everyone had their own version. Before ANSI C was in full use. I had parts of a Borland compiler and did a few simple "Hello World!" type programs. Now I wonder if I need all new C reference manuals?? Since the advent of Linux and the GNU compilers and such. I'm leaning toward an O'Reilly book I just purchased a PERL manual (the camel book), and would like a similar book for modern day C. Do they still use "linker" processes, and what became of a.out?? Does C still equal C, or are there "flavors" of C?? Thanks, vern C stay's C, in dos as in linux. The only diff. is the compiler = GNU (gcc, egcs).With the 'make' and 'makefile' +/- as a *.bat file in dos for easy compiling. Get a good book like 'Programming Linux', here you'll find the necessary basics to programming the shell, tc/tcl, perl, C, etc.. Get a good friendly, Xdebugger like 'PFix86Plus' for dos and an editer you like. Test severals before continuing with one. Eric -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you)
Re: [newbie]
michael wrote: Is there a defrag type program for linux or is it so superior to DOS/win that there aren't any lost clusters or anything to clean up? Or is it that hte constant re-installation keeps the disk clean? ;-) -- -michael- By my mind, no defrag-type in linux.(Am I wrong ??) Linux do it at boot-up if necessary. Eric -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you)
Re: [newbie] re-install
rharvey wrote: If I re- install and I want to install everything... what partitions do I need and how much space does each of them need? The autoconfigure does not know what I want to install so it does not set the partitions right thanks Robert Mine is: 1 prim partition = /boot 32M 1 prim partition = / 600 - 800 M 1 swap partition = +/- 256 M (max) 1 extended LINUX = ( be carefull, use the LINUX extended, not the dos ext.) /usr+/- 3 G (the big one) /usr/local +/- 1 G ( to store own progs, not destroyed at re-install) /home +/- 2G (depends of the nbrs of users) /var+/- 600 M /reserved rest (for use later) Eric -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you)
Re: [newbie] Command execution
Barry Winch wrote: Can someone please explain the concept behind ./ in executing a command. If I am in the directory where the programme resides and type the programme name, I get a: "bash: programme name: command not found" message This is because your PATH is not defined in your bash_profile. Caution: don't do this for root ! If, from the same directory I type ./programme name everything works as advertised. With ./ you indicate the relative path of the file to your shell. Thanks Barry An other way to run your file is: /bin/sh myfilename Also: chmod +x myfilename. Also: at the commandline of your file set: PATH=$PATH:. If the script is for yoy personnal usage you can set it in a /home/fred/bin dir and adding it to your PATH varable. Eric -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you)
Re: [newbie] passwd
"N. Kofi Amu" wrote:
Thank you Anthony for your response. I appreciated the need to repeat the password
on the
terminal or in the GUI. What I need is I have over twenty users to setup and I do
have
these users names in a database. All I need is to add their passwords and export
them as
Tab Deleminated files into the Linux/Unix user file using the READ command. The only
thing I need to know is how to assign the PASSWD command in the script. I cannot
repeat
the command twice. How do I go about it in the script?
Thanks.
Anthony Huereca wrote:
It's put in there twice to make sure you typed in your password right. It
would be really bad if you accidently mistyped your password when you created
it, and had no way of knowing it till you found out you couldn't log in.
On the command line when you type PASSWD username it request for the
password twice. How could I control that in my script. It there another way or
some
switch that will not let it ask for this the second time?
Thank in advance and keep up to the good work.
Kofi Amu
Maru a Pula School
Gaborone
--
Anthony Huereca
http://m3000.1wh.com
Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
The file /etc/passw contains a db about
the useraccounts= 1 line pro user.
Ex.: kofi:cNgghJeqhh:500:4:Kofi
Amu:/home/kofi:/bin/bash
If shadow is utilised see /etc/shadow.
The standard interface of it:
#include sys/types.h
#include pwd.h
struct passw *getpwuid (uid_t uid);
struct passw *getpwnam (const char
*name);
(see header files for more dtails)
Example to extract details from db of
passwords attached.
Eric
--
FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt
you)
#include sys/types.h
#include pwd.h
#include stdio.h
#include unistd.h
int main()
{
uid_t uid;
gid_t gid;
struct passwd *pw;
uid = getuid();
gid = getgid();
printf("User is %s\n", getlogin());
printf("User IDs: uid=%d, gid=%d\n", uid, gid);
pw = getpwuid(uid);
printf("UID passwd entry:\n name=%s, uid=%d, gid=%d, home=%s, shell=%s\n",
pw-pw_name, pw-pw_uid, pw-pw_gid, pw-pw_dir, pw-pw_shell);
pw = getpwnam("root");
printf("root passwd entry:\n");
printf("name=%s, uid=%d, gid=%d, home=%s, shell=%s\n",
pw-pw_name, pw-pw_uid, pw-pw_gid, pw-pw_dir, pw-pw_shell);
exit(0);
}
Re: [newbie] An Word on Linux Drivers for Iomega ZIP Drives?
Romanator wrote: Has any one tried the Linux drivers for Iomega ZIP drives? Roman What driver ? I have an Iomega zip 100MB. ATAPI. No driver needed, I've set it up without pbs. Eric -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you)
[newbie] kISDN
I'm sorry, I referred several times times to a misspelled site: www.millennium.de -- must be www.millenniumx.de. The download site for kISDN. Eric -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you)
Re: [newbie] No login after installing StarOffice!
What I did without pbs: Reinstall as root Staroffice; before remove the '.sversionrc' file. Get the java runtime environment 'jre117'.(from blackdown.org : JRE_1.1.7-V1a-glibc-x86.tar.gz, and of course untar it) To complete the installation of Java on Linus before running the application 'soffice': 1. open the file Office51/bin/soffice (or soffice in the corresponding server directory for a network installation) 2. in this file depending on the path of your Java components set the environment JAVA_HOME with a command like the following: JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jre117_vla; export JAVA_HOME 3.you must then also change the LD_LIBRARY_PATH as follows: sd_arch='uname -m' #e.g. i586 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$JAVA_HOME/lib/$sd_arch/native_treahds:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH. As user: 4. set you link as follows (under Execute): /opt/Office51/bin/soffice %f 5. run soffice (only) as user. Hope this help you. Eric "Thomas, Bill" wrote: This is the second time this has happened to me. The first time I thought it was just me being dumb and messing something up. The second time I believe I can say the StarOffice install did something. I have mandrake 7 set to use the graphic login. After installing StarOffice, when I rebooted, the computer will boot and load everything but when it tries to load the graphical login, it just starts cycling. The monitor will sync (you can hear it click) and the numlock light on the keyboard will flash. It did that for over an hour. Questions; 1. How do I stop it from hitting the graphical login? I didn't make a boot disk because I'm an idiot. 2. How do I fix whatever happened? 3. How do I install StarOffice without this happening again? Thanks for the help. -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you)
Re: [newbie] LM7 installation woes, continued
Well, I forget how I did it but these are the files I have on my TEXT-INSTALL floppy: boot.msg339 help.msg866 initrd.img 927483 ldlinux.sys 5480 syslinux.cfg420 vmlinuz 498701 bytes Eric Kenny wrote: I'm having the same problem Upon doing an alt.f2 f3 and f4 i've seen messages that like file or folder not found if you run autoboot you get a text install but that too runs into problems thee is something definately wrong somewhere - Original Message - From: "Kaplan, Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 10:00 PM Subject: [newbie] LM7 installation woes, continued OK. So I've searched various help resources to find out why I can't use the hd.img or txt_boot.img file on the mandrake_70-2 CD files to install LM 7.0 from my local hard drive. Only got two responses. Neither led to a solution. Since there seems to be an error in the *img files, does anyone know a way to de-compile these files and then recompile them? While you're at it, any idea what I'd look for in the source to see why the img files refuse to see my hard drive? Also, how come queries to mandrake installation tech support go unanswered even to registered users? TIA Paul Kaplan _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you)
Re: [newbie] Error when running LILO
Phil here it is: (Add your floppy at the end if you like that) #Main section # boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b # #If you like you can set here a prompt message #message=/boot/message #(creat your message with a text ed. in /boot, named 'message' of course) and remove the '#'. #Show prompt prompt # #Wait 10 seconds timeout=100 #Windows section (named 'dos' or 'windows' as you like) #if your dos is located at hda1. other=/dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda # #Our kernel: default image image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux #if your /root is located at hda3 root=/dev/hda3 read-only # #End # You can add your floppy boot-up or set your bios to check first drive A on boot-up. If there is no floppy inserted then bios looks at next one.(see your bios= press DEL on start-up) An other way is to use LOADLIN insteed of LILO. If you want to use LOADLIN, ask me. See also your MDK User Guide and Reference Manual page 276. Eric Phil Murphy wrote: Thanks, Eric. Here it is: #This file has been generated by KLILO boot=/dev/hda read-only prompt timeout=100 vga=normal other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 label=linux append other=/dev/hdb1 label=dos table=/dev/hda other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy table=/dev/hda Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: Send me your lilo.conf file to see how it's done. Eric Phil Murphy wrote: I've edited my /etc/lilo.conf file to default to windows (easier for my children to access their programs) but when I run lilo I get: open /boot/boot.b: No such file or directory lilo -q returns: open /boot/map: No such file or directory Any ideas why? My changes will not take effect otherwise. Thanks, Phil -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you)
Re: [newbie] Error when running LILO
I forgot, after editing lilo.conf, do simply: (in a term or console) lilo Eric Phil Murphy wrote: Thanks, Eric. Here it is: #This file has been generated by KLILO boot=/dev/hda read-only prompt timeout=100 vga=normal other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 label=linux append other=/dev/hdb1 label=dos table=/dev/hda other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy table=/dev/hda Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: Send me your lilo.conf file to see how it's done. Eric Phil Murphy wrote: I've edited my /etc/lilo.conf file to default to windows (easier for my children to access their programs) but when I run lilo I get: open /boot/boot.b: No such file or directory lilo -q returns: open /boot/map: No such file or directory Any ideas why? My changes will not take effect otherwise. Thanks, Phil -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you)
[newbie] Running KDE1.1.x and KDE2.0 Snapshots on same machine
Hi all, I'm running MDK 7+ Is there anyone who's installed both kde's to run on the same machine ? Eric -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you)
Re: [newbie] Still problems with ISDN setup
Christian, Are you connected to your ISP? And how ? Is there a message displayed from your browser ? What kind of browser do you use? Eric ChristianMathes wrote: Hi all, I still have big problems to install my internet connection via ISDN. I thorougly studied the manual at www.mandrakeuser.org but it still doesn't work. Whenever I try to visit an URL with the Netscape Navigator, the Website is never displayed in the broswer, although 15 minutes waiting time should be enough. Now I am searching for a Mandrake user who is willing to send me his ISDN configuration files, of course without password! I'd like to fix the problem by comparing my configuration files with an intact configuration. I need especially the files /etc/isdn/profile/link/myisp', your dial-up profile /etc/isdn/profile/card/mycard', your hardware profile /etc/ppp/pap-secrets' or '/etc/ppp/chap-secrets', your password file /etc/resolv.conf', the DNS data file /etc/rc.d/rc.local', your start-up batch file /etc/isdn/profile/link/myisp' /etc/ppp/pap-secrets /etc/resolv.conf I would be extremly happy to find a German Mandraker who connects via T-online to the internet. In this case our internet service provider would be identical. With kind regards Christian -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you)
Re: [newbie] Serial Mouse Hell
Try to disable gpm on startup. I have the same problem when I selected gpm (running the mouse in console). So, I disable it and all runs fine. ERIC Raptor wrote: I have just installed Mandrake 7.0 air on a k6-2 233. I installed it fine on my k6-III 400 with a PS/2 mouse. the 233 has no ps/2 port. So I use a serial mouse. I have both a genius ( mouse model : 3 ) and time computers mouse ( whatever that is in reality I dont know ) and I cant get either to work. I have tried wiht mouseconfig all sorts of mouses (I told its not mice when refering to computers ) on both ttyS0 1. It should be on com2 (ttyS1). But whenever I boot up the x-cursor is there, but it doesnt respond to movement or clicks. I have spend over 3 hours on this know and think I am loosing my sanity. If anybody out there knows of any tricks etc.. to check or get these mice workign I would be greatfull ( you may save me from a padded cell ) . Thanks -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you)
Re: [newbie] Printing man pages
Sorry, on my machine as ex.: ESC x man ENTER manual-entry Enter Replace manual-entry by the man page (ex. dump) Eric Denis HAVLIK wrote: I suppose Rials answer is correct, but if all you need is just printing a page or two from time to time, (x)emacs will make you happy 1) start (x)emacs 2) type: ESC-x manual-entry ENTER 3) type the name of the manual entry you want to print 4) use "pretty-print" function to print the buffer. I highly recomend using (x)emacs for reading man pages even if you do not whish to print them - it is much nicer than normal "man" command. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you)
Re: [newbie] re Zip Drive
Michael, there are several way's to do it, 2 of them are: 1-compress it with 'bzip2' 2- do a 'dump' See, execute 'man bzip2' and 'man dump' on a term or console. Eric mcoady wrote: Thanks to Ron and Eric for great assistance in getting the Zip drive working. I see that this 100 meg. disk has 12 blockgroups. When I tried to tar my /home directory onto the Zip drive it stopped after using only one block. Consequently there was not enough space to archive the whole directory .. Is there a way to combine some blocks on the Zip disk to accomodate the archiving I wish to do? Michael Coady -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you)
Re: [newbie] printer HP deskjesct 930C
Take a look at www.picante.com Eric Charles A Edwards wrote: Almost all HP printers will work in Linux. If you have not done so already use Printer Config. and in turn pick each HP DeskJet listed, try to print a test page, continue untill you find one that will print. I should have said this first. Be sure your printer is connected via parrallel port and not USB. USB connected printers will not have support until 7.2 is released unless you are foolhardy enough to use the beta version. Before someone fires back I am not saying anyone who uses the beta is being foolish. I Am saying that beginners should not use it and that includes me as well as most others on this list. Charles - Original Message - From: "Oder" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 8:28 AM Subject: [newbie] printer HP deskjesct 930C Has anyone managed to get one of this printer working under Mandrake 7.02 (usb or parallel). Thanks in advance for any advice, Oder.
Re: [newbie] epson stylus color 760
Emanuele La Rosa wrote: Does anybody know where I can find the driver of the printer epson stylus color 760 take a lokk at www.picante.com Eric
Re: AW: [newbie] once again: ISDN setup
Take a look at www.millenium.de. There is a prog to dial-up with ISDN without pbs. Try it free. Eric Christian Mathes wrote: Dear Paul, thank you for your e-mail. What is ISDN4Net ? Is it a software ? A configuration tool? Or an URL in the WWW ? With kind regards Christian My problem is that I can't find these files.There is no directory /isdn/profile on my PC. Find the ISDN4Net setup on the net. If you want, mail me privately and I can send it to you. I am sure I still have it somewhere. :) Paul )0(---)0( Law of Life's Highway: If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] kernel upgrade
I tryed the 2.3.(31 I thought) under redhat 6 months ago and had no pb. Eric PS: now I'm on the latest mandrake. Eric Ron Greer wrote: 2.3.xx is beta. All odd numbers are beta: 2.2.14 z.y.xx xx == Release version, it just increments, get the highest one. yy == Major version, get the even numbers, right now it's 2. Hopefully soon we'll see 2.4.xx. (If you've got an older computer, you may want to go with 2.0.xx) z == Really Major version :) Wow it's been a long time since this number changed just get 2 :) -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 10:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] kernel upgrade is the 2.3.xx kernel a beta or stable release and will it effect the operation of mandrake if I upgrade my kernel? Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
Re: [newbie] I need help to install KDE 2.0 and how to install a als100 sound card
Fernando Camacho Olmos wrote: Please anyone know how to install kde 2.0 when i try to install, that eliminate the kde. and what i have to do whith the als 100 sound card when i run sndconfig it mark one error and i have to put manually instalation. KDE installs on /opt. Go throug the web of kde.org for info. Eric
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6
The location of netscape 6 is /opt/netscape. So, click on the desktop-icon 'autostart' and select 'new', 'application', give it a name ex. 'netscape6.kdelnk', etc fill-in what's needed. Eric Paul wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: S, Anthony is there a way to install an icon for Netscape6 to my desktop in Mandrake 7.1?? Eunice Never a simpler thing... Open KDE explorer or a KFM client, locate the Netscape binary that runs netscape, drag it to the desktop. Select 'link' when asked what you want to do with the file (Copy, move, link) Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you remember how that sounds? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] lost X! help
You mean /tmp ?? There is no so much space to win when deleting this one. Try: mkdir /tmp mkdir /tmp/.X11-unix mkdir /tmp/.font-unix and reboot with runlevel 3, startx. If you mean /my account/tmp, There is no any file X need. Eric bascule wrote: well just when i thought i was doing ok, i went and deleted the contents of /tmp on account i had run out of disk space and i thought /tmp's contents were well, just that, temporary. obviously not so since now, i cannot boot into X, i can get into runlevel3, since my friend has my cd i thought i'd try to install XFree86-4 from files i have on a dos disk but when i run rpm -ivf blah blah i get the message 'unexpected query source' what does this mean? is there a simpler way to get X back? feeling foolish bascule
Re: [newbie] Version number on new compile
If you compiled a new kernel, then you created a 'bzImage' or 'zImage'. So, do: (xxx is what you want) cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.xx cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map-2.2.xxx rm /boot/System.map ln -s /boot/System.map-2.2.x /boot/System.map Then edit the file etc/lilo.conf and change image=/boot/vmlinuz-x to your new vmlinuz. Finally do: lilo. That's all. Eric Barry Winch wrote: Hi I am running 7.02, but have recompiled the Kernel with som additional modules. I wanted to change the version to relect these changes. The obvious way to go was to change the EXTRAVERSION text in Makefile from -15mdk to -15mdk-, this I did then a make clean and usual compile stuff. The new kernel compiled ok, the compile date ant time on the log on screen showed correctly for the new version, the version numberit still showed Linux Version as 2.2.14-15mdk and NOT 2.2.14-15mdk- Is there something else that needs to be changed ?? Thanks Barry
[newbie] user window-sig
Hi, is there a way to see what user is actually running-on ? I mean on the workstation; on the panel or with a little widget/image. Eric
Re: [newbie] What's wrong with TAR???
Nickolay Belostotsky wrote: Hi all! After I've installed X 4, when I tar -xvf something, I get this error on every file, but the files *do* unpack: $ tar -xvf kde-qt-support-1.90.tar tar: couldn't set uid 1002 gid 1002 using chown: Operation not permitted The error message is not exactly as it is, this is my translation from Russian. And I'm logged as root, I don't know why operation is not permitted... Any ideas? Thanks, -- Koly Well, the system tryed to set the userID and the groupID to 1002 with the command chown: and this failed ! This ID was set when tar the file. See to what ID the files are set for info. Eric
Re: [newbie] Wrong Charset in KDE
Paul, thanks for the respons.I'm reassured. Eric Paul wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2000, Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: Hi all, why get I always the message 'KCharset: Wrong charset !'. What did I wrong ? Thanks Eric I don't think you do something wrong. I assume that the packages that were installed were compiled with a different character set loaded than you have on your system. Happens to me a lot also, but as long as things work fine I don't care. (Should I??) Paul )0(---)0( Life is more than increasing its speed. (Mohandas K. Gandhi) )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Where's the experts??
vern wrote: What has happened to the experts mailing list? No mail for almost 3 days! vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! Silly hacker, root is for administrators! Hi, same for me. Nothing at all. Experts do not exist ! Eric
Re: [newbie] user window-sig
Hi Paul, I know..., also when open an xterm of course we can see the user with the prompt. for this an action must be done. What I mean is: for example a display in the panel displaying the currently user of the workstation same as the time display in the right corner of the panel. Eric Paul wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: Hi, is there a way to see what user is actually running-on ? I mean on the workstation; on the panel or with a little widget/image. Eric HI Eric, I am not sure if I know what you mean, but this might help: run who -H in a terminal and you can see who is logged onto the system and what tty they use. Paul )0(---)0( Nothing is so smiple that it can't get screwed up. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Server partitions
Add a /usr/local to preserve own progs. Eric Victor Richardson wrote: I'm doing a custom server install of Mandrake 6.1 for our office and was wondering about some partitions and their sizes. The server will only be accessed by 15 users (Win Mac) for basic fileshare and some scheduling/calendar app (Netscape). Anyway, I have a 9.1 gig drive and have; /boot - 23 meg /- 500 meg /tmp - 200 meg /var - 200 meg /usr -1500 meg /home - 6000 meg /swap - 250 meg My question is, do I need /usr/local or /usr/opt, and if so how big? If I do have /usr/local, does /usr need to be as big as it is? Please feel free to suggest anything, I could use the help. Victor
[newbie] Wrong Charset in KDE
Hi all, why get I always the message 'KCharset: Wrong charset !'. What did I wrong ? Thanks Eric
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster And Mandrake 7.0
"A.CAnela" wrote: Hi, I'm a new Linux's user and I've installed Mandrake 7.0, but my system doesn't recognize my Sound Blaster AWE 64. How can I install it? Run 'sndconfig' w/c in console. Eric
Re: [[newbie] ISP NETSCAPE]
Look also at your resolv.conf AFTER (while) the connection with your KWvDial. He must be changed by your dialer. See what happen. Eric Michael Scottaline wrote: "Jeffrey Buckley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally got my computer to dial out connect to an ISP. I used KWvDial. Then once I connect, Netscape says that I'm not connected. Any Suggestions? Thanks! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] == Edit your /etc/resolv.conf add: search your isp nameserver dns# nameserver dns# Your ISP should provide you with two dns #'s HTH, Mike ~~~ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." --Tom Waits ~~~ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Keyboard Problem in X
Anders Linden wrote: Ok, I have a problem with X-Windows How can I write the $, ] and } in X? When I try I only get a 4, a 9 and a 0. I'm writing this in the console, and as you can see it works fine there. I just can't get it to work in X (Using KDE). I've already tries to change the usual rows in the XFConfig file, but that obvioustly didn't help. I'm from Sweden, so I'm using the swedish keyboard layout, only if I change to english layout nothing happens either. Help wanted! Anders I had the same trouble and resolved it as follows: In console type X /var/log/x.out 21 ( nothing will be happen so type CTRL-C) Then read this file with your tex editor. Probably there is a message : .. no access to /var/ Because you logged in as user and have no access writing to this. So, set the permissions to the dirs as owner and group.(not to root) Let me now if it worked. Eric Hmm, well, I'm sure it will work, but I havn't got a clue what you mean. Could you explain a little better how I'm suppose to do it? Anders Ok, in console (not in X) type 'X /var/log/x.out 21' w/c. Normally you can't see what it is doing and nothing will be happen (system halted) so press CTRL-C. Now start X (startx). Read the created file '/var/log/x.out' with your tex-editor. Is there a message: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: Error Cannot open "/var/tmp/server-.xkm" .. ?? Eric
Re: [newbie] Install Problems
Paul wrote: On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Matthew Clegg wrote: I'm completely new to Linux and am having difficulties with the Mandrake install program. When it gets to the point where it is supposed to test X no window appears and the install program does not go back to the previous step after a period of time as the manual says it will. I have tried several different resolutions all with the same result so I don't think that is the problem. I am running a Mitsubishi 15fs monitor and a S3 Trio32/64 PCI, and would appreciate any help or links to sites that may help. Sometimes it is better NOT to let the system probe the graphics card. I know that the S3 trio is supported. Try it again, don't let the probing happen. That should work (no warranty though, other things can be messing things up) Paul Right, skip the probe !! I had the same problem with my S3 Trio. Because I installed in TEXT mode, there you can skip it. Eric
Re: [newbie] Keyboard Problem in X
Anders Linden wrote: Ok, I have a problem with X-Windows How can I write the $, ] and } in X? When I try I only get a 4, a 9 and a 0. I'm writing this in the console, and as you can see it works fine there. I just can't get it to work in X (Using KDE). I've already tries to change the usual rows in the XFConfig file, but that obvioustly didn't help. I'm from Sweden, so I'm using the swedish keyboard layout, only if I change to english layout nothing happens either. Help wanted! Anders I had the same trouble and resolved it as follows: In console type X /var/log/x.out 21 ( nothing will be happen so type CTRL-C) Then read this file with your tex editor. Probably there is a message : .. no access to /var/ Because you logged in as user and have no access writing to this. So, set the permissions to the dirs as owner and group.(not to root) Let me now if it worked. Eric
Re: [newbie] Compiling from source - guess I'm just not getting it...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just downloaded the Linux version of cthugha from the web - in tar.gz form - followed the installation instructions, and as usual, the program doesn't work - Can't seem to find the executable, when I do a Find Files in KDE for " cthugha* ", I don't find an executable that works - the closest thing I find is /usr/local/lib/cthugha-L, which I would assume by it's location is a library file - anyway, out of desperation, I tried running that file and got a segmentation error... This sort of thing happens every time I compile stuff from source - I guess I'm just not comprehending things here... I used to write c++ code in DOS, so this really shouldn't be such a problem for me - What am I missing I'm coming from C/C++ in DOS but it seems easier (see the makefile) There are some differences when compiling in Linux. Get a good book as 'Programming Linux' (ex.) When compiling are there some errors reported ??? Eric
Re: [newbie] installing failed :-(
Claus Atzenbeck wrote: I was trying to install Mandrake 7.02 on a Pentium-S machine. I don't get the graphical installer, probably because my memory is to less (16MB) or my graphic card is not good enough. I don't mind. It is running well until the point where Mandrake is supposed to ask me how to format the hard drive. Instead of this dialoge I only get the message: Error An error occurred no available partitions What is wrong?? What can I do? Thanks a lot for your help! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de [He] took me into his library and showed me his books, of which he had a complete set. -- Ring Lardner is there a Linux partition available ? Did you make it ? Eric
Re: [newbie] installing failed :-(
Claus Atzenbeck wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, J D wrote: did you partition your hdd? or do you have an empty hdd? are you running any other os's? if you can, provide a little more info, and we'll see what we can think of. Thanks for you mail, also to Eric! Yes, there were no partitions available. I had good luck to have also SuSE here in order to format my hard drive. How would I be able to format my hard drive without any tool except Mandrake CD-ROM? The graphical installer provides partitioning hard drives befor installing, not so the text installer... :-( Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. -- George Bernard Shaw I utilise the TEXT installation of mandrake (redhat) to do anything. In this mode you can partition your HD with FDISK and DISKDRUID : first : FDISK to do the partition; primary and extended. second: DISKDRUID making mount-points. After this go to the next menu who ask what mount-point you'll format; the first time ALL of course. Create at least following partitions and mount-points: /boot (must be primary partition.About 32M, to preserve several kernels, starting under the 1024st cylinder ) /( my case also a primary, +- 600-800M) 1 extended for the rest of your HD divided in: /usr(the big one, my case 3G) /usr/local (needed to preserve own data and programs; no reformat when a reinstallation has to be done) /home (not to be reformat when a reinstallation has to be done, so you preserve your locally work) /reserve (to allocate space for later use) So, this what I had done. Good luck. Eric
Re: [newbie] (newbie) Start-up Screen
Evan Holt wrote: Hi there, I think the start-up screens for Corel Linux and Storm Linux are great, where you get to choose your OS, rather than the cruddy text boot manager. Is there any way to make your own (other than using BootMagic)? Thanks, Evan You are right about Corel, very great choice ! To Mandrake for setup a similar start-up screen. Eric
Re: [newbie] (newbie] Yet Another Programming Question
Evan Holt wrote: Hi there, I'm a newbie to Linux, and I know that this might sound like a silly question, but I was wondering about Visual Basic for Linux. Now I know that VB is a Microsoft product so VB for Linux would be an oxymoron, but still, I'm a college student and would rather run it in Linux rather than Win98. So are there any rumours of development (third-parties)? Running it on Wine will be a chore for another day :-) Thanks in advance. Evan There is no need about a similar item like VB. Do it in 'C/C++'. There is many..many... good stuff for easy programming. Take a look at the 'C/C++ users journal'. Eric
RE: [newbie] HELP!!
To do this, there are several steps as follows: 1. set hidden and read-only files attibutes to 'archive' == attrib -r -s -h *.* You can also output the results to a file: 'attrib -r -s -h foo.txt' for later review. Do this for ALL the dir's. Take care of user.dat user.da0 system.dat and system.da0. Windz reset this files, so don't open windows. Do it in dos. Check some files when click on it and select 'properties'. 2. Defrag your HD with FULL screen, so you can see if files stayed at the end.(Takes several hours) 3. In dos run 'FIPS' (comes with your linux cd !) Now look what space is available. If there is not enough space, repeat all above and SEE IF THERE ARE FILES STAYED AT THE END OF YOUR HD. If so, you forget (or windows does) to set the attibute. Try it. There is no danger with FIPS as long as you don't save anything! And READ the doc of FIPS. The max space to install ALL about MDK linux is about 1.3G. Eric -Original Message- From: Jamey Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 5:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] HELP!! You all are going to laugh at me for doing this or asking this but, I need some kind of software to COMPLETELY erase all my partition info. Some how i manged to screw it up, My hdd is 3.2gb's and i meant to give half to linux and the other half to windows. Well some how i manged to give only 900megs to windows and the rest to linux, so i downloaded a programed to resize it. But somehow it screwed my whole hdd up and now i only have a 900meg hdd! Ive tried Fdisk and it doesnt even show anything! If anyone could help me i would be more than grateful to you! Sorry for such along message. Thanks
RE: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1
Did you set your 'mount' dir to the right permisions ? Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cox Family Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 3:24 PM To: Linux Mandrake, Newbie list Subject: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1 another stumper for me? I just wanted to make a new directory on the DOS partition that I could put some WP8 files in (because the apostrophe comes out on the printer as something stupid in Linux right now) and it said I didn't have permission. I checked the "fstab" and hda1 includes "user" in permissions. I checked properties by right-clicking on the icon and it includes user, group and others for both read and write. OK, so I made the directory as super-user, gave it "a+rwx" permissions, and still couldn't save a file in it. Access denied. No permission to write or what ever Again, what am I missing here? Bob
[newbie] bacspace
Hi everyone, my backspace key do not work in user mode. It do it when logged in as root. Why ? Eric
RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdown on stability!!
Hi, I have a S3 Virge card to without any problem !! On a mdk 7. Eric -Original Message- From: Mike Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 10:12 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdown on stability!! H, I hear all the time about people having problems with setting up hardware, and hardware that has no support in Linux, but almost NEVER do I hear about Linux instability on good hardware. In fact I had an old system consisting of an Oktec Rhino9 board with a cyrix M2 P200mmx that used to crash all the time in winblows95 that worked perfectly for about 6 months on Linux before it finally bit the dust (overclocked Cyrixes dont last long..) The only real hardware incompatibility that caused me freezes/lockups and problems installing in Mandrake 6.02 was my old S3 Virge card. I managed to get it running reasonably well but in the end slipped an old Matrox in instead and never looked back. Just my 3 cents worth. Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: Stephen F. Bosch [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mon 10 April 2000 7:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdownon stability!! paul haine wrote: Funny how when Windows doesn't work it's Windows fault, but when Linux doesn't work it MUST be the hardware. *groan* If it bothers you, then be my guest, and dump Linux. Nobody's forcing you to use it. I have no irrational allegiance to any OS. I use Linux because it works, and shun Windows because it doesn't. -Stephen-
RE: [newbie] Netscape files
last year I tryed out and it didn't work for me. Naothing at all, nor the bookmarks ! Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 11:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape files kiriakos wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if it is possible in a dual boot system (linux, win98) to have Netscape for Linux share the user files with Netscape for windows, in a way of telling the linux version to look for the user directory in /mnt/dos/.../Netscape user folder, effectively sharing mail, bookmarks, browser settings, and cache content between OS's. Is this possible? I haven't noticed any customizable user folder setting in Netscape for windows, but is there such a thing in Netscape for Linux? Or some other way to do it? Thanks in advance, GG I don't think so: I was using netscape for mail in both and the windows version understands the linux mail files but not the other way around. It would try and then it would lose messages. As for the cache sharing, look at the way each is handled, to me the look totally dissimilar. Bookmarks on the other hand will probably work fine. Make a backup copy of bookmarks.htm and try linking the linux one. It might work...
RE: [newbie] Partition disappeared, how do I get them back?
Try it out with 'FIPS' ?? Eric -Original Message- From: Seth Hollen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 7:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Partition disappeared, how do I get them back? Classification: UNCLASSIFIED I got the same problem w/ partition magic also. and boot magic won't work too! I'm contacting tech support about it today. will let everyone know what they say... Seth Hollen [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 10:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Partition disappeared, how do I get them back? I can comisserate with you - I installed Linux on my home PC, and now when I run Partition Magic on it there is just a long yellow box where my partitions should be, with text that reads "No Partition - ERROR" across it - Linux and Windows still boot fine, but I'm frantically backing up my data and waiting for the other shoe to drop. "Bob Nagler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/06/2000 04:30:28 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Joe Reynolds/ISSC/Texas Utilities) Subject: [newbie] Partition disappeared, how do I get them back? For a to me unknown reason, my linux partition an two windows partitions are not seen any more when I boot my computer.I still have lilo boot choice but when i try my linux OS, I get a kernel panic because I cant mount the root (/). In windows, which i can still run (with only my C drive, the first partition on my disk), I only see my Windows partition (Fat partition of 2008 MB) and then an unknown partition of 15MB(probably where the boot info of the lilo and linux is), and then 7516 MB of free space. In these 7516MB should be my linux partition an my SWAP partition and my home partition, and aditional dos partitions. I don't have a rescue diskette that works, so I can't get a linux pompt in any way. Is there a way to get my partitions and all the data back? Please help!! Thanks, Bob
RE: [newbie] update to XFree86 4.0
Verify first of all if youve get all the necessary packages related to XFree. See www.rufus.com , go to distributions, mandrakesoft and select the first XFree package you have downloaded. There you'll see what is provided and what is needed by the package, see also the changelog. And so on. Don't forget to download the 'libs' ! The X contribs are of course the X11R6 packages. Check out if there is a new version needed for XFree 4. There is a new X11R6 version 4 on www.xfree.org ! Let me now. Eric -Original Message- From: Claus Atzenbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 8:59 AM To: Eric MC DECLERCK Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] update to XFree86 4.0 On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: Did you also install the X contrib ? Which X contrib? I was trying to install the following packages: XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-Xnest-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-Xvfb-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-devel-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-doc-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-glide-module-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-libs-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-static-libs-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-xfs-4.0-6mdk.i586.rpm These are the packages which are installed currently: XFree86-libs-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-xfs-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-Xnest-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-100dpi-fonts-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-75dpi-fonts-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-devel-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-VGA16-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-XF86Setup-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-Xvfb-3.3.6-4mdk XFree86-Rage128-1.3-2mdk Thanks a lot for your help! Claus -Original Message- From: Claus Atzenbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 5:09 PM To: Mandrake Listing Subject: [newbie] update to XFree86 4.0 I was downloading XFree86 version 4.0 as RPM. I was trying to upgrade my current version 3.3.6, bu I couldn't: Almost every package had some dependency problem. So I decided to "rpm -e --nodeps all_old_XFree_stuff" and installing the new v4.0 packages. The result: X didn't start up anymore (Error 2). My question: I have the new RPMs here. How can I upgrade my XFree stuff?? Thanks a lot for your help!
RE: [newbie] X11R6-contrib
Go to www.xfree86.org. There you'll find what you need about it. Eric -Original Message- From: wolfen999 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 3:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] X11R6-contrib where can i get this file for X 4.0 and still no luck with libglade3.so.3 or /usr/sbin/install-menu GET THE BEST FREE INTERNET ACCESS * Free Email * Free Support * Software* * No Credit Check * Privacy Guaranteed* GOTO http://www.HomeFreeWeb.com
RE: [newbie] Netscape files
NO NO NO NO Eric -Original Message- From: kiriakos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 12:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Netscape files Hi all, I was wondering if it is possible in a dual boot system (linux, win98) to have Netscape for Linux share the user files with Netscape for windows, in a way of telling the linux version to look for the user directory in /mnt/dos/.../Netscape user folder, effectively sharing mail, bookmarks, browser settings, and cache content between OS's. Is this possible? I haven't noticed any customizable user folder setting in Netscape for windows, but is there such a thing in Netscape for Linux? Or some other way to do it? Thanks in advance, GG
RE: [newbie] How to change resolution in X
Run Xconfigurator. Eric -Original Message- From: Glen M. Chambers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 12:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] How to change resolution in X Hi, I'm using KDE and want to change the resolution to 1280*1024 - Can't figure out how tho' Thanks. Glen -- ~~|| Glen M. Chambers ||~~ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] RPM
Via console of course ! Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lance Borden Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] RPM wolfen999 wrote: i am downloading the latestest rpms for xwindows 4.0 now i am wondering if they can be installed using kpackage or do they have to be installed via console if so how do you insatll and rpm from the command prompt ? GET THE BEST FREE INTERNET ACCESS * Free Email * Free Support * Software* * No Credit Check * Privacy Guaranteed* GOTO http://www.HomeFreeWeb.com use kpackage lb
RE: [newbie]
Begin making room on your 1st HD. You need 'FIPS' and the doc about it for more security. Eric -Original Message-From: Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 9:52 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Hi gang, Ok, I have just got a copy of mandrake 7.0. At the moment I am running W98se on a PIII450, with 192mb, a master 6.1gb HDD and a slave 2.0gb HDD. I would like to install mandrake on the second (slave) HDD. Can anyone tell me, if this is possible? and if so, how would I go about it. I would like dual boot system between W98 and Mandrake. Thanks all to those who can help me, I am kinda new ;) Kevin
RE: [newbie]
Run 'FDISK', nothing will be done before you give the command 'w' in fdisk ! and you can keep away at any time. So, keep in mind that the linux boot must be below the 1024st cylinder ! You can divide your HD in 4 primary partitions: 1. Linux native or dos (add a swap partition to linux) 2. dos or linux 3. dos 4. dos After that you can setup the 'logical' partitions. Type 'm' in FDISK for the menu. Type 'p' to print what about your HD. etc For dos there is no more need for more than 1 primary partition. In linux there must be at least 1 primary and 1 swap partition. Give linux at least 4-6 G (depends what you install) If you don't trust 'fdisk', run 'FIPS'. Try it out. Eric -Original Message- From: Kino Mondesir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 5:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] I'm ready, but I would like to use my Fdisk command inorder to partition my 20 G harddrive into 5 sections 4 Gs each. I would like to have Windows 95, 98, 2000, Linux Mandrake, and Caldera OpenLinux 2.1. Could you explain to me how I would do that. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] new isdn4k-utils
Hi, I installed the new isdn4k-utils and isdn4net. (cooker) Mandrake 7.02, kernel 14-15. is there everyone who can tell me what to do with following messages : - configuring kernel with 'IP re-routing' ? (IP routing is configurable in the kernel, but 're routing' ?? - why did modprobe 'ippp0' not found ? So, ippp0 is present in /dev/ippp0. Eric
RE: [newbie] update to XFree86 4.0
Did you also install the X contrib ? Eric -Original Message- From: Claus Atzenbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 5:09 PM To: Mandrake Listing Subject: [newbie] update to XFree86 4.0 I was downloading XFree86 version 4.0 as RPM. I was trying to upgrade my current version 3.3.6, bu I couldn't: Almost every package had some dependency problem. So I decided to "rpm -e --nodeps all_old_XFree_stuff" and installing the new v4.0 packages. The result: X didn't start up anymore (Error 2). My question: I have the new RPMs here. How can I upgrade my XFree stuff?? Thanks a lot for your help! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Case of Identity"
RE: [newbie] Can't mount FAT32 LBA partition: invalid major or mi nor number...
Diod you copy your new vmlinuz to your (win) loadlin dir ? Eric -Original Message- From: Pittman, Merle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 1:34 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Can't mount FAT32 LBA partition: invalid major or mi nor number... give the me the exact details you go through to try to moun the win partition. I had a problem but I got around it, I want to see if the problem is similar. -Original Message- From: Tim Hammerquist [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 10:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Can't mount FAT32 LBA partition: invalid major or minor number... I posted this to [expert] as well, but it went unanswered. Maybe this is too simple for them? But I need help; this is infuriating! Here's my scenario: Running Win98SE on bottom 10GB of 20GB hard drive. Installed Mandrake 6.1 on upper 10GB last December. Worked beautifully. =) Bought Mandrake 7 Complete and formatted and installed over 6.1 (didn't upgrade). Mandrake 7 will not mount the DOS/FAT32 partition (at boot or otherwise). It gives the error "/dev/hda1 has invalid major or minor...". Everything listed in /dev under hda lists major number as 3 and minor number corresponding to partition. Kernel is located on /dev/hda3, FAT32 (LBA) on /dev/hda1. I normally boot from my config.sys using loadlin.exe, but /dev/hda1 can't be mounted even if I use the boot disk. Now when I went back to install 6.1 which worked fine before, it crashes during formatting /dev/hda3 as ext2. Has anyone had this problem? Is there a fix/patch/easy explanation, or do I have to backup my hd and reformat all partitions from scratch? BTW: Win98 on /dev/hda1 still works; no problems. TIA, -Tim
RE: [newbie] Sound Card Problems.
I have a AWE64 and works fine. Try 'sndconfig' in the console (no on X). This would setup your card correctly. Eric -Original Message- From: Oliver Stieber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 11:28 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Sound Card Problems. LOTHAR didn't find my card either, Cretive AWE 64, i just ran sndconfig from console, and things work fine. except LOTHAR still can't find my sound card. -Original Message- From: KompuKit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 April 2000 04:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Card Problems. is your card a PCI...card...? Roy Smith wrote: The sound card is a ESS 1868 I've copied down the IRQ and DMA settings that windows uses and still can't get it to work with Linux. Later... Roy Smith ICQ UIN #265622 -Original Message- From: Seth Hollen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 10:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] Sound Card Problems. Classification: UNCLASSIFIED what's your sound card? have you tried LOTHAR on the command "soundconfig"? -Original Message- From: Roy Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 8:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Card Problems. Hi! I just got Mandrake Linux installed on my PC and am having problems figuring out how to get my sound card to work on the new OS. Any suggestions? Later... Roy Smith ICQ UIN #265622 -- ===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] rpm trouble
Hi everyone, I lost my rpm database (kpackages.rpm). Is there anyone who can help me to rebuild it ? txs Eric
RE: [newbie] Loadlin
-Original Message- From: Eric MC DECLERCK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 10:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Loadlin STARTING LINUX WITH LOADLIN. Step by step installation: - make a dir in windoz (ex: loadlin) - copy loadlin.exe to your dir. Modif of 'MSDOS.SYS' : -click on this file and disable 'readonly' -open with an editer the file and set BootGUI=0 ( in section [Options](this don't start the logo of windoz. - in the same section set Logo=0 Modif of CONFIG.SYS : -open with a texteditor this file. -insert at top : [menu] menuitem=WIN, Windows 98 menuitem=LINUX, linux menudefault=WIN, 10 #or LINUX as you like ! [WIN] -insert at bottom : [LINUX] # -- sorry I forgot this line !! shell=C:\loadlin\loadlin.exe c:\loadlin\vmlinuz root=/dev/hd (here I suppose your HD = C, replace hd with your root partition in linux) Now go boot-up linux. mount your dos partition and copy 'vmlinuz-2.2x' to the dir 'loadlin' as 'vmlinuz'. That's all. Good luck Eric -Original Message- From: FREMAIN ANDUJAR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 7:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Loadlin I am using Windows 2000 and windows 98 ok ,i ahve also linux mnadrake 7.02 install in the same HD y a partition dev/hda3/. ok i notice there is a boot.ini file in windows 2000, that have the menu option for windows make some arrange to the file now i see that linux is in the menu , when windows prompt the menu for choosing OS in DOS , but i cant get to linux from there ok i try loadlin , no luck does anyone hace idea how to make work __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Loadlin
STARTING LINUX WITH LOADLIN. Step by step installation: - make a dir in windoz (ex: loadlin) - copy loadlin.exe to your dir. Modif of 'MSDOS.SYS' : -click on this file and disable 'readonly' -open with an editer the file and set BootGUI=0 ( in section [Options](this don't start the logo of windoz. - in the same section set Logo=0 Modif of CONFIG.SYS : -open with a texteditor this file. -insert at top : [menu] menuitem=WIN, Windows 98 menuitem=LINUX, linux menudefault=WIN, 10 #or LINUX as you like ! [WIN] -insert at bottom : shell=C:\loadlin\loadlin.exe c:\loadlin\vmlinuz root=/dev/hd (here I suppose your HD = C, replace hd with your root partition in linux) Now go boot-up linux. mount your dos partition and copy 'vmlinuz-2.2x' to the dir 'loadlin' as 'vmlinuz'. That's all. Good luck Eric -Original Message- From: FREMAIN ANDUJAR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 7:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Loadlin I am using Windows 2000 and windows 98 ok ,i ahve also linux mnadrake 7.02 install in the same HD y a partition dev/hda3/. ok i notice there is a boot.ini file in windows 2000, that have the menu option for windows make some arrange to the file now i see that linux is in the menu , when windows prompt the menu for choosing OS in DOS , but i cant get to linux from there ok i try loadlin , no luck does anyone hace idea how to make work __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] netscape
Hi, I have mdk 7.0.2 installed and an isdn card. I ustilize kISDN from Millenium to connect to my ISP. It's works fine. Netscape startup fine to. But when trying to connect to a site an error message occurs : 'Can't find ...' Netscape can't find the site I want to connect !! I did not find what goes wrong. Help fully appriciated. Eric
