[newbie] starting slmodem automatically as root
I'm using the slmodem driver but the problem is that I always have to start it as root (using su from terminal) to be able to dial-up. Is there a way to start this program automatically? TIA Erik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Urpmi database locked
Lee Wiggers wrote: I closed a shell in the middle of an urpmi update. (Don't ask) Now I get 'urpmi database locked' when I attempt to update. How do I get myself out of this one? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Reboot your computer... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Buying notebook: tough decision. Help.
I was about to ask the same thing. I'm using a Dell 1100 el cheapo with great satisfaction with mdk 9.2 and win2k in VMware. Love it. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I'm running off of a Dell Inspiron 4150, I've had no prolems. Other than a few routine _fixable_ or known issues with most laptops... ACPI support is one. I still can't plug-in/un-plug my power nor can I close the lid, so to speak. Without Linux freezing. But apparently those two issues are completely fixable, there are a couple of mailing lists and forums, specifically, for linux on laptops... some informational websites ect ect I'm sure if you google the laptops names that you are choosing from you will find a couple of people that maintain that same type of install that you do or that you plan to do. I was lucky enough to contact someone that had the exact same laptop and is a Linux power user of sorts. He helped me greatly. This type of buddy buddy attitude can only be found by the people that know your exact situation. Kind of like It's a Jeep thing you wouldn't understand, same idea. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Konsole Logs? Is there another way to view the details of root sessions... and if so? Where are the elusive little buggers!
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Re: [newbie] Re: Where's my mail?
I have no idea why your messages aren't showing up, but you can find the messages in your home directory. All the mozilla stuff is in a directory in your home directory called .mozilla, so if you're browsing in Konqueror, set it to view hidden files; if you're doing this from the command line, use the command ls -a (without the quotes, of course) rather than plain ls. Inside that directory, there will be a directory for each of your profiles. change to that and you'll see a directory with an incomprehensible name like ivj8x58h.slt. Inside that is your Mail directory which contains your Inbox and any other mail folders you have created. These are stored as humungous text files, so just open the apropriate one in a text editor like Kwrite and use Find with a word that's likely to be in the mail you're looking for. Tedious, I know, but useful for emergencies like this. BTW, I always set Mozilla Mail to only delete messages on the server when I delete them in Mozilla - that way any mail I don't delete is safely sitting on the server (this feature is also very useful if you're connecting from more than one computer - in fact it's the main reason why I use Mozilla rather than KMail). Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Either that, or you can copy and paste everything from Linux in the mail folder of your Mozilla profile. Onto a disk/cd-r or a windows based partition and move it over to a windows based computer/OS. Simply Place the files that you copied over in a fresh profile of mozilla following the directions from the previous poster above. The profiles work and act _ALMOST_ exactly the same between the two operating systems. So if you have a dual booting system you can share the same profile if needed. So it should work if the messages are actually there. Regards, Brandon Erik Bertelsen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!
Whoa... your doing homework... 'some' people are really anal about the reply-to settings. Deal, I look before I post so should you ;) If the guy says he can't do it, HE CAN'T DO IT stop harrasing the poor man. JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:26:48 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, in all seriousness, the reply-to screws up people on mailingg lists. If your isp makes you fill it in, is there anyway you could set it to whatever list you are posting to? I just communicated with another IStop user, there is no such requirement, and they've never encountered anything like what lanman is referring to. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Resetting media sources to the original ISO's mdk9.2
How would one go about setting up the urpmi sources as that of what was originally offered through the mandrake ISO's, you see, I'm having issues with the Easy URPM site, and of course after little reading I blasted the original media that I had on my distro. By typing in the wonderful urpmi.removemedia -a However, now when I try to 'addmedia' it tells me that 'it cannot update medium 'whicheveroneIwastryingtoupdate' Regards, Brandon Erik Bertelsen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Resetting media sources to the original ISO's mdk9.2
Worked like a charm thanks! Johan wrote: On Saturday 06 December 2003 21:43, Brandon Erik Bertelsen wrote: How would one go about setting up the urpmi sources as that of what was originally offered through the mandrake ISO's, you see, I'm having issues with the Easy URPM site, and of course after little reading I blasted the original media that I had on my distro. By typing in the wonderful urpmi.removemedia -a However, now when I try to 'addmedia' it tells me that 'it cannot update medium 'whicheveroneIwastryingtoupdate' Regards, Brandon Erik Bertelsen *** If you have removed all your media like in... urpmi.removemedia -a You will find that your installation CD's are missing from the list To re-add your cd sources do:. Put CD1 in the drive and in root terminal type: urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable://mnt/cdrom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Missing Screensavers
Patrick Coffey wrote: Hello, I just installed a fresh copy Mandrake 9.2 with KDE, when I go to Configure Desktop and go under screensavers there are none listed. I've installed just about every KDE rpm I could find and I couldn't find a solution that worked in the archives. Does anybody have an idea? --Pat _ Take advantage of our best MSN Dial-up offer of the year six months @$9.95/month. Sign up now! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com When you update, they show up. It worked for me :). It's in the Mandrake Control Center... -- Software Packages ( or something like that ) --- Update Packages ( or something like that ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2. Many proprietary apps gone...
Everything for Mandrake and Gnome are gone. I still have KDE so I can still activate things and use the OS to a degree. But things like... Mandrake Control Center 9.2, Configure your computer, HardDrake, DrakConf ( sorry if I'm repeating things these are just my visual methods of reaching a goal.. so I'm listing what I would usually use to accomplish such a task ) Evolution, ect... all gone... I seriously don't understand what happened. The only major changes that I have made was to update urpmi @ http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php and installed Never Winter Nights ( and played a little ) It seems that everything is fine EXCEPT all the mandrake stuff that makes the operating system so valuable. I still have internet access and the computer functions properly, imagine in windows, you just LOSE the 'add/remove programs', or for that matter the entire control panel... and all applications that came with the disks... Thanks in advance, Brandon Erik Bertelsen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How do I cause all activated hyperlinks to be opened with the same browser?
So far I've used the KDE Control Menu to raise the priority of my browser of choice, specifically, Mozilla Firebird. However, I'm still noticing a few incidences where other programs direct hyper links to a different browser. For example, Evolution, opens Galleon. So I un-installed Galleon ;).. Then it started using Mozilla, so I un installed it ( which caused problems with my ability to view flash media, so I re-installed it ) While Mozilla was un-installed Evolution pointed to Konqueror... It seems I can't win with this program. Also, Kopete, does something similarly annoying, it does use my first choice browser, however, it downloads the link locally, and if there are any relatively referenced hyper links in the page I can't continue navigation without copypaste, which is slightly agitating. Is there any way to fix these programs, such that they deal with hyper links in a manner that would be expectable? Thanks in advance, Brandon Erik Bertelsen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] using a shortcut to gain access to a PPOE connection to the internet
Greetings all, I am using a PPOE connection to the Internet. The connection works perfectly, however, I would like to create a shortcut on my desktop that initializes the connection. So far the only way that I can create the connection is through: Configure Your Computer ( Mandrake Control Center, which requires root access ) -- Network Internet -- DrakConnect -- and Pushing the connect button in the dialogue window. Subsequently, another method is to create the connection in a manner that accesses the connection at boot up. Which, takes a very long time in my opinion. Does anyone know of a way to create a shortcut to a specific connection profile on the desktop, without having to use root access and without loading the connection at boot. Regards and Thanks in advance, Brandon Erik Bertelsen www.Bertelsen.ca - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Distribution: Mandrake Linux 9.2 Dell Inspiron 4150, 1.7 P4-mobile, 256 MB ram, ATI 7500 32 MB, 30 GB HDD Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting From 9.2
Hi all.
I finally got 9.2 installed yesterday. It has so many changes it's
almost like learning a new distro. I'm sure I'll have many questions in
the coming weeks, but for now my question is: How do I connect to the
Internet from my desk top. At this point my only choice is to open the
Mandrake Control Center select Networking and click on the
connect/disconnect button. There just has to be an easier way.
Thanks again for the help.
LTR }}:{(
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sunday 23 November 2003 11:05 am, Brandon Erik Bertelsen wrote:
Greetings all,
I am using a PPOE connection to the Internet. The connection
works perfectly, however, I would like to create a shortcut on
my desktop that initializes the connection. So far the only way
that I can create the connection is through:
Configure Your Computer ( Mandrake Control Center, which
requires root access ) -- Network Internet -- DrakConnect
-- and Pushing the connect button in the dialogue window.
Subsequently, another method is to create the connection in a
manner that accesses the connection at boot up. Which, takes a
very long time in my opinion.
Does anyone know of a way to create a shortcut to a specific
connection profile on the desktop, without having to use root
access and without loading the connection at boot.
Regards and Thanks in advance,
Brandon Erik Bertelsen
www.Bertelsen.ca- [EMAIL PROTECTED]- Distribution: Mandrake
Linux 9.2 Dell Inspiron 4150, 1.7 P4-mobile, 256 MB ram, ATI
7500 32 MB, 30 GB HDD
I always use rp-prpoe instead of drakconnect. You'll need
rp-pppoe-gui-3.5-3mdk
rp-pppoe-3.5-3mdk
(those are on a 10.0 system, you might have older versions on
your CD's. They may have even already been installed.)
After those are installed, run (as root) 'adsl-setup' which
asks you about 6 or 7 questions. It's very easy. Then (as root)
run 'tkpppoe'. That should bring up a little GUI, already
configured for your connection. Click on the tabs on top and
about all you need to change is to check the box by allow use by
non-root users.
When you installed rp-pppoe-gui it should have added a menu
item under Networking | Remote access | Tkpppoe Clicking on
that will start the GUI, with Start, Stop, Exit buttons. You
should be able to start your connection as user by clicking on
Start. There's a little window in the upper left that turns green
when you're connected, turns yellow under data load. If you want
a desktop icon all you need to do is create one pointing
to /usr/bin/tkpppoe . I just start it from the menu, and after
the connection is made, minimize it to the taskbar.
You might wanna watch it for a little while, just under the
little 'green' window there's a moving graph, and numerical
readouts of up and down speeds. 'Course if you minimize it to
the task bar you can bring it back up at any time to check
connection speed.
Now that's all from memory, so before you start, after the
rpms are installed, paste file:/usr/share/tkpppoe/tkpppoe.html
into any browser and read the docs. They're very clear and
simple, even has screen shots ;) If you want even more info
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/rp-pppoe/index.php
--
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[newbie] No recognition of USB 2.0 memory stick (on laptop)
Hi all, Bought this laptop last week and installed MDK 'without any problem'. Of course during fine-tuning some issues arise and this is one of them: - When I connect my USB 2.0 memory stick to my USB 2.0 port of my laptop it is not recognised, nothing happens. - It does not show up in /mnt - Doesn't make any difference if I connect it pre-boot or post-login - Same goes for my Palm m505 - Both are needed badly to work Is anybody able to help? Thanks a lot. Erik Janssen NB Enjoying Linux (MDK) very much though it is difficult for me as newbie to configure.. -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] config/start fetchmail
Hello all, I've got four questions related to fetchmail Does anybody know how to configure / start fetchmail so it will: - Run every 15minutes - Run silent/deamon (without noticing it during work ánd without the PC looks like being dead at login when detching a lot of messages) - Starts automatic at login for my user only - Stops at logout I shutdown my PC everyday. How to get the mail-messages that cause this message in fetchmail (what's happening here?): skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 (0 octets) not flushed How to enter my user/server data in .netrc so: With 2 accounts on the same server (this means fetchmail cannot distinguish them?) - Fetchmail will use both to login - Right now it only uses the first of the two and doesn't use the later - I need to put the account information in the .fetchmailrc to pass this Anybody a clue? How can I configure fetchmail it will also download messages from other IMAP folders than only the Inbox. The tree at the IMAP server is like: INBOX = all inbox messages INBOX.Sent Items = all sent messages (also used in my office PC to put my messages in through Lookout Express) Of courscours it would be nice to fetch also my sent messages to my home PC. Thanks very much in advance, Erik -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] config/start fetchmail
Well, we've got to teach'em there's more than one way to skin a cat, dude...so he's got a choice - he can run the FETCHMAILCONF, or do it through Webmin, or through Linuxconf, or by hand... Thank you guys for pointing me out to three solutions. I will actually try and study them all! Kind regards, Erik -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] apache configure for local use
Hello Milos, And, I presume, apache is listed as httpd when you issue ps ax. ??? apache is listed as httpd if I open localhost in Galeon MP ps ax is a command. You need a command line window (in other words a MP console or a terminal) to issue commands. Try to start console by MP clicking the icon computer screen with a yellow shell. See the MP attached picture of the icon. How did you start apache? Via Galeon Via apachect1 start in a terminal MP There is also a different way to start apache. As root, run MP /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start in terminal. I'll try that. Which line did you change in httpd.conf? Don't know by heart, tried 'all options' MP This is bad. Next time please write down your steps. It is difficult to MP help you otherwise. The reason is that I answered your question at my work (windows) so I did not have the oppertunity to open the conf files and give you the changes. I'll do that soon -though not today-. - Do you need to login as root to browse localhost web pages? I only get the default page and can not go any further from ther, that's the problem I was trying to address MP Well, your original question was Can I configure Apache for multiple MP users? SO I do not need to login as root (which is pretty risc-full with MP the GUI's. MP I do not know how to answer this question because it does not make sense MP to me. That's why I asked the other questions. A correct question is MP half of the answer :-) Couldn't agree more, I'll keep that in mind next time! MP I will try to figure out the correct question: MP - apache is automatically multi-user. Anyone can browse webpages MP published by apache (unless specifically forbidden). This is similar to MP Microsoft IIS and other webservers. They also publish webpages for everyone. MP - only root can start apache manually (/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start). MP - to start apache automatically when Linux starts, the root user must MP create a symlink that points from /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd to MP /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S80httpd. You can also use a different number than 80, MP it just specifies process startup order. In other words you can create MP symlink to /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S90httpd if you prefer apache to start MP later. If this link exists, apache will start automatically next time MP you boot Linux. MP - If you do not know how to create symlink, learn how to do it. Issue MP man ln and concentrate upon the ln -s option. It is very useful to MP understand symlinks. It will help you with many aspects of Linux. MP Symlinks are like Windows shorcuts, only more powerful. MP - If you absolutely refuse to learn symlinks, Mandrake allows you to do MP the same thing with your mouse. Start DrakConf, click System, click MP Services, and depress On Boot button in the httpd line. I'll put some effort and time in this. MP Since this answer may be useful to other people, I posted it to Mandrake MP Newbie conference. In my opinion tt is better to keep the discussion there. So I am not the only one who can't get this done ;) Thanks for all your information. Kind regards, Erik Janssen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] apache configure for local use
Hi all, I'm a newbie to Linux, just migrated a few weeks ago after over 10 years of Dos and Windows useI even didn't install a Windows partition. As webmaster of a website I need Apache running for local testing of scripts, php etc. And this is one of the few problems I can not solveCould you help / give me an URL to a former discussed topic that's similar? Thanks in advance, Erik The problem: ___ 1 Mandrake Linux 9.0, including all updates is installed 2 Apache is installed default with the ML installation 3 It is running (I can get the default page by requesting localhost) 4 As root I even can get the apachectl starting; stopping etc. 5 I would like to point to another standard folder, but if I do that in httpdconf = no result, I tried all options I could think of (even in combination with that other conf file and after the include line of that file). 6 Even after first stopping Apache (as root) and then editing didn't result in the way I would like it 7 Renaming the index.shtml in de default folder als does not result in presenting the content of the default folder, it does result in a 403 page. 8 Can I configure Apache for multiple users? SO I do not need to login as root (which is pretty risc-full with the GUI's). 9 Is there -at this moment- a way to check if PHP is working. 10 And if not, how do I get it working? -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Club (Troll)
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 00:09, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip Second, nobody suggested that visitors be denied access. My suggestion is that visitors be encouraged to invest in either a club membership or get a boxed set, depending of course on their individual finances. ...and those who simply have no money and can't afford to invest in a boxed set OR the club--for whatever reason? Should they move on to another distro? The gist of my point is that there *is* a freeloader problem out there and it can only be addressed politely through community influence. If nobody takes any action at all then nothing's going to happen. Maybe you can politely (if not arrogantly)tell the freeloaders with money to 'ante up' without alienating those who cannot afford to 'pay up'...or should they go away, too? --LX -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lpr problem
Robin, I'm not sure this is the definitive answer, but I overcame the problem by adding my user account to the group 'lp' in ConfigOtheruserdrake--erikeditgroups. Now all programs are willing to print for user erik. HTH. On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 09:27, robin wrote: It turned out my OO problem seems to be a problem with the way it calls lpr - Mozilla does the same. LyX and Kwrite work fine for a normal user, but OO and Moz will still only print as root. When opened from a terminal, OO gives the error lpr: unable to create temporary file. Any idea what's causing this? /tmp is full of files created by LyX but not OO, as far as I can tell. Sir Robin -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite
I don't have much in financial resources and I work from a 33.6 connection (gotta love Verizon's rural phone lines)...however, I'd love to be part of the testing. So... I just happen to have about 25GB+ that I could use for testing (been looking for a reason to dump XP Pro now that I don't use it) and I have a friend with a good cable connection that is willing to d/l betas for me. I should be able to handle mailing CD copies to up to 2 other testers, if needed (presuming no more than 3 new sets of CDs per month for the other 2 testers--Priority Mail can be a little pricey). Please count me in as a tester and a burner (for up to 2 others), if needed. I live in central Illinois, so I guess I'd be midwest--east of the Mississippi. Thanks! On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 08:28, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: OK, so far there is an incredible number of volunteers. Most of the crew here seems to be US, and we don't have anybody for Australia yet. List: UNITED KINGDOM Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA Ingo Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNITED STATES Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lower Atlantic Seaboard Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Midwest US Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Upper Atlantic Seaboard What exactly is left of the crashtest team? How was it organized? What was the format for the bug reports? How do we integrate the crash burners with the crashtesters? Is it too early to be thinking about this? Should the question really be, where's the money? Should we concentrate on raising fundage for Mandrake from Lugs and christmas presents first? Would praying help? Where's the beef? Can somebody else weigh in on this? Darklord? Civileme? LX -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mice Issues and comments (rant?)
On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 14:12, Robin Turner wrote: snip As an experienced Windows user with 12 years under my belt, (Quick, what MS windows release number was out in 1990?) Hey, I guessed right - 3.0! ( http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/windows.htm - the rest of the site is pretty interesting too.) I was still using an Atari 1024 then. And anyone remembering Windows 3.0, should also remember GPFs. They were the main feature of the new desktop BG ripped off from Apple's Macintosh. Too bad his developers didn't write the code for Windows 3.0 as well as they did the code for the Mac desktop. Also, anyone who remembers Windows 3.0 probably won't use 'intuitive' in a sentence describing it, eitherROFLWTIME Most of the time, I just booted into DOS and let Windows 3.0 sit idle. That way I could honestly say I didn't have any problems with itbig grin snip Sir Robin -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device.
Anne, mtab should be dynamic, written by the system, based on mounted partitions/drives. To verify this, open a terminal window and su to root. Presuming that your LS120 is mounted: Open /etc/mtab and take a look at how it lists your LS120. Close the file, making no changes. Next, make a copy of your current /etc/fstab file (e.g. fstab.original). Then open and edit the line referring to your LS120, setting it to match the /dev scsi-emulation entry. Save the altered fstab file (as fstab). Now issue the command: umount /mnt/LS120 (or whatever it's called in /mnt). If you open the /etc/mtab file now, you should no longer see the LS120 listed. Close the file without making changes. Issue the command: mount /mnt/LS120 (or appropriate). Again, open /etc/mtab. You should now see the LS120 listed at the bottom of the file with the new settings you just gave it. Presuming that all is, as listed above, you can test to see if your system and the LS120 will play nicely with the new settings. If they don't, simply copy the fstab.original to fstab, unmount and remount the drive and you should be back to the way it was before starting the experiment. I run 9.0 with supermount with no problems (hda, hdb, dvd, cd-rw, iomega zip drive). I was reluctant to change the settings for the dvd drive to scsi emulation...but finally make the change to lilo and fstab (thank you, Malcolm, for the push). I even 'moved' the cdrw from scsi0 to scsi1 in fstab and set dvd as scsi0 (it's the master on the bus). All is working well and I now have a reader and writer in xcdroast and mdk install recognizes and installs from dvd drive, as before. I'm not sure whether this has any effect or not...but this box is an (ugh!) HP Pavilion, 500 MHz that came with cable select set on the drives. When I dumped the 19GB bigfoot and installed 2 IBM 40GB drives, I was too cheap/lazy to buy new cables and install as master/slave on hds or rom drives. On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 05:36, Anne Wilson wrote: snip Having read this and your previous post, I'm struggling to get to grips with this. I thought that mtab was dynamic, but you imply that it's not as simple as that. Is it, then, that mtab requires initial entries which it adapts as necessary when drives are mounted/umounted? One possible cause of my problem springs to mind. The LS120 drive, when first presented to the install, got installed as sda, showing itself in the Removable Devices as another floppy drive. Looking at /dev it is clearly using scsi emulation, so configuring it (in fstab) in the same way as a floppy may be completely wrong. Unfortunately I don't have a copy of the fstab before it went wrong. Without supermount I have no problem reading either 1.4 Mb or 100 Mb discs, so it isn't an urgent problem - I'm just intrigued as to what the install did that I haven't yet managed to do. Anne -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] .....S.....l.....o.....w..... Printing in The GIMP
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 21:58, James Dawson wrote: On Thursday 19 December 2002 12:39 am, Erik Farnsworth wrote: In ConfigurationKDESystemPrinting Manger printer propertieswhat are your settings? I assume these are the settings you are talking about: Output Mode: Color Resolution: 360 DPI Media Size: Letter Media Type: Plain Paper Brightness: 1.000 Contrast: 1.000 Cyan: 1.000 Density: 1.000 Dither Algorithm: Adaptive Hybrid Image Type: Photograph Ink Type: Six Color Photo Magenta: 1.000 Saturation: 1.000 Yellow: 1.000 o.kmine is similar, although I have a Stylus Color 740. My resolution is set to 720X720 (ghostscript) and 720 dpi (resolution). also, my ink type is set to 4 color standard (but there may be a difference in the color cartridges available for your epson--??) my setup is foomatic+gimp-print with CUPS and image type is continuous-tone photographs. That setup works great for me in the gimp, plus mozilla, Oo, and others. A lot of darker colors in the image seems to slow it a little...but only by a minute or so Have you set the correct number of colors? have you set it for photographic? Have you set a reasonable dpi?...overkill on the resolution, especially if other settings are incorrect or marginal, will make a huge difference in the output have you turn mtink in a terminal window (as superuser) to make sure all is set correctly there? Yes. Everything is fine save for some minor head cloging... On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 22:09, James Dawson wrote: Help! I am trying to print a picture in The GIMP but there are two problems. First is that the printing is unberably slow. It takes something like 3 hours (no exageration!) to print out the 2x3 picture I'm working on. Second, when the printout is finally complete it is so washed out that it is almost invisible! I am using Mandrake 9.0 (GIMP 1.2.3 included on the Mandrake CD) printing to an Epson Stylus Photo 820 via USB. Printing in other applications (including the printer test page) is fine. When I print to my other printer (a Brother HL-1850 laser printer) it prints out fine (albeit not in color...) Does anyone know what might be the problem? Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Freeze after install
Hi,I just install Mandrake 9.0 in a toshiba satellite 1110/1115 with celeron processor and 256 in RAM. When the system comes up I got the following message,PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available bacause of resource of collisionsAfter this messages it starts to boot, but hangs up in the following lineStarting pcmcia: [OK]And nothing happends after that.Someone have any idea about it ?Thank in advanceErik Miranda,Join Excite! - http://www.excite.comThe most personalized portal on the Web!
Re: [newbie] particition magic etc.
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 16:57, FemmeFatale wrote: At 08:43 AM 12/11/2002 -0800, you wrote: Hi, one more time the computer has crashed. I am beginning to think that the drive has been damaged, from before when I had a virus etc. My husband has an older computer, Pentium 2 that he has said I can set up Linux on. He would like to try to reformat my drive and take the time to figure out where we went wrong. In other words start from scratch. As I have no operating system ie: I can get to login: in something similar to dos but it does not boot, is there any way to 1. login and get my files 2. Reformat the drive using particion magic (we have the program) Many thanks in advance, Alexa Save yourself a huge headache don't use PM for anything relating to linux. Let MDK do the partitioning Such for you. Alternatively use FDISK for windows, but fair warning it IS more arcane than MDK's partitioning GUI. And be aware: Windows does not always like Linux's fdisk partitioning and DOS fdisk and NTFS file systems don't play nicely together. -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] trouble with cd-rw cd-rom setup
Daniel,
First...I'm hoping that it was a copy and paste error, but you are
missing the 'i' on image=/boot/vmlinux on the first (default) entry.
In addition, the default entry is the only one with the append= line
that does not read append=devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi
('quiet' keeps you from seeing all the 'goodies' load--I prefer to see
that everything is loading o.k., so I have removed it.)
Without those ide-scsi and hdd-scsi entries, your system is going to
have problems 'seeing' them. I would suggest that you modify the
append= line in your first (default) entry to read either:
append=quiet devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi
or
append=devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdd-scsi
Either way, once you have made the change and saved the lilo.conf file,
at a (root) command prompt, type 'lilo' or '/sbin/lilo' (without quote
marks). You will get a return of the new lilo configuration, so you
know it 'took'.
Then do a normal shutdown and restart...your CD drive should then be
available as a CDROM and a CD burner.
(BTW: I have found eroaster to be very reliable and much easier to
configure...personal opinion, of course.)
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 19:44, Daniel Buchanan wrote: I have a cd-rw and a
cd-rom on my system. The crrecord utility will see the burner but i can
not access it as a regular drive nor can i access the cd-rom drive
either. I followed the directions on the x-cd-roast website as well as
in the cd-re howto and i simply can not seem to get the drives to work
the way i want them to. I'm attaching the curent state of my
lili,modules and fstab files.
If someone could tell me where i went wrong and also what i need to link
cdrom and cdrom2 to so i can get full access back to these drives, i'd
be really happy :)
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Re: [newbie] Write to windows partition?
Stephen was correct...from mdk, you can read files on an NTFS system (XP, in my case), but you cannot write to them. On the 'doz partition that I want to share between mdk and xp, I have set it as vfat (FAT32) and can read/write to it quite well with mdk. [OTOH, 'Doz don't speaka-da-*nix, so it has no idea that mdk is also on the same box. vbg] On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 17:32, Dale Kosan wrote: Well, he states he can read the files so it is not NTFS. Root should be able to read and write, to do this as a user you need to edit the /etc/fstab entry. Can not help with that because I do not have Windows on my machine. man mount for details. The option, from memory, is umask=0. Or you could use user=nnn,umask=002 if you are the only one going to write to it. Or mess about with group ownership and permissions if you want more complicated control of access. Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 07:08, Tom Henry wrote: I've installed ML 9.0 onto (Dell GX1 desktop system) it's own EXT2 partition From Linux I am able to read the files on the /windows/ partition _but_ cannot edit anything ;-( How do I get it set up so I have 'write' permission to everything on the /windows/ partition? Many thanks for any help you can provide, Tom Assuming you're accessing everything Windows via /mnt/win_c - you can't edit ANYTHING at all? What version of Windows were you running? Because if you were running anything NT based with NTFS, you're not going to be able to - but if you're running under FAT or VFAT, you can edit/save/modify anything - just that the executable bit is set on all files...but that's generally not a hassle... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- A touch of Class Computer Services 9504 Bohning Drive Garfield Heights, Ohio 44125 216-375-4487 A Step Above The Rest! http://www.winsweptrottweilers.com ICQ# 55846749 Registered Linux user #191829 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Write to windows partition?
Spence, Thanks! Unless I totally hose my mdk system, I probably won't need this program because I boot XP only to use PageMaker (until I learn to use Lyx better) and to update the anti-virus .dat files. [I did d/l explore2fs, just in case :) ] However, I have a friend who could probably use it...so I'm passing on the info. On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 18:41, Spencer wrote: On December 8, 2002 04:24 pm, Erik Farnsworth wrote: If you have a need to read or write data from Winduz, there is a program called - explore2fs - that I use successfully on my W2K Pro install. I don't know if it can be used with a NTFS partition but it works well from FAT32. Spence -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't access hda1
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 16:10, George Baker wrote: Hi - I most probably messed things up. I wanted to change the permissions for hda1 so that I did not have to be root to copy files to my windows partition. Now if I try access hda1 the file manager opens and then everything just hangs. My D:/ drive - hda5 - is working fine, but then I left permissions for it alone. WHAT have I done. Access to hda1 for all users would have best been set up in /etc/fstab by specifying users in the definition. If you can change the permissions (or whatever it was that you did) back to the original settings so you can log in as root, then we can work with your fstab. -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: SV: [newbie] imac install
o.kwhen you test and the screen goes black...it obviously isn't a good setting you might try either a lower settingor if you are in a window that offers choices of Hz...you might try to find the correct setting for your CRT and card. Does the install offer you a default setting, such as 800 X 600? It's been a while and I don't remember for sure, but I think that I was able to set up the higher res screen on a Purple DV iMac, but was only able to set up 800 X 600 on a Strawberry iMac. Apple not only changes components with new models (sometimes), but also have been known to change in the middle of a model run. I don't have either iMac handy right now, so I can't check it out for a ctl+alt+delete, although that combination usually works on a PC. Another combination that works on a PC is ctl+alt+F2 to get a new console window which should allow you to log in and fix problems you may have accidentally created. That said...even if it works on an iMac, I don't believe it is an option during the OS installonly after you have it up and running. On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 16:28, Farid Ghussein wrote: Thanks alot Erik. As a matter of fact, I did choose the imac monitor with the 1024x768 resolution during installation. I've also started my computer in text mode (I made a ROOT login). From text mode I used that program called something like xf86cfg. That program would let me choose resolution (I got two alternatives with the 1024x768 resolution)and after that I got a question if I want to test it or not. If I choose yes, the screen goes black again. Anyhow I'll try to do the stuff that you've written about below and maybe it will work. One thing that worries me is that every time I get the black screen I'm forced to use the power button to restart my computer since nothing else seems to work (does linux have something like ctrl-alt-del?). The result of restarting that way is that the system seems to find loads of problems at startup. Best regards Farid ps yes I do use mdk 8.2 ps -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't access hda1
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 00:08, Erik Farnsworth wrote: snip If you can change the permissions (or whatever it was that you did) back to the original settings so you can log in as root, then we can work with your fstab. Please forgive me, I misspoke...it's late. I meant to say: If you can change the permissions (or whatever it was that you did) back to the original setting so you can cd into hda1 (cd /mnt/windows -??) as root, then we can work with your fstab. -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xmss-cdread
you have xmss-cdread typed in here. is that a typo or did you misunderstand the name? the correct name is xmms-cdread On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 11:26, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear Friends, I need a.m. xmss-cdread, I couldn't find it in my mandrake installation disk. Where (URL?) can I find it, or if someone can send me directly to my mailbox ? TYVMIA, Ongkie _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 09:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Erik, Ok, i tried what u said. Downloaded AutoClave and ran it. Did 1 pass since i tot that's enough. Reinstalled xp (NTFS). Later, resized it using PQMagic, having Fat32 and ext2. Booted into Mandrake setup.and Got the same problem!!! I feel it's not the harddisk then. Bios perhaps? I also downloaded the clean up program from fujitsu(my harddisk manufacturer). Ran it and did the same thing, got the same problem. If this goes on i'm going to sue Toshiba. ;) Sean, Once you had XP installed, did you boot into it to make sure it worked o.k.before booting mandrake CD1? I have only worked with Partition Magic, not PQM, so I don't know if it messes up the mbr or not when working with ntfs. Presuming that it booted and ran o.k. in XP, then the problem is elsewhere. If it won't boot and run XP before you attempt the linux install, then the problem may still lie in the way the partitions are set up (by PQM) and now it writes the mbr after the partition change...or it may be the XP install itself (errors in the CD burn, such as telling the software to ignore errors so that it makes an exact duplicate of the original with any/all intentional errors uncorrected). Another problem could be that the burn was 'bad' because it was burned at too fast a speed. Anything burned over 8X is suspect and anything burned at 4X is compatible with more CD drives--IMO. I'm sure there could be other reasons for the error to continue to plague your install, but those are the two areas I have seen most often. Reaching a little: What OS did the machine have on it originally? Presuming that the XP install will boot, would it be possible for you to install the original OS, make the necessary changes to the partitions for the dual boot that you want--make sure the original OS boots-- then install mdk and make sure it boots. Once all this is done, upgrade to XP, boot it to make sure it works, then boot to linux and set lilo or grub to give you the option of booting either. -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Symbolic links
This example is exactly the reason I didn't offer rm -f as an option--when in root, it does it...period. With rm the user is asked to confirm the delete (and lists what will be deleted) before it is done. Good place for a newbie to make sure they are getting what they asked for. Erik On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 18:37, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 04:53, John Richard Smith wrote: I did it this way, I cd into directory then , #rm libxyz enter it asked Yes or no, Y enter it seems to remove it. Am I right. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Or, login as root, do a cd /, then type rm -rf * - that will certainly remove any and all symbolic links...) JOKING - PLEASE DON'T DO THAT! -- Fri Nov 29 11:35:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn They also serve who only stand and wait. -- John Milton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP
If you are going to use fdisk, ONLY use it if you are going to install XP on a Fat32 partition. NTFS and fdisk don't play together very well. I've had to fix more installs of Win2000 and XP because a customer decided to do it themselves and fdisked. The WinOs installed, but refused to correctly convert to NTFS...and were very unstable. The easiest way to do this is totally clear the disk. I normally use a program called AutoClave 0.3 .. free program on the internet, boots from floppy, can be written to a floppy in windows or linux...is a minix version of linux and you have a 5 level choice from 1 to 25 passes to zero the disk or sterilize it. Once the disk is totally 00 , then M$ XP will think it's a brand new drive and ask to partition/format... and then continue to install. Once you have XP installed, use a trial version of Partition Magic or one of the other partitioning tools that work with XP (NTFS) and resize the partition, leaving room for the Fat32 partition and the linux partition. Create the Fat32 partition and then write it all to disk. Boot into XP to make sure it all works. From there, you should be able to 'restart' and boot the mdk CD1 and load the OS without interference from XP. Mandrake setup should see the NTFS and Fat32 partitions (don't let it do anything to them--use expert mode) and it will see the 'blank' space after those partitions. Because the drive was put in a 00 state, XP will have written the mbr correctly and it should no longer be a problem for mdk. HTH. Erik On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 21:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks stephen, but i still got the same problem. i believe there is something wrong with my mbr coz mandrake can't read the partition table. I don't know much about this thing but i'm willing to do it. I read that windows will somehow leave itself on a certain part of the harddisk even if you format the drive. Well, i downloaded the program to zero the harddisk here. It says this This procedure performs a pseudo-formatting to the drive. It erases all of your previous data and reinitializes it to 00 pattern. By performing this task, you will be able to erase the whole user area including your Master Boot Record, Partition Table, FAT (File Allocation Table), and all the files and data it refers to. Use this program if you want to be sure your drive is clean. So my question is, after running this program, can i easily boot up my pc properly? as in, i load in my win98 setup disk? Or will it not load at all and i have to fill up some other parameters? Sean Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem installing a program
made the change, ran ldconfig Konsole no longer segfaulted...but it also wouldn't open. I meant to log out and log back in, but accidently rebooted...Xwindows started to load, stopped, runlevel changed (3, I think) and booted to CLI. I 'undid' the ld.so.config change, ran ldconfig, rebooted and Xwindows loaded as usual and of course Konsole segfaults again. Began checking through the core dump files, found ~15 files listed ... still checking, but appears that each is symlinked differently in the /lib/lsb/ directory than in other /lib/ directories. Now I'm looking for the offending program...one core file was a good piece of an rpm -- possibly a rebuild, but most likely a mucked up install. Thanks for your reply. Erik On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 17:51, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 17:21, Erik Farnsworth wrote: Any other listmates following this thread? (FYI--mdk9.0 on a i686) I, too, have had problems with Konsole after upgrading to the full Qt (Qt3, in my case). I don't use kmail, so that one isn't an issue for me. (It is a hassle shutting down and restarting artsd after booting to have system sounds, though.) Right now, I can do everything I need to do in Konsole with a virtual console, so I can get along while figuring this out and fixing it. When I try to open Konsole, I get a segfault and core dump from libc.so.6 Tracking down the problem, I've found that in /lib/i686/ and /lib/ libc.so.6 it is symlinked to libc-2.2.5.so but in /lib/lsb/ it is symlinked to libc-2.2.90.so Looks like good setup for a conflict...and if I try to list the contents of /lib/lsb/ from _inside_ the directory, I get a core dump...from _outside_ the directory, with a full path, I get the list. My first inclination is to change the symlink in /lib/lsb/ for lib.so.6 to point to the libc-2.2.5.so to match the other two and allow libc-2.2.90.so live there, too, in case something needs it. Before I start changing symlinks, does anyone have an educated guess if this is the correct change...or if there is something else I need to fix instead? Also--can changes be made while running kde, do I need to use a window manager other than kde or will I need to boot CD1/rescue to make the changes without the filesystem mounted? TIA, Erik I'm wondering, though - have you made sure that after the upgrade that the path to QT3 was in the /etc/ld.so.conf and the likes? If not, you need to add it - and then run ldconfig - then try again... -- Mon Nov 25 10:50:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Slous' Contention: If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem installing a program
Any other listmates following this thread? (FYI--mdk9.0 on a i686) I, too, have had problems with Konsole after upgrading to the full Qt (Qt3, in my case). I don't use kmail, so that one isn't an issue for me. (It is a hassle shutting down and restarting artsd after booting to have system sounds, though.) Right now, I can do everything I need to do in Konsole with a virtual console, so I can get along while figuring this out and fixing it. When I try to open Konsole, I get a segfault and core dump from libc.so.6 Tracking down the problem, I've found that in /lib/i686/ and /lib/ libc.so.6 it is symlinked to libc-2.2.5.so but in /lib/lsb/ it is symlinked to libc-2.2.90.so Looks like good setup for a conflict...and if I try to list the contents of /lib/lsb/ from _inside_ the directory, I get a core dump...from _outside_ the directory, with a full path, I get the list. My first inclination is to change the symlink in /lib/lsb/ for lib.so.6 to point to the libc-2.2.5.so to match the other two and allow libc-2.2.90.so live there, too, in case something needs it. Before I start changing symlinks, does anyone have an educated guess if this is the correct change...or if there is something else I need to fix instead? Also--can changes be made while running kde, do I need to use a window manager other than kde or will I need to boot CD1/rescue to make the changes without the filesystem mounted? TIA, Erik On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 20:36, Chris wrote: On Saturday 23 November 2002 04:37 pm, you said, and I quote: Chris, I took this off the list for now because we may have a several correspondence to get this goingquestions and answersand I don't want to create any more noise for the list while we are figuring this out. We can always post the solution. Also, any time something I write doesn't make sense to you, let me know...I may have skipped a step or not explained thoroughly enough. HOORAY...sort of, I got qt2, had to go to ftp.trolltech.com and search around for the qt-x11-2.3.2.tar.gz file, got it. Made the corrections to the profile file you said to, followed the install directions exactly, takes a long time to compile. Got freaked out though when it was done, couldn't open a terminal, or kmail, didn't try any other apps, logged out and tried to log back in but it kept going to the login screen, so I just decided to reboot and cross my fingers :) No errors on boot. Ran the ./configure for kas and it got past the Qt, okthings are looking up, then at the very end I get the error below. Now I've got to find these files I guess. What a learning experience this is. I could just about write a book on the installation of one simple app. Sure appreciate the help Erik. BTW...where are you from? I'm here in central Texas. configure: error: no postgres headers found! Make sure that you have the libpq headers: postgres.h libpq/libpq-fs.h Well, off to find these. -- Regards Chris Registered Linux user #283774 @ http://counter.li.org 8:21pm up 2 min, 1 user, load average: 0.35, 0.21, 0.08 -- Erik Linux User 288105 @ http://counter.li.org = Bill who? ... Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi Mandrake Club
Just guessing...but ../hdlist.cz instead of ./hdlist.cz ?? On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 15:53, Miark wrote: I'm having trouble adding Mandrake Club as a urpmi source to one of my machines. I get the following message: Connecting to www.mandrakeclub.com[63.209.80.244]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden 16:32:41 ERROR 403: Forbidden. ...retrieving failed: wget failed: exited with 1 or signal 0 But I've double-checked the name and password and they're both correct. Anybody else having this trouble? I'm using urpmi.addmedia club http://blah:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/downloads2/comm/9.0/i586 with ./hdlist.cz but with the proper user and pass, of course. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem installing a program
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 17:57, Chris wrote:
On Friday 22 November 2002 12:25 am, you said, and I quote:
I believe this should fix your problem. (If anyone out there spots an
error, please correct as soon as possible for Chris!)
In /etc/profile, add:
QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt2
PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
QT-INCLUDES_PATH=$QTDIR/include:$QT-INCLUDES_PATH
QT-LIBRARIES_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$QT-LIBRARIES_PATH
export QTDIR PATH QT-INCLUDES_PATH QT-LIBRARIES_PATH
reboot
Erik, I guess I'm just not smart :( attached is my /etc/profile file. I
added what you suggested as you can see, however, now when I reboot I'm
getting some postgresyl error, it goes by fast and I have no idea how to
pause the boot, another newbie problem. Anyway, could you please be so kind
as to point me in the right direction. I really appreciate it.
--
Regards
Chris
Registered Linux user #283774 @ http://counter.li.org
5:54pm up 8 min, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.29, 0.18
# /etc/profile -*- Mode: shell-script -*-
# (c) MandrakeSoft, Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Since we're invocated as a login shell set loginsh
# so that we can avoid sourcing some files twice.
loginsh=1
# Users generally won't see annoyng core files
[ $UID = 0 ] ulimit -S -c 100 /dev/null 21
if ! echo ${PATH} |grep -q /usr/X11R6/bin ; then
PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin
fi
if [ $UID -ge 500 ] ! echo ${PATH} |grep -q /usr/games ; then
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/games
fi
umask 022
USER=`id -un`
LOGNAME=$USER
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/$USER
HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
HISTSIZE=1000
if [ -z $INPUTRC -a ! -f $HOME/.inputrc ]; then
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
fi
# some old programs still use it (eg: man), and it is also
# required for level1 compliance for LI18NUX2000
NLSPATH=/usr/share/locale/%l/%N
export PATH PS1 USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME INPUTRC NLSPATH
export HISTCONTROL HISTSIZE
for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
if [ -x $i ]; then
. $i
fi
done
unset i
QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt2
PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
QT-INCLUDES_PATH=$QTDIR/include:$QT-INCLUDES_PATH
QT-LIBRARIES_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$QT-LIBRARIES_PATH
export QTDIR PATH QT-INCLUDES_PATH QT-LIBRARIES_PATH
--
Erik
Linux User 288105
=
Bill who? Micro what?
# /etc/profile -*- Mode: shell-script -*-
# (c) MandrakeSoft, Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Since we're invocated as a login shell set loginsh
# so that we can avoid sourcing some files twice.
loginsh=1
# Users generally won't see annoyng core files
[ $UID = 0 ] ulimit -S -c 100 /dev/null 21
if ! echo ${PATH} |grep -q /usr/X11R6/bin ; then
PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin
fi
if [ $UID -ge 500 ] ! echo ${PATH} |grep -q /usr/games ; then
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/games
fi
umask 022
USER=`id -un`
LOGNAME=$USER
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/$USER
HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
HISTSIZE=1000
if [ -z $INPUTRC -a ! -f $HOME/.inputrc ]; then
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
fi
# some old programs still use it (eg: man), and it is also
# required for level1 compliance for LI18NUX2000
NLSPATH=/usr/share/locale/%l/%N
QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt2
PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
QT-INCLUDES_PATH=$QTDIR/include:$QT-INCLUDES_PATH
QT-LIBRARIES_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$QT-LIBRARIES_PATH
export PATH PS1 USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME INPUTRC NLSPATH
export HISTCONTROL HISTSIZE
export QTDIR PATH QT-INCLUDES_PATH QT-LIBRARIES_PATH
for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
if [ -x $i ]; then
. $i
fi
done
unset i
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Re: [newbie] Problem installing a program
To the group: I may get the hang of this com-poo-ter yet :( I managed to send the appropriate 'mea culpa' to Chris, but not to the group. Now I have egg on my face--twice.[you can find me on the breakfast menu: two eggs on ham bg] Here is the missing beginning of the above reply: Chris, Mybad! You get the props for all the effort...I get all the ghost-cheers for failing to give you sufficient information! Additional information that I needed to supply was that the new entries to your /etc/profile file needed to be made 'inside' the file (before the 'unset i' ... and inside the same 'if-fi' set as the other PATH definitions. To make sure that I have not mucked up this explanation, I've attached a corrected file. I've used your file and have done two cut-n-paste changes. Try this again, with the new file (if you actually use my file version, don't forget to rename it 'profile'--without the quotes). In addition, as pointed out by Stormjumper, you apparently don't need to reboot--just log out of your user account and log back in. (Maybe I spent too many years adminning an RH Linux ISP Internet server system from a Winblows desktop?) As always, if I've made a goof, I'm sure one of our listmates will kindly supply a correction. Erik complete snip -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem installing a program
I believe this should fix your problem. (If anyone out there spots an error, please correct as soon as possible for Chris!) In /etc/profile, add: QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt2 PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH QT-INCLUDES_PATH=$QTDIR/include:$QT-INCLUDES_PATH QT-LIBRARIES_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$QT-LIBRARIES_PATH export QTDIR PATH QT-INCLUDES_PATH QT-LIBRARIES_PATH reboot On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 20:48, Chris wrote: I'm trying to install a program called Kaspaliste. When running ./configure it gets to the very end and reports this: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (snapshot = Qt 2.1 beta2) (libraries) not found. Please check your installation! I have qt2 installed in /usr/lib/qt2, the qt2 libraries in /usr/lib/qt2/lib and the includes in /usr/lib/qt2/include. The author suggested I try the command echo $QTDIR which gives me absolutely nothing. He then suggested I point the ./configure to where qt2 is with ./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt2 --with-qt-includes=/usr/lib/qt2/include --with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib/qt2/lib, I've tried this and of course it didn't work, I tried adding a / after qt2, include and lib, still get the checking for QT error. I've gotten this on other programs I've tried to install also so what the hell am I doing wrong? I admint I'm a newbie but I've gotten other programs to compile and install with no problems. Thanks to anyone for any assistance. -- Regards Chris -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] spell check in open office
with MySpell dictionary and hyphenation dictionary installed (en_US) [mdk 9.0 CD 3], in OO.o, open: Tools Options Language Settings Writing Aids and then check the first box in the top section (turning on MySpell spell checker). In other sections of that window, you can set the options, including automatic spell checking (incorrectly spelled words will be underlined in red). It works fine for me. HTH. On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 06:43, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 9:33 am, joe wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 16:00, Matt Harrison wrote: I do have aspell running and my OO still has crappy spell check. Mine is so bad it is even missing words I misspell on purpose to test it. -Matt I also have aspell and 3 kinds of English dictionaries installed. I also purposely misspelled word to check, ie corrporration, was not picked up. It says spell check complete...but it isn't. Once I got an error message saying something about checking my settings under tools/options/language settings/writing aides, which I did and everything looks good. Myspell spell checker is there, looks enabled, thesaurus is there... What else could I check? I cant seem to get the same error message again, now it always says spell check complete. I also did spell check. Though I installed English UK as default language, I changed it using tools/options/language settings/languages/ default to English USA. Still It checks the following sentence and says spell check complete without pointing out errors. This is tst messege. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] iMac and 8.2 PPC
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 14:49, BCSoftTowerTraining wrote: I just tried installing the PPC version of ML 8.2 on my early iMac. Aside from the video driver problem which I think can be fixed after install I am getting a partitioning error. The dialog box complains that 1 meg is not available for a boot partition (or something like that) and says installation will continue. I am then returned to the partitioning dialog box and the cycle begins again. I have formatted the drive as MacOS 8.0 and booted to the ML 8.2 install cd. Any help is appreciated. tia R With the iMac installation, you will need to have a minimal install of an AppleOS (8.0 should work fine), followed by a 1MB partition to hold the bootloader, followed by the free space to add mandrake linux for ppc. As long as you have the 1 MB partion and free space, you can allow setup to decode the partitions for you, or you can use expert mode and do it manually. For a system that meets YOUR needs, the manual install is probably a little better. As to the video driver: you need to know what kind of graphics card is in your machine. Many of the older iMacs used nVidia...(although Apple is good at switching whenever it feels like it) presuming you have an nVidia card, at the main boot: prompt, type 'video=riva' (without the quotes) and then click the Return key. The setup provides a help menu (read the messages as the load begins...it tells you what key(s) to click to get the menu)...and then you can choose the correct addition for your video card at the boot: prompt.You will find that having the correct driver from the beginning makes the rest of the install much easier to read and work with. Once you have set the params for the video card and made sure you have the 1MB partition for the bootloader, the install should go very smoothly. If you have an external Zip drive for storage (and/or othr USB bus devices), then you need to make sure it's (they're) attached and powered so the install can find it (them) and set it (them) up. HTH -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] networking advice
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 02:59, John McQuillen wrote: snip There is no reason why you can't use an entire class C network at home for your 2,3 or 4 host network, besides, the private address range in use here is actually a class B (192.168.0.0/16) and there would be no problem using that either. It would just mean that you have one network and shit loads (256^2-2) of unique host addresses available. By using CIDR (Classless Inter Domain Routing) you ignore the native class of the network and adjust the mask to suit your requirements of unique networks/unique hosts. The tighter you make your mask (adding bits to the default class mask), the more unique networks you have available, while limiting the amount of unique hosts that you can have per network. By the way, your example is incorrect. A 29 bit mask (255.255.255.248) will give you 6 possible hosts with 0 being the network address, 6 hosts, and 7 being the broadcast address. The way I like to think of it is in lots of 256. 256-248=8, minus 2 for your network and broadcast addresses and you are left with 6 possible hosts. 256/8=32, so you would be able to have 32 separate networks with 6 hosts each. There is really no need to go to the trouble of subnetting to this extent, however, unless you have need for multiple networks. I hope that my explanation has been understandable :) Regards, John... Thanks, John! I do understand...and like your 'lots' of 256' example. Guess when I am trying to figure out networks, it would help if I was awake:( -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] networking advice
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 05:24, Bart Salien wrote: snip snip I agree with John s explanation , however 192.x.x.x to my knowledge is a class C network with a default mask of 24 = 255.255.255.0 class B ranges from 128.x.x.x/16 till 191.x.x.x/16 class C ranges from 192.x.x.x/24 till 223.x.x.x/24 For most home networks the default mask will be OK , and there is no need for further subnetting , it will only make it more complicated . Greetings , Bart. Thanks for your response! I guess I should be awake when I start to try to figure out a network :( -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Really getting irked...
Sorry, mate. CD3 33.1 MB On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 03:05, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I downloaded the NVIDIA drivers for a test machine - not hard to do. Got the GLX driver and the source for the NVIDIA driver proper. Not hard to do. Started to compile the driver and found : I DON'T HAVE THE DAMN KERNEL SOURCES for 2.4.29-16mdk ! Mad mad mad I am now. Searched high and low through the file structures - even found that there is a softlink in the /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk directory called BUILD which is broken. Gads! Being that I ONLY have the two installation CD's from a magazine promo, am I missing that ONE BLOODY VITAL SOURCE RPM that probably lives on the THIRD CD - ?? I don't want to download the frigging kernel source...and I have a mate that's currently gone for the weekend that has the third VITAL CD - or am I chasing ghosts here? And that really does irk me - because I like to recompile my kernels...(as well as have proper video drivers for my X system...) Any insights, y'all? -- Sat Nov 9 20:00:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Second Law of Final Exams: In your toughest final -- for the first time all year -- the most distractingly attractive student in the class will sit next to you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Really getting irked...
33.1MB is the properties listing for the kernel source file. HTH. Erik On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 03:51, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 20:25, Erik Farnsworth wrote: Sorry, mate. CD3 33.1 MB 33.1mb for the whole ISO, or just the kernel? ...if that's the kernel, I might actually attempt to download it tonight... -- Sat Nov 9 20:45:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | To err is human, but when the eraser wears out before the pencil, you're overdoing it a little. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] networking advice
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 10:45, teddy wl wrote: 1.for connecting all your PC you need ethernet card for every PC. configuring the IP address ex. 192.168.1.0/24 if you do not understand the IP you must read the basic of TCP/IP or i sugestion to you, to enter this address for your PC's : PC 1 : 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 PC 2: 192.168.1.2 netmask same above PC 3:192.168.1.3 netmask same above PC 4: 192.168.1.4 netmask same above I'm a little confused here. with the example above (and I admit that I have never worked with a home network that included Windows machines)... I would expect to see: network base address:192.168.1.0/29 or 192.168.1.0 netmask: 255.255.255.248 PC 1:192.168.1.1 PC 2:192.168.1.2 PC 3:192.168.1.3 PC 4:192.168.1.4 broadcast address: 192.168.1.5 I have seen several examples of networking as stated above by Teddy...but don't understand how that setup would be 'legal' (in the networking sense) and would work properly. I would expect a netmask of 255.255.255.0 for each of the machines would indicate that each machine was authoritative for an entire Class C network. I plan to set up my own home network soon (no windows machines, but several linux PCs and a mandrake iMac and an OS X iBook)...and I want to do it correctly, but without 'overkill'. Could someone with networking experience add a few cents to this, please? TIA. -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] restarting crashed programs
Have you tried ps aux ?? There are often processes running that don't show up in top...and a process that has not gone zombie can be stopped ( kill -HUP process id , kill -15 process id , or kill -9 process id ), allowing you to restart the program (most of the time) without a log out/in On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 18:31, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi again, I have experienced occasional crashes (freezes) in KMail and OO from a new LM9 install. Everything went cleanly on install. Anyway my question is. Is there a way to restart the programs after a freeze? It seems that I have to logout then login again before I can restart the affected application. I have checked with the 'top' command and I don't see them running but perhaps something else is that prevents the restart. Anyone experience this one? tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie Orientation
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 12:47, H. Carter Harris wrote: I have an almost virgin install of ML8.2 running and I am trying to bring up some sever applications. So far the only one I have in a usable state is TightVNC and though I haven't tuned it the way I want it ... it is running nicely. I have the box on a private IP address and the router is using NAT to send VNC requests to the box. During the install, Apache, BIND, and PostFix and MySQL were installed with defaults and now I want to use them. snip Here is one problem I keep running into: I can't find stuff. For example, Webmin was also installed on this system (after the initial install) from the Mandrake CDs. I executed it when I was infront of computer so I think it is working. Then for documentation I go to the webmin site and they tell me the rpm installs this application in /usr/libexec/webmin. When I go there and try to list the files; there is no such folder. I want to configure webmin to run under apache. I locate the documentation for putting webmin in a virtual folder and the first sentence says: Create a new Apache virtual server with the document set to the directory where you installed Webmin. How do I find out where that was done? presuming that slocate has also been installed at a root prompt: locate webmin you should get a list of every path that incudes 'webmin' if the only response is a new prompt,since you think webmin is installed already: type: updatedb wait for prompt, it could take a minutethen try: locate webmin again HTH -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] best way to find things out
Google Linux Documentation Project (with quotes)lots of entries On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 17:17, Tim Werner wrote: Someone posted a documentation question earlier and got a pretty good answer, but I'm still trying to figure out the best way to find things out. I guess I'm a little spoiled by MSDN. For instance, if I want to know about file permissions, it would be Really Neat if there were a tool I could run and enter file permissions into a search box, and get a list of matching pages. I remember there used to be something called the Linux Documentation Project. I'm sure they must still be working on it, but even years ago there were more Howto's than you could shake a stick at. I kind of expected there to be a really cool downloadable manual by now. Maybe it's out there and I just haven't found it yet. I get the impression that the Mandrake people are holding out for some bucks, figuring people who won't pay for the OS might pay for the docs. That's fine if that's what they want to do, but there must be a mother lode of vanilla linux info out there somewhere. The stuff I downloaded from the Mandrake site was OK but a little disorganized and obviously incomplete. Could someone maybe give a road map as to where the Good Documentation is, and how to get it installed on one's machine? Or could some of you give some of your own tips on how you look things up? It can't all be word of mouth. - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Two questions:
Replies inline: On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 03:23, Antonio R. wrote: Hi again: OK, I’ve downloaded the ISO files from one of the mirrors of the Mandrake Linux site, and I checked the three files with the md5sum file and everything is OK. Then I burned the three files and restart my computer with the CD that has the first Mandrake Linux file and guess what?... My computer didn’t boot from the CD. I know that my computer can boot from a CD, but it doesn’t want to boot from a CD that has an ISO file. So, what do I have to do? The file has the name: Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso What do I have to do? Do I have to change the name? Do I have to change the extension? Do I have to buy a new computer? ☺ The ISO file is not burned to a CD the same way you would a data or music file. In your burning software, you will need to find the option burn from ISO (or something similar) and then point the software to each ISO file (one at a time). When burned as an ISO (file type set to ISO 9660, if there are other choices), the first CD should boot. Well, that’s the first question, now the second one. I have a HD with the following partition: C:\ File System: FAT32 Size: 15.5 GB Free Space: 6.86 GB D:\ File System: NTFSSize: 40.2 GB Free Space: 19.8 GB OK, that is just one hard disk with two partitions :). I've read somewhere that I can't do a new partition in a NTFS file system because I'm going to loose all my information :( and I really don't want this to happen. So, can I do a partition JUST in the C:\ partition? I really don't understand how partitions work, but if I can do a new partition in the C:\ partition... Do I have enough space (Free Space: 6.68 GB) to do a partition for Mandrake? Partition Magic will resize an NTFS partition without losing data, provided that you have defragmented the drive first and that the new partition is put at the end of the drive, AFTER the resized NTFS partition. A word of caution: The remaining NTFS partition must be larger than the total amount of data stored on the original partition plus 25%. To operate properly, an NTFS partition that also contains the OS needs to have a minumum overhead of 25% to accommodate page-filing (virtual memory/swap).(Example: if you have 20GB used on an NTFS partition, then the resized partition must be a minimum of 25GB for the OS to operate properly.) I used Partition Magic 7.x quite sucessfully when I set up an XP and Mandrake dual boot machine. You did not tell us how you plan to use Mandrake (replacement server; just something to play with to see if you want to switch to it; a way to learn a new OS so it's difficult to say how much disk space would be adequate for your purpose. However, linux will read, but not write (safely) to an NTFS partition, so keep in mind that you need the FAT32 partition to hold data to be used by both OSes. snip HTH -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dog-slow networking
Miark, On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 22:02, Miark wrote: I have four machines on my home network: a routing machine, and three boxes. When I download from the Internet to my laptop, it's as fast as my cable service: 180KB/sec. When I download to my desktop, it's 4.5KB/sec, and stalls frequently. I thought it was a fluke. So when I FTPed from the laptop to my desktop--yes, across my network--it's 4.5K and stall frequently. Have you tried disconnecting the desktop box and placing the connector into the laptop? If so, does the slowness follow to the laptop? If not, what is the difference in the NICs used--10/100? Are you sure you are using the best match in drivers for the NIC in the desktop machine? Ethernet? Cat 5 cable? or you are using BNC connector? If so, what is the length of the cable run from the router (or hub) to the destop box? Is each box plugged into a port on the router, or are they plugged into a hub, which is plugged into the router? Route table? DNS service? Netmask? Gateway IP the same or both desktop and laptop? Is your local network set up on the entire class C or is it subnetted? Are your base IP and your broadcast IP totally free or does one or the other share an IP with the router or a box? (no router or box on xxx.xxx.xxx.0 [presuming the subsnet begins with .0 and whatever IP you are using for broadcast])--and does the subnet mask match or did you use 255.255.255.0? Did you accidently put two boxes on the same IP? I'll do the best I can to assist, but I need information, information and more information. One inconsistency can hose connectivity, or just slow it down greatly. -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PATH for Qt
I downloaded the tar.bz2 file for qt-x11-free-3.0.6, configured,compiled and installed it. Works nicely. One problem. The INSTALL file indicated that I needed to create a .profile in my user directory and add four lines defining PATH for it's main directory, libs directory, etc. and then log out and back in for the paths to be loaded. I followed the instructions...didn't matter whether the .profile was in the user home directory or the root home directoryit didn't load the PATH as indicated. As long as I typed in the PATH lines individually (enter after each) and the typed in the export command at the end (followed by enter), it worked fine. However, each time I log out, reboot, etc, I have to type in the PATH and export commands again! Where can I add these commands so they become 'permanent' (at least until I remove them) ?? Is this something that needs to be added to /etc/profile.d ?? Thanks for any light you can shed on this. -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] auto set for Pc User.***
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 01:03, Suppachai Rattanadiloknaphuket wrote: How to use rockwell 56 int on Mandrake 8.1? How to protect hacker and set firewall / or auto set firewall on user?can read some pdf/doc about Linux? -auto set for Pc User.*** Sawaddee Sawaddee, You may be able to find drivers for your modem at: http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/ The drivers are for Conexant (Rockwell) HCF and HSF modems (and Riptide sound drivers, if you need them). HTH -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed - how to send?
On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 06:44, Len Lawrence wrote: On 25 Oct 2002 10:22:17 -0500 Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 05:08, Len Lawrence wrote: Yes. tarazed is my POP3 account name at Demon and somewhere I have specified the Demon gateway address for pppd. All kppp needs is the telephone number. It echoes an address something like gyle-du.95.access.demon.net when it connects. I have never needed to know the address of the SMTP server. That is all I know about how my machine connects to the Internet. You were suggesting that Sylpheed can be set up to run pppd and dial out and fetch mail? In other words it could replace postfix and kppp entirely? Excuse me if I seem dense, but that's the truth. Thanks again for your suggestion. -- Len Lawrence Sorry for the misunderstanding: my suggestions was that you are already connected to the internet...you simply set up the smtp field as I indicated, and the mail would then send directly through your ISP's smtp server(the reverse of pop3 reception)...no need to add the postfix step. -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Drake 9 don't do video
On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 17:37, Nick Adams wrote: Nick Adams wrote: Spencer wrote: On October 26, 2002 08:36 am, Jimmy Montague wrote: Hi, Everybody: I downloaded the isos and burned them onto 3 CDs. I booted from CD1 and ran the install per directions. It's slick until comes time to configure the video/Xwindows environment. There I hit a stump. I've installed 4 times, now, and still can't get it right. System is: FIC VA503+ mobo AMD K6-2/350 processor 256 mb Crucial RAM 2 Maxtor 13 gb hdds 1 generic 50x CD-ROM 1 fdd Creative Ensoniqe sound ATI 3D Rage Pro vid card with 8 mb RAM Compaq V50 monitor IBM model M keyboard (101 key, US English) Logitech MouseMan PS2 Problem is that during the install, Xconfigurator sees the vid card as an ATI Mach 64 with a Utah chipset. Default config is 16 million 24-bit color, 800x600 res. If I accept that and run a test, the screen goes black for about 30 seconds and then comes back on. If I then tell it to load X at boot-up, what happens is that the system reboots and looks good until it loads X. Then the screen goes black and stays that way forever. So I reinstall. Tell Xconfigurator that the vid card is really an ATI Rage Pro 3D. Then, no matter what config I set up (65k colors 16-bit, for example) the system returns an error when I test it. The error is: You must specify a keyboard in XF86Config try to change some parameters. (sic) So I boot to the command line as root. Issue a command xf86config. Run through all of THAT. At the end, it tells me it's going to save the configuration, and then it saves. When I tell it startx, I get execve failed for /etc/x11/x (errno 2) giving up xinit: No such file or directory After install no. 4, I'm whipped. Ideas, anyone? Thanks. Nick Mach 64 Utah drivers are correct. I use the same card along with Xfree 4.2.1. It may be choking on your monitor. Try using generic settings. I am using 1024x768 70 and 800x600 at 24 as final. Works perfect Spence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Spencer: You use Xfree 4.2.1 on a generic monitor -- but do you set Xfree to 3d or 2d? Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Spencer: Been there. Done that. Three times now. Same result. It doesn't work. More suggestions, anyone? Thanks Nick Nick, I'm running the same chipset (according to the setup in 9.0). Do don't say what OS you ran on this machine before..or what resolution or color depth. Without that info, it looks like your card handles the default settings, but your monitor is choking on them. I'd suggest dropping back to 800x600 at 16-bit and see if it will work. You need to find a setting that works with your monitor, then you can experiment with the color depth and resolution to get optimal display. If you are doing the setup manually, you might also check the frequency that is being used with the monitor...a freq setting that is too high (or too low) could be a show-stopper, too. The default for my card (ATI mach64 Utah) and monitor (Optiquest Q55) worked fine...XFree 4.2.1, 2D (I also have only 8MB onboard vid ram) and 1024x768, but my monitor will handle the 24-bit color depth. -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] serial console question?
If you are using LILO, the better way would be to edit /etc/lilo.conf and remove 'quiet' from the append= line. save and then type lilo (with out the quotes) and click enter. After that, you should see all startup and shutdown messages. HTH Erik On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 23:51, Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all I added 'console=ttyS0' to lilo.conf and can see what's going on during system startup. But I keep getting the following message: ioctl VT_GETSTATE: Invalid argument How can I get rid of them? Thanks, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PPC
Not currentlyhowever, did install mdk 8.2 on iMac (first DVD/CDROM model) and it installed like a dream ... provided I added video=riva (for Nvidia card) on the install line and I set up the /boot partition between the basic MacOS and mdk. Now that Jaguar is out (10.2),OS X is MUCH more friendly and usable. Overall, I still prefer mdk. Currently run mdk8.2 on a pc and OS X on an ibook. Erik On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 05:44, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ok, i have seen a few posts about PPC mandrake, but they are seldom answered and few. i am considering getting a notebook computer, and i would rather get a mac and dual boot Mandrake/OSX than get a windows machine. the question i guess is is anyone out there successfully running Mandrake PPC? and how does she run? - -- No one is free when others are oppressed. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9p/0TBwq+ZwvIN/oRAk1lAJ9AeXSy3EcEYLdKR/eJPBXzga+VTACfeMkC eZJzvb7a4JA1PTjzR8xELgw= =ehh2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I need to configure Xfree/monitor screen black blikingproblem
Since no one here seems to have the answer to your question, you might try searching the XFree86 website, searching their lists, etc. Quote below is from XFree86's website: ( http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/Status6.html#6 ) 6. ATI *3.3.6:* Accelerated support is provided for the Mach8 chips (by the XF86_Mach8 server), Mach32 chips (by the XF86_Mach32 server), the following Mach64 and Rage chips: GX, CX, CT, ET, VT, VT3, GT, RageII+DVD, RagePro (GB, GD, GI, FP, GQ), VT4, Rage IIC (GV, GW, GZ), Rage LT Pro (LD, LB, LI, LP), Rage LT, Rage XL or XC (GL, GM, GN, GO, GR, GS) and Rage Mobility (LM, LN, LR, LS) (by the XF86_Mach64 server). Unaccelerated support is provided for most of the above (except some early Mach8 and Mach32 adapters), as well the old VGAWonder series chipsets (18800, 18800-1, 28800-2, 28800-4, 28800-5, 28800-6) by the XF86_SVGA server with the ati driver. Accelerated support is provided for the Rage 128 chips by the XF86_SVGA server with the r128 driver. *4.2.0:* Accelerated support is provided for Mach64, Rage, Rage 128 and Radeon chips by the ati driver, as is unaccelerated support for all of the others except the Mach8 and some early Mach32 chips. *Summary:* All hardware supported in 3.3.6 is also supported in 4.2.0 except for Mach8 and some old Mach32 chips. You might also try the Mandrake Expert lists. Erik rhp.mac wrote: hi, may you help me about this problem? my monitor blinking when I run kde. I need to configure Xfree. I am running Mandrake, I don't know how it is done. I am using: Graphic card: atimach 64 mandrake linux ppc 8.2 kernel version 2.4 .18.6.1 Xfre86 monitor choose/Imac/powerbook: 640x480(15 bits) I run KDE version 2.2.2 thanks for help rhp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise)
I have an HP8100+ (8100i) writer . I have not d/l or tried to burn these ISOs yet, so I don't have results to compare. After reading your post, I checked the HP website and found that the 'claim' to support 80 min (700MB) CDs, but add the disclaimer that they recommend using HP 80 min CDs. http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/document.jhtml?reg=cc=prodId=hpcd-write9675lc=endocName=lpg40817 I would be most interested in hearing if others with this version of CD writer have the same problem you do. Erik Ralph Slooten wrote: Yeah, I have just downloaded the 2/3 isos, but I have bad news for those using an old CD writer like me (HP 8100i): The isos are too big for the writers. I have used 700MB CD's, but have never been able to burn over the 690MB's. The first 2 images contain data that is around the 693 and 699 MB's. I have mounted the 2 images, and see quite a few things I would never use. I only need to free up a few MB's per CD. How could I go about properly deleting these to bring down the ISO-sizes to burnable sizes? Mount the ISO, copy the files to a temp directory, delete the couple of files, then remake an ISO. But, how would I successfully go about making a bootable CD? Does anyone have any experience with re-creating Distro-CD's? I'm sure I won't be the only one with this problem, so any knowledgeable advice would be great :-) Greetings Ralph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from the net
Marcia and Anne: I may have missed it, but I haven't seen info on how the printer was set up originally? Did you set it up to use CUPS, Post Script or both in LM8.2? When I see HP, I immediately think Post Script, but I'm not that familiar with them in Linux...in Windows they can be a real PITA. When I set up my Epson 740 USB, I set it up in CUPS as Printer (printer0) and in Post Script as Printer1. Now, the only problems I have printing from the net or email is when someone includes emoticons with those, I have to select all, copy and paste into OO, remove the emoticon(s) and then print. HTH, Erik Marcia wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 5:28 pm, you wrote: Dear All, Printing works fine on my LM8.2 with my HP 940c deskjet printer (USB) except when I try to print from the net, email, or xpdf. It works in all of the other applications I believe. Any help will be appreciated. Can't answer this, but I can add a bit that might spark inspiration in someone more knowledgeable. My printer is a DJ 990, so should be identical to yours (940 is, I believe somewhat slower and without the duplexer, but otherwise identical). I have printing from a browser, but no control. Printing from every browser I have tried does not allow me access to any of my setup printers. It specifies PostScript/Default, shows a dropdown box, but that has no other entries in. This seems to be the setting for the default printer, without any possibility of changing any properties/settings. Hope someone can use this to come up with an answer for you Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dear Anne, Thank you for this added info. Mine does the same thing from browsers, but does not print. I am sure there has to be a simple solution. Thanks. Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: monitor flickering problem
Which video card did apple put in your iMac? My partner's iMac has an Nvidia card, so at install, he used video=riva (or whatever it lists)...the point is that he installed with riva drivers. Erik rhp.mac wrote: -- De: rhp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: monitor flickering problem Fecha: lun., 23 sept 2002 15:21 hei people, my monitor blinking all time. I need to configure XWindows. I am running Mandrake, I don't know how it is done. I am using: mandrake linux ppc 8.2 kernel version 2.4 18.6.1 monitor Imac/powerpc-640x480 I run KDE version 2.2.2 thanks for help rhp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] S3 Virge DX/GX 375/385
S3 Virge can be a nightmare on Windows systems. The company that produced them is out of business. There are still drivers archived, although choosing the correct one must be done carefully. You probably will be o.k. updating for Win98 or maybe even Win98 SE as long as you're using Win95 drivers (Win98 and SE were expensive bug fixes for Win95) ... but I wouldn't try it (--from personal experience) on WinMe, Win2K or WinXP (these are listed for others who read this) because the available drivers either can't be installed successfully (windows doesn't recognize or use them) or they crash the card. Have you considered changing to a more mainstream card? Erik robin wrote: George Baker wrote: Hi - I've just upgraded from a 486 to a P166 with a S3 Virge DX/GX PCI graphics card with 2MB memory. Installed MDK 7.0 today but can't get X desktop to display properly. There is a jagged box under the curser and lines running through the display. If I move a window it leaves shadows behind. I was running Win95 on the 486 with built in graphics and in 800X600 res it would fill up my whole screen. Now on my P166 with WIN98 there are gaps on either side of the display (also in 800X600 ) - same monitor. Do I need an updated driver for the S3 Virge? or how can I fix both the MDK and WIN problems. That card is an absolute bugger (if you restart X, you'll see amongst the messages flashing down the screen something like Found an S3 card -ugh). I installed 7.0 on a similar system and got it working eventually - you just need to play around with the X settings at random until something works - I'm sorry, I can't remember the configuration I found. My advice is to upgrade to at least 7.2, which should handle this well (I found 7.2 to be good at handling old hardware). 8.0 should also work OK, 8.1 is problematic in general (though can be made to work if you don't mind some hacking if you want supermount). I haven't tried 8.2 with that card, and 9.0 - let's see. For Windows, I'd say yes, download the latest driver. 486s and Pentiums work pretty differently AFAIK. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
Scott, I set up two 40 GB hds to run Windows XP and Mandrake 8.2 . I run WinXP on hda [for some adobe programs and their files that I use in my work] and Linux on hdb. When I installed, I chose to dual boot and set LILO up accordingly. My setup may differ from yours in that respect. In my setup, on the / partition, is /mnt and windows is one of the directories listed, along with crdrom, cdrom2, floppy, disk and zip. If, by chance, you have either windows or ntfs listed there already, then you can open your W2K with the file manager or in terminal with the command cd /mnt/windows (or cd /mnt/ntfs -- however your system is set up). From there, I can copy files onto hdb...but as stated by JRS, you can't write to the ntfs directly. Hope this helps. Erik John Richard Smith wrote: Scott Felton wrote: I'm new to Mandrake and fairly new to Linux (ran Slackware for a few months back around 3.5-4.0 on a P166) Now I have a new machine, 1.3g celeron, 384m RAM and two 40g hard drives. I have been installing and toying with many distros but Mandrake is the first that has my interest for more than a day or two. I have Windows XP on the first hard drive (hda) that came with the computer. How do (can?) I mount that drive just in case I want to get something off it to look at from here in Linux? I created a /windows directory (as root) and tried. [root@whitetrash scott]# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda /windows mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda, or too many mounted file systems (gee, I still remember how to cut and paste in Linux :) AFAIK Mandrake is mounting 3 partitions for Linux on hdb (at least when I installed it, I defined 3). I *THINK* lilo is installed on /dev/hda (and not in MBR). Should I be able to mount my Windows NTFS? The Windows HD actually has nothing on it but Windows and I will probably ditch it when I settle on a final distro of Linux, but now that I can't mount it, I'm curious what my problem might be? I've installed Windows several times (I keep wiping it out during Linux install goofs:) and it SAYS it's using NTFS during the install. Looking at the man page for mount I think I have the syntax correct and I found nothing in this lists FAQ (although I'm not very good at searching it). TIA... It's quite simple really, mandrake installer will not , unlike vfat, automatically mount any ntfs partition, yet, but you can do it . I have W2k in a ntfs partition and a number of spare ntfs partitions. As Root, First create files in the /mnt directory for each ntfs partition you want to mount. here are mine, /mnt/ntfs-vol7 /mnt/ntfs-vol8 /mnt/ntfs-vol9 /mnt/W2000 Then go to /etc/fstab and add entries with a text editor,save and exit. here are mine, /dev/hda10 /mnt/ntfs-vol7 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 /dev/hda11 /mnt/ntfs-vol8 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 /dev/hda12 /mnt/ntfs-vol9 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/W2000 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,defaults 0 0 Adapt your entries to your situation. ]# mount -a If your've done it right you can enter any of the above partitions and copy across to mandrake, but you cannot write back.It's not supported, so the work around is to have one modest sized vfat partition and copy to that . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDROM access
Try Mounting it as root in shell. That should solve the problem. Cheers! Erik At 04:56 PM 7/7/2002, you wrote: I recently installed MDK 8.2. I can read a data CD without problem (see the file list) but when try to access an Audio CD clicking at CD-ROM desktop icon I receive the message: Unable to enter file:/mnt/cdrom. You do not have access right to this location. How can I fix this problem ? Thanks Filipe Dutra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Configuration of SNF and ADSL
Hi ! I'm trying to get my new ADSL connection and SNF 7.2 working together. I have no problems getting the eth0 (for the internal network..) up and running, but it's impossible to get the connection to my ISP to work. Does anyone have any experience from the config of eth1 (ext network) and an Alcatel Speed Touch ADSL modem? My ISP is Telia in Sweden. Should I use the ADSL-config or the Cable/LAN-config (some other similar S/W's like Smoothwall use LAN as I/F for this ADSL-modem connected to my second NIC eth1..)? Any comments much appreciated !! Thanks ! BR, Jan-Erik Persson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OS boot order
i recently installed mandrake 7.2 with the lnx4win feature, and i love it! the only problem (or invonvenience) that i have faced is the OS boot list that comes up allowing you to chose what OS to go into (linux, windows, and the other options). linus is on the top, though...and while i think linux is really great, i still currently use windows much more frequently. is there any way to put windows on the top of the list so that it is the default loader (if nothing else is selected in the 5 seconds or whatever)? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thank you very much! -erik
Re: [newbie] I thought I was super user??
If you typed Linuxconf (as you wrote) you would get: bash: Linuxconf : command not found try typing linuxconf On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, David Thompson wrote: I successfully log on as "Root" to my linux box and receive the [root@Linux /root]# prompt. When I issue the "Linuxconf" command, the os returns "bash: linuxconf : command not found". Anybody help me on this? Thanks! David Thompson
[newbie] CD-ROM won't open
Question for you all. I have just installed Mandrake 7.0. Everything installed fine. At the very end right before rebooting I tried to remove the CD-ROM. The CD-ROM will not open. Is there a something I need to do to get the CD-ROM open to be able to use it in the future. Thanks Erik __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/
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Re: [newbie] Is it Linux or Linux?
Patti Wavinak wrote: Paul -- you are correct in the pronunciation but I do believe that Linus Torvald is from Finland not Sweden. Originally from Minnesota I know that the Finlanders would be offended giggle Patti Registered Linux User #184611 Original Message On 8/30/00, 11:01:36 AM, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Is it Linux or Linux?: On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Dave wrote: How is it pronounced; with a long i or short i? Dave Pronounce it like "Lynn"ux, not "ly"nux. The short i, thus... Linus Torvald is from Sweden, that is how they speak. Unfortunately, ikke snakker svensk. Eg snakker norsk! (I don't speak swedish, but I do speak norwegian. Well, at least a little) Paul -- When you're born again, do you have two bellybuttons? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=- Dear people. Linus Thorwald is from Finland. He uses beside of Swedish also Finnish as his main languages. So do I too. I am using also languages in that order as the trhird one comes English and when I start to be drunk I speak French. Sincerely Erik H.
[newbie] MOUNT POINTS
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[newbie] Installation Errors
In need some help from all you experts. First, I am very new to Linux. I have been a UNIX/C/Java programmer for sometime. I thought it was time to try out this Linux thing. I took one of my old computers and I am trying to install Linux on it. Here is the error I am getting. in second stage install_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111Thu Jan 29 23:28:10 2000 Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 at /usr/bin/perl-nstall/my_gtk.pm line 139.install exited abnormallysending termination signals...donesending kill signals...doneunmounting filesystems... /tmp/rhimage /procyou may safely reboot your system I am installing from the floppy that was provided with Linux-Mandrake v 7.0 Complete. I am not even getting to the graphical interface. Do I/Should I remake this floppy disk? The computer is an old 486/66Mhz. I have two harddrives one being 640 Meg and on 7.1 Gig. I am running 32 Meg of RAM. I am nut sure of the graphics card off the top of my head. Is there a problem with the computer I am trying to install on? The computer is currently running Windows 98. I want to just install Linux and overwrite the Windows. So, I am not partitioning the harddrive. Do I need to partition the harddrive? Do I need to re-format the harddrive prior to installing Linux?All the help you can offer is greatly appreciated. Thank You Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] X
My system was powered down improperlyto make a long story short, I get the following error when attempting to run anything that requires X: /usr/X11R6/bin/X: error in loading shared libraries: libfont.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory However, the file appears to be there and is in the path. Any ideas? Erik B. Flitman ebf technolgies, inc. 305-751-8822 office 305-757-3736 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] hogwash
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[newbie] Kernel
How do I get the kernel onto my linux drive if I can't get net access. Is there a way to access my win98 partition. Thanks and thank you to all who responded to to my last post.
[newbie] lost interrupt
I'm trying to install linux on an old ps/1. Upon booting from the boot disk: Running install... 4hdb: lost interrupt 4hdb: lost interrupt 4hdb: lost interrupt 4hdb: lost interrupt 4hdb: lost interrupt 4hdb: lost interrupt 4hdb: lost interrupt etc I've tried from boot: hdb=noprobe hdb=cdrom and it does not work. The cdrom drive is an atapi drive. Linux appears to detect it just fine. I even went out and bought a new cdrom drive and controller to see if that would make the difference - it didn't. hdb=noprobe alone gets me into the install program, however I can't seem to configure the cdrom after that., Anybody have any ideas? Erik B. Flitman ebf technolgies, inc. 305-751-8822 office 305-757-3736 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[newbie] Red Hat Security Notices
Question: Can or should Mandrake 6.0 users install security patches from Red Hat, such as the one that was released this morning? The notice follows: Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Package in.telnetd Synopsis Denial of service attack in in.telnetd Advisory ID RHSA-1999:029-01 Issue Date 1999-08-19 Updated on Keywords telnet telnetd 1. Topic: A denial of service attack has been fixed in in.telnetd. 2. Bug IDs fixed: 4560 3. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Linux 6.0, all architectures 4. Obsoleted by: None 5. Conflicts with: None 6. RPMs required: Intel: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/i386/ telnet-0.10-29.i386.rpm Alpha: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/alpha telnet-0.10-29.alpha.rpm SPARC: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/sparc telnet-0.10-29.sparc.rpm Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/SRPMS telnet-0.10-29.src.rpm Architecture neutral: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/noarch/ 7. Problem description: in.telnetd attempts to negotiate a compatible terminal type between the local and remote host. By setting the TERM environment variable before connecting, a remote user could cause the system telnetd to open files it should not. Depending on the TERM setting used, this could lead to denial of service attacks. Thanks go to Michal Zalewski and the Linux Security Audit team for noting this vulnerability. 8. Solution: For each RPM for your particular architecture, run: rpm -Uvh where filename is the name of the RPM. 9. Verification: MD5 sum Package Name - 4360d47490f13d60b8737d28dc88825a i386/telnet-0.10-29.i386.rpm 90213fcdca41a3ed12ab7d92344e7286 alpha/telnet-0.10-29.alpha.rpm 277787dbc39dff8ea84d4b16dcb7a954 sparc/telnet-0.10-29.sparc.rpm 269783a0754d234f7bef0f4717a8dbc2 SRPMS/telnet-0.10-29.src.rpm These packages are also PGP signed by Red Hat Inc. for security. Our key is available at: http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig filename If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nopgp filename 10. References: Erik Gellatly Salem, Oregon
