Re: [newbie] dev file question
--- Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant wrote: To get it back, try: rm /dev/tts/LTO rm /dev/modem modprobe lt_serial ln -s /dev/modem /dev/tts/LT0 Thanks a lot for getting back to me. I have removed those symlinks and restarted Linux and I still have no LT0 file in my /dev/tts directory. The only file in that directory is a weird one called 0. I just need that LT0 file back so I can dial up with this sucker. When I typed in modprobe lt_serial it just went to the next prompt. What should be happening? - Grant It should be loading the modules for the winmodem, and creating /dev/tty/LT0 (Unless that is not the driver for your modem. I thought I remembered that you had a Lucent chipset...) You can run lsmod and see if lt_serial is already loaded. Mikkel The driver was /dev/tts/LT0 until the symlinks got messed up. I do have a Lucent chipset. I ran lsmod and didn't see anything called lt_serial or anything else that looked like a modem. I've got to get this file back! Any ideas? - Grant __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dev file question
--- Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant wrote: To get it back, try: rm /dev/tts/LTO rm /dev/modem modprobe lt_serial ln -s /dev/modem /dev/tts/LT0 Thanks a lot for getting back to me. I have removed those symlinks and restarted Linux and I still have no LT0 file in my /dev/tts directory. The only file in that directory is a weird one called 0. I just need that LT0 file back so I can dial up with this sucker. When I typed in modprobe lt_serial it just went to the next prompt. What should be happening? - Grant It should be loading the modules for the winmodem, and creating /dev/tty/LT0 (Unless that is not the driver for your modem. I thought I remembered that you had a Lucent chipset...) You can run lsmod and see if lt_serial is already loaded. Mikkel The driver was /dev/tts/LT0 until the symlinks got messed up. I do have a Lucent chipset. I ran lsmod and didn't see anything called lt_serial or anything else that looked like a modem. I've got to get this file back! Any ideas? - Grant Ok, I ran modprobe lt_serial, got a tainted kernel warning message, ran lsmod, and then lt_serial and lt_modem showed up in there. The /dev/tts/LT0 file showed up too! I'll be able to test this tonight at home, but all looks to be well! Thanks for the help Mikkel! - Grant __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dev file question
I'm sorry to post about this again, but I'm really confused with this and have no idea what to do. Should I try reinstalling the winmodem? - Grant --- Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I had my win modem working with penggy to dial up to AOL, but every time I restarted the computer I had to: rm /dev/modem because there was a different symlink in there, and then: ln -s /dev/modem /dev/tts/LT0 This worked great for a while, but yesterday things were acting strange and now I've got these symlinks: /dev/modem - /dev/tts/LT0 /dev/tts/LT0 - /dev/modem There doesn't seem to be a normal LT0 file in /dev/tts anymore, just the symlink. There is a weird 0 in the file listing that wasn't there before too. Does anyone know how I can get my /dev/tts/LT0 file back? - Grant __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] dev file question
Hello! I had my win modem working with penggy to dial up to AOL, but every time I restarted the computer I had to: rm /dev/modem because there was a different symlink in there, and then: ln -s /dev/modem /dev/tts/LT0 This worked great for a while, but yesterday things were acting strange and now I've got these symlinks: /dev/modem - /dev/tts/LT0 /dev/tts/LT0 - /dev/modem There doesn't seem to be a normal LT0 file in /dev/tts anymore, just the symlink. There is a weird 0 in the file listing that wasn't there before too. Does anyone know how I can get my /dev/tts/LT0 file back? - Grant __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD-ROM DMA mode crashes system
I was having a problem with my DVD-ROM, and I've fixed it by disabling DMA mode for the drive. Here's the command I use to disable DMA: sbin/hdparm -d0 /dev/hdd How can I make that permanent? Will doing that cause me any problems except for (theoretically) reduced performance? Does anyone have any idea why DMA would screw with my drive or how to enable DMA without the crashes? The drive is a Torisan 8X in a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop. - Grant __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDROM spin causes total crash
--- Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 February 2004 06:41 pm, Grant wrote: --- Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 February 2004 01:00 pm, Grant wrote: Hello! I'm using Mandrake 9.1, and all of a sudden it's acting very strange. One of the problems is the computer completely crashes whenever it tries to access a CD in the drive. For example, typing: cd /mnt/cdrom with a CD in the drive spins the CD and crashes the system. Help guys! What should I do? - Grant __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html Need more info, must have more info. : ) What is the CDrom drive, brand, speed and firmware version if you know it. Come back and let's see what is going on. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Thank you for the response. The CDROM drive is actually in a laptop, and I don't think I have any of that info. It is a DVD drive though. It used to work just fine. It sounds like I may need to backup and reinstall? - Grant __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html I would try going into the MCC and hardware and select the DVD and do a configure on it. Note what the device is called. If supermount is messed up you may try typing mount /dev/scdx /mnt/cdrom or better still disable supermount and try the above command. Note the x in scdx is what your system shows in MCC, like scd0 or scd1 etc. The command to disable supermount is supermount -i disable IIRC. Somebody confirm please. Thanks, -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Thank you very much for your help. Things don't seem to be working out though, and I'm going to backup, reformat, and reinstall as I've been wanting to do that anyway. Thanks again! - Grant __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CDROM spin causes total crash
Hello! I'm using Mandrake 9.1, and all of a sudden it's acting very strange. One of the problems is the computer completely crashes whenever it tries to access a CD in the drive. For example, typing: cd /mnt/cdrom with a CD in the drive spins the CD and crashes the system. Help guys! What should I do? - Grant __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDROM spin causes total crash
--- Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 February 2004 01:00 pm, Grant wrote: Hello! I'm using Mandrake 9.1, and all of a sudden it's acting very strange. One of the problems is the computer completely crashes whenever it tries to access a CD in the drive. For example, typing: cd /mnt/cdrom with a CD in the drive spins the CD and crashes the system. Help guys! What should I do? - Grant __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html Need more info, must have more info. : ) What is the CDrom drive, brand, speed and firmware version if you know it. Come back and let's see what is going on. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Thank you for the response. The CDROM drive is actually in a laptop, and I don't think I have any of that info. It is a DVD drive though. It used to work just fine. It sounds like I may need to backup and reinstall? - Grant __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] X-Forwarding and Knoppix
Would using X-Forwarding with a Knoppix CD be better than using VNC? - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] quick cron question
Will this run every three days at 5:45 PM ? 45 17 */3 * * - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Bt Voyager Modem - ADSL
Well, I've got mandrake 9.2 disks and I'm raring to have a go. The last time I tried was 8.2 but I found that reliance on Windows was such that Linux was not really viable. I have a couple of questions though that I have been unable to resolve through the internet. 1) I'm on by broadband and use there Voyager modem. Does 9.2 support it out of the box or can it do so? 2) I've got what now is a relatively ancient digital video camera - Sony Digital 8, It has a fire wire port and works in XP. Will it work in Mandrake? I really hope some kind sole can help me here. I'd love to get away from Windows, preferably far away as oppose to dual booting!! Many thanks Colin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bt Voyager Modem - ADSL
Thanks for this - I should have said that the BT Voyager ADSL moden is USB et wrote: On Saturday 08 November 2003 04:34 pm, Colin Grant wrote: Well, I've got mandrake 9.2 disks and I'm raring to have a go. The last time I tried was 8.2 but I found that reliance on Windows was such that Linux was not really viable. I have a couple of questions though that I have been unable to resolve through the internet. 1) I'm on by broadband and use there Voyager modem. Does 9.2 support it out of the box or can it do so? not familiar with that modem, but if it connects with a network card and cable, it should be good to go,,, you might have to configure the firewall, if it connects via usb,,, might be a couple more steps... 2) I've got what now is a relatively ancient digital video camera - Sony Digital 8, It has a fire wire port and works in XP. Will it work in Mandrake? most likely, and should be autodetected, as well as the firewire port. plug it in before you start the install. I really hope some kind sole can help me here. I'd love to get away from Windows, preferably far away as oppose to dual booting!! Many thanks Colin ahh,,, just dual boot as long as you have the hard drive space. just don't shutdown linux. grin just joking but really, it does work best if you can leave it up, as it does some maintenance in the middle of the night that it will do about 10 minutes after startup (as long as anachron is installed) 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] SHould I get SuSe
I believe you, but *everything* is updated with a single command. Ah if only it really was that simple. I ruined two perfectly good installs trying that :-( Mind you that may just be my incompetance but I followed the instructions to the letter! That doesn't sound good at all. - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe
On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 10:13:17 -0700 Carl Creason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the ignorance but what is portsystem. I googled, but the few pages I found were in German and seemed to be about FreeBSD. Yes, it is the packagesystem in FreeBSDit downloads, compiles and installs with only one command /Anders Has anyone considered Gentoo? Their Portage updating system sounds awesome. Here's some info: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe
Drugs must be wearing off... I hate that. - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe
Has anyone considered Gentoo? Their Portage updating system sounds awesome. Here's some info: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml Yes its great if you don't mind waiting 5 days for everything to compile (even on a relativly fast machine like my dual 1Ghz wintel box - unless of course you decide to skip having KDE, Mozilla and OO):-Z Ohh and did I mention that you need to keep everything upto date or it all falls over, and you will have to wait/spend a long time for that to be all sorted out, if indeed you don't break it in the process... Trust me I've been there done it and have the scars to prove it! I believe you, but *everything* is updated with a single command. - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???
Read the excerpt, follow the link for the complete story: Red Hat's chief executive has said that Linux needs to mature further before home users will get a positive experience from the operating system, saying they should choose Windows instead... Matthew Szulik, chief executive of Linux vendor Red Hat, said on Monday that although Linux is capable of exceeding expectations for corporate users, home users should stick with Windows: 'I would say that for the consumer market place, Windows probably continues to be the right product line,' he said... http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2003110401326NWDTRH You don't think that's true? - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Evolution or no?
I'm slowly migrating from Windows software to Linux software with the help of Win4Lin. It's time to ditch Outlook, and Evolution looks like the natural alternative. Would anyone recommend something else instead? I need email, tasks, contacts, and a calendar. My goal is to have everything I use accessible through the Internet, but I plan to use VNC so I could just access Evolution that way. - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] I'm goin' mobile....
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 12:54 pm, Grant wrote: I'll be traveling off and on for the foreseable future, and I don't want to bring a laptop. What I'd like is some kind of a setup that allows me to connect to a remote machine that I've set up and use my apps through there from Internet cafes. What do you guys think might work? Also, I'm a little paranoid of keystroke loggers in Internet cafes. I was wondering if anyone has created any kind of an application to solve that problem. Maybe an on-screen representation of a keyboard that allows you to save your click-strokes to the clipboard? - Grant Okay, here's what I do. The machine I am connecting to, which is in my home office, is set behind a firewall that is forwarding port 22 for ssh connections. Then I run vncserver with fluxbox as the window manager. I then carry in my briefcase, a mini cd that has a windows ssh client and the windows and linux vncviewer. I use PuTTy for the windows ssh client. It is free and very easy to use. From whatever computer I am at that has Internet access (Windows or Linux), I can set up an ssh session that forwards the vnc port to the local machine, and then I use the vncviewer through the ssh tunnel to access my desktop. In fact, this is how I am typing this email right now. When the rules say you cannot access personal e-mail at work, us Linux users have an advantage ;-) -- /g Nice! That sounds very slick, but how is the lag time? What kind of connection are you using on the client computer? Nothing has to be installed for you on the client computer? - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] I'm goin' mobile....
I'll be traveling off and on for the foreseable future, and I don't want to bring a laptop. What I'd like is some kind of a setup that allows me to connect to a remote machine that I've set up and use my apps through there from Internet cafes. What do you guys think might work? vnc. urpmi tightvnc-server There's a version of vnc viewer for windows. I've never actually used VNC. How is the lag time? Also, I'm a little paranoid of keystroke loggers in Internet cafes. I was wondering if anyone has created any kind of an application to solve that problem. Maybe an on-screen representation of a keyboard that allows you to save your click-strokes to the clipboard? character map. (usually a default part of windows boxen in the icafe's i've been to) Character map, I hadn't thought of that. Good idea. - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] I'm goin' mobile....
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 01:51 pm, Grant wrote: On Tuesday 21 October 2003 12:54 pm, Grant wrote: I'll be traveling off and on for the foreseable future, and I don't want to bring a laptop. What I'd like is some kind of a setup that allows me to connect to a remote machine that I've set up and use my apps through there from Internet cafes. What do you guys think might work? Also, I'm a little paranoid of keystroke loggers in Internet cafes. I was wondering if anyone has created any kind of an application to solve that problem. Maybe an on-screen representation of a keyboard that allows you to save your click-strokes to the clipboard? - Grant Okay, here's what I do. The machine I am connecting to, which is in my home office, is set behind a firewall that is forwarding port 22 for ssh connections. Then I run vncserver with fluxbox as the window manager. I then carry in my briefcase, a mini cd that has a windows ssh client and the windows and linux vncviewer. I use PuTTy for the windows ssh client. It is free and very easy to use. From whatever computer I am at that has Internet access (Windows or Linux), I can set up an ssh session that forwards the vnc port to the local machine, and then I use the vncviewer through the ssh tunnel to access my desktop. In fact, this is how I am typing this email right now. When the rules say you cannot access personal e-mail at work, us Linux users have an advantage ;-) -- /g Nice! That sounds very slick, but how is the lag time? What kind of connection are you using on the client computer? Nothing has to be installed for you on the client computer? - Grant The machine I am accessing is on a cable modem at home it is a 128Kb/s up and 3000Kb/s down setup. I am accessing it from a machine that has 512/512Kb/s. The performance seems acceptable to me, although there is some lag. I also use this on several other machines on cable modem and it seems just as good. It is more responsive at certain times of the day, but I think this has more to do with overall Internet traffic. Also the screen resolution you use will have an impact on performance. 800x600 will refresh much faster than 1152x864 (which is what I am using). Although I wouldn't recommend it for everyday use, I have done this over a dial-up connection in an emergency and was able to perform the task I was trying to accomplish. I run both PuTTY and vncviewer right off of the CD, and I suppose you could easily use a usb thumb drive too. Nothing is installed on the client computer, although PuTTy makes a few entries in the Windows registry which are documented on the PuTTy site and can be easily removed. In fact I think they talk about setting up a batch file to do this, although I have not taken the time to investigate it. I just use regedit to quickly remove the settings. -- /g That sounds pretty good. Thanks for the info. I'm going to look into this more. - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] checking to see if HTTP::Request::Common is installed
I know this is off topic, but I'm in a tight spot. I need to find out if HTTP::Request::Common is installed on the web server my site is hosted on. It's actually Red Hat. Does anyone know how to find out? Sorry it's OT! - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] My winmodem used to work! (A PLEA!)
On Thursday 31 July 2003 20:32, Grant wrote: Here's my modules.conf file: probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 snd-0 # lt_drivers: autoloading and insertion parameter usage alias char-major-62 lt_serial alias /dev/tts/LT0 lt_serial alias /dev/modem lt_serial # The next two lines are syntax examples, only Rarely Needed, to automate parameter usage during lt_drivers insertion. See documentation for details. # options lt_modem vendor_id=0x115d device_id=0x0420 # options lt_modem Forced=3,0x130,0x2f8,0 # section for lt_drivers ends Well it certainly appears as though the proper stuff is all there for the modem to be working - have you tried to do a: modprobe lt_serial ...to see what happens? So then you're going to make sure you have a link to /dev/modem created if it ain't already - easy enough - just type: ln -s /dev/lt_serial /dev/modem ...that should start you on yer way hometeam! modprobe lt_serial just says bad command and I also noticed there is no directory or file at /dev/lt_serial . Do I need to get modprobe working? How? - Grant You must be root to use modprobe and the modutils rpm must be installed :) I ran modprobe lt_serial as root and I got this: Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/ltmodem/lt_modem.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - UNKNOWN See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules Then when I ran ln -s /dev/lt_serial /dev/modem it accepted the command but Penggy still says: Can't open device /dev/modem: No such file or directory (2) Fatal error, exiting. In the /dev directory, the word modem is boxed in red and flashing in Konsole. I really really appreciate Frans, John, and Stephen's help with this. I am leaving for Mexico for 12 days at 5PM PST this evening and if I don't have the modem working I'll be semi-screwed as I need Internet access to keep my business running. So if you guys could give me all you've got I'd be grateful. I do feel like a jerk asking for free help in a hurry but I really don't have any other choice right now. Thanks a lot guys! - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] My winmodem used to work!
Here's my modules.conf file: probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 snd-0 # lt_drivers: autoloading and insertion parameter usage alias char-major-62 lt_serial alias /dev/tts/LT0 lt_serial alias /dev/modem lt_serial # The next two lines are syntax examples, only Rarely Needed, to automate parameter usage during lt_drivers insertion. See documentation for details. # options lt_modem vendor_id=0x115d device_id=0x0420 # options lt_modem Forced=3,0x130,0x2f8,0 # section for lt_drivers ends Well it certainly appears as though the proper stuff is all there for the modem to be working - have you tried to do a: modprobe lt_serial ...to see what happens? So then you're going to make sure you have a link to /dev/modem created if it ain't already - easy enough - just type: ln -s /dev/lt_serial /dev/modem ...that should start you on yer way hometeam! modprobe lt_serial just says bad command and I also noticed there is no directory or file at /dev/lt_serial . Do I need to get modprobe working? How? - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] My winmodem used to work!
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 07:45, Grant wrote: I had my the Lucent winmodem in my laptop working with a program called Penggy that dials up to AOL. Now when I try to use Penggy it tells me there is no such file or directory called /dev/modem. I really don't see how any modem setting could have been altered. I tried to re-install the package that made the winmodem work before but it tells me it's already installed. Does anyone have any idea how to get this modem recognized again? - Grant Check that the link (/dev/modem) actually exists; it could have been blown out - also check that there exists the module that loads you modem and aliases it in your /etc/modules.conf - you can test it with minicom from a terminal - after minicom opens up, check it's setup/configuration - and you should SHOULD be able to type in basic commands such as AT V (to view the configuration of the modem) and AT I4 for the modem NVRAM info; what has changed or been reconfigured since it last worked? Stephen, Thank you for your response. /dev/modem doesn't exist, but I guess it used to because I used to be able to dial up with Penggy. I'm not sure how to open minicom. I typed minicom into a terminal as root and as a regular user and it was just a bad command. - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] best way to update apps in Linux?
I'm also pretty new to Linux and (so far) have found urpmi to work very nicely. It will go to whatever source that has the RPM you want and install it along with dependencies (usually). If you're using mdk 9.1 you can go to http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php to learn how to set up your sources and begin using urpmi. I went to the page referenced above and followed all the directions and everything seemed to work perfectly. Then I went to the Mandrake Control Center Update utility, selected everything I could, and it's currently downloading the packages. So, from now on all I have to do is visit that Update utility periodically to keep Mandrake updated? Can the same thing be set up for individual applications? What about automatic update checking so I don't have to visit the utility? - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] grpmi updating
I just finished downloading 97 packages through the Mandrake CC Update utility and it told me there were three conflicts during the installation and it aborted. I did choose to keep the downloaded rpms. What do I do? - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] grpmi updating
I just finished downloading 97 packages through the Mandrake CC Update utility and it told me there were three conflicts during the installation and it aborted. I did choose to keep the downloaded rpms. What do I do? - Grant It depends on what the conflicts are. What were they? I was too lazy to write them down. One was a Mozilla I think. Is there a way to attempt installation again so I can take note of the conflicts? - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] grpmi updating
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 7:43 pm, Grant wrote: I just finished downloading 97 packages through the Mandrake CC Update utility and it told me there were three conflicts during the installation and it aborted. I did choose to keep the downloaded rpms. What do I do? - Grant Open your Mandrake Software Manager GUI. Select to filter on 'upgrade availability' You will see a list of the available updates. Select to upgrade a selection of them. urpmi will automatically work out that the packages are already in the cache and will not try to download them again. Repeat until you have installed them all. derek Ok, I just installed three CUPS updates correctly, but it wants to know if I want to use the new conf file or not. I'd imagine it will ask me this for most of the package updates. How do I know which to choose? - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] best way to update apps in Linux?
I went to the page referenced above and followed all the directions and everything seemed to work perfectly. Then I went to the Mandrake Control Center Update utility, selected everything I could, and it's currently downloading the packages. So, from now on all I have to do is visit that Update utility periodically to keep Mandrake updated? Can the same thing be set up for individual applications? What about automatic update checking so I don't have to visit the utility? - Grant Type the following commands as root: cd /etc/cron.daily echo '#!/bin/sh' urpmi.cron echo 'urpmi.update -a' urpmi.cron echo 'urpmi --auto-select --auto --no-verify-rpms' urpmi.cron This will create a file in /etc/cron.daily called urpmi.cron. The file will then be executed by cron on a daily basis. The contents of the file will update the hdlists (list of packages on the remote server) and will then download and install any updates. Like I said, it will do this once a day. Awesome, thank you very much. - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] flowcharting software?
Does anyone know of any flowcharting software for Linux? - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] this is awesome
I have to say that I'm really excited about Linux and open source software in general. I recently made the switch and I feel like I have a grip on what it's all about now. I must say it is a very very good thing. I checked out XFce4 and that's awesome. I'd like to check out Waimea, but waimea.org seems to have been down for a couple days now. What else should I check out? Not just Window Managers, but all kinds of Linux stuff. Maybe there's a website that goes over stuff like that? - Grant P.S. Does anyone know of a laptop retailer that will lease a laptop without an OS or maybe just with Linux? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] XFce4 newbie problems
I was following the Gnome vs. KDE thread and decided to try XFce4. I've downloaded and installed all the required rpm's in the correct order plus a few others. I also followed the instructions on the download page to add an XFce4 entry to KDM, and I put the startup script outlined under My startup script in my /usr/bin directory. But when I select XFce4 from KDM I end up in IceWM. Does anyone have any advice for me? Thanks! - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] XFce4 newbie problems
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:14:42AM -0700, Grant wrote: I was following the Gnome vs. KDE thread and decided to try XFce4. I've downloaded and installed all the required rpm's in the correct order plus a few others. I also followed the instructions on the download page to add an XFce4 entry to KDM, and I put the startup script outlined under My startup script in my /usr/bin directory. But when I select XFce4 from KDM I end up in IceWM. Does anyone have any advice for me? Thanks! Grant, You can ignore the My startup script and use XFcd4's script, which is at /usr/local/bin/startxfce4. So, you'd have to edit /etc/X11/wmsession.d/19xfce4 (or whatever number you gave it) to point to that script in both the exec lines. Note that NAME in /etc/X11/wmsession.d/19xfce4 is case-sensitive in that you need to use the same thing in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. So, if it's XFce4 in the first it needs to be that in the second. Clear as mud? As an alternative, if you want to use the my startup script, did you make it executable? (chmod +x scriptname) Let us know how you get along. Cheers, Todd Todd, thanks so much. The key info for me was making the file executable (so that's why those filenames are green). I've installed all the packages and am currently using your startup script. What should my script look like if I want to turn everything on and take it for a ride? I don't seem to have the default startup script under /usr/local/bin . Thanks! - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE
I've got to add that I use Win4Lin and I love it. - Grant I'm one step closer to dumping the Windows box altogether. Is there any advantage to Win4Lin over WINE? Are they pretty much the same thing? Is there any advantage to using one over the other ... or both? Any other cautions, caveats, evaluations, comments you'd care to give are much appreciated. Thanks Harv/AI9NL What exactly do you plan to be doing with windows programs? Games? Office applications? With Win4Lin, you need a windows os cd, because you actually install a windows system to your linux partition. You then run Windows like a linux application, and the desktop, start menu, and taskbar appears at the bottom. It does a nice job doing office applications, but may be a little more than what you need. With Wine, you can run office apps from an existing windows partition, or if that isn't there, you can just install the office app by issuing the wine command. There is no installation of windows necessary. Codeweavers has a product called Crossover Office that can run Adobe Photoshop, MIcrosoft Office XP, Office 2000, and Office 97, Lotus Notes, and some others. It's not quite as expensive as Win4Lin, and does its job well. The best part is that it has a nice, easy to understand GUI to install programs. The free version of wine may have support for Microsoft Office, but I'm not completely sure. HTH, John Drouhard -- Tue Jul 15 19:30:26 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE
What is VPC? So Win4Lin is like VPC for Win? Basically. It can't run linux inside of windows like VPC can, and the core code is different. AFAIK, It does the same thing. Correct me if I'm wrong. John Drouhard -- Tue Jul 15 20:11:55 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Sound working! How to load at boot up?
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 17:32, Grant wrote: I got the ESS Maestro sound card working on my Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop last night. All I have to enter now to make it work is: modprobe snd-es1968;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss and then raise the aumix volume. What can I do to have the above take place at boot up so I don't have to enter it each time? The ALSA docs You can add that to /etc/rc.local To get aumix loading properly, add aumix -L Paul Thanks for the info. When I do that and try to play a WAV in Linux, it plays but I don't hear anything. THEN, when I start Win4Lin, the Windows startup sound does play and I have full sound in Win4Lin. THEN, when I go back to Linux, I have full sound there. Weird huh? Can you guys help or is this a question for the Win4Lin list? - Grant P.S. Win4Lin is Windows running as an application in Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] USB digital camera?
I'm going to go take some photos right now. Is it going to be able to upload to Mandrake? Any tips? - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] USB digital camera?
I'm going to go take some photos right now. Is it going to be able to upload to Mandrake? Any tips? - Grant Wow, in Windows I have to install a driver for it, but in Mandrake it popped right up as soon as it was plugged in. Sweet! - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound working! How to load at boot up?
I got the ESS Maestro sound card working on my Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop last night. All I have to enter now to make it work is: modprobe snd-es1968;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss and then raise the aumix volume. What can I do to have the above take place at boot up so I don't have to enter it each time? The ALSA docs mention adding this to modules.conf: # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-es1968 # module options should go here # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss but I'm not even sure if that code is supposed to make it load at boot up or not. I did add it and there isn't any difference. Can someone help me out with this? - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] certs, semi -OT
Cool! I've just started the basic linux course too! This site has lots of good links. http://www.worldwidelearn.com/linux.htm As for certification I think that there are only two that I would consider worthwhile. Explore the sites. I haven't made up my mind yet. SAIR Linux which is distro independant http://www.linuxcertification.com/ LPI which looks like it has heavyweight backers. http://www.lpi.org/ Also consider http://www.linuxdoc.org and for inspiration try: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.htmlhowto.html Grant On Monday 07 January 2002 13:04, you wrote: Shane, You (and others) might want to check this out. Basic Linux Training course, at http://www.basiclinux.net I signed up for it, and it just started today. He only accepts new students at the start of the course, which is just starting -- if you're interested write to him, you might still be able to get in. It is free and on-line, but it might be more basic than you're looking for. Randy Kramer shane wrote: well this isn't really on topic, but close. ;) i used to be a network admin for a school system before becoming a stay at home dad for a few years. anyway, i am hoping to keep up on some of my computer knowledge in the between jobs years by doing some studies in my huge amounts of free time. (other parents heard the sarcasm in my voice) i have (sadly) been reading through the MS certs. but they are pretty simple, and empty of useful learning, so i am wondering about certifications for linux. linux being decentralized as it is, i am more worried about learning than actually get a paper that says i can pass a test. so anyone out there have some experience in the area? who teaches a linux course worth taking? online/home/do it yourself type learning only, i can't take the 2 kids with me to classes. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Question - school related -- Have we been conned????
Well, so far the other shoe hasn't dropped. As for a targeted mail campain it would suck. They failed to ask for our names. I won't even get one of those: Dear MR SMITH we have recently heard that you surf for FOURTY PLUS hours per week. Kind of letters. They could have collected email addresses just by sifting the archives. Less effort, more results. As for the lack of a .edu email, I think only the staff would get those. I thought that this sounded like a continuing education thing. Some of the universities in my province are: www.sfu.ca www.uvic.ca www.cariboo.bc.ca www.ubc.ca Not a dot edu in the bunch. Guess they're not American eh? :) Remember. You aren't paranoid if the world really is out to get you. Grant On Friday 04 January 2002 18:55, you wrote: Gidday Folks I saw this email and immeadiately thought, unsigned, hm. No mention of which school this student is at, h. What's in the properties? H!!!??? Not coming from a .edu address, hmmm RCN Mail!!!???, not really what a student would put for their identity. Am I just a suspicious cynic, or has someone found an easy way to get people to fill in a survey without realising? This is a quote from the RCN website Yet with $2.7 billion in cash and backing by Microsoft Corp. cofounder Paul Allen and telecom firm Level 3 Communications Inc., RCN appears to be in better shape to survive the grim stock and capital markets than many other newbies. Among the new players, RCN has set itself apart by targeting residential customers, not businesses, and by building a network- home by home- to deliver cable-TV, high-speed Internet and phone service. I'd suggest that 50 have replied via the list and probably as many replied direct. Lots of assumptions have been made. The request was genuine. The author was a young lad The teacher made the questions. To quote Julian Hey, what the heck: statistics are for marketing folk Who is going to put a filter on their email to see if they get spammed to join RCN and let us know if they do? Or should I just go away and bury my cynical head in shame? rgrds max (They're in bed with MS as well.) - Original Message - From: RCN Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 5:26 PM Subject: [newbie] Question - school related so ignore if you want. I need to do a project for my statistics class and thought this place would be perfect for it. I need 50 people to answer this and it would be greatly appreciated. 1. How many hours a week do you spend online? 2. What is your age? 3. Sex? M/F 4. What type of Internet connection do you have? 5. How many computers do you own? This is for a Elementary Statistics course for a project I am doing. It's a wintersession course and I need to collect this information ASAP. I need a total of 50 people to respond. Thanks again if you decide to answer these questions. --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test
You know you're an email junkie when you click Get Mail and nothing happens so you click it again just to be sure. Grant On Friday 04 January 2002 20:41, you wrote: On Friday 04 January 2002 11:21 pm, Mick wrote: Hi List, Just a test to see if I can still post to the list. Mick Mick: Yes, you can. -- cmg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Delays
I'm in Canada and I notice the same thing. Sometimes my posts just float out in cyberspace for a few days until they bounce back undeliverable. Sometimes they had already been delivered before being bounced. My mail client checks every 10 minutes. Some people who post have all 5 of their replys to different topics arrive at once even though they are supposed to be spaced hours appart. I have learned to be patient and wait for the best answer, not necessarily the first one. Grant On Friday 04 January 2002 10:01, you wrote: maybe, im in manila and the internet connection here in the office is something like T3 (its also used for trasferring deliverables to our japanese counterparts). not all mails are delayed, or maybe i just dont notice them earlier. i only started to notice when i got my posts from the day before. ciao! On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 22:16:21 -0600 Julian Opificius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting blazing speeds - almost conversational , but I'm in the US. Where are you, the Philippines? Most likely a problem with your ISP. julian. === At 09:31 AM 1/4/02 -0500, you wrote: hi, am i the only one experiencing delay? i began noticing yesterday that the answers i post to some questions only gets delivered to me the day after. if that is the case, pardon for those who may be irritated by these seemingly 'late' answers. ciao! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Question - school related so ignore if you want.
On Thursday 03 January 2002 01:26, you wrote: I need to do a project for my statistics class and thought this place would be perfect for it. I need 50 people to answer this and it would be greatly appreciated. 1. How many hours a week do you spend online? 20 2. What is your age? 33 3. Sex? M/F 1. How many hours a week do you spend online? 20 2. What is your age? 33 3. Sex? M/F M 4. What type of Internet connection do you have? Cable 5. How many computers do you own? Two in use. Parts strewn all over the place. M 4. What type of Internet connection do you have? Cable 5. How many computers do you own? Two in use. Parts strewn all over the place. This is for a Elementary Statistics course for a project I am doing. It's a wintersession course and I need to collect this information ASAP. I need a total of 50 people to respond. Thanks again if you decide to answer these questions. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rune errors my machine
Experience with Windows has taught me to NEVER run anything DEMO. Ever. I wont do it with Linux either. A demo is made by ripping a chunk out of a full program and cauterizing the dangly bits. I hope you liked the magazine. Grant On Monday 31 December 2001 03:47, you wrote: I got a Linux magazine that had a demo software CD on it. I tried running a game, Rune, and had problems. When I run the run_demo.x86 or the run_demo it locks up my system. It looks like it starts to launch the game but just hoses my computer. How do I troubleshoot this? What could be wrong? Is it my Mandrake8.0 config or the game demo? Thanks -Allen Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SO 5.2 won't share
I am trying to install SO 5.2 from the 8.0 CD. The setup program is in the KDE menu. I want to put the program where it can be installed once and used by all. SO seems to want to have a full copy of itself in each user directory. I have tried Network install and Workstation install. As root I can get the program to install to /usr/share/staroffice52 As user I cannot access it without the setup program running again. How do I get the program files in one directory and the user files in another. I did not see that option. Thanks, Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem with Software Manager
Here is something that I have noticed about software manager. It only works until the next reboot. Then you have to remove the old source and pick an new one that you have not used before. Oh, and when it says 'Updating Lists' it doesn't. It only gets that information once. When you try to install a package that has been upgraded on the server SM can't find it. Say if SM was looking for package1_3_1 and it was now package1_3_2 it would just say that the package couldn't be found. So far I havn't found the Get off your butt and recheck the server you stupid piece of crap button. I mean really, I have to wait while it reloads the information that it already has and is out of date. On Sunday 30 December 2001 02:32, you wrote: This appears to be a common problem in 8.1 software manager. I have used the following solution after wasting 2 days of reinstalling, searching, reinstalling: delete all references to the ftp site in: /var/lib/urpmi Software manager should work again. Reload the list of security sites, and don't choose the offending site (nor the one I choose : ftp. club-internet.fr ...) Good luck -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of mr_tortoise (Nathan Pryor) Sent: sábado 29 de diciembre de 2001 18:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] problem with Software Manager Hello. The Mandrake Software Manager freezes on startup when it attempts to refresh the security update source I defined (ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu). I have checked the ftp site and can logon anonymously with no problem. I did not provide a username and password for the security update source thinking it would logon anonymously by default. Is there any way I can delete me current settings without running the Software Manager? -thanks Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Dialogs Too BIG!
Two things. Change your screen resolution up one level with mandrake control center. You can test before applying. If your fonts are then too tiny you can make them bigger. Or Click the arrow on the bottom left or right of the screen to move the toolbar out of your way. On Sunday 30 December 2001 10:37, you wrote: Some of my program boxes in KDE are too big. For example in KDE ~ LooknFeel ~ Style, I can only see the top part of the box. I know I can resize it to some extent. I shrank it from the top down as far as it would let me (a good bit) and moved the box back to the top of the screen. It was still too big to see the options at the bottom of the screen or the ok/apply/cancel/help checkboxes. Means I can't change anything that I _can_ see, as I can't apply them. This is at 800*600, my highest resolution. Thanks, Wes Gregg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 252649 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bandwidth Management - MAC Layer
I forwarded this to our local LUG. One of our members is from a local ISP that uses wireless technology. This was the feedback: Â hi, Â Â I remember the FreeBSD firewalling can govern bandwidth usage on an interface. *** Yes it can...It's based on firewall rules in which you divert packets to a pipe. It works well but currently it works with ip addresses and not MAC. I'm hoping they'll add that feature soon :) On Thursday 27 December 2001 03:30, you wrote: I didn't get an answer to my question when I posted to [expert], let me try [newbie]. Is this off topic?... I want to build a Bandwidth Management box for my friends ISP. He tells me he is providing Wireless access and currently controls security by hardcoding the MAC address of each client (he owns the Wireless client hardware). He needs MAC Layer control over his clients. I have not done this before so this will be a learning experience for me. Can you do MAC Layer Bandwidth Management? Thanks -Allen Content-Type: application/octet-stream; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Off topic? How things are going with Linux...
Well you know why Moses spent 40 years wandering through the desert? Even back them men wouldnt stop and ask for directions. On Wednesday 26 December 2001 04:33, you wrote: On Wednesday 26 December 2001 17:26, Mark Weaver wrote: | - | If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do | the first time! yeah... what is it with men? ; ) I have to bite my tongue (daily I swear) so as not to say I told you so or if only you'd listen! grin skinky Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New
Thanks for the vote of confidence. There are many people on this list who can help you help yourself. Most questions can be answered with a Google search. I.e. mandrake 8.1 brand of sound card There are lots of instructions on networking as well. It would help to know what you consider a network. Just like if I were to help you bake cookies I would need to know what kind of cookies you were looking for. As for wine, Transgaming is best but you have to pay. Everything else works with varying degrees of success. Search the message archives. On Tuesday 25 December 2001 19:53, you wrote: Hi, I am new to this mail listing, I dont realy think this mail listing is going to help me but I though I would try any ways. I have been having some troble getting my sound card and my network browsing to work. I am writting this from windows since I can get my e-mail working ether. I wanted to ask a question too. I heard of this program called wine. Can it realy let me play games like star craft on linux? Well I hope this listing helps me make the big step from windows to linux! Thanks all :) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A bit dangerous?
There are two things I have noticed about Linux. 1) An inherent cheekiness in the documentation. 2) The assumption that you know what you are doing. It has been said that with windows, it something doesnt work you can just keep poking buttons until you figure it out. With Linux that approach will result in a meltdown. Reading the manual is dull, unrecoverable errors are much more exciting. On Monday 24 December 2001 12:25, you wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Doug Lerner wrote: Maybe a warning dialog first like: This will delete your entire partition and all your data will be lost. OK? Call me crazy, but if I accidently hit the wrong button I would like at least one chance to take something like that back. :-) I think you actually still can at that point - just so long as you haven't actually hit Done. And when you do this, you get a pop-up saying that it's going to write new partitioning scheme to disk. So, there you go. Feel a little more secure now? ;-) doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): On Monday 24 December 2001 16:58, you wrote: I started with two partitions on my hard drive: one for Windows 98 and one for Windows 2000. I decided I could get along with just the Windows 2000 partition and so at the partitioning stage I clicked on the Windows 98 partition, selected delete and then auto-allocate. What exactly do you expect will happen when you select an option called delete? Maybe ... that that particular partition will be deleted? -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [Re: [newbie] cant connect to apache, ssh,ftp or telnet from network]
Try this: In your bastille-firewall.cfg file add ssh to your INTERNAL_INTERFACES= part. Just keep re-reading the notes until you think you got it. In order to enable ssh and port 22 to be seen on the internet I added 22+ ssh+ to the trusted intefaces. There is a whole QA section at the bottom as well. TRUSTED_IFACES=lo PUBLIC_IFACES=eth+ ppp+ slip+ INTERNAL_IFACES=eth0+ ssh+ On Monday 24 December 2001 06:15, you wrote: Some further information on this problem. There are no entries in either the /etc/hosts.deny or hosts.allow files. So this isnt causing the problem. I can perform an iptables -F and then set all the default policies back to accept and everything works fine. Of course this leaves me with no firewall too. So it looks like it is some firewalling rule that is causing the problem. I attached a copy of my bastille-firewall.cfg file to see if anyone sees a problem with it. I don't see anything in there that could be causing this. Thanks, Ian K. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dragon . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this, I couldn't connect with SSH from anywhere and I swore up and down that Bastille was setup correctly. Look in the hosts.deny file. I found an entry with ALL:ALL... I deleted that line and everything worked fine. I could still browse to FTP and HTTP when the line was there but I couldn't connect via SSH. Its another place to look. From: Ian K.Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cant connect to apache, ssh, ftp or telnet from network Date: 21 Dec 2001 09:42:11 EST Hi all, I installed 8.1 the other day. (3 disc set from cheapbytes). Then use Interactive Bastille to configure firewalling, internet masquerading and basic system security. The problem is that while i can connect to the machine locally (http://localhost) noone can connect to it over the lan with either telnet, ssh, ftp or http. These servers are running and I told Bastille to leave these ports open to the internal network. On the public network i left ssh and 80 open so i could connect in over the web from home and so we could host a small company web site. Still noone can connect to them from the internet BUT i went to www.grc.com and ran the port probe and it showed the ports as being open. This makes me wonder if it is a firewall rule that Bastille put in there or is there something else going on? Right now the only thing that is working over the lan is internet masquerading. Any ideas? Ian K. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. - Attachment:Â message.footer MIME Type:Â text/plain - Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=bastille-firewall.cfg Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/x-c; charset=us-ascii; name=config Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/x-c; charset=us-ascii; name=config Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [Re: [newbie] cant connect to apache, ssh,ftp or telnet from network]
One more thing. Is ssh running? Try opening a console and log in as root. type service sshd start see if sshd is part of your boot up process. On Monday 24 December 2001 15:19, you wrote: Try this: In your bastille-firewall.cfg file add ssh to your INTERNAL_INTERFACES= part. Just keep re-reading the notes until you think you got it. In order to enable ssh and port 22 to be seen on the internet I added 22+ ssh+ to the trusted intefaces. There is a whole QA section at the bottom as well. TRUSTED_IFACES=lo PUBLIC_IFACES=eth+ ppp+ slip+ INTERNAL_IFACES=eth0+ ssh+ On Monday 24 December 2001 06:15, you wrote: Some further information on this problem. There are no entries in either the /etc/hosts.deny or hosts.allow files. So this isnt causing the problem. I can perform an iptables -F and then set all the default policies back to accept and everything works fine. Of course this leaves me with no firewall too. So it looks like it is some firewalling rule that is causing the problem. I attached a copy of my bastille-firewall.cfg file to see if anyone sees a problem with it. I don't see anything in there that could be causing this. Thanks, Ian K. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dragon . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this, I couldn't connect with SSH from anywhere and I swore up and down that Bastille was setup correctly. Look in the hosts.deny file. I found an entry with ALL:ALL... I deleted that line and everything worked fine. I could still browse to FTP and HTTP when the line was there but I couldn't connect via SSH. Its another place to look. From: Ian K.Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cant connect to apache, ssh, ftp or telnet from network Date: 21 Dec 2001 09:42:11 EST Hi all, I installed 8.1 the other day. (3 disc set from cheapbytes). Then use Interactive Bastille to configure firewalling, internet masquerading and basic system security. The problem is that while i can connect to the machine locally (http://localhost) noone can connect to it over the lan with either telnet, ssh, ftp or http. These servers are running and I told Bastille to leave these ports open to the internal network. On the public network i left ssh and 80 open so i could connect in over the web from home and so we could host a small company web site. Still noone can connect to them from the internet BUT i went to www.grc.com and ran the port probe and it showed the ports as being open. This makes me wonder if it is a firewall rule that Bastille put in there or is there something else going on? Right now the only thing that is working over the lan is internet masquerading. Any ideas? Ian K. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. - Attachment:Â message.footer MIME Type:Â text/plain - Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=bastille-firewall.cfg Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/x-c; charset=us-ascii; name=config Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/x-c; charset=us-ascii; name=config Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] FYI - can anybody spare a few moments to help set up assh connection?
I did manage at last to get port 22 to open. The file you need to access is /etc/Bastille/bastille-firewall.cfg There is a lot of information in there about how to open and close ports and whether this is a good or bad idea. If you want to access it you need to log in as root. On Saturday 22 December 2001 16:30, you wrote: Yes, but only port 80. I cannot seem to get tinyfirewall to disengage. On Friday 21 December 2001 16:14, you wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2001 05:37 pm, you wrote: I cannot seem to get the firewall to switch off. My IP is 24.67.229.176 temporary user name - dufus, password - dufus If you were at another computer outside your network, can you ping your IP? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cant connect to apache, ssh, ftp or telnet from network
I did manage at last to get port 22 to open. The file you need to access is /etc/Bastille/bastille-firewall.cfg There is a lot of information in there about how to open and close ports and whether this is a good or bad idea. If you want to access it you need to log in as root. On Friday 21 December 2001 08:47, you wrote: I am in the process of installing Mandrake on my systems, but I think if you check the inetd.conf file, this is on my FreeBSD computers, then you can see what ports are open. - Original Message - From: Ian K.Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 8:42 AM Subject: [newbie] cant connect to apache, ssh, ftp or telnet from network Hi all, I installed 8.1 the other day. (3 disc set from cheapbytes). Then use Interactive Bastille to configure firewalling, internet masquerading and basic system security. The problem is that while i can connect to the machine locally (http://localhost) noone can connect to it over the lan with either telnet, ssh, ftp or http. These servers are running and I told Bastille to leave these ports open to the internal network. On the public network i left ssh and 80 open so i could connect in over the web from home and so we could host a small company web site. Still noone can connect to them from the internet BUT i went to www.grc.com and ran the port probe and it showed the ports as being open. This makes me wonder if it is a firewall rule that Bastille put in there or is there something else going on? Right now the only thing that is working over the lan is internet masquerading. Any ideas? Ian K. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Review - please comment] - corrected link
Yup, that nicely sums it up. If they had done the expert install they would have found even more irritating mouse overs. Rather, only half of the default files have a mouse over explanation. I always use the custom, expert, or advanced options when installing software. With 8.0 the OS tends to by default load all kinds of software that isn't needed. Very well done indeed. On Sunday 23 December 2001 12:12, you wrote: Layne - I went directly to killertux and found it under recent reviews. http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewsfile=indexreq =showcontentid=14 You had Reviewfile - SB Reviewsfile Ed At 02:59 PM Sunday, 12/23/2001, you wrote -= Ed, That should be the correct link. Since you've been so kind to reply, go to http://www.killertux.com directly - click on the link - because it looks right to me. And I was able to follow the link in the reply email from newbie. Curious. Any else see where I've made a mistake on the link? Warm Regards, Layne On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 14:47, Ed Tharp wrote: no better On Sunday 23 December 2001 14:39, you wrote: Oops, bad link ! http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewfile=index; reg=showcontentid=14 http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewsfile=indexr eg =showcontentid=14 The original link will not work because the 's' is missing in the word Reviews. Sorry - Evolution version isn't cutting and pasting from Konqueror or Mozilla - so I typed this out ... Happy Holidays. Layne =_1009135638-11608-1239 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1009136692-11608-1247 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 Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldn't do. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Review - please comment] - corrected link]
http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewsfile=indexreq=showcontentid=14 On Sunday 23 December 2001 12:06, you wrote: OK, I'm not sure what I've typed wrong. Therefore, let's try this ... simply go to http://www.killertux.com and then follow the link to the review that is at the top ... maybe that will work. Not sure why the link I sent is wrong. Must be my fingerz ! Forwarded message: On Sunday 23 December 2001 14:39, you wrote: Oops, bad link ! http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewfile=in dex reg=showcontentid=14 http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewsfile=index reg =showcontentid=14 The original link will not work because the 's' is missing in the word Reviews. Sorry - Evolution version isn't cutting and pasting from Konqueror or Mozilla - so I typed this out ... Happy Holidays. Layne =_1009135638-11608-1239 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Still no go. : P Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can anybody spare a few moments to help set up a sshconnection?
Yes, but only port 80. I cannot seem to get tinyfirewall to disengage. On Friday 21 December 2001 16:14, you wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2001 05:37 pm, you wrote: I cannot seem to get the firewall to switch off. My IP is 24.67.229.176 temporary user name - dufus, password - dufus If you were at another computer outside your network, can you ping your IP? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] FYI basic training
If you are a newbie like me but dont want to be anymore, check out this free course. http://www.basiclinux.net/ The next term begins Monday, 7 January 2002. Registration for that class closes Saturday, 5 January 2002; if you're not subscribed to the mailing list by then you will NOT get in until March ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE on Mandrake 8.0
Yes, I did the upgrade. No, its not a problem. My machine still thinks its running 8.0 You get a few more icons too. When you do the upgrade make sure you download all of the developer files too. It doesnt matter if you are a developer or not, the files seem to take care of a lot of weird dependencys. Grant On December 11, 2001 11:27 am, you wrote: I'm trying to upgrade KDE 2.1.1 to 2.2.1 on Mandrake 8.0 - I only want the updated Knode! but I'm being told that I should install Mandrake Desk 8.1. Will this damage my install of 8.0? (Everything else is working fine at the moment!) Thanks Gordon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound card not working
I have the same chip and a similar problem I have just about every sound utility installed. I can play music cds only if the volume control is all the way up and the speakers are cranked. When I try to play a midi file with KMid I get 'could not open /dev/sequencer Probably another program is using it.' What sort of error messages are you getting? Grant On December 6, 2001 07:46 am, you wrote: I have a Dell Optiplex GX1 with built in audio. The card is a Crystal Audio card. I'm running Mandrake 8.1 which found the CODEC and MPU-401 for it, but I can't get any sound. The card is NOT disabled in either BIOS nor Mandrake. Neither is it muted. There is nothing in Sound Mixer when I open it. Anyone have any ideas? Ben Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intel or Realtek?
I have installed cicero cards (on win 98 and LM8.0) that turned out to be realtek 8139's. Installation was flawless and the box even came with a 24hr 1-800 support number. It said something like Before you take this card back to the store please call. No opinion on Intel. Grant On December 4, 2001 12:32 pm, you wrote: I use Realtek, and have been using them for about a year now with absolutely no problems. The other I don't know, but I would say quite openly that the Realtek cards are great :-) Both are used here at home with 1 computer running Mandrake, and the other redhat... so there are no problems there. Good luck :-) Ralph On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Eric Caron wrote: Hi everybody, I need to replace one of my network cards and I was wondering which model would be better between one that has the very popular Realtek 8139 or one that has the Intel 21143 (is that the one called 'Tulip'?). Both are by Intellinet and they are in the cheap and affordable category of product (because I'm on a tight budget right now). Any advice would be appreciated on which would work best under Mandrake and/or Red Hat. Thank you! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] losing eth0 on reboot
Sorry if this has been flogged to death. When I reboot the machine eth0 fails to initialize. The cure so far has been to go through the mandrake control center network setup and the security and firewall setups. The first attempt to run the security and firewall setup gives the error message 'see if its installed'. I dont make any changes, I just click through all of the screens and save. Now I can log in, log out, and restart x and the network will work. If I reboot the information will still be there, just not useful until it gets resaved. Any ideas on the cause and cure? Thanks, Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] KDE Died (The Blue Screen of Death)..... why? NOWVIRI LERT
I got one from him too. Only it says Content-Type: audio/x-wav; Â name=YOU_ARE_FAT!.MP3.scr followed by giberish. I tried to reply but it bounced. I am trying again by removing the underscore. Could just be a spammer. On December 2, 2001 03:47 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 01 December 2001 17:57, you wrote: I just recieved a message from a reply I sent to the list with the following in the message: from EDEUARDO CERONI [EMAIL PROTECTED] k0y7IsywoXc3QLFSzLsiwUEhEIcN4CArEP3TaoIP5F+ksg3Q8BCwEG/9kK3u8DAI9QcS+gWEk DM d0Q3xKIjqoQ3QwQDhZsYAcGN+imIMHlWXgQcBY0JRC7FadkAt0C8U1OJoTnEN3EG+wULBH7IA cND VII3ewHwFoJxDsH3dh7rlS/oQvr80/7fFvJ8BcBAMSpziYJQAAgAQD/YL 4A4 EAAjb4AMP//V4PN/+sQkJCQkJCQigZGiAdHAdt1B4seg+78Edty7bgBAdt1B4seg+78Ed sRwsnip Don't really want to swing the worm around. the mail header looked like this ; Status: R Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mail.ec-red.com ([200.24.174.250]) by robin (EarthLink SMTP Server) with SMTP id u0io2r.msm.37tiu21 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 14:57:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 20744 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2001 22:51:36 - Received: from unknown (HELO aol.com) (200.24.181.243) by 200.24.174.250 with SMTP; 1 Dec 2001 22:51:36 - From: EDEUARDO CERONI [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] KDE Died (The Blue Screen of Death). why? MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: multipart/related; type=multipart/alternative; boundary=_ABC1234567890DEF_X-Priority: 3X-MSMail-Priority: NormalX-Unsent: 1 --_ABC1234567890DEF_Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=_ABC0987654321DEF_ --_ABC0987654321DEF_Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable HTMLHEAD/HEADBODY bgColor=3D#ffiframe src=3Dcid:EA4DMGBP9p height=3D0 width=3D0/iframe/BODY/HTML--_ABC0987654321DEF_-- --_ABC1234567890DEF_Content-Type: audio/x-wav; name=IMAGES.DOC.pifContent-Transfer-Encoding: base64Content-ID: EA4DMGBP9p TVqQAAME//8AALgAQAA A8A4fug4AtAnNIbgBTM0hVGhpcyBwcm9ncmFtIGNhbm5vdCBiZSBydW4gaW4gRE9TIG1 vZGUuDQ0KJAAoxs1SbKejAWynowFsp6MBF7uvAWinowHvu60BbqejAYS4qQF2p6MBhLi nAW6nowEOuLABZaejAWynogHyp6MBhLioAWCnowHUoaUBbaejAVJpY2hsp6MBAAA AUEUAAEwBAwCoIP47AADgAA8BCwEGAABwENAAAEBHAQA A4FABQAAAEAIAAAQABAAAYAEAAAQCAAAQAAA QABAAABAQAABkUAEAMAEAAABQAQBkAAA AAADQEAAEAAA AAACAAADgcOBqBAAAQAAA4C5 yc3JjABBQAQAAAgAAAG4AAEAAAMA ! ! AAA AADAkCCN1hYc1ltHkUdCgBADdnEAEAJgEAve3/// 9Vi+wPvkUIi8iD4APB+QLB4ASKiWiiQACITQgX3bH//00Mi9GD4Q/B+gQLwsHhAoqAGUUJMRDBZt vbi9AWBgvKNj8wHB1ht9tNCh8Li1Bdw1nGMhdLth89XVpiWnYoO3uKBI0JCkQKPXH9Yc8dCDZUMF GDfQwB3ZtmuxD8PQP9/v89dQ4eirbf3f8AUOgBAACbWcnDIwJ1EhNIARZR7MjNxxdWWevlA3wYAl EbR27tP9f+//+DxAw1YvzJUVO/ffv/i10MVlcz9jP/hdt+WxcQagOJHI1DAjPS2Hdf+Fn38YldH/ jB5wJH/3UQA8Zey/Zv28wg+KoMikX6iGUNCA77vdvebgUPjRFqBFAl/CI/6oNt9v/2ti2DRwSDxg bEFDvzfL2Lx19eW3T+v739ikQkBDzFAwQDCsiA4XCA+WB8AyxHw/+XptkHQEEwBATDPCsPlcCDwB d+c78+pYpNbMjRwOACwGcKwnm7Ff6LVRjA4QSIx62K0BECCsoJX/htHBwGCkUUiG5NIIgBP7C2bb aMCAGkBwygCiLLYO4QugoUEHXNdtm+FP1QA/7/xBTt9mDOJzVA1bBAxCw4Qltoy9t0OAQMdDMQGx IYl6! ! 3Ntn//agGICOsfEBQODASt0P3C/ohtdQRqAusL/U0N+C+02wJY9jPAA2X/OXwkDH48i+3v/l8DC FNWav5bjXACK9gNGAPHUIpGAQMofOi6Bgb/A/5oAgw9Cm9vWCb4P40EMzslFHzUQT+42xtGw1aLd EZW/wRr8FlQvg3/cwrIAp+AJDAA4F7DHQiz79tFKxBWIRTKLyH7zfDDEF4ggewYzvEIiU38UMnf+ G13agDvaAIRgP8VAKCRhcAPhXb78tunAA5WV74UwI196KUr+McCDR0X3AA1KIXoTaUw9MzWbXcD6 GalPlA/pDskW9i4Fes9dWSE9ApeKbfl1j1oEENQHQyhWRxZdGyzvfcIgKQFGHU0GIC9Dzs2dnZ0K DFQv0AG/Iuiezf2fYkBjY0XURH2xbAB6ws9uW8XJjJiwgSsi/FoZGkP273dIgMthIMoaDANi84PG Gpw7PexEE/HBCQgkIkGTFlZ4Yb5zTM6gz4AdQWA/zZfW/ruDRtYi8GDIAA4Abq6f/h3dAeAQAJZw 8gPt0gMUQQK3BeeeQgD8/80jaxfdnN76woGA0AEUQ+FlGg4wQTfZha6WSQIFMMkRAT9W5vai0xIh f8rH/8CdA5mixA23v6/AjQBZjvWdw9yEkdAQBUIcuVDXwzfuNCkpljrEsj/6/PAf7t1FBRHV191G gNBDgPwv+h9+0vbAwCoxrqL32o89/MJZolRDpbbir0N9/dfEg7wJxe6Xyu7BUUYHiKL9yQMQ36fa /YjGRYfQQrI2O10QgoDX1cfFOl0y8gI914+CINTx1ttDLSKadJtHgOkLb19ew5r0h4HZgNBBgPwd
Re: [newbie] XFree upgrade question
I have installed the packages below and restarted x. When I use mandrake control to change the display configuration it only lets me choose between trying xfree86 3.3.6 and xfree86 4.0.3 What happened to the xfree86 4.1.0 choice? Now that I have the files, how do I actually use them? I normally update 8 pkgs: XFree 86 XFree 86-libs XFree 86-server XFree 86-devel XFree 86-Xnest XFree 86-xfs XFree 86-100dpi fonts XFree 86-75dpi fonts I also normally use rpmdrake to download and install, you simply need add a Cooker source. You do not need all the pkgs I have. If you use rpmdrake just select the XFree 86 rpm and it will auto add the others that you Must have. Once they are installed, log-out and restart X ( you do not need to reboot.) Charles LOL, that almost worked. It took trying all the mirrors twice before I finally didn't get the an error occured when adding this source then I figured kewl, I'm finally gonna get it, and now 6 tries later I'm getting error fetching package on all of the packages. If you are still using the stock rpmdrake you need to manually download and install the lastest release from cooker: rpmdrake-1.3-106mdk.i586.rpm I usually have good results from this site: ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS Once you have it installed you should not have any problem adding a Cooker source. Or if you prefer you can manually also dl the XFree rpms into a special directory such as /home/jon/xfree. Once you have dled all the rpms you need, cd to /home/jon/xfree, su to root and rpm -Uvh *rpm and this will install all the rpms residing in that directory. Charles Well that just blew things up...lol Broke the netowrk connection. Ended up having to reinstall 8.1. I did notice that Auruor or whatever it is called is installed by default. I choise not to install it and I guess we will see what happens now. Thanks for your help though. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] upgrading 8.0 to 8.1
Thanks for the tip. No I havent backed it up. No point. I've spent so much time tinkering with the OS I haven't actually found a use for the computer. Played a few games of freeciv. Cant play tuxracer, opengl not supported. Ive upgraded the kernel, and lots of other things. I even managed to pound xfree86-4.1x into it. Cant use it though. When I go to change the display properties it still only lets me choose between xfree 3.3.6 and 4.0.3. My scanner is not supported and sound will not work. To get my computer to run well under linux I need an new video card (SiS = bad), sound card (crystal audio codec is an unknown device), Scanner (Mag = twain only) and a new monitor (VeiwSonic 15es has the wrong refresh rate ???) So far this free software has cost me $60. I'm not worried about reformating, I've already done it 5 times. Apparently Mandrake does not yet support upgrading to kde222. They have some use at your own risk info http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1418mode=threadorder=0thold=0 On November 29, 2001 03:52 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 29 November 2001 17:17, you wrote: On Wednesday 28 November 2001 12:49 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Grant Fraser wrote: I give up trying to upgrade a piece at a time. When trying to upgrade to KDE 2.2.2 I found that it wanted me to install setup which conflicts with bash and I cant force it. Is there an 8.1 upgrade disk? even with cable internet it still takes 10 hours to download one ISO. The last time I tried to do that I just got bad disks and actually had to go out and pay money for an OS. I may even have to give up on linux altogether. No sound, crappy video, no opengl support. Can you say SIS Chipset? I'm just about ready to give up on Mandrake. First time it agressively overwrote a windows dist, and this upgrade joke is even worse. For you, go RED HAT 7.2, as I have experience getting that working on a SIS board with all built-in SIS stuff. The only thing not working is accellerated video. My 8.0 to 8.1 upgrade lost half my prefs, now tries to mount a floppy twice upon bootup, and renamed all my groups from 'users' to numbers, which causes an error every time I bring up a terminal. Has *anybody* had ANY luck with this supposed upgrade? 30-35 packages failed to 'upgrade' without any explanation why, all on disk2. Yesterday I had a perfectly functioning M8.0 dist, with working Xv and Xine, today I have a crap M8.1 dist with holes, and Xine won't even run in Xv mode. I'm disgusted as well, is there a M$ mole on the upgrade team? You did backup your system before doing an OS upgrade... right?!? It is best not to use upgrade on the installation disks when going from a lower distribution to a newer one. The best thing to do is an expert install and know before hand the partition you have on your disk as /home. i.e. /home is hda6 on my hard drive. Then when you make the change from one such as 7.2 to 8.1 use the same partitions and do not reformat /home when it indicates what partitions will be formatted. If the /home partition is yellow click on it to make it no color and then let the install format the other partitions. You then have all your old info like bookmarks and address book but a new OS on the machine. Even this is not 100% satisfactory but it is better than totally reformatting and starting from scratch. The other way is to make a seperate partition as a back up for /home and call it say /backhome and then reformat everything but backhome. You can then go into backhome and get your lbookmarks etc and place them in home and voila a whole new world. HTH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] upgrading 8.0 to 8.1
I give up trying to upgrade a piece at a time. When trying to upgrade to KDE 2.2.2 I found that it wanted me to install setup which conflicts with bash and I cant force it. Is there an 8.1 upgrade disk? even with cable internet it still takes 10 hours to download one ISO. The last time I tried to do that I just got bad disks and actually had to go out and pay money for an OS. I may even have to give up on linux altogether. No sound, crappy video, no opengl support. Can you say SIS Chipset? Grant. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kde 2.2.2
Anybody else out there able to get it to install? I keep running into circular dependancies. ie file A needs file B needs file A. Is there a magic first file that will just install? Trying to install 10 at at time doesn't seem to work, it just generates a longer error message Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpm manager corrupted
I managed to use k package manager and did the install one at a time starting with the developer package. I did try command line, didn't work. On that particular install I learned my 101 things. If you do it right the first time you've learn one thing. If you get it wrong a hundred times and then get it right you've learned 101 things. In Windows I'd learned milliions of things:) Grant On November 26, 2001 06:09 am, you wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 20:59:18 -0800, Grant Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having difficulty updating some software. RPM says that the package can be updated but then says it has already been installed. How do I fix the damage? hi, just noticed this email and did not see any reply so here is my two cents... did you try using commandline rpm commands? i usually resort to them when the rpm manager refuses to work (especially with opera). you can try rpm -U [package] to upgrade your applications. you can try upgrading your rpm manager with one of the packages in the cooker sites. not much use though if you have the latest version. HTH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] opengl not supported
I am running LM8.0 with a motherboard that has the sis620 chipset. The video driver is xfree86-3.3.6 experimental 3D. It did not want to work with xfree86-4.0.6 There is supposed to be another driver but everytime I look for it I find only dead links. I seem to have the latest glibc files installed as well as all 5 libSDL1.1 files. When I try to run xtraceroute I get 'opengl not supported' even though I have all the files. I downloaded the libSDL1.2 files but cannot seem to install them due to some cryptic dependancys. Anybody else gone down this path before? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Still Crashing on restart, every time...
Promiscuous mode? I've never heard of promiscuous mode. Does that mean it sneaks past your firewall at night to find cheap thrills on the internet? On November 21, 2001 07:16 pm, Steve Weltman wrote: Hi Derek, Thanks for the fast response. I am using the 3c905TX, which is a PCI card (in a standard PC). NFS is not defined. No, I haven't tried stopping the network yet (but I will this time). Syslog... Nov 20 10:41:30 sweltman33 ifup: Determining IP information for eth0... Nov 20 10:41:32 sweltman33 network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded Nov 20 10:41:56 sweltman33 kernel: eth0: Setting promiscuous mode. Nov 20 10:41:56 sweltman33 kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode Nov 20 12:20:06 sweltman33 kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode Nov 20 12:21:56 sweltman33 ifup: Determining IP information for eth0... Nov 20 12:21:56 sweltman33 network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded Nov 20 12:22:21 sweltman33 kernel: eth0: Setting promiscuous mode. Nov 20 12:22:21 sweltman33 kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode Nov 20 20:46:42 sweltman33 kernel: eth0: Setting promiscuous mode. Nov 20 20:46:42 sweltman33 kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode Nov 21 08:34:51 sweltman33 kernel: eth0: Setting promiscuous mode. Nov 21 08:34:51 sweltman33 kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode Nothing else though.. Let me know what else you need to see. Thanks again! Steve Weltman On Wednesday 21 November 2001 11:37 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Hmm... Thats a 3com driver isn't it. I'm using that one without any problems. Is it a PCMCIA card? You do not have NFS defined do you? That can cause hangs on power down. Have you tried stopping the network before you shut down? What are the last messages in the syslog. Any clues? On Wednesday 21 November 2001 18:09, you wrote: Hey group, I am still crashing every time I need to power down the PC. I am greatful that Linux has the sense to do a fsck when it reboots, or I'd be screwed. Well, I have changed the lines in the /etc/modules.conf to read-- /etc/modules.conf file pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface uhci alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi alias eth0 3c59x I think I need to ask the machine to issue a SIGHUP to the eth0 on exit, but even if I did, I can't remember which 'S' file to put it into (or the run level to put it in). Sugestions anyone? Thanks! Steve Weltman _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] bash problems
There are some games that came with LM 8.0 that refuse to run. (ie. penguin command. The screen turns black then goes away and I am left with the desktop) A terminal window pops up then goes away. This is made more anoying because there is a game that I downloaded that I wanted to try but I am getting the same error. If I go to the directory where the program is located and type 'exec ./file' the terminal window disapears. I have tried looking at 'man bash' but it is 84 pages long and assumes that I know what it is talking about. Does bash have to be configured? It talks about a `./bash_profile' file but I cannot locate it and do not know what it should contain. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hack My Linux
http://www.mycgiserver.com/~kalish/ This link was posted nov 5. Be afraid Be very afraid On November 19, 2001 05:04 pm, you wrote: Hi! I have done some secure issue in my Linux Server. How can I know is it secure. Is there a tools to trying to hack my Linux Server ? Best Regards, SKLIM Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hack My Linux
Thats a good question. I did a google search for 'test all ports' and found http://scan.sygatetech.com They have various tests you can try. Grant On November 19, 2001 11:16 pm, you wrote: Strange you never find a portscanner that can scan all your ports, have your ever seen souch one? /Søren On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 05:25, Grant Fraser wrote: http://www.mycgiserver.com/~kalish/ This link was posted nov 5. Be afraid Be very afraid On November 19, 2001 05:04 pm, you wrote: Hi! I have done some secure issue in my Linux Server. How can I know is it secure. Is there a tools to trying to hack my Linux Server ? Best Regards, SKLIM Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: =_1006230218-1851-3515 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nice new NEWBIE website for Linux users
So I realize that I'm going to have to give up and learn the command line stuff :( Does each distro have a different set of commands? What book or website would you recommend? Keep in mind I do know DOS. Thank you, Grant On November 16, 2001 05:34 am, you wrote: http://www.linux-tips.net/ _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] multiplayer games
Looking for a replacement for freeciv. Does anybody out there know of a free MPG (strategy) that runs on linux and windows? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] just what does that restore session thing do anyway?
If I check the box restore session the next time you log in the only difference that I notice is that it takes longer to reboot. It seems to be one more step added to the loading of kde. I haven't checked it off lately because I haven't found an advantage in using it. Things are only useful if you know what they're useful for. Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Questions,questions and more questions from a potentialbuyer
1. Will Mandrake 8.1 run on my system? AMD-K6-2-500 64MB RAM SIS 530 on-board AGP 2x 8MB video RAM ES-SOLO on-board sound card Does Mandrake support the drivers for my devices? I have LM8.0 on my system. Bear in mind I have only been at this a few weeks. Under videocards I have listed: SiS 530 530 host SiS SG86C201 5591/5592 AGP SiS 620 6306 3D-AGP Graphics look fine, fonts look like crap. That might be due to a firmware upgrade I ran while still using win98 As a work around I use the Clean font. I have a different onboard sound card (Crystal PnP) that is not recognised. I have not cared enough about sound in order to fix it. Grant Fraser Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] linux modems
Can anyone tell me where I can get a good 56k linux compatable modem?? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 11:42 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] group psychologist onepatrick i have elected myself as group psychologist :) any questions ? GAPrichard I have this friend ah, i see. please ask your friend to see me :) Ed Liear. LIER, Lier we all Know NO-ONE named PAtrick would have ANY friends (just a joke) Ed rolling on the floor He won't come in, he's afraid. He's been having these nightmares. This Blue Screen (of Death) comes out of the monitor and engulfs him. What can we do to help him? (sorry if in my rearranging i didn't get this in the right equence. -Gary-) Buy him a pair of Blue Blocker sunglasses. He hasn't had nightmares about a GREEN sreen of death, has he? :o)
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
- Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 3:08 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] group psychologist Sometimes I wake in a cold sweat. I feel like I have been running from a big monster. What's that mean? Does this monster have freckles and glasses?
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] group psychologist Can I tell you a secret? I see dead people. Stop watching C-Span! ;
Re: [newbie] (...) Burning ISO
Do you have any software for burning a cd? For that matter, do you have a cdr or cdrw drive? And what OS are you using currently? Sorry for the questions, but it would make giving you assistance much easier. - Original Message - From: "Krulo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 8:46 AM Subject: [newbie] (...) Burning ISO So all i have to do is burn the iso to a CD?? and then what happens? I dont understand what I'm doing... what the cd looks like after a ISO burning... could you tell me some hints? thx
Re: [newbie] (...) ISO MDK 7.2
- Original Message - From: "Krulo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 5:22 AM Subject: [newbie] (...) ISO MDK 7.2 what file do i have to dnload to install from the beginning MDK 7.2? is it Mandrake72-inst.iso? and if it is them what is the other iso for? thx MDK 7.2 comes on 2 CDs, hence 2 ISOs. You need to grab both. The "inst.iso" is the first CD. The "ext.iso" is the second.
Re: [newbie] (...) ISO MDK 7.2
what file do i have to dnload to install from the beginning MDK 7.2? is it Mandrake72-inst.iso? and if it is them what is the other iso for? thx MDK 7.2 comes on 2 CDs, hence 2 ISOs. You need to grab both. The "inst.iso" is the first CD. The "ext.iso" is the second. I see... and if I just get the inst? would it run? Yes, it asks during install if you have the 2nd CD. You won't be able to install as many packages though. Also, I'm not sure what might not be on the first CD. the 2nd one might have somthing you require. It's best to have both just in case.
Re: [newbie] 7.2 install help
install. i have heard that upgrade can take forever. and besides the new kde 2.0 and koffice and all u just dont need much more. im starting to break down. soon i will buy the 7.2 at the store. someone stop me please Why? Don't you have a cd burner? You get a more complete version from the ISOs than from the Macmillian release, even if you lucked out and found one with KDE2.0 Final. The only thing the retail has that the ISO doesn't is StarOffice, and you can download that. Manuals? We doan need no stinking manuals! :)
Re: [newbie] Mouse not Detected on Install
This must be normal for Logitech mice. Same happened to me. You're lucky though. My Logitech First Mouse+ wasn't detected, and when I tried to select it in DrakConf, it just kept reverting back to the default. Go figure!?! - Original Message - From: "Neville Cobb" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 2:12 AM Subject: [newbie] Mouse not Detected on Install On a brand new install of 7.2gpl it did not detect my Logitech mouseman+ as I could not scroll when it booted. Once I selected mouseman+ using DrakConf mouse set-up and rebooted the xserver it ran OK. Should it have selected the mouse during install or is this the norm? Nev
Re: [newbie] Problem with DiskDrake
Can you imagine defragging a 21 Terabyte drive? Would it be done by Christmas?? :) - Original Message - From: "Ed Tharp" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 6:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with DiskDrake just how big deem hard drives? and where did you get a 6000 gig. drive anyway, from the starship Enterprise? Kirk will be mad. - Original Message - From: "Raju Krishnappa" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 5:46 PM Subject: [newbie] Problem with DiskDrake Hello Friends, Yesterday i was installing Mandrake 7.2 on AMDk7 - 750MHz, VIA- Chipset(Soyo Mother board) 128MB, Diamond Viper 200(32MB)AGP and 30GB Hard Disk I had 4 partitions on this Harddisk, is connected to primary IDE (master), of the following size 1) Partition 1 = 6000GB 2) Partitoon 2 = 9000GB 3) Partition 3 = 6000GB I had win98 and 2000 on these partitions. In the forth partition, i had an suse linux installed(around 8 - 9 gb) with swap, boot and root partition. I started Mandrake 7.2 installation from the CD rom and choose "Select existing partition". It showed the existing linux partition(SuSe one). It asked to continue with the formating of the Linux Native partition. and resulted in error saying "unable to format and mount" Then, i thought of changing the partition size, i used advanced option,(DiskDrake - disk partitioner and resizer), this showed the existing partition information on the disk properly, and then i created partitions and selected mount point for the /boot and /(root). DiskDrake prompted, partition information is going to written to disk, then i pressed ok. After that, it pooped a box saying "Unable to read partition information, continue at your own risk" then it displayed a blank disk with no partition. Actually it screwed up my entire disk partition information by deleting partition table. Then i shutdown mandrake installation, and try to boot to win98. i couldn't able too, bios din't reconginze booting device, then i boot using 98 floppy and did fdisk on the harddisk, i was really surprised, only two partition were there on the disk, C: with 1MB and D with 4GB. and my entire hard disk got wiped out and i couldn't able to recover the data. Later i thought of partitioning harddisk using DiskDrake and install mandrake. I created 3 FAT32 partition of size 6000Gb, 6000GB,1GB, and in the remaining(8GB) i created swap, /boot and / linux partition, at this time too, i faced few problems with DiskDrake, it used to give error message saying "swap space need to be."(specifying exact error message). Finally somehow, i could able to format linux native partition and installation went through properly. I selected boot loader to reside on MBR. Then installation displayed "Installation completion" message, told to reboot the system, by removing the media from the CDRom. I did this, but system was unable to boot/find the linux boot image. No other way to go, i reinstalled the Linux, during this time also i need to re-create partitions(i was getting same old error messages) and however i managed to create boot disk this time and told to install boot loader in the first sector of boot partition and rebooted the system. Same thing, the system din't recognized the linux loader, however i could able to boot using boot disk which i had created during installation. Then i booted to win98, and did fdisk, surprisingly i could able to see only two partition even though i had created 3 FAT32 partition with DiskDrake. Primary partition C: of 6GB(this is correct) and Only one extended dos partition of 23GB D: but i had created two extended partition of 6GB and 10 GB. I need to know, why system is unable to load linux on startup? what is the problem with linuxloader?? have you guys seen this kind of DiskDrake behavior??? is this DiskDrake is a buggy software??? Can mandrake guys answer my questions?? Thanks Raj
Re: [newbie] Mouse not Detected on Install
I don't know. I've just been suffering without, just like you. :( - Original Message - From: "Shawn Daniel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 9:17 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Mouse not Detected on Install I have a Logitech MouseMan+ PS/2 and everytime I change it to the MouseMan+ in DrakConf, it defaults back. How do I fix it? -Original Message----- From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 5:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mouse not Detected on Install This must be normal for Logitech mice. Same happened to me. You're lucky though. My Logitech First Mouse+ wasn't detected, and when I tried to select it in DrakConf, it just kept reverting back to the default. Go figure!?! - Original Message - From: "Neville Cobb" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 2:12 AM Subject: [newbie] Mouse not Detected on Install On a brand new install of 7.2gpl it did not detect my Logitech mouseman+ as I could not scroll when it booted. Once I selected mouseman+ using DrakConf mouse set-up and rebooted the xserver it ran OK. Should it have selected the mouse during install or is this the norm? Nev
[newbie] Which Filesystem?
What is the difference between the ext2 and ReiserFS filesystems? What are the pros cons of both? I going to be doing a fresh install on a computer, and want to find out which I should pick.
Re: [newbie] Newbie Stops Leaping Forward!
- Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Newbie Stops Leaping Forward! It was Nov 7, 2000, 19:55, when Steve Maytum keyboarded: Hello everyone. I have managed to boot-up my new M/board and chip thanks to your suggestions. Still getting to grips with Linux , but just one answer please if possible. In view of info on setting up new PC , am I correct in thinking that to fit multiple drives this has to be achieved by SCSI device? Sorry to bug you but I really don't know the answer and am too inexperienced to know where to go just yet! Regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can set up 4 IDE devices on a normal motherboard. Some special ones even appear to have 4 interfaces making a total of 8 devices. SCSI will allow for 7 devices, with certain controllers upto 15 devices in a chain. Paul Those boards with 4 interfaces are RAID boards. ABit makes one for the athlon/thunderbird (KT7-RAID, I think)You can really only use the normal 2 interfaces for up to 4 drives. The other 2 interfaces are used to mirror the first 2. If you're looking for general storage ability, and don't really need speed on the extra drives, I would suggest IEEE1394 (or FireWire as it's more commonly called). I believe you can daisychain up to 63 devices to a single port, and it's much faster than USB (50MB/sec.)!! Now the only question is if it's supported under mdk7.2.
Re: [newbie] Newbie Stops Leaping Forward!
- Original Message - From: "xaos" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 9:23 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Newbie Stops Leaping Forward! Those boards with 4 interfaces are RAID boards. ABit makes one for the athlon/thunderbird (KT7-RAID, I think)You can really only use the normal 2 interfaces for up to 4 drives. The other 2 interfaces are used to mirror the first 2. no... they are ATA100 controllers.. i just built one yesterday. they're like onboard SCSI host controllers but with IDE 80 pin connectors and you can use them however you like as i understand.. the ATA100 controller sure didn't mind the 66 drive i put on it.. -x. So are you saying that the new ATA100 cables have to plug into 2 seperate interfaces? I have not seen one of the new drives or cables for them. I looked at Abit's KA7-100 spec.sheet, but it wasn't very insightful as to what those extra slots were for. Just assumed they were like the KT7-RAID. Guess that's what I get for assuming. :) And I thought I got over assuming things after I assumed Micro$oft would fix their software!! Hehe
[newbie] missing emacs, kpackage, etc.
I just installed mandrake 7.1 on a new hard drive using the second installation class (forgot term but not automated or expert) then selected server type and continued. After all was complete, I was missing emacs, the autoupdater, kpackage, the graphical linuxconf, harddrake, and a few others. Has anyone else had these problems? How can I get them back without trying a totally new install? Thanks in advance. *** Cam Grant, M.Sc. P.Eng. VE3CA, President Grant Systems Engineering Inc. Tel: (905)895-9436 Fax: (905)836-8365 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.grant.ca Pager Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (100 char max) ***
RE: [[newbie] missing emacs, kpackage, etc.]
Thanks Al. No, I am almost certain it was at 100%. I thought the server configuration may have left it out, but I guess I will have to reinstall if it worked for others. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Altoine Barker Sent: October 19, 2000 8:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] missing emacs, kpackage, etc.] The installation class was customized. Did it give you the option to install %100 of the server packages or did you accidentally trim them to a lower number yourself? Also you could have "inadvertantly" or "accidentally" (as the evil empire would call it) unselected package options. i.e. Archiving Communications Development Packages etc. etc. etc. I know this because I'm a veteran of installations and upgrades. I had alot of trips and slips on the way to where I am now. Cheers --Al "Cam Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed mandrake 7.1 on a new hard drive using the second installation class (forgot term but not automated or expert) then selected server type and continued. After all was complete, I was missing emacs, the autoupdater, kpackage, the graphical linuxconf, harddrake, and a few others. Has anyone else had these problems? How can I get them back without trying a totally new install? Thanks in advance. ******* Cam Grant, M.Sc. P.Eng. VE3CA, President Grant Systems Engineering Inc. Tel: (905)895-9436 Fax: (905)836-8365 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.grant.ca Pager Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (100 char max) *** Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
[newbie] port forwarding of a range of ports
While there is lots of documentation on using ipchains and ipmasqadm to forward ports, nothing I can find can allow you to assign a large range (i.e. udp 1024 to 65535 for netmeeting). Does anyone know how to beat this other than making entries for each port? thanks in advance *** Cam Grant, M.Sc. P.Eng. VE3CA, President Grant Systems Engineering Inc. Tel: (905)895-9436 Fax: (905)836-8365 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.grant.ca Pager Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (100 char max) ***
[newbie] 7.1 Installation fails
Hi I have obtained the GPL version of 7.1, but have been unable to install it either under Windows or as a complete install on an empty hard drive. The CD boots fine and the installation begins, but once the second stage is reached it terminates unexpectedly; the only error message I have seen - and then only once - says something about semi-colons missing from what I presume to be script files. I would be grateful for help! Thanks Grant. ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.193 / Virus Database: 93 - Release Date: 00/09/19
[newbie] RE: [expert] X on a Presario 1277 laptop
G'day John, Original message: Has anyone gotten X to work on a Presario Laptop model #1277? One of my co-workers is trying to get Linux installed on his laptop and it seems the lcd display won't work for him under X. :-( I don't know if you want to try this. What I ended up doing to get my Gateway Solo 2300 working was to set it as a Generic Multiscan monitor, set the appropriate resolutions and away it went. No matter how much I tried I could not get it to work properly using the Laptop monitor option. The end result was X in 800x600 with 16 bit colour. cya Grant Schmarr
[newbie] My 2c Worth over NT and Linux
Win9x/WinNT/Win2k maybe stable strate after installing but try adding some buggy 3'rd party drivers (SIS comes to mind) and watch your system BSOD. Windows is stable if you feed it the right hardware and the best of breed Drivers. And maybe a genourous helping of CPU and RAM and Harddrive Space. ONLY then can it start taking some load... Take "www.microsoft.com" for example it is driven by no less that 12 Compac machines. Linux is a lot less hungry for hardware. A standard Pentium running Linux (apache) CAN serve better than the eqiv NT machine (IIS). Linux will also suffer from a lot less costly downtime than the NT machine. ftp.cdrom.com it is run on a single machine. (Running netbsd OS, but close enough) WinNT 4 has on MAJOR design problem. The video drivers sit inside Kernel space (To speedup Windows.) So if you have a buggy drivers then BSOD and down goes the whole system. Linux's video drivers and X's do not run on the same level as the Kernel and if they are buggy they do not bring the whole system down. --- Side note. MS Proxy 2 SP1 vs Squid 2.2 (Linux.) Squid beats hands down at the amount of data it caches and the excellent QOS. "Proxy Report" errors become a thing of the past. Oh and try get MS Proxy authenticate passwords against a Novel database, block all Ads and filter out porn, Not very likely. Simple with Squid. Just a simple change in the squid Config file. -- Grant Slater - Linux yesterday, Linux today and Linux tomorrow
