Re: [newbie] Configuring my ISA Modem
when linux says the modem is busy, it's usually because there is a lock file. go into the setup of kppp, and find something that says "Use Lock File", and uncheck it. that's what i have to do when i get the modem busy message. jd From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Configuring my ISA Modem Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 01:14:11 EDT Now that I've tackled almost every device on my computer, there lies one last part to be recognized by Mandrake: my ISA "Compaq 56K-DF" modem. I doubt that it is a winmodem due to the fact that Windows reads it on Com2, and not as an expansion device. Any advice, drivers? I've already set Linux to look for it on Com2 (ttyS2), only to the success of a droning "Modem busy" message each time I try Kppp. And another comment ... switching to a Windows session after a long Linux session avails my modem undetectable to Windows unless I do a clean reboot. Could this be related? Believe me, this modem has giving me trouble many times before. Kenny Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Harddrive Access
i beleive if you use "chmod", you can change the permissions of all your harddrives. but i'm not sure how to do it, at least for your computer. hope i helped a little. jd From: John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Harddrive Access Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 20:21:18 +1200 I know this problem has been covered previously but I cannot find the references. Attached is my /etc/fstab. I need to ne able to: A: Allow all users to access (read and Write) the Windows drives. Currently they are advised they don have any permissions. B: Be able to read/write the floppy drive in both filesystems Right now no user can read or write the drive at all. This includes the superuser. Message returned is: Could not list directory contents file:/mount/floppy This appears to have happened recently but I cannot find any sensible reason for it. Reading the manuals hasn't helped any. Cheers John /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat users,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/DOS_hda5 vfat users,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/dos vfat users,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb7 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount users,exec,dev,suid,rw,fs=auto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] LM 7.0 never worked right
try going to linuxnewbie.org and checking the discussion section. i think i remember a thread being posted about the same problem your having (the blinking screen thing). sorry, but that's the best i can do for you. later. jd From: "Edison Gica" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] LM 7.0 never worked right Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 14:30:44 HST Hi All: I have installed - reinstalled LM 7.0 many times already and it never worked properly. Every reinstallation gave a new set of problems. I just don't know what's wrong. All installations were done under 'Recommended' mode. I don't know whether I did something wrong or there's some incompatiblity with my Compaq computer. Here's how I started. I bought a new 2nd HD for Linux. Plugged it in my computer, and did not let Windows 98 touch the HD at all. I let Linux format it and the first message I got was it cannot read my HD coz it had many bad numbers. Anyway, it still proceeded to install and my Linux was up and running. I first changed the resolution following the manual and it worked fine. I even gave the same settings to someone who posted in this forum on how to set it on his Compaq and we had the same hardware and so far I had not heard that he had any other problems. HOwever, after a few days when I boot to Linux the screen just starts blinking on and off. I reinstalled and just left the resolution as is and still I get the same problem after a few days. The screen just goes blinking on and off. After many reinstallations, I was able to run things and also the GMT (Generic Mapping Tools) program that I needed for my work. So I just kept working and never shut down my computer for 10 days coz I was afraid that something might go wrong again with Linux. Luckily I was able to get my Zip working (thanks for your help guys) and copied the output files I was working on. And then...booom!! Linux just hang up! I was trying to logoff and go to superuser to do some changes on my GMT program, the thing just froze. The mouse was still moving around but the message 'preparing session..' just stayed there and nothing happened. So I just turned off the power and when everthing boot up again. There, the screen just goes blinking off and on. Being a newbie and with very less info from the manuals, I'm just completely lost on why LM 7.0 never worked properly on my computer. I would sincerely appreciate any help/suggestions from all of you. My Compaq has the following: CPU: AMD K6-2 533 MHz RAM: 192MB (8MB occupied by Video card) Video card: Trident CyberBlade 3D (integrated to the motherboard) Monitor: Compaq MV520 HD 1: Quantum lct10 (30GB, occupied by Windows 98) HD 2: Quantum Fireball (10 GB, occupied by Linux) ZIP: Zip drive through printer port modem 1: winmodem (for Windows) modem 2: US Robotics Sportster (for Linux) printer: Epson 740 Further info: external modem works fine, printer is printing, zip drive was working, RAM identified by Linux, boots under Lilo, Bios does not support Power Management System. Recap: installating under 'Recommended' mode and not doing any other changes just gives the same blinking screen after few days of installation. thanks. edison Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] samba question
okay, i got samba all set up and running. i can see my linux box from windows. when i try to connect to it, it prompts for a password. however, i have not set a password for it. i've tried every password for my system, and even tried nothing. but it always tells me that it's an invalid password. can anybody help me out? thanks. later jd Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] junk
okay, mandrake puts a lot of stuff on your computer when you install it. how do i find out what it has installed, and then how do i get rid of it if i don't want it? thanks jd Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] default boot os
go to linuxconf (i think that's it), and go to boot manager. in there you should be able to change the default boot. sorry for being so unsure, but my linux box isn't here right now. jd From: Peter Vandecasteele [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] default boot os Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 19:09:41 +0200 hello, does somebody knows how to change the default os ? after changing it activating the changes, nothing happens. delault my pc boots in linux, and i want it to boot by default in windows, without typing the word "windows" everytime i boot. thanks Kind Regards, Peter Vandecasteele. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Swat
hey everybody, i'm trying to set up swat, to use with samba. on linuxnewbie.org, it tells me to use my favorite browser, and type in http://192.168.0.1:901, which should prompt for a username and password to access swat. but it doesn't. i get an error say that the connection was reset by peer. anyone know what this is about?? thanks. l8er. jd Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Linux is more popular than sex and windows (fwd)
i'm sorry, but i sex is more popular than linux. sex is human nature. but anyway :) jd From: Denis HAVLIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux is more popular than sex and windows (fwd) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 23:21:37 +0200 (CEST) I suppose you always wondered what it is that we do all day long, right? Well, one of the things we are kind of good at is browsing the web. Below is a typical example! enjoy Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- (This is a major information since it was not true at all one year ago.) "Isaksson's research was simple - he ran the word Linux through the AltaVista search engine and then he did the same with the word Windows. ... There were 11,313,520 Web pages found for the Linux search but only 10,755,265 found for Windows." "So there you have it, inconclusive proof that Linux is now more prevalent/important/hyped than Microsoft Windows." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-05-24-011-06-PS-CY Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] added
sure! From: Michael Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] added Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 22:41:28 -0500 Can I please be added to the mailing list? Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] second hdd
i'm looking to put in a second hdd on my computer. i want it to run with linux. currently, i'm running a dual boot system with windoze 98, and mandrake 7.0. how do i go about doing this? jd Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Modem locks
go to setup in kppp. click on the device tab. there will be a box that says "Use lock file". uncheck it. that's usually the problem when my modem is locked. later. jd From: John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Modem locks Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 01:46:46 +1200 Hi folks - I had a power outage a short time ago and assume it's the reason for my problem. If I attempt to dial out kppp returns a message that the modem is locked I need to release that lock but have been unable to find any info locally.. Help!! Cheers John Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
i just wrote an e-mail to drake x about this problem. it happened to me agin tonight. in my case (and i don't know if it's the same as yours), it was the fstab file. get into the shell and emacs the fstab file. see what it says. i have a hunch that that is your problem. jd From: X Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake. Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 09:32:51 -0700 Thanks JD. I haven't quite decided what to do yet. I feel kind of like a guy who's house just got wiped out by a tornado, and still picking through the debris trying to figure out what the hell happened. What you said about not being able to mount in read/write mode reminds me of something I saw flash on the screen early in the boot process. I was paying extra close attention to everything at bootup after this happened, and so I'm not sure if it was new or not, but I saw something about read-only. It was only on the screen for like a split second. I'll try it again and see if I can catch anything more. At 03:25 PM 05/14/2000 +, you wrote: i'm sorry you have to go. i had a similar problem, but my harddrive wouldn't remount in read/write mode. so i basically had a harddirive that i could only read off of. the only answer i could get where things like edit the fstab file, etc. but i couldn't cause it was a read only hd. finally after a week of spending a least 3 hours a day, i gave up and reinstalled. unfortunatly, that was about a month ago, and this weekend was the first chance i've had to play around and set up mandrake. if you decide that mandrake is worth one more try, great. but if you decide not, we're sorry to lose ya. good luck jd From: X Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] No more Mandrake. Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:39:54 -0700 I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the desktop icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from time to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just came up and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. So I manually rebooted. The "not cleanly unmounted" errors came up, as they have been every time for the past couple months - it usually seems to just delay the boot process slightly. But then something different popped up: "/dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5: inode 43199 has illegal block(s)" and then: "/dev/hda5: Unexpected Inconsistency: run fsck manually (without -a or -p options)". Then in red, it says "[FAILED]", followed by: "An error occurred during the file system check dropping you to a shell. The system will reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance or ctrl-D for normal startup". So I entered the root password, and it said, "BASH: ID: command not found". It repeated that bash message for about 5 or 6 lines. I tried the fsck, and then it said: "Parallelizing fsck version 1.14...". I manually rebooted again, got the same results. Another time I tried the ctrl-D but it just rebooted back into the same thing. When it rebooted I saw something about "..cannot unlink..." and "..var/unlock file.." but it scrolled too fast to make out the whole message. It took a lot of time and effort over several months to get things to finally work right, and I still had work left to do. I had previously experimented with Slackware, which took forever just to get the basics setup, but then a couple of unexpected severe crashes requiring reinstallation finally sent me back out in search of something better. Mandrake seemed to be it, but this latest disaster has me pretty bummed with the whole thing. It seems like, although Linux may not crash everytime you turn around, the way Windows does, eventually it is going to crash, and crash HARD, and not necessarily for any obvious good reason. It's after 1 AM and I've been struggling with this for several hours, so maybe I'll feel different tomorrow and do another reinstall if I have to. But right now I'm thinking maybe I might just look for some other OS, maybe FreeBSD or something. Don't get me wrong - Mandrake has been great, and it's definitely the best distribution of the 3 I've tried, but it just seems like there's some inherent unstableness of a different kind lurking in Linux in general. Maybe I've just been having a string of bad luck. I may still be a 'newbie' but this one came completely out of left field. The worst part of it - I was just about ready to start spending most of my time in Linux. I had just
Re: [newbie] Filesystem is Read Only!
hey man, what's up. guess what? it happened to me again tonight!!! but i figured out what was wrong, at least with my system. it's the fstab file. for some reason, when i try to get my zip drive to work, it overwrites everything in the fstab file, and leaves only the lines for the zip drive. now the bad part. i haven't figure out how to fix it. so i had to reinstall, again. the only thing that i couldn't try was the recovery boot disk (mine was screwed up somehow). try that, if it works, then i'm gonna make about 8 recovery disks. but other than that, i don't know what to tell ya. jd From: Drake X [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Filesystem is Read Only! Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 18:44:55 -0700 Well, I went back and played with it some more, and confirmed that the Linux filesystem is indeed, read only now. Here's the line I found during boot: "VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem) read only." Just like what JD said happened to him. Despite all the angry, nasty looking error messages I still seem to be able to move around at the command prompt after I enter my root password. I tried startx but it just says "bash: id: command not found". Does anyone know if there's a way to reset the filesystem to read/write? Also, could I run install without having to wipe the Linux partitions clean? It would sure be great to run install again without losing all my settings and stuff! Thanks! Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
i'm sorry you have to go. i had a similar problem, but my harddrive wouldn't remount in read/write mode. so i basically had a harddirive that i could only read off of. the only answer i could get where things like edit the fstab file, etc. but i couldn't cause it was a read only hd. finally after a week of spending a least 3 hours a day, i gave up and reinstalled. unfortunatly, that was about a month ago, and this weekend was the first chance i've had to play around and set up mandrake. if you decide that mandrake is worth one more try, great. but if you decide not, we're sorry to lose ya. good luck jd From: X Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] No more Mandrake. Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:39:54 -0700 I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the desktop icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from time to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just came up and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. So I manually rebooted. The "not cleanly unmounted" errors came up, as they have been every time for the past couple months - it usually seems to just delay the boot process slightly. But then something different popped up: "/dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5: inode 43199 has illegal block(s)" and then: "/dev/hda5: Unexpected Inconsistency: run fsck manually (without -a or -p options)". Then in red, it says "[FAILED]", followed by: "An error occurred during the file system check dropping you to a shell. The system will reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance or ctrl-D for normal startup". So I entered the root password, and it said, "BASH: ID: command not found". It repeated that bash message for about 5 or 6 lines. I tried the fsck, and then it said: "Parallelizing fsck version 1.14...". I manually rebooted again, got the same results. Another time I tried the ctrl-D but it just rebooted back into the same thing. When it rebooted I saw something about "..cannot unlink..." and "..var/unlock file.." but it scrolled too fast to make out the whole message. It took a lot of time and effort over several months to get things to finally work right, and I still had work left to do. I had previously experimented with Slackware, which took forever just to get the basics setup, but then a couple of unexpected severe crashes requiring reinstallation finally sent me back out in search of something better. Mandrake seemed to be it, but this latest disaster has me pretty bummed with the whole thing. It seems like, although Linux may not crash everytime you turn around, the way Windows does, eventually it is going to crash, and crash HARD, and not necessarily for any obvious good reason. It's after 1 AM and I've been struggling with this for several hours, so maybe I'll feel different tomorrow and do another reinstall if I have to. But right now I'm thinking maybe I might just look for some other OS, maybe FreeBSD or something. Don't get me wrong - Mandrake has been great, and it's definitely the best distribution of the 3 I've tried, but it just seems like there's some inherent unstableness of a different kind lurking in Linux in general. Maybe I've just been having a string of bad luck. I may still be a 'newbie' but this one came completely out of left field. The worst part of it - I was just about ready to start spending most of my time in Linux. I had just downloaded (not installed) a program that could do what one of my primary windows programs does, and I had just downloaded VMware (also not installed yet). But now here I am back in Windows full time it looks like. I can almost hear Bill laughing :-( Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] needed programs
i want an mp3 player, a good one, and an aol instant messanger clone, so i can contact people using IM. does anyone know of any really good ones? jd Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] installing failed :-(
did you partition your hdd? or do you have an empty hdd? are you running any other os's? if you can, provide a little more info, and we'll see what we can think of. later man From: Claus Atzenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Listing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] installing failed :-( Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:52:46 +0200 (CEST) I was trying to install Mandrake 7.02 on a Pentium-S machine. I don't get the graphical installer, probably because my memory is to less (16MB) or my graphic card is not good enough. I don't mind. It is running well until the point where Mandrake is supposed to ask me how to format the hard drive. Instead of this dialoge I only get the message: Error An error occurred no available partitions What is wrong?? What can I do? Thanks a lot for your help! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de [He] took me into his library and showed me his books, of which he had a complete set. -- Ring Lardner Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] in second stage install problem
well, i can tell you that it is a problem with X. i had the same problem, but it was caused by another problem (mainly my hdd becoming read only). but i don't know how to fix it. sorry man. From: Francois Massin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] in second stage install problem Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 23:08:15 -0400 Hello there, I try to install Madrake 7.0 on my P100 32Mb Ram. Seems to start ok but then I have this message: message begin in second stage install _X11ransSocketUnixConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11ransSocketUnixConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 Sun Apr 16 15:04:05 2000 Gtk - WARNING: Cannot open display :0 at /usr/bin/per l-install/my_gtk.pm line 139 install exited abnormally Sending termination signals ... done Sending kill signals ... done unmounting filesystems ... /tmp/rhimg /proc You may safely reboot your system. message end So what' s wrong ? Is this a video card problem ? (Ati xpert 8Mb PCI) or a monitor problem (AOC 4N) ? Have a good day Francois Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Major Problem----still
we do use mcse for our programming needs. however, my professor learned using unix, so i don't see why he would have a problem. my only problem is that i can't get it running correctly right now. but i came up with a few possible reasons, and i'm gonna test them tonight and we'll see what happens From: Mike Corbeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Major Problemstill Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:29:44 -0400 J D wrote: yeah, you're right. i'm gonna e-mail an expert list about this. the only problem is that i'm so short on time (who would have thought becoming an engineer would require so much time??? ;) ). man, i picked a bad time to install linux. wait, there's never a bad time to get away from the frustrating blue screen of death every time you go to compile code you just wrote. too bad i can't submit my programming homework in unix. damn this university's use of windows! Speak with your professor(s). I don't see why they'ld prevent you from doing your homework with Linux. The school should be unbiased in this respect, unless your program is MCSE or something specific to MS. If it's a general university program, then the profs would need to be dorks for refusing valid work done on Linux. Linux is growing in use and popularity, and is based on and very similar to Unix in many respects, with Unix being a platform used considerably in industry; more important than MS anyway. If you were in a MIS program, specializing in office computing, then MS would be understandable, albeit Linux will become competitive in this area, too. For engineering, I'm surprised they're not using a Unix variant, albeit many engineering firms began converting much of their infrastructure to MS a couple or few years ago, but only due to pricing, as far as I was told and know (now, MS Windows 2000 Server is expensive, albeit Windows 2000 WS may be less expensive than Unix WSs, but certainly not less expensive than Linux). If you'ld really like to be able to do your work with Linux, then ask, before jumping to absolute conclusions. If the school's not going to give you a MCSE, then the school shouldn't have any moral right to prevent you from using Linux. If the profs refuse and you have a few more years of schooling involved, then you might consider contesting and appealing to the next higher level of the court. Maybe your profs don't know Unix or Linux, and they might use this as a basis to refuse work done on Linux, but that's only a lazy approach, instead of a moral one. They should encourage students to use Linux, because schooling is already expensive enough without needing to purchase expensive OSs, like Windows 2000. mike From: Mike Corbeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Major Problemstill Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:55:38 -0400 BILL wrote: J D wrote: okay, i've tried several things to fix my major problem. nothing has worked. so how do i format my linux partition? last night i got bored and tried rm -rf / as i read to never do this unless i wanted to reinstall linux. but it didn't work. help! I would not suggest doing that, ever. There are better, more appropriate, ways of reinstalling linux or any OS. If you do rm -rf /, then this means to remove the root directory and I've never done this, but know that rm -rf /* will remove everything under the root directory. rm -rf / probably does the same thing, but based on other contexts, this would also remove /. In either case, this would mean not being able to shutdown or reboot the system using any command, because everything would be gone. You've got to explain your problem, because as you should obviously see, there's no description left of your problem, if you ever described it. You want help. Help others to help you. Explain what your problem is, with more detail. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Okay, I don't truley know if this will help your MAJOR problem,but as a newbie I have had times where I too did somthing somewheres that sent my partitions kablooey.Tried lots of stuff that did n't work and wound up 'reinstalling" but installing another distro ;like Caldera,and letting it clean up the partitions when it installed,then I went back and reinstalled mandrake after the fact when I saw that the Caldera was successful. I've done this a few times and it has worked for me ,but then I/m a newbie,and only came up with this on instinct,couldn't tell you if it did anything to my machine or not .Don't think it has since I now have a nice Mandrake 70 install thats working to ,my satisfaction .Good luck if you decide t
[newbie] Major Problem----still
okay, i've tried several things to fix my major problem. nothing has worked. so how do i format my linux partition? last night i got bored and tried rm -rf / as i read to never do this unless i wanted to reinstall linux. but it didn't work. help! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Major Problem----still
yeah, you're right. i'm gonna e-mail an expert list about this. the only problem is that i'm so short on time (who would have thought becoming an engineer would require so much time??? ;) ). man, i picked a bad time to install linux. wait, there's never a bad time to get away from the frustrating blue screen of death every time you go to compile code you just wrote. too bad i can't submit my programming homework in unix. damn this university's use of windows! From: Mike Corbeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Major Problemstill Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:55:38 -0400 BILL wrote: J D wrote: okay, i've tried several things to fix my major problem. nothing has worked. so how do i format my linux partition? last night i got bored and tried rm -rf / as i read to never do this unless i wanted to reinstall linux. but it didn't work. help! I would not suggest doing that, ever. There are better, more appropriate, ways of reinstalling linux or any OS. If you do rm -rf /, then this means to remove the root directory and I've never done this, but know that rm -rf /* will remove everything under the root directory. rm -rf / probably does the same thing, but based on other contexts, this would also remove /. In either case, this would mean not being able to shutdown or reboot the system using any command, because everything would be gone. You've got to explain your problem, because as you should obviously see, there's no description left of your problem, if you ever described it. You want help. Help others to help you. Explain what your problem is, with more detail. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Okay, I don't truley know if this will help your MAJOR problem,but as a newbie I have had times where I too did somthing somewheres that sent my partitions kablooey.Tried lots of stuff that did n't work and wound up 'reinstalling" but installing another distro ;like Caldera,and letting it clean up the partitions when it installed,then I went back and reinstalled mandrake after the fact when I saw that the Caldera was successful. I've done this a few times and it has worked for me ,but then I/m a newbie,and only came up with this on instinct,couldn't tell you if it did anything to my machine or not .Don't think it has since I now have a nice Mandrake 70 install thats working to ,my satisfaction .Good luck if you decide to try this. Bill Not instinct; just desperation. This approach should not be required. You're better off asking in the expert mailing list, to learn how to properly handle your problems with Mandrake, even at the install level, before bothering with installing another distribution to try to recover. There are ways to recover or to do successful installs. mike __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] MAJOR PROBLEM!!!!
dude, don't worry about leading me into more problems. i'll try anything that might work. i'm a newbie, and if it means having to get expert help, then i might just format my hard drive and start over. From: Mike Corbeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MAJOR PROBLEM Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 07:55:05 -0400 J D wrote: i don't know what i did, but here's the problem: when i try to boot, it starts off normally, but when it checks the root filesystem, it fails. this is what it says after: The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device :Is a directory while trying to open/ [FAILED] ***An error occured during the file system check. ***Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot ***when you leave the shell. give root password for maitenance (or type Control-D for normal startup): if i type control d, it just reboots and goes back to the same thing. shit, i've only had linux a month. someone please help me out!! Don't do ctrl-d, give root password to go into maintenance mode, and then provide a copy of your /etc/fstab file, /etc/lilo.conf, and the output of dmesg. You'll want to run dmesg so that the output is redirected to a file, which you could then copy into the email, along with the fstab and lilo.conf files. To redirect the output of dmesg to a file, do the following dmesg dmesg.out 21 You probably don't need the 21 portion, but it won't hurt to add it. Or, take a look through the output of dmesg yourself, to see if you find any other indications of the error. This is all I can think of recommending at the moment and I wouldn't want to direct a user to run e2fsck or debugfs. For that, you'ld definitely want to post to the expert mailing list. I've done this, but not many times; therefore, I wouldn't want to risk leading you into making your problem worse than it already is. You might want to post the follow-up with the additional information requested, to the expert mailing list anyway. Also, include the version of the OS involved or in question. You can add the output of uname -a for this. You might also want to try running startx once you're in maintenance mode, to see what this does. Might not bring up X, but also shouldn't cause any harm. If it does bring up X, then exit from that and reboot, to see if the problem's been corrected. I haven't had quite the problem you're describing in this sense, but occassionally can't bring up X the first time I run startx, but trying startx again has always worked, so far. mike __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] MAJOR PROBLEM!!!!
i don't know what i did, but here's the problem: when i try to boot, it starts off normally, but when it checks the root filesystem, it fails. this is what it says after: The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device :Is a directory while trying to open/ [FAILED] ***An error occured during the file system check. ***Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot ***when you leave the shell. give root password for maitenance (or type Control-D for normal startup): if i type control d, it just reboots and goes back to the same thing. shit, i've only had linux a month. someone please help me out!! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Newbie------internet
okay, i got my internet connection to work. does anyone have an suggestions on how to secure my computer for when i'm online? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [[newbie] More probs with dual boot]
same here man. i'd love to get rid of windoze, but unfortunatly, i can't. i have all my pre-linux work in windoze. plus, i have programing to do, that has to be in visual c++. so, for school, and professional reasons, i need windoze too. From: George Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] More probs with dual boot] Date: 05 Apr 2000 14:14:33 -0500 O.K Breathe deeply dude. Calm down... Personally I don't like WinDoze much, but since all of my games, Sequencing and Audio, 3D Animation apps, and other software exists as windows ONLY applications, then I have to use it still. I think many of us out there are in the same boat. "Some of us actually NEED to use Windows for professional reasons..." As opposed to what? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
