Re: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space
-- From: Chun-wah Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space Date: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 1:48 PM hi I have installed mandrake 6.0 in my AMD6-2 300 PC with 64MB RAM and 4.3G hard drive. I have tried making 1004MB linux ext2 partition (for path / ) and 70MB swap: 1) by partition magic under win 98; and 2) by disk druid from empty space during installation. however, in either case, I got the following error msgs: First of all, Mandrake is optimized for INTEL chips. So it may crash or not work properly with AMD chips. (after choosing packages) error msg: You don't appear to have enough disk space to install the packages you've selected. you need more space on the following filesystems: Mount point space needed / 290M Try and make these partitions. / /usr /home If you ever have to reinstall again, your /home directory will be fine and won't be reformatted. Jeremy
Re: [newbie] No network connection
-- From: FORNWALL JOSHUA JOHN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] No network connection Date: Thursday, July 15, 1999 1:54 PM I've got Linux installed on a 5x86 133 with 12MB of RAM, and a 400MB hard disk with an Allied Telesis 1500T ethernet card. I have a network set up with the linux machine, and two windows machines. The network card in the Linux box is recognized by the OS, and when I try to ping the other machines, the transmit light flashes, but it doesn't get any responses from either windows machine. Likewise, when I ping from the windows machines, they can hear each other fine, but they don't get a response from the Linux machine. Can anyone help? From personal experience, it sounds like your ethernet card isn't support with Linux. Even though it detects and works, I had to same problem with an NE2000 card (which is way common by the way). If I ran TCPDUMP and pinged from a windows or another linux machine I could see it coming in just fine. I changed cables and nothing, then I swapped the card for another ethernet card (a 3com 3c509) and it finally worked. Jeremy
[newbie] Fwd: Re: [SATLUG] more networking help
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [SATLUG] more networking help Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:42 -0500 From: J Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 09 Jul 1999, you wrote: Ok people, I got the new cable today and I'm having even more problems. I have 2 machines (192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2). Now my problem. If I ping from .0.2 to .0.1 I get no response, BUT if I launch ifconfig on the .0.1 machine I can see the packets coming in. So what am I doing wrong? II've double checked all my settings and I'm very desperate here. Any help would be appreciated. I've done some more tests since that post. If I ping from the 0.2 machine to the whole network (192.168.0.255), I can see the packets coming in on the 0.1 machine, BUT if I reverse the process I get nothing. Sounds like my 0.1 machine receives packets but doesn't send them back. I'm using a BNC cable with 2 'tee's' with caps on each end. Should I do away with the 'tees' just plug them in directly to solve my problem? Jeremy
Re: [newbie] USR Internal Modem
On Fri, 09 Jul 1999, you wrote: I have a US Robotics Sportster 56K + Voice internal modem which I cannot get working. It is set up on COM2. It is -not- a Winmodem. I am wondering if anyone has any advice. I have tried addressing it as both cua1 and ttyS1 without any success. Sounds like its conflicting with the motherboards builtin COM ports which are 1 and 2. Try setting the USR modem to 3 or 4 instead. Jeremy
Re: [newbie] Licq errors
Dennis Podein wrote: Hello , I've installed Licq . It went pretty well , but ... When I try to connect - Online , I get this error message : Unable to resolve icq.mirabilis.com : No such file , or directory . Whats up with this ? I have tried to install Kicq , Kxicq , everything else icq and not one of them will work correctly . There are no manuals , or docs, or help files ., They didn't come with the RPM . Help please The only thing I could tell you is to check the licq.conf and other config files. -- Jeremy Mann http://manndesigns.dynip.com icq://21081443 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] icq
Yants wrote: Is it possible to run ICQ on Linux using WINE? If so, how..? There are plenty of ICQ clients for Linux. Surf on over to www.freshmeat.net and search for ICQ. -- Jeremy Mann http://manndesigns.dynip.com icq://21081443 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Lack of security when booting in Linux single
Ripcrd6 wrote: I read recently about people on the cable network being able to access other users computers if they had the knowledge of a sysadmin. Likely they were also using Linux to do so. They could see files and everything is a browse mode on other people's PCs. In the same article they discussed the benefits of DSL (digital subscriber line). One benefit was that this could not happen. A person would have to be at the phone company in the switchroom or building or whatever to have this kind of access. Another benefit being that you could use your phone at the same time to make a call due to the way the setup worked. YMMV, but I can't try either since we don't have that kind of service in my area yet. We actually may, but we're talking paying an arm and a leg per month for it. Brian Your right, cable modems have serious security risks because everyone uses the same pipeline. DSL just became available here in Texas and it is too expensive. $200 setup fee, $40 per month for the DSL line, then another $40-100 per month for internet usage depending on the up/down stream you want. 256k up / 384k down ($40 per month), 384k up / 1.5mb down ($100 per month). -- Jeremy Mann http://manndesigns.dynip.com icq://21081443 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Window managers
darkknight wrote: It can be done in two ways, which works best for you depends on how you start Xwindows. If you have Linux set up to boot to Xwindows (init level 5) then you should be seeing a screen with an dialog box for entering your username and password, just below the password box on the left is a box with KDE in it and an arrow to it's right, click on the arrow and the window expands to show many other choices, one is gnome which uses Enlightenment as it's default window manager (this is what I use, I love Enlightenment and gnome) If you boot to text mode, then after signing in and giviing your password at the prompt type: switchdesk then choose gnome as your desktop. Then type startx and gnome should startup with Enlightenment as the window manager. Thanks for the reply but I don't have that option if I use the GUI boot option. I suppose its because I'm using 5.3 and I've heard that option is standard with 6.0. But I did manage to find a simple program called Start to switch between desktops. But I have to admit, I haven't gone back to KDE :) -- Jeremy Mann http://manndesigns.dynip.com icq://21081443 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Graphical Login
Whittaker, Kevin wrote: Thanks :) Yeah my tnt2 will handle that rez, looks the best anyways. I couldn't be more pleased with mandrake, it's become a great distro for me to learn on... If anyone is interested, nvidia has posted an x server for all their cards that includes support for the new tnt2 ultras... http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html Troy What advantage other the basic X TNT driver do the NVidia drivers have? -- Jeremy Mann http://manndesigns.dynip.com icq://21081443 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Window managers
Hello, I want to use other window managers like AfterStep and Enlightenment. How do I change from KDE? I've looked at all the configuration screens, but where do I tell it I want AfterStep instead of KDE? -- Jeremy Mann http://manndesigns.dynip.com icq://21081443 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Slower Modem Speed in Linux
On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, you wrote: I have been living with netscape 'cos there are not many browsers on the market with its feature set. I am looking forward to a stable and usable mozilla or any browser (i am a developer and cannot use lynx exclusively cos i need to check graphics and javascript stuff) If only they had a decent release of KFM. I prefer it over Netscape for its small size, ease of use. But somethings I don't like about it. It won't handle JAVA enabled sites, it won't do Forms pages (like Hotmail, ExciteMail) and downloading takes an extra window to drap and drop. Anybody know when the next version will be available? -- Jeremy Mann http://manndesigns.dynip.com icq://21081443 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Window managers
Axalon wrote: Ok how about, /usr/sbin/desktopcfg. Just kidding, desktopcfg is on your cdrom as Mandrake/RPMS/desktopcfg-1.1.0-2mdk.i586.rpm Well its not on my CDROM. But I did find another one that worked. Once I ran the program, Afterstep launched great. But now how do I get back to KDE? When I select KDE from the menu, its says KDE not found. So I doubled checked the file, and its there. /usr/X11R6/bin/kde I have Afterstep launching from /usr/X11R6/bin/afterstep. So what gives? Jeremy
Re: [newbie] Window managers
Axalon wrote: Not sure off hand what the util you did use was, but if need be you can always give it "a slap in the face" and manualy edit your (~/.xinitrc || ~/.Xclients) startup files. /usr/X11R6/bin/kde I checked that too, but the program I used (called Start) didn't make a backup of the old one ;( bo... This could be the source of the problem, is this a link, a script, or a binary? KDE usualy starts with a script file "startkde" which starts all the seperate pieces. this script will be located in either a) /opt/kde/startkde b) /usr/bin/startkde depending on your Mandrake version. Being the newbie that I am, I figured KDE would start how Afterstep does with the /usr/X11R6/bin/kde command. But I will try the 'startkde'. I'm still experimenting with Afterstep and I think I like it more and more everytime I use it. Jeremy
Re: [newbie] Resolution
On Sun, 04 Jul 1999, you wrote: Tech Support, Hello, I just purchased Linux Mandrake "The Complete Operating System" v6.0 and I've had no problems installing at all, except one thing. My monitor or video card are not in the lists, I know the setting and set it up manually, but when I get into Linux's desktop the resolution is low and the desktop extends FAR off the screen and it will not allow me to pan across the desktop at all. I cannot change the resolution because I cannot see what I am doing. Please let me know how to do so, I would like it to be in at least 800x600 res and in 24bit. Please help, When you ran Xconfigurator did you select multiple screen resolutions? If you did, to switch between them press CTRL ALT + or - . my cpu: PII 350MHz, 256mb ram, Creative Labs 16mb Banshee 3D video card (AGP), 17" Daytek monitor Linux drivers for your 3D Banshee ;) http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ -- Jeremy Mann http://manndesigns.dynip.com icq://21081443 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] X screen resolution
On Fri, 02 Jul 1999, jsm wrote: In Xwindows with Redhat you can change screen resolution with Ctrl+Alt + or - . It does not work with my Mandrake 6.0 KDE . How can I change resolution ? From my knowledge, when you install RH and Xwindows, and after it probes your video card, if you just select the default resolution you can't change different resolutions. Just run XConfigurator from a prompt and select all the resolutions you want. Now you can use the CTRL-ALT + or -. -- Jeremy Mann http://manndesigns.dynip.com icq://21081443 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] anymore updates?
I finally got my Linux to use kernel 2.2.5mdk! Oh what a night!! Anyway, I followed the directions on linux-mandrake. Everything went perfect. My questions are: (1) The logo screen (with the penguin logo) isn't in color anymore, plus its not in the right resolution. (2) What other programs do I need to update to take advantage of the new kernel? I haven't touched libc yet (its libc5) should I update this to 6 as well? And what programs do I need updated going from libc5 to libc6? Thanks for you time! -- Jeremy Mann http://manndesigns.dynip.com icq://21081443 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Updating
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, you wrote: Oh, and another question, does anyone know where a lot of the applications went that I installed? Do I need to run them from command line or what? Examples are lICQ, CD-Toast, and some various others... Click the 'App Finder' icon. It will put another menu select called 'Non KDE Apps'. Most of them will show up there. To launch LICQ, if starting for the first time, type licq at a command prompt. It will ask for you UIN, password, blah, blah To keep from typing licq everytime to launch it, right-click on your desktop and select New - Application. Type a name for the link press OK. Now right-click the link you just made on your desktop and select Properties. Now select Execute, type in licq in the space provided. Now click the icon box to choose an icon for your new link. Once you select an icon, click OK. And now your shortcut to LICQ is on your desktop. Enjoy!! -- Jeremy Mann http://listen.to/sidefx icq://21081443 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] help with X11amp
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, you wrote: By any chance, are you trying to use a Mandrake 6.0 RPM on top of Mandrake 5.3 or something similar? No, I haven't downloaded anything for RH 6.0. My problem went away when I unstalled 1.2.0 and installed 1.2.1. As per the readme file it said to download and install these files: glib-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm gtk+-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm Argh... Never believe in what READMEs say. ;) This was a big mistake. glib/gtk+ 1.2.0 are seriously broken, and the RPMs you're referring to weren't made for Mandrake. Use the 1.2.3 versions on the Mandrake CD and it'll work better. Thanks. I will make a note of that. Another question, since I already have 1.2.1 installed, if I upgraded to 1.2.3 would I have to uninstal 1.2.1 first? Or just use the 'Upgrade' function in the RPM? -- Jeremy Mann http://listen.to/sidefx icq://21081443 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] files needed!!
Can anybody tell me which RPMs on the Mandrake CD contain libglib.so.1? I'm trying to install X11amp alpha 3-2 and I've done it before successfully, but its not working this time. I've downloaded glib-1.2.0 and gtk+-1.2.0 (files needed for x11amp) and tried to install them but both need the above file. I know I'm not dreaming since i've installed it before just fine. Anybody help? Jeremy
[newbie] Re: need to set a path
I just installed FreeAmp 1.2.3 for Linux. Good problem, but I'm having trouble. The problem installs in /usr/local/bin by default and that's where mine is. My question is how do I set a path to /usr/local/bin so I can just type 'freeamp /mp3s/*.mp3' instead of typing '/usr/local/bin/freeamp' to launch the program. Any suggestions? Jeremy P.S. Would anybody know how to remove a double entry RPM? I have gtk 1.0.6 AND gtk+ 1.2 installed together. When I goto uninstall gtk1.0.6 it says it can't uninstall because of the double entry. Any help?
Re: [newbie] files needed!!
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, you wrote: install Mandrake/RPMS/glib10-1.0.6-6mdk.i586.rpm from your cd Found out what I did. I accidentally installed both version 1.0.6 AND 1.2.0 of glib and gtk+. And now I can't uninstall any of them. Jeremy
