Re: [newbie] Install CDRW on M 8.1 ?
No specific drivers are necessary. If it is an IDE drive you will have to enable SCSI emulation if you want to use its burning capabilities. The documentation that comes w/XCDROAST is excellent. Being more of a SuSE user I don't know whether or not KUDZU would set up the proper settings. Just my 2cents worth. On Sunday 28 April 2002 12:07, you wrote: I have ordered a Sony CDRW to install on a windows/Mandrake 8.1 machine. How do I go about getting 8.1 to recognize and use the drive once I install it? Can anyone tell me where I find out this info? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Computer name
/etc/HOSTNAME On Mon, 01 May 2000, you wrote: If I remember correctly there is a place in the linuxconf for changing the localhost name. Bambi Robert Trettel wrote: Hi, Ok here is a good question. How do I change the name of my host ( now called localhost )?? Also, my question about hard drive space . I checked several different commands and I still well under what my drive 's space equals. This will not allow me to add any extra software or anything else. I have 2 hard drives one for Windoze temporally and the other for Linux. I plan on staying with Linux once I get know it better. What would be a good way to go in a setup that second drive ? I want to setup separate partitions for boot,user, root and such. Please advise soon Robert F. Trettel I am getting ready to clean house again this time I hope I get these partitions right
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Greetings, In tryinf to get SAMBA up and running on MDK 7.0 I have run into the following situation. When I try to get it going with"/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start" I get the following error: [root@linux /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb: [: =: unary operator expected Okay I thought there could be a problem with the network. I attemted the following and received the following error [root@linux /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart /etc/rc.d/init.d/network: [: =: unary operator expected /etc/rc.d/init.d/network: [: =: unary operator expected Shutting down interface eth0 [ OK ] Disabling IPv4 packet forwarding [ OK ] /etc/rc.d/init.d/network: [: =: unary operator expected Enabling IPv4 packet forwarding[ OK ] Bringing up interface lo [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth0 What might this be. I changed the msec level to three and still no luck. Should I post this on the experts list? Thanks Jim
Re: [newbie]
disregard On Tue, 02 May 2000, you wrote: Greetings, In tryinf to get SAMBA up and running on MDK 7.0 I have run into the following situation. When I try to get it going with"/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start" I get the following error: [root@linux /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb: [: =: unary operator expected Okay I thought there could be a problem with the network. I attemted the following and received the following error [root@linux /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart /etc/rc.d/init.d/network: [: =: unary operator expected /etc/rc.d/init.d/network: [: =: unary operator expected Shutting down interface eth0 [ OK ] Disabling IPv4 packet forwarding [ OK ] /etc/rc.d/init.d/network: [: =: unary operator expected Enabling IPv4 packet forwarding[ OK ] Bringing up interface lo [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth0 What might this be. I changed the msec level to three and still no luck. Should I post this on the experts list? Thanks Jim
[newbie] SAMBA Howto
Greetings, The attached is an acrobat file of a SAMBA HOWTO written by a linux user from Canada. Unfortunatley his web site is no longer available. This HOWTO helped me greatley in getting SAMBA up and running. I hope it is as helpfulto y'all as it was to me. Jim samba-howto.pdf
Re: [newbie] Is digest available?
Zoltan Siposs wrote: Hi All! Is there available to get newbie-letters in a digest? If can, please tell how to order it... Bye, Zolix To sign up for the digest you can select it as an option on the Linux-Mandrake support page. The same spot you subscribed to this list.
RE: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1
Jeepers, I came here for info ang get a friggin' soap opera to boot. What a discusion group!!! At 10:12 AM 4/20/00 -02-30, you wrote: I certainly do not think I am sharper, better, smarter, less destructive than anyone else. That's what I was trying to tell you if you care to listen. You just don't think outside that little bubble you call a life do you? -Original Message- From: Mike Corbeil [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 5:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1 Pittman, Merle wrote: YOU ARROGANT P---k!! So a few math and physics courses (probably from mail order, or your nearest community college) make you all that. I have 2 advanced degrees in engineering (electronics and computers) yet I think myself no better or smarter than anyone on this list and neither should you. Having advanced degrees does not necessarily make you a sharper human being, except that you know more about the technical business you studied in. Humans are not reduceable to merely technological terms. There's a hell of a lot more to being a totally balanced human being than an ego trip over advanced degrees in technology. Don't know if you're noticed or not, but technology has also been much the cause for the serious degradation of the natural environment on this planet; therefore, before waving your pieces of paper, think first, because these aren't impressive, no where as much as the continuous destruction of the natural environment of this planet is. If only people with might high pieces of paper in technical studies could only figure out that simple reality. My arrogance is only your interpretation. I wonder if someone who waves highly advanced pieces of paper can figure out the simple meaning of this; however, to give you a little assistance, what it means is that I'm not at all arrogant and it's merely in your eyes that I am. What I am, though, is FRANK and a no-bs type. If you prefer bs, pc crap, then by all means, continue to live that way, if that's how you like to perceive the world; however, don't ever pretend your two pieces of paper to be of any true significance to me, for reasons as stated above. That's what I have to think about many so-called highly educated types. I don't reduce humanity to mathematics or science, but instead take the opposite pov, which is to put these sciences to the service of HUMANITY. Hence I BELIEVE in PEOPLE, far more than I believe in the sciences we discover and develop, but use so atrociously. If you don't grasp this truth, then believe me when I tell you, you'll never be convincing, not to me. If you knew how to read, then you'ld have realized very clearly that I wasn't bragging, but only describing my pov and reasoning to illustrate. T'was not at all for bragging, because, as per above. mike -Original Message- From: Mike Corbeil [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 2:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1 Alan Shoemaker wrote: Mikecorrect me if I'm wrong, but aren't you the guy who's been telling some folks in this list that their questions aren't appropriate for this forum and to go ask them in the expert list? Well I think that your response in this thread (quoted below) was not appropriate for the newbie list. The remedy here was very simple and your four rambling paragraphs have simply served to confuse the issue. Not really, but then maybe I've been accustomed to less than trivial for longer than I can recall. When I first started learning about computers and programming, my ramble wouldn't have caused any problems, but then I also had a few years of math and physics behind me. Nonetheless, if I think back to before that, then I wouldn't have been put off by a more thorough explanation. Heck, my father wanted me to help him remodel the house when I was a mere 8 years old; therefore, I've been held to above normal expectations for decades. If you're confused, then don't think that this means that everyone else who's a newbie would also be confused. As I recall in school, in every course, at every level, not everyone was equally comfortable with the material. What I prefer to do when I find an answer or document too complicated, is to stick with the one I was more comfortable with, as long as it works. Otherwise, I just ask questions for clarification. We're not communicating between people in grade 1 of elementary school, here; therefore, expect some people to provide more thorough answers. When you don't like it, move on. If newbies
Re: [newbie] Supermount
Thanks! At 09:29 AM 4/19/00 -0700, you wrote: Jimin a console, as root, type: supermount disable Alan Jim Adams wrote: How do I safely remove supermount from fstab?
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[newbie] Scripting
I followefd the instructions from the Mandrake Users web page for setting up an rc.masq script that is triggered from rc.local at boot time. The rc.masq looks like this: if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.masq ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.masq fi This is what was added to the rc.local file after the last "fi" if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.masq ] then /etc/rc.d/rc.masq When I test rc.local with /etc/rc.d/rc.local I receive an error saying /etc/rc.d/rc.local : line 47 : syntax error near unexpected token 'fi' /etc/rc.d/rc.local : line 47: 'fi' What ould the problem be? Thanks in Advance Jim
