[newbie] Removing Drive 0 of Dual Boot System
I am currently running a dual boot system with Win98 on Drive 0 and Mandrake 6.1 on Drive 1. The boot is setup in the MBR. I want to remove Drive 0 and make it a Single Drive system using only the Mandrake 6.1 drive. Is there anyway to do this without reloading completely? Thanks, Jim Vaughan
Re: [newbie] Modem
You will be out of luck with that particular modem. It is a 'winmodem' style and will not work with Linux. You may want to consider swapping it out with an ISA model. My solution was to hook up an external modem to COM1 (/dev/ttys0). Left my PCI internal in the computer. I use it for Win98 and the external for Linux. At the price of external 56K modems I kind of like my solution over others but you will need to decide which is best for you. Jim Ganesh Subramanian wrote: I installed linux 6.5 on my pc which contains windows 98. linux does not recognize my modem. My modem is conexant soft k56 PCI Modem. ( I am able to use it from windows 98) Any set up needs required to acheive this. Any pointers would be appreciated ? Thanks in advance ganesh _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] MandrakeUpdate problems
When I go to install the update for MandrakeUpdate I get a dependency problem. Supposedly wget and grpmi are not installed on my system. Where should I go to find these two files on the Mandrake distribution? or where can I download them from? Thanks in advance, Jim Vaughan
[newbie] MandrakeUpdate problems
When I go to install the update for MandrakeUpdate I get a dependency problem. Supposedly wget and grpmi are not installed on my system. Where should I go to find these two files on the Mandrake distribution? or where can I download them from? Thanks in advance, Jim Vaughan
Re: [newbie] Monitor resolution settings
Gilles Lahaie wrote: Help! I want to set the screen resolution of my Q-71 monitor to 1024x768. Problem is that installation of Mandrake Linux 6.1 set default resolution to something around 1280x1024. When using xConfigurator, the default resolution is about 640x480 with the screen moved to the right... and screen is larger than the monitor. What should I do??? Thanks When you run Xconfigurator you will be told the default resolution, somewhere in there you get the opportunity to choose. At that point go in and set the resolution for what you want it to be. Jim
Re: [newbie] Modem settings.
Gilles Lahaie wrote: Help Again! My modem is ISA PnP. the Windows settings are COM 4, IRQ 11. When using Dialer and trying to interrogate the monitor, I receive message saying that modem is occupied.. which is truly false.(I use the right stty3) Is there a way to manually set the IRQ in Linux or should I configure the modem as non PnP? if I do so, i will set it to COM 4, with the IRQ who goes along with this Com port and I guess this will cause some problem when using Windows... Thanks again for help. Actually I did the same thing. It doesn't really cause any problems in Windows excepts that you will have to reinstall the modem and its software if needed. I have found that I can make things alot easier if I just delete the modem in windows and then reinstall the drivers with the modem setup as non-PnP. Jim
Re: [newbie] Hauppauge, BTTV, BT848,WinTV,KWintv... Any Experts out there?
Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm hoping one of you guys/gals have had experience with the Hauppaugh WinTV PCI card. I just can't figure out why my tuner won't change channels. I get snow and that's it. KwinTV, BTTV BT848 software and drivers were installed. Any insights or suggestions? Seve That occurs when my input connection is loose or not connected. I have found it almost impossible to receive channels without an attached antenna or cable connection. Jim
Re: [newbie] ISP connection good...FIRE BAD
josh mccaffrey wrote: Boy, people thought I was a 'puter geek when I was using windoze... After several re-installs and reconfigurations of internet sofware, I think I've finally gotten pretty close to where I'd like to be. I can use my ISP connection as an unpriveleged user! Linux also doesn't gobble 73% of my HD. I'm learning alot, and when I get some more cash, I'll be getting some better books. I guess my "Mastering Windows 95" book is pretty useless now as well as "The Expert Guide...". This has been somewhat fun, if not frustrating for me and my family. I'm learning alot, and am thinking about finding another ISP that offers Linux/Unix support. There's plenty of smaller ISP's, and I'd think some of them would be more inclined to offer support. Mindspring tries to help, but let's face it, Linux hasn't quite gotten the market share as Microsoft and Mac. Josh Atlanta, GA I would have to highly recommend Corecomm.net as an ISP that provides support to the Unix/Linux community. They were and have been very helpful as well as providing the necessary info to setup my ppp connection. Jim
Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics and setup programs
I'd have to disagree with youwhen I start the installation of Linux-Mandrake the installer says RedHat. Now I wonder why that would be if there was no connection between the two. In the Introduction on page 4 of the Getting Started Manual it says "This award-winning distribution of Linux is based on the popular Red Hat 6.0 distribution and is 100% compatible with the Red Hat distribution." It also states "Linux-Mandrake has been customized by MandrakeSoft S.A. to be easier to install and use, without sacrificing any of the distribution's capabilities. Jim Vaughan Simon Norris wrote: Please excuse me if I'm wrong, but isn't Linux-Mandrake=Red Hat Linux + KDE+Pentium enhancements?? I thought that was the biggest selling point of Mandrake? - Original Message - From: Ernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics and setup programs First, and please do not take this offensively, but Linux-Mandrake is not RedHat Linux. They are two entirely individual distributions, with no connection to each other. As for changing your video driver, you can run Xconfigurator to accomplish that. Also, I think there an other configuration tool for the X-windows system as well, but I can't remember the name at this point. Hope this is useful, Ernie - Original Message - From: Tony Zocolillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 5:29 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics and setup programs Hello, Thanks for the reply. I found some Q/A on the internet stating that SiS chips don't run with Linux. I'll probably just get another video card that does work. I see 2Mb ATI PCI cards on eBay for $10. How do I re-run the setup to install a new video driver? (or anything else...I still need to load my sound card module) I don't have a bood for Red Hat...I do have SuSE but I couldn't get past partitioning with it so I put Mandrake on instead. The books I have on SuSE and Caldera describing the setup utility don't seem to work with Mandrake RedHat. regards, Tony Z. - Original Message - From: Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics card config and SiS5597 problems Tony I got the same problem. And have been working on it for about 2 weeks now with nothing to show. I thought that it might have been my Network Card since I had problems with it when I ran Windows 98 and the N-Card in that they were trying to use the same IRQ. well i uninstalled the card and I still have the same problems. Glad to see I am not the only one though! If ya come up with any thing let me know and I will do the same for you... This is a message I recieved the other day... as for what it means I have no idea. I have yet to figure out where to get to these settings. I have used the Linux install disk and SETUP to change my settings and XE86conf and none of these help anything out. Jess
Re: [newbie] RE: Netscape Error
"James P. Jendrzejewski" wrote: Thanks Steve, John, and Leonard, Apologies to all for sending in HTML format still in WinMode. I have looked at the resolv.conf and have found all statements in there with the correct DNS's in the format you have given. I am assuming from LinuxConf. /etc/host.conf reads order hosts, bind multi on I still get the same error message from Netscape. I have not tried Lynx yet (chemical engineering student, part time Linux newbie). Netscape has setup a default .netscape file in my non-root user directory though. Other than that...same thing. If there is any thing else you come up with let me know. I'll keep digging through the books and other docs. Thanks again James Error message:-Unable to connect to the server. Perhaps there is a problem with your name server? If your site must use a non-root name server, you will need to set the $SOCKS_NS environment variable to point at the appropriate name server, It may (or may not) be necessary to set this variable, of the SOCKS host preference, to the IP address of the host in question rather than it's name. James, Are you sure you are connecting or are connected. I sometimes get this same problem on startup and it normally means I either didn't connect or haven't completed connecting. Since I am catching this thread mid-stream I apologize if this has already been discussed. Jim
