RE: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working
DrakConf - "Network configuration" button - "Basic host information". You enter your network configuration in the second tab, "Adaptor 1". At the top of the dialog box, there's a Motif style check box "Enabled". If it's not checked then your network configuration will work for that session, but not after a reboot. I'm using Linux-Mandrake 7.0, so things could be different on your system. Good luck, John Hendrickx --- William Presho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not exactly sure where the save configuration button is could you give me a hint. Believe me I am completely clueless Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Hendrickx Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 2:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working Hmm, your problem may be something totally different, but as a particularly clueless newbie, I also kept finding that my network card wouldn't connect after a reboot, although I could get it working again in DrakConf. Turned out there's a "save configuration" button in DrakConf that I'd never checked! __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working
Hmm, your problem may be something totally different, but as a particularly clueless newbie, I also kept finding that my network card wouldn't connect after a reboot, although I could get it working again in DrakConf. Turned out there's a "save configuration" button in DrakConf that I'd never checked! Not implying that you're quite as clueless as I was, but it might be worth checking. John Hendrickx - Original Message - From: "William Presho" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello All I know this has probably been discussed here before, but I can't find anything that helps me. I have @home with an SMC1211TX Ethernet Card. I have used the help files and set it up accordingly, using drake config. It tells me that everything is okay but will not connect. Also I have an extra drive so I clean installed Mandrake 7.1 on it and everything worked perfectly until I shut the machine off and then tried to bring it back up, it would not connect. I wiped the drive and clean installed again and it worked, but when I shut down same problem won't connect. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Bill Presho __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.1 vs sound
--- rjaallen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hello
i am a newbie and i have a problem.
i have a cmi 8330 cs sound card which is supported by linux, but
the problem i am running into is that i can not get any sound out
of my system. i go to the configuration program and get errors,
(which i do not understand) i have tried to change the settings for
the card and still keep getting the errors. i know that it sees the
card and states what kind of card it is i have also enabled sound
for the x desktop, but alas, no sound. is there something else i
need to do, something i need to download. (i.e. css) if there is,
what it tar and gunzip and where do i get them if this is what i
need.
I had problems getting my card to work too, not surprising in my case
since it was a cheap Soundblaster clone ("Highscreen Sound Boostar").
It's supported according to the Linux hardware compatability list
(not Mandrake's shorter list). There's no special driver for it
though, you have to use the AD1816 driver (or something similar).
I found two programs on LM 7.0 for configuring the sound card,
"soundconfig" by Mandrake and "sndconfig" by RedHat. The latter had a
longer list of drivers, so you might want to check that. There's also
"lothar" under "hardware configuration" in DrakConf, but it didn't
recognize my card and was of no further help.
My soundcard is plug and play but isn't recognized as such by
sndconfig, whereas soundconfig didn't seem to care. I got it working
nevertheless by entering suitable values for addresses, IRQs and DMA
channels (these can be discovered under Win95 by selecting "This
computer", right-clicking and choosing properties, then selecting the
second tab for hardware components (Apparaatbeheer on my Dutch
system).
I got my soundcard more or less working by using the Sound Blaster
driver in sndconfig. To be more precise, it was working in 8 bit mode
but not in 16 bit mode, many sounds would work, but others would just
generate heavily distorted noise. I tried to use the proper AD1816
driver but it didn't pass the sound test at first. The problem seems
to be that the card locks up if incorrect signals are sent (my
guess). In any case, restarting the computer helped, and now it's
working just fine.
In summary: try both soundconfig and sndconfig. Select the addresses,
IRQs and DMA channels Windows is using if your card isn't recognized.
If you've got the right driver and have configured it properly but it
fails the test, try rebooting.
Good luck,
John Hendrickx
please help, i really want to learn linux and try to get away from
microsoft windows as much as i can.
thank you
rick
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Re: [newbie] clock in title-bar
--- Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Hendrickx wrote: Is there a clock program that will display the time in a digital form in the title-bar of the active window? I want to autohide the Johntry either: xclock or asclock "xclock -d" will display a digital clock, but I can't place it in the title-bar of the active window, can I? I'll check out asclock tonight, see if it has that option. I've found an X11 program "xcuckoo" that should fit the bill, but it's from 1992 for R5. I'd prefer something more recent with regard to compatability, but maybe it'll compile and work all right. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Adding dirs to the path
3) Is it a standard *nix security configuration to not search the current directory? Most annoying for an OS/2, Win32, DOS based person. grin...I recall an explanation of this at one point but I can't recall There's an answer to this in the comp.unix.questions faq. The example they give is that in a publicly available directory like /tmp, there *might* be an executable named "ls". If the current directory is in your path you would execute that, with unexpected results. Paranoia, unless your sysop on a large system with many playful lusers. See item 2.13 in http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/unix-faq/faq/part2.html for further details. Be sure to read http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/sysadmin-recovery.html as well. We're all sysops now, at least for ourselves. What are you using as your LART? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
[newbie] boot stops at syslog
I had trouble booting into Linux today. The boot just stopped at the point when the "system logger" was being loaded. This has happened once before but it went away after I rebooted with "Linux" rather than "Linux-up" in LILO. I don't think the other boot option made a difference in that case, they both use the same kernel but Linux-up has an extra option. Today though, the system would just stop booting at the "system logger" point. I tried an interactive boot, disabled system logging, but X-windows wouldn't start. I hit the reset button, Linux did a check of root and home, found some errors, and everything proceeded properly from there on in. But I'd like to know what was going on and how to fix it if it ever happens again. Can I force a disk check during boot? Well, with the reset button I could, but that may not be the best way. I also booted into Windows, but found that internet wasn't responding properly (couldn't load web pages, but telnet and mail worked fine). Was Linux perhaps just encountering network problems at boot time, and should I have just waited? Thanks for any information, John Hendrickx __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
[newbie] kde menus
I've been trying to alter the main KDE menu but it seems to be reset when I login again. The KDE entries have been placed in a "default" menu and GNOME programs in my "personal" menu. This is with Linux-Mandrake 7.0, all Window managers installed. I want the GNOME stuff in a separate submenu, and the programs I use and know what they do in my personal menu. I don't want to just delete items in the present personal menu, the gnome menus are useful for trying things out and finding out what they do. I tried putting the files and folders in ~/.kde/share/applnk into a special Gnome subdirectory but KDE didn't let me move certain files. I logged in as root and it worked then, but KDE switched everything back to the old situation when I logged in again as user. The second time I used the KDE menu editor and had the basic setup I wanted, but when I logged in again, everything was reset. There's still a GNOME submenu with everything in the "personal" menu so I'm not doing something silly like modifying things in root and finding no changes in user. Logging in is slow too, it takes a minute or so longer as KDE resets everything to the original installation. KDE is a bit too much like Windows 95, thinks it knows what you want better than you do. Any solutions? An alternative app-launcher might be good, something like on-cue or Apollo for the Macintosh, if anyone is familiar with those. Advance thanks for any help, John Hendrickx __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] kde menus
--- Larry Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fortunately, if you're smarter than the interface, you can fix it in the Linux case :-) My guess is that you've got an ownership problem from all the jumping back and forth between root and yourself when you have been changing this stuff. It's pretty likely that the problem is that root owns the .kde directory and .kderc file in your home directory. If I'm right, doing No, I'm the owner of .kderc, .kde/ and its files and subdirectories. On the other hand, there isn't a straightforward relationship between the .kde/share/applnk and the menus. There's a .kde/share/applnk/John subdirectory which is named Gnome in the menus (there's no "John" submenu in any case) so some configuration information is being kept "somewhere" else. Maybe it's not wise to move the applnk files around, perhaps kmenus can't handle that properly (although the help-file indicates otherwise). I could try pruning the kde menu again, see if it works this time. Just hope this doesn't make the mess even worse. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] kde menus
--- A V Flinsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It all has to do with the switch to the Debian menuing system in 7.1 take a peek at the entries in /etc/menu and /usr/lib/menu along with whatever is in /usr/doc/menu-2.1.5/menu.txt No, I'm using version 7.0. I did a deja-news search and someone reported that the menus would revert if you installed a new RPM file. That makes sense, kmenus doubles as an index of programs installed through rpm. You can add stuff, but if you delete anything it gets restored when you log in again. So much for your "personal" menu. I guess the best course is to put personal items on the panel. There will be a new version of KDE in 7.2 apparently, I'm looking forward to that. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] bad table partitions in mandrake install
--- Jesse Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fdisk under Dos reads all of this fine. The Corel installer reads it fine, but then crashes on the actual beginning of the installation. RedHat 6.1 Install will not read this, and gives and error. In both Windows and Linux, right now, all of my partitions are readable and working fine. However, I cannot afford to lose any data on my Windows Extended partitions. Obviously, there is nothing in my Linux partition that I have to keep. Can someone help me out on this one? Am I going to have to reformat to get this distro in? What is this 'blank out' messsgae? "Blank out" means repartition and reformat the entire disk. That's not what you want. Try "sfdisk -V /dev/hda" to verify that your disk is properly partioned and formatted according to your present Linux system. It could be that partitions are overlapping. Do you happen to have a larger disk than your BIOS can support, with special software at boot time to fix this? The problem could be related to this. Last weekend I had some nasty problems with an incorrect partition table. Linux on my slave IDE disk worked fine, but DOS/Windows wouldn't even recognize my master disk after I'd installed a second Linux system on its second partition. The master disk is 15G, my BIOS only supports 8G. "sfdisk -V /dev/hda/" indicated that I had overlapping partitions and deleting the partitions with the new Linux system fixed the problem. Someone else had a similar problem this week, couldn't boot Windows, couldn't boot DOS from a floppy either. So proceed with caution, an incorrect partition table can really screw up your system. Good luck, John Hendrickx __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] security.sh in crontab
Frankly, I don't understand why it causes problems its set to nice=+19 sets it at the lowest priority. You must have your system really loaded when it runs for it to slow things down much. You're right, nice=+19 is lowest priority. I looked up the nice command in a Unix manual, it said nice -20 is the lowest priority. A different Unix dialect, perhaps. The security.sh program does really slow things down, key presses take several seconds to be executed. I'm using a 200 Mhz Pentium MMX with 64M RAM, pretty dated by todays standards but fast enough for me. I'm not running much, just Netscape perhaps, maybe a console, that's about it. Since the find commands are being run at low priority, it shouldn't slow things down too much, but it certainly does, or did, I've deleted it now. I think it was put in cron because I checked "medium security" somewhere in one of the configuration programs. I don't think it's really necessary unless you're using the computer as a server. It certainly didn't make me feel secure -- the first time it ran I thought my system had been hacked! Highly unlikely, but if your disks suddenly start whirring like mad and you can barely access your system, and you're a Linux newbie, well, you really start to worry. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] security.sh in crontab
I've got anacron set too, so it would start the next day when I restarted. I've just turned it off now. It might be useful but why run at nice +19, it really gets in the way now. --- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's part of msec, it just checks for world writable files, changed set-uid root files...basically anything that would tip you off that you've had an intrusion onto your system. I'm just a newbie though so I could be wrong, but I set that cronjob to go off around 5am when i'm not awake, so it doesn't matter either way. Adam - Original Message - From: "John Hendrickx" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 2:17 PM Subject: [newbie] security.sh in crontab I've noticed that my machine starts accessing the disks and slows to a crawl at 12:00 midnight. I've traced the problem to a line in my /etc/crontab file: # Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too. 0 0 * * *root/etc/security/msec/cron-sh/security.sh My question is, what does this "security.sh" script do? It's a real pain in the ass, it effectively disables my computer for about 10 minutes, but I'd like to know what it does first. It apparently searches my disks for certain files using "nice +19", which basically means "butt in and take over the whole machine". Can anyone tell me why this was installed in crontab, why it has to be so intrusive? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] wp8
I disagree. The fonts look awful (why can't WP just use the fonts provided by the OS? I've got my truetype fonts working now and they look fine in other applications). WP also insists on using its own printer drivers (what's the OS for guys?), and my printer isn't listed (works with other apps via pdq/ghostscript though). Then there are other minor irritants that help explain why Word captured the market: you can't open two documents at once, scrolling moves the cursor so you have to press page up or page down twice if its in the wrong position. But the fonts and the printer support are the real downsides in my opinion. Totally unnecessary too, having your own fonts and printer drivers was a big asset in the DOS days but has no place in a modern OS. --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was Oct 12, 2000, 10:58, when Pungki keyboarded: WP8 is indeed free, works great, is fast, and has all the features you can dream of :) Paul Hi. I'm using StarOffice (SO) in my LM 7.1. But my SO was running slow (but not too slow). So, I want to change SO to WP8. Anyone here using WP8 ? If yes, please share me about your experience, and then, is WP8 freeware program ? Thanks for your help. -Pungki -- RESPONDEZ S'IL VOUS PLAID Honk if you're Scottish. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Can not boot to windows after installation
I had a similar problem last weekend. Windows was on my primary-master, linux on my primary-slave. I installed a second version of Linux 7.0 on my master and after that Windows wouldn't boot and I couldn't boot from a DOS floppy, even though Linux recognized my Windows files and could read and write them. The problem turned out to be that I had overlapping partitions. "sfdisk -V /dev/hda" can verify if your partitions are as they should be. In my case, deleting the Linux partions on the master using fdisk in Linux fixed the problem. I didn't really need the second Linux installation since I had Linux on my slave disk, so I could take a rather radical course. Afterwards, I used DOS fdisk to recover the partition. So try "sfdisk -V /dev/hda", see if your partition table is correct. You could probably resize one of the overlapping partitions with fdisk, but I'm not sure that wouldn't cause data loss. Partition magic would be useful for a situation like this if you have it. Good luck, John Hendrickx --- Ercan Solak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi bascule, I tried removing the line you mentioned in lilo.conf and when I run lilo it complained about having a large disk and such stuff and adviced I put the line back so I did. Anyway thanks for answering. regards. On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, bascule wrote: hi, i'm no expert but i noticed in your lilo.conf the line 'lba32'if this refers to what i think it does you might try leaving this out, i think it refers to some sort of hard drive optimisation and although it may only affect the booting of linux and have nothing to do with windows i can't see the harm in trying, if i'm talking rubbish i'm sure some soul will jump in and educate us both! bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, just installed LM-7.1 in automatic installation mode, installation went smoothly (as implied by the term "automatic") but after I reboot I noticed that I had some problems ranging from desperate to minor. I have been reading previous archives for two days and after trying suggested methods and failing I decided to post this one. Thanks for your patience and answers. Before I installed LM-7.1 I had a system running Win98-SE and a harddisk (20 GB) with 1 primary (5 GB) partition and 3 logical drives in the extended partition (each about 5 GB). During the installation I removed the partition corresponding to the last logical drive and installed linux and swap partitions instead. Now after installation I have the following problems. 1. After I reboot the machine LILO asks which OS to boot, when I choose windows it just hangs while the HDD redlight remains on. Linux boots normal, though. Somebody suggested using DOS' fdisk /mbr but I can not boot the machine from startup floppy either. From linux I can access windows partitions and seems there is no data loss in them. In short, LM (or LILO) does not permit me in anyway to boot to win98. In desperation, I did a reinstall of LM but it did not work. This one is my most urgent problem. How can I bring my WIN98 back? I attached my lilo.conf file and the output from fdisk -l zzz 2. Less urgent; I have a monitor LG 795FT Plus, video card Creative VANTA 16 MB, and sound card Creative Vibra 128. How can I get linux to detect those devices? Currently I can use 1280x1024 16bpp resolution but I know it is able to give true color even in higher resolutions. It detects sound card as es1371, videocard as RIVA TNT2 and monitor as SVGA high-frequency. How can I get linux to correctly recognize my hardware configuration? Any help is greatly appreciated. Ercan Solak Name: lilo.conf lilo.conf Type: unspecified type (APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM) Encoding: BASE64 Description: lilo.conf Name: zzz zzz Type: unspecified type (APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM) Encoding: BASE64 Description: zzz Ercan Solak --- Electrical Eng. Dept., Bilkent University, 06533 Ankara, Turkey. [EMAIL PROTECTED],http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~ercan phone : +90-312-290 2618 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!
--- Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Hendrickx wrote: I've screwed up badly. I installed Linux on the second segment of my primary IDE drive and now I can't boot into Windows 95. What's more, if I boot from a floppy my c-disk or any other hard disk isn't recognized anymore. Help! I've tried fdisk /mbr from a floppy, that didn't work. The Windows files are there, I can access them as /dev/DOS_hda1. Any suggestions? [snip] Johnopen konsole, su to root and execute: fdisk /dev/hda then type: p then using your mouse and left mouse button highlight the output of the 'p' command you just did. Paste it into a reply to this message, using your middle mouse button. Here is what mine looks like: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1866 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 467 3751146b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 468 1867 11245500f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 468 469 16033+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 935 1401 3751146b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda7 1402 1867 3743113+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda8 470 752 2273166 83 Linux /dev/hda9 753 784257008+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda10 785 935 1212876 83 Linux This is what it looks like. It's a 15G hard disk, initally with 4 partitions. Windows 95 was/is on the first, the third and fourth are still empty FAT32 partitions, and the second partition has Linux-Mandrake 7.0 installed on it. /dev/hda1 appears to be a boot partition so everything *should* be fine. Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 104209632+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 105 787 13769285 Extended /dev/hda5 105 231256000+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 232 235 8032+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 236 239 8032+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 240 243 8032+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 244 247 8032+ 83 Linux Alan
Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!
--- Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Hendrickx wrote: I've screwed up badly. I installed Linux on the second segment of my primary IDE drive and now I can't boot into Windows 95. What's more, if I boot from a floppy my c-disk or any other hard disk isn't recognized anymore. Help! I've tried fdisk /mbr from a floppy, that didn't work. The Windows files are there, I can access them as /dev/DOS_hda1. Any suggestions? [snip] Johnopen konsole, su to root and execute: fdisk /dev/hda then type: p then using your mouse and left mouse button highlight the output of the 'p' command you just did. Paste it into a reply to this message, using your middle mouse button. Here is what mine looks like: Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 104209632+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 105 787 13769285 Extended /dev/hda5 105 231256000+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 232 235 8032+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 236 239 8032+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 240 243 8032+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 244 247 8032+ 83 Linux I've included the output as an attachment because I don't seem to be able to paste in Netscape 4.75. I tried using kfm as a browser instead but it doesn't send my name and password properly to Yahoo. And posting via kmail doesn't seem to be accepted (or maybe it just takes a long time). In any case, the output looks similar to yours. /dev/hda1 is recognized as a FAT32 boot device. I should be able to boot Windows, but I can't. The problem could be related to the fact that my BIOS doesn't recognize the geometry of this disk because it's larger than 8G. I've installed Disk Manager software from the manufacturer Seagate and I suspect that something is screwed up there. I get a prompt during boot to press the spacebar to boot from a floppy but if I try that now the boot hangs after a few seconds. That's what happens with my Win95 rescue disk too, autoexec.bat and config.sys disabled (the DM software is installed on this floppy). I can boot with my Win95 installation floppy in a normal manner, before I get the spacebar prompt. If I do that, fdisk recognizes only 8M, no partitions. The Seagate DM diskette also boots but doesn't recognize partitions. Reinstalling the Seagate DM software doesn't help, neither does rewriting the MBR from the Seagate DM diskette. I could try repartioning with the Seagate DM diskette. Maybe I could get it to recognize the partitions but I suspect I'll lose everything if I do that. There's not enough space on my slave IDE disk to hold all the Win95 files, otherwise I could just reformat the primary disk and be done with it. Looks bleak. Any suggestions __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/ Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1866 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 467 3751146b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 468 1867 11245500f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 468 469 16033+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 935 1401 3751146b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda7 1402 1867 3743113+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda8 470 752 2273166 83 Linux /dev/hda9 753 784257008+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda10 785 935 1212876 83 Linux
Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!
I've found out a little more about the nature of my problem (Linux on my slave IDE works fine but I can't boot Windows on my masteer IDE after installing a second Linux system). Basically I guess the partition table is all messed up. Running diskdrake reports "partitions sector # 15004773) (14652MB) and sector #12595023 (4737 MB) are overlapping". Those are at the end of my fourth FAT32 partition and somewhere in the second Linux system respectively. I also get contradictory information on the contents of the FAT32 partitions. Everythings fine according to du, but df indicates that files aren't on the partitions they're supposed to be: root@MyLinux ~ du -sh /mnt/DOS_hda1/ 1.6G/mnt/DOS_hda1 root@MyLinux ~ du -sh /mnt/DOS_hda6/ 1.6G/mnt/DOS_hda6 root@MyLinux ~ du -sh /mnt/DOS_hda7/ 12k /mnt/DOS_hda7 My first FAT32 partitions contains my Windows 95 files and my third FAT32 partition contains a copy (in case I have to do something that would destroy the first partition). The fourth FAT32 partition is empty. Everything is as it should be here. root@MyLinux ~ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb6 2.1G 1.2G 784M 61% / /dev/hda1 3.6G 48k 3.6G 0% /mnt/DOS_hda1 /dev/hda6 3.6G 1.7G 1.8G 48% /mnt/DOS_hda6 /dev/hda7 3.6G 1.2G 2.3G 34% /mnt/DOS_hda7 /dev/hdb5 11M 3.1M 7.7M 29% /boot /dev/hdb7 573M 428M 116M 79% /home According to this however, the first FAT32 partition contains only 48k. The third partition /dev/hda6 contains 1.7G, that might me a rounding error. The fourth partition /dev/hda7 contains 1.2G, although it should be empty. The partition table seems to be out of whack. root@MyLinux ~ fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1866 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 467 3751146b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 468 1867 11245500f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 468 469 16033+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 935 1401 3751146b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda7 1402 1867 3743113+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda8 470 752 2273166 83 Linux /dev/hda9 753 784257008+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda10 785 935 1212876 83 Linux Here's the complete layout of my master IDE. Everything's as it should be according to this. Bottom line is that my partition table is all screwed up. Does anyone know how to fix it? All help appreciated, John Hendrickx
Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!
--- Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Hendrickx wrote: Bottom line is that my partition table is all screwed up. Does anyone know how to fix it? Johnthe problem I see is that the ending cylinder of hda10 (Linux) and the beginning cylinder of hda6 (Fat32) are the same cylinder. They are contesting over the ownership of cylinder 935. So, either hda10 needs to end at cylinder 934 thus giving 935 to hda6 or hda6 needs to start at 936 thus giving 935 hda10. You can do this with Linux fdisk by deleting one of the partitions and recreating it with the new/correct parameters. The trouble is, how to decide which one to change? I don't know that. So I suppose you could guess at one way, test it and if it doesn't help or makes things worse, then try it the other way. Hope this helps. sfdisk reported that the problem was between hda6 and hda9. I used fdisk to remove the Linux partions and now I'm e-mailing from Windows again :-) The problem seems to be that diskdrake on Linux-Mandrake 7.0 doesn't understand large disks. It wrote the faulty partitions at any rate. Oh, well, at least I got my Windows partition back. Thanks for the help. John Hendrickx __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Can't boot into Windows!
I've screwed up badly. I installed Linux on the second segment of my primary IDE drive and now I can't boot into Windows 95. What's more, if I boot from a floppy my c-disk or any other hard disk isn't recognized anymore. Help! I've tried fdisk /mbr from a floppy, that didn't work. The Windows files are there, I can access them as /dev/DOS_hda1. Any suggestions? Full story: I had Windows 95 installed on my primary IDE disk and Linux on the slave. The primary disk is 15G so I thought I had to put Linux on the slave because of the 1024 cylinder limit. That doesn't turn out to be true, so now I was trying to get Linux onto the primary disk, on the second of four approximately 4G partitions (the last is of course slightly smaller). So I tried to install Linux-Mandrake 7.0 on the second partition, basically to get the directory structure, after which I would copy the files from /dev/hdb. The installation ran into snags, I couldn't get X working (it's working fine now on the older installation), but that didn't matter since /home and / were due to be replaced by the older installation. Afterwards, I could boot into the new Linux installation, but not into Windows. I used my rescue disk to restore LILO so I could boot into the old Linux installation, it still works fine and I can read and access my Windows files from here. But I have no idea how to restore my old Win95 system. Help greatly appreciated. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/
[newbie] getting a printer to work with pdq
I've managed to get my Brother HL-720 printer to work. I'm a bit surprised because I thought it was a Windows only printer. But a combination of pdq and a custom ghostscript file frow linuxprinting.org did the trick. The problem is, or was, that this only worked when I logged in as root. On my regular account, printing would time-out because that account didn't have access to the /dev/lp0 port. It works now because I set the permissions to lp0 to rw-rw-rw-. Well, it works, but that doesn't seem to be the right way to do it. Does anyone have any better suggestions? I'm really impressed by the compatibility of Linux, BTW. I'd expected to have to buy at least a new sound card for my el-cheapo clone machine, and I was sure this printer would be a large paperweight as far as Linux was concerned. Driver support is great. John Hendrickx
