Re: [newbie] newgrp
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 02:57, Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 14 Aug 2003 1:28 am, Dan Jones wrote: For example, I have a web server. I don't want my web pages to be world writable. However, I do want multiple people (say, a development team) to be able to modify the files. So I create a group called www and add the users to that group. I then assign ownership of the html files to that group (and set group permissions for those files to rwx.) However, when I log in I'm not a member of the www group (unless I change my primary group to www.) If I attempt to edit the html file, I'll get permission denied when I try to save it. However, if I open a terminal, execute the command newgrp www, my group is changed to www. I can then edit the file in vi and save it. However, I can't edit the file in, say, amaya, because the newgrp command only affects the shell it's executed in (ie, the terminal.) My xwindows session still sees me in my default group. Now, I could change my default group to www, but what if I'm a member of several different development groups? I don't want to have different log-ins for each group, and have to log out and log back in as a different user when I want to work on a different project. However, unless there's a way to execute newgrp and have it affect the parent process, I don't see a way around this. Am I missing something fundamental in my understanding of groups and permissions? Only that your group is inherited by processes that you start. If you do newgrp www and then start a file manager or editor from that commandline they will be in group www. I understand that. That's why I pointed out that I could execute newgrp in a terminal and edit the file via vi. Of course, I could run any other program from the command line as well, but doesn't that defeat half the purpose of running a GUI in the first place? It would be useful to have the KDE panels able to switch groups, but I don't think they can. It would be extremely useful. It's hard to believe that this issue hasn't been addressed and solved. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] newgrp
How does one go about using newgrp in an xwindows environment? Executing the command in a shell only effects that shell. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Background execution
I'm installing POPFile, a Beysian filtering program for spam. I've created a startup script but run into a problem. Whenever you execute the perl script in the background, using ./popfile.pl , it requires an ENTER press before you get your command prompt back. What causes this, and how do I fix it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Background execution
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 19:20, Miark wrote: On 11 Aug 2003 17:15:18 -0400, Dan Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm installing POPFile, a Beysian filtering program for spam. I've created a startup script but run into a problem. Whenever you execute the perl script in the background, using ./popfile.pl , it requires an ENTER press before you get your command prompt back. What causes this, and how do I fix it? Add the following line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local : cd /usr/local/bin/popfile; ./popfile.pl That will start POPFile automatically when you start your box. Oh, and change the path (/usr/local/bin/popfile) to wherever you installed POPFile. Thanks, but I'm aware of that. However, I'd prefer to create a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d that allows me to start, stop and restart the server. (I'm hacking on the perl source and want to be able to restart easily.) Everything works fine except I have to hit ENTER before getting my prompt back. This also happens if I start the file in the background directly on the command line. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake
C'mmon guys, Fosters, Tooheys, Rickards - pour it down the drain and use the containers for ballasting. STEINLAGER - the real drink !! Lanman - I STILL haven't touched that email server - it just works ! Cheers Peter Guess I'll understand it when they stop saying that Foster's is Australian for Beer in all the commercials. And we may make the stuff for Americans, but it's not as strong as the beer we have here. It's thinned out for Americans. Eitther way, this is about taking a few days off, flying down to see Stephen Frankie, kickin' back and relaxing, not about beer. Besides, I'm a Rickard's man myself. By the way, call me a schmuck again, and I'll personally fly down there, rip your head off, and puke down the hole. On the other hand, if you can suggest a good beer when I get there, I'll buy the first round, and we'll find a couple of companions to cut his lawn. Your call Richard. Either way, I'm good to go if you are. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 07/08/2003 at 6:12 PM Richard Hackwith wrote: At 01:32 PM 8/7/2003 +0800, you wrote: Lanman, when are you gonna understand.. Fosters is the cats wiz we export overseas for schmucks such as yourself :-) I don't know anyone here that drinks it at all The Foster's sold in the USA is actually made in Canada. Richard *** Richard Hackwith Sacramento CA[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Background execution
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 21:57, Miark wrote: On 11 Aug 2003 20:27:43 -0400, Dan Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, but I'm aware of that. However, I'd prefer to create a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d that allows me to start, stop and restart the server. (I'm hacking on the perl source and want to be able to restart easily.) Everything works fine except I have to hit ENTER before getting my prompt back. This also happens if I start the file in the background directly on the command line. Since you have to press Enter after any command, I guess I'm still not clear on the problem. Do you mean you have to press Enter _twice_ before getting the prompt back? Yes. I enter ./POPFile on the command line and press ENTER. POPFile starts up, spits out a few lines of text (Loading (blah) ... Initializing (blah) ... Starting (blah) ... POPFile Engine running) and then displays a blank line. Evidently, I'm at a command prompt, because anything I type shows up. If I type a command and press enter, it's executed. (I didn't realize this when I first posted.) But I do not get the prompt, just a blank line, until I press ENTER a second time. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:49, Richard Jones wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:31, Richard Jones wrote: Wow, thanks for the quick reply! On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: You might want to check and modify your /etc/ld.so.conf to include some of the lib dirs found in your /usr/lib - including /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib as well - and make sure you run ldconfig to rebuild the cache - also - you can put KDEDIR='/usr' in your /etc/profile along with (towards the end of it) export KDEDIR so that KDE knows where it lives... This all seems rather unnecessary, but in desperation I gave it a go anyway :) Am going to try reinstall. Will see what happens... Nope, fresh install, following all the rules. KDE still breaks. Any more ideas? Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installing 9.1...now! Is it normal to have long lulls?
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 19:38, eric huff wrote: Hi folks, I was just about to go to bed, but then though Ah, i'll just toss the cd in and see if it boots ok... Well, now i'm installing it. I am using my old 200MHz Pentium, 4Gig hard drive, So, is it because i am using an old slow computer that i have long (sometimes minutes) delays waiting for the next event? (like when it's looking for available packages) On my P-III 450 the delays were longish, so I'd expect them to be longer on your machine, yeah. Some of the package stuff can take ages 'cos there's lots of crossreferences and dependencies to figure (not to mention just the loading of the package lists) Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 20:31, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 5:56 am, Richard Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ konsole Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension RENDER missing on display :0.0. It looks as if KDE expects the glx extension to be present. Take a look at /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and look for a line in the Module section Load glx If it is not present add it. This does nothing - my card is an S3 Trio3d/2x and GLX isn't supported. If it is present take a look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log to see if it is failing for some reason. No such log, sadly. My .xsession-errors has this in it though, when I try to run eg. konsole: Window manager warning: Window 0x584 (Konsole - ) sets SM_CLIENT_ID on itself, instead of on the WM_CLIENT_LEADER window as specified in the ICCCM. Does anyone else get that when they run konsole? Ie. can that be ignored? Seems strange that it'd cause me problems and no-one else... Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 23:44, Greg Meyer wrote: There was a revision (the final one) to libqt that turned anti-aliasing on by default that caused problems when the render extension was missing. This prevents qt apps from running in virtual sewssions like vnc and on video cards that do not support render. Hurm, AA appears to be working with some things - eg. Mozilla. I guess that could be working through different mechanisms though. Perhaps I should toddle off to the local computer swap meet and buy a decent video card. I recompilked the qt3 without that patch and it solved the problem for me. If you want to try the rpms, get them from here http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rpms Sorry, I get file not found for that URL. Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 07:03, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 19:05, Richard Jones wrote: Nope, fresh install, following all the rules. KDE still breaks. Any more ideas? Richard Fresh install - hmmmwell, something is obviously wrong here...have you reset your runlevel to runlevel3 and tried doing the mods to the /etc/ld.so.conf and the /etc/profile again? Nope - will do in a bit. I'm currently compiling KDE 3.1.1 (just alsa, libs and base) to see if a home-built version will work. And the word is in. bzzt. no-go. Apps built manually still barf just like the others. Might have to try the Qt solution that Greg Meyer proposed - though the url he gave is broken, so I'll compile from scratch instead. While that's running, I think I'll go off and see how much a GF4 or similar costs... Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 23:44, Greg Meyer wrote: http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rpms uppercase RPMS: http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/RPMS/ Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 08:55 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 05:06 pm, Richard Jones wrote: I recompilked the qt3 without that patch and it solved the problem for me. If you want to try the rpms, get them from here http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rpms Sorry, I get file not found for that URL. Sorry, case sensitive http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/RPMS Yep, thanks! Your Qt build has gotten KDE working, yay! I still think I'm going to go see about getting a video card that supports GLX and RENDER - I've put up with this unaccelerated $15 cheapo card for too long :) Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Optushome on Mdk 9
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 08:55 am, Ronald Kuwawi wrote: Hi all, I'm very newbie in Linux, and got dualboot Win2000 and Mdk 9. Does anyone has any success installing Optushome on Mdk 9? [Optushome is a cable modem service in Australia - I live in Sydney]. It did recognize my Motorola SB 4100 cable modem at the installation, but I couldn't figure out what the next step is. You should just be able to use the MDK network config tools to set it up. You'll need to identify which ethernet port it's plugged into if you have more than one. Otherwise, you will need to set up DHCP, with your hostname (something like c453722) and the IP address of the gateway at optus. The DNS and everything else will be configured automatically once you get the DHCP going. You can test the DHCP stuff on the command line, but I forget what the command is, sorry :( Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] shorewall pain and agony
I've got a machine that I use as a firewall and server. It has two ethernet cards: eth0 - cable modem to the internet eth1 - local LAN I set up the connections fine to access the internet and share the connection. The connection sharing seems to always want to set up ppp+, even though I don't have a ppp+ connection defined. Easy enough to change in the config dialog though. So that seems fine. Looking in the shorewall config, all seems well. I then set up the firewall to only allow ssh through - I don't trust these cable networks an inch :) The only problem is - as soon as I use the firewall config gui, the shorewall config grows a ppp+ connection that it thinks is my connection to the internet. Needless to say, things simply don't work after that. I've managed to get the setup working (through manual editing of the shorewall configs) to the point of the local LAN machines being able to access the samba shares on the server. They can't share the connection though. Any ideas what might cause the ppp+ wierdness? Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Woo! MDK 9.1 and KDE problems all better
I've just installed my AU$100 GF4 card (oo, 850FPS in gears :) and all the problems I was having before have magically gone away. Too bad MDK 9.1 doesn't support the crappier video cards of the world out of the box though :( Thanks everyone here for your help in getting me going! Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE
I've installed 9.1 from the ISOs that I downloaded and burnt to CD. The install went flawlessly, but once I rebooted I found that no KDE application would work. I've had to startx xdm manually to even get X11 to start up. Any KDE app I try to run once X11 is going just quits out as soon as it tries to open a window. Other apps (eg. Evolution, Mozilla, various terminals, the Mandrake RPM tools, ...) work fine - it appears to just be the KDE apps. For example, I run konsole, and get the following terminal output. Note, I nuked my ~/.kde dir, and ran konsole twice. The first has a whole bunch of KDE environment initialisation (and then dies). The second just has this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ konsole Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension RENDER missing on display :0.0. I get a flash of some window, and then the app quits. I used strace to try to figure what might be going on, but it just dies with a SIGSEGV after doing some ioctl calls, then calls the KDE crash handler (which doesn't actually work, like all the other KDE stuff). Does anyone have a clue as to what might be going wrong??? Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE
Wow, thanks for the quick reply!
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
You might want to check and modify your /etc/ld.so.conf to include some
of the lib dirs found in your /usr/lib - including /usr/lib and
/usr/local/lib as well - and make sure you run ldconfig to rebuild the
cache - also - you can put KDEDIR='/usr' in your /etc/profile along with
(towards the end of it) export KDEDIR so that KDE knows where it
lives...
This all seems rather unnecessary, but in desperation I gave it a go
anyway :)
Oddly enough, when I have /usr/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf and do ldconfig
-v, I get a warning that /usr/lib appears twice. Huh. Normally the file
only contains:
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/lib/qt3/lib
After adding the two lines (/usr/lib and /usr/local/lib) and setting
KDEDIR it still didn't work :(
FWIW, here's the strace output just before the crash:
open(/etc/group, O_RDONLY)= 12
fcntl64(12, F_GETFD)= 0
fcntl64(12, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)= 0
fstat64(12, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=696, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0x4002
read(12, named:x:77:\nabce:x:509:\nabcd:x:5..., 4096) = 696
close(12) = 0
munmap(0x4002, 4096)= 0
fchown32(0xb, 0x, 0x5) = 0
chmod(/dev/pts/1, 0620) = 0
fcntl64(10, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
brk(0) = 0x8194000
brk(0x8195000) = 0x8195000
ioctl(10, TIOCSWINSZ, {ws_row=4, ws_col=14, ws_xpixel=0, ws_ypixel=0}) =
0
ioctl(6, FIONREAD, [1]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x8195000
brk(0x8196000) = 0x8196000
ioctl(6, FIONREAD, [1]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x8196000
brk(0x8197000) = 0x8197000
ioctl(6, FIONREAD, [1]) = 0
ioctl(6, FIONREAD, [1]) = 0
ioctl(6, FIONREAD, [1]) = 0
gettimeofday({1048918847, 852425}, NULL) = 0
brk(0) = 0x8197000
brk(0x8198000) = 0x8198000
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
alarm(3)= 0
close(8)= 0
getrlimit(0x7, 0xbfffd568) = 0
close(0)= 0
[and so on, closing all fds]
Richard
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Re: [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:31, Richard Jones wrote: Wow, thanks for the quick reply! On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: You might want to check and modify your /etc/ld.so.conf to include some of the lib dirs found in your /usr/lib - including /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib as well - and make sure you run ldconfig to rebuild the cache - also - you can put KDEDIR='/usr' in your /etc/profile along with (towards the end of it) export KDEDIR so that KDE knows where it lives... This all seems rather unnecessary, but in desperation I gave it a go anyway :) Am going to try reinstall. Will see what happens... There's a chance that this is caused by my manual adding of users post-install - but I'd be most concerned if it was. Just can't think of any other reason why an error-free install could result in unusable KDE... If all else fails, I'll just download the KDE source and install that. I'd rather go with RPMs though, at least for a while :) Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] four shots into his Dell laptop Sunday (3/2) morning
this cpu had to be running windoz caz linux would have fought back LOL http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/georgedoughty1.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] FTP Mandrake 9.0
hello all i have a question i need to set up a ftp server for friends/users and fix it to where all need a user name and password before they can log on to only there folders/files and not be able to see other users folders/files My Setup i have mandrake 9.0 full install power pack edition with pro ftp running and i have the latest ver of webmin i am on cable modem via linksys 4 port router/hub up to date on firmware Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] FTP Mandrake 9.0
ok so i donot need to configure anythink other than adding a user what about passwords and i donot need to use webmin for anything?? - Original Message - From: robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] FTP Mandrake 9.0 David Jones wrote: hello all i have a question i need to set up a ftp server for friends/users and fix it to where all need a user name and password before they can log on to only there folders/files and not be able to see other users folders/files My Setup i have mandrake 9.0 full install power pack edition with pro ftp running and i have the latest ver of webmin i am on cable modem via linksys 4 port router/hub up to date on firmware Proftp normally configures itself - just make them users on your machine, put them in the same group as the home directory for the files you want to share with them, give that directory group read permissions, and you're up and running. Sir Robin -- The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] FTP Mandrake 9.0
ok i made a user/password but for some odd reasen i can onle get to it via an ftp program an would like to be able to get to it via url like ---ftp://xxx.xx-xx.biz but i keep getting not able to open folder anyone know how to fix this ps::: I used USERDRAKE to add a user ///should i add the user to a group or what please help thank you all - Original Message - From: robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 3:42 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] FTP Mandrake 9.0 David Jones wrote: ok so i donot need to configure anythink other than adding a user what about passwords Well, you create the password when you create the user. and i donot need to use webmin for anything?? Nope. Just make sure your firewalls etc are in order. Sir Robin -- The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Hams on the list
Me too ZL1BVJ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Márkus Béla Sent: Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:57 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hams on the list Hi Guys, one more. 73/DX de HA5DI, Béla Chris Slater-Walker wrote: Chris M0BOP73On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Keith Powell wrote: On Monday 24 Feb 2003 8:16 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote: Big snip Also BTW Dan your email address looks like a ham call Great to seeanother amature radio fan on the list. I wonder how many more hams arehere. Enjoy Marc KM5KW Add me to the list!Cheers (or should I say 73)KeithG4JVX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] help!!! ftp server troubles
i am tring to set up a ftp server for a friend to keek stuff on my computer and he wonts his folder user name / password protected IE..he wonts a user name and a password for his stuff on my computer i am using mandrake 9.0 with pro ftp i have the newest vet of webmin and...i have verry little exp with this setting up user/password anywhere even with apache ...but thats another story ill get to that later lol o and BTW he wonts to use his browser not a ftp client to log on my computer IE url would beftp://...xxx then he would type a user name and a password in a pop up box any help would be greatly apreacated Thank You David Jones Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode
Title: ML9 boots only in text mode I've gone through hell to get ML9 installed on a 4.5GB hard drive I had going spare. Tried it first on a Pentium I 90Mhz with 64MB RAM using every floppy disk image in the book... no dice. Then tried it on a Pentium II 266MhZ with 256MB RAM using every floppy image in the book... no dice. Third try was on a Pentium 4 1.6GhZ with 512MB DDR RAM using the CD-ROM image... beautiful install first time. Booted no problem; I played with it for a few minutes then shut it down no problem. Here's the problem: the P4 is my everyday machine running WinXP and isn't the machine I want Linux installed on. So, I removed the 4.5GB hard drive with the fresh ML9 install, returned my WinXP to its regular config for everyday use, and installed the Linux hard drive in my Pentium II (see above). This machine boots, but it only boots into text mode... I don't get a GUI of any kind. My thinking is that the Linux config is expecting a P4 and all the hardware that was on that machine. Is there any way I can reconfigure the Linux setup WITHOUT having to reinstall it (since I already know it won't install on the PII machine)??? ANY help is appreciated! Thanks in advance, Robert
RE: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode
Title: RE: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode XFDrake? I'm a brand-new-to-this-newbie... where the heck do I find XFDrake? Robert -- From: ET Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 9, 2002 3:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode File: message.footer On Monday 09 December 2002 10:23 am, Jones, Robert wrote: I've gone through hell to get ML9 installed on a 4.5GB hard drive I had going spare. Tried it first on a Pentium I 90Mhz with 64MB RAM using every floppy disk image in the book... no dice. Then tried it on a Pentium II 266MhZ with 256MB RAM using every floppy image in the book... no dice. Third try was on a Pentium 4 1.6GhZ with 512MB DDR RAM using the CD-ROM image... beautiful install first time. Booted no problem; I played with it for a few minutes then shut it down no problem. Here's the problem: the P4 is my everyday machine running WinXP and isn't the machine I want Linux installed on. So, I removed the 4.5GB hard drive with the fresh ML9 install, returned my WinXP to its regular config for everyday use, and installed the Linux hard drive in my Pentium II (see above). This machine boots, but it only boots into text mode... I don't get a GUI of any kind. My thinking is that the Linux config is expecting a P4 and all the hardware that was on that machine. Is there any way I can reconfigure the Linux setup WITHOUT having to reinstall it (since I already know it won't install on the PII machine)??? ANY help is appreciated! Thanks in advance, Robert it is not the p4, but the video chipset, and the MOBO chipset. try running XFdrake.
RE: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode
Title: RE: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode Thanks... I'll give it a whirl and hopefully you won't hear from me tomorrow! Robert -- From: ET Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 9, 2002 3:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode File: message.footer login as root, (in a text console since you don't want to have X running (and you cann't get X to run)), without the quotes, type XFdrake On Monday 09 December 2002 03:02 pm, Jones, Robert wrote: XFDrake? I'm a brand-new-to-this-newbie... where the heck do I find XFDrake? Robert -- From: ET Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 9, 2002 3:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ML9 boots only in text mode File: message.footer On Monday 09 December 2002 10:23 am, Jones, Robert wrote: I've gone through hell to get ML9 installed on a 4.5GB hard drive I had going spare. Tried it first on a Pentium I 90Mhz with 64MB RAM using every floppy disk image in the book... no dice. Then tried it on a Pentium II 266MhZ with 256MB RAM using every floppy image in the book... no dice. Third try was on a Pentium 4 1.6GhZ with 512MB DDR RAM using the CD-ROM image... beautiful install first time. Booted no problem; I played with it for a few minutes then shut it down no problem. Here's the problem: the P4 is my everyday machine running WinXP and isn't the machine I want Linux installed on. So, I removed the 4.5GB hard drive with the fresh ML9 install, returned my WinXP to its regular config for everyday use, and installed the Linux hard drive in my Pentium II (see above). This machine boots, but it only boots into text mode... I don't get a GUI of any kind. My thinking is that the Linux config is expecting a P4 and all the hardware that was on that machine. Is there any way I can reconfigure the Linux setup WITHOUT having to reinstall it (since I already know it won't install on the PII machine)??? ANY help is appreciated! Thanks in advance, Robert it is not the p4, but the video chipset, and the MOBO chipset. try running XFdrake.
RE: [newbie] alcatel speed touch pro Mand9
If your router is working for windows already and has run OK on RH8 the it MUST be your MD9 TCP/IP settings that are incorrect. I assume you can ping the router or access the WEB STYLE config page ... Suggest you have a close hard look at the TCP/IP settings , in particular the Gateway IP and the DNS settings. If you know the IP of an ISP or favourite web site, try to ping it by name and by IP. If you get a response by IP only then the DNS settings are wrong, if you get no response to either then the gateway is wrong and leads me to ask can you ping your router (by IP) ?? If you are using static IP's, check you have not mis-typed the IP's so the router and computer are in different subnets.You dont say whether your windows is static IP or using the router and getting an IP from it's inbuilt DHCP -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of greg Sent: Friday, 29 November 2002 11:03 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: [newbie] alcatel speed touch pro Mand9 Hi Charlie, where he says in his advice about changing my vpi/-vci values what does he mean. I have never heard of this. Also, I don't need a user name or login, my computer runs through my router (the alcatel speed touch pro), and that negotiates the connection to my isp. It is always on. I am still having no luck getting the thing to work. Really, all I should have to do is give it the right info, as below, and it will all work. Is there a bug in Mandrake or something, cause this is starting to bug me. As I said, Red Hat 8 worked right out of the box. Windows even works straight off the mark, with no configuration. Anyone have any more suggestions? thanks greg - Original Message - From: Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 1:46 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] alcatel speed touch pro Mand9 On November 27, 2002 03:48 am, greg wrote: Hi list, new to linux, and Mandrake. I am having a problem trying to get my internet working in Mandrake. Previously I used Red Hat 8, and the connection was established automatically, with no input from me, and worked faultlessly. With Mandrake, it just does not want to work. With the install wizard, I selected to automatically detect, and when it got to the update section, it could not connect. Now in the system, I still can't get it to work. I never took down the settings in Red hat before changing, so I have no reference as to how it worked before. All I have are the settings in my windows system, which are as follows: Address assigned by DHCP I.P. 10.0.0.1 Subnet mask 255.0.0.0 Default gateway 10.0.0.138 DHCP server 10.0.0.138 DNS server 10.0.0.138 the ethernet card I am using is a realtek the modem is a alcatel speed touch pro. It is acting purely as a router, and I am not currently required to enter in any login names or passwords. The connection is always on. Please help me!!! regards Greg Hi Greg; Have you read this? http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2165lang=en I Googled for it. Wrap is going to kill this URL probably: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=alcatel+speed+tou ch+mandrake+9+supportbtnG=Google+Search Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org We're here to give you a computer, not a religion. - attributed to Bob Pariseau, at the introduction of the Amiga -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] networking - I can get into my box but not back out
Hi - I just installed mandrake 7.1 on a new box. I am trying to duplicate a box that died last week and reusing the same server name and IP address. But I clearly have something set wrong. I can see this new box from the network and I can telnet and ftp in to it, but I can't get out to the network when I'm on it. I have a PC plugged in to the same subnet, and I used the same subnet mask on the linux box that is used for the PC. but on the PC I have a default gateway, I put this in as the default gateway on the linux box as well. I guess I'm missing the broadcast address? any ideas on how I would determine what that should be? thanks - Ebeth Jones Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] networking - I can get into my box but not back out
This worked, I changed the broadcast address as Gerald said and now it is working. Thanks alot! On Mon, 04 Feb 2002, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Mon, 04 Feb 2002, Elizabeth Jones wrote: %_Hi - I just installed mandrake 7.1 on a new box. I am trying to duplicate a box that died last week and reusing the same server name and IP address. But I clearly have something set wrong. I can see this new box from the network and I can telnet and ftp in to it, but I can't get out to the network when I'm on it. I have a PC plugged in to the same subnet, and I used the same subnet mask on the linux box that is used for the PC. but on the PC I have a default gateway, I put this in as the default gateway on the linux box as well. I guess I'm missing the broadcast address? any ideas on how I would determine what that should be? It would be the highest address in the subnet. for instance 192.168.1.255 -- Gerald Waugh Registered Linux User 255245 register at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Where is the kernel configuration?
I am using Mandrake Linux 8.1 Standard edition on my PC. I have only been using Linux for about two weeks. I want to modify my kernal. According to my Linux for Dummies book, there is supposed to be a /usr/src/linux directory, but I don't see it. I appreciate help on this subject because I want to tweak the kernel for my system. What are the steps to modifying the kernel in Mandrake 8.1? --Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Security Question/Problem
The Snort/Bastille feature is causing problems while refreshing large lists of servers to ping, and get a reply from. I use a program called Gamespy (you probably know what it is) itll ping and query game servers to get info on them, but when I ping large lists of game server, the Mandrake firewall will stop taking in ping replies from those hosts. I was just wondering if there was a way to disable, or loosen the threshold the firewall has on blocking certain hosts, because this is very annoying, and I can see a lot of people having the same problem. Thank you for your time! Brent Jones ++Systems Administrator http://www.servuhome.net ++Network Technician http://www.inetarena.com
[newbie] Installing blackbox
I'm sure there are loads on sources online to tell me how to do this, but i can't find a one that works for me, for whatever reason. I'm running Mandrake 7.2 with kernel 2.2.18 on a compaq LTE 5380 laptop. I've got a pent133 with 80 meg of ram and a 2 gig hdd. My problem is that KDE 2 that comes with mandrake 7.2 is so huge my ram is almost all gone as soon as KDE loads up. So i want to try blackbox. I've got it downloaded and extracted and all that fun stuff, and i've done all the .configure things i could find to do. but how do i set up X to load Blackbox instead of KDE? i can't get it to load for the life of me. If anyone has a link or howto or anything, i would appreciate it. thanx _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel questions
soory to e-mail you but how the hell do i stop all these linux e-mail's - Original Message - From: Blomquist; "Niklas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 5:30 PM Subject: [newbie] Kernel questions What is the difference between kernel-source-xxx and kernel-x.x.x.src? Who do I compile a kernel-x.x.x.src? The kernel-2.4.1 has not RAID support enable, must I recompile the kernel to add that? I get problem with the soundcard and nic after compiling the 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 kernel. Kernel modules not found and unresolved kernel depenency?? Regards Niklas
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Re: [newbie] Ethernet setup
John, The 3c509B card can run in three modes EISA, PNP, and ISA. Mandrake can only use this card in ISA mode. Here is what you need to do to get the card working. Go to ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/NIC/3c509/ and down load 3c509x2.exe to a DOS/WIN system in to an empty folder of you choice. This is a self extracting archive file. In a DOS window or at the DOS prompt execute the file and it will expand into a bunch of files. Most of which you do not need. Now create a DOS boot floppy and copy 3c5x9cfg.exe to the floppy. Boot the Linux box with the floppy and run 3c5x9cfg.exe. Turn off the PNP mode and set the card to an available IRQ and I/O address. Good choices are 10, 11 for IRQ and 300, 30F for I/O. Shut down the system and remove the floppy. Now boot Linux and it should see the card and load the correct drivers. Write to the list again if Linux does not detect the card and someone will tell you how to load the drivers that are on the distribution. Jerry At 1/25/2001 19:44, you wrote: Hey all, I have a Pentium 133Mhz running MDK7.2. I also have a 3c509 NIC that I'm trying to get working. When I try to load the driver, I get an error message that says it won't load and that it's possibly due to incorrect IO or IRQ parameters. I'm really not that familiar with this, but I tried changing the options in /etc/modules.conf as well as some basic things suggested in the ethernet-HOWTO. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John
Re: [newbie] 3com NIC
At 1/18/2001 17:51, you wrote: I have just installed Mandrake on a P60 with 2 3Com 3c509b Ethernet cards. The system doesn't recognise the cards, what command can I use to add the correct device drivers ?? Rob Hi Rob! The 3c509B card can run in three modes EISA, PNP, and ISA. Mandrake can only use this card in ISA mode. Here is what you need to do to get the card working. Go to ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/NIC/3c509/ and down load 3c509x2.exe to a DOS/WIN system in to an empty folder of you choice. This is a self extracting archive file. In a DOS window or at the DOS prompt execute the file and it will expand into a bunch of files. Most of which you do not need. Now create a DOS boot floppy and copy 3c5x9cfg.exe to the floppy. Boot the Linux box with the floppy and run 3c5x9cfg.exe. Turn off the PNP mode and set the card to an available IRQ and I/O address. Good choices are 10, 11 for IRQ and 300, 30F for I/O. Shut down the system and remove the floppy. Now boot Linux and it should see the card and load the correct drivers. Write to the list again if Linux does not detect the card and someone will tell you how to load the drivers that are on the distribution. Jerry
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Re: [newbie] Windows help
Hi Walter, Believe me your English is far better than my Spanish don't worry I go the message. I know you will get replies about other mail programs but here is how to use Netscape to access the Exchange Mail. Start Netscape Select edit Select preferences Select Mail Newsgroups Select Mail Server Select mail in the Incoming Mail Servers area (mail is the default when you create your profile) and click on edit Change the Server Name to the Exchange Server Name you use (your network admin can tell you what this is) Leave the Server type POP3 Enter your user name in this form domain server\user DO NOT check remember password (security violation) Click on Check For Mail Every time value and enter a time if you want your mail down loaded automatically Select the POP tab at the top Check the boxes you want (note use leave messages on server if you access mail with another computer) Click OK In the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server enter the server name you get from your network admin Enter the user information you entered for the Incoming Mail Server Leave use SSL as never Check the other settings under Mail Newsgroups and change as needed Click OK when you are finished Now start Messenger and get your mail Jerry At 12/5/2000 15:34, you wrote: Hi: I not write vry well in english, i had install Linux for the first time in a "Windows NT net"; I will need conection to the nt domain and i need read the Exchange mail. Anything known how i do it. Thanks. Walter Hola E instalado Linux por primera vez y esta en un dominio de NT y el correo esta en un Exchange , y necesitaría poder conectarme con ambos para poderme sacar a win de arriba Gracias. Walter
Re: [newbie] Mandrake on an old system - Firewall
At 11/27/2000 06:53, you wrote: I got Mandrake 6 from a friend to install it on an old system. He figured it would work. I'm talking about an : I486 40DX, upgraded with an Evergreen overdrive to 120MHz, and 32 MB RAM Hard disk of 500 MB (bios doesn't support any larger drives) Trident 8900 video card two NE2000 compatible (by configuration) Network cards (I can provide more details if needed) Sadly but true, the damn thing got hanging at a certain point in the boot process. I want to set up a firewall on it, figuring that Linux provides the necessary power and security to the system. That's why there are 2 net cards in it: when I get connected to the Internet by cable, I put this baby between Internet and my home network. I'm new to Linux, allthough I tried several times to make the switch to it (Red Hat 5). Lack of time made me quit and get on (DON'T SHOOT) with Windows everything. I want this thing getting started, so all help is welcome Thanks, Jurian Blok Teutenweg 37 3920 Lommel Belgium Tel/Fax +32-11-55 25 73 GSM +32-477-89 02 07 Jurian, I think the Evergreen upgrade is inserting its BIOS at 15M and this is causing the boot hang. If all you want is a firewall 16MB memory will do just fine. You will not be able to run Gnome or KDE with any speed so you will have to do all of your work in command line mode. Get Mandrake 7.0 486ISO and ask lots of questions here about setting it up. Jerry
Re: [newbie] Problem with ethernet card 3COM 509B
Peter, I am sending this to you and the list for this reason. I saw your question about the ethernet card on the list and I know a lot about that card. I do not know a lot about linux and memory and I hope someone on the list will see and help you. Now here is what I know about this problem. Some times linux will fail to see all the memory because some expansion card has placed its memory at that location so linux can not use it and quits trying to use any memory higher. I have seen video cards do this and very very old bios do this. There is also a known bug in some bios that do not allow it to tell linux the correct amount of memory. Try this; when you see the lilo prompt type "linux mem=128M" without the quotes. If nothing strange happens then ask on the list how to set this option in lilo permanently. Good luck and please use the list. There are people there just waiting to help you. Jerry At 10/24/00 13:46, you wrote: Gerald, Thanks for your help with the ethernet card. Turning the pnp off on the card made it work with my linux box. I'm still trying to figure out another problem. I have 128MB of RAM and linux thinks I have 65 MB. If you have any ideas on how to resolve this issue please eMail me. Thanks for taking the time out to help a linux newbie :) Peter
Re: [newbie] Problem with ethernet card 3COM 509B
Hi, The 3COM 509B card can run in three modes ISA, PNP, and EISA. Mandrake 7.0 doesn't play nice with this card in PNP mode. Here's what you need to do. Go to ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/nic/3c509 and get the file 3c509x2.exe this is a self expanding compressed file. Place this file in an empty directory and execute (double click) it. This will expand into a lot of stuff you do not need. Copy the file 3C5X9CFG.EXE to a bootable DOS floppy. Boot your machine with this floppy and run that program. Change the card from PNP to ISA and set the IRQ and IO port to one you have open. Good choices for IRQ are 5, 10, 11 and for IO 200. Let us know how it goes and if you need more help. Jerry At 10/23/00 05:19, you wrote: Hi all, My linux box (mandrake 7.0) is almost set up. All I need is to get my ethernet card working. I have a plug n play ISA 3COM 509B card. I can't get this card to work. eth0 isn't being initialized no matter what I do. Now I'm wondering if I'm using the right module for my card. I'm using module 3c509. Does the 3c509 module not work with the 3c509B card? Please help!!! Thanks.
[newbie] Help with Intel PRO/DSL 2100 modem
Has anyone successfully installed an Intel PRO/DSL 2100 modem on their linux system? I got it as part of a DSL package from US West (now Qwest), our local telephone company. It works great in Windows 98, but there are no Linux drivers that I can find. Mandrake Linux does not find it when looking for Plug-n-Play devices. It's an internal PCI card and, with the service I subscribed to, it is using PPP for it's Internet connecting protocol, even though it doesn't actually dial a phone number to connect (all it says in the phone number field is 1,1). Thanks in advance for any help! Rich
Re: [newbie] .src.rpm
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 19:36:34 mrc wrote: Tried to install an .src.rpm and failed. Does this mean that on Linux-Mandrake such rpms will not work? Try as root: rpm --rebuild filename.src.rpm Then look in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/arch for the binary RPM. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Xfree86 Programming resources
I'd like to port a few dos video game emulators (Nintendo, Sega Master System, and a few arcade machines) over to Linux and would like to know where I can get some Xfree86 programming info from. I need it to port the video functions over.
[newbie] Homemade Router/Switch... Being cheap.
Ok... I have a question for all of you network geniuses out there. I have been contemplating the purchase of a switch for my home network. I have 3 PC's that need to be connected to the internet with my cable connection. I had thought to buy that Linksys Cable router, but I realized that I have quite a few network cards and enough parts to build another PC (p200mmx) and thought that maybe I could throw all of the extra NIC's into this new box, drop Linux on it and use the machine as a proxy/router/switch. Is something like this feasable?
My take on all of this... (was [newbie] Linux Partition)
Ok, so I had my little fun with this. Let's be real here. I've been using computers since I was 8 years old (I'm now 28), I've seen 'em come and go. This little debate over Linux vs Windows reminds me of the ST vs Amiga or Atari800 vs Commodore64 bbs flame wars. I've owned the following: Timex/Sinclair 1000, CBM Pet, C64, Atari 800xl, TI 994/A, Atari 520ST, Atari 1040STE, Amiga 500, and a few PC's (from 1994 - up). Point is, I've used a few OS'es and because of that, I can honestly say this: Windows9x is the best thing going. I'll catch hell for that remark, but let me explain myself here.
Re: My take on all of this... (was [newbie] Linux Partition)
Ok, so I had my little fun with this. Let's be real here. I've been using computers since I was 8 years old (I'm now 28), I've seen 'em come and go. This little debate over Linux vs Windows reminds me of the ST vs Amiga or Atari800 vs Commodore64 bbs flame wars. I've owned the following: Timex/Sinclair 1000, CBM Pet, C64, Atari 800xl, TI 994/A, Atari 520ST, Atari 1040STE, Amiga 500, and a few PC's (from 1994 - up). Point is, I've used a few OS'es and because of that, I can honestly say this: Windows9x is the best thing going for the average user. I'll catch hell for that remark, but let me explain myself here. I have a total of 4 pc's in my apartment. Of those, 3 of them have Linux and Windows on it. (the 4th is my entertainment machine, gaming and DVD hooked up to my TV). I use each OS extensively and have come to this conclusion: Windows is for the masses and Linux is a throwback (A good thing though!) to the good 'ole days of computing. Windows is easy, it's meant to be. Linux is not, I'm not sure if it was meant to be or not. In Windows, if an application doesn't exist, you wait for it to be created (most windows users are not programmers). With Linux (just like the good 'ole days), if an application doesn't exist, you write it yourself or get help to create it. I love that about Linux. Personally, I don't want Linux to be too easy to use. I think it's better that the people that have and use it, know something about it.With Windows, that's not necessary. (Note: my last email was sent by mistake...)
Re: [newbie] cable modem
Why am I getting your email ?? -Original Message- From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 1:30 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem Do you have a static IP or a dynamic IP? If you have a dynamic IP address, mandrake should set this up automatically if, during the install process you tell it to set up your network card with dynamic IP. On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote: I am hooked up through a cable modem through my local provider. Windows detects this and sets it up by itself and this is what the provider supports. Is there a way to have Linux do the same because they won't give me any information such as host address, ip address ect. because they don't support Linux. Thanks, Jacob Holbrook Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] cable modem
Why am I getting your email?? -Original Message- From: Bruce Endries [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 3:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem I use Linux with a cable modem on RoadRunner, and it works great. Why don't you try this: Run LinuxConf. Go to Networking, then to basic host info. Then select the tab for your network card (eth0). Click on the optin for DHCP. Back out of LinuxConf, activating your changes. You may have to reboot, I don't know. That's ALL I have to do to make RoadRunner work with Linux. Maybe it will work for you. It's worth a try. Good Luck! Jacob Aaron Holbrook wrote: well I just called them again to try and get the information. They said that they cannot give it out because it changes all the time and they cannot assign a "static address" to me. I ran netcfg and set my eth0 to active, saved, closed the window and tried to ping. It didn't work so i went back into netcfg and my eth0 was inactive again.
Re: [newbie] cable modem
Why am I getting your email -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 2:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem well I called them again..and they said that they could not give them to me because they don't know what they are...and said that they "cannot assign static names". This is because it uses dhcp to obtain them. - Original Message - From: "Valjean" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:07 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem I work for an ISP and I know how Technical Support can be...with as many calls as flood the phone center, there isn't time simply to handle every call that comes in with various software. Personally when a customer calls to ask for DNS, mail info, I give it, or direct them to our website. Check your provider's website for a "quick config sheet" or the like. Valjean On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Pittman, Merle wrote: Exactly! The fact that it is linux has nothing to do with it. They are still responsible to give you the information. With my cable provider I have to get the information to set up windows as well, and they are very willing to give you the info. They do not support linux but still give you the info and it is up to you to get it working. How can Windows set it up automatically?? Sure it can recognize the IP assigned if your ISP uses Dynamic IP addressing, but how do you configure DNS and your email servers?? -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem Not possible, as long as I want to stay on a cable modem. And that is a definite must. I know it kinda pissed me off but her argument was that they don't support Linuxwhat does that have to do with anything. - Original Message - From: "Pittman, Merle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 2:49 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem They won't give you any address info?? I'd suggest switching providers if that's possible. -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cable modem I am hooked up through a cable modem through my local provider. Windows detects this and sets it up by itself and this is what the provider supports. Is there a way to have Linux do the same because they won't give me any information such as host address, ip address ect. because they don't support Linux. Thanks, Jacob Holbrook
Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1
I appear to be getting all the email from your forum/discussion group. Like 100's a day. What is the forum called so that I can try to get it fixed ?? Bryn Jones -Original Message- From: Jim Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 2:22 PM Subject: 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
Re: [newbie] Linux Partition
Because Widows is SUPERIOR You will never need another OS. Forget all of this Linux hoopla!!! Forget... Forget... You will obey the desktop overlord Willam Gates! Bwaahahahahahahahahahahaha [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/19/2000 02:57:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: George Jones/US/ABNAMRO/NL) Subject:[newbie] Linux Partition How come when you are in Linux, you can see your Windows partition, but not the other way around?? Andy
Re: [newbie] Loging on
Log into terminal(superuser) (I think that's the one...) and it'll ask for the root pw. you should be able to do anything then from the command prompt. "Sami A. Kutbi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/18/2000 12:23:06 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: George Jones/US/ABNAMRO/NL) Subject:[newbie] Loging on I'm looking for a way to log in as root while i'm in a user in KDE. with out logout and login out from user... Thanks for the help
Re: [newbie] path
I read this and tried to create a symlink from /usr/bin to my Mozilla directory. But when I run mozilla I get the message 'run-mozilla.sh: no such file or directory'. This happens even if I create symlinks to run-mozilla.sh as well. What have I done wrong? Dave Jan Wilson wrote: * rich [000416 22:04]: I know this is probably a dumb question, but how do you add a directory to the path For instance, instead of going to /root/mozilla/ to run ./mozzila, I would like to be able to type ./mozilla in any directory. If you type ./mozilla you are saying, "run the executable file mozilla, which you will find in the current directory." So that has nothing directly to do with the path. The path you are talking about is the environment variable $PATH, which gives a sequence of directories to search if no path is given. That is, you type 'mozilla' rather than './mozilla' or '/usr/bin/mozilla' or whatever. It is usually set in shell scripts in /etc/profile, or in the directory /etc/profile.d/ or in the user's home directory in a file like .bashrc ... One note, though. Be careful. Linux will happily let you add a world-writeable directory to the beginning of your path. In that case anyone could add a shell script named 'mozilla' into that directory and when you type mozilla you will run it. If it does whatever it wants to, and then runs the regular mozilla, you probably won't know that someone has hijacked your system. For this reason some recommend using symlinks or typing the full path. They must type faster than I do ;-) -- Jan Wilson _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Community College| |:' Corozal Junior College Corozal Town, Belize | /' Central America Visit our Corozal site |_/ http://www.corozal.com
Re: [newbie] take off your mailing list
ROTFL yeah right wrote: you want me to what why you dirty little thing you sorry i don't take off my mailing list in front of strangers which i could help though here try this try mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask them to take off there mailing lists for you - Original Message - From: "paul haine" To: "Linux" Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 5:00 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] take off your mailing list Take your what off my mailing list? -Original Message- From: jose rechany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 April 2000 01:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] take off your mailing list please take my off your mailing list thanks GET THE BEST FREE INTERNET ACCESS * Free Email * Free Support * Software* * No Credit Check * Privacy Guaranteed* GOTO http://www.HomeFreeWeb.com
Re: [newbie] lots of crashes???
Get the M14 milestone build of Mozilla from www.mozilla.org. It's much faster than Netscape and really pretty stable. Then if you're feeling really cool, download the Sullivan skin from www.mozillazine.org Woohoo! dave andy barnes wrote: snip Are there any options to Netscape for (decent) web browsing? I never liked Nutscrape..I came to the PC around the time IE4 hit the streets, and I've always found it a lot easier to use Cheers Andy
Re: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install ....
If you have a custom boot disk for mandrake, the simplest thing is probably to load DOS from a floppy and type fdisk /mbr. This will reformat your master boot record DOS style, which means that you won't be able to boot linux. But you should be able to get into windows, and you can boot linux from the floppy. After that you will probably want to play with your lilo.conf file in /etc/lilo.conf. Dave - Original Message - From: To: Cc: Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 5:00 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install The only options I get are: linux floppy Regards. M you should be able to hit TAB at the prompt and get a list of OS to load. At 03:16 PM 4/13/00 +0100, you wrote: I found that typing windows at the LILO loader also failed. Try typing DOS instead. It worked for me. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:03 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install I'm newcomer to Linux/PC. I tried to install Mandrake Linux V7.0 on my PC. I used the latestcdrom.img file from the web as the one on the CD-ROM is thought to befaulty. I used the recommended settings. Although linux is installed correctly, I can't boot in Windows. Can anyone help. Regards. Mungal.
Re: [newbie] Booting Up Multiple OS's
The floppy disk should do the trick. Just boot from it. Then rerun lilo from within linux. This will overwrite W98. You may need to edit your lilo.conf file first, to make sure it has windows as an option, on the correct partition. cheers dave andy wrote: Here's the deal.. I had a single 8.4gb hard drive, partioned with W98 in 6 gb, Linux in the remainder..Lilo worked just fine... Now.. I installed a 20gb h/d in addition to this this week-I've kept the original as master and the new one as slave. My plan was to put a completely clean install of W98 onto the new drive, make an image file using Norton Ghost, burn that onto a CD (Makes re-installing windows a brze!!), then drag all my personal files over and re-install the apps onto the new drive, then allow Linux to take over the entire original 8.4 gb by re-sizing the partitons. Fine..on paper (Or in my head!!) When I'd done the fresh install of W98 on the new drive, I lost access to my original hard drive, so the only thing I could boot into was the new copy of W98.. I think I remember reading that, if you install Windows AFTER Linux, it over-writes the boot records so Lilo boesn't function any more. Is that right? The t*t that I am..I didn't make a boot floppy on my last Linux install (.hangs head in shame and stands in the corner!!) To cut this short then..I've finished up fdisk-ing the lot, installing Linux first onto the slave h/d in a 6 gb partition (Should be enough, shouldn't it??) and I'll put W98 on the original 8.4 gb drive. Now, when I re-install W98 tonight, that mean that lilo will disappear again, won't it? So the question is..how do I boot into Linux without it (i've created a floppy disc this time, that will probably help) and once I've managed to get into Linux, can I then re-install Lilo at all? Thanks for listening Andy
Re: [newbie] Problems
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: The culprit is the linux.ld.so file. It somehow either leaks memory, or mismanages the resources. Is there a fix?
Re: [newbie] HELP!!!!!
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Gustavo Halperin wrote: also from the command line: shutdown -h now for the shutdown command you can try: Ctrl+Alt+Delete+F9 Robin wrote: OK. Worked with NT for a while, and was just won over to the light side! I need help! I have just done my first install, and even though I have a single 256 MB DIMM, the system is only seeing 64!!?!?!? I have never seen this before. Any ideas? Also, from console, what the hell is the shutdown command?? Thanx, Robin. -- _/_/_/_/.._/. _/._/_/_/_/._/_/_/_/_/._/_/_/_/ _/.._/._/_/_/_/.. ..._/..._/._/._/..._/..._/.._/.._/_/.._/._/... .._/..._/_/.._/._/._/_/_/_/..._/..._/_/_/_/..._/..._/.._/._/ ._/.._/.._/._/._/..._/..._/.._/_/._/..._/._/. _/_/_/_/.._/_/_/_/._/_/_/_/.._/..._/.._/._/_/..._/_/_/_/.. .Gustavo Halperin... .Paradigm Geophysical..\\\Y///. [EMAIL PROTECTED]\\ ^ ^ // .972-9-9709318..(/ @ @ \).. -oOOo-(_)-oOOo- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
Re: [newbie] Virtual Desktop
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Gustavo Halperin wrote: Hi. My virtual Desktop is jump from a virtualt desktop '1' to virtual desktop '2' when I go to dawn with a mouse or from the '2' to the '1' when I go to up with the mouse, haw I stop this , can any one help me. Is possible add to the desktop a 'Desks Overview' ??? If you are using KDE, use the KDE configuration tool (on the taskbar) and change the settings for 'resistance' in 'desktops'. Or you can just turn it off, I think. GNOME has a funky little program which shows a mini picture of all four desktops. Should be there automatically. I don't know if it will work with KDE.
Re: [newbie] amd chip
Overclock it to 400MHz or 450MHz(careful with that one!) first. If the performance still doesn't suit your needs then pick up a 500 (and run it at 550MHz!) [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/11/2000 10:31:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: George Jones/US/ABNAMRO/NL) Subject:Re: [newbie] amd chip I also currently have a K6-2 350 with 96mb. How much of an increase would I gain putting in a K6-2 500? Roger mark willenbring wrote: I thought it was a AMD 350 or greater. It had a problem in Win 95 because the chip was too fast for the OS - image that! 98 does not have this problem. Also just buy a nice fan to protect your chip and to make it run better. The faster the chip the hotter it runs. --- "Pittman, Merle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be a little off topic, but I thought I'd ask anyway. I have been given an AMD K62 333MHz and MB by a friend. Has anyone had any problems with these CPU's. I have heard rumors about them overheating and having problems (especially with win98). can anyone confirm this, or do you have comments of your own? Thanks. MDP __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Roger Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Accountant i4i 116 Spadina Ave., 5th Floor Toronto, Ontario M5V 2K6 ph 416.504.0141 Ext 206 fx 416.504.1785 http://www.i4i.com
Re: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdownon stability!!
paul haine wrote: Funny how when Windows doesn't work it's Windows fault, but when Linux doesn't work it MUST be the hardware. Not true, look at all of the S3 Savage 3, 4, and 2000 owners out there (I have a Diamond Stealth s540 Savage4) complaining on a regular basis about their hardware crashing Windows. To it's credit, the Stealth III works fine with Linux (no 3d accell though). Many times it is the hardware, but everyone is so used to blaming Windows that no matter what "It has to be Windows". AMD's processors 350Mhz+ required a patch in win95 in order to work. Intel had no such problem, Cyrix has no such problem. Problem with Windows? I doubt it. Windows98SE works for me. It crashes only when I try something that I shouldn't... Like running OpenGL screensavers (Savage4 drivers don't allow GL accellerated savers to function). Application crashes (read:Games!) happen because of instability of my video card. Linux never crashes with the same hardware, then again, there's no 3D accelleration for the Savage4 to crash it. My overclocked K6-2 450 (@500Mhz) runs everything just fine. (So does my Overclocked Celeron366 - 550Mhz) "I have no irrational allegiance to any OS. I use Linux because it works,and shun Windows because it doesn't." But that's irrational in itself. Windows and Linux, as we have seen, will both crash. Your Hardware configuration may be what's preventing you from running Windows well. Your not looking into that is irrational. Please don't take this as a flame, that's not what I'm trying to do here. For the record the configuration of my main Linux/Windows box is: Matsonic 6120s Motherboard w/Alladin V chipset AMD K6-2 450 @500Mhz SB Live Value Diamond Stealth III s540 Linksys PCI nic MIDIMan Winman 2x2 MIDI interface 128mb Crucial Tech ram. Generic USB Card from CompUSA (I shorted out the USB/PS2 ports on the mobo) Generic USB Mouse 3Com Cable Modem. It runs Windows and Linux quite well.
Re: [newbie] amd chip
K62-333 can run at 350Mhz (3.5x100) with no problem, raise the voltage to 2.5v to stabalize it. The chip had problems with Win95a and b requiring a patch from Microsoft to solve. Win98 and Linux have no problems with this chip. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/10/2000 03:59:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: George Jones/US/ABNAMRO/NL) Subject:[newbie] amd chip This may be a little off topic, but I thought I'd ask anyway. I have been given an AMD K62 333MHz and MB by a friend. Has anyone had any problems with these CPU's. I have heard rumors about them overheating and having problems (especially with win98). can anyone confirm this, or do you have comments of your own? Thanks. MDP
[newbie] modifying a shell script
Just started taking a few first steps into the shallow water... I modified my xinitrc script to start a program. At the end of the script I added /usr/X11R6/bin/xlassie (plus various commandline options) to run xlassie, an email checker. X started fine but xlassie didn't show up. Have I got the wrong end of the stick? (No pun intended) cheers Dave
Re: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdown on stability!!
I have too in the past, Andy. George Jones (now at home) - Original Message - From: "andy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdown on stability!! In Windows, I'm using 'Tweaked' drivers I got off the web for my s3 Savage card. This has made a huge difference to the performance of the card. Andy - Original Message - From: George Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 April 2000 20:04 Subject: RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windowshandsdown on stability!! True, it's in the drivers (most of the time, something I failed to point out). One of my machines (p200mmx @250Mhz) which doesn't run Linux has a Permedia2 based card. The drivers from 3DLabs are the best I've ever come across. They're virtually bulletproof. I've never had a system crash due to video drivers on that machine. Driver quality does count for a lot. S3 is notorious for issuing horrible drivers. I've gone through at least a dozen drivers for my Savage4 and each one introduces new problems whil "fixing" old ones.
Re: [newbie] BeOS for music?
I have heard a couple of posts elluding to the fact that BeOS is a good OS for dealing with music Well consider that BeOS was in fact designed to be a mustimedia OS. So i would imageni that in whatever youre doing it will at sleast be more efficient, probably less resource hogging, etc. Consider also that companies like Steinberg and eMagic are porting packages such as Nuendo and Logic to Be, whereas there's been no talk of such things for Linux. Im working with some people who are using FreeBe right now, and at least at face value it appears that there are more quality sound tools for BeOS than Linux. Just my experience. . .
RE: [newbie] Thank you.
Another problem with web-based email is reliability: my mail.com account is down as they 'upgrade the website'. Probably best to have both web-based and normal email. dave On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Rial Juan wrote: On Apr 9 Mike Perry wrote: 1. Generally less secure Not when done with SSL, which is IMHO the way to go when you're providing web-based email. How secure do you think pop3 is anyway? Everything gets sent over in cleartext, including your username/password. Not much of an issue for people at home with modems, I suppose, but for people like me who sit on a lan, it makes us vulnerable to sniffers on the subnet. 2. Often Slower Probably not if he's referring to web-based email provided by his ISP; instead of waiting for all messages to be retreived at once (pop3), you'll only have a slight pause when opening the next one. Potentially web-based email can be even faster, since long attachments don't get downloaded automatically; you have the choice now. 3. Often much more restrictive on attached files Again: not when it's your ISP's web-based email. It's the same account, so the same restrictions apply. Note: this applies only to my experience with places like hotmail and other sites offering "free web based email", so maybe I am just talking total bullshit :-) Nope, when it comes to hotmail/bigfoot/... I couldn't agree more with you. I hate those too. But not all web-based mail has those disadvantages, although I prefer mail being forwarded to my box directly (unfortunately impossible when at home due to high internet fees).
RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windows hands down on stability!!
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Vic wrote: Uh oh, I hope you don't have a trouble with some of the hardware in the machine that your using. (snip) Hey, don't go blaming it on the hardware now. It's pretty clear that Linux is not an easy ride to install, no matter how stable it may be afterwards. Mandrake 7.0 seems pretty good to me (well, apart from trashing my Windows partition - do you think OS's suffer from sibling rivalry?) dave On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, paul haine mewed: OK..I didn't expect an easy ride..but I thought I'd have enough PC savvy to get through this.. Linux is driving me crazy!! snip I want to make it work..but it is becoming a pain in the ass!! Sorry, I just had to shout at someone!! I understand completely...I've been trying to get various flavours of Linux to run on my machine for about half a year now - Redhat 5.2, 6.1, Suse 6.something, and Mandrake 7 is the first that's actually managed to make it to the end of the installation. And still, I get freezes, crashes - at least with Windows you sometimes get a chance to recover, but with Linux it just stops working, kaput. With this plus all the hassle having to configure every little detail yourself, I think Linux for me is just going to remain a toy OS for the forseeable future...
[newbie] pointer display problem Pine problem
Just reinstalled and am having 2 problems. (1) I have a Trio3D/2X video card. MThis works fine, but normally I have to add a line to my XF86Config file saying Option "SWCursor" in the Device section This prevents my mouse pointer displaying as a big white square. I have reinstalled with black box, and this option no longer seems to work. What am I doing wrong??? (2) Did a custom install to save space, and forgot to add a mail client - duh. I have installed pine from the RPM, but it isn't working. It offers to compose a message, then exits with the message: Creating subdirectory "/root/mail" where Pine will store its mail folders. Pine finished Pine finished star Any ideas? cheers Dave HJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
Re: [newbie] Home recording with Linux?
according to this magazine I've got here, most music applications are porting to BeOS rather than Linux. (Better at multimedia.) Dave On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, Ernie mewed: Use Cooledit and wavelab in win2k or windows NT, I run both progs in win2k and have never locked it up. As far as hard disk recording, i don't think linux has any software yet, tho i've heard of some companies thinking of porting.
[newbie] 7.0 killed my FAT drive!
I installed 7.0 without seeing this: http://www.pcplus.co.uk/discs/163a.asp or this: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fupdates.php3 Result: my FAT filesystem is a mess. Everything directly under my C: drive is OK, but everything in subdirectories is scrambled (files, directories, the lot) Names are changed from e.g. 'britney.mpg' to '74£hjk;d;¬! @' (yes, I know, that's an improvement). Windows won't boot (because everything in C:\windows has been changed). Does anyone know how I can recover from this via linux or msdos? I have a windows boot disk but that is all. I would like to get my installation back, but failing that, can I at least recover the files? any help gratefully received cheers Dave
[newbie] Mandrake 7.0 standard install, Windows filesystem probs
Dear all, I recently installed Mandrake 7.0 in a dual-boot setup with Windows. All worked fine, but my MS-DOS filesystem seeems to be messed up. File names have been replaced with nonsense, and the partition table is in a mess. cfdisk gives: FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 0: Partition ends before sector 0 fdisk -l /dev/hda1 gives: -- Disk /dev/hda1: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1048 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1p1 ?120513235786 925929529+ 68 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(288, 101, 46) should be (288, 254, 63) /dev/hda1p2 ? 82801116350 269488144 79 Unknown Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(0, 13, 10) should be (0, 254, 63) /dev/hda1p3 ? 33551120595 699181456 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3 Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(324, 77, 19) should be (324, 254, 63) /dev/hda1p4 ? 86812 86813 10668+ 49 Unknown Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(335, 78, 2) should be (335, 254, 63) -- I assume (hope) that my partition table is corrupt, rather than my entire msdos system! I have a rescue disk to get into windows; if I 'format /mbr' from there, can I later reformat to get into linux or will i have to reinstall? Alternatively, can I use fdisk to reformat without destroying my windows partition? all help gratefully received Dave davidhjatmaildotcom __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
Re: [newbie] How to configure the network?
"Rodriguez Jimenez, Luis" wrote:
I am new using linux Mandrake anh i have troubles to configure my
network. I don{t know where and how must i do.
Please help me.
Luis.
Okay, I _think_ I can help a little.
First, you will need to know:
-your IP number, which looks like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (e.g. 131.111.123.456)
-your machine name (e.g. luis1 )
-your domain name (e.g. mydomain.com)
-from this you get the full address of your machine (e.g.
luis1.mydomain.com)
also, if you are on a network:
-your gateway number, which looks like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and is the IP of
the machine which is -your gateway to the internet
-your subnet mask, which will be something like 255.255.255.0
ask your system administrator for these.
when you have these details, log in to X and click on the desktop icon
called DrakConf. Then click on network configuration, and enter the
stuff above in the relevant places (mostly basic host information and
name server specification).
That's how I do it; for you it may be different ;)
dave
Dave
Re: [[newbie] More probs with dual boot]
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?
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6.0
It's already up, you have to look for it on the download page.
[newbie] NT client with Linux
I'm trying to access an NT server using Linux. I would like to know how to setup an NT client using mandrake7. I would also need to be able to see all of the shared drives on our network (that I have access to anyways) and be able to add more at will. In addition to this, I need to be able to run User Manager for NT and a couple of WinNT apps (Lotus Notes, Airsource Pro Workstation, ect...). Any ideas? George Jones IV ABN AMRO ITSC North America End User Support.
[newbie] NT login's and Mandrake7
I'm trying to access an NT server using Linux. I would like to know how to use the NT logins and passwords to do this. I would also need to be able to see all of the shared drives on our network (that I have access to anyways) and be able to add more at will. In addition to this, I need to be able to run User Manager for NT and a couple of WinNT apps (Lotus Notes, Airsource Pro Workstation, ect...). Any ideas? George Jones IV ABN AMRO ITSC North America End User Support.
Re: [newbie] How can I read Macintosh disks?
U Jeremy, could you please refrain from using any racial slurs here? Thanks. - Original Message - From: "Jeremy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] How can I read Macintosh disks? Hershel S Robinson wrote: Does anyone know if there is a free utility to allow me to read Macintosh floppies from Linux on a PC? I have looked but I have not found. Thanks, Hershel Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, there is such a beast, but no I dont know what its called or where to find it :( Try freshmeat.net maybe there. I know you can read newer mac disks in a pc drive but OLD (very old) 400k disk and maybe 800k disks wont work no matter what 'cause they are completely different! You'd need to nigger-rig an old mac drive up to the pc somehow and write a program for that. ~Jeremy
Re: [newbie] S3 Savage3D
That's a good one, it should detect it properly, if not, grab a Savage4 for cheap. I'm using one just fine.
[newbie] Boot problem
I have just installed LINUX on a quite old TwinHead laptop (75MHz Pentium 24 Mb memory) The installation seemed to work OK and gave me the message Installation successful. On reboot I get LI on the screen and then it hangs. I have tried it as a workstation, server and custom. Help please. Regards Bryn Jones
Re: [newbie] X window Trouble
logic7 here... Hmmm... You should be good. I would, however, recommend upgrading to 64Mb at least. Also, drop your color depth to 16bit. I have quite a bit of slowdown in Gnome at 32bit color and my system has 96mb memory, Permedia2 video card, and a 366Mhz Celeron. If you think that it's your video card, find a Permedia2 or i740 based card, everything is pretty much hardware accell'ed with them. They can be had for about $30US.
[newbie] Can't read from CD writer anymore!
Ok, I'm pretty fed up here. I have a Mitsumi 4x/2x/8x CDRW(slave) unit in my machine along with a Creative Labs 24x(primary). When I initially installed Air, I could read from both drives (good, because I could play mp3's from the CDRW and install packages or anything else at the same time). Now, I can no longer read from the CDRW at all, even when logging in as root. I have changed nothing in my system. Can anyone give me a bit of help here? The unit is recognized when I boot the system and it's properly listed in /mnt.
Re: [newbie] FW: Installing from hard drive using lnx4win
I'm not really sure if this'll help, but if you have a CD burned handy, then d/l the iso image of 7.0 and boot directly to it. That's how I got mine setup.
Re: [newbie] X window Trouble
How fast is your processor and how much system mem do you have? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 11:10 PM Subject: [newbie] X window Trouble I'm using 8MB SIS 6326 graphics card on mandrake 6.1, i have my card type on the database but when i run X such as KDE the graphic is very slow, seen on resizing window to max or minimum. anyone can give a clue to this problem? Thanks ** S. Aditya W. e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
Re: How about Roadrunner? Re: [newbie] Nic problem
I have MediaOne's One-Way RoadRunner. Uses a 56k modem and a General Instruments SB1000 Surf Board. Can't use it in linux yet though. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 6:39 AM Subject: Re: How about Roadrunner? Re: [newbie] Nic problem MediaOne's Roadrunner service is what I have. Bryan Speaking of which, does anyone have roadrunner's cable modem service? If so do they or have they had any such of this kind of trouble? I am getting roadrunner's (Cox cable) service.
Re: [newbie] Sound Card, graphic card
Do you actually have a Trio based card? If not, find your chipset and use those drivers. Speedwise, If you're using Gnome, then Winblows98 would appear to be faster, KDE, to me anyways, is the desktop of choice. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/14/2000 01:47:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: George Jones/US/ABNAMRO/NL) Subject:[newbie] Sound Card, graphic card Hi all, Pretty bad at managing a Linux. Here's my questions : 1.How do you go about to configure ur sound card?? 2.I select a generic graphic card (S3 3D Trio), when I start my netscape, a error msg stating that it can only support a mono visual screen. However, things get normal after I quit the program. 3. I find that although Linux appear more stable than Windows, however I find that performace wise, Window is faster. Wonder do you guys feel the same or is my system slow. I use a pentium II 300 Mhz, 64MB SDRAM Any idea ???
Re: [newbie] Install Guide
Email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll give you a solution. - Original Message - From: Ben Freeman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 1:16 PM Subject: [newbie] Install Guide While attempting to install Mandrake 7.0 (in Recommended mode) and at the Setup filesystems section, the instructions tell me that normally I won't have anything to do. I only had a Windows partition. I did have to do something. Auto Allocate seemed the most logical option to select. The other option that I wanted was to gracefully back out of the whole install program and come back another day when I felt more comfortable about not having anything to do in Recommended mode. Nothing short of powering off the computer, would allow me to back out of the install program. That worked, so I returned to the installation and chose Auto-Allocate. I think I was questioned about the swap space and then there were other questions and suddenly there was more to do than simply click on Auto-Allocate and I wished I wasn't there anymore. How to get out of this nightmare ctl-alt-delete...escapeqctl Cfinally, turned it off and I was out Turned it back on and learned that I had erased the entire disk surface. About three hours to reinstall Windows 98. Now, I am so install "shy", that I can't bear to make a choice of doing something when I get to Setup filesystems, when I am told that normally I won't have anything to do. Please supplement the useless instructions about not having anything to do, and advise the next thing to do when in Recommended mode and am installing not upgrading. Also, is there a graceful exit from the install program Thanks
Re: [newbie] KDE runs to slow!
Anyone have the dirt on the Evergreen AMD K6-2 upgrade? I'm running a P133 also, and have seen the 333-400mhz AMD upgrades for $100-200US w/ BIOS upgrade. And then there's SO MANY motherboards around, I'm having a difficult time choosing one. With all the graphics cards moving from PCI to AGP, and ISA being phased out, what should I do? Testimonials would be great! i.e: The best MB you've used and Linux compatibility. As much info as I can get b4 I buy. Thanks! -Josh Good mobo to get: EPoX MVP3 G2. You can get this Super7 board with up to 2mb of cache on it! It also has AGP/5PCI/2ISA(1 shared PCI/ISA) slots. Check www.pricewatch.com for pricing on it. Other decent boards are the Gigabyte 5AX(ATX), Gigabyte 5AA(AT), FIC PA-2013(ATX - 2mb cache), FIC VA-503A(AT - 2mb cache/UDMA66), and Asus P5A(ATX). I guarantee you, buying a new mobo, case, and processor will cost you less than $200 and you'll get much better performance.
Re: [newbie] problems
H. You could try updating from the 7.0 CD (which takes forever!). That should get it going. - Original Message - From: "Kyle Filipski" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 12:01 AM Subject: [newbie] problems I have the 6.1 version, tried to install it a few months ago. It didn't work with my ATI Rage 128 video card, not supported then. Now I hear that it is...how do I go about updating this??? I take it I should re-install it from the CDRom and then what? Should I download the new Xfree86 version 3.3.6 ? (which supports ATI Rage 128) And if I do, I'd have to do it through Windoze...how will I be able to get at this file after I install Linux? Help... C-Ya Flip
Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake to a 2nd IDE hard drive?
- Original Message - From: "Greg Bell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 3:12 AM Subject: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake to a 2nd IDE hard drive? I've been reading all the good reviews on Mandrake 7. I'm interested in giving it a try due to its easy install feature. The last time I tried to install Linux, I totally screwed up my system. However Mandrake 7 looks like a fairly easy install with most of what I want already included in the distribution. So I think I will give it another go. I have one question: I have two IDE hard drives in my computer (c: drive is a 6GB d: drive is a 4GB). I have Windows 98 on the 6GB drive, and really nothing on the 4GB. For my Mandrake 7 install, I would really like to keep Windows on my 6GB and install Mandrake on the 4GB (and give Mandrake full access to the whole 4GB drive), and use some sort of boot manager to toggle between the two at boot up (I guess LILO, unless if there is something better). I've looked everywhere on the Internet, and found that most pages that explain how to have Windows and Linux installed on the same machine, all explain how to do the install on the same drive. I haven't found any sites that explain how to install Linux on a 2nd drive. Do any of you know of any sites that would explain how to install Mandrake 7 to an empty 2nd drive in a very step-by-step way? Thanks for you information! Greg You could use something like Boot Magic to boot to your other drive or LILO. I have 2 similar setups and I use LILO on one and the version of Boot Magic that came with the 6.1 dist. that I bought (Macmillian 6.5). You should download the ISO of 7.0 and boot directly to CD, it'll walk you right through the LILO setup.
Re: [Re: [[newbie] Modem driver?]]
Paul, Try www.compgeeks.com or www.advancedvision.net . I buy stuff from them all of the time C.O.D. because, like you, I don't have a credit card. BTW ComputerGeeks has this nifty Dual Pentium (Socket7) mobo that I'm going to order this weekend, grab one for yourself while you're there. - Original Message - From: "Paul Derbyshire" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 4:38 AM Subject: RE: [Re: [[newbie] Modem driver?]] At 11:35 PM 2/4/00 -0800, you wrote: Sure, try CNET or Price watch to do some comparison shopping. You can probably get a decent external for about US$100. Possibly a bit less. Mike I got my Diamond Supra 56k modem for 70 dollars at best buy Hmm seems like a waste of money when just a month after i bought it, i got my DSL installed. :) Do cable modems tend to work with Linux? -- as for 56K's, a Web site is worthless to me, I'd need to know of a physical chain of stores that sells 'em. I don't have a credit card... -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight e."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
Re: [Re: [[newbie] Modem driver?]]
mobo= MotherBoard. Yes, I though that there would never be such a thing as COD on the net, but I have spent many a dollar with the two vendors I listed. Paul, Try www.compgeeks.com or www.advancedvision.net . I buy stuff from them all of the time C.O.D Cash on delivery?! Over the Net? Never seen that before. Sounds too good to be true. BTW ComputerGeeks has this nifty Dual Pentium (Socket7) mobo that I'm going to order this weekend, grab one for yourself while you're there. Mobo?
Re: [newbie] graphic accel drivers
Permedia2 based cards are solid video cards for Linux. check out www.pricewatch.com to see who has them. Creative Graphics Blaster Extreme 4meg cards are around $30. Another chipset to look for is any intel740 based card, again they're pretty cheap. - Original Message - From: "Andrew Scotchmer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 12:28 PM Subject: [newbie] graphic accel drivers Anyone know if there are drivers compatable with a maxi gamer phoenix 2 card. Otherwise can any tell me of a good svga card that can run an linux
[newbie] Free ISP's and Linux
Anyone out there figure out how to access one of those free-isp's like NetZero or AltaVista using Linux?
