[newbie] cd-rw atapi zip drive
I just installed 7.0 and I have two problems, the first one is that 7.0 found my HP 7200i plus cd r-w drive and put it on the desktop as cdrom 2 but when I try to access this drive it tells me " mount: /dev/cdrom2 is not a valid block device" and I cannot use this device at all in linux, but, if I run XCDroast it will "see" the HP 7200i plus and try to set it up?? unusual also 7.0 did not "see" my atapi internal zip drive, there are no entries in fstab for it or anything, I would love to be able to burn cd's and use my zip drive, any help would be appreciated!!!! Thank you in advance!!! Lance DiBitetto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ocala, Florida
[newbie] explain bugs with mandrake 6.0
hi, I was just wondering if someone out there can explain to me how to fix the problems I am having with mandrake 6.0?? when I had 5.3 everything was running just about perfect, I had samba setup and it ran perfectly with my windows machine, I had internet setup and it worked perfect but now that i have 6.0 all I have had is problems, I set up my internet connection the same way that I did in 5.3 (i did a clean install of 6.0) and what happens is the modem dials out to my ISP it connects and then it just hangs.on the debug console it says that it is starting pppd, after a while it times out. when it does connect I cannot connect to the outside world, netscape cannot find any web addresses, I tried lynx with no such luck as well. I know that the easiest thing to do would be to reinstall 5.3 but I really love all the new features of 6.0 like gnome, KDE 1.1.1 the latest xfree86. I would really like to know what happened between beautifully stable and configured 5.3 to buggy fickle 6.0 my system 233 mmx intel pentium 64 megs ram 4.3 gig western digital HD external us robotics 56k sportster modem mitsumi 32x cdrom SB awe 64 gold snd card hercules terminator 3d/dx microsoft intellimouse ps/2 microssoft natural KB elite e machines 14 inch monitor 3 com 3c905b NIC
[newbie] need help networking
I have my 2 computers networked with Samba, Linux (server) win98 (client) I would like to connect to the internet with the Linux box and access the internet with the windows 98 machine, is there a way to do that?, and if so is it built in to Linux or do I have download software to do it, I hope that this is not to off topic forthe newbie group, I am a newbie, myself and I am vigorously trying to learn linux as much as I can!!! :o) I have heard if IP masquerading but I do not think that win98 supports it, any help would be greatly appreciated!!! Lance DiBitetto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] configuring Kernal
I am extreemly new at this and I was wondering how I can configure my kernal. I tried logging onn to usr/src/linux and then typing "make xconfig" but all it say's is "no rule to make target 'menuconfig'Stop." now in every web site I have went on and every news group posting I have read states that what I am do'ing is correct, can someone please post the proper syntax for me to configure the kernal. I am running mandrake 5.3 festen with default "vannilla" settings. thank's ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lance DiBitetto
