Re: [newbie] EZ-drive
- Original Message - From: Gustavo Viola [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 11:29 AM Subject: [newbie] EZ-drive Is it possible to have a drive with EZ-Drive with *both* Windows and Linux? Windows needs EZ-Drive, and the EZ-Drive documentation said Linux (or Unix) could not run over it. Any way I can enable EZ-Drive for Windows and disable it for Linux? (*Perhaps* a more adequate phrasing for this question would be: Does LiLo load before EZ-Drive and can it make EZ-Drive run only for Windows?) Thanks, /Gustavo. - Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Gustavo Viola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 11:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] EZ-drive it's posible to have ez-bios and linux, but hardly worth the effort. Boot from a floppy or try loadlin -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon Axalon hit it on the nose (mostly). Ez-BIOS loads itself in the MBR of each drive on your system. I tried to put LILO on my system and went through hell to get EZ-Drive to reinstall for the sake of Windows. Don't even try all of that, just use a bootdisk. All you have to do when the system boots is wait for the EZ-Drive dialog to appear before Windows loads, and press CTRL, then it will tell you to either press A to boot from the floppy drive, or C to boot from the harddrive; that is when you can insert your bootdisk, then press A, and linux will boot from there. It is possible to boot directly from the bootdisk and skip all of that (I presume), but it is better to be safe, right? Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computers aren't smart, they only think they are. __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] (not so) Incompatible Hardware
- Original Message - From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] (not so) Incompatible Hardware -Original Message- From: Manny Styles Because I have such an old computer, I can't upgrade the CPU without upgrading the whole motherboar (I asked someone in Comp USA about my particular system a while ago), plus my power source is not compatible with newer boards (verifying some of what you stated). I have a Genuine Intel Pentium 60 MHz processor. I contacted PB support a while ago about my system (which is past waranty), and I was told that it can be upgraded to a Pentium 120/133 MHz processor. I have upgraded my modem, which is connected to the same riser card as the soundcard, and even moved both of them to better slots for me to access; they are the only two things connected there. The original CD-ROM drive was connected to the soundcard, but I attached the new one directly to the IDE controller. I have not upgraded my video card, but the current one is built into the motherboard. As far as the soundcard, I did a ROM upgrade to make it full-duplex. It's an Aztech Sound Galaxy Washington 16, which is practically a SoundBlaster 16. All that to basically say that there has been no need (yet) for me to upgrade that. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manny, I guess I have the same old PBell. Where did you get the upgrade for the sound card? I never could get my sound card recognized under Linux, I wondered if that upgrade helped or how you did it. I replaced the card w/ a real SB 16 I got used. I do still have it and would like to use it. As for the CPU upgrade, I occasionally see the right chips on eBay, but they are something like $120-175.A bit too much for that old PC. If you are interested it is the Intel Pentium Overdrive processor #PODP5v133 . That will take yours to 120 MHz. Later, Brian Kelsay Y2K Flunky I found the Aztech website, and from there found the upgrade (after much searching) in their support area (of course it's a Windows executable). I could send you the file directly if I still have it. I believe it also gives you sound tools to do wav. recording and such. If I ever find over $100 lying around and can sneak it out of the house (hehe), I might consider that processor upgrade. There is much to be said for some extra RAM though, even my little 40MB worth. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] (not so) Incompatible Hardware
- Original Message - From: David P. Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:44 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] (not so) Incompatible Hardware On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, Manny Styles wrote: big snip On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Brian J. Babiuk wrote: snip Packard Bell computers of any vintage. snip I have never experienced anything more likely to drop its MBR or a few clusters off the disk than these babies. --I agree! Packard Bell, the Star Office of Computers g ROTFLMAO!!! David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics Maybe I have one of those 1 in 3 Packard Bells, so I needed to interject. I believe that it is the newer Packard Bell pc's that are really crap. I have a Packard Bell Legend 100CD that has built-in Cirrus Logic 1 MB video, and a 480 MB Seagate harddrive (bought in mid '95). By your standards, I should have been dead in the water. It is true that I have made some hardware changes in that time (ie: upgraded the 14.4 kbps faxmodem to a x2 56kbps faxmodem [now v.90], and a 50x CD-ROM drive since the original Panasonic-Matsushita died, plus more RAM). I also added a Maxtor 4.3 GB harddrive as a slave device (but it is now the master), with my swap and /home partitions on the original Seagate. I also dual boot. It is true indeed that I have had some problems with linux, but nothing hardware related. I understand that the original e-mail was just a start, but all of these things can't just be automatically scratched out. Now if you say there may be hardware that conflict with each other, that may be a bit more acurate. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html --How did you get your old PB bios to accept the big drive? David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics The Maxtor drive came with EZ-Drive, but that doesn't affect linux in any way since it can see large drives with no BIOS changes. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] (not so) Incompatible Hardware
- Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 1:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] (not so) Incompatible Hardware On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote: Maybe I have one of those 1 in 3 Packard Bells, so I needed to interject. I believe that it is the newer Packard Bell pc's that are really crap. I have a Packard Bell Legend 100CD that has built-in Cirrus Logic 1 MB video, and a 480 MB Seagate harddrive (bought in mid '95). By your standards, I should have been dead in the water. It is true that I have made some hardware changes in that time (ie: upgraded the 14.4 kbps faxmodem to a x2 56kbps faxmodem [now v.90], and a 50x CD-ROM drive since the original Panasonic-Matsushita died, plus more RAM). I also added a Maxtor 4.3 GB harddrive as a slave device (but it is now the master), with my swap and /home partitions on the original Seagate. I also dual boot. It is true indeed that I have had some problems with linux, but nothing hardware related. I understand that the original e-mail was just a start, but all of these things can't just be automatically scratched out. Now if you say there may be hardware that conflict with each other, that may be a bit more acurate. Yeah...but try to upgrade the motherboard/cpu with an "off-the-shelf" motherboard/cpu combo. Packard-Hell uses a non-standard layout and risers for many of their desktop computers to keep the vertical size down. However, this has the side-effect of essentially putting all your cards in one slot. You must not have tried upgrading any of the motherboard stuff or putting in a different video card or sound card (many of the PB systems have on-board sound as well!) John Because I have such an old computer, I can't upgrade the CPU without upgrading the whole motherboar (I asked someone in Comp USA about my particular system a while ago), plus my power source is not compatible with newer boards (verifying some of what you stated). I have a Genuine Intel Pentium 60 MHz processor. I contacted PB support a while ago about my system (which is past waranty), and I was told that it can be upgraded to a Pentium 120/133 MHz processor. I have upgraded my modem, which is connected to the same riser card as the soundcard, and even moved both of them to better slots for me to access; they are the only two things connected there. The original CD-ROM drive was connected to the soundcard, but I attached the new one directly to the IDE controller. I have not upgraded my video card, but the current one is built into the motherboard. As far as the soundcard, I did a ROM upgrade to make it full-duplex. It's an Aztech Sound Galaxy Washington 16, which is practically a SoundBlaster 16. All that to basically say that there has been no need (yet) for me to upgrade that. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] Free Open Source Hosting (OT)
First off, let me say that I am not affiliated with this site in any way; I saw the site and found it interesting. It's called XNOT, and they host web pages, FTP, chat, message boards, and more for free if it is an open source project. I've taken a cursory look at the main site, and it looks promising for anyone here who is a developer in the open source community. The URL is http://www.xnot.com Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] (not so) Incompatible Hardware
- Original Message - From: David P. Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Brian J. Babiuk [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 11:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] (In)Compatible Hardware On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Brian J. Babiuk wrote: snip Packard Bell computers of any vintage. snip I have never experienced anything more likely to drop its MBR or a few clusters off the disk than these babies. --I agree! Packard Bell, the Star Office of Computers g ROTFLMAO!!! David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics Maybe I have one of those 1 in 3 Packard Bells, so I needed to interject. I believe that it is the newer Packard Bell pc's that are really crap. I have a Packard Bell Legend 100CD that has built-in Cirrus Logic 1 MB video, and a 480 MB Seagate harddrive (bought in mid '95). By your standards, I should have been dead in the water. It is true that I have made some hardware changes in that time (ie: upgraded the 14.4 kbps faxmodem to a x2 56kbps faxmodem [now v.90], and a 50x CD-ROM drive since the original Panasonic-Matsushita died, plus more RAM). I also added a Maxtor 4.3 GB harddrive as a slave device (but it is now the master), with my swap and /home partitions on the original Seagate. I also dual boot. It is true indeed that I have had some problems with linux, but nothing hardware related. I understand that the original e-mail was just a start, but all of these things can't just be automatically scratched out. Now if you say there may be hardware that conflict with each other, that may be a bit more acurate. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1
- Original Message - From: bay56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 12:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1 Just for future reference on yet another install - what's that all about, and where does one get the choice? Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ - Original Message - From: Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1 Did you install it with the /net switch? Belzebub wrote: I downloaded and installed Star Offie 5.1 on my Mandrake 6.0 distribuition. I made an updated CD just before 6.1 came out, so I have a custom CD with all the last updates before 6.1. My kernel is 2.2.13. After the installation finished, I am able to run the application as root or superuser, but as a regular user. Any suggestions? Basically, you start the install with : # ./setup /net as root if you have more than one user on your system who will use the program. StarOffice will tell you the rest. And go through theREADME file before installing programs. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Disk problems
- Original Message - From: Lang Zhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 9:14 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Disk problems Try 'fsck /dev/hda1' Martin. better this way : fsck -y /dev/hda1 so that u need not to answer "YES" every time .. BTW, make sure it refer to correct hd partition (/dev/hdxx) -lz If you are running 6.0 "out of the box", you need the kernel and initscripts updates to avoid this problem in the future. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Staroffice install help
- Original Message - From: Murray Strome [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 12:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Staroffice install help Now that you mention it, I believe that the free license I received was for single user -- I only have it installed in one user account. I believe that you can still go to the site and get another license for an additional user without having to dowload the program again. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] Another remove request :o|
- Original Message - From: Joseph L. Czapiewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 7:07 PM newbie remove newbie remove newbie remove newbie remove newbie remove newbie remove newbie remove newbie remove newbie remove newbie remove newbie remove newbie remove newbie remove newbie remove That is extremely unnessary. Have you been on this list long? If you have, you should have seen others try to remove themselves from this list, and the answer to their dilemma. If you are new to this list, you should have read the introductory letter and saved it. You would have seen the very simple instructions on removing yourself from this mailing list. I refuse to give you the answer because of the idiocy you have just subjected us all to. You had to know that everyone who receives this mailing list would see that, therfore you are making a nuisance of yourself on purpose. If you didn't know, shame. Go to the Mandrake web site and find for yourself how to be removed from the mailing list, and next time, pay attention. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] another mail sever problem?
- Original Message - From: Brian Erikson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 7:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] another mail sever problem? Manny Styles wrote: Is anyone else getting messages over again (ie: a message that was sent 3 or so days ago that keeps returning). It could just be me, but I want to be sure before I report any problems about the mail server to my ISP. Manny Styles Yes, Manny, I thought it was just me but there have been a lot of repeats. Brian in Fremont Thanks everyone for saving me some trouble ... kinda Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Written material about Linux online
- Original Message - From: Richard Salts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 2:07 AM Subject: [newbie] Written material about Linux online Is there any book written about unpacking and installing programs downloaded from the Net, or generally speaking, about Linux online? I am looking for any kind of written material about this subject. Anyone have any ideas about it? Thanks, Richard Try Macmillan Online (www.mcp.com, I think). They have many technical books online, even books about linux. You get a 'personal bookshelf' to somewhat bookmark books that you want to read. You can't directly download it, but I guess you could save or print the pages out. Also, save yourself the hassle and post your messages in plain text. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] How to resume setup?
- Original Message - From: Kyle "Orange" Spahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 8:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] How to resume setup? Um.. how is what I'm asking... -Kyle "Orange" Spahn Freespace 2 Lead Descent Chronicles - http://descent.gamestats.com/ E-Mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ # - 22966915 - Original Message - From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] How to resume setup? Kyle \"Orange\" Spahn wrote: Even if I've already downloaded everything?!? If you've already downloaded everything, just restart the install. Your question made it sound like you just wanted to pick the install where it left off. Freespace 2 Lead Descent Chronicles - http://descent.gamestats.com/ E-Mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ # - 22966915 - Original Message - From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 11:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] How to resume setup? Kyle \"Orange\" Spahn wrote: Hey everyone.. I'm a newbie to Linux (that's why i'm on the newbies list) and I think I did something VERY stupid!!! After downloading Mandrake 6.1 over FTP using the boot disk, I started to configure my system and couldn't get my monitor to work as a Custom (mine wasn't listed.. I have a NEC CS500) so I booted to Windows. I'm wondering if anyone knows how to resume the setup program? There is no resume. Sorry, -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] You cannot resume the install from where you left off. You need to start over from the beginning. If you are using a boot disk, start with that and go through all of the steps again. As long as you have kept all of the files you downloaded, you'll be fine, and you can install again if need be (almost all of us do it at least twice). Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Netscape
- Original Message - From: Payne Stanifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 11:34 PM Subject: [newbie] Netscape I have Linux Mandrake 6.0, what Linux version should I pick when I go to download the new netscape ? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com You need the glibc 5.0 (I believe that's the correct spelling) version. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Install freeze
- Original Message - From: Donny [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 2:04 AM Subject: [newbie] Install freeze Hey everyone! I've installed Linux a number of times on my computer, fairly easily. But I recently picked up a P60, that i want to give totally to Linux. It doesnt have a bootable cd-rom drive, so I made install disk's. It loads the linux kernel, but when it gets to the spot where it starts the installation (the last line that says "running install"), it jus stops. Why is it doing this? and how can I get Linux installed? HELP! Thanks in advance! The most likely solution is to get an updated boot image from the updates section on a Mandrake ftp mirror. (Use plain text to send messages to this list and save yourself a tongue-lashing.) Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Linux RPM, how to open.
- Original Message - From: alann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux RPM, how to open. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, cool. Make sure that the /etc/lilo.conf line looks exactly like this: append="mem=64M" Also, after you check that or make the changes, run /sbin/lilo to write the boot block back out with the updates. Maybe that got missed after the previous change? Okay, new problem. KDE seems to crash on me a lot (I was working with kpackage). After one crash, I was working with the PPP interface, when suddenly, the shell crashed on me with a big stack error. When I reboot, it checks the hard disks, then it says, "/dev/hd1: Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 22600:/dev/hd1: and it lists off a lot of other blocks with a similar label. After a bunch of errors, it concludes with, "/dev/hd1: UNEXPECTED CONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e. without -a or -p options) In red, it concludes with, [FAILED]. Basically, it's a corrupted filesystem, I think. So how do I run fsck and fix it? -- do the cntl-d thing when it gives you the option then: /sbin/fsck /hdx1 where x should be like a or b depending if its the master drive or a secondary drive. Point is you're missing a letter when you say /dev/hd1 it should be /dev/hda1 or something.. === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0 Also update your kernel and initscripts to avoid these problems in the future (I believe you said you were using the original kernel). Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Installation Freeze
- Original Message - From: Donny [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 11:12 PM Subject: [newbie] Installation Freeze I got it to boot and install mandrake 5.3, but whenever i try running the 6.0 bootdisk, it locks up at "running installer". Why is this? I just answered this yesterday, but it's possible that my e-mail did not get through to the list. Anyway, here it is again: The most likely solution is to get an updated boot image from the updates section on a Mandrake ftp mirror. (Use plain text to send messages to this list and save yourself a tongue-lashing.) Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] reboot after incorrect shutdown
- Original Message - From: pol keem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 4:25 PM Subject: [newbie] reboot after incorrect shutdown when i reboot after incorrect shutdown...it says some disks were not unmounted correcty and to RUN fdck MANUALLY and asks me for root passwd... after i give it the passwd and type fdck it says one line about parallelizing... so i exit and it says... you're nobody...go away... and then after more error messages it goes to the login prompt and says...internal error i've reinstalled it twice and got the same result after rebooting whenever it freezes... any ideas?... === polkeem __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com Get the kernel and initscripts updates from a Mandrake ftp mirror. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] reboot after incorrect shutdown
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 5:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] reboot after incorrect shutdown -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13 Sep 99, at 13:25, pol keem wrote: when i reboot after incorrect shutdown...it says some disks were not unmounted correcty and to RUN fdck MANUALLY and asks me for root passwd... after i give it the passwd and type fdck it says one line about parallelizing... so i exit and it says... you're nobody...go away... and then after more error messages it goes to the login prompt and says...internal error i've reinstalled it twice and got the same result after rebooting whenever it freezes... any ideas?... === polkeem __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com No one will answer you because no one wants to admit that linux freezes up like this. It didn't used to, I have seen enough X crashes but never any lock ups. Not until I started using mandrake and kde/netscape. The problem is the filesystem writes to the hard drive asynchronously to speed up read/writes. If it freezes up before a write, you just lost that information. Async was added because linux was extremely stable and they could get away with it. But now? Do we start mounting hard drives with -o sync? It should not even be freezing in the first place like this. It happened to me and then it happened to some freinds of mine who also installed mandrake. No crt-alt f2 no ctr-alt-bkspc no three finger salute. Anyone else experiencing complete kernel freezes like this? What about in other distro's? If we lose the single selling point of linux(stabillity over the competition) the what remains? Sorry if I seem like a pessimist, Joe -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBN91wDr/VnK2vTz+fEQJyjwCgvQDyE+FZ8HK9yT98dihqnvHIeloAoLLY ra6AvmKkhOJobPTJunLm8Pd+ =Zc0e -END PGP SIGNATURE- Spam control follows: root@localhost postmaster@localhost admin@localhost abuse@localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder if Joe has updated his kernel. Since doing so, I have not had any crashes or lock-ups, but that could just be me. If you are using Mandrake 6.0 "out-of-the-box" as it were, the unmounting problem should be expected, as it is documented on the Mandrake web site (and numerously in this mailing list). It doesn't seem to happen to everyone, but it has seeemed to affect most of us, so I'm assuming it has something to do with certain system architechtures. Not even Mandrake can be perfect, but at least we were all notified as soon as the problem was identified, and a fix was out shortly. Who else gives tech support like that? Hmm... Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] reboot after incorrect shutdown
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 8:16 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] reboot after incorrect shutdown -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13 Sep 99, at 18:46, Manny Styles wrote: I wonder if Joe has updated his kernel. Since doing so, I have not had any crashes or lock-ups, but that could just be me. If you are using Mandrake 6.0 "out-of-the-box" as it were, the unmounting problem should be expected, as it is documented on the Mandrake web site (and numerously in this mailing list). It doesn't seem to happen to everyone, but it has seeemed to affect most of us, so I'm assuming it has something to do with certain system architechtures. Not even Mandrake can be perfect, but at least we were all notified as soon as the problem was identified, and a fix was out shortly. Who else gives tech support like that? Hmm... Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, joe is using the updated kernel. If you had even bothered to read the message this has nothing to do with init scripts or improper shutdowns. This has to do with linux locking up like everyones favorite OS. That and the fact that linux does not always recover well from these lock ups. For most of the newbies here coming from the aforementioned OS, these lockups seem normal. The truth is, it shouldn't be locking up at all. I have seen at least 5 on my own box, saw two on two other boxes. Wild bill at the linux bits has been plagued with all sorts of lockups(newbie) on his athena box(using redhat I think). There is some talk on the kernel mailing list about beefing up the file system a bit to recover better from crashes. Doesn't this bother anyone at all? Maybe we are rushing into untried grounds alittle, ey? Joe -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBN92T8L/VnK2vTz+fEQJPvQCeMMypw1gFo9owUU7ZZcVYLFG+z4MAn3e+ IDTDWTp7K5bK3gsmTTiS1nYV =2UIM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Spam control follows: root@localhost postmaster@localhost admin@localhost abuse@localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not even trying to get into a flame on this. I read polkeem's message, and he was asking for help on improper shutdowns and fsck. That is what I answered on, and what I referred to. The times on this list where I have seen someone have problems with KDE freezing either had to do with some missing files (rare), or incompatible hardware, not just because of the OS itself. Is it possible? Sure. I don't know the complete ins and outs of linux, but that is what I have seen so far. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] reboot after incorrect shutdown
- Original Message - From: pol keem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 6:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] reboot after incorrect shutdown i'll get the updates... but is there any way to recover my machine from this error without having to reinstall? --- Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: pol keem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 4:25 PM Subject: [newbie] reboot after incorrect shutdown when i reboot after incorrect shutdown...it says some disks were not unmounted correcty and to RUN fdck MANUALLY and asks me for root passwd... after i give it the passwd and type fdck it says one line about parallelizing... so i exit and it says... you're nobody...go away... and then after more error messages it goes to the login prompt and says...internal error i've reinstalled it twice and got the same result after rebooting whenever it freezes... any ideas?... === polkeem __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com Get the kernel and initscripts updates from a Mandrake ftp mirror. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html === polkeem I believe that should be fsck (I don't know if that was just a typo on your part or not.) Assuming your root partition is on /dev/hda1, you should type in: #fsck /dev/hda1 That should fix your filesystem. Make sure to answer Y to every question. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Star Office
- Original Message - From: Thomas J. Hamman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 11:47 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Star Office What I did to use Star Office as a normal user was this: As root, I created the directory I wanted to install it to (I chose /usr/local/SOffice51), then I used chown to change the owner of that directory to my normal user. Then I installed Star Office to that directory, as my normal user instead of root. On 09-Sep-99 Jeanette Russo wrote: If I remember right to get Star Office to work for multiusers when you install it use the Network install choice. Then I think each user has to register it. (Not sure about the last part, haven't tried it myself. I was just using it as root when I wanted to use it) This is what read. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Michael Lim Shek Sia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 10:18 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Star Office If I remember correctly, you need to go through some configuration process for each unprivilaged user after the root installation. However, I have a more or less similar problem. After installation, staroffice has done something to my system and render it completely useless, (I can not run X anymore and sometimes it hangs at the boot stage). I have mailed this message out yesterday and did not seem to have attrached any attention. I would appreciate if help is available. michael lim "H.G.Hettinger" wrote: I recently installed Star Office but couldn't get it to work for me unless I was in root. So I decided to deinstall it and reinstall it in the /usr directory instead of the root directory. After deinstallation, kde locked up so I did a ctrl-alt-backspace and went into the login screen. When I logged back in as user, all my settings were gone. I couldn't dial up and etc. So I logged in as my wife to send this and short of doing a complete reinstall of Mandrake 6.0 I thought I would as you guys. By the way, Star Office still works in root, so evidently I didn't un-install it after all? Thanks in advance for any help. Lawrence Hettinger When you start the install script from the command prompt in Konsole, you use the /net switch to do the network installation so that more than one user may install and use the program. # ./setup /net This also saves disk space so that you don't have to do a separate user installation for everyone. Once this installation is complete, you run Staroffice (it'll tell you the exact file and location after the /net install) for each user. It will use the same files for everyone's installation, and store your user files in the the folder you specify (preferably in your user's directory.) Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Mandrake installation fails on mount
- Original Message - From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 3:01 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake installation fails on mount New development: I attempted to use PartitionMagic to make the Linux partitions after the installer failed. I didn't get very far... PartitionMagic reports a partition table error #120. Would someone with a PartitionMagic manual tell me what that means adn how to correct it? ¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨¯¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨¯¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨¯¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹ ¨ Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth/ ICQ: 35256413 ¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨¯¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨¯¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨¯¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹ ¨ I don't know the error right off, but try the PowerQuest web site. What happened to you looks similar to what happened to me (and destroyed my partition table). I couldn't even access my linux partitions anymore, and couldn't fix it until I reformatted my hard drives. I suggest that when you use Partition Magic, don't create linux partitions, but rather create free space, then use disk Druid (or fdisk, if you prefer) to specify the ext2fs filesystem. That worked for me, and no more partition problems. One more thing, maybe I'm off-base, but what is the point of a separate /root partition? It seems that there should be no problem leaving /root as a part of /. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] threads
- Original Message - From: Mike Fieschko [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 4:10 PM Subject: [newbie] threads "Manny" == Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anyone else starting to get threaded messages out of order? I am now seeing replies before I see the original message. This have never happened to me with this list before, but it has started within the last two days. What is your mailer? Your X headers indicate you're using one of BG's products. X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 How does your mail reader thread (by Message-ID?)? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 20.4, VM 6.72 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.9-19mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Sep 2 St Stephen of Hungary "There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth." - [G.K. Chesterton, in ILN, 7/18/08] Because my ISP does not work with linux, I am relegated to Windows to get online; therfore, I use OE 5.0 to read e-mail. The messages are threaded by subject, and then sorted by the time received (my time), which is N.American Eastern Time. I'm not sure if that is due to Outlook Express or my mail server, as I see that not everyone gets their mail that way. No matter what time zone the sender is in, I see the messages as being sent in "my time". That is still the case, but now they are no longer in order. It looks like something I'll just have to deal with, and I apologize for taking us away from the main focus of the mailing list (even though it was somewhat relevant for a moment). Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Install cannot find filesystems
- Original Message - From: Richards, Donald D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 4:53 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Install cannot find filesystems You're using a rather large disk, like I am, and the installation documentation refers to the need to have the starting starting cylinder of the root partition under a certain number (I think it was either 1024 or 2048, but it's in the documentation). This could be your problem, given the size of your first partition... Don Richards -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 02:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Install cannot find filesystems On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hello all, My "filesystems" cannot be found by the Macmillan Linux-Mandrake 6.0 installation, right after choosing either "Disk druid" or "Fdisk". I don't choose the SCSI option since my hard drive is an EIDE Western Digital UDMA/66 (9.1GB, 7200rpm). I have Windows 98 working well on my primary DOS 4GB partition and I have two more logical empty partitions defined (2GB, 3GB) in my extended DOS partition. I install by booting from the floppy and installing from the CDROM. Any hint that could help me solve my problem? Hmm...which install did you try? If you tried the "upgrade" that's probably why it failed. You'll need to choose new install, and probably should choose "custom." John You don't actually need root under 1024 cylinders, you can get away with just /boot in that area. There's a good use for Partition Magic (or some shareware/freeware that does something similar). Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] threads
Is anyone else starting to get threaded messages out of order? I am now seeing replies before I see the original message. This have never happened to me with this list before, but it has started within the last two days. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] threads
- Original Message - From: pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] threads this sort of thing happens all the time. its due to internet delays and server delays. also, if you have your mail sorted by date and time, then different timezones come into play. :P Manny Styles wrote: Is anyone else starting to get threaded messages out of order? I am now seeing replies before I see the original message. This have never happened to me with this list before, but it has started within the last two days. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html I do have them sorted by date and time, and always have. This problem did not start until yesterday though. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Kpackage install in RH 6
- Original Message - From: Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 9:04 PM Subject: [newbie] Kpackage install in RH 6 I have RH 6 on my laptop. It does not have Kpackage anywhere. I tried using Kpackage from Mandrake 6 but it wants libstdc++2.9mdk which I can't get to install. I forced mandrakes Kpackage in but it doesn't work. I just hate Gnome.rpm and miss kpackage. Has anyone have RH 6 with a working K package? If so how did you do it? I have tried six diff. rpms of Kpackage even SuSE and Caldera but no go even RH 5.2 and Mandrake 5.3 version. Jeanette Not to start a "which is better" conversation, but from the time I spent using GnoRPM on RH 6.0, I did prefer it to KPackage. It felt more complete to me (more info), but that all goes to personal preferences. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] netscape defaults
- Original Message - From: Rick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David P. Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 8:52 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] netscape defaults On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, David P. Greenberg wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, pete moss wrote: is there a default prefs file for netscape? i have configured mine to open to messenger, and to bring up a blank page in navigator. however, everytime i open netscape, i get navigator opening to the mandrake help page. anyone know how to get rid of this? i have looked at preferences.js in ~/.netscape and the settings are correct there, they just arent loading up. :P --Well, I'm sure to suffer a flaming death for this statement, but what I found to work best is to uninstall Netscape, and go about your life! I had nothing but crashes and multiple other problems with it in any and all the distros I've tried. (I'm currently using Mandrake 6 and absolutely love it). The KDE mail, news, and browser all work great and I found no real need for Netscape anyway. It was slow and problematic for me when it _did_ work at all and on several occasions even caused me to have to reinstall Linux (although, a more experienced user could probably have repaired the situation). Anyway, just my two cents worth...Please be merciful. David P. Greenberg David, Don't give up on netscape. If your using mandrake, click on the updates icons and download all three parts of netscape 4.61 at the same time. It will automatically install itself. I found that most of my problems with netscape ended when I went to 4.61. I think you will find that not all web sites will open with KDE's broswer. I look forward to seeing the browser improved with the next reincarnation of mandrake. Rick "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB Rick hit it on the nose. I'm assuming that David was using former versions of Netscape which were still buggy. Netscape 4.61 is stable. One thing though, you don't need all three Netscape rpms. You definitely need netscape-common, but besides that, you only need netscape-navigator if you just want the browser, or netscape-communicator if you want the full suite (browser, mail/news reader, and Composer). So if you do get it from updates, it's just two files. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] ppa
- Original Message - From: James Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 9:21 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] ppa Because you need to tell the system what to use to execute the commands contained in the file. Check /etc/rc.d/rc.local and /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and you'll find the same at the top of them. Probably the same in the scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d/. here is a point Steve.. why not just add the line at the end of the rc.local script.. thats what I did with my setserial command.. Rather than creating a new script?? James I had considered that too after Steve's help, but I had no idea which rc script I would add it too. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Partitions in Linux
- Original Message - From: Jason Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitions in Linux Thanks. I've really never thought of a seperate boot partition, but that can make life alot easier. How big should a boot partition be? I'm assuming 100 megs will be enough, but if not could someone let me know. On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: Petey wrote: I've got a quick question I couldn't find the answer for in my Linux book. I have a 16.8 GB hard drive. Will I need to create 2 - 8GB partitions or can I create 1 - 16GB partition? I've never worked above 4GB partitions, so this is new territory for me. Thanks for the help. With a drive that big, you really want to create 3 partitions (at the MINIMUM). First, your swap partition. Second, a partition you'll mount as /boot. The last will be your / (root) filesystem. The reason for a separate /boot partition is so you don't ever run the risk of having the kernel installed higher than cylinder 1024 on the drive. Life is ALOT easier if you plan ahead. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Most people would suggest about 15 - 20MB, which should be enough space for more that one kernel. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] upgrade
- Original Message - From: DJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 2:37 PM Subject: [newbie] upgrade Hello all It looks as if i missed something when i upgraded from 5.3 to 6.0 !!:) I can no longer telnet in? I get an error in /var/log/secure of a missing /usr/sbin/in.telnetd and sure enough it isnt there!:) How do i create it or what new file do i point /etc/inetd.conf to? Thanks DJ Speaking as someone who tried to upgrade from 5.3 to 6.0, it is not a good idea at all. Because Mandrak strives to stay compatible with RedHat, they had to institute the same changes in the system that RedHat did. That said, your current problems could be just the beginning, even though your system may seem stable for the most part. I hope you have /home on a separate partition, because a fresh install is what you really need. Don't forget the updates once you complete the install. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Evil Empire
- Original Message - From: Art Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 6:37 PM Subject: [newbie] Evil Empire Microsoft bashing is fun, as it was when I was trying OS2, but MS Explorer is a good program. When I was dual booting Win 98 and Linux, I was using it. When I realized, from mail lists, that html was a problem for some people, I changed my settings so that I sent text only by default. I agree with the sentiments below. Art --- Original Message: OE is Evil? I'm a linux user and very rarely boot into wondoze. but when I do, I find OE 5.0 extremely functional. What kind of savy does it take to turn off html. At least when I receive an html post from a student, I can read it with no problem. (of course, NS Mesaanger can read it also, but in linux I prefer Kmail, which doesn't read html). I'm no M$ fan, but I find it childish to hammer away at software that works well just because it's M$. They make a shitty enough OS to pound on w/o hammering their effective software IMHO. Mike :o) I also agree with the above statement, but I have had plent enough times where OE 5.0 has crashed as soon as it starts for no apparent reason; and I have no way currently of reading e-mail, or connecting to the internet from linux, so I'm stuck. So maybe there is a reason to bash it, not that I'm condoning it ;o). Besides that, it has to be the best e-mail program out as far as functionality and ease of use is concerned. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Real Player...
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 7:50 PM Subject: [newbie] Real Player... Who was the gentleman who had the troubles with the Real Player G2? I want to download it, but I want the G2 player, not the version 5 that they give for the Unix flavors. Where did you get the files for Linux is what I am trying to ask :) thank you jerrud Try ftp://ftp.cirr.com/pub/utils/g2a1_linux22.bin (this is the one with the best dl time right now, as told by GoZilla). Or you can go to Lycos FTP Search to find another site. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Problem with shutdown
- Original Message - From: Mark Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Newbie Help Linux-Mandrake' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:05 PM Subject: [newbie] Problem with shutdown I have had a problem with shutting down. I have installed Mandrake 6.0 and then updated the initscripts as recommended. This helped with the unmount problems. However when I do a shutdown -h the last thing that happens is a full screen of scrolling [CF??] . I am stuck with this. It doesn't appear to do harm to my system, but it would still be nice to fix. Thanks in advance. Mark Lyon Did you update the kernel as well? NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Problems installing kicq
- Original Message - From: Sean King [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:01 PM Subject: [newbie] Problems installing kicq hello I am having problems installing kicq. When I try to run the kicq rpm it stops and tells me that I need libkdecore.so.1, libkdeui.so.1, and libkfm.so.1. I am have problems trying to find these. If you could please write me back with a little help. Thanks I wouldn't know what packages those libraries are in right off, but it is most likely a kde rpm. Do a find from Kpackage, and it will tell you in what package you can find them, then install that rpm. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Problem with shutdown
- Original Message - From: Mark Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:40 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Problem with shutdown No I haven't. I read somewhere that it wasn't necessary. Should I do this? -Original Message- From: Manny Styles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 9:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with shutdown snip Did you update the kernel as well? It is very necessary. I don't know where you read that, but all of the updates are suggested. The kernel and initscripts are required to fix the security and unmounting problems. You should get them all. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] how about my bjc-5000?
- Original Message - From: pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 12:41 AM Subject: [newbie] how about my bjc-5000? was:Re: Can Cheapo Lexmark Printer Work with LINUX? my relatively new canon bjc-5000 is also listed as a paperweight. do you know if i might be able to use other drivers with it to make it work, or am i SOL? also, i checked the bimbo page, but it got a 404. :P Civileme wrote: The Lexmark 2050 is classified as a "Paperweight" at Grant Taylor's page http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/ HOWEVER You are in luck. There is an ACTIVE project on it, and they are looking for some owners/users to help out. http://bimbo.fjfi.cvut.cz/~paluch/17kdriver read their news, then perhaps drop them a line if you feel inspired. I checked out the link because I also have a Lexmark printer (1100). I bought it before I ever considered linux. Luckily for me I had a real printer sitting around which I got to work again recently. Anyway, try http://bimbo.fjfi.cvut.cz/~paluch/ and go from there. I guess the webmaster changed the link. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] ppa
I have an Iomega Zip 100 parallel port zip drive connected to my system. When I used Mandrake 5.3, it was detected during installation, and was ready to be mounted when I first started the system. with 6.0, it was not detected, and would not mount until I used "modprobe ppa". Unfortunately, this does not completely fix the problem. I have to use modprobe everytime I start my linux system in order to mount my zip drive. Is there a way I can get around this, and/or have the ppa module load at boot? Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 and MP3 problems ... now sound in general
- Original Message - From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 3:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 and MP3 problems ... now sound in general Manny, I have a card just like yours (Aztech Snd Galaxy 16). I could never get it to play nice with Linux so I removed it and put it in another PC. Mine had a jumper to set the card to use the EEPROM settings for the card, which I assumed was to turn off PnP. I tried this and saw no change. I probably tried every jumper setting and sndconfig setting combination possible and it would not work. I put in a used Creative Sound Blaster 16 and in a minute had it working under Mandrake 5.3. If you ever get it working let me know how as I am sick of playing with it. By the way the old Panasonic CD drive I had attached to the card gave up the ghost. Brian "My God, it's full of penguins!" -Original Message----- From: Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip My card is an Aztech Labs Sound Galaxy Washington 16, but it is SoundBlaster 16 compatible, so that is the setting I have been usng. I have /dev/dsp and /dev/dsp1, but no /dev/dsp2 ... does tthat make a difference with my card? My new problem is that I lose my soundcard settings after using my modem. I got it to work again after the first time, but it has happened again. I can't get my sounds back this time. I even tried the Aztech Labs driver (which I have found is more precise), but still no sound. Does anyone have a solution to this? Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Error: Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue. When I use sndconfig, it tells me that it does not detect a PnP or PCI card, so I enter the I/O and IRQs myself. I never bother with the jumpers at all. On another note, my original CD-ROM drive dies before I ever did my first install of Mandrake, but I have since replaced it with one that does not attach to the soundcard except for the one wire for sound (which I had to juryrig). Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 and MP3 problems ... now sound in general
- Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 21, 1999 3:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 and MP# problems On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Manny Styles wrote: My sound configuration is fine as far as I can tell. Audio CD's and wav files play clearly, it's just the .rm, .ram, .mp2, and .mp3 formats that are garbled to the point of incomprehension. What card? check if /dev/dsp2 exists I forget the cards but some have one and give much better sound for mp3 Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon My card is an Aztech Labs Sound Galaxy Washington 16, but it is SoundBlaster 16 compatible, so that is the setting I have been usng. I have /dev/dsp and /dev/dsp1, but no /dev/dsp2 ... does tthat make a difference with my card? My new problem is that I lose my soundcard settings after using my modem. I got it to work again after the first time, but it has happened again. I can't get my sounds back this time. I even tried the Aztech Labs driver (which I have found is more precise), but still no sound. Does anyone have a solution to this? Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Error: Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 and MP3 problems ... now sound in general
- Original Message - From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 3:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 and MP3 problems ... now sound in general Manny, I have a card just like yours (Aztech Snd Galaxy 16). I could never get it to play nice with Linux so I removed it and put it in another PC. Mine had a jumper to set the card to use the EEPROM settings for the card, which I assumed was to turn off PnP. I tried this and saw no change. I probably tried every jumper setting and sndconfig setting combination possible and it would not work. I put in a used Creative Sound Blaster 16 and in a minute had it working under Mandrake 5.3. If you ever get it working let me know how as I am sick of playing with it. By the way the old Panasonic CD drive I had attached to the card gave up the ghost. Brian "My God, it's full of penguins!" -Original Message----- From: Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip My card is an Aztech Labs Sound Galaxy Washington 16, but it is SoundBlaster 16 compatible, so that is the setting I have been usng. I have /dev/dsp and /dev/dsp1, but no /dev/dsp2 ... does tthat make a difference with my card? My new problem is that I lose my soundcard settings after using my modem. I got it to work again after the first time, but it has happened again. I can't get my sounds back this time. I even tried the Aztech Labs driver (which I have found is more precise), but still no sound. Does anyone have a solution to this? Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Error: Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue. When I use sndconfig, it tells me that it does not detect a PnP or PCI card, so I enter the I/O and IRQs myself. I never bother with the jumpers at all. On another note, my original CD-ROM drive dies before I ever did my first install of Mandrake, but I have since replaced it with one that does not attach to the soundcard except for the one wire for sound (which I had to juryrig). Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [[newbie] Successful install of Real Audio now what?]
- Original Message - From: Andrei Bosco B Torres [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 8:26 PM Subject: Re: [[newbie] Successful install of Real Audio now what?] Where can I find G2? -- Andrei B UIN 40129060 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get it from the Real webite, the free player. www.real.com Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] problem using sound with gnome
- Original Message - From: Rick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 21, 1999 7:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] problem using sound with gnome On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, you wrote: Yea, it was me. GMIX seems to be EVIL.. Don't use it. Use KMIX. Seems as soon as you move a fader on GMIX, it pops and the sound dissapears. I wrote Gmone a bug report about it. Alan H, I can't seem to get sound out on the gnome side at all. Everything is great with KDE and not a peep with gnome. I can turn the Kmix (or the Gmix for that matter) sound up and the speakers come up. Just no sound. Rick -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB Did you enable sound in Enlightenment? Check in the Gnome Configuration Tool (I believe that is the name). Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] VMare
- Original Message - From: Chris Smallhorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] VMare I decided to try vmware (30 day eval.), but have not been able to get it to work at all (I am trying to use it with a pre-existing install of Win98 SE as the guest OS). The problem that I am experiencing is that the virtual machine hangs as it starts the LILO boot sequence. The only thing displayed is: LI I have read everything regarding dual-boot etc at vmware's web site, but to no avail. I have also tried fdisk /mbr then re-installing linux (something to do with HDD geometry problems), but this didn't work either. I would really like to give vmware a good workout, to see if I want to purchase it. If someone can help it would be greatly appreciated. FYI, the system specs are as follows: PIII 450 with 128Mb RAM (64Mb allocated to VM) dev/hda = primary master - 8.4Gb (Windows 98 SE install) dev/hdb = primary slave - 4.3 Gb (linux install) dev/hdc = secondary master - 5.1 Gd (windows games, etc) Creative Labs Voodoo Banshee 16Mb video card Thanks, Chris. PS. I also get a XFree86 DGA initialization failed error message - but I assume that this is because of the driver that I am using for the Banshee video card. I used the raw disk option to use my current installation of Win98 in VMware, but it just went to a black screen after the "boot". I don't use lilo, but the problems do sound similar. Everything is detected in the VMware BIOS, but I don't even get to the Windows splash screen. I haven't even tried using it in more than a month. I wouldn't mind some assistance in this area as well. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] A Response (was Modem difficulties)
- Original Message - From: Rick Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 7:08 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem difficulties Original Message Follows From: Rick Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] it is. So, forget all these .config files we seem to have to manually edit with wonderful devices such as VI. [BLEAH!!] You know, there _are_ more intuitive editors out there--lots of them, in fact. I like pico, but kedit is pretty good as well. Of course, there aren't that many cases any more where you _have_ to manually edit the .conf files, as software like linuxconf and others tend to work as well. Also, I guess this means you've never had to hack the Windows registry? Nope. Never have. In as much as I'm comfortable using regedit, I've never had to use it to get something to work. That's not the point. Having to manually edit things was one of the major downfalls of OffulStinky/2. Then, of course, they were plagued by bad management, marketing and just a plain gawd awful stupid looking system. Heck, I'm running 2000 release candidate 1 now. Yes, the betas had their problems. But, that's why they call them BETA!!! When you can make a version of this Linux, whether it be Red Hat or Mandrake, that's better at plug 'n play than Windows, maybe more of us will start using it on a more pronounced basis. "So, quitcherbeleakin" yourself. Linux is getting much better at PnP, though it admittedly isn't to the level of Windows yet. Windows isn't anywhere near the level of the Mac, either, so why are you holding Windows out as the holy grail of PnP? Because it is. Unix has been around eons before Mr. Gates' MSDOS or even Windows. You'd think that someone would have gotten it right by now. Gates took the MacIntrash environment and made it work. One of my many employment endeavors was collecting shareware and freeware for the PC, Mac, Amiga [now THERE's an underrated machine] and the Atari. I've been there, done that and saw the movie. My first computer was in 1979. It was a TRS-80 Model I Level I with 16K of memory and the only storage device was a casette recorder. That was back just before the Crapple ][ came out with it's TRS-80 wannabe style. I'm wondering if you are always in this kind of mood. Is it possible that you weren't good at that whole customer relations thing? Whose fault is it really that you have hardware that isn't supported by linux? Did you even take the opportunity to research what you needed to run linux? Did you check to see if your hardware is supported? I spent quite a while downloading Mandrake, and reading this mailing list getting info and researching the OS before even begining to install it. I found out what I would be up against, and I asked my questions and got useful, and respectful answers. Your attitude is not productive at all. Everyone tries to help and all you do is snap back. For someone who was in tech support, I would think that you'd be more understanding. Did you appreciate the kind of attitude you exhibit from your ISP's customers when you were trying to help THEM? Look, every OS is going to have it's shortcomings, not all of which can be helped (especially with a GNU licensed OS, that has people taking their own time and working for free to build a community and a philosophy). Maybe this isn't the mailing list for you, and maybe linux is not the OS for you. If all you want to do is bitch, save us the trouble and the bandwidth, and do it in the mirror. I could be reading e-mails that will help me to further my linux knowledge, and spending my time responding to someone who can and will use the knowledge I have gained to help themselves. I am not doing this in a mean spirit in the slightest; I just believe that we should be dealing with helping each other, not squabbling. There's my 5¢, Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- A wise person has something to say, a fool has to say something. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] StarOffice Installation
- Original Message - From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] StarOffice Installation Well, if you do a network install, you do single user SETUPs with just a few files each. Why would you want to automate the setups? Usually you have one setup per user and the process is quickly done. CIvileme All fine, but I still needed to know if anyone knows why I get this error during the /net setup (I haven't tried the normal setup), and/or if there is a way to correct it. error: invalid compressed (deflated) data for libsw516li.so Also the abnormal termination when I try to start a text document once the user setup is complete. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] RealPlayer G2 and MP# problems
I have recently installed RealPlayer G2, but when I play a RealMedia file (on my harddrive), garbled sound. I also get the same audio with MP2 and 3 files Also, RealMedia files don't automatically open in G2. Any assistance would be helpful in both areas. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Not getting anywhere
- Original Message - From: Rick Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 10:50 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Not getting anywhere I give up on this stupid fucking so-called operating system! It's totally FUCKING USELESS Windows is FAR superior and you bunch of sad losers are just wasting your lives. -- -- Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com sad Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 and MP# problems
- Original Message - From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 3:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 and MP# problems Definitely try sndconfig again. Your sound card has not been properly recognized/installed/drivered, unless you have a cracked speakerg. Civileme Manny Styles wrote: I have recently installed RealPlayer G2, but when I play a RealMedia file (on my harddrive), garbled sound. I also get the same audio with MP2 and 3 files Also, RealMedia files don't automatically open in G2. Any assistance would be helpful in both areas. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- My sound configuration is fine as far as I can tell. Audio CD's and wav files play clearly, it's just the .rm, .ram, .mp2, and .mp3 formats that are garbled to the point of incomprehension. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Changing the Window Manager
- Original Message - From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 4:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing the Window Manager The dumb question is the one you DON'T ask. AFAIK, the easiest way to do this is edit /etc/inittab On or about line 18, you'll run into id:3:initdefault: change the 3 to a 5 and save it. Now when you startup a screen will appear that allows you to boot into any windows manager you've installed. Going to a console can be done by raising an xterm or by ctrl-alt-fx where x is 2-6, with ctrl-alt-f7 going back to the windows manager. Civileme Steve Spiller wrote: This may seem like a dumb question, but I have only run Linux-Mandrake for 1 week. When I run startx, it automatically boots into KDE. This is fine, but I would like to test the other Window Managers that I installed. How do I use startx to boot into WindowMaker (for example)? -- visit http://homepages.msn.com/invalid_url Is Microsoft afraid to pay itself license fees for IIS? Sure looks like an Apache (open-source) Signature to me If you like booting to console, this is a good question. This was addressed months ago in this list, but I don't remember the answer. I would also like to know, just in case. So if anyone has the info, it would be nice. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Changing the Window Manager
- Original Message - From: Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 8:45 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing the Window Manager Steve wants to know how to start a different window manager from the command line, not from within KDE (or booting to initlevel 5). Right, that's what `desktopcfg` does. Well, kind of. It is a console utility that allows you to change your default desktop- your choices are GNOME, KDE, AfterStep, or "Plain X11" which means fvwm2, I think. If you run desktopcfg as root you may change the system default. And since you asked... Another way to change the window manager that starts when you run `startx` is to put a command in ~/.xinitrc. This file is a shell script run after X has started (it is usually what loads a window manager). `desktopcfg` uses this file to start your window manager (WM). You may safely delete this, and specify your own script. Mine follows: #/home/matthead/.xinitrc exec kde I think that I'm going to replace "exec kde" with "exec enlightenment" as I'm tired of KDE, and would like to use Enlightenment for a while. The only thing I don't like is that you can't move windows around in the pager (a point for AfterStep, 'cause you can in there!)... but that's off-topic. Yet another way to specify a window manager to run with X is by appending it to `xinit` (`startx` is a shell script that runs `xinit` with some default arguments). Try, for instance, `xinit /usr/bin/enlightenment` This will start X and then run the Enlightenment WM. Because of the way `xinit` interprets your arguments, you have to specify the full path to the program you wish to run in X (it doesn't _have_ to be a WM). It doesn't even matter if the path to the program is in $PATH. If you're interested in the why, try `man xinit`. Which window managers are included with Mandrake? Here's a few (I installed the extra window managers package, so all these may not be on your system): /usr/bin/enlightenment /usr/bin/gnome-session /usr/bin/kde /usr/X11R6/bin/AnotherLevel /usr/X11R6/bin/afterstep /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker I'm sure there are more. Also, gnome-session starts GNOME, which is not a window manager, but rather a "desktop environment." This includes the panel, the right-click menu on the desktop, the icons, and more. GNOME uses Enlightenment as it's WM by default, but can be configured to use WindowMaker, or some other WM I can't remember right now. The same goes for KDE, execpt that I don't think you can successfully use any WM other than kwm, which is KDE's default. This is probably much more information than you ever cared to know, but it's still not all! However, I'll bet `desktopcfg` is plenty for most people. The thing is, if you want more control over what happens when you start X, well, you've got it. This is one of many advantages that Linux has over Windows: the freedom of choice. For any given task, there are usually several different ways to accomplish it, each with it's own unique advantages disadvantages. This means you can find the best way to get a job done- you're not locked into someone else's idea of "the best way," like you are with proprietary systems (Microsoft being only the most prominent). -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] For myself, thank you. That is exactly what I wanted to know. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] /home partition/mount troubles
- Original Message - From: Michael Chopek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 9:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] /home partition/mount troubles At 04:28 PM 8/20/99 -0400, I wrote: Do you have any free space on the drive? Yes I do...995mb left on the Linux partition.. snip best regards -michael Michael Chopek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Down to Earth Development Ltd - http://www.d2earth.com/ Website Web Applications Development Extropia Developers Network - http://www.extropia.com/ You wouldn't be talking about 995MB of unused Windows drive space, would you? Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] 3-button mouse
- Original Message - From: Murray Strome [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LINUX Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 3:34 PM Subject: [newbie] 3-button mouse Thanks to several people on the list I was able to solve a KDE problem. Now I wonder if someone can help me to get my three button mouse to work properly. (It operates as a two button mouse now). When I did 'mouseconfig', it detected my serial mouse on COM1. However, I had to select which one to use. My mouse is a Matsonic Model No. ADO-101. Not knowing what to choose from the table, I picked 3-button generic (serial). I did not select "Emulate 3 button mouse" on first try, but did later. Both selections resulted in the mouse acting as a simple two button mouse (the centre button does not work, nor does pushing both buttons at once). Murray Strome The generic selection should work for most mouses. You should never select 'Emulate 3 button mouse" when you have 3 buttons. Unlike Windows, the middle/third button is not for double-clicking. In linux, when you highlight text, it is automatically copied. The middle/third button is used to paste that text. It takes a little getting used to when you are accustomed to the double-clicking function. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] StarOffice Installation
- Original Message - From: Paul Hendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 1:54 PM Subject: [newbie] StarOffice Instalation I bought the box set of Mandrake with StarOffice 5.1 Searching all of the CD's, the only RPMs I can seem to find is Staroff and staroffice-wrapper. None of these refers to SO 5.1. When I run the install and try typing "staroffice" to run the prog, it isn;t a recognised command. I also tried going to the directory of the program and clicking the icon, nothing happens. I know Im going wrong somewhere. When I install some RPMs, and I type the command to run them they work, some others are unrecognised commands :( Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul Hendrick Try "soffice" (no quotes, of course). While I'm at it, I have been having a problem with my StarOffice 5.1. I installed it using the /net switch. After the GUI starts installing the files, I get this error: error: invalid compressed (deflated) data for libsw516li.so I retried a few times, but still the same error, so I chose to ignore it to continue the installation. Everything seemed fine after that, even doing the user installation. The problem comes when I start StarOffice. The program loads, but when I try to start a text document, I get some error message about abnormal termination then it shuts down. I can't give the exact error there because I uninstalled the program. Does anyone have any ideas? Could this be a simple download corruption? Thanks for any help. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Newsgroup threads
- Original Message - From: Victor Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 2:56 PM Subject: [newbie] Newsgroup threads Is there anyway to view this forum as a newsgroup with threads, rather than receiving every post as a seperate email? If so, where is it located(news server)? Victor If you are still using Windows to read the list (I am ... ugh), you can use Outlook Express, and set it to group the messages by thread. It really does save a lot of time. As far as linux goes, one of the mail readers should do the same thing (try Netscape Messenger). Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] still can't use my zip drive - but thanks for the help
- Original Message - From: Jim Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 12:50 PM Subject: [newbie] still can't use my zip drive - but thanks for the help Hi Thanks to all for the individual replies. I have tried to implement a couple suggestions but still can't use my parallel port zip drive. It worked fine under 5.3 and not at all under 6.0. When booting, I get the error message that the ppa module is trying to load and then get a series of messages similar to this: /lib/ppa.0:unresolved symbol parport_release-Ra542614f then a couple more lines similar to this with different endings. Has anyone else seen this? Also, don't I need to add a line to fstab to see the zip drive? Thanks again Jim You need to have a disk in the drive, plus a directory in /mnt (mine is /mnt/zip). After making that directory, then you put the line in fstab. I use "auto" as the filesystem, in case I format one of the zipdisks in linux. You can also make a shortcut on the KDE desktop to mount the drive, just like your floppy or CD-ROM drive. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Does Linux use the Bios for Harddrives?
- Original Message - From: James Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 3:44 PM Subject: [newbie] Does Linux use the Bios for Harddrives? I have a question. Does Linux use the BIOS to get harddrive specifications?? I own an older 486/75 NEC Versa Laptop that I would like to use as a Linux machine. I have only a maximum of 540meg HD right now.. so because I wanted to run Linux I was thinking of Upgrading the HD.. to a GIG or over.. BUT!!! The bios is old.. and only allows me to go up to 1 gig exactly in size.. I could use a Disk manager .. but this is only useful for DOS partitions is it not? So the point is.. I want to use a 1 GIG + drive in a machine that does not have a bios that can support it. HOW WILL LINUX HANDLE IT?? James Most large harddrives these days come with their own disk manager. It works for linux as well. My particular disk manager (E-Z Drive) lets me press CTRL before Windows starts so that I can boot from a floppy, or from C: drive. Because you would have a disk manager, you would not be able to use lilo, so a boot floppy would be the way to go. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] One more zip drive question
- Original Message - From: Steve Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 12:22 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] One more zip drive question Have you tried looking at all the boot-up messages to see how Linux sees your zip drive? Also, is your kernel configured for that device? To check the boot-up messages, create a file, myfile. Then: dmesg myfile then check what's in myfile. Should tell you what Linux sees. --- Jim Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am currently upgrading from 5.3 to 6.0 on another computer after giving up on this one getting my ATAPI zip drive to work. Under 5.3, my parallel port zip drive was found. Under 6.0 during the upgrade it wasn't. What gives here? Shouldn't a newer kernel be downward compatable? Many thanks for the help. Jim _ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com I had the same problem, just type "modprobe ppa" (no quotes) at the prompt, then mount your drive as normal. I have no idea why 6.0 doesn't see the zip drive automatically when 5.3 did. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Hello?
- Original Message - From: James Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 1:49 AM Subject: [newbie] Hello? Hello ? is anyone even hearing this?? I have posted about 5 msgs on this mailing list requesting hard ware installation help.. I have yet for ANYONE to replay to me... maybe this is not getting to anyone? if you read this could you post a little note saying so? And if you know better why you have not bothered to anwer any of my posts?? ;o) james I see your message, but I can't say that I have seen anything from you before this Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Curious fsck and changing login screens
- Original Message - From: Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 11:59 PM Subject: [newbie] Curious fsck and changing login screens I have used Linux for about 8 months (RedHat 5.2) and have recently started using Mandrake 6.0. I have been generally extremely impressed with Mandrake, however I have noticed a few strange occurences. 1) I have always operated in runlevel 5 and used the Mandrake logon screen to shutdown or reboot my machine. Now I have rarely rebooted, however on the two occasions I have used the Mandrake Shutdown button to reboot, the startup process informs me that hda1(hda6) was not cleanly unmounted and proceeds to run fsck. Not a problem in itself, but I hate it when something doesn't work as it is supposed to and I don't know why. This same problem also occurred the single time I tries shutdown -r now. 2) On some occassions this same problem has occurred when merely booting up the machine. I know fsck is supposed to run after a certain number of mounts, however this problem has been occurring at irregular intervals sometimes as close as three boots apart. I stress that I always shut down properly, using either the Mandrake Shutdown button, or occasionally shutdown -h now. 3) This fsck has never caused me much trouble until last night when the fsck indicated a large number of errors including a reference to /usr/share/config/kdmrc (I may have this path and file name slightly incorrect. I apologise I am writing from work 12 hours later). It also made reference to a saved Civilisation - Call to Power game. When the fsck was complete the boot up process, which always indicates everything OK, came up with a FAILED message. I believe it said (again it was a while ago) that it was unable to read /usr/share/config/kdmrc. The next indication of something amiss was when X flashed up with the standard KDE login screen instead of the Mandrake screen. Using the Kpackage program I found the package that is responsible for the /usr/share/config/kdmrc file. It came up with a cross instead of a tick. Thinking I was clever I reinstalled the package and rebooted. Alas no change, the boot up process still indicated a failed read of /usr/share/config/kdmrc and I still received the KDE login screen. Further investigation revealed that /usr/../kdmrc was a file of size 0. Also, I think the saved Civ CTP game has disappeared. My question then is - how do I get my beloved Mandrake login screen back? Win9x friends laughed when I had to su root etc to shutdown and now I have got my own back I don't want that Shutdown button disappearing. Also what is causing these random fsck's? I have heard that there are some file system problems with 2.2.9. Is this the cause? Will the Mandrake kernel update solve the problem? The file names I have stated MAY BE INCORRECT. I aplogise for this, however I am hoping that the description of my problem will be enough to give you an idea of its likely cause. Thankyou PS As a quick query - why, whenever I add any new users to my system does KDE give me double icons for everything, one in upper case, one in lower (CDROM cdrom, PRINTER printer) ? It never happened for root, nor the non-privilleged user created during install. The problem is in the 2.2.9-19 kernel. You need to get the kernel and initscripts updates to correct this (I suggest getting all of the other updates as well). As for the dual icons, you must not have formatted your /home partition, which is fine. Just delete one of each of the icons, the other will still work. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] more about partition trouble
- Original Message - From: Rick Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 4:04 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] more about partition trouble I didn't use the boot disks. I just told my machine to boot from the CD Rom and it did. Fully installed it from there. Original Message Follows I tried to load Linux from my boot disk, but I am not able to, If I am unable to start the setup program to use a linux disk, how will I be able to use disk druid or fdisk for linux??? Thanks in advance! Nighthawk Not everyone's pc can boot from the CD-ROM drive. You probably need the updated boot.img which can be found on any of the Mandrake mirrors. I had the same problem with the bootdisk, and the new image was the solution. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Zip Drive Support
- Original Message - From: Frank Imbroto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 12:49 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Zip Drive Support use modprob instead of insmod if you are using 6.0. - Original Message - From: Brian Leas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 9:13 PM Subject: [newbie] Zip Drive Support Hi All: I am trying to get my 100MB Parallel Port Zip Drive to install. I read the HOW-TO and it said to insmod ppa. I did that and this is the output I got: I agree. I tried insmod ppa and got the same results as you did. Once I used modprobe ppa, my zip drive was working right away. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Trouble ftp'ing Mandrake 6.0
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 11:57 PM Subject: [newbie] Trouble ftp'ing Mandrake 6.0 Howdy all, I was just trying to download the latest Mandrake (6.0) from one of the FTP mirrors (500+ Meggers, but I figure I might as well put my new DSL to work). Everything's great, except my FTP programs seem to be choking on some directories. There are a whole bunch of directories in the /Mandrake/instimage/lib directory (and possibly elsewhere), that my FTP programs (both WS_FTP and CuteFTP) are failing to open, giving "Not a Directory" errors. The directories have names like ld-linux.so.2, libc.so.6, and so forth. The only thing I can think is that the multiple dots in the file names are confusing my FTP programs, but I can't really see whay that would happen. I imagine I'me just doing (or overlooking) something stupid, but what? (Besides stubbornly refusing to get the CDs, that is). Thanks a lot, Chris Try Gozilla or ReGet, both of which have no problem downloading whole directories. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] [newboe] Parallel Port Zip Drive
I recently upgraded my system to 6.0 (again) from 5.3, and my zip drive is no longer recognized ... not even during the install. In 5.3, it was recognized as a SCSI device during install, and as /dev/sda4 after installation. The 6.0 installation could not recognize the drive, and when I try to mount it, I get the following error: # mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) I use /mnt/zip as the mounting point. Does anyone know how I can get the zip drive recognized again? Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Professionals built the Titanic, amateurs built the Ark. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] can't use usercfg (partII)
- Original Message - From: brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 8:06 PM Subject: [newbie] can't use usercfg (partII) snip 2) I am also wondering how I can add a user. I tried 'adduser' in a command line console and it adds the username but how do I set the password as that user? A book I bought "Using Linux" from QUE said that I can add a user by typing in "usercfg" in xterm. Perhaps it works for some other distributions of Linux? thanks, brandon I haven't heard of usercfg until your message. As for adding a user, you type: #adduser "newusername" (no quotes) #passwd "newusername" After typing the second command, it will ask you to enter the new password twice to confirm it. Log out, then log in with the new user, and you should have access to the common programs (things that won't hurt your system if you mess up.) Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it FedUP? NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] REMOVE
- Original Message - From: Fret [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 5:40 PM Subject: [newbie] REMOVE REMOVE It doesn't work that way. You need to go to the Mandrake site to get the Majordomo address to remove yourself from the mailing list. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] LaptopDocking Station Install Problems
- Original Message - From: James Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 8:03 PM Subject: [newbie] LaptopDocking Station Install Problems snip Also what do you do with Linux when you have an older bios that needs a Diskwizard or simular to recognize the full drive?? Mine detects my first 540 drive no problem as hda Dectects my second 1 gig as 535 63 63 and says.. Invalid geometry 63 heads??? and then states hdb invalid It then goes to hdc and logs in a VALID configuration for the hdb 1gig drive. THis gets me threw the install no problem.. but the system will not run on it. I get it crapping out every time I get to Optimizing Drives hdb [Failed] Then hdc - it locks up!!! EVERY TIME. James Does your DiskWizard show some text on the screen when your pc starts up? I use EZ-Drive, which loads and then gives me the opportunity to press CTRL key before Windows loads so that I can boot from a floppy and still have access to all of my partitions. That would be your best bet to be able to use your whole harddrive, if you can do it. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] fstab
- Original Message - From: Ian W Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] fstab fstab: (assuming your Windows 95 partition is /dev/hda2:) /dev/hda2 /mnt/win95 vfat defaults 0 0 snip What does 'defaults 0 0' do? I have always seen it as 'defaults 1 2', and that is what I use. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP
- Original Message - From: John Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 1:38 PM Subject: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP Please help me! I *need* to copy a whole bunch of downloaded files, rpm's etc to my ATAPI Zip drive, before my system crashes completely. It would save me a lot of time that I don't have to download them all again. Please reply before I have to do a reinstall! I *do not* know how to do this procedure, I need some one to walk me through it, please treat me as a "Linux retard" as if you were telling someone who knew absolutely nothing about Linux. I do know some things, but for the life of me cannot figure this out. I have done the following, which allows me to mount and unmount it as a vfat filesystem. Have also put an icon on my desktop which allows me to mount and unmount like the cd and floppy. Thanks, John Connell #cd /mnt/ # mkdir /zip Also added the following line to my /etc/fstab file-- /dev/hdd4 /zip vfat user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto 0 0 Unless you made a typo, you should have "/mnt/zip" (no quotes), not just "/zip" in that line. I have a parallel port zip drive, not ATAPI, but I believe that everything else in your line is correct (mine uses /dev/sda4). You can check the archives of this list; I believe someone just addressed this same issue last week. If you only use the drive for linux, you can set it as "ext2fs" instead of "vfat", or "auto" if you have some zip disks formatted for Windows, and others for linux. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
- Original Message - From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 2:46 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah Basically what Partition Magic does that fdisk doesn't, is resize existing partitions without requiring you to first destroy them (and everything on them) and recreate them. I guess that's convenient but -I- wouldn't pay $70 for it. :) So it's a nondestructive partition resizer? That doesn't sound exceedingly hard to write. I mean, shouldn't fdisk be able to do this? I understand that it's still *much* easier to reformat everything, but moving data... The snag is that it'll take direct writes. It shouldn't be too hard to grab one block of data and move it over some on disk. If they overlap, start from the other direction. Use memory, too, when the overlapping gets to be too much. What more is there? Well, I'm no programmer, but it must not be terribly difficult as I have a couple of programs that do similar things. But Partition Magic is still the best, and comes with more than just the partition creator and resizer. I have Partition Magic 4.0 which has a Windows and DOS version, and works on ex2fs. Through creative searching, I did not pay for it (shhh), but it is hard to find. There are shareware or freeware programs like Partition manager and FIPS which will also create and resize partitions, but you don't get the nice GUI and there is some knowledge that goes into it. Anything that you want or need can be found online if you are willing put the time in. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] mounting a floppy??
- Original Message - From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 10:28 PM Subject: [newbie] mounting a floppy?? I downloaded some utilities on my win98 machine, and want to transfer them over to my linux machine, but when I put the disk in the drive and click on the icon, it says: could not mount error log: mount you must specify the filesystem type Can anyone help me with this?? Thanks in advance! Nighthawk -- Even better, why go through all of that when you can download the files to your Windows partition then mount that partition when you are in linux. If it is a tar or RPM, you can still install it from the Windows partition, or transfer it to the linux partition. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Installing
- Original Message - From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 4:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing Now, if you want to share your Computer between Windows and Linux, you will have to get advice elsewhere. But I would strongly suggest a second hard drive by itself for Linux; it works best. In RedHat mailing list it was unearthed that in a significant number of cases Windows 98 (but not 95) gets annoyed sometimes at sharing the drive with Linux and corrupts it or wipes it out. 98 never bothers a second drive. Hehehe. I'm glad I don't have to put up with 98! My question. On my PC, I have two hard disks installed. The first one is--get this--125 MB or so. Long ago I had to DoubleSpace it so that I could actually do things with it. That was just fine. I accepted the fact that it was no undoable. Then I got Windows 95, which promised that it would be able to undo it (guess what--it can't even reboot into the special mode for exorcising DoubleSpace). I made do for a while, but I eventually got a big disk (3 gigabytes or so, I think) and installed it as well. Since I don't have documentation to tell me how to change which drive is the first one, I'm stuck with booting from that little disk. snip Just to address this part, check out your pc manufacturer's web site. I had a similar problem recently (except my drives are 428MB and 4.3GB). My manufacturer (Packard Bell) has a tech support page which gives you info on your pc when you give them the serial number, plus message boards where you can get help from other users and techs. Not even to mention the possible update drivers and BIOS updates that you may be able to find. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Installing
- Original Message - From: Rich McCabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 3:36 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Installing All that is great info and right on track except it doesnt matter where the hard drive goes on the cable. On a dual floppy setup, you must put the A Drive on the end because of a cut and twist in the ribbon cable, but not on an IDE. The wires are all in a parallel manner and the drive doesn't care. Plug it in in whichever manner fits best.. Rich Exactly my thoughts. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Printer
- Original Message - From: Morpheus The Sinful Weeper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 7:08 PM Subject: [newbie] Printer Ok I have a simple question..how do i configure a lexmark 1100 printer if it isnt on the list of printtool ? I have the exact same printer. We both know that it uses it's own program to print in Windows. I am not even sure if it will work correctly in linux. I would also appreciate any assistance if anyone knows how it can be used in linux. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] icq
- Original Message - From: J Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 12:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] icq Yants wrote: Is it possible to run ICQ on Linux using WINE? If so, how..? There are plenty of ICQ clients for Linux. Surf on over to www.freshmeat.net and search for ICQ. -- Jeremy Mann http://manndesigns.dynip.com icq://21081443 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to hang with the original, there is ICQJava from Mirabilis. It doesn't offer all of the options you get with ICQ99 in windows, but neither do the linux ICQ clones. You can register for a new UIN with ICQJava though if you don't have one. One important note, with windows, you need to create a 'conf' folder in your ICQJava directory to store your UIN and contacts; I believe you need to do the same in linux (haven't tried it yet). Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- If the cops arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent? NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] icq
- Original Message - From: Mike Julien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 12:00 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] icq there is no need for wine to do that.. go to ftp://ftp.freshmeat.net go to the RPM section and take your pick of icq clones or anything else that is of interest Yants wrote: Is it possible to run ICQ on Linux using WINE? If so, how..? A good idea, but from what I have heard, none of the clones yet have the full functionality of Windows ICQ ... not to mention that you need to have a UIN before you can use any of the linux ICQ clones. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You have to watch out for yourself, because nobody else is going to. Especially during dodgeball. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator - VMWare
- Original Message - From: Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 1:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator - VMWare Manny Styles wrote: Do you know how they got VMWare to use the existing installation of NT? I'd like to do the same with Win98. It's do-able, as long as your Win98 installation is on an IDE drive (last I heard, it wouldn't work with SCSI partitions). -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. OK, I guess I need to check out the help file in VMWare more thoroughly. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Lnx4Win And Me Screaming Loudly...
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 5:35 AM Subject: [newbie] Lnx4Win And Me Screaming Loudly... Finially i downloaded an image of LM 6.0 that wasnt corrupted and burned it, i decided to give linux 4 windows a spin, it created its partition and then, DOH i relised that my parrelel port scsi isnt supported meaning i gotta get a new cable for my old IDE drive, but since it created i think it called it a loopback device of 500 # Megabite's i lost that 500 megs! now i can seem to get that back anyway, is that possible, i know it is but with me being a newbie im a bit clueless... There is an uninstall.bat file in the lnx4win (or Mandrake) directory. Just run that and it will reclaim your space. Read the readme.txt. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Opportunity knocks only once, if you hear a second knock it's probably a Jehovah's witness. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] install problems
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 10:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] install problems I did do the uninstall. It got rid of partitions and all, but it didn't get rid of the boot option. snip When you did the uninstall, did a DOS window open changing replacing the new config.sys with config.mdk (the backup)? If it didn't, you may need to try running uninstall.bat again. If it still does not work, you will need to do it by hand. In the C: directory, "copy config.mdk config.sys", then "del config.mdk" Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] X-Server Probs...
- Original Message - From: Faber Remy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 8:01 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] X-Server Probs... LaMEr What the hell is that about? This list is to get and give help, not to berate someone for what they do not know. Maybe another list would be better for you if that is the type of response you give when someone asks for assistance. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] More Installing Problems in Mandrake for Windows
- Original Message - From: Lorenzo Jimenez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 6:25 PM Subject: [newbie] More Installing Problems in Mandrake for Windows Hi, Recently I downloaded Mandrake and began installing Linux using Mandrake for Windows. I have passed my first problem when the system cannot find the install files. I solved the problem copying the files to another hard disk (d). Now I have this error just after the system states "Scanning available packages..": install exited abnormally -- recieved termination signals...done sending kill signals...done unmounting filesystems... /sbin/losetup -d /dev/loop7 /tmp/hdimage /tmp/image /proc dos/dev/loop7: No such file or directory umount failed you may safely reboot your system Can anyone help me. If this is it a dead end, how can I install Linux? Lorenzo Jimenez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you tried an actual install (as in using a bootdisk, and not Mandrake for Windows). It would be an easier solution if you have the space to create a partition (and you should if you can install Lnx4Win). There should be no problem installing the system even though you have the files on your harddrive. I have done it a few times. You will need to download the boot.img file and rawrite from and ftp mirror to make the bootdisk. Any mirror should have info on exactly what you need to do. Before all of that, make sure you run the uninstall batch file in Lnx4Win to free that space you used. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to ly. -Jonathan Swift NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] connecting to the internet
- Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 26, 1999 9:29 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] connecting to the internet Actually, I'm told that AOL *will* allow you to connect to their service through another ISP so that's not entirely accurate...however, I think you're correct that they still have to have the AOL software, at least for mail, etc... It is true that you can connect to AOL through another ISP, but to actually get to the AOL services, you need their software. Either way, that does not apply to this guy's situation. For all of that, he can get a new ISP (I'm sure that almost any choice will be cheaper anyway). As a side note, if you do use another ISP to connect to AOL (with Windows), you have to pay whatever your ISP's fee is, and only $9.95/month for AOL (as opposed to $21.95 I believe). You'd actually have to switch payment plans to the BYOA (Bring Your Own Access) Plan. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Workaholics procrastinate too - I'll sleep tomorrow... NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] error loading RAMdisk
Perhaps Bernhard can help me with this problem (or anyone else). I have had basically little problem installing Mandrake 5.3 or RedHat 6.0, but things go wrong with Mandrake 6.0 (Venus ) installation. I get through the basic questions about keyboard type and installing from harddisk up to the location of the Mandrake files. From there it says loading RAMdisk, then I get the message 'Error loading RAMdisk' and the installation halts. I have tried using the updated boot.img and even RedHat 6.0's boot.img to no avail. Does anyone know the reason for this error? Is there a way around it, or do I need to wait for another updated boot.img? Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." -Rich Cook (I guess Microsoft should give up) NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] My Mandrake is strangely slow...
I believe that it is suggested that you make your swap partition at least twice as large as your amount of RAM for your system to run reasonably. I have 40MB of RAM and a swap of 50MB (couldn't allocate more at the time) and my linux system runs a little faster than my Win 98 on a good day. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get enough exercise just pushing my luck. - Original Message - From: Jose Alberto Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 30, 1999 1:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] My Mandrake is strangely slow... Rhichard Barth Family escribió: You did a "Work Station" install? did you set up your partitions and then did the "Work Station" If you do a "Work Station" install, Linux sets up it's own partitions this usually doesn't work out very well for you... the swap and native partitions end up being to smallCustom is the way to go...this way you can pick and chose your own settings and only install what you needThen use fdisk or Disk DruidBeing a "Widows user" also I find fdisk is best. How big is your drive? Even if i make my own partitions beforehand? My Hd is 1.2 gigs... half for widows and half for Mandrake... Four partitions... 1 for DOS, 1 root (about 400mb), 1 swap (40mb) and 1 usr (the rest of it... i cant remember right now) -- __ "I happen to be very selective about the reality I choose" -Calvin, from Waterson's "Calvin Hobbes" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Get Your Own Free Pop or Web Based Email and a 10MB Web Site for FREE at: http://www.nettaxi.com! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] Problems with 6.0 install
I am trying to install Mandrake 6.0 from my harddrive. After making the bootdisk, I go through the first couple of steps, and after selecting 'Hard Drive' as my installation media, I get the message 'Error loading RAMdisk'. I downloaded the boot.img 3 different times from 3 different ftp sites. I wrote it to the disk from Windows (using rawrite), and linux (with dd) and I continue to get the same message. Is anyone else having this problem? If you have any suggestions, all are appreciated. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] All generalizations are false. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] Mandrake for Windows
Has anyone tried to install Mandrake for Windows? It's listed as lnx4win under Mandrake/6.0pre on the ftp mirrors. I am not starting another 'MS trying to get into the Linux market' joke. I have downloaded it and plan on trying it out for myself. Seems like a nice alternative for newbies who want to test the system first (and better than most UMSDOS installations). Let me know your experience with it. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Always and Never are two words to always remember never to use. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Windows
No joke at all. I still have to use Windows, for one because of my ISP's software, but I was in the process of downloading the pre-release of Mandrake 6.0 when I noticed lnx4win. From what I have read, it will put a Linux shortcut on your desktop and you can load it from Windows. Here is one mirror ftp://ftp.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/6.0/Lnx4Win Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laugh alone and the world thinks you're an idiot. - Original Message - From: Pliler's Remote Unit Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 8:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Windows Manny, Are you kidding, I've not been able to do much of anything with the 5.3 I have, and I don't even know how to doanload in Linux. Is the the beta pre release 6.0 you're talking about? Will - Original Message - From: Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 7:28 PM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake for Windows Has anyone tried to install Mandrake for Windows? It's listed as lnx4win under Mandrake/6.0pre on the ftp mirrors. I am not starting another 'MS trying to get into the Linux market' joke. I have downloaded it and plan on trying it out for myself. Seems like a nice alternative for newbies who want to test the system first (and better than most UMSDOS installations). Let me know your experience with it. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Always and Never are two words to always remember never to use. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Windows
No, this is actually something different. If you have ever heard of a UMSDOS install, I believe this is similar (I did it with Slackware a while back and got nowhere). UMSDOS basically creates a linux file system on a Dos partition with no partitioning, deleting Windows files, or formatting a linux filesystem. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Scattered showers my ass!" - Noah - Original Message - From: Michael Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 9:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Windows On Thu, 27 May 1999, you wrote: Has anyone tried to install Mandrake for Windows? It's listed as lnx4win under Mandrake/6.0pre on the ftp mirrors. I Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] G'day, Should that read "Has anyone tried to install Mandrake from Windows?"? -- Michael Doyle Adelaide, South Australia http://landofoz.apana.org.au NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Email program?
- Original Message - From: turgut kalfaoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 7:22 AM Subject: [newbie] Email program? Hi there.. The email program that comes with Mandrake seems limited to me; I dont see the same neat features that I was used to from PMMAIL (filters, exits, etc.).. I was wondering if there was a more powerful, GUI-based alternative? Thanks, -turgut -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Put "Send PGP" in Subject to obtain my PGP signature. Find-It! Web Search Engine: http://find.egenet.com.tr http://bbsturk.bbs.tr Windows Error 021: Windows loading, come back tomorrow. __ Whichever version of Netscape that came with your distribution is probably going to be your best choice for an e-mail program. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Give me ambiguity or give me something else. " NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Sorting Messages in KMail
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From: Ghost Master [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 9:22 PM
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Thanks, Manny, but I'll pass. Tried it, didn't like it. I like KMails
clean
look, which Netscape can't top, IMO.
Maybe I'll just reload VMWare and go back to Outlook..{Sigh}
Armando.
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Is there a way to use a current installation of windows with VMWare?
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Re: [newbie] RedHat 6.0 revisited
- Original Message - From: Arnold Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 11:26 AM Subject: [newbie] RedHat 6.0 revisited I just installed RedHat 6.0 on my system and I'm pretty impressed with it! I can only imagine what Mandrake 6.0 will be like when released!! :) I noticed some of you had tried RH6 and was wondering if you knew how to change the "default" X Windows Manager when you use the XDM to log in? The default is Gnome, of course. I don't mind having to manually switch to KDE, but would like to know how to make it the default without having to go through the extra "work". I've only looked at Gnome for a brief moment (when I decided to see which X was "default") and it looks basically like a "Gnome-ified" version of KDE. :) Hope someone can help. Thanks! Arnold ___ I haven't tried to switch desktops, but after customizing Gnome, I really like it and actually perfer it to KDE. I still do switch back and forth though because of the programs that are dependent on KDE. Still very much looking forward to the final release of Mandrake 6.0 though. (Now that I think about it, I think KDE is the default on my system) Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Linux Install Question
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 01:01:56PM -0400, Owens, Jerry wrote: I downloaded a copy of Linux-Mandrake 5.3 to my primary hard drive which is dos formatted and running win95. I am installing Linux on a second hard drive. I am using a floppy boot disk to install Linux. How can I get the install program to use the files from the dos disk for the install? Near the beginning of the installation, it will ask where the files are located. Select Hard Drive and you're all set! -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] It actually turns out to be a little more difficult than that. First off, name the folder with the installation file RedHat (maybe you named it "Mandrake" like I did). Also, make sure you make a Supplementary disk (the image should be listed with the boot image). Next, you need to download a file named MV and place it in the RedHat folder (you can find the file with Lycos FTP search (under the advanced search). The file may be downloaded with .html as the extension, ignore the Windows warning when you delete that extension after the download is finished. Start the installation as normal, and when asked where you are installing from, select 'hard drive', at which time you'll need to insert the supplementary install disk. After setting up your partitions, you'll be asked where the RedHat directory is located (let's say /dev/hda1). Type that in, then press ALT+F2 to get the command prompt (#). (I'll try to show it as you should see it). At the prompt, type (do not type #): # ls /tmp/hdimageEnter (you should see all of the files on the harddrive where your RedHat files are located) Next type: # umount /tmp/hdimageEnter #mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /tmp/hdimageEnter (if you get an error message, retype it replacing 'vfat' with 'msdos') now type: # cd /tmp/hdimage/RedHatEnter # lsEnter (you should now get a listing of the files in the RedHat directory...rpms, base, mv) type: # ./mv rpms XEnter (you can type 'ls' after this command to see that rpms is gone and X is listed) # ./mv X RPMSEnter (definately type 'ls' this time to see that rpms and X are gone and RPMS is there) # cd / # umount /tmp/hdimage At this point, press ALT+F1 to return to the installation screen. On the line asking for the RedHat directory, leave it only showing '/'. Press OK, and the installation should continue from there. If you have any questions or problems with these instructions, you can e-mail me. ~Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download.html
Re: [newbie] setting up WinE
I'm having difficulties setting up a user account. I type "/usr/sbin/adduser -p [the password I want] [username]", but when I try to login, it tells me that my password is incorrect, and I'm sure I typed it in right. Is there something I didn't do to set up my user account correctly? Any help on either problem would be appreciated. It's actually very simple to set up an account for youself. I haven't done it for awhile, but I think it goes something like this: useradd manny passwd manny retype passwd It's done! Login as you normally would (as manny) -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Actually, I got it working now. The problem seemed to be that my home directory was not being created, but I have that problem fixed now. Thanks for the help. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download.html
[newbie] setting up WinE
My ISP uses it's own software to connect to the internet, and I cannot connect without it (banners and all). I'm hoping that I can run the program from wine, but I have no idea how to configure and run it (options). On another note, I'm having difficulties setting up a user account. I type "/usr/sbin/adduser -p [the password I want] [username]", but when I try to login, it tells me that my password is incorrect, and I'm sure I typed it in right. Is there something I didn't do to set up my user account correctly? Any help on either problem would be appreciated. Thank you in advance I am presently: Manny Styles online.dll?icq=7196518=2
[newbie] mounting FAT partitions
can anyone tell me the complete command to mount a FAT partition under linux to access the file system? If you have ICQ you can message me. My ICQ#:7196518 I am presently: If you don't have ICQ you can page me through: http://wwp.icq.com/7196518 (go there and try it!) Or You can send me a regular e-mail to my EmailExpress address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to be added to my Contact List click Add Me Download ICQ at http://www.icq.com/ Manny Styles online.dll?icq=7196518=2
Re: [newbie] harddrive installation
Could someone please direct me to an alternate site to download the "MV" file for harddrive installation? The site that was posted to the list before went down Thank you in advance, Manny Styles NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download.html
Re: [newbie] MV file for Mandrake installation
can anyone tell me where I can find the file "MV" to aid in installing Mandrake from my harddrive partition? (besides http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/jduguay/ ) Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download.html
