[newbie] A notebook as an extra console
I'm wondering if it's possible to connect a notebook through one of the serial ports, or otherwise, to my Linux machine, and use it as an extra console, i.e. an extra tty. Does anyboy have an idea how to do it?
Re: [newbie] X problem
At 21:20 05/03/00 -0800, you wrote: I just did a new install(custom, server) that's set to automatically start X, and must have misconfigured X. The system boots smoothly, but when it shows root login and the mandrake logo the screen goes black and the system locks up. Reboot causes the same thing to happen again. Is it possible or how do I get the OS not to launch X, and then how do I reconfigure it to the proper video card(S3 Trio 3D) and monitor? My monitor is an old Compag Presario 1500 and I'm not really sure what the right resolution and refresh rate is, so I think setting it to standard SVGA 800 x 600 should work. Any suggestions appreciated, Victor Boot from the boot disk you made during installation. If you didn't make it, use the installation cd and do a fake upgrading. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
Re: [newbie] re: Netscape toolbar color
At 14:18 04/03/00 -0800, you wrote: I changed my color depth to 32bit and that brought back the color on the netscape toolbar. Thanks for the help :) --dale "So many idiots.. so few comets.." H Henry --- It's not uncommon. Change your depth to 24 bit. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
Re: [newbie] General Help: Mounting devices Modem Trouble
At 20:07 03/03/00 -0800, you wrote: Hello! I recently installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 (Deluxe) on my PII 300. The installation went smoothly. I configured the partitions, printer, modem, and dialup connection. The problems begin when I boot into Linux. The KDE loads fine, and all the programs seem to work.. However, when I want to access my CD Rom drive or my Floppy, I begin to get errors. I have tried several mount commands (as recommended by #linuxhelp on EFNet), but have had no success. I have two CD Rom drives: a HP CD Burner (master) and a MITSUMI (slave). Since I am new to Linux, I have absolutely no clue about what to do about getting these things working. Sometimes I get "bad command" and "Input/Output error." It seems to me that if I installed Linux from a CD Rom drive that it should be able to be read by Linux. - Read very carefully man mount and man fstab. If during installation you had any file /etc/fstab automatically created, then change the lines caontaining the supermount feature, which apparently gives more troubles thens advantages, and repalce it with a classic fstab entri (not without having saved first /etc/fstab in case your changes were disastrous). Supposing that one of your cdrom was /dev/hdd and that you had a directory /mnt/cdrom, the corresponding line in /etc/fstab could be: /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,rw 0 0 Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
Re: [newbie] Supermount Unhappines
At 18:04 03/03/00 -0800, you wrote: Yes, Alan, supermount works also with my cdroms. But did you find any dox about it? Pieroyep, same here with the ls-120. But my zip 100, my cdrom, and my two floppys (1.44 1.2) all work just fine with supermount. Alan Piero Caracciolo wrote: I'm also puzeld with supermount. The fstab entries, automatically made when you install Linux, look meaningless; and thy do not work with my LS-120 device. And, worst then all, you can't find any useful man page about it. I also just replaced it with a classic fstab entry. Pitty, because it seems to be interesting. At 03:40 02/03/00 -0500, you wrote: I'm totally new with this supermount-thing (installed Mandrake for the first time last night,,actually its my first Linux install ever) and I find it very confusing. My box seems to have a big problem with my JAZZ-drive because of this feature. (CD-ROM and floppy are allright). I couldn't boot in linux if I had my Jazz switched on.. When I checked fstab, I found this supermount-feature very confusing. Can anyone explain how to get my Jazz working? Jornt -- From: Alan Shoemaker[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 March 2000 19:56 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Supermount Unhappines I find it to not have Stick a cdrom or floppy in, click on the desktop icon and a bunch of icons appear in a Navigate the window just like any other part of the So, I like it thus far. Alan Lane Lester wrote: Am I the only one who finds supermount troublesome? The behavior was too strange to try to remember, but it's out of my fstab now! -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Linux... Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
Re: [newbie] UNSUBSCRIBE
At 09:30 02/03/00 -0300, you wrote: UNSUBSCRIBE Why did you send that to me? May be just a simple finger error. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
RE: [newbie] Supermount Unhappines
I'm also puzeld with supermount. The fstab entries, automatically made when you install Linux, look meaningless; and thy do not work with my LS-120 device. And, worst then all, you can't find any useful man page about it. I also just replaced it with a classic fstab entry. Pitty, because it seems to be interesting. At 03:40 02/03/00 -0500, you wrote: I'm totally new with this supermount-thing (installed Mandrake for the first time last night,,actually its my first Linux install ever) and I find it very confusing. My box seems to have a big problem with my JAZZ-drive because of this feature. (CD-ROM and floppy are allright). I couldn't boot in linux if I had my Jazz switched on.. When I checked fstab, I found this supermount-feature very confusing. Can anyone explain how to get my Jazz working? Jornt -- From: Alan Shoemaker[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 March 2000 19:56 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Supermount Unhappines I find it to not have Stick a cdrom or floppy in, click on the desktop icon and a bunch of icons appear in a Navigate the window just like any other part of the So, I like it thus far. Alan Lane Lester wrote: Am I the only one who finds supermount troublesome? The behavior was too strange to try to remember, but it's out of my fstab now! -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Linux... Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
[newbie] Help formatting LS-120. How?
Has anybody got an idea of how to format a classic diskette (1.4 Mb) on a LS-120 driver? In my case, the driver is given name /dev/hdc. fdformat doesn't work, not even if I rm /dev/fd0 or /dev/fd0H1440 and change them into symbolic links to /dev/hdc. The result is /dev/fd0: not a floppy device (which is at the same true, because now /dev/fd0 points to /dev/hdc, and not true, because /dev/hdc in the LS-120 driver, and cand handle floppies). fdisk and cfdisk didn't wor either; sfdisk worked, in a way, because after I was able to mount the floppy, but did'nt erase the content of the floppy. So I think it did something useful, like creating a partition table, but did not really format the floppy. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.1/ root size
At 01:10 03/03/00 -0300, you wrote: Hi, - I want to reinstall StarOffice 5.1 in a particular place where then I can use it like a user or like root. I have installed it previously like root in /usr/local but when I log in like a user I can't execute it. I only can run it like log in like root. Or may be changing the permissions it can run like any user or root as well. I need help. Try just to chamge permissions: chmod o+x - In other side, I want to know what is an appropiate size for my / partition. Now it is 350 MB (to optimize) but It has only 45 MB free and the /temp partition may be require more size. Thanks I think 350 Mb is too small. How large is your disk? Piero. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
Re: [newbie] My Mandrake's Broken! sob
At 18:10 02/03/00 -0500, you wrote: In my fiddling, I seem to have messed something up so that Mandrake 7.0-2 will not boot. I don't know if it was fstab, inittab, or what. The boot process goes fine with all OK's until "Starting postfix", and that's where it hangs. When I Ctrl-Alt-Del, the shutdown and reboot process begins, and "Stopping at daemon" reports FAILED. I sure hope that suggests something to someone, other than that I have to erase everything and start over. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Dear Lane, It's very difficult to help you, if you don't even know what did you do that resulted in yours being stuck. I would suggest you to reinstall everyhing from scratch and that upon installation you define four different partitions, in that order: /, /swap, /usr/local/, /opt, /home, so that in future, if you have to reinstall (or upgrade)you keep everything apart from / and /swap, where will be istalled programs and packages that will be peculiar to you, and that you won't like to reinstall. Once you are finished with the installation, you take a notebook and - everytime you change something - you write it down, and you do it quickly, before you forget what you have done. That will enable you 1) to ask for help, 2) to undo the changes, 3) to find again, quickely, the mooves that give good results. Apart form this, if you change the contents of a file, do save its pristine contents first. For instance, if you modify file /hell/murder do first cp /hell/murder /hell/murder.old. You will see: life will be much easier. Yours frindly, Piero. Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
Re: [newbie] Loosing ones partitions
At 05:20 03/03/00 -, you wrote: Hi penguinistas, Not sure if this is a Linux or Windoze problem. Thoe,I suspect,the user needs a thorough debugging. Recently installed Mandrake 6.1 dualboot with Win 95 on an IBM deskstar 13.5 Gb(new) disk- 2.5 for 95 and 4, I think, for Linux. .All seemed fine and bigfun seemed assured with trying to coming to terms with Linux. Then I had the opportunity to update to Win 98 (it seems a bit more stable) and I did a clean install and after 2 days of installing programmes and service packs I tried to boot into Linux without result. Linux will not even install as it thinks the whole disk is Fat32;thoe 98 still thinks its only 2.5 in size. I ran disk doctor from Norton Utilities 4 and it finds an error in the mbr which it tries and fails to correct. Unfortunately the Partition-It I have does not work with disks larger then 8 Gb's so I'm at a loss. Is their anything I can try before wiping the disk and starting afresh with hours and hours reinstalling as,doubtless,my well deserved reward. I have read in several handbooks that one should always install windows first, then Linux, because Windows creates this sort of problems, especially Win 98. Now, I think you could handle it the foll. way. Make a fake upgrading: boot on Linux installation Cd, choose expert mode, confirm the partitions you have, istall one small package (or delete one and reinstall it), then say go!. This would reinstall LILO and you might boot. If partition tables are corrupted, though, this wouldn't be enough. In this case I don't know what to suggest you, apart from reinsalling everything... Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
