[newbie] Re:
I had the same "LI" problem and fixed it by removing the Lilo install from my C drives master boot record. Do this by using your DOS?Windows boot disk to get to a c: prompt. Then type in "fdisk /mbr" without the quotes. This will remove LILO. Works like a charm and windows will boot up as it used to. Toby Paul Hendrick wrote: Hi, After installing Mandrake the screen res was set at 300x200. I've been told that I should wipe my hard disk reinstall windows, and then install Linux. But after deleting the Linux partitions on my disk and installing MS DOS, my system stalls when booting. It says nothing except "LI". How do I stop this from happening? Also, how do I edit files from the prompt when logged in as root? Best regards, Paul mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Taking the plunge..
OK folks: I now have Linux working except for my sound card or SCSI stuff but the main part of the system is at least stable enough for me to poke around. I don't really know what to do with it all except for play some of the new fangled games. Anyway, there's a huge class coming to town teaching Unix and Linux. It's $1000 for 2 8 hour classes with tons of hands-on labs. Now, I can get around DOS and consider myself a quick learner, especially with computers, so I'm not really concerned with sensory overload in a long class like this. Does anyone have an opinion on whether the price is reasonable or should I look elsewhere for some really in-depth quick training? They are also offering another 2 day course right after the first one for the same price. Their web page for the course is at http://db.globalknowledge.com/catalog/course.asp?course=640 and the Level II course is at http://db.globalknowledge.com/catalog/course.asp?course=670 Any opinions would be appreciated. Toby PS: If anyone remembers about a week ago a gentleman offered to mail me his external modem for free since I had a winmodem that would not run under Linux. Well, I got it yesterday. I didn't save his email so I don't know who it was but THANK YOU! ...and I *will* pass it on to someone else for free once I have purchased a new USR 56K. Petey wrote: Is there any support for DVD kits with MPEG-2 cards within Linux? If so, what brands are Linux compatible? If not, will there be any support in the near future, say in the 2.4 kernel? Thanks for the help. Jason Peterson
[newbie] Taking the plunge..
OK folks: I now have Linux working except for my sound card or SCSI stuff but the main part of the system is at least stable enough for me to poke around. I don't really know what to do with it all except for play some of the new fangled games. Anyway, there's a huge class coming to town teaching Unix and Linux. It's $1000 for 2 8 hour classes with tons of hands-on labs. Now, I can get around DOS and consider myself a quick learner, especially with computers, so I'm not really concerned with sensory overload in a long class like this. Does anyone have an opinion on whether the price is reasonable or should I look elsewhere for some really in-depth quick training? They are also offering another 2 day course right after the first one for the same price. Their web page for the course is at http://db.globalknowledge.com/catalog/course.asp?course=640 and the Level II course is at http://db.globalknowledge.com/catalog/course.asp?course=670 Any opinions would be appreciated. Toby PS: If anyone remembers about a week ago a gentleman offered to mail me his external modem for free since I had a winmodem that would not run under Linux. Well, I got it yesterday. I didn't save his email so I don't know who it was but THANK YOU! ...and I *will* pass it on to someone else for free once I have purchased a new USR 56K.
[newbie] Viruses?
I was just wondering: Is Linux susceptible to the same virii that Windoze is? T
Re: [newbie] 4 persistent problems
where from? "Alan N." wrote: 2. Sound: Run sndconfig at the prompt. Select your sound card. If that doesn't work, try some of the other choices. I have an ALS and got the Soundblaster to work for it. I ran sndcnfig and when it does the sample test I get this error message: "The following error occurred playing the sample: sox:Known effects: avg band chorus copy cut deemph echop echoes flanger highp lowp map mask phaser pick polyphase rate resample revern reverse split stat vibro sox: Effect 'dev/dsp' is unknown" Yep, same thing for me. Dload the sox upgrade. This will fix the /dev/dsp is unknown. This might fix it, might not. Write back if it doesn't. Same symptoms exactly I had. Alan
[newbie] deleting /mbr
Someone posted the other day how to delete LILO from the master boot record of the C drive. Could you repost? I'm trying to delete Linux from my Primary slave drive but whenever I do LILO (which is on the mbr of the primary master dive) only partially boots and I can't get to Winblows. I need to dump LILO altogether to have a normal boot without a system disk. Toby
[newbie] Sox upgrade
Where do I do this. I poked around the Mandrake site but didn't see anything. "Alan N." wrote: open a terminal. change to su ( root ). sndconfig at the prompt. Gl.. Make sure you upgrade sox. BTW, you epsiode sounds very like my own. If you run Gnome, don't use gmix ( the audio mixer ). It kills things. Alan - Original Message ----- From: Toby Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 6:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 4 persistent problems where from? "Alan N." wrote: 2. Sound: Run sndconfig at the prompt. Select your sound card. If that doesn't work, try some of the other choices. I have an ALS and got the Soundblaster to work for it. I ran sndcnfig and when it does the sample test I get this error message: "The following error occurred playing the sample: sox:Known effects: avg band chorus copy cut deemph echop echoes flanger highp lowp map mask phaser pick polyphase rate resample revern reverse split stat vibro sox: Effect 'dev/dsp' is unknown" Yep, same thing for me. Dload the sox upgrade. This will fix the /dev/dsp is unknown. This might fix it, might not. Write back if it doesn't. Same symptoms exactly I had. Alan
Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem
Hi: My modem is a built in LT Winmodem (56K v90). Is this useless? It has yet to be found by my Mandrake. Toby Ty Mixon wrote: There is ONE known good PCI modem. The actiontech(sp?) one. I saw it at best buy - about us$100 and it was in a dark colored box with 'Call Waiting Modem' in big letters. -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 Original Message On 8/12/99, 6:07:57 AM, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem: On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, you wrote: Greetings: I am new to this list and new to Linux. I have installed Linux-Mandrake on my PC but am currently looking for easy directions to have Linux recognize my modem and dial in. I have seen some "simple" explanations that leave me a bit uncertain. Any suggestions on some easy (or less technical) step by step instructions? Thanks Is this a PCI 56k internal modem? If so, chances are it won't work. Give us some details on your system, especially modem brand, model, etc and maybe someone here can help. From what I've read, you should disable PNP and set the comm port, I/O address and IRQ with jumpers, if such are available for your modem. IIRC, after that, you'll need to run "setserial" and see what comes up for that modem. BTW, ttys0=com1, ttys1=com2, etc.
Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem
And when is that supposed to come out? Bert Bullough wrote: you might want to hang on to it for a while and just get a cheap one for now. kernel 2.4 is going to have winmodem support.
[newbie] 4 persistent problems
Ok, in the last 2 days I've reinstalled about 4 times to try and sort out various bugs. Please be patient with me (this *is* a newbie group after all). Here are my problems: 1) SCSI. My system is using Adaptec 152x SCSI Host Adapter. When I do the install and try to have Linux probe the card it says it can't find one on my system. If I try to do the install manually it asks me for a module. What goes here so that I can try a manual install? 2) Sound. Install never asks about sound cards and so far I have no audio. Where/how do I configure audio?? 3) Hard Drive. I just installed a brand new 17.6 Gig hard drive to run Linux on. It is setup as my primary slave. When I partitioned it with Disk Druid I set up 1.5 Gig for my "/" partition, 128 MB for my swap, and 400MB for "/home". Now the rest of that drive should, in theory (I think) show up as another drive in Windows. However, in Windows there is no sign of the remaining 14+ GB of hard drive space. Where did it go? Will I be able to save files on it and if so what format? 4) CD-Rom. It must have found it during the install because it had no problems loading and installing the OS. But if I try to access my documentation CD's via Linux there are no drives mounted. How do I mount them? I wanted to add, if there are any Mandrake employees reading, that the install documentation I received with the Deluxe Linux is pretty anemic. The install did not happen in the same order as it appeared in the install guide and some options which I ended up needing were not even covered. The user guide is about as helpful. It almost seems to assume some prior knowledge of working with in the Linux environment. Thank God Mandrake chose to include 3 other books on CD-Rom. Unfortunately, the user guide is so useless I can't get my CDRom to mount so I have to read the contents in Windows, memorize, then go to Linux and try what I read. I've been sitting at my computer for close to 8 hours today and I'm still right where I started.
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live
www.creativelabs.com John Aldrich wrote: Have you downloaded Creative's drivers for it? If not, you might want to do so...it's on their "developer" site (sorry can't give the exact URL.) john - Original Message - From: sinx [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 8:25 PM Subject: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live Does anyone know how to setup Creative's Sound Blaster Live in Mandrake 6.0? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem
Sorry for posting that to the group. I meant to send it personally. T Toby Sheets wrote: John, If you're serious and it will work and get me online temporarily I would be glad to take you up on that. I can't tell you how frustrating it is to have to close Linux, open Windows, check my email, get an answer, close Windows, open Linux, test the answer, find out it doesn't work, close Linux, open Windows, etc etc. My snail address: 4902 DON DRIVE DALLAS TX 75247 You are the greatest!! Toby John Connell wrote: I have a Practical Peripheral 28,800 ext modem if you want it. It's not fast but it works with Linux. I used it for a couple of months before I could afford to buy a new USR 5686-03. it's yours if you want it, no strings attached! If interested email me your address and I'll put it the mail to you. John Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] IGNORE: New Guy here. Where do I start?
Hi: I'm happy to say that while I was waiting for a reply I Read The FM one more time and found my answer. Now, approximately 2 hours later I have a very nice and easy install accomplished with my hard drives set up as I originally planned. I really expected this to be a heck of a problem but it was smooth as silk. Yeah Linux Woohoo! I'm 100% sure hear from me again soon but I promise I'll read first. Thanks everyone. It's great to be a part of this. Toby Brett Jones wrote: If you bought an official dist it came with nice pretty docs. READ THEM. This list has the worst case of newbie laziness. RTFM... An acronym to live by. After you've done this, if your still stuck then ask your question. But please try first. If your having trouble finding info ask where to find it, just ask question that help you help your self. On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, you wrote: OK folks: I've heard the stories of the greatness of Linux so I bought it. It's completely Greek to me. It's so Greek I don't know where to begin with the installation. I have 2 hard drives: 1) my primary C drive which has Windows 98 on it and not enough room to partition it and install Linux as well and 2) a new HD I bought yesterday just for my new happy Linux system. I am getting the impression I have to install Linux on my primary drive. Is this true? Can I just install it on my new 17.6 Gig hard drive which I have already partitioned into 2 equal sizes? If I can install on my new drive can I skip using the fips crap and just do a normal install? Then how do I set up the boot manager to ask me which OS I'd like to use at startup? Sorry for all the questions but that's what we're here for right? Thanks in advance for your help. Toby Sheets New Linux Fan and hoping to get in on the IPO tomorrow!!! Ian W Douglas wrote: Hey everyone. I have Mandrake 6.0 installed at my church and it's giving us some grief for outgoing Email. Which files do I have to set to allow relaying from office systems which are connected on an internal 192.168.* network? For whatever reason, I can send mail through the church's server from my house but not from an internal office system. Can anyone help me out? I currently have /etc/mail/ip_allow filled with the IP addresses of the office systems yet none of them can send mail. So I started putting their system names in /etc/name_allow but that doesn't work either. Thanks for any info, --- Ian W. Douglas, Wild Web Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 506679 -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Honest opinions on Linux
Well, Mr Gates is not my *only* reason for switching, thank you. I'm planning on diving into C/C++ and the openness of this OS makes it a great place to experiment. Next time I'll keep the personal details to myself and stick to the questions. T Dan Brown wrote: From: Toby Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED] to running this OS rather than a Windows 98 system? Believe me I hate Bill Gates and will be happy when he folds - that is why I am switching to Linux - but is there really an advantage at this point in the game or IMNSHO, that is exactly the wrong reason to switch to Linux (or Be, or FreeBSD, or any other OS). If you want a desktop OS that works like Win98 but is non-Microsoft, maybe MacOS or BeOS would be better for you. If you want to work (or play) with a powerful, flexible, open system, where you can, with enough study, find out exactly what makes it tick, Linux is great--but it isn't Windows, and it never will be.
[newbie] Swap size
Well, now that I've already done the setup with the recommendation of 2.5 x my RAM as swap file size how can I quickly change that back down to 100MB or so instead of my current 300MB? T alann wrote: Ian W Douglas wrote: The swap partition is for virtual memory. How much memory do you have? I've heard that it's a good idea to make it 250% of how much physical RAM you have. Guys? Ack! I've already got 128MB of RAM ... don't need a 300MB swap partition too, IMO. I have a 128MB swap partition, I figure that'll be plenty for use as a workstation. Of course, if you're setting up a server then by all means, set up a larger swap partition if you really think you'll need it. I'm running a PII/350 w/ 128 Meg ram. I've got a 100 Mb swap. Never gets used. :( ( It feels left out! ) I based this on my Windows usage. Boy was I stupid. Alan === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
[newbie] New Guy here. Where do I start?
OK folks: I've heard the stories of the greatness of Linux so I bought it. It's completely Greek to me. It's so Greek I don't know where to begin with the installation. I have 2 hard drives: 1) my primary C drive which has Windows 98 on it and not enough room to partition it and install Linux as well and 2) a new HD I bought yesterday just for my new happy Linux system. I am getting the impression I have to install Linux on my primary drive. Is this true? Can I just install it on my new 17.6 Gig hard drive which I have already partitioned into 2 equal sizes? If I can install on my new drive can I skip using the fips crap and just do a normal install? Then how do I set up the boot manager to ask me which OS I'd like to use at startup? Sorry for all the questions but that's what we're here for right? Thanks in advance for your help. Toby Sheets New Linux Fan and hoping to get in on the IPO tomorrow!!! Ian W Douglas wrote: Hey everyone. I have Mandrake 6.0 installed at my church and it's giving us some grief for outgoing Email. Which files do I have to set to allow relaying from office systems which are connected on an internal 192.168.* network? For whatever reason, I can send mail through the church's server from my house but not from an internal office system. Can anyone help me out? I currently have /etc/mail/ip_allow filled with the IP addresses of the office systems yet none of them can send mail. So I started putting their system names in /etc/name_allow but that doesn't work either. Thanks for any info, --- Ian W. Douglas, Wild Web Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 506679
