[newbie] Panoramix redux
Whizzer(yeah, I know) Manzard (Too Caldera) EasyMan ProMan Tophat Abracadabra (Too long) Presto!(yea, Baby!) Illusion (Not bad!) Gosh, are 24 hours up already? Oops, sorry! ;-)
Re: [newbie] vmware hardware compatibility
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, you wrote: I've ran VMWARE on a P233 and ran Win95 quite happily. Don't think about running WIN98 or NT because that will be just too slow. About your soundcard: as long as your soundcard works in Linux, VMWARE will support it. It only emulates a SB16 in the guest OS, meaning that to have sound in the guest OS you have to install the SB16 drivers. All in all, VMWARE is a very good and clever product. I haven't ran accross one single app that doesn't run on the guest OS (as long as you don't want to run apps that rely on low level hardware acces, say you have a CDR on your host OS, but you won't be able to use that as a CDR in VMWARE, only as a CD). I recently read in a leading UK PC magazine (PCPLUS) that Vmware was a clever but stupid and useless product. I don't agree! Its the Ideal way of developing and testing cross-platform applications (or webpages for that matter) without the need of several expensive machines. But then PCPLUS only talks about Redhat, Suse and Debian as being THE linux distro's Patrick Putteman Internet Support Manager Net7 - member of the Advalvas Group - Original Message - From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 10:03 AM Subject: [newbie] vmware hardware compatibility I'm considering trying out vmware using linux as host and running nt as a guest os. Before I start, however, I have a couple questions for anyone who is familiar with this product: - On their web site they say that vmware will run on any pentium system but they recommend a PII266. Is the performance degraded significantly on anything slower? (I have a PII233). - Second, vmware is supposed to support only sb16 compatible sound cards. Will my Yamaha OPL3SA2 card work under vmware? - I'd also appreciate any other comments anyone might have about this product. DvB I agree! Vmware is a great product. Just installed it again yesterday, and put Win98 on as a guest OS. It might be a little slower, but I have access to my MS Visual C++ and other necessary programs, just a mouse click away...which is alot faster than rebooting, plus I never have to leave Linux.! Haven't played with the sound or networking part yet, but I don't really need either one in the guest OS, it's just for schoolwork. Linux is my playground. Vmware is so cool, I might even buy it one of these days! My $ .02 Tom
[newbie] Boot probs.
In the wee hours this morning I snuck Linux on my wife's Win 95 machine. I used System Commander to keep things safe, got Linux up and running, but now I can't boot linux. Win95 is still fine and bootable so my life is spared for now. However, all I get when I select Linux from system commander's menu is LIL. I know this is for diagnostic purposes, so what does it mean, and where should I go from here? Please help or my next email will be from tom@doghouse! Many thanks, Tom
Re: [newbie] Creating a Cron entry to start a program at a particular time?
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, you wrote: How do I create a CRON entry to, for example, start XMMS at 0600 and play a particular MP3 file (or KMP3 to do the same)??? What I'm wanting is to do something similar to what I had under Windows 98's Task Scheduler -- use my computer as an alarm clock. Thanks... I don't know from cron, but I've used the at command to wake me up with kscd. Info : www.magma.ca/~bklimas/FAQ2.htm. Lots of questions answered here. Tom
[newbie] Hard disks and kernels
Interseting problem: two hard drives, hda (primary master) is 10 gig, hdb (primary slave) is 4.3 gig. Mandrake 6.0 is on hda by its lonesome, Win89 is on 2gig of hdb. Usually I go into the system BIOS and select none for hda, reboot and install COL 2.2 on the balance of hdb. I have done the install with and without making a seperate swap partition for COL. Everything installs fine and all the usual programs work with no problems. The kernel version displayed on the control-panel startup is 2.2.5, which it should be. Now, if I shut down, reboot, and reselect hda in the BIOS, lilo shows me the correct menu: linux dos col and they each individually boot correctly. BUT... now nothing works in COL (ie: kppp, cdrom.floppy) and the kernel version displayed is that of Mandrake...2.2.9-19mdk. Why does Mandrake contaminate my COL install even if it's on a seperate drive? I suspect the swap partition? Is there a way for this to not happen? More curious than anything. Thanks, Tom
Re: [newbie] Hard disks and kernels
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, you wrote: Tom Bishop wrote: Interseting problem: two hard drives, hda (primary master) is 10 gig, hdb (primary slave) is 4.3 gig. Mandrake 6.0 is on hda by its lonesome, Win89 is on 2gig of hdb. Usually I go into the system BIOS and select none for hda, reboot and install COL 2.2 on the balance of hdb. I have done the install with and without making a seperate swap partition for COL. Everything installs fine and all the usual programs work with no problems. The kernel version displayed on the control-panel startup is 2.2.5, which it should be. Now, if I shut down, reboot, and reselect hda in the BIOS, lilo shows me the correct menu: linux dos col and they each individually boot correctly. BUT... now nothing works in COL (ie: kppp, cdrom.floppy) and the kernel version displayed is that of Mandrake...2.2.9-19mdk. Why does Mandrake contaminate my COL install even if it's on a seperate drive? I suspect the swap partition? Is there a way for this to not happen? More curious than anything. Thanks, Tom You'll need to install LILO onto /dev/hdb (and probably disable the prompting and timeout so it's not annoying). Then edit your "main" /etc/lilo to show something like this: boot=/dev/hda1 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b image=/boot/vmlinuz label=main-linux root=/dev/hdb3 read-only other=/dev/hdb label=other-linux Then you can make independant changes between the two distributions without affecting the other. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Steve...you're awesome! I will file this info away till my license expires with VMware, which is soon,then it's back to actual disks. BTW, I got Win98 to run in a vm with rawdisk, but because it crashes there as well, I don't like leaving my Mandrake install exposed. E2fsck always makes me nervous. Thanks again, I owe ya! Tom
Re: [newbie] Caldera
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: Last night i bought the boxed version of Caldera. Is it like Mandrake when it comes to Red Hat copatability ? jerrud Yes and no. It looks very much like Mandrake what with its KDE desktop, but it is not tied so closely with the RPM package management (dept. of redundancy, dept.). You will do a lot more untarring and compiling with Caldera, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. It sure made me learn more. I like Caldera and have it installed now in a virtual machine so I can keep learning from it. However, KDE is all you get from the box, which may or may not be OK, depending on your level of Windows tolerance 8-). Caldera was based in the begining, I believe on RPM (RedHat), but not so much now. This is newbie talk, so I"m sure someone else can give you a lot more insight. The install is very easy. Tom
[newbie] Lexmark Printer
Hi Dense..(you said to call you that 8-) ) Check your documentation that came with the Lexmark you might be able to list it as some other type of printer. I have an old hand-crank Panasonic on my Linux system (the wife has the good printer on her Win95 system) and it is listed as an Epson. Panasonic gave several choices that could be used. Luckily one worked for me. This is newbie advice, so it could be in left field! Tom
[newbie] Screen problems
Try XF86Setup (watch the caps), Xconfigurator, lisa (always get confused as to which works with Mandrake or Caldera) You'll need to know the spec on your monitor and card. I generally use the generic multisync monitor selection and choose 1024x768 or 800x600 for resolutionand I'm able to set at 24bpp.. Hope I'm close here, just trying to give some back. I believe there is another program possibly xf86config? Tom
Re: [newbie] VMare
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, you wrote: - 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] --- I hope I'm doing this posting stuff right..it's all new to me... Hi guys, All I can tell you is it took the better part of my spare time last week to get vmware installed and working. (I'm such a newbie!) Never did get Win98 to finish loading. Error from vmware and Windows. Stuff I do not understand . However, I did get Caldera 2.2 installed and running along with the server for it and toolbox. It is awesome! When it's in full screen you cannot tell it is a virtual machine. With one click, it's sent to the background and you can use your regular desktop. Incredible! This allows me to play with my Caldera distro without it becoming contaminated by my Mandrake install.that's another weird story on its own. If this WIndows problem is surmountable, it is well worth the $99 for the software.My nickel's worth, Tom _BTW this email is being sent from COL in a vm on top of Mandrake 6.0___ 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] Of OS's Asses
I've been reading this list from afar for a few weeks now, but it is time to jump in the pool. The manner in which all of you have handled the "Hotmail guy" is exemplary. You know, in elementary school it was "my dad's bigger than your dad". In high school it was "my Ford's better than your Chevy". Luckily, most of us move out of those decades and realize that there are many wonderful things to choose from in this world. And that's what it is all about..choice, and more importantly, freedom of choice. I enjoy popping the hood and getting some dirt under my nails. With Linux , as it exists, this is what you have to do sometimes. But, it is, as we all know, changing rapidly. I started with RH5.2 went to COL1.3 to COl2.2 and now to Mandrake 6.0. In my limited experience, I have seen only positive and major changes. BUT, I also use Win98because I can. There are those times when I do not want to get my hands dirty!Don't get me wrong. Linux has changed my life. After 25 years of swinging a hammer, I begin courses this Fall in computer Science. I want to spend the rest of my days on this planet surrounded by people like you all. My choice. Keep up the good work! Tom B.
