[newbie] List Adminstration question
Can somebody please tell me how to get off this list ? I have been trying for weeks and its starting to really bug me. Since the list mailer doesnt change any of the mail headers, I do not know what address it is sending to and so cant cancel it since it only works by FULL email address. I get all mail to the domain aifusionextreme.netscapeonline.co.uk and could have used anything@aif. Please end my subscription to thsi list now.
[newbie] List help: email address and halt command ?
Hi I am going on holiday and would like to suspend the emails, I recall something like this is possible, but cant recall how. Can anybody fill me in ? I also need to know how I can find out with what email address I registered, since my ISP gives me whole domain my email address can be anything @sub-domain.co.uk and I cant remeber what I used. The forwarded amils dont seem to include a to address to me, at least in outlook anyway. Thanks
[newbie] FYI - Reason for boot hang 7.1 7.1
Aftermonths of hassles trying to get 7.1 and 7.2 to run on my system (Kernel locks in bootup)I have tracked it down to one of two things: It doesnt like my Canapus Spectra 2500 or my 2x Diamond Monster 3D II in Sli mode, both of which were fairly main stream cards a year or two ago. So much for increased hardware support and robustness.
Re: [newbie] Boot disk for Kernel 2.4
Problem is that the boot disk uses the same ro similiar kernel and so locks up at the exact same place. Even if I run linux in single user or maintaince mode, it locks up at the same point every time. So what I need is a boot disk/image for 2.4. I can get he source from kernel.org, but cant compile it, I cant get the RPM from mandrake, but cant extract the compiled kernel from the RPM in windows ( at least to my knowledge there isnt a windows RPM package ), so I am stuck. My only hope for linux seems to be wait, yet again, for a further release of mandrake which includes the 2.4 kernel. A question for all you linux folk, but first let me say I am very keen on linux, hence my efforst to get it running over the last year. My question is how can linux be expected to complete with other operating systems if it just hangs and locks every time there is something it doesnt like ? Even windows, which I freely admit has been the bane of alsmost all my troubles, does not just hang on unknown hardware. It might be take extreme sweat and frustration to get it to recnigse a peice of hardware, but the lack of a driver does not disrupt the rest of the OS ( assuming its not somethiugn essential like a CPU ) Similiar comments for Beos etc..., only linux seems unfriendly to my system to the determent of the enitre OS. Thanks for the response. - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2000 5:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot disk for Kernel 2.4 On Sunday 24 December 2000 13:49, you wrote: Hi I have been unable to get any of the 2.2 kernels to work, they just hang on boot-up. I want to try some of the beta 2.4 kernels, but since I cant get into linux, I cant install them,. Is there any way to make a boot disk with the 2.4 kernel, which will boot into the current install of 7.2 ? Thanks Cheers Do you still have the boot disk you made when you installed Mandrake to begin with? Use that one to get in and then do what you have to do to make a boot disk for the newer kernel. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds
[newbie] Boot disk for Kernel 2.4
Hi I have been unable to get any of the 2.2 kernels to work, they just hang on boot-up. I want to try some of the beta 2.4 kernels, but since I cant get into linux, I cant install them,. Is there any way to make a boot disk with the 2.4 kernel, which will boot into the current install of 7.2 ? Thanks Cheers
[newbie] Boot-up Issue 7.1 7.2
Hi Can anybody tell me how to go about troubleshooting this issue. My install of 7.2 goes fine, I do not istall networking. But when the system is rebooted it locks up. I had the same issue with 7.1, and was hoping 7.2 would fix it. I have included a screen shot from the digital camera so you can see where it jams. Thank in advance Stephen test3.jpg
[newbie] 7.1 Boot-up Woes
I installed 7.1 without a hitch, it rebooted and Hung! Rather anoying. I am a newbie so I no idea how to go about fixing it, so here are a few questions: 1) My first issue is grub, how do I change runlevels from grub ? With lilo you could run "linux 1" and "linux 3", grub doesnt seem offer this in an obvious way. 2) It jams ( even cntrl-alt-delete doesnt work ) after reporting the last ide information where it mentions the modes etc... So one option is that the HD optimizations are causing a problem. I assume that 7.1 uses HDPARM like 7.0, but I recall that you can turn hd optimzations on/off from a config file. Can anybody point to this file so that when 1 above is solved I can turn them off. 3) I have a PCI PCMCIA Adapter which could be causing this issue as it caused major headaches even in windows. How can I diable it from hardware confiuration ? 4) What logs can I look at ( assuming I can get in ) to work out what is causing the issue ? Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated/ My system ( in case it helps ): TMC TI5-VGF 2MB Motherboard AMD k6-III 400 256 SDRAM Promise ATA-66 PCI controller MAxtor 40GB ATA-66 Canapus Spectra 2500 16MB Diamond Monster 3D II x2 HP CD Writer 8100i Encore 6x DVD DXr3 Texas Instruments PCI PCMCIA controller PCMCIA Wavelan Silver 11Mbs Ethernet Card SB Live! Thanks in adance Stephen
[newbie] Install problems with both 7.0 and 7.1
While trying to install 7.0, it jams on the second stage install ( when the message is written on the screen). Complete lockout, even the off switch doesnt function which means the bios is jamed as well. With 7.1, this isnt an issue, but when it reaches the new "find PCMCIA devices" screen, it jams wen a I say yes and it jams when I say no. On 7.0, using the pcmcia image during the beggining of the installtion worked fine. I got a beep and everything ( which I assumed meant it detected the PCMCIA card and adapter). I have a PCMCIA ethernet card which I would like installed in the install. But am willing to leave it out and do it later if needed, but as mentioned even if I say no to the PCMCIA detection it jams. So basically I cant install 7.0 or 7.1 on that box. Any ideas ? Details of box: MB: HOT565 CPU: AMD-K6-2 233 Memory: 168MB HD: 6 GB IBM CD: unknown Grpahics card: S3 The Only other card is the Lucent PCI - PCMCIA Adapter.
[newbie] LILO Boot Magic install ?
Hi I jave succesfully installed mandrake 7.0 before but on smaller dirves. When trying to install it on a 14 GB with only 1 partition, everything appears fine, but once we reboot, instead of lilo I get a screen full of '01010101010101 ..' for ever or until reboot. So I thought I would give Bootmagic a try ( comes with the macmillian release ), but it says something about not liking a partition that is greater than 1023 cylenders or something. Can anybody help me ascertain what restrictions there are for these boot managers, what can be done to correct it, and are there alternatives ( free ones ) that dont have these retricitons ? Thanks
[newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?
I have just caught up with the latest emails, seems a lot of poeple are experiencing the same thing. A lot of the suggestions have been that the mbr is messed up. This is not the case! I have fdisk it hundreds of time since getting this error and each time lilo installs the same happens. Windows boots fine, dos boots fine ( after a fdisk /mbr ) and the relavnt system install, it is just lilo and boot magic. One said he thought it was his HD, let me tell it has nothing to do with you r HD. I think it has to do with the size of the primary partition. At present I am not willing to play with the data on my HD as it is too critical to test this thoery, which is why I am trying to find out from those who know what the limitations on these two boot managers is. The only Clue is the size: Boot magic actually gives an error message which says that the primary partition must be in the first 1023 cylnders. Why is cares about the rest of the HD and not just the mbr I cant farthom. But there you have it. Since boot magic wont install and lilo does but fails I assume they both cant handle larger drives. When I installed before I had nice neat partitions around the 2-4 GB mark. I assume this didnt exceed the 1023 cylders option, assuming that this is the cause. Currently I have a 14GB and a 40GB. Both exitbite the same behavoiur. if any body with the no-how can help in confirming this theory or indictae what limitations the software might have the Please Help. It is not just me as you acan see from the posting. If there is a cyclionder limitation can you explain why a boot manager needs to know about anythning but the mbr ? More importantly how can go about fixing this bug ? Thanks in advance Stephen - Original Message - From: aifusionextreme To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 8:31 PM Subject: LILO Boot Magic install ? Hi I jave succesfully installed mandrake 7.0 before but on smaller dirves. When trying to install it on a 14 GB with only 1 partition, everything appears fine, but once we reboot, instead of lilo I get a screen full of '01010101010101 ..' for ever or until reboot. So I thought I would give Bootmagic a try ( comes with the macmillian release ), but it says something about not liking a partition that is greater than 1023 cylenders or something. Can anybody help me ascertain what restrictions there are for these boot managers, what can be done to correct it, and are there alternatives ( free ones ) that dont have these retricitons ? Thanks
Re: [newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?
Yes, I ahve 2, a 14GB and a 40GB. I use teh 14GB as my primary and win98se machine and linux is installed onto the 40GB, but the boot manager will ggo onto the 14GB which only has a primary partition. This means (i think ) that it somehow gets more than 1023 cyclinders, which boot magic doesnt like and assume lilo doesnt either. Is bootman free ? I will give that a try. - Original Message - From: "Jeff Lee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 9:04 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ? I'm not very straight on the cylinder limitations...do you have more than one hard drive? but here's my setup, and hopefully, it might help you some: hda1(40G):Win2k hdc1(8.4G total): linux swap hdc2: linux I've had LILO installed on hdc2, but have since moved it to hdc1. For my boot manger, I use BeOS's (the free edition) bootman, which is installed on hda1. Setup is a breeze...just type bootman in the BeOS terminal, and have it point to the boot partitions. At 08:42 PM 6/21/2000 +0100, you wrote: I have just caught up with the latest emails, seems a lot of poeple are experiencing the same thing. A lot of the suggestions have been that the mbr is messed up. This is not the case! I have fdisk it hundreds of time since getting this error and each time lilo installs the same happens. Windows boots fine, dos boots fine ( after a fdisk /mbr ) and the relavnt system install, it is just lilo and boot magic. One said he thought it was his HD, let me tell it has nothing to do with you r HD. I think it has to do with the size of the primary partition. At present I am not willing to play with the data on my HD as it is too critical to test this thoery, which is why I am trying to find out from those who know what the limitations on these two boot managers is. The only Clue is the size: Boot magic actually gives an error message which says that the primary partition must be in the first 1023 cylnders. Why is cares about the rest of the HD and not just the mbr I cant farthom. But there you have it. Since boot magic wont install and lilo does but fails I assume they both cant handle larger drives. When I installed before I had nice neat partitions around the 2-4 GB mark. I assume this didnt exceed the 1023 cylders option, assuming that this is the cause. Currently I have a 14GB and a 40GB. Both exitbite the same behavoiur. if any body with the no-how can help in confirming this theory or indictae what limitations the software might have the Please Help. It is not just me as you acan see from the posting. If there is a cyclionder limitation can you explain why a boot manager needs to know about anythning but the mbr ? More importantly how can go about fixing this bug ? Thanks in advance Stephen - Original Message - From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]aifusionextreme To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 8:31 PM Subject: LILO Boot Magic install ? Hi I jave succesfully installed mandrake 7.0 before but on smaller dirves. When trying to install it on a 14 GB with only 1 partition, everything appears fine, but once we reboot, instead of lilo I get a screen full of '01010101010101 ..' for ever or until reboot. So I thought I would give Bootmagic a try ( comes with the macmillian release ), but it says something about not liking a partition that is greater than 1023 cylenders or something. Can anybody help me ascertain what restrictions there are for these boot managers, what can be done to correct it, and are there alternatives free ones ) that dont have these retricitons ? Thanks
Re: [newbie] Serial Mouse Hell - VICTORY - I defeated the machine
Seems a padded cell wont be needed (close one though :-D ) . I did the below and still nothing, then after about 1.5 hours I discovered that the mouse was actually on ttyS3-com4 (hmmm ), but it didnt work properly, very unresponsive and blocky. So began the proticol hunt. Murphy helped me out by making sure the last one I tried was the one needed. I have never heard of "Mouse systems" but it and my genius mouse 3 get along just great, and so it was that I won the battle between machine and wits Hope - mans greatest asset, and mans greatest curse ). Thanks for the help. Until the next battle, may linus be with you - Original Message - From: "Christopher Molnar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Serial Mouse Hell Skip the padded cell but check you BIOS setting first. Is the serial ports set up to AUTO ASSIGN IRQ's and port address? If yes, change it to a set irq/port address. Linux doesn't do well with the auto-assign on ports in bios. (talking from experience). Please let me know if that helps. Chris On Sun, 21 May 2000, Raptor wrote: I have just installed Mandrake 7.0 air on a k6-2 233. I installed it fine on my k6-III 400 with a PS/2 mouse. the 233 has no ps/2 port. So I use a serial mouse. I have both a genius ( mouse model : 3 ) and time computers mouse ( whatever that is in reality I dont know ) and I cant get either to work. I have tried wiht mouseconfig all sorts of mouses (I told its not mice when refering to computers ) on both ttyS0 1. It should be on com2 (ttyS1). But whenever I boot up the x-cursor is there, but it doesnt respond to movement or clicks. I have spend over 3 hours on this know and think I am loosing my sanity. If anybody out there knows of any tricks etc.. to check or get these mice workign I would be greatfull ( you may save me from a padded cell ) . Thanks
[newbie] named service and mandrake 7 ????
HI I have been trying toget on the inet, and got hold of some docs to do it and confiure the DNS etc.., but they all seem to assume that named is a standard service, which I am sure it is, but I dont seem to have it. I tried the linuxconf startup and its not there, also did a search on the HD and found nothing. Why isnt it included in mandrake ? More importantly where can I get it, and how does one install a new servcie. thanks
