[newbie] Installing Mandrake 8.1
On a machine on which I have been able to install Suse 6.4 and Mandrake 7.1 I get the following problem when trying to install Mandrake 8.1: Mounting /dev/ram3 on /tmp/stage2 as type ext2 Mount failed: invalid argument Or (4) VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev ram disk (1,3). Any thoughts? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] VICE / X64 (to Paul RodrÃguez)
Hi Paul, sorry for this late reply.. Can't find your email-addy, so i send this to this list for all the world to see :) Joystick setup in the vice is very easy. For the unix/linux versions, just hold the _right_ mouse-button (the left pops up a load-menu), choose joystick setup from the popup-menu, and choose your favourite option. Numpad is great if you don't have a joystick, you use the numpad keys for an 8-directional joystick, with left ctrl for fire. I still use the c64, but mainly the real thing, emulators only when absolutely neccesarry :) .. It a great machine really :) .. Easy to program as well, and fun to try to get it to do things that's impossible on an 1mhz machine with 64k of memory, and see it work :) . The c64 scene is still alive! Btw, check out sta.c64.org, there you can find instructions for building (or ordering cheap) a X1541-series cable, which allows you to transfer your c64 disks to and from the pc! :) (make sure to get the version that works under linux). Gerry
Re: [newbie] LM 7.2 and Xfree and CD-RW
Do you have scsi-emulation enabled ? Pass the option hdx=ide-scsi to the kernel at boot (through lilo or grub), where x is the "hd" number (a = first primary, b = first secondary, c = second primary etc.) Try "cdrecord -scanbus" to see if the recorder is recognized. Gerry
Re: [newbie] Time Space
Then there are the new subscribers that don't have the original on disc or those of us who don't want to or wouldn't be practical to search through the list to find the original in the over 7000 messages currently in newbie@linux-mandrake. All attempts to standardize this list meet with profuse resistance, where it is not futile, as evidenced by the fact that it never gets implimented. But thank you for your thoughts and you have a real nice day. I didn't say that you shouldn't include ANY of the message you replied to, but; only include the _relevant_ part. No searching for old messages needed. Anyway, if not all does this, a dew can still help.. snipped to save Gerry's hdd Heh :) My hd is 20 gb, but thanx anyway :) Reading the same stuff over and over again, and search for the part that is new, is a bit annoying. And with my slow internet-line it's even more annoying.. Gerry
[newbie] Time Space
When most of you ppl reply to something, you include all of the message you replied to, which in its turn may include messages it's replied to, etc. Sometimes the interesting part in the original message are just one line, while the whole msg might be 100 lines.. So, this means that of the 500k i get in the mailbox a day from these lists (newbie and expert), 90% is stuff i've already read, that i don't need to read again, and that's not relevant to the reply at all. My point is, could you please try to just include the part of the message you're actually replying to ? This will save time and space both when downloading the messages from the mailserver (for those who doesn't have dsl, cable, fiber-optic etc. connections), and also when reading the message, so that we don't have to skip through a whole lot of uninteresting text. Gerry
Re: [newbie] xmess
Has anybody had any luck using (non-windows) emulators such as xmess (included on LM 7.2) to work? I was excited to play some of my old Commador64 and atari games, but don't really know how to get started. For Commodore 64 you should use The VICE, which gives 99,99% accurate emulation.. The VICE is a system-independent emulator system that also emulates Vic20, C128, PET and CBM-II :) You can get it at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dsladic/vice/vice.html After installing it, the c64-part is called "x64". Just run that one, and you're off :) .. btw, you need to have some disk images as well if you want to play anything.. www.c64.com has thousands of c64-games just waiting to be downloaded! (i really love that old machine :) Gerry -Paul R __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] How to find help about C functions
Hi, I would like to learn more about some C/C++ functions, for example: strrchr(). How can I find descriptions of functions? There's man pages for all c/c++ functions.. Type.. man funtionname ..in the shell to access them. You can access them in konqueror as well. Just open konqueror and type.. #funtionname ..in the address-field. Gerry
Re: [newbie] Mandrake needs a readme file fro KDE2.1 Final Release RPMS install instructions needed
You know, the dependencies are there for a reason.. Only override if you have the stuff needed but it's not recognized by rpm. And now, a little clip from Discworld! :) Dead man: "Am i going to hell ?" Death: "If that's what you want.." (find the hidden meaning and shut up, 8beta-threaders) Gerry [Romanator] Hi everybody, Do to the lack of a readme file, I ran an rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm, as I was getting all sorts of dependency errors while upgrading from KDE2.1 beta 2 to KDE2.1 Final Release. Bad idea. I had to reinstall MDK7.2. I'm back to square one KDE2. Which rpms are need to upgrade to the final release and in which order? Any help would be appreciated. Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: WAAAYYY OT! (Was: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta)
Sorry if i annoy you people, but i had to reply to this.. Anyway, this is my LAST post to this thread no matter what. Case closed. Dave Sherman wrote: 1. Actually, humans were the LAST species to be created, on the sixth day. Ok, i'm not really an expert on this, sorry then.. 2. Nowhere does it say the earth is flat. It also doesn't say the earth is round. The Bible is not a science textbook. Actually it does say so. I would have given you the exact location, but i don't remember.. Anyway, i read it myself (someone showed it to me), so i know it's there. It doesn't say so in a scientific manner, though. It just shows that the people living in those days believed the earth was flat. My point was that what people believed to be right 2000 years ago doesn't need to be so today. 3. I wouldn't know about your "lots of other nonsense", since I have not really noticed it. Sorry if i was a bit harsh.. I respect other people's beliefs. I just meant that meanings on right and wrong was different back then (see above). KompuKit wrote: Oh Lord...forgive those...who have EYES,but can NOT see... and ears, but can not hear Ditto ;) Gerry
Re: [newbie] Need to compile a 2.2.18 kernal - jrt
Seems you need to make a symlink to the 2.2.18-dir.. cd to the parent dir of "linux-2.2.18", and type: ln -s linux-2.2.18 linux That will create a symlink named linux that point to linux-2.2.18. (btw, did you copy the source to /usr/src/linux-2.2.18 ? the path /usr/src/linux might be hardcoded into the source..) Gerry
Re: [newbie] Can't resize certain windows
If you hold down the ALT key you can drag the window around no matter where in the window the cursor is (assuming you use kde). Btw, if your monitor/gfx-card is able to show higher resolutions than 800x600 you probably got some settings wrong somewhere.. Try running mandrake's x-setup again and select "show all modes" (on my pc it only showed up to 1024x768, but 1280x1024 worked fine), or run xf86config and enter the resolutions manually. tirsdag 06 mars 2001, 16:07, you wrote: I've just about got all the kinks worked out of my new 7.2 install. It looks like I'm stuck with a resolution of 800x600 max. One nuisance problem is that some of the windows are larger than my monitor, DrakRPM for example, and I can't resize the window to fit my screen. I can get around the problem in most cases using other methods to do the task but I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions to offer. Thanks. Blaine Owens Eastman Chemical Company Phone - (423)-229-3579 Cell Phone - (423)-817-0704 Fax - (423)-229-1188 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] QT and QT2 libs
I have a program that requires qt-devel = 2.0.0. The problem is that i have both qt 1.44 and qt 2.2.1 installed (because some prgs require the qt1 libs), so qt2 is installed as qt2-devel. How can i tell rpm the right name of the package it requires ? (the prg is a source rpm with spec file) Gerry
Re: [newbie] Need to compile a 2.2.18 kernal - jrt
Thank you, I had grabbed something called kernel22-2.2.18-14mdk.src.rpm, (snip) That's a source rpm, so it put its stuff under /usr/src/RPM/. As root, cd to that dir and type 'rpm -ba SPECS/kernel22-2.2.18-(etc.)' to configure compile it. Then it puts the installation rpm in RPMS/(your processor)/. Good luck :) Gerry
Re: [newbie] To any linux newbies who really want to know their system well....
Thank you!!! You have no idea how much you helped me! Now i'm going to start becoming a linux guru ;) Gerry
Re: [newbie] USB CDRW
I am debating to get a usb CDRW or get the IDE interior drive. I have two questions: 1. How do I get my LM7.2 system to recognize the USB Burner 2. Any advice on which is the better buy...interior or exterior? I don't think cd-writing on usb is a terribly good idea.. Could be wrong though :) 3. What are the speeds 4x4x6...vs8x4x32, etc relative toI am having trouble understanding how to judge relative speedis a 4x4x6 fast enough ? The first number is write-speed (cd-r), the second is rewrite-speed (cd-rw), the third is read speed. 1x is the "normal" cd-speed, which is about 300 kps, or 74 min to burn 74 min of music/650 mb data. Mulitply the speed by those numbers. Ie. 4x4x6 means 1200 kps for both writing modes, which means about 18 min to burn a full cd. Reading would be at 1800 kps. Keep in mind that your system must be able to feed the writer with data at that speed (normally not a problem, but stranger things have happened), unless it has burn-proof technology (pause writing on buffer underruns). Gerry
[newbie] ALT-GR in MDK 7.2, XFree86 4.0.1
To put it shortly, the ALT-GR key behaves as the ALT key. In other words, i can't type any alt-gr-only chars, such as @ (got that one by copy/paste).. I had the same problem in XF86 3.3.6, then i could solve it by typing a line with something like "ALT_R = ModeShift" (don't remember the exact line) in the config file, but this didn't work in XF86 4.0.1.. I tried putting it in both XF86Config and XF86Config-4 (using Option). I even tried setting keymappings with keycodes, but alt-gr still thinks it's alt.. Thanks for any help! Gerry
Re: [newbie] Visio replacement
So is there a Visio-like tool for Linux or not? I'd like to know, too. Thanks. Gerry At 11/16/00 02:05 PM, you wrote: Hi all.. BTW, if anyone who uses Visio and is interested in a Mailing List, I run one at egroups.com, and you can find the details in my .sig Cheers! Mark Harrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information System Specialist, Mennonite Central Committee Bangladesh Registered Linux User # 193916
Re: [newbie] error sharing home directories in samba
[homes] is a special share. You don't need to specify a path to the files. My samba share looks like this: [homes] comment = personal files browseable = no read only = no create mode = 0754 # so files created in the user's public web directory are readable by others Gerry At 10/26/00 08:29 AM, you wrote: \\LINUX\%U is not accessible the share name was not found! be sure you typed correctley. my smb.conf looks like this [homes] comment = home directories path = /home/%U read only = No browseable = No Information System Specialist, Mennonite Central Committee Bangladesh
Re: [newbie] apache
Do you have an index.html page in the directory you have defined as the user dir? Gerry At 10/26/00 03:17 AM, you wrote: What's the 'trick' to getting a user dir to work in apache? I keep getting 'forbidden' no matter what I try. I've tried to set the user dir at 755, grp=users the public htm dir is 755 and the index file is 644. What do you have to do to a default 7.1 install to make ~user work? Information System Specialist, Mennonite Central Committee Bangladesh
[newbie] difficulty accessing files from one server to another
I have two servers (A and B), one whose role is a file server (B). It has the /home filesystem. The other server (A) mounts the /home directory from this server. I'm having problems with security when trying to access these files from A. When I am root, and do a ls /home/gerry -l command, I get a lot of permissions denied. The other thing is I have Apache running on A. I have set up a public_html directory in my home directory. I used to be able to access these files via the web server, but now I always get "permission denied" errors. Here is what "mount" shows: dataserver:/home on /home type nfs (rw,rsize=1024,wsize=1024,hard,intr,addr=192.168.0.3) One other thing: when I shutdown or restart A, and it attempts to unmount /home, I get a "Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Program not registered" How can I get around this? Setup: 1. both servers have the same passwd, shadow, group, gshadow files. 2. the mount command in fstab is 3. the 'other' attribute on all files and directories in the public_html folder is set to read-only. Information System Specialist, Mennonite Central Committee Bangladesh
[newbie] Installing additional components after installation
I'm more familiar with SuSE, which uses YAST/2 for a setup tool. With it I can check what programs are installed, do a search of other packages to install, and install something off of a CD. What is the standard tool for this in Mandrake? RPM? Thanks, Gerry
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Re: [newbie] Web mail server.
On 19 Jun 2000, at 23:30, Melissa and Michael Grover wrote: I use Sendmail, It is a bit tricky to setup, But it works well.. I found Linuxconf made it fairlt easy. My biggest issue is roaming users - I haven't figured out how to set up pop before send auth. This seems like the best approach since every emila client would work. gerry http://www.gogood.com
Re: [newbie] nmbd / smbd woes
Have you looked at the Samba FAQ's or better yet, joined the Samba list? They have TONS of information that has most likely been answered. Grab the last 1000 messages and do a search through them. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is not being able to start on bootup. On bootup, I get starting smb --- started starting nmb - failed same happens on shutdown I hate to reinstall since the same thing is likely to happen again but I am about out of options. Sigh! Bryan Gerry Doyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/11/99 07:36:54 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: Re: [newbie] nmbd / smbd woes Try this. Type the command "ntsysv". Scroll through the list of services and make sure that you have an asterisk in the box to make sure that Samba should start on boot. You can manually start and stop Samba by going to: /etc/rc.d/init/d and typing "./smb start" Good luck. Bryan Moorehead wrote: I have recently set up samba between Mandrake, NT, 98, etc. Has worked fine for a day or so. I have truly enjoyed browsing my linux box through windoze :-o This evening, without my intervention, both nmdb and smbd stopped running, and I am unable (using SWAT) to get them to re-start. I have tried rebooting many times. Even restored earlier working smb.conf. Nothing. Nada. If I look in /var/log/samba/log.nmb I see stuff like "Get_Hostbyname Unknown host [kb01ln.kband.net] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(689) Unable to get my hostname - exiting Same thing with log.smb Don't know why my hostname would suddenly no longer be valid. "hostname" at console returns kb01ln.kband.net I am also getting in SWAT "Couldn't open status file /var/log/samba/STATUS..LCK If posting my smb.conf file would help, please let me know! Whatever the case, it seems that NetBios info is no longer being passed between machines. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, Bryan
Re: [newbie] nmbd / smbd woes
Also, what does the /etc/var/samba/log.nmb say for errors? There should be some good information in there. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is not being able to start on bootup. On bootup, I get starting smb --- started starting nmb - failed same happens on shutdown I hate to reinstall since the same thing is likely to happen again but I am about out of options. Sigh! Bryan Gerry Doyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/11/99 07:36:54 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: Re: [newbie] nmbd / smbd woes Try this. Type the command "ntsysv". Scroll through the list of services and make sure that you have an asterisk in the box to make sure that Samba should start on boot. You can manually start and stop Samba by going to: /etc/rc.d/init/d and typing "./smb start" Good luck. Bryan Moorehead wrote: I have recently set up samba between Mandrake, NT, 98, etc. Has worked fine for a day or so. I have truly enjoyed browsing my linux box through windoze :-o This evening, without my intervention, both nmdb and smbd stopped running, and I am unable (using SWAT) to get them to re-start. I have tried rebooting many times. Even restored earlier working smb.conf. Nothing. Nada. If I look in /var/log/samba/log.nmb I see stuff like "Get_Hostbyname Unknown host [kb01ln.kband.net] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(689) Unable to get my hostname - exiting Same thing with log.smb Don't know why my hostname would suddenly no longer be valid. "hostname" at console returns kb01ln.kband.net I am also getting in SWAT "Couldn't open status file /var/log/samba/STATUS..LCK If posting my smb.conf file would help, please let me know! Whatever the case, it seems that NetBios info is no longer being passed between machines. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, Bryan
Re: [newbie] installing L-M 6.1 to new Dell Inspiron 7500
Just like the e-mail message you got, use FIPS. I used it on *my* new Dell that had only one WIndows 98 partition. Worked very well. I went the extra mile and removed my Windows cache file and defragged the disk. Used FIPS then re-set the cache. Been working great with no problems. Gregg Carrier wrote: Hi all, Well, I want to install L-M 6.1 on my new laptop and have a question or two before going ahead. The machine comes with Windows installed on the Hard Drive. I want to split the drive into a Windows partition and a Linux partition. Will Disk Druid resize the Windows partition without shredding it? There's only about 1 gig of info on the partition and it's a 10 gig disk. I want to split it half-and-half with Linux. Also, does anyone have experience with installing Linux to an Inspiron 7500 and have advice or things I should be aware of before pressing on? Thanks in advance! Gregg
Re: [newbie] Samba 2.0
Samba does come with it. When you install Mandrake 6.0 it is an optional package to install. If you have already installed Mandrake and never selected the package then you can go back and run the RPM for Samba. Joe Brault wrote: Hello, I am wondering if linux mandrake comes with Samba 2.0? I have version 6.0 of linux-mandrake, and would like to use Samba. If it does ship with it, what do I ahve to do to get it installed and up and running? THanks in advance! Joe :)
Re: [Re: [newbie] Lots of questions, need help!]
You never said what you inteneded to do with the Linux software. I assume you want to create a partition on your Windows 98 drive to make room for a Linux install. I did this myself. Yes, I sweated it for a bit but it all came out okay. I use a floppy to boot into Linux instead of using LILO to dual-boot. If your entire hard disk is currently in use for Windows 98 then need to creat a partition for Linux. I used a program, which eludes me, that did this. I did the following: 1. Deleted my Windows 98 swap file. 2. Ran Windows scandisk and defrag. 3. Ran the DOS utility to create a 500MB partition 4. Boot back in to Windows 98 and re-enabled my swap file. 5. Popped in the Linux CD and ran the install on to my new partition Bingo! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running Windows 95 on a PC of mine and just recently received LINUX I am kinda worried about the affects of screwing LINUX up and causing problems with Windows, is this a hazarded?
[newbie] Innstalling Linux: CRC Error
Howdy all, I am attempting to load Mandrake v6.0 off a CD that I have used a dozen times before. I for the most part get an error as follow: Uncompressing... CRC error --System halted. Sometimes I've gotten almost all the way through the install. Now I don;t get any further than pressing the Enter key to begin the install. I started with 32MB of ram and added another 32MB. Thinking that the RAM might be bad I backed that out. I added a second hard drive. Thinking that might be causing a problem I backed THAT out. Now I am left with the original comonents. Any ideas? Maybe it is the RAM. Maybe it is the CD? Maybe it is the CD-ROM drive? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! - Gerry Doyon
Re: [newbie] Samba
It is was a friend of mine calls the "cancer pipeline". :-) It allows any Windows 9x or Windows NT computer to connect to your Linux PC as if it actually were a Windows NT server. Check out http://www.samba.org coin wrote: wat is exactly samba Luff (x3) coin
[newbie] Re:
Bad manners is bad manners across the board young man. It doesn't matter how old you are. Your age does not give you permission to get away with things like that. You see, since we only have your words to look at we would never have known how old you were. Corresponding by e-mail is the great equalizer. Writing flame messages either advertises you age or immaturity. By the way, if you don't like the answers that people have been giving you, or they are not responding at all, don't go out "in a blaze of glory" by writing an angry message. You may regret it later and want to join back up. Good luck with Linux. I hope that you can find your answers. "Mike J. Kesow" wrote: At least someone has some common courtesy(Joseph S. Gardner.) For all of yinz out there, yinz should know that i'm only 14 years old, so pick on someone your own age.
Re: [newbie] Samba Perl
Try this web link: http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html Mark Ramsey wrote: You mentioned you has Samba running correctly to where your Linux box was seen in your network neighborhood. Any suggestions as to where to find the best info on getting this set right?
Re: [newbie] SQL systems comparison?
We run Sybase at work for our in-house apps. But, if your application does not need to do "fancy" transactions or stored procedures than MySQL is my choice. The speed blows Sybase away because it doesn't have all that "overhead". John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 02:40:03PM -0500, Damien Mc Kenna wrote: For doing a pretty large databased web site for a college department (with all the cool stuff in PHP), which would people recommend I use: PostreSQL or MySQL? I've noticed that a lot of the PHP packages I'm looking at seem to favor MySQL, but PostgreSQL is getting more support these days. Should I just read through their respective documentations and figure it out for myself, or does anyone have a recommendation, or are there any good comparisons of them on the net? I'm rather partial to MySQL, but only because it seemed easier to deal with to me. PostgreSQL seems to do alot of things _outside_ the database, rather than dealing with them inside normal tables. Some of the decision will depend on what sorts of things you need to do with the database. I know that MySQL doesn't handle straight transactions, nor can it do table or row locking. I don't recall whether PostgreSQL handles those normally. I do know there was a rather lengthy discussion about this very topic on Slashdot awhile ago. You might try there. http://slashdot.org Try Sybase... :-) It rocks!!! At the ISP where I work, we are hosting the FIRST authorized electronic check conversion system (authorized by the Feds and by the banking industry!) and it has a HUGE database, and is being run off a couple Sybase servers. :-) John
[newbie] C++ compiler broken?
Greetings to all: I have a "Workstation" default install of Mandrake 6.1, and loving it! However, I have attempted to compile a few games and have run into a problem: when I run "./configure" the process runs for a while and then returns an error with my C++ compiler. The process checks to see if the C++ compiler is there, says "OK" but when it tests the compiler to see if it's working, it responds "no." The process ends with the messages that my C++ compiler "can't create" I have reached this same error with two different gamesI was attempting the compile each as "root." I have NO idea how to troubleshoot something like this. I was thinking of uninstalling and reinstalling the appropriate RPM, but I am unsure which exact package to mess with. If someone could suggest some things I can try, I would appreciate it. Thanks and Regards, Gerry M Austin, TX, USA
Re: [newbie] How do U edit smb.conf?
Also, you NEVER want to use a Windows or DOS text editor to edit the smb.conf. Use "vi" instead. SWAT is very good as well. "Eric L. Damron" wrote: Sevatio, Samba comes with a really nice utility called SWAT. (Samba Web Administration Tool) It is run through your Web browser. Type http:// Your IP Address:901 -Original Message- From: Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, September 25, 1999 9:11 PM Subject: [newbie] How do U edit smb.conf? What program do you use to edit smb.conf? I used a text editor and it looked like a bunch of gibberish. Seve
Re: [newbie] Maximum Linux magazine
By the way, I saw the magazine at Boarders Books. It was almost $6.00. Pretty hefty price. Cindy Pearce wrote: Thanks for the info. BTW, noticed a mistake in the url, s/b www.maximumlinuxmag.com Sorry! Cindy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Philp Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Maximum Linux magazine Cindy Pearce wrote: There is a list of places that carry the magazine at www.maximumlunuxmag.com. I wouldn't classify myself as a complete newbie. I have installed and configured four different distros before settling on Mandrake. I have also updated a few kernels but only via rpm packages. I have recompiled the kernels on both my Mandrake machines and I have also installed support for various hardware not supported in the Mandrake release. I am presently trying to find out how I can make certain things load at startup so I don't have to type in the commands each time. /etc/rc.d/rc.local is your friend! Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Here goes.
Howdy Cayment, I am currently running Linux Mandrake on my Road Runner account with no problems. They critical points are to: A) Get DHCP working B) Get, compile and run the Linux "rrlogin" program. Here is a link for you to help with those two points. Have fun ! http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rr/linux.html Caymen wrote: I am getting ready to install Linux on my PC. Last time I installed Linux it was on a PC I was putting together a PC for a friend. I tried to install linux usisg the CD to boot up, but it didnt. I had to use me Win98 startup disk to load drivers for the CD-ROM. I forget the command to load Linux. Anybody know what it is? I forget where I found it and where I wrote it down. Another question.How do I install a program in Linux. I have TRIED to read a book, but I cant learn that way. I will need to get files for my ISP (Roadrunner) and I need to know how to install it so I can get it to work. I know this is something I should know.but I dont. I am waiting for your responce before I start the install. Thank you for your help. Tom Who cant wait to be a Linux user.
[newbie] True Type Fonts using Windows 98 fonts ?
Can I use the Windows 98 TT Fonts on a linux machine, or, do I have to get some that were "prepared" a different way ? Thanks !
Re: [newbie] How daunting is a kernel upgrade?
I would say that as long as you have a good boot disk and/or have a copy of the old kernel on the hard disk that you should go ahead and crank yourself a new kernel. I was also a little intimidated my first couple tries. After all I thought to myself, I don't want to have to re-install the whole dang operating system if I can' boot anymore ! The "toughest" part of the whole thing was running configure to set up what options you want rolled in to the kernel. And, is it better to make it part of the kernel itself or make it a loadable module? Practice makes perfect. Or, in my case, competent I think. On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hi all- There's been lots of discussion here about kernel upgrades, and it seems to be a pretty daunting task to me, as a relatively new linux user but a pretty confident and competent computer user in general. My case is that I'm running Mandrake 6.0 and would like to upgrade the kernel to get rid of some of those mount/unmount errors that have been described here already. Is the best upgrade for me the one at cooker (kernel-2.2.11-2mdk.src.rpm), as opposed to the multitude of files I find at kernel.org? Is it preferable for me to stick to a Mandrake release of any given kernel? I guess what I'm looking for is a slightly more hands-on howto (I have read the kernel howtos, and what keeps me from simply following the directions is that, knowing how crucial the kernel is, I just don't want to botch it), and at this point, there seem to be an awful lot of starting places (cooker, kernel.org, the new cassini test, and so on). Those of you who are familiar with this, can you offer a little guidance? I don't need hand-holding so much as just an indication that if I, for example, start with the cooker kernel, I'll be on the right track. Thanks much- - alan / note my new email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /
Re: [newbie] KDE graphical login
Thanks ! Bill Moshier wrote: Gerry - log in as root, and edit the /etc/inittab file. There is a line, about 17 lines down, that says id:5:initdefault: Change the 5 to a 3, and you will boot to the command line interface. It should look like: id:3:initdefault: To only do it once, from the LILO: prompt, just do LILO: linux 3 where the 3 specifies the run level. (The 5 runlevel specifies that you want the graphical login.) Bill -Original Message- From: Gerry Doyon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 4:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] KDE graphical login Howdy all. Anyone know how to STOP Linux from booting straight in to KDE's graphical login ? I'm at home, not work, so I can't check Lilo, which I presume is where it starts ? Maybe the rc.local ? Thanks !
Re: [newbie] need to set up simple network
Jim, you'll be needing Samba. Check out their web site at http://www.samba.org. You can install it via an RPM, or tar file. Using an RPM *should* set everything up for you. I *think* it will also put the two daemons in your inetd.conf but am not sure. You can then use "smbclient" to connect to all the PC's. I just bought and EXCELLENT book yesterday called "Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" bys Sam's. I've already read the whole thing and am starting through it again. Jim Snyder wrote: Hi I need to connect my 2 Mandrake Linux 6.0 machines to a Windows 95/98 network. Is there a simple way to do this? The Windows machines are set up to share files and printers only; no IP addresses are involved. P.S. Please no negative comments about MS as I still need them for AutoCAD and SoftDesk! Many thanks in advance. Jim
Re: [newbie] GUI for RPM installs ?
You might be thinking og Kpackage for KDE. It is a *very* nice RPM front end. Kpackage should already be installed. Just look off of your menu bar in System I think. Webmaster wrote: Is there anyway to install RPM's from the command line using a GUI ? I remember there being a GUI when I first installed Mandrake that gave you the options of installing packages, but I don't know how to get back to this (or another) GUI. I would like to install the KDE invironment, but I get lost with the long file names (and so many of them) that are needed to install all of this. Can anyone help ? Thanks, Ken
Re: [newbie] booting to GUI
I would be interested to know the answer. I believe that you updated LILO with the Mandrake Update utility like I did ? I did the same thing to both my home and office PC. :-) Stephan Rex wrote: Hi all,I updated some files yesterday, and now linux only boots to the command line login prompt and not the KDE login. Some which file and what options do i need to change to fix this? TIA Stephan
Re: [newbie] Saving Window Positions
Have your heard about the new partion utility from Mandrake called "DiskDrake" ? Take a look at it at this location: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/diskdrake Traci Collins wrote: Kenton Riley wrote: Hi! I am new to Mandrake, and only slightly more experienced with gnome. The single most irritating feature of graphical environments under Linux is that apps don't seem to remember their screen position the next time they are opened. Is there a way to configure gnome under mandrake so that my apps will remember where I put them? I know I can save a workspace but I don't think that is what I want. I don't want these apps to begin execution when I login to my account, which is what I think would happen if I saved the workspace when I logged off the account. All I want them to do is remember where I put them and always open to that location no matter when I launch them. Is that possible? If so, can you point me toward a faq where I can learn how to do it? Thanks. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] cable modems NY /Woodbury
I have Road Runner. WHat I had to do was: a) Make sure I had the latest DHCP modules, etc. b) Download and install the special login software unique to Road Runner for Linux c) Put in my DNS address for my provider. Bingo ! Frank Imbroto wrote: Does anybody have a cable modem connection that works. I am having trouble setting it up and don't even know where to start. Does anybody have advice on how to hook up the modem.
Re: [newbie] I want off please.
Visit the Mandrake web site and loacte the link. Flight16 wrote: Um.. how do you get off this list?
Re: [newbie] dvd-rom and turtle beach montego
I have install the Beta sound drivers, as I have the same setup in my Dell system. The CD works great for accessing data and playing music, BUT, the system sounds for the KDE environment sound like chipmunks talking at high speed. Two out of three aint bad ! I would *love* to watch a DVD movie in Linux, though. Sigh. Soon I hope. jsm wrote: The Montego is beta at Open Sound System for Linux . I don't know the URL . I haven't tried it , so I can't tell you if it works . Good Luck ! jsm BTW . Please advice if you get it working . Bert Bullough wrote: Does anyone here know if a Toshiba DVD-Rom (ide) or a Turtle Beach Montego pnp sound card are supported by Mandrake 6.x?
Re: [newbie] Re: Kmidi to work when logged in as user...
Karen, At the command line "su" (substitute user) [in this case you need to become rootuser to change the permission of /dev/midi*, so you will need to enter the root's password] and then type ls -al /dev/midi* (the "*" is there, because, at least on my system there are 4 separate files, /dev/midi00, /dev/midi01,... look at the letters/permissions that start the lines) owner group other(hoped that lined up ok) probably something like ... crw-rw-r-- you and Charles want _a_ll users to be able to write /dev/midi* (want that second "-" from the end to turn into a "w") so this is what you probably want to type chmod -v a+w /dev/midi* (the -v option above gives you "verbose" output) Repeating the ls -al /dev/midi* command will also show the changes. Now quickly, before you for forget, type "exit" or use "Ctrl+D" to exit from root user back to "yourself." Axalon was brief, but to the point, in his assistance. In the future, if given a clue like that you can use "apropos" and "man" (and sometimes "info") to gather background, and often sufficient, information to solve your problem. type "apropos permission" (in fact, you can get away with typing "apropos perm") and then type "man chmod" [use spacebar to go to the next screen and q to quit.] You may want to browse "man man" as well. (man refers to "manual" as in "instructions") If apropos doesn't work, then, as root, again, type "makewhatis" (to get a brief idea about what's happening, you can type "man whatis"]. Don't forget to use "exit" or C-d (control-d), to leave rootuser, after you're done." [btw (by the way), I really wish you'd let me be the judge of who's dumb, stupid, uninformed, miseducated, uneducated, turtle-brained, slug-headed,... (and who's not)g.] Hope that helps. gerry Karen R wrote: Axalon wrote: Fix the permissions on /dev/midi* and it should be ok On 5 Jul 1999, Charles Sprague wrote: Hello: Can anyone here tell me how to get the Kmidi program in KDE to work while logged in as a user, not root? I'm using Mandrake 5.3 (festen). [snip] i have the same problem; but i guess i'm dumber than charles would you be so kind as to explain 'how' to change those permissions? thanks so much karen
Re: [newbie] giving up
You never said how much RAM you have. If you have just 32MB of memory, in my humble opinion, that is too little for KDE/Netscape. Jimmy Garcia wrote: I've spent a week, unsuccessfully, trying to get Linux-Mandrake 6.0 to work properly. After getting through the install procedure, which went by with no real difficulty, I started Linux and was amazed at how slow it was. It kept accessing my hard drive for almost every little thing I did. I gave it a 3 Gig ext2 partition and a 200MB swap file partition from my 10Gig IBM 7200RPM ide hard drive. All my hardware is supposed to be compatible with it (except for my SB Live). It took like 3 minutes for Netscape to load, it took 3 minutes for a desktop theme to apply, and there was obviously something wrong with it. I tried to shut it down, but then it hung while "preparing a new session." When I rebooted, there were errors on my hard drive and I had to 'run fsck manually'. I did, and when I started it again, some programs wouldn't work like, Netcfg. Some Icons turned black in KDE and I couldn't even click on them. I had the same shutdown problem and decided to re-install it.The same things happened to me. I was told that I have to upgrade some kernal or something. But, I can't even load Linux without having to go through that lengthy fsck procedure at startup. I guess I just stick to windows :( For those Linux experts out there, someone should come up with a site or book that'll help people migrate from Windows to Linux.Just a suggestion. Thanks everyone! James Garcia
Re: [newbie] How to change the resolution of X-windows?
John l.yn wrote: Hi: I have two question below: 1. I want to change the resolution of X-windows from 16 color to 24 bit color.Help say that using 'alt'-'ctrl'-'+', but it doesnt work. 8, 16, 24, or 32 bits per pixel (bpp) is the "color depth," not the -resolution-. The default color depth was chosen when you setup X using Xconfigurator, XF86Setup, or whatever. Assuming you have sufficient video memory for your screen size, use startx -- -bpp 24 to have Xwindow start with "24 bit" color. ** Color depth cannot be changed without exiting to the command line. ** 2. The desktop is too big about 4 times than my screen of monitor. Why? I have to move my mouse all around in order to find some thing on the screen. This is dependent on screen resolution, e.g. 640x480, or 800x600, or 1024x768(?), or You chose the allowable resolutions when you setup X using Xconfigurator, XF86Setup, or The highest resolution is the only one that will show the full screen. That is, if I setup X so that at 16bpp I can have 800x600 or 640x480, I'll have to pan around (using the pointer/mouse as you describe), while 800x600 will show the "entire desktop." The resolution that comes up is the one listed first in /etc/X11/Xconfig (I think that's the file Mandrake looks to when you run startx). You can view the file by running less /etc/X11/Xconfig from the ocmmand line. Here's what a part of mine looks like. -=-=- Section "Screen" Driver "SVGA" Device "My Video Card" Monitor "My Monitor" DefaultColorDepth 16 BlankTime 0 SuspendTime 0 OffTime 0 SubSection "Display" Depth8 Modes"1024x768" "800x600" Virtual 1024 768 ViewPort 0 0 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth15 Modes"1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection -=-=- The first resolution listed (as Modes) in the -- SubSection "Display" -- is the resolution that you see when Xwindow starts. If there are other resolutions listed on the line they can be achieved using the Ctl+Alt++(numberpad) that you mentioned. Thanks! John l.yn Hope that helps. Gerry
Re: [newbie] umount error
Nick Kay wrote:
At 07:36 19/04/99 -0400, you wrote:
April 19, 1999
Good Morning to all,
I have a problem unmounting CD-ROMs, floppy drives, samba mounts, etc.
When I umount anything it always tells me the device is busy, try later.'
Is there a way to get around this??
Usually this is caused by a process running that requires the mount,
most often (imho) it is bash because someone is logged and is sitting
in a directory on the mounted device.
Try "cd /", "umount /mnt/{whatever}"
hih
nick@nexnix
Ken
I had this type of problem and then on one of the newsgroups someone
mentioned the "fuser" command. man fuser may shed some light. Here is
what I got after I started listening to an audio cd with the kscd
application. (this is run from an xterm)
---
[onion@localhost onion]$ /usr/sbin/fuser -v /dev/cdrom
USERPID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/cdrom onion 900 f kscd
[onion@localhost onion]$
---
The complete pathname for fuser was used since /usr/sbin is not in the
"average" user's (onion, in this case) path. Having a musical cd-rom is
not likely to be the cause of the problem you're describing, but I think
the "fuser -v " will be useful to identify who/what's using the
particular device/file you're trying to "umount".
Hope this helps.
gerry
[newbie] RealPlayer 5.0 setup
I've got Mandrake 5.3 running pretty smoothly on a K2-166MHz with 64mb RAM, 6.4gb hdd, and a Matrox Mystique PCI card. kppp is working as is most of Netscape But RVPlayer 5.0 is not working quite the way I'd hoped. I followed directions in a "How to Use Linux Book," by Bill Ball, and although I think the book does a good job in a lot of places, the rvplayer install didn't work for me. I check the directions a couple of times and I still get error msgs on the order of "a plugin for the mime type audio/x-wav was not found" when I visit "www.hampsterdance.com" or a quick "false-load" of a recording when I click on http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/19990416.atc.04.ram which is located on http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1999/current.html -=-= Sound is setup pretty well on KDE. I can get sound effects when I move from desktop to desktop, or if I close a window, The Kmedia program worked pretty well, also. Is there a way to set that up. I got Plugger 3.0 (after seeing it mentioned in a DejaNews msg), but was only able to set it up for root, not a regular user. It will take care of the *.wav files and plays them, but I'd rather not go around as "root" to hear "wav" files. I'd very much like to be able to grab/play npr radio programs and other rvplayer .ram, .rm,... files. Help would be appreciated. Thanks gerry, York, PA
Re: [newbie] Samba
Sounds like an "encrypted password" problem. I bet when you click on the sahre in Network Neighborhood it asks for a password for the a share with "$" in it. If so, you must enable password encryption in your Samba setup. Keith wrote: Hi all, I seem to have Samba up and running after many days of pulling my hair out,and now have another problem.I can see my 2 windows machines and my linux files (i am using LinNeighborhood) and can mount and use the windoze file systems no problem.Now on my windoze boxes i can see the linux box but cannot access it,its asking for a password and i cant for the life of me find out where to put this password.Swat has no offering for a password when i set up my shared linux files.Any suggestions welcome. Thanks -- Keith
