Re: [newbie] X Question - URGENT
The problem seems to be your screen resution. X is running in 1024x768 but the screen is only running in 640x480. I suggest reconfigureing the vid card with drakeconfig. If you cant get to 1024x768 then use a generic. - Original Message - From: "Matthew Harrison" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 3:57 AM Subject: [newbie] X Question - URGENT I am running SuSE 6.0 on a 450 mhz AMD K6-2 w/ 3dnow and when X comes up it is huge. How do I specify the screen size before X loads. I set all resolutions in the X configuration to 1024-768. What is the command to load X at that size. Thank for any help. Matt
Re: [newbie] Thinkpad Disk Constantly Spinning
Check bios. The bios power management setting can override the operating system. Make sure power saveing is enabled. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 4:49 PM Subject: [newbie] Thinkpad Disk Constantly Spinning I'm running Mandrake 7.2 on an IBM Thinkpad 1412 with a 12 gig Travelstar. In the screensaver control panel I have checked "use power management", but despite this, the hard drive never spins down. I don't want to burn up the drive. Can anyone direct me toward possible solutions? Andy
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Install Problem
There are only two things that could cause this to happen. A faulty linux cd
or an unsurported cdrom. If its the disk then you will just have to get
another. If its the drive then there are a few ways arround such as
installing from a hard disk. I know those can be done but have never done
them myself.
- Original Message -
From: "Lachman, Lawrence" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 1:53 AM
Subject: [newbie] Mandrake Install Problem
I own a Plextor PX-W1210TA internal CD-RW. When I boot off of the
Mandrake 7.2
inst CD I
successfully get the page with the penguin and two choices: F1 for more
options,
Enter to continue. When I press I get the following error: "The CDROM
device
does not seem to contain a Linux Mandrake CDROM." After pressing OK the
dialog,
"Initializing CDROM..." appears, but never goes away.
CTRL+ALT+F4 yields:
4hda:PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1210A, ATAPI CDROM drive
4ide0@0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
4...autorunDONE
4VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
4hda: ATAPI32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048 Kb cache, DMA
4uniform CD-ROM driver revision: 3.11
4VFS: disc change detected on device ide0 (3,0)
4warning: defective cdrom. Enabling "cruft" mount option.
4interleaved files not (yet supported)
4file unit size != 0 for ISO file (67584).
4hda: status error: status = 0x58 {driveReady seekComplete dataRequest}
4hda: drive not ready for command
4hda: status time out: status - 0xd0 {busy}
4hda: DMA disabled, drive not ready for command
CTRL+ALT+F3 yields:
Welcome to the Mandrake install (first stage, version 7.2 built 10/23/00)
running /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/fat.o
running /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/vfat.o
PCI bridge probe: not found
Intel PCIC probe not found.
Databook TCIC-2 probe: not found
running /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/isofs.o
running /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/ide-probe.o
insmod failed!
running /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/ide-probe-mod.o
insmod failed!
running /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/cdrom.o
running /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/ide-cd.o
mounting hda on /temp/rhimage as type iso9660
creating directory /temp/rhimage rc=0
calling mount (/temp/hda, /temp/rhimage, iso9660, -1058209791, (nil))
removing device file /temp/hda
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Larry
Re: [newbie] defrag in Linux?
- Original Message - From: "John David Molina" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 9:27 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] defrag in Linux? El Martes 20 Febrero 2001 11:39, escribiste: - Windows is a virus. - I disagree. Virus DO something right. ;-) Also, virus run useing minimal resources and with tidy and efficiant code. Windows runs with all resources available and then some, and has bloted 500 meg of stuff in its directory. -- John David Molina
Re: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
Just test the stick. I know a place that sells memory testers, but yuo can do it the software way of through hardware switching. First, remove the old stick and use just the new one. Now recompile the kernel. Recompiling a kernel is one of the most memory sensitive things you can do. If that works then so far so good. Now put in your new stick only and compile again. If it fails then new stick is broken. Now both together. If it fails then the sticks are incompatable. - Original Message - From: Heather [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM On this subject of RAM incompatibility... I have a stick of RAM that someone gave me to boost me up past 64mb. When I first installed it it would do ok, but then it would get where sometimes it would show on boot up and others it wouldn't then (in evil windows since i haven't put it back after installing LM) my computer started popping up more errors and illegals than it ever had before. When I pulled the RAM it went back to normal (for windows). Is there a way for me to find out if the 2 sticks are just incompatible or if the 1 stick is just borked up?
Re: [newbie] CD ROM problems.
Its in /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab. Go in those files as root. Now change all refences to /mnt/cdrom to /mnt/cdrom2 and vice versa. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 2:15 AM Subject: [newbie] CD ROM problems. I have two CDplayers. An Atapi 50X and an IOMEGA Zip CD Writer. The CD-Writer is at '/dev/cdrom' and the CD reader us at '/dev/cdrom2' /dev/cdrom - /dev/sd0b /dev/cdrom2 - /dev/hdb How can I switch it so the /dev/cdrom is pointing to /dev/hdb and vice-versa? ~Lance
Re: [newbie] Wierd Windows Hard Drive Problem.
Ok, I think I can help here. You want to stop windows from seeing that drive? Just disable it in the bios. I know windows wont detect it then. I dont know quite how linux will respond through. I think linux wont care but the bootloader might. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 8:43 PM Subject: [newbie] Wierd Windows Hard Drive Problem. Specs: 40 GB Western Digital Hard Drive IDE, Primary Master 10 GB Western Digital Hard Drive IDE, Secondary Master 40GB Partitioned into 18, 8, 8, 8 all Fat 32 10 GB Partitioned into 250MB (swap) 8 GB (/) 1.75 GB (/root) Windows recognizes 40 GB partitions fine. It also reads the different partitions as one large partition and allows me to read from the device as if there were nothing there. I dont want access to that drive because Linux is on it, and I am afraid I will ruin the partitions some how. Windows says I have a 10GB hard drive there, it doesnt read the seperate partitions. Its wierd. I just want to not load that device in windows. Any help greatly appriciated. ~Lance
Re: [newbie] Linux dvd player
Wheh I first got linux installed, I used up the supply of party poppers I had in the draw. I got streamers everyewhere. - Original Message - From: abe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 11:39 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux dvd player videolan is REALLY REALLY BETA still. can't stop a playing track just pause it. can't change to a new track without exiting the prog and restarting it. I could never get xine to work either. It installed ok but I couldn't get it to play anythign but the occasional mpg from the web. Similarly OMS wouldn't compile on my system either. rg. I'm gonna through a party when I can play a dvd in linux. Abe goldenpi wrote: I cant get it to compile :( I get hundreds of errors in the source. Probably something with my version of gcc. I can never get anything to compile. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 4:56 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux dvd player Xine is running well instead it is only in the 0.37 release http://xine.sourceforge.net. OMS seem to have still problems. I am waiting to use videoland(www.videoland.org) some people said that it is also good. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: "Curtis Von Lintel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Viernes, Febrero 16, 2001 11:29 pm Asunto: [newbie] Linux dvd player Anybody tried it yet. I know it only became offical today..but still after a year there has to be a few people getting it running today. Heres the linkage http://www.linuxvideo.org/news/ Curtis
Re: [newbie] winmodems, cdrw and dvd
raw device? Explain? I thought it worked from the moounted directory, does it need a symlink or something? - Original Message - From: abe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 12:17 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] winmodems, cdrw and dvd I just got Xine working last night. I had to use a raw device for it. Check out the FAQ on thier website for how to do it. Good luck! Abe goldenpi wrote: I got it. Unfortunatly, it doesn't work. I put in a dvd, press the control on xine labeled dvd, and nothing happens. If I try for long enough xine gives a segmentation fault and I get another core dump. I think the problem is related to either my dvd being slaved to my cdrw or my sound card not being set up. But xine runs at least. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 3:18 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] winmodems, cdrw and dvd For dvd play, better use xine (http://xine.sourceforge.net) and the css plugin.Yesterday I wached "The lost world" fine! Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: Paul Rodrguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Domingo, Febrero 18, 2001 4:01 pm Asunto: RE: [newbie] winmodems, cdrw and dvd Haven't tried it yet. But this is supposed to play DVD's on linux: http://www.linuxvideo.org/news/ -Paul R -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of carjam Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 10:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] winmodems, cdrw and dvd I got linux going on my good computer at last. Dad will probably kill me when he finds out where the 4 gig of his drive has gone through :( A few minor problems through. I have a winmodem. I saw someone give a link a while ago to a page whichgives instruction for getting some winmodems to work. Where is it? The cdrw. Again, people keep mantioning a page which gives instructions but I dont know where it is. the dvd drive. Does linux play dvds? I cant seem to find a dvd player rpm on any of my 3 linux cds. Are there any available? Or does the css code stop them? The sound card. Sndconfig detects it but says it is not supported. I tried sndconfig --noprobe and used every setting I thought might work but nothingwill go. I tried upgradeing alsa (is that the right package) but it says I need a newer kernel and I have no idea how to upgrade it. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] winmodems, cdrw and dvd
I got it. Unfortunatly, it doesn't work. I put in a dvd, press the control on xine labeled dvd, and nothing happens. If I try for long enough xine gives a segmentation fault and I get another core dump. I think the problem is related to either my dvd being slaved to my cdrw or my sound card not being set up. But xine runs at least. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 3:18 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] winmodems, cdrw and dvd For dvd play, better use xine (http://xine.sourceforge.net) and the css plugin.Yesterday I wached "The lost world" fine! Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: Paul Rodrguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Domingo, Febrero 18, 2001 4:01 pm Asunto: RE: [newbie] winmodems, cdrw and dvd Haven't tried it yet. But this is supposed to play DVD's on linux: http://www.linuxvideo.org/news/ -Paul R -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of carjam Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 10:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] winmodems, cdrw and dvd I got linux going on my good computer at last. Dad will probably kill me when he finds out where the 4 gig of his drive has gone through :( A few minor problems through. I have a winmodem. I saw someone give a link a while ago to a page whichgives instruction for getting some winmodems to work. Where is it? The cdrw. Again, people keep mantioning a page which gives instructions but I dont know where it is. the dvd drive. Does linux play dvds? I cant seem to find a dvd player rpm on any of my 3 linux cds. Are there any available? Or does the css code stop them? The sound card. Sndconfig detects it but says it is not supported. I tried sndconfig --noprobe and used every setting I thought might work but nothingwill go. I tried upgradeing alsa (is that the right package) but it says I need a newer kernel and I have no idea how to upgrade it. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] upgrade kernel?
Various. Missing packages and libs mainly. But dad is already annoyed that I took 4 gig of his drive for linux and he wont let me have any more. I have 1 gig free and I will need that for temp files and cd images when I get my cdrw working. - Original Message - From: Paul Rodrguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 11:41 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] upgrade kernel? What problems are you having when you try to compile. -Paul R -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of goldenpi Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 6:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] upgrade kernel? Can a kernal be upgraded through rpms? or does it need to be compiled? I have trouble with compileing anything, and I need a new kernal to upgrade alsa to (hopefully) get sound which will (hopefuly)let me watch dvds. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Lilo Grub??
You keep grub. You need it. Its a required package. You dont have to use it through. To switch to lilo, just run /sbin/lilo. Its a bit of a mystery why you still get grub. Send me /etc/lilo.conf and I will see what I can do. - Original Message - From: Meph Istopheles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 4:42 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo Grub?? Hey, I usually install 7.1 with grub. Then I get my 7.2 disk and upgrade all the rpms myself. Then I switch to lilo. And how did ~you~ make the switch to lilo? I'd followed the instructions on grub's site to "...just run /sbin/lilo" Sure, I now get a initial lilo screen asking how I want to boot, but I still get grup at the second stage boot. Though I've not just deleted all grub files, I did try removing it via the package manager. I stopped though, it wanted to remove all the base system files in addition to grub. What's that about? And how ~should~ I get rid of grub? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Bad Scare! Hard drive jumped from case into trash bin.
Sounds like its going. You can keep it, but backup frequently. oh, run fsck on all partitions. Run scandisk through on all fat partitions. Scan it well. Quantum fireball. I got one of those :( - Original Message - From: David Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 6:13 PM Subject: [newbie] Bad Scare! Hard drive jumped from case into trash bin. Hello, Well not quite, but is sure sounded like it was trying to escape! I was running netscape with several windows open (probably not hitting swap) and suddenly the normal brrrp brrrp type sounds that comes from my hard drive chaged to a loud and alarming RRRIP WHAK IP WHAK this cycle repeated from about 25 seconds. The system was pretty well locked up at this point, I could move the mouse but KDE was locked tight. I hit the reset switch and then after the bios screen I got a message that the HD was not ready and that I should insert a floppy if I wanted to boot. :-( Didn't want to do that so I hit the power switch and let the thing sit for a minute then tried it again. This time the system came up normally, fsck made some repairs, but it didn't seem like it did anything more than it has on a couple of other occassions after the power has gone out unexpectedly. Anyhow, I am using the system now and it seems fine. Any ideas what could have caused this? Is my new hard drive on the fast track to the trash heap? Or could I have simply hit a nasty bug is some bit of software and it through my drive into convulsions? BTW I did backup my data and some config files. The drive: 30GB EIDE ULTRA-ATA 66 3.5LP QUANTUM FIREBALL Plus LM [root@crank david]# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) nowerr = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 3649/255/63, sectors = 58633344, start = 0 Thanks Much David Nelson
Re: [newbie] Lilo Grub??
I usually install 7.1 with grub. Then I get my 7.2 disk and upgrade all the rpms myself. Then I switch to lilo. - Original Message - From: Moe Pacal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 12:05 AM Subject: [newbie] Lilo Grub?? Hello I tried installing rh7.0 but it corrupted my mbr. I then tried installing Mandrake 72 everything appears to go well but the autoloader section is skipped and of course I do not have the option of choosing lilo or grub. If I try to force the autoloader by clicking on it at times it does giev me the option of choosing grub (or lilo) where I than add the linux and win partitions but when I hit ok it says there is an error and no other info. Thanks for any help.
Re: [newbie] modem config
ATS0 I think. Something like that. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 12:22 AM Subject: [newbie] modem config Can anyone tell me what the commands to give to my modem would be to bypass the voicemail tones?? Because I have tried to insert pauses into my script to wait til it gets to the dial tone but that still doesnt work... Any ideas?? Perseus
Re: [newbie] Linux dvd player
I cant get it to compile :( I get hundreds of errors in the source. Probably something with my version of gcc. I can never get anything to compile. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 4:56 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux dvd player Xine is running well instead it is only in the 0.37 release http://xine.sourceforge.net. OMS seem to have still problems. I am waiting to use videoland(www.videoland.org) some people said that it is also good. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: "Curtis Von Lintel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Viernes, Febrero 16, 2001 11:29 pm Asunto: [newbie] Linux dvd player Anybody tried it yet. I know it only became offical today..but still after a year there has to be a few people getting it running today. Heres the linkage http://www.linuxvideo.org/news/ Curtis
[newbie] upgrade kernel?
Can a kernal be upgraded through rpms? or does it need to be compiled? I have trouble with compileing anything, and I need a new kernal to upgrade alsa to (hopefully) get sound which will (hopefuly)let me watch dvds.
Re: [newbie] Boot disks only
under windows the command "fdisk /mbr" will remove all bootloaders and put back windows. Remember to make the bootdisk first. I have a similar problem with my dad now. Heres a suggestion. Install lilo with windows as default and a one second timeout. Then you can still boot linux to make a replacement bootdisk when you lose it. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 4:19 PM Subject: [newbie] Boot disks only I don't know if I'm in the right forum for this I'm trying to install a variety of Linux systems onto a 30 GB HD which is in Primary Slave position. I may be wrong on this but there seems to be no option to NOT install a booter during a Linux installation. Each Linux installs its own booter either LILO or GRUB and in some cases, both.. The resulting mix of booters has resulted in problems which seem to depend on which o ne was installed last. It also causes problems when I try to make changes such as rearranging the boot menu or adding or removing a Linux system. My computer is also used by a few other people who run Windows only and I do not want a menu available to them to get a Linux up. I want Windows as a default and all Linux boots to be done with a separate floppy for each version. How does one install Operating Systems that are completely independent of each other? .
Re: [newbie] missing swap file
Swap partition must be set up in /etc/fstab. If you set it up during install the installer should have done it. Windows doesn't come with partitioning tools. 95 and 98 come with fdisk which doesn't work on ext2 or swap partitions and millenium doesn't come with anything. - Original Message - From: Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 4:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] missing swap file On Wednesday 31 January 2001 09:01 pm, The Conways wrote: When I use the KDE control center and look at some of the memory properties, it shows 0 swap memory available. what does (run from a terminal) 'free' say ? How much physical ram? ..and how big a swap? FWIW I use 256 hard/ 80 swap, -0- of which is used. Before I installed Mandrake 7.2, I used a 3rd party disk partitioning utility. Prob'ly not a good idea, both Windoze and Linux come with all the partitioning tools needed, and it's much better to use them. 3rd party tools including the often touted 'Partition Magic' are just 'sell 'em to masses kludges', as are IMNSO most all 3rd party tools. I created a swap partition, so I know it is there. Why would it not be recognized? Is it possible to choose the partition that LM 7.2 uses for the swap file? Or is the memory really there and the mistake is being made by KDE? Maybe this problem is related to my video problems! doubt it. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] disk partitions
did you change the partition in /etc/fstab? - Original Message - From: Quaylar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 3:24 PM Subject: [newbie] disk partitions hi all... short question regarding disk partitions. as my original 500 MB /usr partition was too small i decided to use a 1GB scsi disk for my new /usr. i made a 1:1 copy of my /usr partition using norton ghost, extending the partition on the scsi disk to 1GB. now i mounted the partition on the scsi disk as /usr expecting it to be 1 GB, i issued a df and got: 1k-blocks used available use% mounted on /dev/sdb1524292 509100 0 100 /usr (skipping the /dev/hda1) when i do a fdisk /dev/sdb i get : /dev/sdb1 1-1017 1054598+83 Linux so it seems that i have indeed a 1 GB partition on my 1 GB scsi disk--but df says that its only 500 MB ..how is this possible ? thx for any advice. --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power
Re: [newbie] Can anyone tell me the byte size on a DL ISO burned toCD?
BIG. usually between 600 and 650 meg. It took me weeks to get it over my modem. - Original Message - From: Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 5:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can anyone tell me the byte size on a DL ISO burned toCD? Aren't those around 600MB? Original Message On 2/2/01, 9:28:33 AM, "Matt Schroeder" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Can anyone tell me the byte size on a DL ISO burned to CD?: Can anyone tell me the byte size on a downloaded ISO burned to CD? How about the extras disc as well? Thanks!
Re: [newbie] CD burning mystery...
Nope. Be a slob. Change the timeout to 16 seconds and forget about it :) - Original Message - From: nlilly To: Newbie Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 5:24 AM Subject: [newbie] CD burning mystery... OK. So I've installed 7.2 on a machine that previously ran 7.1. It has installed an ide Mitsume 2/4x CD rom burner. After causing the the kernal to run the burner under scsi emulation, the cd burner now works! One issue, however. After burning the cd, and during the post-fixing stage of cdrecord, the drive experiences an input/output error which locks up the drive until it times out 6 minutes later. Then the drive is fine and the cd is finished and fine. Any idea what is happening? -- North Lilly Lan Administrator School of Library and Information Science Kent State University 330-672-2782 The Goddess is Alive and Magic is Afoot!
Re: [newbie] Zip Drive, Part II
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 1:20 AM Subject: [newbie] Zip Drive, Part II I had to set up my zip 100 drive after 7.2 install to be able to mount and umount at will. I followed the guide at http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/mountzip.html I used the part added by jim C. Hope this helps. Tried all the advie, but none of it helped. Both my /mnt/zip and /mnt/cdrom2 (my cd-rw that also won't work) are "locked" directories. How do I "unlock" these pesky *%$#@...? Mike Riffle They are both scsi. You have to mount them as such. its /dev/sd?? for scsi stuff. Zip drives are always on partition 4 (sd?4). This is a good chance to laugh at m$ outlook express email-address regognition feature. Morgantown, WV USA http://web.mountain.net/~kneiper/rifrak.htm Montani Semper Liberi NRA NMLRA Friends of Fort Frederick Prickett's Fort Memorial Foundation
Re: [newbie] LILO
After editing lilo.conf you have to rewrite lilo before the changes have any effect. To rewrite lilo just run "lilo" as root. - Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 9:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] LILO On Friday 05 January 2001 02:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, LILO isn't behaving the way I'd like it to. After 5 seconds it boots Linux by default. What I want to happen is for Win98 to boot by default after 20 seconds. I've read up on LILO in Running Linux and made the changes it suggested to /etc/lilo.conf. Does Mandrake use another file to configure LILO? Here is what my /etc/lilo.conf file looks like. #This file has been generated by KLILO snip *** default=windows *** snip This ought'a be a BIG hint ; -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] apache log = /dev/tty8
I just changed all my apache logs to /dev/tty8. I use it to show off the latest version of my website in irc :). I need to know when people look so I thought it would be a good idea to send the logs to tty8. It wounded like a good idea. The logs go there but they dont show until I kill apache. It is inconvenient restarting apache whenever I want to see if anyone has looked. If there any way to make the logs show up as they are writen?
Re: [newbie] zip driver permissions
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, you wrote: Dear All, I have Linux-Mandrake 7.2 and I had my internal Atapi zip drive supermounted and it was working fine until recently. As user all of a sudden I cannot copy a file into my zip. I can take them out and place them unto my desktop but I cannot place a file into my zip. As root I can do it but not as user. It was working fine until a week ago and I did nothing to change it. What do I need to do manually in either fstab or through Linuxconf to make this work for user again? I have attached a screenshot of my fstab file. I have tried changing permissions with chmod, Linuxconf,etc. and nothing has worked. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Marcia Content-Type: image/png; name="fstab.png" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description: Firstly, I suggers you attach the file rather than a screenshot of it. its much smaller. As for the problem, the files you might need to change the settings on are /dev/sd*, /mnt/zip. I would just set the other permissions on those. the command is (as root): chmod o+rwx /dev/sd* chmod o+rwx /mnt/zip see if that does anything. This will gice everyone write access to all your scsi devies as a side-effect.# And lasty, a problem of mine. Once again kmail is slowing everything down to the point where there is a 5 second delay between me pushing abbutton and anything happening on screen. Why? It makes typeing very hard and spelling even harder/ -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
I heard rumers. Perhaps microsoft has realised people can use f8 to get to dos and want to remove that so they can chage $10,000 to send a repair man with a boot disk over when it goes wrong. On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, you wrote: There's an update to Millennium coming out later this year. I think it's name is Whistler. goldenpi wrote: Give it time. I have just seen windows millenium and I can assure you it will not last. It is awful. It is slow. It takes up half my hard drive and then its optional parts take the rest. And it doesn't work. Windows 2k however is here to stay. I haven't seen it running but I have heard of it. On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, you wrote: - Original Message - From: David Raleigh Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux I am locked into bad mouse support by 2-button mouse users. Linux mouse support is hardly configurable at all. I have seen the sawfish mouse dialog. Ridiculous. Very true indeed. Kde should build a special mouse driver for mice that have a scrol wheel and side buttons. Mine has four buttons and a scroll wheel. And the people who make the mice should write software for linux also. After all there are a lot of people using linux today. I feel that if every one using linux sent email to the logitech company asking for drivers/software for there products then they might do something about it. i just bought a new printer, a lexmark Z32 because they have drivers for linux. And the Z52 has drivers for linux also. My mouse is a ms intelli mouse explorer and whith the software for windoze I can get the buttons to do what ever I want them to do, and I can change the icons as well. But I bought it because it does not have a ball in it and can use it as either ps2 or usb. I also feel that linux should have surport for IDE CD Burners, not just SCSI. Regards Anthony Daniell -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Winme is unfixable. If you accidently lose the drivers for the video card you cant fix it from dos. Dos does nothing. You cant reboot in dos, you cant even get to a dos prompt. I wonder how you pass command line stuff? On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, you wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2000 03:06, you wrote: There's an update to Millennium coming out later this year. I think it's name is Whistler. Yeah...that short for "Whistle friggin dixie while you wait for ever for your computer to stinkin work correctly cause this OS sucks!" I'm sorry. Win 95B is a good one and 98SE isn't too bad as long as you keep the registry squeeky clean; NT4.0 with "all" the service pack installed and kept clean will run well too, but WinME is a joke! What were they thinking? Sorry to the list cause this ain't a windows forum. Nowdie...thread DIE! :) -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds -- ====== Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux
In other words, nothing will work. Anything that would not work under nt will nt work under whistler. Then m$ can start chargeing for all sorts of unneeded patches. On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, you wrote: Whistler is no an "update" to Windows ME. It is the complete replacement of all previous "consumer" Windows versions (Win95, Win98, WinME) with a Windows NT based code source. What this means for Microsoft is that all "markets" - consumer, workstation and server - will have the same code base. Some of the GUI shell stuff will be different between the consumer and workstation/server versions no doubt, but the core OS will be NT based. Cheers and Happy New Year to all, Rick -Original Message- From: Romanator Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 7:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux There's an update to Millennium coming out later this year. I think it's name is Whistler. goldenpi wrote: Give it time. I have just seen windows millenium and I can assure you it will . .. .. -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Look at this number sequence: 512k 1m 4m 8m 32m see how quickly it goes up? They are the memory requirements for windows. dos would word with 512k. windows 3.11 needed 4 meg. windows 95 needed 8 meg. Windows 98 needed 32Meg. Whistler will need so much people will have to buy more. And look at processers: dos : 8086 win3.11 : 80286 win95 : 80386 win98 : unknown win me : 166MHz thats enough that I managed to fty my laptop processor when I tried to overclock it and run windows me. It cost £25 for a new pentium 166. On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, you wrote: Romanator wrote: Revenant wrote: Clarification: Millenium is MS eking the last $$$ it can out of the dying Win9x OS. Whistler will be what Win2000 was supposed to be - the fusion of the NT line with the Win9x line. It is supposed to be a very different beast to the Win9x line, including ME... Have you noticed that the OS is getting bigger and bigger? They are pushing our resources to their limits. shrug Our resource limits are increasing. Most software aims to take maximum advantage of the hardware available. Now that the industry standard machine is a PIII, I'd be disappointed if the OS didn't have additional functionality. That said, Windows *does* seem to have more than its fair share of bloat... Society Design Mailing List http://www.egroups.com/group/Society_Design For any and all aspects of designing societies, from discussion of real- world utopian ideas to fantastic fictional or roleplaying worlds. ---Revenant [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, you wrote: ok, here is the real question: why do people try running linux?, the impression i had gathered was that it was a lighter os and could be used on older machines, (i386 etc). I was a little dismayed when i saw the download size. How much disk space will a bare install need? David and Alicia yep. But dont expect to have a lot. You probably wouldn't be able to fit in xwindows. The smallest linux will run on a 386, 4mi ram and no hdd. Would mandrake run on a p60, 540 mb hd, ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Revenant Sent: 29 December 2000 10:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] basic question Define "faster than windows". Using KDE I've noticed there is quite often a noticable delay waiting for windows to appear - far longer than in windows. Herman Christiani wrote: Hi, Yes, you can and it will run faster then windows, but you forgot to mention the amount of ram? Linux likes it's ram, the more the better. On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, you wrote: Dear all, Can i install mandrake on my (shame) p200mmx 3.3gig machine? will it run apps faster than windoze bloatware? David and Alicia Society Design Mailing List http://www.egroups.com/group/Society_Design For any and all aspects of designing societies, from discussion of real- world utopian ideas to fantastic fictional or roleplaying worlds. ---Revenant [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please
Its also more stable ebcause a small crash in windows will take the system with it. Under linux the same small crash will take down the application but will leave everything else untouched. If you accidentially put your program into an endless loop you can just switch console and kill it. - Original Message - From: Revenant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 12:37 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 29 December 2000 04:41 am, David and Alicia wrote: ok, here is the real question: why do people try running linux?, the impression i had gathered was that it was a lighter os and could be used on older machines, (i386 etc). I was a little dismayed when i saw the download size. How much disk space will a bare install need? From zero (you can run Linux on a floppy) to as much as you care to let it have. Keep in mind that only the kernel is Linux, everything else is (GNU) applications and the various configs, libraries, etc, that they need. Read /. and you'll hear of people running Linux on a wristwatch ;) Some bloke got it going on a Dreamcast too. My reasons for running Linux: (1) It's free (as in beer, not speech). And not just the OS, but the software. The GIMP alone saves you $1,000+ over using Photoshop. (2) It's free (as in speech, not beer). (3) "It's more stable". In my experience, what this has meant is that the OS won't glitch or die on you for no discernable reason - but it can and will glitch or die on you for reasons that are obscure at best to the newbie. Essentially, Linux will let you into its guts to fix the problem when something goes wrong while Windows doesn't. I hope to learn enough to take advantage of that. Society Design Mailing List http://www.egroups.com/group/Society_Design For any and all aspects of designing societies, from discussion of real- world utopian ideas to fantastic fictional or roleplaying worlds. ---Revenant [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] --
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
I installed 98 after melting my P200MMX in the laptop. I just wanted to get it up to 166. It should have worked but I didn't know the core voltage was too high. I thought it was just a cooling problem and tried to fix it by stuffing the heatsink with thermal paste. I ended up buying a p166 with my birthday money and that will do 166 easy. So now I have bindows 98 on it. I want to put on mandrake 7.1 but the hard drive is only 1 gig. I need 98 for school. They insist I use a popular word processor and that means word. Soon as I get enough for a bigger drive its getting linux. - Original Message - From: Mark Hillary [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the install. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Look at this number sequence: 512k 1m 4m 8m 32m see how quickly it goes up? They are the memory requirements for windows. dos would word with 512k. windows 3.11 needed 4 meg. windows 95 needed 8 meg. Windows 98 needed 32Meg. Whistler will need so much people will have to buy more. And look at processers: dos : 8086 win3.11 : 80286 win95 : 80386 win98 : unknown win me : 166MHz thats enough that I managed to fty my laptop processor when I tried to overclock it and run windows me. It cost £25 for a new pentium 166. On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, you wrote: Romanator wrote: Revenant wrote: Clarification: Millenium is MS eking the last $$$ it can out of the dying Win9x OS. Whistler will be what Win2000 was supposed to be - the fusion of the NT line with the Win9x line. It is supposed to be a very different beast to the Win9x line, including ME... Have you noticed that the OS is getting bigger and bigger? They are pushing our resources to their limits. shrug Our resource limits are increasing. Most software aims to take maximum advantage of the hardware available. Now that the industry standard machine is a PIII, I'd be disappointed if the OS didn't have additional functionality. That said, Windows *does* seem to have more than its fair share of bloat... Society Design Mailing List http://www.egroups.com/group/Society_Design For any and all aspects of designing societies, from discussion of real- world utopian ideas to fantastic fictional or roleplaying worlds. ---Revenant [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- -- ====== Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please
Win95 will run on a 386. I dont know if it will install on a 386 through. I once had 95 running on a 386 with 8 mi ram. I got the hard drive second hand with windows on it. Then I just had to put it in and turn on. - Original Message - From: Mark Hillary [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 2:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please My install of mandrake 7.2 with KDE2 and stuff was about 400Mb. 400Mb, for 400mb I had a system that booted into a GUI (KDE), and office package and a second word prossecer (Koffice and abiword). Loads of games and internet stuff. Compare that to windows for 300mb you can install a bear system, then add office on that and all of the other little programs that you like and you can see that for systems of comparable usablity that linux is smaller. You have to remember that linux is a network and develporer OS so when you look at that download size you have to realise that there are loads of develpoment tools (devel libaries), server programs (Aphace), and loads of other times that the normal desktop user will never need. The other reasons for using it is that it is more stable (as long as your not a kernel developer or such like), and to be free of the closed source compaines (Its that moral bit). Also if you want to see the insides of your system you can do that. When you read things saying linux can be run on i386's you have to remember that when refering to linux you are talking about the kernel, and yes the kernel (and other programs) can be run on a i386 but not all of them. Linux is great for reusing old bits of hardware, setting up firewalls or just a computer that you can attach extra stuff to. It is great for stuff like that. With win 98 the install program won't even allow it to be installed on a P166. Any I will stop rambering now Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please Paul wrote: ok, here is the real question: why do people try running linux?, the impression i had gathered was that it was a lighter os and could be used on older machines, (i386 etc). I was a little dismayed when i saw the download size. How much disk space will a bare install need? David and Alicia Hi, Most people that 'try' running linux have probably not read enough about it to know what is possible and how to do it. Millions of people run Linux and are happy with it. Progress is made in all areas, in the development of linux, Windows, and hardware. If the hardware gets more potent, then the OS's of that timeframe will grow along with that. You can indeed run Linux on a 386, but you can not expect to take all the advantages of the new OS-technology using old hardware-technology. Mandrake is optimized for Pentium class processors, not i386. Redhat is compiled for i386, and when you use RH5.2 (from which, if I am not mistaken, Mandrake originated) or RH6.0, that will run nicely on an I386. You can not install everything, but a basic system with some Xwindow support should be possible on your specs of i386 with 540mb. Even with 8 megs of RAM, this should function. (Not 'run', but 'walk'.) Compare what you need for a basic mandrake installation with a bare Xwindow system, and windows95, and you may not find much difference. Using Linux made me microsoft independent, free of blue screens of death, DLL's in all forms and shapes and versions, an uninterpretable registry file, and the power to influence the system and repair it when it breaks down. Windows does not let me do that. If you seek the ease of windows, being taken by the hand by wizards which make all the decisions for you, then windows is what you want. If you want to be able to use your computer by what you put in it yourself, then you can go with Linux. (My expression of thoughts entirely of course.) Paul Good ol' DLLS. Once of the major causes of many Windows crashes. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] small question
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, you wrote: As I am typeing this I am thinking of two small errors I just had while getting email. The first is a missing charset error./ Easy to fix if I could just find the dialog to set up fonts. The OOther is this speed. Now I am getting email something is makeing the computer hang fot a fere seconds before anything happens. As I type nothing appearso nt the screen for about 5 secds. That is why my typeing is dso bad. Just wondering what could be causeing these slow downs.. I just had to reinstall linux after bindows refused to upgrade without a full install and I forgot to unplug my linux drives. Final problem is my 8 gig windows partiton, hdb9. Windows wont see it because my linux partitions come before it. I could fix the problem but not without completly reformating and repatritinh 3 for my drives. scratch that network one. I just set it up and found it only has 2mi ram. It can take up to for if I add some 30 pin sims (whiich I have in the loft :)) but thats still barely enough to run loaf. And the hard drive controler is non-existant. Now that I thyink about it I have one more. I have just gotten my ncrishtmas money and it is going towards a new network card. Is there anything I should know before I plugin this card (isa, bnc) in here. Another will go in an old 386 8mi ram which will be used as a fileserver and for some work im doing with distributed computing. th4e server will be running linux and will be running only on remote admin via telnet and ftp soon as Im done with some surgury on the keyboard controler. -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
[newbie] small question
As I am typeing this I am thinking of two small errors I just had while getting email. The first is a missing charset error./ Easy to fix if I could just find the dialog to set up fonts. The OOther is this speed. Now I am getting email something is makeing the computer hang fot a fere seconds before anything happens. As I type nothing appearso nt the screen for about 5 secds. That is why my typeing is dso bad. Just wondering what could be causeing these slow downs.. I just had to reinstall linux after bindows refused to upgrade without a full install and I forgot to unplug my linux drives. Final problem is my 8 gig windows partiton, hdb9. Windows wont see it because my linux partitions come before it. I could fix the problem but not without completly reformating and repatritinh 3 for my drives. Now that I thyink about it I have one more. I have just gotten my ncrishtmas money and it is going towards a new network card. Is there anything I should know before I plugin this card (isa, bnc) in here. Another will go in an old 386 8mi ram which will be used as a fileserver and for some work im doing with distributed computing. th4e server will be running linux and will be running only on remote admin via telnet and ftp soon as Im done with some surgury on the keyboard controler.
Re: [newbie] Installation with older Bios
The 3 golden rules of linux. 1. Dont turn off at the switch or plug. Linux doesn't like that :) 2. If it crashes, hold down control-alt-f2 to get to a console where you can fix it. 3. Remember, as long as you are not root nothing you do can mess it up. So feel free to mess with whatever you want :-) On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, you wrote: Donald Munson wrote: OK well I took the plunge and let Mandrake load onto the drive. I told it to erase the Dos partition and load to the entire drive. The setup went OK (I think?). Now when I boot to Linux I get a command line prompt (grub). What is this and how do I boot into the graphical interface. Don Hi Don, While looking at the Grub menu, select Linux and press the Enter key. Another option is to let it count down from 5 seconds and your Linux box will begin checking, then boot up to the graphical interface. I usually let Linux start up by itself. Welcome to our humble club. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 High Energy Penguin Powered Email -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
Re: [newbie] 1024 cylinder limit
I have the same arrangement. Hda for windows, hdb for linux and hda for windows. I also have 8 gig of hdb for windows but it wont see it because it comes after a linux partition. On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, you wrote: Jake, You may also consider a different partitioning strategy: * 1 or 2 GB to Windoze for _just_ the OS * The next 3 or more GB to Linux * The rest to Windoze I do this for three reasons: 1) I never have to worry about the 1024 cylinder limit. 2) It makes back-up of my Windoze OS extremely small (less than 400 MB), fast, and simple. 3) It forces me to put all the important files that usually ends up on my desktop (read: my OS partition since the desktop is really a subdirectory in C:\Windows) onto the other partition. So should anything happen to my OS partition (like two weeks ago) all my data is safe on the other partition. And BTW, setting the Windoze OS partition to a gig still gives you a good 300 MB to work with. The first reason has been eliminated with Mandrake 7.2, I believe. But if Windoze gets hosed, this partitioning scheme lets me get back on track within two minutes, without any loss of data. Miark Hello, I bought Linux Mandrake 7.0 months ago, and now I'm reading up trying to figure out how to use it. I've look at the documentation on the Mandrake page, the Instillation How-To, the Win95+Linux How- To, and a few others. Some of them mention that with some distributions of Linux, on some computers, bootable partitions must completely reside below the 1024th cylinder. How do I know if I need to have my Linux boot partition below the 1024th cylinder when partitioning my drive? I bought Partition Magic to help with the partitioning. Thanks, Jake -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Give it time. I have just seen windows millenium and I can assure you it will not last. It is awful. It is slow. It takes up half my hard drive and then its optional parts take the rest. And it doesn't work. Windows 2k however is here to stay. I haven't seen it running but I have heard of it. On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, you wrote: - Original Message - From: David Raleigh Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux I am locked into bad mouse support by 2-button mouse users. Linux mouse support is hardly configurable at all. I have seen the sawfish mouse dialog. Ridiculous. Very true indeed. Kde should build a special mouse driver for mice that have a scrol wheel and side buttons. Mine has four buttons and a scroll wheel. And the people who make the mice should write software for linux also. After all there are a lot of people using linux today. I feel that if every one using linux sent email to the logitech company asking for drivers/software for there products then they might do something about it. i just bought a new printer, a lexmark Z32 because they have drivers for linux. And the Z52 has drivers for linux also. My mouse is a ms intelli mouse explorer and whith the software for windoze I can get the buttons to do what ever I want them to do, and I can change the icons as well. But I bought it because it does not have a ball in it and can use it as either ps2 or usb. I also feel that linux should have surport for IDE CD Burners, not just SCSI. Regards Anthony Daniell -- == Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round geek.
Re: [newbie] Installation with older Bios
I had that once on a 386. this worked for me but is very hardware-specific: 1. find the geomatry settings for the disk 2. set it up as usr done. Probly wont work. - Original Message - From: Donald Munson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 25, 2000 6:58 PM Subject: [newbie] Installation with older Bios I have an older Pentium 90 that will not fully see a 2.1 GB HD. I have formatted the HD cleanly and the BIOS will only see the first 504 MB. I have read in the archives that it is not recommended to install Linux using a HD overlay. Is it possible to install 7.2 and then reformat the remaining portions of the HD to get the full benefit of the 2.1 GB? I would really appreciate any assistance. I don't want to give this up and I don't want to have to buy a new motherboard and components just to install Linux. Don
Re: [newbie] Microsoft's idea of risk
What do you get if you not only use but also copy and sell it? Windows 95 and 98 disks have the words "please do not make pirate copies of this disk" on them. Nice try m$. - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 1:46 PM Subject: [newbie] Microsoft's idea of risk From http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15101.html Microsoft urges people not to use the Internet By: Kieren McCarthy Posted: 29/11/2000 at 17:10 GMT Finding out what exactly Microsoft is thinking is harder than getting blood out of a stone or a coherent sentence out your grandma, but work hard enough... The Beast of Redmond has put an online form on its Web site that will tell you what sort of risk you are running of having obtained unlicensed or pirated software. Which is nice. Depending on how you answer, M$ will give you a low, medium or high-risk rating. So we had a play around to determine exactly what Microsoft saw as risky behaviour. Unsurprisingly, if you buy all your software off Microsoft, have all the licences at hand and also purchase upgrade licences, client access licences and purchasing licences, then you are at low-risk. Deviate much from this and you enter medium risk. Your software is pre-installed (keeping all the other answers the same)? Medium risk. Your IT department installed it? Medium risk. You're not sure that you have licences for every piece of software? High risk straight away. You don't know exactly how many workstations your company has? From Low to High risk in one fell swoop. However, of most interest to us were the Internet options. It would seem that Microsoft - despite everything it says - doesn't trust the Internet at all. In answer to the question "How did you acquire the software installed on your workstations/servers?", three of the ten options concern the Net. These are: Internet acquisition - On-line Store, On-line Auction and Downloaded from Internet. Select any of these three and you are immediately sent from a Low risk situation to a High risk one. So there you have it - Microsoft doesn't want you to use the Internet. We'd always suspected. Update Incidentally, don't bother to try the quiz out if you are using anything but Internet Explorer. Such is the complexity of running a simple quiz that only a product as amazing as Explorer can deal with it. Good to see Microsoft hasn't changed. ® Related Link MS' online form (try it yourself - you'll be Medium risk) http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/samguide/atrisk/default.asp
Re: [newbie] At last my Pavilion sound is working!
All is not well. My sound works now but is very quiet. I have all the mixesettings at 100. Any ideas? - Original Message - From: goldenpi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 6:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] At last my Pavilion sound is working! By coincidence I just got mine going too on my pavilion. But I traced the problem to a completly different place. I entered the wrong IRQ. As far as I can tell the weird card doesn't have a normal irq. Windows uses 5 and everything works but linux needs 7. I put windows on 7 and no sound. Of course I have yet to hear any actual sound because the leads that connect my pc to my sterio are put in the loft while I decorate. But Sndconfig doesn't give an error anymore. Mark Weaver wrote: Great to "hear" Rick! Glad you could get it going. -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so they can be kicked over the side and drowned! * * REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496 */ *REPLY SEPERATOR* On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 rick had this to say! Special thanks to Mark Weaver and sSpoonman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])! Some history first. I have never gotten the sound to work on my son's HP Pavilion 3265. Both the installation procecure and sounddrake failed to detect the on-board audio. A few months ago I put my son's original Win98 HD back in ran the control panel system applet. Scribbled a few notes about the sound "card" and yanked it back out. Never did much after that - just got busy and then lost the paper with the info. Mark and I had a brief e-mail exchange relative to the "gates gets Linux" thread and sound on the Pavilion came up. He felt it might have been an interrupt conflict. I figured I would check it out, maybe after Christmas. But after coming home tonight and checking my mail there was entry in [newbie] from Spoonman with subject = "RE: [newbie] Crystal 4235." Bingo! The nickel dropped as I was pretty sure that had been the name of the sound chip in the Pavilion. So *made* the time to tear the system apart and put the WIn98 HD back in. Sure enough the sound system was "Crystal PnP Audio". H not "4235" or some other number. But I took a flashlight and magnifying glass and checked out the chips. One was labeled "Cyrstal CX4237-X03". Close enough for me. This time I took down *all* the information in the WIn98 Control System applet through. Then yanked the WIn98 drive and put back the Mandrake 7.1 HD. Logged on as root and ran soundrake. It couldn't see anything bit I hit the OK button and it came up and gave me a list. Under Crystal there was 4232 and 4236. Hmmm, what the heck, 4236 is close enough to 4237. Selected that and got a dialog box. made changes to the DMA channel. Hit the test button - nada. Doh!! No speakers. Yanked an old pair of LabTec MCS-600s from the junk box and plugged them in. Hit the test button again - this time something muffled that sounded like speech. Cranked up the volume and tried again - it *was* speech albeit pretty muffled. Said "close enough" and hit the OK button. Put in a CD and am listening to the Bach Brandenbergs on a Synthesizer! Ahhh... life is good. This has been a long post but maybe it will help someone else since my technique certainly wasn't "deep." Cheers and thanks again Mark and Spoonman! -rick -- == Goldenpi- programer, unreal level creator, linux user and all round geek. If you are reading this, I sent this mail from linux.
Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on Compaq Armada 1750
I know two places to set up sound: 1. as root, run sndconfig. 2. Harddrake will detect a sound card and sets it up - Original Message - From: Mr S Ganesan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-Mandrake - Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on Compaq Armada 1750 Please use DrakeConf as the root user. It has tools for configuing sound. Click on the configure sound and follow the instructions. These tools are found only if u r using Xwindow systed!On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Richard F. Galaz wrote: Hello, I'm fairly new to linux and I'm still learning how to use it. I just connected to the internet using Win2K internet sharing connection. A great accomplishment for a newbie, I suppose... Anyway, ahead with my problem... I just installed the current version Linux-Mandrake on my Compaq Armada 1750. The installation was smooth, I did not encounter any problems. The only thing that I am not happy with is that there is no sound. Has anyone found any sound drivers for linux? I have tried to look up the information on the sound drivers for Windows, but I haven't been successful in retrieving any information. Besides the sound thing, I am having problems logging out of a KDE session. Whenever I try to logout, it just sits there. I can still move the mouse around and everything, but nothing will open. I have left the computer alone for about 10 minutes to see if it needed more time to logout. Has anyone else had similar problems like this? Is there a set of steps that I should take before logging out?? I should mention that I am using a 3COM 10/100 LAN Cardbus (model 3CCFE575BT) for my network connection. I have noticed that when I have the card inserted into a slot, it takes longer to enter a KDE session. Could this be the cause to the problems that I'm having? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Richard F. Galaz -- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-732105 (R) Fax: 0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in
Re: [newbie] OT network question for any administrator types OT
Adrian Smith wrote: greetings all. i must once again ask for the collective wisdom of the group on a subject. where i work we have a network (duh) mostly win95 with novell (don't know the version) and there are a few red hat linux servers. each person has a logon name password of course. my question is this -- would there, someplace, be a record of when a person logs on (determined by the use of logon name password) and which computer they log on at? probably by IP address? thank you for educating me, yet again =) Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is if you have the log enabled. Just where I dont know. Look in linuxconf under logs and there a a few. Something as important as that should be listed. -- == Goldenpi- programer, unreal level creator, linux user and all round geek. If you are reading this, I sent this mail from linux.
Re: [newbie] At last my Pavilion sound is working!
By coincidence I just got mine going too on my pavilion. But I traced the problem to a completly different place. I entered the wrong IRQ. As far as I can tell the weird card doesn't have a normal irq. Windows uses 5 and everything works but linux needs 7. I put windows on 7 and no sound. Of course I have yet to hear any actual sound because the leads that connect my pc to my sterio are put in the loft while I decorate. But Sndconfig doesn't give an error anymore. Mark Weaver wrote: Great to "hear" Rick! Glad you could get it going. -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so they can be kicked over the side and drowned! * * REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496 */ *REPLY SEPERATOR* On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 rick had this to say! Special thanks to Mark Weaver and sSpoonman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])! Some history first. I have never gotten the sound to work on my son's HP Pavilion 3265. Both the installation procecure and sounddrake failed to detect the on-board audio. A few months ago I put my son's original Win98 HD back in ran the control panel system applet. Scribbled a few notes about the sound "card" and yanked it back out. Never did much after that - just got busy and then lost the paper with the info. Mark and I had a brief e-mail exchange relative to the "gates gets Linux" thread and sound on the Pavilion came up. He felt it might have been an interrupt conflict. I figured I would check it out, maybe after Christmas. But after coming home tonight and checking my mail there was entry in [newbie] from Spoonman with subject = "RE: [newbie] Crystal 4235." Bingo! The nickel dropped as I was pretty sure that had been the name of the sound chip in the Pavilion. So *made* the time to tear the system apart and put the WIn98 HD back in. Sure enough the sound system was "Crystal PnP Audio". H not "4235" or some other number. But I took a flashlight and magnifying glass and checked out the chips. One was labeled "Cyrstal CX4237-X03". Close enough for me. This time I took down *all* the information in the WIn98 Control System applet through. Then yanked the WIn98 drive and put back the Mandrake 7.1 HD. Logged on as root and ran soundrake. It couldn't see anything bit I hit the OK button and it came up and gave me a list. Under Crystal there was 4232 and 4236. Hmmm, what the heck, 4236 is close enough to 4237. Selected that and got a dialog box. made changes to the DMA channel. Hit the test button - nada. Doh!! No speakers. Yanked an old pair of LabTec MCS-600s from the junk box and plugged them in. Hit the test button again - this time something muffled that sounded like speech. Cranked up the volume and tried again - it *was* speech albeit pretty muffled. Said "close enough" and hit the OK button. Put in a CD and am listening to the Bach Brandenbergs on a Synthesizer! Ahhh... life is good. This has been a long post but maybe it will help someone else since my technique certainly wasn't "deep." Cheers and thanks again Mark and Spoonman! -rick -- == Goldenpi- programer, unreal level creator, linux user and all round geek. If you are reading this, I sent this mail from linux.
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
If you thought that was fun just have a look at the folling files: file(editor) c:\io.sys(hexedit)-mess with error messages c:\msdos.sys(asciiedit)-try adding logo=0 or bootgui=0 c:\windows\folder.htt(asciiedit)-the annoying message. - Original Message - From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 6:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux yeah I remember doing that, I edited the file that says "it is now safe to turn off your computer, so PUT ME BACK IN LINUX!" It was an image file so I just used an image editor and put in extra text hehe. I thought since the apps can tell the machine what to do, they can also be told to tell a decompiler or dis-assembler what to do, therefore producing the logical commands to be interpreted by the software into human-readable lines of code or at least into cpu instructions that can then be interpreted by some other software. On Sat, 02 Dec 2000, Goldenpi wrote: I haven't tried to decompile them but I have gone a long way with a hex editor. Have a look at c:\io.sys with a hex editor. The windows core is in there. You can edit a lot of error messages or prompts. I made mine say "shatered windows 98" when it starts. - Original Message - From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 3:14 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux So you already tested it ?? On Fri, 01 Dec 2000, goldenpi wrote: m$ do not want you decompiling their apps. They have made sure you do not decompile their apps useing every anti-decompile trick they can. They will not decompile. Vic wrote: Sorry to butt in Is there a good reverse compiler to get some source code out of ms apps so I can make them run in Linux? I mean make a linux binary.
Re: [newbie] V7.2 questions!
"Ronald J. Hall" wrote: A friend of mine installed the download version of 7.2 on his Pentium machine with 64 megs of RAM and a i810 video setup. (its a 667mhz machine). Anyways, he has an external modem and no matter what we do, it does not show up under hardware configuration, even though its working fine. Also, I thought hardware acceleration was automatic with certain card/chipsets under 7.2. (including the i810). However, any games we play are dead slow... ;-( Any ideas? Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Doesn't the i810 chipset have a video out port? or was that the 810e? Does it work under linux? -- == Goldenpi- programer, unreal level creator, linux user and all round geek. If you are reading this, I sent this mail from linux.
Re: [newbie] RE: Windows can't be written in VB
Dave Sherman wrote: That's correct. There is no DOS prompt available, either in "reboot to..." form, or even just a simple DOS window. Dave At 02:12 PM 11/30/2000 -0800, you wrote: Quoting Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Technically, WinME is Win98 without any trace of DOS under the covers. You won't find autoexec.bat. config.sys, or any of those files on a system with WinME preinstalled. An upgraded system may still have Are you saying that WinMe doesn't have the option to "Reboot to DOS prompt" in the Shutdown menu? I had thought that WinMe was just Win98 with a bunch of upgrades included. I haven't actually seen a copy of it so I was just wondering. I do know that Win2000 doesn't even include fdisk or the sys commands. ...Dave Dave Sherman SoftServ Business Systems, Inc. "Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur." Amazeing. I thought m$ would not go to the exent of hinding dos. Perhaps I will install it on an expendable system just to se how bad a job they did. -- == Goldenpi- programer, unreal level creator, linux user and all round geek. If you are reading this, I sent this mail from linux.
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
m$ do not want you decompiling their apps. They have made sure you do not decompile their apps useing every anti-decompile trick they can. They will not decompile. Vic wrote: Sorry to butt in Is there a good reverse compiler to get some source code out of ms apps so I can make them run in Linux? I mean make a linux binary. On Fri, 01 Dec 2000, Mark Johnson wrote: I just can't fathom that MS Office or IE are VB applications. For sure the NT Services are not VB apps. ActiveX controls are C++. The common controls library are C++ too (tabs, list views, rich edit views). The Visual InterDev, VB, and VC IDEs are C C++. The VB interpreter engine is probably C++, C, and assembler. I can't imagine building a kernel with anything other than assembly or C... I asked this question on a MSVC developer mailing list and all the replies where that the kernel OS has always been in assembler and C and recently (Win98 onwards) with a little C++. VB is a wrapper around the Windows C API, so I just can't believe that the majority of the OS and supporting native apps are written in VB... http://www.johnsmiley.com/visualbasic/vbhistory.htm -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 8:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux you guys really should do a little more research into the languages M$ has used to write windows with. Since Win3.11 only the kernel has been written in something other than VB. Visual BAsic (not the script). The kernel is written in Assembly and M$ C++. -- == Goldenpi- programer, unreal level creator, linux user and all round geek. If you are reading this, I sent this mail from linux.
Re: [newbie] Chastity belt on CD-ROM and Floppy
The padlocks just mean it isn't there. Did you check there were disks in the drive :)? Have a look in /etc/fstab. The drive setup is in there. - Original Message - From: Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 2:55 AM Subject: [newbie] Chastity belt on CD-ROM and Floppy Hello, Gang! Question: I try to acces my Cd-rom and floppy in MD 7.2 but they both have padlocks on them. How do I change the permissions and to what file do I make the changes to? Thanks in advance, Riker
Re: [newbie] Modem's busy
Mines on com1. There is a very good reason for this. I got a ready made computer and the manufacturer only put one uart in. Without more uarts coms 2 thru 4 will not work. The cheap manufacturer left out the chips for the serial ports. - Original Message - From: "KompuKit" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 2:41 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem's busy first of allmodems are always commonly hooked up on com 2 some times on com3 and 4but hardly never on com1 this is the first time...I've ever heard of a modem hooked up as com1 the mouse is supposed to use com 1...try setting it up on com2 and I bet it works Dennis Myers wrote: patrick wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay no , this is not nonsense. external modems work quite well with linux. i also want to share with everyone a way to make your printer work. i am using a panasonice laser jet. there is a driver in 7.2 for it. after installing it my printer was acting crazy. continually printing pages over and over. i uninstalled the driver finally , shut down the computer and rebooted. i also turned off the printer. i started kde and reinstalled the driver. printer works fine now. i just love linux :) I agree with the external modems work in linux. I have a Best Data ext Modem that worked very well until recently. It still works in windows but I keep getting a "Modem does not respond". I have tried to reset, unplug, reconfig, etc. To no avail. The modem is plugged into com1 i.e. ttyS0 and works in windows, but no response in 7.2. It does not show up in harddrake either. Any suggestions out there. Oh, I am on the Linux only box right now using a Best Data internal modem which also works very well and says Linux compatable on the box. Thanks for any help with this puzzle. -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] partition info destruction
That partition is gone. You should never have told it to install there. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 6:34 PM Subject: [newbie] partition info destruction Ok, this is what happened... I was running Windows, and bought Linux-Mandrake 7.2. I installed it with the custom option, as i had already installed 7.1 a couple of times. when it got to the point to decide how to install it on my harddrive, i chose the option "install to free space on Windows", which i thought would create the necessary partitions, and 'steal' the space from windows. Beforehand i had defragmented windows. when i clicked into the "install to free space on Windows" option, the system froze.(AI could move the mouse, but the system would not respond to the mouse or the keyboard navigation of the options... I proceeded to press ctrlaltdel. the system rebooted, but instead of booting normally it asked for me to enter the location of my command.com file, i entred c:\windows\command.com but to no avail. When i booted with my win 98 boot disc it told me that it had not found a valid FAT16 or FAT32 partition on my drive, and that i should use fdisk to make one. i used fdisk and it told me that there was the windows partition (i could tell because of the size), but that it was a non-DOS partition. I tried using norton disc doctor, but that didn't help because it could not see a drive to examine... I desperately need help, because i've got important stuff on the windows partition... I started Lnx-mdk 7.2 setup again, just to see what the partitions looked like etc. but the 'only' option of how to install was to use all the space (ie. no option to use the space that was not being used by windows - win does not use all the space on my harddrive; the rest is empty) I know this is not exactly a linux question, but my guess is that some of you will also know something about windows. Thanx a lot... creaktop -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
Re: [newbie] Http(d)?
Move the holder /webpage to /home/httpd/html. All the webpages you serve go in there. Or you could edit httpd.gonf to set the documentroot=/webpage - Original Message - From: "-michael-" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 9:05 PM Subject: [newbie] Http(d)? So I have an html file, say /webpage/index.html, on my 'server' (24.231.51.230). Now I type Http://24.231.51.230/webpage/index.html/ from my one box and no luck (Error 404) but when I do it from the alleged "server", I get my html file moose n all. Am I correct in assuming that there is a problem with the way I set up or didn't my httpd file or some other piece of apache arcana (Included with Mdk 7.2)? This is my first time, so be gentle. -- -michael- RLU# 175480
Re: [newbie] Connection speed
I presume you are talking about internet connection speed. Under windows you dont need another app. When you connect just look at the two flashing moniter icon in the taskbar. Under linux, you will see a kppp minimize after you have connected. Get it back up. - Original Message - From: "Roger Sherman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Linux-Mandrake newbie mailing list" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 2:12 AM Subject: [newbie] Connection speed Can anyone tell me how to tell what my connection speed is? I had a nice little app called speedgadget in Windows, but there's no way I'm booting into hell just for that ;-) Thanks! -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719
Re: [newbie] linux install ok
- Original Message - From: "Abraham E Mandac Jr" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 2:45 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] linux install ok At 08:49 AM 11/25/00 -, you wrote: Why did you attach these files? God knows. Really, it was an accident. My apologies to everyone on this list. Your com port setup under windows needs changeing. They will work with your settings but you will not get directcc to work and hyperterminal will default to 9600. You can change them from device manager. I don't understand, but I'll try and read up on that. Will it affect linux? Anyway, many thanks for taking the time to examine my 'attachment'. Wont effect linux or do much under windows. I just dont like to see a messy config file. Abe - Original Message - From: "Abraham E Mandac Jr" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 5:19 AM Subject: [newbie] linux install ok If anyone still remembers some weeks back, I was the guy with the hard disk buying problem. I'd just like to say thanks to all who helped out. I finally got my dual boot system up and running fine. [Settings] UseACAPServer=1 LastOptionsCategory=2 RunBefore=1 UserSignatures=1 MainWindowState=1 Light32Version=3 MboxBarIsDocking=1 MboxBarFloatHeight=150 snip
Re: [newbie] Connect via netbios?
Netbios is S-L-O-W. I know because I regurally run a scan and spy on people just because I can :) You can either run an ftp server on the windows box or enable ftp under linux. Anyway, netbios is how people like me break into computers. Not very secure. - Original Message - From: "Jon Doe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 4:30 AM Subject: [newbie] Connect via netbios? My borther-in-law has a windows computer and he is always wanting help and for me to send files over the internet. I know netbios is a big thing with windows and I just wondered if this would be a good way for us to connect over the internet and if so what do I need on this linux box to connect to his windows box? -- The box said Win95 or better so I got Linux. Registered Linux user 181996
Re: [newbie] Size
The only tool I know you can use is the linux cd. There are others but they cost money. Put in the cd, turn on, and answer the questions until the partition program comes up. Use that. After it says "partition table of drive hdx has been writen to disk" the partition program will exit and you can reboot without the cd. - Original Message - From: "Michael Falzon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 12:35 AM Subject: [newbie] Size Hi All If you have set-up a drive ( and as time goes by ) you see that the drive size is to small can you change it ? / has 3.5gb /home has 4 gb i wound like to take some form /home and more it to / Michael Falzon Gremlin Consultancy P/L Phone : (+61 03) 9315 3855 Fax : (+61 03) 9315 1585 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Problem with Floppy Drive
Thats a lot of mounts. I see your problem. your floppy is in /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=ext2,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 The fs=ext2 part is the problem. It is set to read linux floppys. I think it has to be changed to either dos, vfat or auto. One of these will work. Im not sure which but one of them will. /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=dos,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 - Original Message - From: "John Batt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 12:03 AM Subject: [newbie] Problem with Floppy Drive Everytime I try to use fd0 I get the following: Could nor enter directory /mnt/floppy Below is the msg I get when I try to go through the console as both user and root: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: Input/output error Below is my etc/fstab. Is there anything in there that is preventing me from accessing fd0? This also happens as root. /dev/hdb1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda10 /mnt/DOS_hda10 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda11 /mnt/DOS_hda11 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/DOS_hda5 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/DOS_hda6 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda7 /mnt/DOS_hda7 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda8 /mnt/DOS_hda8 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda9 /mnt/DOS_hda9 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=ext2,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0 FWIW, this only happens in Linux. Floppy is 100% accessable in Windows. John Batt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] linux install ok
Why did you attach these files? Your com port setup under windows needs changeing. They will work with your settings but you will not get directcc to work and hyperterminal will default to 9600. You can change them from device manager. - Original Message - From: "Abraham E Mandac Jr" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 5:19 AM Subject: [newbie] linux install ok If anyone still remembers some weeks back, I was the guy with the hard disk buying problem. I'd just like to say thanks to all who helped out. I finally got my dual boot system up and running fine. [Settings] UseACAPServer=1 LastOptionsCategory=2 RunBefore=1 UserSignatures=1 MainWindowState=1 Light32Version=3 MboxBarIsDocking=1 MboxBarFloatHeight=150 snip
Re: [newbie] Shut down problem
I just did. In the bios you must disable power management. - Original Message - From: "Paul Fuggle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 10:58 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Shut down problem At last someone else who has this problem. Does the suggestion below fix this? Fugz -Original Message----- From: goldenpi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 November 2000 22:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Shut down problem speed of light wrote: Hi: I am having a shut down issue with my machine running Mandrake 7.2. This is what is happening. After I hit the shut down button, Mandrake begins a shut down sequence. And the machine actually beeps stating that it's shutting down but immediately after it shuts down, it auto reboots itself. This goes on and on. Basically, I cannot shut it down. In order to do so, I've been having to resort to shutting the box down physically. This is not good. I've even tried using a term command of init 0 to shut down but the box keeps doing the auto reboot thing. Can someone please help me solve this problem? I'm a Linux/Mandrake newbie. The box on which Mandrake is running on is an E-machines box (X86). Mandrake is the only OS on it. I have no strange apps running on the box but pure Mandrake. The only thing I've done is get the box online (aDSL). Please help me! Thanks! __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com I cant tell you how to fix the problem, but I can suggest you disable apm. in the bios and in the os. do you know it is safe to shutdown while lilo or grub is waiting for you to press a button? -- == Goldenpi- programer, unreal level creator, linux user and all round geek. If you are reading this, I sent this mail from linux.
Re: [newbie] Shut down problem
speed of light wrote: Hi: I am having a shut down issue with my machine running Mandrake 7.2. This is what is happening. After I hit the shut down button, Mandrake begins a shut down sequence. And the machine actually beeps stating that it's shutting down but immediately after it shuts down, it auto reboots itself. This goes on and on. Basically, I cannot shut it down. In order to do so, I've been having to resort to shutting the box down physically. This is not good. I've even tried using a term command of init 0 to shut down but the box keeps doing the auto reboot thing. Can someone please help me solve this problem? I'm a Linux/Mandrake newbie. The box on which Mandrake is running on is an E-machines box (X86). Mandrake is the only OS on it. I have no strange apps running on the box but pure Mandrake. The only thing I've done is get the box online (aDSL). Please help me! Thanks! __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com I cant tell you how to fix the problem, but I can suggest you disable apm. in the bios and in the os. do you know it is safe to shutdown while lilo or grub is waiting for you to press a button? -- == Goldenpi- programer, unreal level creator, linux user and all round geek. If you are reading this, I sent this mail from linux.
Re: [newbie] sound help
as root, enter the command init 3. You will need the init command a lot, so I will explain its use: the init command switched the systems runlevel. The high the runlevel the more is loaded. level 0 is off, level 1 is single user, level 3 is text mode, I think level 5 is xwindows. KompuKit wrote: I installed the store version (MacMillian's 7.2 Mandrake) Howeverit said that it located and installed my soundcard but for some reason...I can't play wavs...or hear system default startup wav...at all. I tried to setup using SNDCONFIG in a terminal...but it says I shouldn't configure under xwindow envirorment. How can I restart to a prompt...but still be able to auto re-start later back to X. -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit= -- == Goldenpi- programer, unreal level creator, linux user and all round geek. If you are reading this, I sent this mail from linux.
Re: [newbie] ram issue
Paul wrote: On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, chronos . wrote: Hi all, Having a ram issue my 7.1 box only sees 64 of my 128. So how do I fix this ? I found this on mandrakeuser.org and Im not sure how this works. It said in grub title linuxkernel (hda0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=dev/hda1 mem=128m So Im not sure where to put this in. Thank you, chronos. Hmmm. This should work. In that manner I also appended "ide=scsi" to my grub startup line... Paul I dont know just how this works, but I see partition entries that might need correcting. -- == Goldenpi- programer, unreal level creator, linux user and all round geek. If you are reading this, I sent this mail from linux.
Re: [newbie]winblows interface
we like a challenge. Word processors are not as much fun as 3d engines. pablito wrote: I think Mandrake-KDE has outwindowed the windows interface. They've made the menuing off the start button much more sensible without all the Microsoft hardcoded bragging and advertising. It's really much better. I find those other window managers mysterious (Enlightenment) or just plain impossible (like the original FVWM thing.) And you can tweak it practically any way you want, unlike windows. Still using windows unfortunately. need to figure out how to configure Wine, and spend some money on hard disks and more software. Why is it that the linux crowd loves to program all kinds of graphics stuff but gets bored with creating something basic like a word processor? : The boxed release doiesn't seem like it will have the KDE2 final yet only : the d/l version, its a ruash job by mandrakesoft to get boxed pkgs out for : christmas- marketing tactics :( and even the Final is buggy I gave up on : it, its trying to copy a winblows interface too much in my opinion anyhow. : I hate it. : -- : Chad Y. : Registered Linux User #195191 : : : -- == Goldenpi- programer, unreal level creator, linux user and all round geek. If you are reading this, I sent this mail from linux.
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
patrick wrote: Goldenpi wrote: Easy one: I have the old 1024 cylinder problem with lilo un 7.1. Will installing 7.2 fix it? it seems to me that installing 7.2 messes up more things. the old 1024 cylinder will go away :) but there will many many new problems to contend with. happy thanksgiving. I have a 15 gig partition going unused, so I guess I need 7.2. I only want windows for sound. Linux wont take this souldcard. Something about device or resource busy. -- == Goldenpi- programer, unreal level creator, linux user and all round geek. If you are reading this, I sent this mail from linux.
Re: [newbie] WINE
Easy. From the colsole type "wine somefile.exe". If that doesn't work then its not installed. - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Newbie'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 2:23 PM Subject: [newbie] WINE Hey all, How do I run WINE? I am a very Newbie, so step by step instructions are appreciated. Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 and BT internet
This I know. You simply have to set the authentication to CHAP. by depault it is PAP. Its somewhere under the setup options for the connection. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 11:01 PM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 and BT internet hi, Ok this question may have been posted 1000's of times before, but I can't find it in any archive or FAQ so here goes. I have Intel 400 system, just installed mandrake 7.1, I am very 'green' with regard this OS. My problem is that I can't connect to my ISP with it (BT Internet), the modem dials, it handshakes, then dies, with the message "can't gian authorisation". A friend of mine has used red hat and suse and had no problem, but tried to configure mine, and it was having non of it. I don't know what info you guys will require to help solve this problem. I have checked all the basics, modem operation, etc, my mate thinks it cos BT uses NT and this is the problem, as they don't tell you a domain to log on to. in fact they give you no help at all! Has anyone had this problem and could give me a 'detailed' laymans description on how to fix it, Thanks very much, regards Leon
Re: [newbie] group psychologist
Easy one: I have the old 1024 cylinder problem with lilo un 7.1. Will installing 7.2 fix it?
Re: [newbie] PNP Sound Card
I get this too! But I have a sb clone ISA. My usb fails with the same error, so I presumed they were conflicting. I have been saveing for a PCI card. - Original Message - From: " Santiago Erquicia" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 1997 2:49 PM Subject: [newbie] PNP Sound Card I can't get my ALS110 (PNP) sound card work on MDK7.2 When I try to configure the DMA with HardDrake it says something like the module sb.o is busy. I can't unload the module because it's not up!!! What am I doing wrong?? Thanks
Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?
Number lock keeps resetting. There is a service which will in theory do something but I never saw any effect when I use it. The numlock still resets at each runlevel change. - Original Message - From: "Charles" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 10:36 PM Subject: [newbie] No NUMBER lock? I have been looking through the DOCs but haven't discoverd how to have NUMBER LOCK active when starting KDE. Suggestions? TIA - Cmo
Re: [newbie] [OT] mixing memory
SIMM or DIMM? SIMM=no DIMM=yes - Original Message - From: "Mark Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 3:21 PM Subject: [newbie] [OT] mixing memory I know this if off topic, but I don't know where else to ask and I trust you folks better... Can I mix memory, for example, can I mix a 128 PC100 8ns and a 32 PC100 8ns? Or is it best not to do this?
Re: [newbie] LILO error
Lilo giveing LI might have something to do with the 1024 cilinder limit, so so I heard. Anyone know what LI- means? - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 1:48 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] LILO error or you could use grub... -Original Message- From: Ralph Horne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 8:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] LILO error SKLIM wrote: Hi I have install 2 linux server at my office. The 1st Linux was running just fine. Today I have install 2nd unit of Linux at PIII system. When I restart my 2nd Linux after a new installation it show me LI not LILO. How to fix this error. I can only login to my 2nd Linux with a boot disk. Can someone help me to solve LILO error Best Regards, SKLIM You may want to boot of the floppy and then use linux.conf to reinstall your LILO. I think this works on 7.x from X Windows. That should replace the fried LILO with a good one. Ralph
Re: [newbie] using a removable hard drive (DOS)
If linux does not find a drive it wants to mount it will just give an error message and resume. But you should disable kudzu if you want to do that. - Original Message - From: "Mark Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 2:11 PM Subject: [newbie] using a removable hard drive (DOS) Is it relatively straight forward to use a removable hard drive that is DOS formatted in Linux. What I have are two drives, on with Linux and one with Windows. When I want to use windows I pull out the Linux drive and put in the Windows drive. This makes it easy for me to take my windows drive to work to pull crap off of it and etc... What I would like to do is put in another bay so that while in Linux I can get to my windows drive. But I i'm not sure how I would mount the drive or if there would be any contention during times when the drive was not in the bay. Is this making any sense?
Re: [newbie] Booting to Linux
I dont know how you can get to linux if you didn't make a boot disk, but I can tell you how to get back windows. Linux installs the bootloader in the MBR so you just have to rewrite it to get your windows back. But it wont fix your d:\ drive and e:\ is gone until you can either fix linux or get it off. - Original Message - From: "Brian Dryburgh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 5:13 PM Subject: [newbie] Booting to Linux I have "installed" Linux Mandrake from PCPlus (UK) October magazine disk. I'm more than certain that I followed the instructions to a tee (there weren't many options). I used partition E (5Gb) of my previously partitioned 10Gb HDD to locate Linux. Windows OS is on C (2.5Gb) and my data is on D(2.5Gb). Now, I can't access partition D, though I see that this is a problem encountered and tackled before (it's in the webpage's FAQs)but I can't boot Mandrake to get it back. There's nothing in my root C directory to give me the option of booting to either Linux or Windows. Is there something I can download ? Are there additional settings to change in BIOS ? I can't access Linux directories or partitions from DOS (or windows) either - is this correct ? Yep - I'm a complete Linux novice and have been a little bit quick to jump in! Please help - I need to access the data on D:\ quickly !
Re: [newbie] What happened to icons on desktop for partition C and D under 7.2
It did occur to me that the problem with the missing icons might just be a missing link, but wouldn't that also stop them showing up in gnome? Actually knowing the partitions might be useful. Didn't even say if they were on the same drive. I never had this problem, but I know quite a bit about partitioning after somehow installing 3 hard drives, one zip disk and a cdrom in one computer. I could suggest checking the desktop directory to see if anything is missing, but beyond that all I can say is "can you access them from the console?" - Original Message - From: "-michael-" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 9:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] What happened to icons on desktop for partition C and D under 7.2 Hey there kiddie-o! If you are going to flaunt your "expertise" on this list, and insist in putting people down for silly things (remember, "A rose by any other name...", the *other* Bill), then please be so kind as to point out the solution (i.e. hda, hdb, etc) not just the problem. -- ;-) -michael- Goldenpi wrote: C and D? There are no partitions C and D! If you are going to learn linux, use the right terms. Letters are a microsoft tool designed to put you one step away from your hardware and make it even harder to use any non-windows operating system. - Original Message - From: "Roman Bysh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 5:05 AM Subject: [newbie] What happened to icons on desktop for partition C and D under 7.2 Hi, I installed as developer. Under KDE, I noticed that my partitions C and D icons are missing from my virtual desktop as user. However, when I log in under Gnome, I can see them. What am I missing? Roman
Re: [newbie] What happened to icons on desktop for partition C and D under 7.2
Can you get to them from the colsole? If you can its just the icons but if no the problem is somewhere in the mount config. - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 11:00 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] What happened to icons on desktop for partition C and D under 7.2 I realize that but 7.1 gave me access to my two Windows partitions. I no longer see them in 7.2 Roman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Goldenpi Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 2:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] What happened to icons on desktop for partition C and D under 7.2 C and D? There are no partitions C and D! If you are going to learn linux, use the right terms. Letters are a microsoft tool designed to put you one step away from your hardware and make it even harder to use any non-windows operating system. - Original Message - From: "Roman Bysh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 5:05 AM Subject: [newbie] What happened to icons on desktop for partition C and D under 7.2 Hi, I installed as developer. Under KDE, I noticed that my partitions C and D icons are missing from my virtual desktop as user. However, when I log in under Gnome, I can see them. What am I missing? Roman
Re: [newbie] zip drive
Makes sense. The drives must be set up as something and scsi is well supported. A quick look through windows system propeties shows 'Iomega parallel port zip interface' under SCSI controlers. Definatly scsi. - Original Message - From: "Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 3:23 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] zip drive Seems all Zips are technically SCSI. The parallel version uses a SCSI emulation, probably the same case with USB. -Carlton -Original Message----- From: Goldenpi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 12:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] zip drive I cant tell you about the usb drives, but the parallel zips are scsi. I dont know how but both bindows and linux see them as scsi. - Original Message - From: "Bob Schmidt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 9:38 PM Subject: [newbie] zip drive Hi all, I have a dell inspiron 3700 pIII 450mhz, I installed ver 7.2 and everything worked fine. When I installed linux I had my usb iomega zip drive installed. During the installation the os found the zip drive, and installed the folder in the mount folder. But when I go to it, it has a lock on it. I went into gtkzip, and it shows the zip drive as having a scsi connection. Even though it found it as a usb drive during install. When the computer boots up, it loads the usb stuff fine, with no errors. Any help would be appreciated Bob
Re: [newbie] zip drive
Is that zip drive Parallel or usb? - Original Message - From: "Marcia L Waller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 8:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] zip drive I just installed 7.2 over Mandrake 7. I did the install not upgrade. It seems that everything went smoothly except I would like to get my zip drive icon on the desktop so that I may use it and I would like to get on the internet. I was on the internet with a cable modem and SMCEZ ethernet card , used Netscape 4.7. The installation said that it detected my ethernet card and cable modem I believe. Now I would like to get on. Must I take an extra step to get the DHCP going? Where is Netscape? Thank you for your help. Marcia YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
Re: [newbie] No icons...
I have installed expert. Again and again but always on the one computer. I have found a lot of ways to destroy a linux box. I never saw anything about makeing icons. - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 12:35 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] No icons... I did make the users during the install. Last night out of curiousity, I installed it on another one of my machines and this time I got the icons that I wanted. Go figure! However, I did do the expert install these past couple of times. Maybe I missed something and it never knew to place the icons there. That may make sense?? -Original Message----- From: Goldenpi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 3:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] No icons... Weird. I always make the users during install. Look in /home/someuser/.desktop (I think. Its something like that.). that is where icons go. - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Newbie'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 2:29 PM Subject: [newbie] No icons... I have a question that probably has a very simple solution. When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have them in root but nowhere else. Very strange. I've installed this distro on other machines and have not encountered this problem. Any help is appreciated... Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] No icons...
Weird. I always make the users during install. Look in /home/someuser/.desktop (I think. Its something like that.). that is where icons go. - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Newbie'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 2:29 PM Subject: [newbie] No icons... I have a question that probably has a very simple solution. When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have them in root but nowhere else. Very strange. I've installed this distro on other machines and have not encountered this problem. Any help is appreciated... Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] Realplayer (audio) expires?
Download latest rpm, or set back clock. - Original Message - From: "Ronald J. Hall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Newbie Mailing List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 3:17 PM Subject: [newbie] Realplayer (audio) expires? I was using Netscape/Realplayer to listen to some *.rm stuff, and it suddenly popped up a window saying that my version had "expired". I didn't know that it was licensed for use...? ;-( So...how do I go about getting it back? I tried re-installing the RPM from my Mandrake CD's but it still gives me that message. Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Windows
No messy room right now, its being redecorated. Everything is in the loft includeing my linux computer :( Final Fantasy 7 manual is going up soon as I finish entering it. I would use ocr, but my scanners broke. And thats a lot of knowledge. I know several programming languages (not very well, but enough to write programs) and I was yelled at during school today for removeing some sequrity. That is not as easy as it sounds. I also brought in my chat program from home which ment getting past local sequrity software, network sequrity, whitelist, and another bit of local sequrity. Im 15 now. - Original Message - From: "Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 1:32 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Windows You are all arguing with a CHILD! Take a look at his web site (mentioned in one of his first posts). He has posted his picture there. He is a young boy, complete with a messy room, who has a bit of knowledge but no wisdom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 1:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows hey i right books and i create many things but you want to know what if i post them on the internet i am going to have to expect one person buys it and then redistributes it to their friends and then thier friends and so on. if you sell it in a store same concept, do you think i am going to buy 50 copys of win2k for my whole familys list of computers, no why not just copy one. and presto the whole family is up to date, this is really getting old, and all because i mentioned a nit picky detail to let someone know hey you may not have to format your whole drive because you are using linux and want to add windows, i found i didnt have too but that may be contributed to my copy of windows. so all of you whining about oh hes using pirated stuff hes so bad, go ahead call the cops, really this is pathetic. maybe i just grew up in the oldschool of computing where hacking and pirating was a comon thing. but ohwell i will continue my way despite new international laws and blah blah freakin dah can we get back to the topics now of gee i have linux but it doesnt work quite right hey haow about you can you help?
Re: [newbie] Windows
Nice try. I will give you all my details for all of them. 1. My large sum of money is in a bank, and I cant get it out because my parents dont trust me with it. 2. No credit card. 3. 2 landlines, but no cellphone. - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 7:03 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows Can we pirate copy of your bank, credit card and cell phone? Romanator Goldenpi wrote: I do pirate copies of everything. So what? Take visual basic which can cost hundreds of pound. I do it for £1 + disk. Microsoft probably cound trace me, but why would they want to? I do copies of software in school and im not big enough to bother them. I am running a project to make manuals and books available for free over the internet. www.carjam.ic24.net/james/index.html (or was it index.htm? Must check). Currently there is very little. Just one good book, 3 junk books to fill space and a few manuals. It would be easeier if my scanner hadn't broke. Please donate any soft-copy manuals you have. Sorry, no win2k manual. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows In a message dated 02-Nov-00 04:47:33 Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's not exactly something I'd announce on a public mailing list. who in here supports microshaft making money??? with crapy software!! besides they would have to do some serious searching to find me. and although ms has lots of money everyone i know pirates that stuff, if it is worth pirating, no ones making money, i dont have a tech manual that comes with the software, so last i checked it was still legal. it all depends on how you do things
Re: [newbie] Windows
1. Microsoft isn't loseing any money if your selling a product thats const hundreds of $ and noone can afford it anyway. 2. Even if it does cosy m$ money, they already have too much. - Original Message - From: "Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 1:22 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Windows It doesn't matter if anyone's "making money" from your piracy. The copyright holder is losing money since you are using an unlicensed copy for free. Pirating software is a crime, no matter if it's friends "sharing" a program or a business selling illegal copies. I'm all for free distribution of software. That's why I like the ideas behind Linux so much. I may not agree with some laws, but they are still the laws and we should abide by them until we can change them. ...Sorry, I'm afraid that was more like my FOUR cents... I'll get off my soapbox now. CJD -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows In a message dated 02-Nov-00 04:47:33 Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's not exactly something I'd announce on a public mailing list. who in here supports microshaft making money??? with crapy software!! besides they would have to do some serious searching to find me. and although ms has lots of money everyone i know pirates that stuff, if it is worth pirating, no ones making money, i dont have a tech manual that comes with the software, so last i checked it was still legal. it all depends on how you do things
Re: [newbie] how 2 change 2 command line
The command is "init 3". Enter that to go into text mode. - Original Message - From: "nomad creaktop" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 8:38 PM Subject: [newbie] how 2 change 2 command line OK, I want to do some administrative things that I need to do on command line, without X running (like sndconfig, etc.) In the installation (Custom), I selected to boot to X. Is there an easy way to exit X, either during boot, or afterwards (preferable). I haven't found anything in the application launcher ... TIA creaktop
Re: [newbie] Windows
I do pirate copies of everything. So what? Take visual basic which can cost hundreds of pound. I do it for £1 + disk. Microsoft probably cound trace me, but why would they want to? I do copies of software in school and im not big enough to bother them. I am running a project to make manuals and books available for free over the internet. www.carjam.ic24.net/james/index.html (or was it index.htm? Must check). Currently there is very little. Just one good book, 3 junk books to fill space and a few manuals. It would be easeier if my scanner hadn't broke. Please donate any soft-copy manuals you have. Sorry, no win2k manual. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows In a message dated 02-Nov-00 04:47:33 Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's not exactly something I'd announce on a public mailing list. who in here supports microshaft making money??? with crapy software!! besides they would have to do some serious searching to find me. and although ms has lots of money everyone i know pirates that stuff, if it is worth pirating, no ones making money, i dont have a tech manual that comes with the software, so last i checked it was still legal. it all depends on how you do things
Re: [newbie] How to burn iso under windows
NOONONONO Dont do this. I tried it once and it ended up createing a cd with the image file on it. You have to look under file-create from disk image. Do it from there. - Original Message - From: "Robin Regennitter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 7:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] How to burn iso under windows On Tuesday 31 October 2000 04:22, you wrote: I just use Adaptec Easy CD Creator. Just make sure the filesystem under File is ISO9660. then go to your iso image file and just double click on it and it will automatically detect it as an ISO image, it will then ask you a couple of question, and finally, burn the image on the CD for you. Very simple and straightforward if you have the Adaptec Easy CD Creator. What program will you be using to burn the cd. Charles - Original Message - From: Julio C. Gutierrez To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 6:32 AM Subject: [newbie] How to burn iso under windows Does anyone of you know how I can burn an ISO image in windows and make the cd bootable? Yuor help will be really appreciated Thank you!! Julio Gutierrez Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] Internet in the UK
Do you have windows? For some weird reason windows can auto-detect the DNS while linux cannot. Can anyone explain this? Connect under windows. Now you must run c:\windows\winipcfg.exe. Click More Info and there will be a field containing the ips for the DNS servers. - Original Message - From: "Jamie Kerwick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 5:38 PM Subject: [newbie] Internet in the UK Has anyone managed to setup a connection to freeserve in the UK? I have managed to setup the PPP correctly-ish. It connects to the server however, i get no server found when trying to goto sites. I think that the problem is that i have no DNS listed in the PPP properties, the problem is that i don't know the IP address of the DNS which freeserve uses. Can anyone tell me, or give me the IP address of a different DNS which i could use, (i am under the impression that any valid DNS will do, is this so?) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jamie _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] Compatabilty
Sort off. Three things you must remember: 1. install me first. 2. -Never- run the recovery program. It says it will fix the computer if it breaks down but it also rewrites the mbr(rumor, but play it safe) 3. Have a linux bootdisk. Just in case. - Original Message - From: "Anthony" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 10:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Compatabilty I'm not totally sure on the Windows ME compatibility part, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. Also, I would install WinME first because knowing Microsoft they'll over write the boot sector. So if you had installed Linux first it would over write LILO/GRUB and then you couldn't get to Linux without a boot disk. So install WinME first, then Linux. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will LM 7.1 play nice with Windows ME? If so, which should be installed first. Thanks Scott B. Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
Re: [newbie] keyboards
Two questions: My birthday is comeing in a few weeks and I am getting some new hardware. Now how do I install the following: 1. Serial 3-button mouse, to replace the ps/2 2-button I used to have. To be installed to com2. 2. New serial port card for above mouse 3. Some time in future a ps/2 3-button mouse. 4. New hard drive for my swap, windowz and / partitions without reformatting again.
Re: [newbie]
I did this a while ago, but cant remember the details. You login or su as root and you have to enter two insmod commands. 'insmod parport' and 'insmod something'. Then you mount the zip drive. It will be a scsi device so try /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1 and so on. - Original Message - From: "Liaw, Andy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 1:01 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] You need to load the parport and a couple of other kernel modules. From a command line (such as a konsole window), type modprobe parport modprobe paride There is one more you need to load, but don't remember which (I have an parallel port Orb drive, not a ZIP drive). Go to any search engine and search for "linux paride". There is a web page with instructions for all kinds of parallel port drives. Andy -- From: Chen Stev[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 5:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] hi, i have a parallel port ZIP drive and i want to use it under linux mandrake 7.1 . how ? your sincerly, Stev
Re: [newbie] floppy problems
wrong fs type=wrong format bad option=typo bad superblock=??? too many mounted file systems=you have loads of partitions or drives. - Original Message - From: "Marco Kwan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 7:26 AM Subject: [newbie] floppy problems my floppy doesn't seem to work right... I tried to unmount it and manually mount it but get the following.. mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems does anyone know whta this means?
Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions
Microsoft made it to destroy linux ;-) - Original Message - From: "DataChannel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions If defrag finds any errors during the scandisk-like mode of it (first 5%) it wouldn't let me continue. I ran scandisk before running defrag and it didn't do anything to my linux partition because I rebooted to linux to make sure it still works and it worked after scandisk was run and there were no errors in scandisk. Defrag is supposed to only defragment files within the partition, why does it go as far as wiping my linux partition and screwing up the partition table to do it? Even if I disable its check for errors and program optimizer, it ends up destroying the linux partition when run. What does defrag need to do to other partitions to get its job done on the windows partition anyways and WHY? - Original Message - From: "Ed Tharp" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 8:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions maybe the defrag is running scandisk, and auto settings are set to repair the boot sector? - Original Message - From: "Larry Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 8:54 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions Why is it that everytime I defrag in windows (in safe mode) that it results in screwing up my linux partition and making my computer unbootable because grub can't read the linux partition? Maybe you're setting your defrag tool to do an entire disk rather than just the Windows partition. OTher than that, I have no idea
Re: [newbie]
There is, I know its out there, but I dont know where you will be able to get it. - Original Message - From: "emerhawk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 10:35 AM Subject: [newbie] I'm asking for a frend. Is there a dist. for an amega machine. Emerhawk
Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake amp; Sound Card
Gateway has just made my list. Its in the same section as hewlett-packard and microsoft. My notebook as a phonix bios. I cant put linux on it. It wont boot from a cd and its one of those designs where the cd and floppy cant both be inserted at the same time. - Original Message - From: "emerhawk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 10:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake amp; Sound Card - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 12:41 Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake amp; Sound Card In a message dated 10/14/2000 2:37:14 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One I haven't been able to resolve yet. I have a Gateway permormance 500, with a well in my opinion that is problem number one, i always had problems with gateway computers, i could have windows on a dell and gateway, and the gateway would crash 10 times faster if not 100 times It's not the computer, but the bios. It's almost as if Phoenix was owned by Microsoft. The thing runs like a top, just the peripherials are a bitch to setup in a nonwindows enviroment for some reason. But I'm not giving up. I love a challenge. Emerhawk
Re: [newbie] OT / Penguin dance!
What plugin? I took those sites apart once and found they just use animated gifs. Some of them wand a windows media player pluging or javascript for sound, but thats about it. That was a while ago, it might have changed since. - Original Message - From: "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 9:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT / Penguin dance! It's HampsterDance with Penguins!Of course, when I tried it with my windows machine, the damned thing went blue screen...rather typical...was that supposed to happen with the "plug in" required? --Greg - Original Message - From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anybody have a co-worker that loves windows? Take 'em to this site: http://nuttysites.com/penguin/ Mike __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] Cloning Drives?
Looks like you have some cd drive moveing to do. Althrough copying disk to disk under linux can be done, its not going to be easy. You would have to do a raw copy of the drive. This assumes the drives are all the same model. First you have the problem of connecting them together by parallel. I tried that, a plip needs you to recompile the kernal. What you could do, if the drives are big enough, is to install from a fat partition. That way you could use trusty interlink to connect them. I have never dont that, but it can be done under some distros. Possibly mandrake. The only catch is you might have to install windows along the way. I dont know. Final option: do they have network cards? ftp install? - Original Message - From: "Kirby J. Davis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 8:13 PM Subject: [newbie] Cloning Drives? Has anyone had success in cloning Linux from one PC to another? I'm fairly new to Linux so I definitely consider myself a "newbie" This is my situation... our private school had 8 identical IBM PC's donated for the students and teachers. Seeing as we had the hardware but no software (and no funds for the software) I decided that I would try to set up Mandrake on the computers and let the teachers use Star Office for their work. The problem is that none of the computers came with CD-ROMs. I went out and purchased an inexpensive internal drive and used it to set up one of the eight machines like I wanted it and now I want to set up the other seven machines. Ideally, I would like to be able to set the other machines up without going through the same process all over again (i.e., open the PC up, temporarily attach the CD-ROM, etc.). I've attempted to use Norton Ghost 6.5 and use the disk-to-disk copy via the parallel ports and the supplied null cable but it doesn't seem to be working as I get an error message when I try to boot up the "slave" PC. Can I clone/copy over the hard drive via the parallel ports from within Linux using "dd" or something? Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, ... Kirby
Re: [newbie] Ultimate Formatting
Oh yes-some of the low-level bios formaters dont like big drives. Their not made for moden technology. if your drive is less than 2gi, your safe. Bigger than that and I cant say. - Original Message - From: "John Rye" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Ultimate Formatting Mark Weaver wrote: that's easy. Just use the partitioning utility in the setup program that runs when you install Mandrake on your computer. That can do anything you could think of to do to a HDD. -- Mark ...Larry isn't a cucumber. He's a PICKLE... ...WITH WARTS! Surprisingly on Wed, 11 Oct 2000 Kelly, Christopher had this to say! Anybody know how to completely wipe a HD clean?? I am having major problems and need to start over. I need to blow away partitions and all. Make it just like new. Just a thought on the end of this thread... A Dos-based version of the Norton Utilities had/has a version of 'wipeinfo' - I haven't been there in many years - I think it could also be used to re-write each sector on an already formatted dos-partition. However - that would presuppose having a dos 5.xx or so boot disk with the utility on it. I saw a few references to using the bios low-level format routines. I would very seriously suggest this is a BAD idea - I stuffed a perfectly good 2gig ide drive by accidently using this !!! If you need to reformat at that level - get the correct util from the drive manufacturer - I know Quantum have these so I would assume the others also have them. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] Problem Loging in ISP
For the login problem-Use chap, not pap For the unable to access web problem-Are your DNS servers entered. For the modem-Might be a winmodem, but I dont know any winmodems that fail like that. Cant help you there. Unless you want to change the port it uses, but its a long shot. - Original Message - From: "Greek Fellas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 6:48 PM Subject: [newbie] Problem Loging in ISP Hello there, I am a newbie as well and I have a problem: I want to connect to the internet I have an ISP (tel number, login and password) I have kppp and some other programs (gnome-ppp) as well as netconfig from drakeconfig I have a modem which although it is a internal and not being recognised by my system it works!! (it even works under real DOS !!!) Saying that it is really slow to communicate with my system, it may take half a minute or more for the info to go to my modem I therefore configured kppp and everything and my computer dials out when it goes to sending the login and password: 1. either not sends it at all (if it is in pap connection mode I think) 2. or it sends the login and then by the time it sends the password the terminal shows incorect pass try again and hence my password is being send as a login What can I do??? (apart from bying a new modem!) Also: i have connected once using netconfig from drakeconfig and everything worked but then the modem is even slower to communicate with the system kppp thinks it is connected (and it is propably) but in reality I am not as I cannot access the web Many thanx Costas
Re: [newbie] Ultimate Formatting
The second most through format I know. The most through is the low-level bios format, but only old bios will do that. - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 3:35 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Ultimate Formatting That would be great, John. -Original Message- From: John Rye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Ultimate Formatting Rod Baxter wrote: Easy. Boot from a dos boot disk and use dos fdisk. Delete all partitions and reboot from the floppy. Then type fdisk /mbr which will rewrite a standard master boot record. But, (as allways!!) if you cannot delete an extended partition because it says 'cannot delete while logical drives exist' and when you go and look there are no logical drives you need to cheat a bit. Go into the bios and change the disk drive settings. If its running LBA, change it to normal. Reboot and you will find the logical drives will have dissapeared. Delete everything, then reboot and put it back to LBA mode. Then go through the loop again, and finish with the fdisk /mbr command. If its a small disk and you are not running LBA, then just change the drive type to something else. Rod - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Newbie'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 9:23 PM Subject: [newbie] Ultimate Formatting Anybody know how to completely wipe a HD clean?? I am having major problems and need to start over. I need to blow away partitions and all. Make it just like new. There is a rather smart wee utility called ZeroDisk out there somewhere which rewrites every sector. I have used that to do Security Wipes. I may have a copy here somewhere - whant to check thru the floppy box? Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
