Re: [newbie] SuperDisk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13 Sep 99, at 16:36, Alex Bailey wrote: hello, Of course I'm a newbie,trying to access my "SuperDisk" or I think the term is "mount" my SuperDisk drive and can't.I've read the other requests for info for the same problem and tried them.They don't seem to work,but then again I'm a newbie. I tried (under root); mount -t vfat /dev/hda(1-6) /mnt (1-6)-- meaning individually Some of the responses were; mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected,mounting read-only mount:wrong fs type,bad option,bad superblock on /dev/fd0,or too many mounted file systems Please can somebody help me make sense of this and help me get my floppy(superDisk) running or mounted? Thanks,Alex Have you tried a web search? I know this is the newbie list, but it is good etiquette to first look for the anser yourself and then pester the hell out of others:) heres a message on booting: http://www.psychosis.com/linux-router/floppy.shtml Some answers: http://ww2.altavista.com/cgi- bin/news?msg@16109@aus%2ecomputers%2elinux and here are some threads out of usenet: http://x24.deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=513069761search=thread; svcclass=dnoldST=PSCONTEXT=937257596.982712352HIT_C ONTEXT=937257596.982712352HIT_NUM=REDO=1recnum=% 3c7p6sbr$cum$[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3e%231/1group=alt.os.li nuxfrpage=getdoc.xpback=clarinet http://x41.deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=516016459search=thread; svcclass=dncurrentST=PSCONTEXT=937257402.1917124629 HIT_CONTEXT=937257402.1917124629HIT_NUM=2REDO=1re [EMAIL PROTECTED]%3e%231/1 group=comp.os.linux.miscfrpage=getdoc.xpback=clarinet http://x24.deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=505021232search=thread; svcclass=dnoldST=PSCONTEXT=937258061.983040102HIT_C ONTEXT=937257596.982712352HIT_NUM=28REDO=1recnum [EMAIL PROTECTED]%3e%231/1group=comp .os.linux.hardwarefrpage=getdoc.xpback=clarinet http://x24.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=469538346search=threadCO NTEXT=937257711.983826480HIT_CONTEXT=937257596.982712 352HIT_NUM=14hitnum=115 Hope this helps. You will get faster and better results doing it for yourself. Joe -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBN91sC7/VnK2vTz+fEQIRwgCgwPzyb1YPgys4uTphFrckJImeRRMAnAl0 OKRmun0H8HagJI5twnJqZa4k =x3/R -END PGP SIGNATURE- Spam control follows: root@localhost postmaster@localhost admin@localhost abuse@localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] reboot after incorrect shutdown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13 Sep 99, at 13:25, pol keem wrote: when i reboot after incorrect shutdown...it says some disks were not unmounted correcty and to RUN fdck MANUALLY and asks me for root passwd... after i give it the passwd and type fdck it says one line about parallelizing... so i exit and it says... you're nobody...go away... and then after more error messages it goes to the login prompt and says...internal error i've reinstalled it twice and got the same result after rebooting whenever it freezes... any ideas?... === polkeem __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com No one will answer you because no one wants to admit that linux freezes up like this. It didn't used to, I have seen enough X crashes but never any lock ups. Not until I started using mandrake and kde/netscape. The problem is the filesystem writes to the hard drive asynchronously to speed up read/writes. If it freezes up before a write, you just lost that information. Async was added because linux was extremely stable and they could get away with it. But now? Do we start mounting hard drives with -o sync? It should not even be freezing in the first place like this. It happened to me and then it happened to some freinds of mine who also installed mandrake. No crt-alt f2 no ctr-alt-bkspc no three finger salute. Anyone else experiencing complete kernel freezes like this? What about in other distro's? If we lose the single selling point of linux(stabillity over the competition) the what remains? Sorry if I seem like a pessimist, Joe -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBN91wDr/VnK2vTz+fEQJyjwCgvQDyE+FZ8HK9yT98dihqnvHIeloAoLLY ra6AvmKkhOJobPTJunLm8Pd+ =Zc0e -END PGP SIGNATURE- Spam control follows: root@localhost postmaster@localhost admin@localhost abuse@localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] reboot after incorrect shutdown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13 Sep 99, at 18:46, Manny Styles wrote: I wonder if Joe has updated his kernel. Since doing so, I have not had any crashes or lock-ups, but that could just be me. If you are using Mandrake 6.0 "out-of-the-box" as it were, the unmounting problem should be expected, as it is documented on the Mandrake web site (and numerously in this mailing list). It doesn't seem to happen to everyone, but it has seeemed to affect most of us, so I'm assuming it has something to do with certain system architechtures. Not even Mandrake can be perfect, but at least we were all notified as soon as the problem was identified, and a fix was out shortly. Who else gives tech support like that? Hmm... Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, joe is using the updated kernel. If you had even bothered to read the message this has nothing to do with init scripts or improper shutdowns. This has to do with linux locking up like everyones favorite OS. That and the fact that linux does not always recover well from these lock ups. For most of the newbies here coming from the aforementioned OS, these lockups seem normal. The truth is, it shouldn't be locking up at all. I have seen at least 5 on my own box, saw two on two other boxes. Wild bill at the linux bits has been plagued with all sorts of lockups(newbie) on his athena box(using redhat I think). There is some talk on the kernel mailing list about beefing up the file system a bit to recover better from crashes. Doesn't this bother anyone at all? Maybe we are rushing into untried grounds alittle, ey? Joe -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBN92T8L/VnK2vTz+fEQJPvQCeMMypw1gFo9owUU7ZZcVYLFG+z4MAn3e+ IDTDWTp7K5bK3gsmTTiS1nYV =2UIM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Spam control follows: root@localhost postmaster@localhost admin@localhost abuse@localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Video Card/Monitor Problems
On 12 Sep 99, at 11:03, bgf wrote: I am installing Linux-Mandrake 6.0 on a Cyrix P166+ machine with 32mb of RAM. I have an STB Velocity 3D PCI (4mb) video card and a Princeton Ultra 17+ monitor and can not, for the life of me, get things configured so that I can run KDE. I have attempted letting the install program probe things and this has gone better than in the past. It probes without crashing but it always reports that there is a problem setting things up and cannot start X. So I have been trying to do the XF86Config file on my own (reading from _Running Linux_) but it would seem that I am not smart enough. Ugh! Here are the problems I'm having: Squashed screen (doesn't fill the whole monitor) either it loses half an inch on bottom and one side or it is a letterbox screen. Mouse pointer is a one-inch white square. Wavering image or totally blurred. Left side of icons (on left side of monitor) cut or both cut and duplicated over on the right side. That's probably enough for now. Any ideas? If anyone wanted to help me out with an XF86Config file, I would love it. I think that my problems are coming in the ModeLine area. I just can't seem to get anything going there. I have manuals on both the card and the monitor and will gladly provide more details. Thanks. -- bgf mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you using the latest Xfree86? Always try the latest version of a software before committing to discussion. I can't tell you how many times upgrading the latest fixed an otherwise obscure problem. Joe Spam control follows: root@localhost postmaster@localhost admin@localhost abuse@localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Superdisk
On 12 Sep 99, at 16:53, Rommel Barbosa wrote: It's a hd? device not a fd? device. You could link it to fdo, that might work. Joe Hi. I installed Linux Mandrake in my computer that has a superdisk (120MB) instead of a regular floppy disk drive. I am not able to mount the floppy. Does anybody know how can I mount the superdisk drive? Thanks, Rommel __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Spam control follows: root@localhost postmaster@localhost admin@localhost abuse@localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]
