[newbie] Two questions:
Hi again: OK, I’ve downloaded the ISO files from one of the mirrors of the Mandrake Linux site, and I checked the three files with the md5sum file and everything is OK. Then I burned the three files and restart my computer with the CD that has the first Mandrake Linux file and guess what?... My computer didn’t boot from the CD. I know that my computer can boot from a CD, but it doesn’t want to boot from a CD that has an ISO file. So, what do I have to do? The file has the name: Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso What do I have to do? Do I have to change the name? Do I have to change the extension? Do I have to buy a new computer? ☺ Well, that’s the first question, now the second one. I have a HD with the following partition: C:\ File System: FAT32 Size: 15.5 GB Free Space: 6.86 GB D:\ File System: NTFSSize: 40.2 GB Free Space: 19.8 GB OK, that is just one hard disk with two partitions :). I've read somewhere that I can't do a new partition in a NTFS file system because I'm going to loose all my information :( and I really don't want this to happen. So, can I do a partition JUST in the C:\ partition? I really don't understand how partitions work, but if I can do a new partition in the C:\ partition... Do I have enough space (Free Space: 6.68 GB) to do a partition for Mandrake? Well, that is all; I hope I can do a new partition, because I will not format my computer. I read that there is a program called Partition Magic... does this program really works? Once again I will not format my computer, not because I don't want, but because I can't... My computer is the server of my house; there are 5 more computers connected to it. Nobody here knows how to set up a server, so if I have to format my computer everybody here will hate me, and will start making plans of how to kill me :). OK, CYA guys and TIA. Antonio R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 18319148 Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. James Dean (1931-1955) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Two questions:
Replies inline: On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 03:23, Antonio R. wrote: Hi again: OK, I’ve downloaded the ISO files from one of the mirrors of the Mandrake Linux site, and I checked the three files with the md5sum file and everything is OK. Then I burned the three files and restart my computer with the CD that has the first Mandrake Linux file and guess what?... My computer didn’t boot from the CD. I know that my computer can boot from a CD, but it doesn’t want to boot from a CD that has an ISO file. So, what do I have to do? The file has the name: Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso What do I have to do? Do I have to change the name? Do I have to change the extension? Do I have to buy a new computer? ☺ The ISO file is not burned to a CD the same way you would a data or music file. In your burning software, you will need to find the option burn from ISO (or something similar) and then point the software to each ISO file (one at a time). When burned as an ISO (file type set to ISO 9660, if there are other choices), the first CD should boot. Well, that’s the first question, now the second one. I have a HD with the following partition: C:\ File System: FAT32 Size: 15.5 GB Free Space: 6.86 GB D:\ File System: NTFSSize: 40.2 GB Free Space: 19.8 GB OK, that is just one hard disk with two partitions :). I've read somewhere that I can't do a new partition in a NTFS file system because I'm going to loose all my information :( and I really don't want this to happen. So, can I do a partition JUST in the C:\ partition? I really don't understand how partitions work, but if I can do a new partition in the C:\ partition... Do I have enough space (Free Space: 6.68 GB) to do a partition for Mandrake? Partition Magic will resize an NTFS partition without losing data, provided that you have defragmented the drive first and that the new partition is put at the end of the drive, AFTER the resized NTFS partition. A word of caution: The remaining NTFS partition must be larger than the total amount of data stored on the original partition plus 25%. To operate properly, an NTFS partition that also contains the OS needs to have a minumum overhead of 25% to accommodate page-filing (virtual memory/swap).(Example: if you have 20GB used on an NTFS partition, then the resized partition must be a minimum of 25GB for the OS to operate properly.) I used Partition Magic 7.x quite sucessfully when I set up an XP and Mandrake dual boot machine. You did not tell us how you plan to use Mandrake (replacement server; just something to play with to see if you want to switch to it; a way to learn a new OS so it's difficult to say how much disk space would be adequate for your purpose. However, linux will read, but not write (safely) to an NTFS partition, so keep in mind that you need the FAT32 partition to hold data to be used by both OSes. snip HTH -- Erik Linux User 288105 = Bill who? Micro what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Two questions:
Antonio R. wrote: Hi again: OK, I’ve downloaded the ISO files from one of the mirrors of the Mandrake Linux site, and I checked the three files with the md5sum file and everything is OK. Then I burned the three files and restart my computer with the CD that has the first Mandrake Linux file and guess what?... My computer didn’t boot from the CD. I know that my computer can boot from a CD, but it doesn’t want to boot from a CD that has an ISO file. So, what do I have to do? The file has the name: Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso Looks like you wrote the iso file to CD instead of writing the contents of the iso file to disc. I'm guessing you used a windblows programme like easy CD writer, or nero. You have to make sure you write the iso file in the correct manner to disc. What do I have to do? Do I have to change the name? Do I have to change the extension? Do I have to buy a new computer? ☺ Well, that’s the first question, now the second one. I have a HD with the following partition: C:\ File System: FAT32 Size: 15.5 GB Free Space: 6.86 GB D:\ File System: NTFSSize: 40.2 GB Free Space: 19.8 GB OK, that is just one hard disk with two partitions :). I've read somewhere that I can't do a new partition in a NTFS file system because I'm going to loose all my information :( and I really don't want this to happen. So, can I do a partition JUST in the C:\ partition? I really don't understand how partitions work, but if I can do a new partition in the C:\ partition... Do I have enough space (Free Space: 6.68 GB) to do a partition for Mandrake? Well, that is all; I hope I can do a new partition, because I will not format my computer. I read that there is a program called Partition Magic... does this program really works? Once again I will not format my computer, not because I don't want, but because I can't... My computer is the server of my house; there are 5 more computers connected to it. Nobody here knows how to set up a server, so if I have to format my computer everybody here will hate me, and will start making plans of how to kill me :). OK, CYA guys and TIA. Antonio R. If you have Partition Magic , fine, PM can repartition without loss of data on either fat32 , ntfs or any other file sytem. If not , mandrake's diskdrake can repartition vfat(fat32) partitions but not ntfs. looks to me as though you created the dual boot windblows OS's, what partition tools did you use ? Also you have a something like 80gig hard drive, why not partition it up into some usful chunks, then use those spare partitions as usful storage partitions, or change the use to anything you want, it seems pointless to have C: of 15gigs, and a D: of 40gigs, if these contain as I assume, winblows OS's then 5gigs each would be ample. So if you have Partition Magic , start making use of it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Two questions:
On Saturday 02 Nov 2002 9:17 am, you wrote: Replies inline: OK, I’ve downloaded the ISO files from one of the mirrors of the Mandrake Linux site, and I checked the three files with the md5sum file and everything is OK. Then I burned the three files and restart my computer with the CD that has the first Mandrake Linux file and guess what?... My computer didn’t boot from the CD. I know that my computer can boot from a CD, but it doesn’t want to boot from a CD that has an ISO file. The ISO file is not burned to a CD the same way you would a data or music file. In your burning software, you will need to find the option burn from ISO (or something similar) and then point the software to each ISO file (one at a time). When burned as an ISO (file type set to ISO 9660, if there are other choices), the first CD should boot. If you use Nero I think it is called 'Burn an image' (which confused me, but it works) Well, that’s the first question, now the second one. I have a HD with the following partition: C:\ File System: FAT32 Size: 15.5 GB Free Space: 6.86 GB D:\ File System: NTFSSize: 40.2 GB Free Space: 19.8 GB OK, that is just one hard disk with two partitions :). I've read somewhere that I can't do a new partition in a NTFS file system because I'm going to loose all my information :( and I really don't want this to happen. So, can I do a partition JUST in the C:\ partition? I really don't understand how partitions work, but if I can do a new partition in the C:\ partition... Do I have enough space (Free Space: 6.68 GB) to do a partition for Mandrake? Partition Magic will resize an NTFS partition without losing data, provided that you have defragmented the drive first and that the new partition is put at the end of the drive, AFTER the resized NTFS partition. A word of caution: The remaining NTFS partition must be larger than the total amount of data stored on the original partition plus 25%. To operate properly, an NTFS partition that also contains the OS needs to have a minumum overhead of 25% to accommodate page-filing (virtual memory/swap).(Example: if you have 20GB used on an NTFS partition, then the resized partition must be a minimum of 25GB for the OS to operate properly.) I used Partition Magic 7.x quite sucessfully when I set up an XP and Mandrake dual boot machine. I have read that there are problems with PM earlier than 7 for ntfs partitions. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Two Questions
I won't have access to my Linux box for a week more but this is a question I have if anyone can shed some light. 1.) I have a Sansdisk USB flash card reader, how do I get Linux to see it and access the .jpg photos I have on them? 2.) I have an HP external CDwriter hooked up by parallel port. It is between the HP printer and the computer via the parallel port. How do I access it through Linux. I am able to use the printer fine by Linux doesn't see the CDwriter. At this time I have no use for it since I am not considering backing up or burning anything in particular. This is mostly out of play and curiosity. Thanks to all who shed some light on these two issues for me. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Two Questions
On Thursday 04 October 2001 00:42, PENA FAMILY spoke unto the masses thusly: 1.) I have a Sansdisk USB flash card reader, how do I get Linux to see it and access the .jpg photos I have on them? got one myself, moved it to my 8.1 box to see. the usb sees it, but when i try to mount it as a drive from the control center it reports an unknown file system. windows reports it as a fat (16 i assume) but 8.1 says no. could it be i am missing an important setting? the sandisk sight claims if you have a kernal higher than 2.4 it will simply work if you plug it in errr, not yet. :) -- He who laughs, lasts. shane http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Two Questions for thought
The printer uses the same driver as the DeskJet 550C, start "printtool" and search for the entry "HP DeskJet 550C/560C/6xxC series". After selecting that you will have the possibility to set the paper size and the printing quality. Choose 24 (Floyd Steinberg color) or 32 (Sometimes better than 24) bits per pixel to gain highest quality. For the sound card try "sndconfig", it succeeds to configure some sound cards where "sounddrake" has problems. Till Jay wrote: Till Kamppeter wrote: What version of Linux Mandrake are you using? Till Jay wrote: The second one: I bought a HP 648C Deskjet printer and I can't get that mofo working as well! I already tried the DrakeConf Printer setup to no avail. What are my options to set up my printer. It is a hassle to type out papers and have to get up early and go to class to print them out. Not to mention the problems that I have transferring the StarOffice format to .doc on occasions, i.e. text formatting, widows and orphans, etc.. I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me. I already know about sndconfig and printtool, but didn't use them yet. Are they more effective than other ways, or are other ways better? I am using Mandrake 7.1. -- Jay "May the sound of happy music, And the lilt of Irish laughter, fill your heart with gladness, that stays forever after." http://www.mrsnooky.com
Re: [newbie] Two Questions for thought
What version of Linux Mandrake are you using? Till Jay wrote: The second one: I bought a HP 648C Deskjet printer and I can't get that mofo working as well! I already tried the DrakeConf Printer setup to no avail. What are my options to set up my printer. It is a hassle to type out papers and have to get up early and go to class to print them out. Not to mention the problems that I have transferring the StarOffice format to .doc on occasions, i.e. text formatting, widows and orphans, etc.. I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me. I already know about sndconfig and printtool, but didn't use them yet. Are they more effective than other ways, or are other ways better?
[newbie] Two Questions for thought
I have two problems that need addressing. The first one: I have a SoundBlaster 16PCI Sound Card that I can't get configured properly, therefore no sound. What is the easiest and most effective way to configure it for sound. Please leave no path unexplored. The second one: I bought a HP 648C Deskjet printer and I can't get that mofo working as well! I already tried the DrakeConf Printer setup to no avail. What are my options to set up my printer. It is a hassle to type out papers and have to get up early and go to class to print them out. Not to mention the problems that I have transferring the StarOffice format to .doc on occasions, i.e. text formatting, widows and orphans, etc.. I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me. I already know about sndconfig and printtool, but didn't use them yet. Are they more effective than other ways, or are other ways better? -- Jay "May the sound of happy music, And the lilt of Irish laughter, fill your heart with gladness, that stays forever after." "May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend." http://www.mrsnooky.com
Re: [newbie] Two Questions for thought
i can't say much about the printer problem, mine doesn't work either =) as to the sound i think you have to use sndconfig. i don't think there is any other way. also make sure your window manager isn't involved. i have seen some situations on this list where it was simply that the volume was turnned down in KDE and in my case, i use Enlightenment, and i had no sound until i ran esd. so run sndconfig -- and they say you should not do it under X and i think you have to be root. i don't remember now as i did mine so long ago =) hope that helps Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3:09:35 PM 11/24/00 I have two problems that need addressing. The first one: I have a SoundBlaster 16PCI Sound Card that I can't get configured properly, therefore no sound. What is the easiest and most effective way to configure it for sound. Please leave no path unexplored. The second one: I bought a HP 648C Deskjet printer and I can't get that mofo working as well! I already tried the DrakeConf Printer setup to no avail. What are my options to set up my printer. It is a hassle to type out papers and have to get up early and go to class to print them out. Not to mention the problems that I have transferring the StarOffice format to .doc on occasions, i.e. text formatting, widows and orphans, etc.. I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me. I already know about sndconfig and printtool, but didn't use them yet. Are they more effective than other ways, or are other ways better? -- Jay "May the sound of happy music, And the lilt of Irish laughter, fill your heart with gladness, that stays forever after." "May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend." http://www.mrsnooky.com
Re: [newbie] Two Questions for thought
In a message dated 11/24/2000 7:42:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have two problems that need addressing. The first one: I have a SoundBlaster 16PCI Sound Card that I can't get configured properly, therefore no sound. What is the easiest and most effective way to configure it for sound. Please leave no path unexplored. I remember reading something about that in a HowTo. Check some of those out! ~Lance
Re: [expert] [newbie] Two Questions
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 08:37:31AM -0400, Monty Malik wrote: - Hi all, - - Just a few questions. But first my configuration. - - I am running Mandrake 7.02 on a PII 400 with 128M Ram, using - enlightenment as a windows manager. - - Now down to the questions: - - Samba Problems: - - I am trying to consistently connect to a directory on a win98 - machine. I can connect fine and can access the files without any - problems. However, if I keep both computers idle for about a day, I - lose my samba connection. For some reason I get disconected. I can - remount the samba share, without any problems and it works fine, but - will eventually disconnect itself. Any ideas what may be going on? The SMB protocol appears to drop connections from time to time. I have seen this on different versions of Samba on different versions of LInux and on Windows. My workaround is to reconnect. I run a virus scan of my Windows machines from a cron job on my server. The virus scan is prefaced by unmounting and remounting all the drives to be scanned. - - TCP/IP performance: - - I have a cable connection which is attached to an OpenBSD box, which - serves the net to my other computers. When I am downloading a large file - on my linux machine, my mouse becomes extremely jumpy and difficult to - move around. This only occurs when downloading files larger than 5megs - at a speed greater than 65kbps. Any one know why what causing this, and - any ideas on what I can do to prevent this from occuring. Odd. I have seen stuff like this caused by an IRQ conflict between the mouse and some other hardware such as the ethernet card or the hard drive. That was on much slower computers, but you might check it out. -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
[newbie] Two Questions
Hi all, Just a few questions. But first my configuration. I am running Mandrake 7.02 on a PII 400 with 128M Ram, using enlightenment as a windows manager. Now down to the questions: Samba Problems: I am trying to consistently connect to a directory on a win98 machine. I can connect fine and can access the files without any problems. However, if I keep both computers idle for about a day, I lose my samba connection. For some reason I get disconected. I can remount the samba share, without any problems and it works fine, but will eventually disconnect itself. Any ideas what may be going on? TCP/IP performance: I have a cable connection which is attached to an OpenBSD box, which serves the net to my other computers. When I am downloading a large file on my linux machine, my mouse becomes extremely jumpy and difficult to move around. This only occurs when downloading files larger than 5megs at a speed greater than 65kbps. Any one know why what causing this, and any ideas on what I can do to prevent this from occuring. That's about it. Thanks is advance for the help Monty
[newbie] Two questions
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[newbie] two questions
One involves FTP accesses. I am setting up a Linux server to be a web server and installed Apache that came with the Linux-Mandrake v6.0 package. It installs the web server to start at /home/httpd/html/index.html. So far so good. But I want to let a remote user maintain the site that will hosted on this server. I have not found how to get FTP write access to that directory! Or how to set FTP accesses anywhere yet. Is there printable documentation about this somewhere? I have a background in WinNT and Netware security and have them figured out, but this is a big mystery. The other part is permissions. I am used to using Netware and WinNT and NTFS permissions. When I set a group permission, I would have expected it to filter down the directory tree, but it apparently doesn't. And I would have expected group membership by a user to be additive for the user and it apparently isn't. In SAMBA, I found the admin user keyword and that helps. I have a couple of books on Linux in general, but they are light on user/group permissions and heavy on programing, modules, and user interface stuff. Any suggested reading??? Thanks in advance, Lyle
[newbie] Two questions
I hope two questions in one message doesn't put me over my limit ;o). I have successfully downloaded and installed WP 8.0. I had thought that the printer I have installed (Deskjet 695c -- passed the Postscript test in printtool) would be recognized. Guess not ;-( When I go to Printer setup, I'm not sure what to put in the box "Path for downloadable fonts". Does anything need to go there?? How about in the box "Destination" The printer is hooked to my parallel port, I think it's called lp1 (I put dev/lp1 in the box -- doesn't work). Any help would be appreciated as WP is not much use w/o being able to print. I'm using a standard installation Mandrake 5.3. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Two questions
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 04:44:12PM -0400, Michael Scottaline wrote: I hope two questions in one message doesn't put me over my limit ;o). I have successfully downloaded and installed WP 8.0. I had thought that the printer I have installed (Deskjet 695c -- passed the Postscript test in printtool) would be recognized. Guess not ;-( When I go to Printer setup, I'm not sure what to put in the box "Path for downloadable fonts". Does anything need to go there?? How about in the box "Destination" The printer is hooked to my parallel port, I think it's called lp1 (I put dev/lp1 in the box -- doesn't work). Any help would be appreciated as WP is not much use w/o being able to print. I'm using a standard installation Mandrake 5.3. You have a couple options on this. First, you could visit the WordPerfect site and see if they have any printer drivers for your specific printer. I've found (and I have to admit this was with an old Epson dot-matrix) that the WP drivers worked better than the second option when I tried them. If they don't have specific drivers for your printer, you'll need to configure a printer in WordPerfect called "Passthrough Postscript". This will create a postscript file out of your document, then pass it to lpd to filter and print. Once you've got that printer available, you want to set the destination for that printer to "lp". That'll send it on to the lpd on your system (and that should work fine since your PostScript test worked earlier). The difference I saw between the two drivers is probably largely negated by printers that are more modern than the 24-pin dot matrix printer I was working with. I've been extremely pleased with both the native WP driver and lpd for output on my HP LaserJet 6L. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
