Re: [newbie-it] Enlightenment
Il gio, 22 giu 2000, hai scritto: Ciao, simile al problema di Matteo;ma anche per enlightenment. Nonostate aver fatto diversi tentativi di avviare i daemons audio per Gnome ed Enlightenment,non ottengo nulla; - sia da root che da utente - Ad esempio,provo ad abilitare il suono sotto E,e la risposta e' che c'e' un errore nel momento di collegarsi all'audio server "Esound". Ho provato ad estendere i permessi di Esound,ma ottengo lo stesso errore. Premetto che la scheda audio e' una Creative PCI 128 originale,e che viene configurata come una ES1371 (posso ascoltare CD ed MP3 anche sotto X Window),e che i package rpm per il suono (vedi gnome-audio ed e-sound) sono installati. Grazie in anticipo per l'eventuale aiuto. Aggiungo soltanto che io possiedo invece una Sound Blaster PCI 64V configurata anche lei come ES1371. Inoltre noto in questo momento che sotto KDE non mi vengono presentate la caratteristiche della scheda audio in "Centro di controllo KDE" e mi viene detto che il tipo di audio non è supportato...
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Re: [newbie-it] Enlightenment
mmm... strano, i passi da fare sono: 1) eseguire sndconfig accertandosi che tutti i suoni di esempio vengano riprodotti correttamente 2) fatto questo sndconfig oltre a configurare la scheda audio crea in /dev un file dsp che viene utilizzato come periferica di output sonoro, andare su enlightenment col pulsante destro del mouse si accede al menu' delle configurazioni cliccare sulla voce audio settings e abilitare l'audio a questo punto dovrebbe filare tutto liscio, se non fosse cosi provare a lanciare manualmente esd da un terminale e provare se funziona... Se tutto questo non funzionasse fammi sapere. On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Simone Ravarotto wrote: Ciao, simile al problema di Matteo;ma anche per enlightenment. Nonostate aver fatto diversi tentativi di avviare i daemons audio per Gnome ed Enlightenment,non ottengo nulla; - sia da root che da utente - Ad esempio,provo ad abilitare il suono sotto E,e la risposta e' che c'e' un errore nel momento di collegarsi all'audio server "Esound". Ho provato ad estendere i permessi di Esound,ma ottengo lo stesso errore. Premetto che la scheda audio e' una Creative PCI 128 originale,e che viene configurata come una ES1371 (posso ascoltare CD ed MP3 anche sotto X Window),e che i package rpm per il suono (vedi gnome-audio ed e-sound) sono installati. Grazie in anticipo per l'eventuale aiuto.
[newbie-it] emulatore win
Ho bisogno di utilizzare un dizionario della Garzanti che gira solo su Windowz :-( Qualcuno di voi sa consigliarmi un emulatore di win per linux in modo che mi sia possibile utilizzare in qualche maniera questo dizionario? Ciao, Davide
[newbie-it] Ripartizionamento delle partizioni
Salve a tutti, Ho installato ormai da un po Mandrake 7.0 su un sistema ove preesiteva windows 98. Nell'installazione l'utility e' stata piuttosto parca nel dimensionare le partizioni linux. Ora mi ritrovo le partizioni linux piene (98%) mentre quella windoes (che ovviamente NON USO!) praticamente vuota. Qualcuno puo' indicarmi come ridistribuire lo spazio tra le partizioni senza fare un macello? Grazie fin da ora per l'aiuto, ed attenzione, quando si dice newbie significa che sono proprio newbie! Ovvero siate sempilici nella risposta, come se fossi un idiota! Saluti a tutti Cosma Scaramella
[newbie-it] Mandrake 7.0 e Plexwriter 8432A
Hoconnesso il masterizzatore (Plexwriter 8432A) e il drive CDROM allo stesso controller IDE (il secondo) rispettivamente come master e slave; dopo aver terminato l'installazione della MAndrake il masterizzatore risulta montato ma non riesco a leggere da quest'ultimo (msg di errore:"non e' possibile leggere dal dispositivo"). Qualcuno sa come posso risolvere il problema ? Enrico.
[newbie-it] Installazione/Configurazione XFree86 4.0
Ciao a tutti, ho un piccolo problema, ho installato il suddetto server x sulla MDK 7.1, ma si ostina a non voler partire. Mi da FATAL ERROR perchè non trova il font 'fixed'. Io ho provato a cercarlo ovunque ma pare proprio che questo font sul mio pc non esista proprio. Non so se, e dove può esistere, un file di configurazione che ne imposta un'alias o un sostituto equivalente, per cui non so come uscirne. Grazie a tutti Luca
Re: [newbie-it] Enlightenment
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, a day in the life, Simone Ravarotto wrote: Ciao, simile al problema di Matteo;ma anche per enlightenment. Nonostate aver fatto diversi tentativi di avviare i daemons audio per Gnome ed Enlightenment,non ottengo nulla; - sia da root che da utente - Ad esempio,provo ad abilitare il suono sotto E,e la risposta e' che c'e' un errore non so se si risolva ancora cosi' ma a volte e' sufficiente (ma non detto in effetti) aggiungere l'utente al gruppo audio. bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia www.acidlife.com/aciderror/freefred Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://i.am/freefred ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie] mouse problem
Yes, that mouse works just fine. i read that mandrake can use almost any mouse, but i have a microsoft intellimouse,can linux also use that mouse? i dont know if they could make it only used on windows, since they also have the winmodem, which unfortunately i also have, and i hear cant be used on anything but windows. -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
[newbie] Right Mouse Button and kde problems
Hello everybody, I have just installed Mandrake 7.1. Using kde when i click on the right button of the mouse on the desktop to add link to a new application of file system device and so on the only option I get is:new folder ( nothing more), this isthe same problem i used to have after installing staroffice with kde integration but this time no star office is installed. Another minor problem is that the kcmclock application seems to be disappeared from the kde control panel. Thanks in advance for your help Ottavia Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [[newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?] new explanation
Where did you get the idea that Hard Disk Drivers flash the BIOS? Every different model of motherboard has a different BIOS, there is no way they could provide BIOS changes for every motherboard. Yes, these drivers can cause problems and they can be difficult to remove (though some do now have uninstallation procedures), but they are simply a driver that starts from the MBR and intercepts all disk access code. - Peter Ogden Perth, West Australia E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.esbconsult.com.au/ogden/ or: http://surf.to/locost/ -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 22 June 2000 9:03 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?] new explanation The most likely causes of this error actually has nothing to do with the MBR, where it is at, or the size of any partitions. If your hd was ever formatted using a manufacturer floppy ( with IBM it is EZDrive, Maxtor is MaxBlast and I am sure others also have their own). The program not only formatted your drive but it also flashed your BIOS to fool the hd size limitation and UDMA 66 incompatibility that older BIOSs had. If this is the case then neither LILO nor BootMagic can or will work as a bootloader on your system. SystemCommander will work and in Mandrake 7.1 GRUB will work.If neither of these 2 is an option then the only be able to boot Linux is from a floppy. Charles - Original Message - From: "Michael Scottaline" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 5:06 AM Subject: Re: [[newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?] "aifusionextreme" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: big snip The only Clue is the size: Boot magic actually gives an error message which says that the primary partition must be in the first 1023 cylnders. Why is cares about the rest of the HD and not just the mbr I cant farthom. But there you have it. Since boot magic wont install and lilo does but fails I assume they both cant handle larger drives. When I installed before I had nice neat partitions around the 2-4 GB mark. I assume this didnt exceed the 1023 cylders option, assuming that this is the cause. Currently I have a 14GB and a 40GB. Both exitbite the same behavoiur. if any body with the no-how can help in confirming this theory or indictae what limitations the software might have the Please Help. It is not just me as you acan see from the posting. If there is a cyclionder limitation can you explain why a boot manager needs to know about anythning but the mbr ? More importantly how can go about fixing this bug ? = The size of the drive is NOT that critical, provided the boot sector is BELOW the 1024 limit (usually about 8 gig). Thus create a small (10-12 meg) boot partition below that limit (entirely) and linux should boot just fine. Caldera has included a new booter in their eDesktop 2.4 distribution that evidently doesn't have this limitation. My guess is that most distro will be following suit with something similar in upcoming editions of their own distros. Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Right Mouse Button and kde problems
What works for me is to right-click within any other directory (i.e. AutoStart) and create the new link, and then move it to the desktop. At 11:29 PM 6/22/2000 -0700, you wrote: Hello everybody, I have just installed Mandrake 7.1. Using kde when i click on the right button of the mouse on the desktop to add link to a new application of file system device and so on the only option I get is:new folder ( nothing more), this isthe same problem i used to have after installing staroffice with kde integration but this time no star office is installed. Another minor problem is that the kcmclock application seems to be disappeared from the kde control panel. Thanks in advance for your help Ottavia Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Right Mouse Button and kde problems
Another quick fix is to open your 'home' directory icon from the desktop and then click on 'Desktop'; you should have all the options at that point. I'm curious though, I'm using 7.1 and my $user account does have right click options - root however doesn't. Is that your case also? Mike Jeff Lee wrote: What works for me is to right-click within any other directory (i.e. AutoStart) and create the new link, and then move it to the desktop. At 11:29 PM 6/22/2000 -0700, you wrote: Hello everybody, I have just installed Mandrake 7.1. Using kde when i click on the right button of the mouse on the desktop to add link to a new application of file system device and so on the only option I get is:new folder ( nothing more), this isthe same problem i used to have after installing staroffice with kde integration but this time no star office is installed. Another minor problem is that the kcmclock application seems to be disappeared from the kde control panel. Thanks in advance for your help Ottavia -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] simple question
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Gary Morgan wrote: ok, I'm new to Linux, the only knowledge I have is from the books I have read. But all of them have seem to skip over, what seems to me as, simple questions. 1. I notice when I do an "# ls" I get a directory listing but some objects (files, directorys etc.) are listed in different color text, or have distinctive markings next to them (ie. directories are blue, symbolic links have the "@" symbol next to them). What do all these, besides the ones I have mentioned mean? It is due to the fact that mandrake sets up several aliases during install. type "alias" and you will see that ls stands for "ls --color=auto -F" (--color=auto for colors and -F to add @ to symlinks, * to executable files, / to directories, ...) man ls for more details 2. What are the exact differences between the install security levels? I noticed that if I install with "High" security I cannot, by default, login via ftp or telnet, even from the local machine, and I cannot restart (via ctrl-alt-del) without being logged in first, however I can do both if I install with "Medium" security. This is handled by the msec package. Look at /usr/doc/msecversion/security.txt and msec.ps for details about different security levels. You can use the msec command to switch from one security level to another (man msec) TIA, Gary Morgan HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Right Mouse Button and kde problems
From: Mike Tracy Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Right Mouse Button and kde problems Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:39:13 -0700 Another quick fix is to open your 'home' directory icon from the desktop and then click on 'Desktop'; you should have all the options at that point. I'm curious though, I'm using 7.1 and my $user account does have right click options - root however doesn't. Is that your case also? Yes it is Ottavia Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] error with install of tar.gz files
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: thanks so much...you were right...I was missing these packages !!! I installed them...and then tried again...to install "screem" and got the attached error...what's wrong NOW? it went fine until I got this error...I then installed both ... pixbuf 0.7.0 and its devel package...and still I got the attached error WHY? Well, I don't see your error (did you attach it?). My advice is to go back from the beginning and try again. A sure bet is to delete the /dir that you untar'd the source to and start over from there, unpacking the source all over again. Sometimes a 'make mrproper' (before (./config) will clean up the source. Sometimes some source won't compile on some hardware. A good clue for this case is if the compile errors out at different places and/or with different error messages. Many compiles really strain the system's cpu/cache/ram so it could be a hardware problem. Even in this case, often just keep trying over and over till the compile is successful. Depends on how stubborn you are ;) or maybe you forgot to 'su' to root before running 'make install' ? ;) -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: attached is the error, I get when trying to install the latest SCREEM html editor... why am I getting this...anyone know... and why isn't my C compiler functioning? I've tried uninstalling all the gcc stuff on the CD...then re-installing...still I get this error. is there some other packages that also need to be operational...to allow C compiler to function...? YES http://www.mandrakeuser.org/basics/bsource.html look 'bout half way down the page an you'll see a list of everything that's usually needed to compile most all source. It's mostly 'devel' and 'lib' packages you're prob'ly missing While you're there, read the whole section MOF, the whole site is invaluable ;-) -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer 7 si up and running
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi, I appears that MDK7.1 does add the icons for RealPlayer as 7.0 did. And, the Panel to be very lean. Does any one know how to add RealPlayer7 under Multimedia? Not only that but you have to type in and call up the kmenuedit. Whenever you try to configure, an error message appears indicating that it isn't installed. But, it is! It does not seem as user friendly or am I missing something? Roman With 7.0, I use to (as user) 'su' to root and run 'kmenuedit' from a console. Worked fine. For some reasons I don't understand yet, while I can still do this in 7.1, the menu changes don't last, ie, are permanent. What I have found to work is logout of user and log back into as root (ie, to root's desktop) and then use the menu editor. Then my changes are 'permanent'. So try logging in as root and running the menu editor. You should be able to drag n'drop RP's listing. I've found that to be a problem sometimes also, so then I just delete the menu item and recreate it where I want it. IIRC, RP was one of these. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Piero wrote: Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on furiously for a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, program set up by Mandrake to act regularly at this time. I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look at crontable(s) and acron tables, without much success: for one side I haven't had the patience to study their format, for the other they seem to launch programs for which I didn't fint a man page. Daoes anybody know? rpm -qi msec HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] How to install Netscape ?
Piero écrivit : I just down loades Netscape 4.73. It's a src.rpm and I never installed such packages. What do I have to do? Thanks. Why have you download this package. It's used to build RPM packages, witch are available in 7.1 and Cooker distributions. To use it, just enter « rpm --rebuild --target=i586 netscape*4.73*.src.rpm » and install RPMs package which will be created. -- MandrakeSofthttp://www.mandrakesoft.com PARIS, FRANCE --David
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 startup problem
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: Somebody help me please, After installtion of my MandRake 7.0 is doesn't boot/startupB. When I boot it with my Floppy created bootdisk during installation it start/boot. How do I configure my new Linux Box to startup from hardisk? thank you! We need to know if your using lilo or grub. Then you should post the appropriate conf file. either '/etc/lilo.conf' for lilo, or '/boot/grub/menu.lst' for grub. Also post '/etc/fstab' and the ouput of 'fdisk -l' (you can copy and paste from Konsole) If you review these files yourself and are sure they're correct for your system, then running (as root) '/sbin/lilo' or '/sbin/grub' should allow you to boot from HDD. Problem is if they aren't correct, you'll prob'ly make things worse :( An easier and faster solution would be to boot from the Mandrake installation CD and choose 'upgrade'. Might fix it, might not. I suspect this would only work if you chose not to install a bootloader (eg, lilo) during your initial install. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error
Hi, am having the same problem. Can use the CDPlayer ok but when it comes to system beeps and blurps it won't. I can't get xmms to reproduce any mp3 either. I had Debian installed and it worked OK, i had to configure it all by hand, recompile the kernel and all but it worked. As mandrake did the trick for me and it is a little differentfrom Debian I don't know whta to do. My problem with Debian was thatall the libs are opld and the newer programs couldn't work and my Internet link is so slow :( that an on-line update is not an option. Any help is much welcome as my girlfriend did like KDE very much more than windoze but she does want to hear it beep and blurp :) ... -f. -Original Message-From: Joe Lore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: viernes 23 de junio de 2000 12:12To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error I never saw a copy of my last message so please forgive if you got this twice. Hi,Thanks to all the help I have successfully installed Mandrake 7.1.I am having one small issue though. I have a Sound Blaster Live and thedriver loads ok, I am able to play CD's and I get the test sound when I goto the configurator.I'm not, however, able to enable system sounds. When I try to enable systemsounds I get an error like:There was an error with the audio server (Esound) (is this the ESD?) system sounds have beendisabled.What causing this?Thanks again for the help.Joe
Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
If your security is set to High or Paranoid, it's running a nightly security system audit. -David Talbot At 06:58 AM 6/24/00 -0400, you wrote: I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two occassions. It starts on the primary HDD and goes through all of them until it's satisfied. Eats up a lot of CPU doing it too! It's like there's a massive search going on. What's up with this? -- Mark I love my Linux Box! REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563 On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Piero wrote: Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on furiously for a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, program set up by Mandrake to act regularly at this time. I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look at crontable(s) and acron tables, without much success: for one side I haven't had the patience to study their format, for the other they seem to launch programs for which I didn't fint a man page. Daoes anybody know?
[newbie] svgalib not as root
how do i give non root users io permissions for svgalib? i have lots of gfx programs and a few games that use it, and i'd rather not logon as root(or su ) unless it is necessary.
Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
What if it's set to medium? If I remember correctly that's what I have mine set to. I tried setting it to because I don't yet have my firewall in place. That's another issue...anyway, when I set it to high I couldn't use sendmail, or httpd (internally) I use httpd internally to develope with PERL. I use sendmail with Pine just because it's a bit faster than my ISP's SMPT server. David Talbot wrote: If your security is set to High or Paranoid, it's running a nightly security system audit. -David Talbot At 06:58 AM 6/24/00 -0400, you wrote: I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two occassions. It starts on the primary HDD and goes through all of them until it's satisfied. Eats up a lot of CPU doing it too! It's like there's a massive search going on. What's up with this? -- Mark I love my Linux Box! REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563 On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Piero wrote: Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on furiously for a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, program set up by Mandrake to act regularly at this time. I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look at crontable(s) and acron tables, without much success: for one side I haven't had the patience to study their format, for the other they seem to launch programs for which I didn't fint a man page. Daoes anybody know? -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563
Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..? Thanks Joe - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Piero" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight? I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two occassions. It starts on the primary HDD and goes through all of them until it's satisfied. Eats up a lot of CPU doing it too! It's like there's a massive search going on. What's up with this? -- Mark I love my Linux Box! REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563 On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Piero wrote: Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on furiously for a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, program set up by Mandrake to act regularly at this time. I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look at crontable(s) and acron tables, without much success: for one side I haven't had the patience to study their format, for the other they seem to launch programs for which I didn't fint a man page. Daoes anybody know?
Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
Joe Lore wrote: That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..? Thanks Joe - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Piero" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight? I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two occassions. It starts on the primary HDD and goes through all of them until it's satisfied. Eats up a lot of CPU doing it too! It's like there's a massive search going on. What's up with this? -- Mark I love my Linux Box! REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563 On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Piero wrote: Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on furiously for a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, program set up by Mandrake to act regularly at this time. I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look at crontable(s) and acron tables, without much success: for one side I haven't had the patience to study their format, for the other they seem to launch programs for which I didn't fint a man page. Daoes anybody know? That IS an intersting question! I would be VERY interested in know that myself. I've been looking around the system and haven't seen anything like that yet, but if I would be running windows when that happened the other day and again this morning I would have sworn "Find Fast" was running and updating the file system indexes. -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563
RE: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
you can use fsck which is kinda like scandisk i don't know about a defrag tool.(i once had an nt box that was 98% fragmented!) -Original Message- From: Joe Lore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 June 2000 14:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight? That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..? Thanks Joe - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Piero" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight? I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two occassions. It starts on the primary HDD and goes through all of them until it's satisfied. Eats up a lot of CPU doing it too! It's like there's a massive search going on. What's up with this? -- Mark I love my Linux Box! REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563 On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Piero wrote: Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on furiously for a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, program set up by Mandrake to act regularly at this time. I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look at crontable(s) and acron tables, without much success: for one side I haven't had the patience to study their format, for the other they seem to launch programs for which I didn't fint a man page. Daoes anybody know?
RE: [newbie] mouse problem
-Original Message- From: Walter Hanagriff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 June 2000 05:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] mouse problem i read that mandrake can use almost any mouse, but i have a microsoft intellimouse,can linux also use that mouse? i dont know if they could make it only used on windows, since they also have the winmodem, which unfortunately i also have, and i hear cant be used on anything but windows. if you chose the Custom install option you get to chose what mouse you have, and The Intelimouse is there, otherwise it installs it as a standard 2 button PS2. I have the Intelimouse Explorer (the cool thing with the red light :-) and whilst I got most of it working, I was wondering if anyone knows of a util I could use to configure the two extra buttons on the side? -- Nicholas Avenell
Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
ext3 filesystems don't need a defrag program because they don't become fragmented (Well they do, but not more than a fraction of a percent) as for scandisk, it's "fsck" or filesystem check. If you yank the cable out of the wall, or power off your computer without shutting down, next boot time it will automatically run fsck on the effected drives. This can take a long time. (1-20 minutes) ReiserFS to the rescue... an option on the 7.1 installation was to format your partitions as ReiserFS. It is very similar to ext2 in performance and near nill fragmentation, but is Journaled. In other words, keeps a record of what is written so if the system is powered off without shutting down it "knows where to look" for half written blocks on the disk thus making filesystem checks take signifigantly less time (1-10 seconds) -David Talbot At 09:42 AM 6/23/00 -0400, you wrote: That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..? Thanks Joe - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Piero" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight? I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two occassions. It starts on the primary HDD and goes through all of them until it's satisfied. Eats up a lot of CPU doing it too! It's like there's a massive search going on. What's up with this? -- Mark I love my Linux Box! REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563 On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Piero wrote: Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on furiously for a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, program set up by Mandrake to act regularly at this time. I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look at crontable(s) and acron tables, without much success: for one side I haven't had the patience to study their format, for the other they seem to launch programs for which I didn't fint a man page. Daoes anybody know?
Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
I looked at the cron.daily and it's probably rotating the log files. To see what your system is running at midnight look at: /etc/cron.daily -david Talbot At 09:42 AM 6/23/00 -0400, you wrote: That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..? Thanks Joe - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Piero" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight? I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two occassions. It starts on the primary HDD and goes through all of them until it's satisfied. Eats up a lot of CPU doing it too! It's like there's a massive search going on. What's up with this? -- Mark I love my Linux Box! REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563 On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Piero wrote: Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on furiously for a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, program set up by Mandrake to act regularly at this time. I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look at crontable(s) and acron tables, without much success: for one side I haven't had the patience to study their format, for the other they seem to launch programs for which I didn't fint a man page. Daoes anybody know?
Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Joe Lore wrote: That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..? Thanks Joe I already saw a "defrag.tgz" package, but AFAIK, the ext2 driver takes care of defragmentation by itself. About scnadisk, there is e2fsck. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 startup problem
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Linux Neophite wrote: Somebody help me please, After installtion of my MandRake 7.0 is doesn't boot/startupB. When I boot it with my Floppy created bootdisk during installation it start/boot. How do I configure my new Linux Box to startup from hardisk? thank you! Did you create a small boot partition at the beginning of your harddisk for LILO to be at? MD 7.0 needs that. Lilo cannot boot from anywhere beyond cylinder 1024 in that release. MDK 7.1 seems to have fixed that problem, I do not know yet, since I still have to get that one. Paul -- If you lose money, you lose nothing. If you lose (the) honour, you lose a lot. If you lose your courage, you've lost everything. But if you lose friendship, then you've lost the world! )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, David Talbot wrote: Verified :'s. I think I may have set the security level to High on this machine (usually I use medium and handle security details like open ports and daemons myself... Maybe when you tell the installer to use High security, meebe methinks it could take management of certain tasks outside of even the root domain... Anybody with any knowledge of Mandrake's High Security setting would be a godsend... I hope someone like that is here then, my knowledge ends. Otherwise you might want to try the experts list. Good luck! Paul -- If you lose money, you lose nothing. If you lose (the) honour, you lose a lot. If you lose your courage, you've lost everything. But if you lose friendship, then you've lost the world! )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Joe Lore wrote: I'm not, however, able to enable system sounds. When I try to enable system sounds I get an error like: There was an error with the audio server (Esound) (is this the ESD?) system sounds have been disabled. When I am in Gnome, this happens to me too, with the SB 64 Awe. Normally I am in KDE and there are no problems there. Would be interesting indeed, if there's a fix to this. Paul -- If you lose money, you lose nothing. If you lose (the) honour, you lose a lot. If you lose your courage, you've lost everything. But if you lose friendship, then you've lost the world! )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] NTFS Partition and GRUB
I am happy to say that I really like Mandrake 7.1. Finally it has the support for my video card "voodoo 3000", and some of my usb devices =). I only have one problem. I can't get to my windows 2000 partition anymore. When the boot loader install came up, I sat there for about 5 minutes thinking about, should I make life easy and boot from a disk or try a boot loader. Well I went with GRUB, and setup an extra option to boot from my NTFS partition which is /hda1. GRUB comes up fine, but when I choose the 2000 partition is bombs out with an error. I know the error is important to know, but I can't remember exactly what it is. My first question is can I bootup with the 2000 boot disks and fdisk /mbr and remove the bootloader. I wasn't sure because it's a NTFS partition and not fat. Is lilo or Grub compat with a NTFS partition? did I mention I love this mailing list =) Alan
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[newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux
Hello everyone. I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows 98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb), the rest of the disk would be for Linux. Then I tried to install Mandrake, but DrakX told me that the partition for Linux is beyond the cylinder 1024, so I quit installation. I surfed the internet to read some howtos, but my confusion grew larger. My question is: can I install Linux without making a /boot partition within the cylinder 1024? Can I keep my hd like !Win98(10Gb)--!!Linux! or should I go to something like !-/boot-!!-Win98---!!-Linux--! Please, if you'd be so kind to clarify this to me. Thanks in advance. Hugo GONZALEZ
RE: [newbie] mouse problem
Title: RE: [newbie] mouse problem XFree 4.0 has support for that type of mouse... check XFree's web site... However, I still cannot make my wheel to work under Xfree 4 -Mensaje original- De: Nicholas Avenell [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: Viernes 23 de Junio de 2000 10:03 AM Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: RE: [newbie] mouse problem -Original Message- From: Walter Hanagriff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 June 2000 05:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] mouse problem i read that mandrake can use almost any mouse, but i have a microsoft intellimouse,can linux also use that mouse? i dont know if they could make it only used on windows, since they also have the winmodem, which unfortunately i also have, and i hear cant be used on anything but windows. if you chose the Custom install option you get to chose what mouse you have, and The Intelimouse is there, otherwise it installs it as a standard 2 button PS2. I have the Intelimouse Explorer (the cool thing with the red light :-) and whilst I got most of it working, I was wondering if anyone knows of a util I could use to configure the two extra buttons on the side? -- Nicholas Avenell
RE: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error
Hi, I've been wrestling with this problem since 7.1 was first out. At a minimum, I downloaded, compiled and installed the most recent driver from www.opensource.creativelabs.com (there is a newer driver there now that I haven't tested yet). That gave me CD sound, but no .WAV (so no system sounds) or MP3. I also keep getting permission errors on the mixer apps - I thought it might have been volume problem, but its not. From the list, it was highly recommended to get the most recent soundrake from the Mandrake site - something about it not making it into 7.1 - what used to work with configuring SBLive! cards in 7.02 was not completed or included in 7.1. So, I tried that, but it needed new ALSA version and newer device library (from Mandrake). I downloaded and installed device, and now soundrake doesn't start at all on my machine. I haven't tackled ALSA yet - I have the files, but haven;t tried the compile/install yet. This is VERY frustrating since the SBLive! card worked perfectly in 7.02, as long a you had the most current driver from creative. The card is listed on the supported hardware list, but seems like there will be a fair amount of work involved in getting it to work. If anyone develops a solution to this, or has the card working in 7.1 , please post it - I don't know yet if the soundrake/ALSA upgrade is going to work. Philomena At 10:01 AM 6/23/00 -0300, you wrote: Hi, am having the same problem. Can use the CDPlayer ok but when it comes to system beeps and blurps it won't. I can't get xmms to reproduce any mp3 either. I had Debian installed and it worked OK, i had to configure it all by hand, recompile the kernel and all but it worked. As mandrake did the trick for me and it is a little different from Debian I don't know whta to do. My problem with Debian was that all the libs are opld and the newer programs couldn't work and my Internet link is so slow :( that an on-line update is not an option. Any help is much welcome as my girlfriend did like KDE very much more than windoze but she does want to hear it beep and blurp :) ... -f. -Original Message- From: Joe Lore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: viernes 23 de junio de 2000 12:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error I never saw a copy of my last message so please forgive if you got this twice. Hi, Thanks to all the help I have successfully installed Mandrake 7.1. I am having one small issue though. I have a Sound Blaster Live and the driver loads ok, I am able to play CD's and I get the test sound when I go to the configurator. I'm not, however, able to enable system sounds. When I try to enable system sounds I get an error like: There was an error with the audio server (Esound) (is this the ESD?) system sounds have been disabled. What causing this? Thanks again for the help. Joe
[newbie] kde strangeness....
it's obviously a good day for questions from me... (ie. my internets down, so i cant browse for answers). Linux locked up while i was changing themes (i also thick someone was vncing into my box at the time) any how i have got some dodgy gfx drivers so i do get the occasional lockup.. when i rebooted, and logged into kde i had no desktop icons and the menu entries didn't work (except for the display configure and logout). i could still run stuff though rbm execute command or alt f2. i tried creating a new user and logging in (the desktop co was fine). i then copied the .kde desktop .kderc .xscreen? etc files from the new user to the broken one and chown,chgrp -R ed them all. the border, theme was reset but still no desktop icons and the menu entries don't btw. gnome co all work fine.
Re: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error
Yes I believe the issue is that ESD is not running. How do we check this and then get it to load at boot? Thanks, Joe - Original Message - From: Federico Silva To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 9:01 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error Hi, am having the same problem. Can use the CDPlayer ok but when it comes to system beeps and blurps it won't. I can't get xmms to reproduce any mp3 either. I had Debian installed and it worked OK, i had to configure it all by hand, recompile the kernel and all but it worked. As mandrake did the trick for me and it is a little differentfrom Debian I don't know whta to do. My problem with Debian was thatall the libs are opld and the newer programs couldn't work and my Internet link is so slow :( that an on-line update is not an option. Any help is much welcome as my girlfriend did like KDE very much more than windoze but she does want to hear it beep and blurp :) ... -f. -Original Message-From: Joe Lore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: viernes 23 de junio de 2000 12:12To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error I never saw a copy of my last message so please forgive if you got this twice. Hi,Thanks to all the help I have successfully installed Mandrake 7.1.I am having one small issue though. I have a Sound Blaster Live and thedriver loads ok, I am able to play CD's and I get the test sound when I goto the configurator.I'm not, however, able to enable system sounds. When I try to enable systemsounds I get an error like:There was an error with the audio server (Esound) (is this the ESD?) system sounds have beendisabled.What causing this?Thanks again for the help.Joe
Re: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error
Yes I believe the issue is that ESD is not running. How do we check this and then get it to load at boot? Thanks, Joe - Original Message - From: Federico Silva To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 9:01 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error Hi, am having the same problem. Can use the CDPlayer ok but when it comes to system beeps and blurps it won't. I can't get xmms to reproduce any mp3 either. I had Debian installed and it worked OK, i had to configure it all by hand, recompile the kernel and all but it worked. As mandrake did the trick for me and it is a little differentfrom Debian I don't know whta to do. My problem with Debian was thatall the libs are opld and the newer programs couldn't work and my Internet link is so slow :( that an on-line update is not an option. Any help is much welcome as my girlfriend did like KDE very much more than windoze but she does want to hear it beep and blurp :) ... -f. -Original Message-From: Joe Lore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: viernes 23 de junio de 2000 12:12To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error I never saw a copy of my last message so please forgive if you got this twice. Hi,Thanks to all the help I have successfully installed Mandrake 7.1.I am having one small issue though. I have a Sound Blaster Live and thedriver loads ok, I am able to play CD's and I get the test sound when I goto the configurator.I'm not, however, able to enable system sounds. When I try to enable systemsounds I get an error like:There was an error with the audio server (Esound) (is this the ESD?) system sounds have beendisabled.What causing this?Thanks again for the help.Joe
[newbie] my kde/x problems have got lot worse
i've go some page faults etc... in the messages log.. kdm[1152]: server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 0 kernel: unable to handel kernel paging request at virtual address 8be44591 kernel: current-tss.cr3 = 0c458000, %cr3 = 0c458000 kernel: *pde = kernel: Oops: kernel: CPU:0 kernel: EIP:0010:[d_lookup+124/216] kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282 kernel: eax: 8be44589ebx: cfa692c0ecx: 001e edx: 56695b7e kernel: esi: edi: 40012e30ebp: cff895e8 esp: cdb37ebc kernel: ss: 0018 ds:0018 es:0018 // wheres fs and a cpu dump? kernel: Process kdmdesktop (pid: 1183, process nr: opps it's locked up compleatly now!!! any clues as to the cause would be greatfully recieved. the only problem even remotly simila i had with mandrake 7.0 was after I had got mess-glx instlled.
Re: [[newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?] new explanation
Right, that's my impression as well. EZ-BIOS is actually referred to as a "BIOS overlay", it loads after the BIOS. I have dealt with EZ-BIOS and other pre-installed HD software (as on HP-distributed SCSI drives, Compaqs, etc.) in various ways, including: For EZ-BIOS, I've used unistall on the EZ-BIOS setup disk. For any IDE disk, I often use clear.hdd (acquired from Western Digital's site), which blows away any and all cylinder boundary markers in a few seconds. I've never used it on any of the new huge IDE drives (18GB+), so do so with caution. This is my preferred method, as it's quick and final. Finally, you should be able to use fdisk and format (DOS or Linux) to kill any offending partitions/MBR code. Just don't try to deal with this issue by reinstalling your BIOS! -- Peter Yellman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Ogden wrote: Where did you get the idea that Hard Disk Drivers flash the BIOS? Every different model of motherboard has a different BIOS, there is no way they could provide BIOS changes for every motherboard. Yes, these drivers can cause problems and they can be difficult to remove (though some do now have uninstallation procedures), but they are simply a driver that starts from the MBR and intercepts all disk access code. - Peter Ogden Perth, West Australia E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.esbconsult.com.au/ogden/ or: http://surf.to/locost/ -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 22 June 2000 9:03 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?] new explanation The most likely causes of this error actually has nothing to do with the MBR, where it is at, or the size of any partitions. If your hd was ever formatted using a manufacturer floppy ( with IBM it is EZDrive, Maxtor is MaxBlast and I am sure others also have their own). The program not only formatted your drive but it also flashed your BIOS to fool the hd size limitation and UDMA 66 incompatibility that older BIOSs had. If this is the case then neither LILO nor BootMagic can or will work as a bootloader on your system. SystemCommander will work and in Mandrake 7.1 GRUB will work.If neither of these 2 is an option then the only be able to boot Linux is from a floppy. Charles - Original Message - From: "Michael Scottaline" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 5:06 AM Subject: Re: [[newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?] "aifusionextreme" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: big snip The only Clue is the size: Boot magic actually gives an error message which says that the primary partition must be in the first 1023 cylnders. Why is cares about the rest of the HD and not just the mbr I cant farthom. But there you have it. Since boot magic wont install and lilo does but fails I assume they both cant handle larger drives. When I installed before I had nice neat partitions around the 2-4 GB mark. I assume this didnt exceed the 1023 cylders option, assuming that this is the cause. Currently I have a 14GB and a 40GB. Both exitbite the same behavoiur. if any body with the no-how can help in confirming this theory or indictae what limitations the software might have the Please Help. It is not just me as you acan see from the posting. If there is a cyclionder limitation can you explain why a boot manager needs to know about anythning but the mbr ? More importantly how can go about fixing this bug ? = The size of the drive is NOT that critical, provided the boot sector is BELOW the 1024 limit (usually about 8 gig). Thus create a small (10-12 meg) boot partition below that limit (entirely) and linux should boot just fine. Caldera has included a new booter in their eDesktop 2.4 distribution that evidently doesn't have this limitation. My guess is that most distro will be following suit with something similar in upcoming editions of their own distros. Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer 7 si up and running
I'll try that and post the results. Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi, I appears that MDK7.1 does add the icons for RealPlayer as 7.0 did. And, the Panel to be very lean. Does any one know how to add RealPlayer7 under Multimedia? Not only that but you have to type in and call up the kmenuedit. Whenever you try to configure, an error message appears indicating that it isn't installed. But, it is! It does not seem as user friendly or am I missing something? Roman With 7.0, I use to (as user) 'su' to root and run 'kmenuedit' from a console. Worked fine. For some reasons I don't understand yet, while I can still do this in 7.1, the menu changes don't last, ie, are permanent. What I have found to work is logout of user and log back into as root (ie, to root's desktop) and then use the menu editor. Then my changes are 'permanent'. So try logging in as root and running the menu editor. You should be able to drag n'drop RP's listing. I've found that to be a problem sometimes also, so then I just delete the menu item and recreate it where I want it. IIRC, RP was one of these. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] begin:vcard n:#179293;Roman x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 note:(This is email is fueled by Penguin Power Only) fn:Roman - Registered Linux User #179293 end:vcard
Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
That sounds awesome. Almost enough to make me want to upgrade to 7.1 already. Even though my 7.0 installation is just over a week old! -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563 David Talbot wrote: ext3 filesystems don't need a defrag program because they don't become fragmented (Well they do, but not more than a fraction of a percent) as for scandisk, it's "fsck" or filesystem check. If you yank the cable out of the wall, or power off your computer without shutting down, next boot time it will automatically run fsck on the effected drives. This can take a long time. (1-20 minutes) ReiserFS to the rescue... an option on the 7.1 installation was to format your partitions as ReiserFS. It is very similar to ext2 in performance and near nill fragmentation, but is Journaled. In other words, keeps a record of what is written so if the system is powered off without shutting down it "knows where to look" for half written blocks on the disk thus making filesystem checks take signifigantly less time (1-10 seconds) -David Talbot At 09:42 AM 6/23/00 -0400, you wrote: That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..? Thanks Joe - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Piero" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight? I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two occassions. It starts on the primary HDD and goes through all of them until it's satisfied. Eats up a lot of CPU doing it too! It's like there's a massive search going on. What's up with this? -- Mark I love my Linux Box! REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563 On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Piero wrote: Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on furiously for a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, program set up by Mandrake to act regularly at this time. I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look at crontable(s) and acron tables, without much success: for one side I haven't had the patience to study their format, for the other they seem to launch programs for which I didn't fint a man page. Daoes anybody know?
Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
flupke wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Joe Lore wrote: That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..? Thanks Joe I already saw a "defrag.tgz" package, but AFAIK, the ext2 driver takes care of defragmentation by itself. About scnadisk, there is e2fsck. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ ! So that means that the drive is actually being maintained in a defraged state continually in the background? -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 startup problem
Paul wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Linux Neophite wrote: Somebody help me please, After installtion of my MandRake 7.0 is doesn't boot/startupB. When I boot it with my Floppy created bootdisk during installation it start/boot. How do I configure my new Linux Box to startup from hardisk? thank you! Did you create a small boot partition at the beginning of your harddisk for LILO to be at? MD 7.0 needs that. Lilo cannot boot from anywhere beyond cylinder 1024 in that release. MDK 7.1 seems to have fixed that problem, I do not know yet, since I still have to get that one. Paul -- If you lose money, you lose nothing. If you lose (the) honour, you lose a lot. If you lose your courage, you've lost everything. But if you lose friendship, then you've lost the world! )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 I believe that is the case, however it's still very benificial to create a /boot partition for the boot files to reside in/on. That way at boot time there is much less to be initialized at the git-go and Linux loads much faster. -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563
[newbie] Warning: Mandrake changed DOS extended partition to Linux - how to fix
This email is a warning and solution that I hope will help someone out
there. Also included (of course) is my fix!
Symptom: After installing Linux Mandrake 7.1, Windows can't read any FAT
drives in the extended partition.
Further description: Computer that I was installing on had a 13G drive
partitioned as follows:
Primary DOS partition: 2 G for Windows.
DOS Extended partition: the rest.
Within that extended partition: 5 G FAT32 data partition for Windows.
The rest I left for Linux partitions.
After installing Mandrake I discovered that Windows could not read
FAT32 partition - seeing as all the programs and data and many
important things for the last six months were installed on the 5G FAT32 I
started to sweat. Especially since I knew very little about partitions
and the like. Windows FDISK saw the entire extended partition as
"NON-DOS" and refused to read it. Mandrake, installed on a
couple partitions at the end of the extended partition, still worked quite
happily. I was worried that Mandrake had somehow tried to resize the
5G DOS partition and messed it up, or killed it altogether (which
would have been a Bad Thing). After
educating myself extremely hurriedly on these topics, I discovered
what the problem was: Mandrake had changed the type of the DOS Extended
partition (that occupied the rest of the disk) from "Extended" to "Linux
Extended" (as seen by fdisk) at some point during the install. Of course
without telling me about it.
This problem was reproduceable as after fixing it the first time I had to
reinstall Mandrake (for various other complicated reasons) and it did
exactly the same thing again.
The fix:
Note: if you know nothing about partitions don't mess
around with fdisk !! Do as I did and forgo a night's sleep and learn all
you can on the web, docs, etc about what is going on _before_ looking at
fdisk. Then A) the problem, whether or not it is exactly the same as
here, will be much easier to solve, and B) you will have gained some
valuable knowledge, like I did :) I intend this email to be a
guide/confirmation/help in pointing out what's wrong; don't leap to do
this if you're not sure that you are having exactly the same problem.
- boot into Mandrake, or use a rescue disk (which is actually
what I was using as I had rewritten my Master Boot Record from windows
early in the diagnostic process, thinking that was part of the problem,
and thus I couldn't boot Linux anymore).
- Be Root
- run "fdisk /dev/hdX" where X is probably "a" (it was for me) if the
problem is on your first fixed disk.
- VERIFY that this is indeed your problem: type "p"; if your partition
table looks something like this (concoted) example it probably is:
Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 243 whatever 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 244 523 whatever 85 Linux Extended
/dev/hda5 244 399 whatever 6 FAT32
/dev/hda6 400 506 whatever 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 507 523 whatever 82 Linux swap
note how the Linux extended partition takes up the rest of the disk and
the FAT32 partition is contained within it.
- note the number (ie "hda2", "hda3", as you can see in the example it's
2) of the "Linux Extended" partition - it very likely takes up all
the space that isn't used by the first, primary, partition; and most all
other partitions are within it.
- hit ("t") to change the partition type. First you type the number, then
the new type. List all of the types and pick the one called
"Extended" (type 5 if I recall).
- write the table to disk
- reboot into Windows, all should be well
If this doesn't fix it or your problem doesn't sound quite the same don't
mess around with fdisk unless you know what you're doing. Or you might be
using some tools like "gpart" to recover your partitions from scratch :)
If you have the same problem as this and this works then I feel I will
have done my duty in life :)
Mark
--
"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is
not the reason we are doing it" -- Richard Feynman
[newbie] Preventing Bandwidth Hogging
At home I have a 384k U/D DSL with 4 machines masqed behind it. This is a problem that has been irking me for awhile, and my wife almost beat me to death last night, so here it is: If I start a big download with a fast site (Like a CDROM iso or a DIVX) All available bandwith is choked completely off. All other users on the network are unable to view web pages (they come up, but take an *insanely* long time). Is there a way to make it so you get a more reasonable use of bandwidth? Like run the download at 80% of available bandwith and additioanl connections at 20% or some such similar? -David Talbot
Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux
I had this same problem with Red Hat 6.1 a few months back. I fixed the problem by having a 15mb boot partition as hda1, win98 on a 10gb on hda2, and then a 10gb linux partition on hda3. Lilo worked fine like that to. - Original Message - From: Hugo GONZALEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 11:32 AM Subject: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux Hello everyone. I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows 98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb), the rest of the disk would be for Linux. Then I tried to install Mandrake, but DrakX told me that the partition for Linux is beyond the cylinder 1024, so I quit installation. I surfed the internet to read some howtos, but my confusion grew larger. My question is: can I install Linux without making a /boot partition within the cylinder 1024? Can I keep my hd like !Win98(10Gb)--!!Linux--- -! or should I go to something like !-/boot-!!-Win98---!!-Linux- -! Please, if you'd be so kind to clarify this to me. Thanks in advance. Hugo GONZALEZ
Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux
Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: Hello everyone. I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows 98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb), the rest of the disk would be for Linux. Then I tried to install Mandrake, but DrakX told me that the partition for Linux is beyond the cylinder 1024, so I quit installation. I surfed the internet to read some howtos, but my confusion grew larger. My question is: can I install Linux without making a /boot partition within the cylinder 1024? Can I keep my hd like !Win98(10Gb)--!!Linux! or should I go to something like !-/boot-!!-Win98---!!-Linux--! Please, if you'd be so kind to clarify this to me. Thanks in advance. Hugo GONZALEZ Hugo, This is very easy to fix. When you're doing the install and you're partition your HDD for Linux make these partitions. "/boot" = 10Meg "/" (your 'root' partition) = HOwever big your you want according to physical limits SWAP partition = 200 - 300 Meg that's really all there is to it. -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563
[newbie] DSL Questions
Hi I am planning to migrate from cablemodem to ADSL for a while to see if its going to be what I want. Is the setup basically the same? I do know that there will be a couple of differences, like the IP is going to be static so I will have to insert the IP address and the sub net mask I think instead of asking for dhcp stuff. Is that all I need to know?
[newbie] EPIC-100 Network Cark
Hi, all -- Do any of you know what the driver for the EPIC-100 Network chipset is? Specifically, the card is an SMC 9432, and in Mandrake 6.1, the proper driver was Epic-100. This driver doesn't seem to exist in the network configuration menu for Mandrake 7.0. I can't believe that anybody forgot it, but what's it called now? Thanks. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Ok dumb firewall question time
Is any firewall just for blocking ports or can it also protect the needed open ones like ftp 21 www 80 and so forth?
Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux
Cut down your VFAT partition to 8Gigs and try the install again. Seve -Original Message- From: Hugo GONZALEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, June 23, 2000 10:02 AM Subject: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux Hello everyone. I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows 98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb), the rest of the disk would be for Linux. Then I tried to install Mandrake, but DrakX told me that the partition for Linux is beyond the cylinder 1024, so I quit installation. I surfed the internet to read some howtos, but my confusion grew larger. My question is: can I install Linux without making a /boot partition within the cylinder 1024? Can I keep my hd like !Win98(10Gb)--!!Linux! or should I go to something like !-/boot-!!-Win98---!!-Linux--! Please, if you'd be so kind to clarify this to me. Thanks in advance. Hugo GONZALEZ
Re: [newbie] Cable modem
If you have a dynamic ip address, like one that changes, then when your machine asks you to setup your network, then tell it to use dchp (or dchpd) someting like that, anyway, if your isp has to give you your ip numbers and stuff, then its more thanlikely a static ip On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, you wrote: Is there a site with a good how to so I can set up Mandrake 7.0 to connect on the net with a cable modem -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface. This message was created with Linux
Re: [newbie] kde strangeness....
Oliver Stieber wrote: it's obviously a good day for questions from me... (ie. my internets down, so i cant browse for answers). Linux locked up while i was changing themes (i also thick someone was vncing into my box at the time) any how i have got some dodgy gfx drivers so i do get the occasional lockup.. when i rebooted, and logged into kde i had no desktop icons and the menu entries didn't work (except for the display configure and logout). i could still run stuff though rbm execute command or alt f2. i tried creating a new user and logging in (the desktop co was fine). i then copied the .kde desktop .kderc .xscreen? etc files from the new user to the broken one and chown,chgrp -R ed them all. the border, theme was reset but still no desktop icons and the menu entries don't btw. gnome co all work fine. I have only one thing to suggest to you at this time. Learn to say "firewall!" and mean it. Leaving your system open like that with vnc listening in the background is crazy! -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563
[newbie] Re: IP y POP virtuales
El jue, 22 jun 2000, Gabriel Capalbo escribió: Hola Amigos. Tengo un problema que me esta llevando mucho tiempo y no logro resolver. Desearia hacer funcionar el IP virtual y el Virtual POP. Poseo el Mandrake 6.1 esta funcionando en este momento como server de correo perfectamente, ahora cuando quiero hacer funcionar el IP virtual y el POP virtual, este no funciona. Poseo el kernel 2.2.13 mdk. mediante el linuxconf ya configure el ip virtual con el otro IP y ya configure el pop virtual mediante la linea que va en el inetd.conf (usr/lib/linuxconf/lib/vpop3d) pero no hay caso el ip virtual no funciona y el pop obviamente tampoco. EN QUE ESTOY FALLANDO? HAY ALGO EN EL KERNEL QUE ME ESTE TRABANDO ESTO? otraes posible hacer andar un virtual pop sin tener IP virtual? o sea sobre un mismo numero de IP? Gracias desde ya
Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux
I think that you should go with the second scheme. (I heard that Mandrake 7.1 solves this problem, though) Anyway the /boot partition shouldnt be too large either... Somebody more knowledgeble than me should be able to tell you how big (10megs?) Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: Hello everyone. I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows 98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb), the rest of the disk would be for Linux. Then I tried to install Mandrake, but DrakX told me that the partition for Linux is beyond the cylinder 1024, so I quit installation. I surfed the internet to read some howtos, but my confusion grew larger. My question is: can I install Linux without making a /boot partition within the cylinder 1024? Can I keep my hd like !Win98(10Gb)--!!Linux! or should I go to something like !-/boot-!!-Win98---!!-Linux--! Please, if you'd be so kind to clarify this to me. Thanks in advance. Hugo GONZALEZ -- --- Jose Alberto Abreu Bending space and time since 2053 ---
RE: [newbie] What happens at midnight? -- This!
Several things happen at night. 1) Msec runs it's security updates 2) If tripwire is installed it runs it's check 3) slocate runs to create the "locate" database 4) makewhatis runs to create the "whatis" database 5) Most of your services are stopped as ... 6) the logrotate job runs to truncate archive the old logs 7) then your services are restarted 8) tmpwatch runs to clean the /tmp files 9) anacron runs to update time stamps 10)unused TeX fonts are removed 11)Inn Daemons run if installed 12)A postfix checker is run 13)News is expired 14)Unused modules are removed from Memory All in all Linux is VERY busy at night... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Piero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 6:35 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] What happens at midnight? | | | |Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on |furiously for |a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, |program set up |by Mandrake to act regularly at this time. | |I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look at |crontable(s) and acron |tables, without much success: for one side I haven't had the |patience to study |their format, for the other they seem to launch programs for which I didn't |fint a man page. | |Daoes anybody know? |
FW: [expert] FW: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error
I've forwarded the mails of this thread to thew expert list for help. This may be an answer, I must wait 'till I get home and then till monday cause ain't got no line at home now. So if somebody can try this and report I'll be grateful (dead -f. -Original Message- From: Anton Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: viernes 23 de junio de 2000 19:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] FW: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error I also keep getting permission errors on the mixer apps - I thought it might have been volume problem, but its not. Ensure that the user in question is a member of the group "audio". If you selected security level 3 or higher at install, he is not by default, and therefore cannot run ESD or access the audio devices. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
Re: [newbie] Warning: Mandrake changed DOS extended partition toLinux - how to fix
"M. R. N. Weston" wrote:
This email is a warning and solution that I hope will help someone out
there. Also included (of course) is my fix!
Symptom: After installing Linux Mandrake 7.1, Windows can't read any FAT
drives in the extended partition.
Further description: Computer that I was installing on had a 13G drive
partitioned as follows:
Primary DOS partition: 2 G for Windows.
DOS Extended partition: the rest.
Within that extended partition: 5 G FAT32 data partition for Windows.
The rest I left for Linux partitions.
After installing Mandrake I discovered that Windows could not read
FAT32 partition - seeing as all the programs and data and many
important things for the last six months were installed on the 5G FAT32 I
started to sweat. Especially since I knew very little about partitions
and the like. Windows FDISK saw the entire extended partition as
"NON-DOS" and refused to read it. Mandrake, installed on a
couple partitions at the end of the extended partition, still worked quite
happily. I was worried that Mandrake had somehow tried to resize the
5G DOS partition and messed it up, or killed it altogether (which
would have been a Bad Thing). After
educating myself extremely hurriedly on these topics, I discovered
what the problem was: Mandrake had changed the type of the DOS Extended
partition (that occupied the rest of the disk) from "Extended" to "Linux
Extended" (as seen by fdisk) at some point during the install. Of course
without telling me about it.
This problem was reproduceable as after fixing it the first time I had to
reinstall Mandrake (for various other complicated reasons) and it did
exactly the same thing again.
The fix:
Note: if you know nothing about partitions don't mess
around with fdisk !! Do as I did and forgo a night's sleep and learn all
you can on the web, docs, etc about what is going on _before_ looking at
fdisk. Then A) the problem, whether or not it is exactly the same as
here, will be much easier to solve, and B) you will have gained some
valuable knowledge, like I did :) I intend this email to be a
guide/confirmation/help in pointing out what's wrong; don't leap to do
this if you're not sure that you are having exactly the same problem.
- boot into Mandrake, or use a rescue disk (which is actually
what I was using as I had rewritten my Master Boot Record from windows
early in the diagnostic process, thinking that was part of the problem,
and thus I couldn't boot Linux anymore).
- Be Root
- run "fdisk /dev/hdX" where X is probably "a" (it was for me) if the
problem is on your first fixed disk.
- VERIFY that this is indeed your problem: type "p"; if your partition
table looks something like this (concoted) example it probably is:
Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 243 whatever 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 244 523 whatever 85 Linux Extended
/dev/hda5 244 399 whatever 6 FAT32
/dev/hda6 400 506 whatever 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 507 523 whatever 82 Linux swap
note how the Linux extended partition takes up the rest of the disk and
the FAT32 partition is contained within it.
- note the number (ie "hda2", "hda3", as you can see in the example it's
2) of the "Linux Extended" partition - it very likely takes up all
the space that isn't used by the first, primary, partition; and most all
other partitions are within it.
- hit ("t") to change the partition type. First you type the number, then
the new type. List all of the types and pick the one called
"Extended" (type 5 if I recall).
- write the table to disk
- reboot into Windows, all should be well
If this doesn't fix it or your problem doesn't sound quite the same don't
mess around with fdisk unless you know what you're doing. Or you might be
using some tools like "gpart" to recover your partitions from scratch :)
If you have the same problem as this and this works then I feel I will
have done my duty in life :)
Mark
--
"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is
not the reason we are doing it" -- Richard Feynman
Here's an even BETTER solution. Don't install Linux on anything other
than it own partition. That includes Extended DOS partitions. If you
have to use Partition magic to resize your DOS primary partition and
create another primary parition which is where your Linux installation
will go.
I don't mean to sound accusitory or demeaning to you Mark, but it wasn't
Mandrake that messed up it was the guy telling diskdruid what to do and
where to do it with the installation. :)
I know cause I learned partitioning the hard way. Just like you're doing
it.
--
Mark
I love my Linux box...
REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows!
Registered Linux user #1299563
RE: [newbie] Warning: Mandrake changed DOS extended partition to Linux - how to fix
-Original Message- From: M. R. N. Weston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 June 2000 18:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Warning: Mandrake changed DOS extended partition to Linux - how to fix *de'snipity* If you have the same problem as this and this works then I feel I will have done my duty in life :) Secondly, and more vitally importantly than that, before you do *anything* with partition tables (Even with a "safe" program like partition magic) B A C K U P A L L D A T A F I R S T ! ! ! I can't stress this enough. Even with a professional (and non-destructive) program like PM *things go wrong* I lost my entire windows partition when resizing it, luckily I had, on a whim, copied all my data to my secondary HDD, and put everything on a zip disk, but I still lost all my E-Mails for 18 months and a few Websdesigns. -- Nick
Re: [newbie] Ok dumb firewall question time
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Vic wrote: Is any firewall just for blocking ports or can it also protect the needed open ones like ftp 21 www 80 and so forth? Depending on how you configure things, you can hammer shut each and every port that you like. You should also be able to limit the allowed IP addresses per port. Paul -- If you lose money, you lose nothing. If you lose (the) honour, you lose a lot. If you lose your courage, you've lost everything. But if you lose friendship, then you've lost the world! )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Ok dumb firewall question time
yes, and yes. here is a link to a site where you can download a very configurable firewall great for beginners. http://www.pmfirewall.com/PMFirewall/ -- Mark I love my Linux Box! REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563 On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Vic wrote: Is any firewall just for blocking ports or can it also protect the needed open ones like ftp 21 www 80 and so forth?
RE: [newbie] mouse problem
http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/wwwboard/messages/397.html XFree 4.0 has support for that type of mouse... check XFree's web site... However, I still cannot make my wheel to work under Xfree 4 -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] Warning: Mandrake changed DOS extended partition toLinux - how to fix
Here's an even BETTER solution. Don't install Linux on anything other than it own partition. That includes Extended DOS partitions. If you have to use Partition magic to resize your DOS primary partition and create another primary parition which is where your Linux installation will go. I don't mean to sound accusitory or demeaning to you Mark, but it wasn't Mandrake that messed up it was the guy telling diskdruid what to do and where to do it with the installation. :) No offense taken (well not much anyway :) ... but the thing that annoys me is that it was totally unnecessary for it to change the extended partition type! Once I changed it back, Mandrake and Windows both worked fine. So what is the purpose of doing it? Especially not letting me know about it? I was doing this on someone else's computer and didn't want to mess too much with the partitions, etc, as I didn't look at the partition table before running the install - I figured "I'll just use the extra 5 GB partition that Winbloze isn't using. No problem, right?" Wrong... Also, I may be a moron but I didn't see any obvious way in DiskDruid in the installation how to shrink the DOS extended partition and create a new primary one for Linux. As far as I could tell the extended partition was transparent to DiskDruid... is it the case that DiskDruid can't do what it wants in the extended partition withOUT changing the partition type? Seems strange to me... if this was the case I would think many other people would have seen the same problem. I know cause I learned partitioning the hard way. Just like you're doing it. And it's amazing how much you learn in such a short time :) -- Mark cheers, Mark
Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux
That sounds good but if I was you I wouldn't use Dos Fdisk. I would use the partition program that came with Mandrake. It is SO much more powerful. Using the mandrake partitioning tool do this: Create a /boot partition on hda1. Create a DOS/Windows partition on hda2 Then a linux native partition on hda3. Then if you want a swap you can add it anywhere. But you HAVE to install windows 98 first. And use the grub bootloader. IMO its much more user friendly. :) Feel free to ask if you have other questions. - Original Message - From: Hugo GONZALEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 5:32 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux Ok, Chris. So now, tell me if I am wrong: First I will fdisk (DOS/Win98) my hd like this !-ext dos (15mb)-!!--pri dos for Win98(10Gb)--!!--Linux(10Gb)-! I don't know if this can be done and if Win98 will be able to boot (having a extended dos partition before the primary one). After that I will boot with Mandrake CD and erase the first ext dos partition (15mb) to make a new linux /boot partition. !--/boot--!!--pri dos for Win98(10Gb)--!!--Linux(10Gb)-! Am I a little bit right? Thanks!! Hugo GONZALEZ -Original Message- From: Chris Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux I had this same problem with Red Hat 6.1 a few months back. I fixed the problem by having a 15mb boot partition as hda1, win98 on a 10gb on hda2, and then a 10gb linux partition on hda3. Lilo worked fine like that to. - Original Message - From: Hugo GONZALEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 11:32 AM Subject: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux Hello everyone. I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows 98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb), the rest of the disk would be for Linux. Then I tried to install Mandrake, but DrakX told me that the partition for Linux is beyond the cylinder 1024, so I quit installation. I surfed the internet to read some howtos, but my confusion grew larger. My question is: can I install Linux without making a /boot partition within the cylinder 1024? Can I keep my hd like !Win98(10Gb)--!!--- -Linux--- -! or should I go to something like !-/boot-!!-Win98---!!-- ---Linux- -! Please, if you'd be so kind to clarify this to me. Thanks in advance. Hugo GONZALEZ
Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux
I'd do a 15mb boot partition. That way you can store many kernels there. :-) - Original Message - From: Jose Alberto Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux I think that you should go with the second scheme. (I heard that Mandrake 7.1 solves this problem, though) Anyway the /boot partition shouldnt be too large either... Somebody more knowledgeble than me should be able to tell you how big (10megs?) Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: Hello everyone. I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows 98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb), the rest of the disk would be for Linux. Then I tried to install Mandrake, but DrakX told me that the partition for Linux is beyond the cylinder 1024, so I quit installation. I surfed the internet to read some howtos, but my confusion grew larger. My question is: can I install Linux without making a /boot partition within the cylinder 1024? Can I keep my hd like !Win98(10Gb)--!!Linux--- -! or should I go to something like !-/boot-!!-Win98---!!-Linux- -! Please, if you'd be so kind to clarify this to me. Thanks in advance. Hugo GONZALEZ -- --- Jose Alberto Abreu Bending space and time since 2053 ---
Re: [newbie] error with install of tar.gz files
well, did what you said...and still nothing...
attached is the latest error.txt
I remind you...that I did install PIXBUF
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote:
thanks so much...you were right...I was missing these packages !!!
I installed them...and then tried again...to install "screem"
and got the attached error...what's wrong NOW?
it went fine until I got this error...I then installed both ...
pixbuf 0.7.0 and its devel package...and still I got the attached
error
WHY?
Well, I don't see your error (did you attach it?). My advice
is to go back from the beginning and try again. A sure bet is to
delete the /dir that you untar'd the source to and start over from
there, unpacking the source all over again. Sometimes a 'make
mrproper' (before (./config) will clean up the source. Sometimes
some source won't compile on some hardware. A good clue for this
case is if the compile errors out at different places and/or with
different error messages. Many compiles really strain the system's
cpu/cache/ram so it could be a hardware problem. Even in this
case, often just keep trying over and over till the compile is
successful. Depends on how stubborn you are ;) or maybe you
forgot to 'su' to root before running 'make install' ? ;)
--
~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote:
attached is the error, I get when trying to install
the latest SCREEM html editor...
why am I getting this...anyone know...
and why isn't my C compiler functioning?
I've tried uninstalling all the gcc stuff
on the CD...then re-installing...still I get this error.
is there some other packages that also need to be
operational...to allow C compiler to function...?
YES
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/basics/bsource.html
look 'bout half way down the page an you'll see a list of
everything that's usually needed to compile most all source.
It's mostly 'devel' and 'lib' packages you're prob'ly missing
While you're there, read the whole section MOF, the whole site
is invaluable ;-)
--
~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Registered Linux User:73821
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[root@kompukit kit]# cd /root/tmp/screem-0.2.6
[root@kompukit screem-0.2.6]# ./configure --prefix=/usr
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking host system type... i586-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i586-pc-linux-gnu
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
updating cache ./config.cache
loading cache ./config.cache within ltconfig
checking for object suffix... o
checking for executable suffix... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions ... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... -static
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking dynamic linker characteristics... Linux ld.so
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.5 install problem
Hi. I have the same problem,and I tryed to find what i did wrong , I got the same message I have compaq 5170 p350 128 ram 10 gb hd I need some help. thanks Gary
Re: [newbie] error with install of tar.gz files
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: well, did what you said...and still nothing... attached is the latest error.txt I remind you...that I did install PIXBUF Jeezzz, I'm in over my head. don't you know I'm an ol' man redneck NASCAR fan (I'm an Earnhardt fan you see, I live an 'die by #3) 'Sides I've got a brain disease (MS), and I've been watchin' qualifyin at Sears Point and drinkin beer with my friends ?? huh ?? You did notice rusty got'a nother pole today, ...right ? Lighten up.. all is not lost try try again http://www.mandrakeuser.org/basics/bsource.html it's a hell'uva lot smart'n me if'n it still doesn't work, my diagnosis (from this far a'way) is my usual. Wait!! I use it on myself when workin to a solution. I've found that people that have the most problems, usually try the reverse of the below Check the: 1) the interface 'tween the keyboard/mouse/chair 2) hardware (yeah, includin that new store bought) 3) application (could be the source sux, maybe ?) 4) the OS (in this case.. RTFM) forgive me, I'm from Texas ö -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: thanks so much...you were right...I was missing these packages !!! I installed them...and then tried again...to install "screem" and got the attached error...what's wrong NOW? it went fine until I got this error...I then installed both ... pixbuf 0.7.0 and its devel package...and still I got the attached error WHY? Well, I don't see your error (did you attach it?). My advice is to go back from the beginning and try again. A sure bet is to delete the /dir that you untar'd the source to and start over from there, unpacking the source all over again. Sometimes a 'make mrproper' (before (./config) will clean up the source. Sometimes some source won't compile on some hardware. A good clue for this case is if the compile errors out at different places and/or with different error messages. Many compiles really strain the system's cpu/cache/ram so it could be a hardware problem. Even in this case, often just keep trying over and over till the compile is successful. Depends on how stubborn you are ;) or maybe you forgot to 'su' to root before running 'make install' ? ;) -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: attached is the error, I get when trying to install the latest SCREEM html editor... why am I getting this...anyone know... and why isn't my C compiler functioning? I've tried uninstalling all the gcc stuff on the CD...then re-installing...still I get this error. is there some other packages that also need to be operational...to allow C compiler to function...? YES http://www.mandrakeuser.org/basics/bsource.html look 'bout half way down the page an you'll see a list of everything that's usually needed to compile most all source. It's mostly 'devel' and 'lib' packages you're prob'ly missing While you're there, read the whole section MOF, the whole site is invaluable ;-)
Re: [newbie] DSL Questions
Hi Vic, I've just started using DSL from GTE about a month ago and it's great! I've got their cheapest package (768k / 128k) with dynamic ip - the only problem I had was getting my Netgear RT311 dsl router working. That was simple as realizing that I needed to use the cross-over cable from the dsl modem to the router. Anyway, I've talked to quite a few people that haven't had as easy a time; mostly because of not being aware of what their provider was giving them. You should probably find out ahead of time if they're going to use PPPoE, for example. I'm using the dsl router to get my dynamic address and send to a small 4 port hub where I have a couple computers connected with private addresses (192.168.x.x) and all the OS's recognize everything without a hitch (win98, win2k and linux). Mike Vic wrote: Hi I am planning to migrate from cablemodem to ADSL for a while to see if its going to be what I want. Is the setup basically the same? I do know that there will be a couple of differences, like the IP is going to be static so I will have to insert the IP address and the sub net mask I think instead of asking for dhcp stuff. Is that all I need to know? -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Alliance Promotion AT25/AT3D
I just reinstalled Mandrake for various reasons, and I put in a Alliance Promotion AT25 3DFX video card, the driver is there in XWindows 3.3.6 (I think is the version # in MDK 7.0-2). I setup the video card as well as I could with the "no-accel" option in the driver. However I can't seem to get the 1024x768 16 (24/32) bit video settings input to use. Also the virtual desktop (with mouse scrolling to see all of the desktop) is active. Has anyone tried this card and gotten it to work without the virtual desktop and the higher resolution/color depth?? TIA Jaguar The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Ok dumb firewall question time
Mark Weaver wrote: yes, and yes. here is a link to a site where you can download a very configurable firewall great for beginners. http://www.pmfirewall.com/PMFirewall/ -- Mark I love my Linux Box! REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563 On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Vic wrote: Is any firewall just for blocking ports or can it also protect the needed open ones like ftp 21 www 80 and so forth? I tried the mentioned firewall and once again I am feeling stupid. I loaded it and immediately could not get Netscape to load . It would stall with only the stop sign and the frame showing. I then uninstalled and got my Netscape and mail back. I must have set a closed port or deny in the wrong place. Again the documentation is not set up for virtual dummies, but only for people who have alot of experience either with Linux or as programmers etc. Anybody know what a good set of setings would be and still allow Netscape access. I keep looking for books and online documentation. Nobody writes Linux for Idiots, you have to be at least a dummy. "Life is good, just don't weaken" Dennis Registered Linux User # 180842
[newbie] Restated... Problems mounting.
My fstab file... # # The 26 GB Diamond Maxtor Super Drive. /dev/hdb1/ ext2defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb5/home ext2defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb7/usrext2defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb6noneswapdefaults 1 2 # The shitty little 4 GB Western Digital. /dev/hdc1/mnt/scratchext2defaults 1 2 # Some other shit I have no clue about. none/dev/pts devpts mode=06200 0 none/procprocdefaults 0 0 # An Attempt at mounting the DVD drive and the CD Burner. /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom autonoauto,ro,user 0 0 /dev/cdburner /mnt/cdburnerautonoauto,ro,user 0 0 # The floppy drives, 3.5" and the 5.25". /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy autonoauto,user 0 0 /dev/floppy2/mnt/floppy2 autonoauto,user 0 0 # So I tried a few entries at the command line... [root@zoey /etc]# mount -a [root@zoey /etc]# mount /dev/cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device [root@zoey /etc]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device [root@zoey /etc]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device [root@zoey /etc]# mount /dev/cdburner /mnt/cdburner mount: /dev/cdburner is not a valid block device [root@zoey /etc]# arg! bash: arg!: command not found [root@zoey /etc]# And still I can't get the damn things mounted. The hard drives are as autodetected... and I *did* install off the Mandrake cd... I just can't remount the bloody drives. Of (perhaps) importance: /dev/cdburner is quite obviously a cdburner. /dev/cdrom is no quite so obviously a dvd-rom drive. Please help, Thank you, John
Re: [newbie] Ok dumb firewall question time
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: I tried the mentioned firewall and once again I am feeling stupid. I loaded it and immediately could not get Netscape to load . It would stall with only the stop sign and the frame showing. I then uninstalled and got my Netscape and mail back. I must have set a closed port or deny in the wrong place. Again the documentation is not set up for virtual dummies, but only for people who have alot of experience either with Linux or as programmers etc. Anybody know what a good set of setings would be and still allow Netscape access. You're doin fine. You understand it as well as i do, don't give up. I believe you must've answer'd the "eth0" question right. I missed that one the first time, I have a "ppp0" (dialup). IIRC, there's a few more that I changed from just takin the default answer. I believe both involved unblocking pop3 (mail) and nntp (news). Then it all worked !! 'Bout the only thing I worry about now is I still don't know a thing about firewalls ;) but I got one -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Restated... Problems mounting.
Dennis Myers wrote: "John T. Seebold" wrote: My fstab file... # # The 26 GB Diamond Maxtor Super Drive. /dev/hdb1/ ext2defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb5/home ext2defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb7/usrext2defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb6noneswapdefaults 1 2 # The shitty little 4 GB Western Digital. /dev/hdc1/mnt/scratchext2defaults 1 2 # Some other shit I have no clue about. none/dev/pts devpts mode=06200 0 none/procprocdefaults 0 0 # An Attempt at mounting the DVD drive and the CD Burner. /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom autonoauto,ro,user 0 0 /dev/cdburner /mnt/cdburnerautonoauto,ro,user 0 0 # The floppy drives, 3.5" and the 5.25". /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy autonoauto,user 0 0 /dev/floppy2/mnt/floppy2 autonoauto,user 0 0 # So I tried a few entries at the command line... [root@zoey /etc]# mount -a [root@zoey /etc]# mount /dev/cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device [root@zoey /etc]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device [root@zoey /etc]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device [root@zoey /etc]# mount /dev/cdburner /mnt/cdburner mount: /dev/cdburner is not a valid block device [root@zoey /etc]# arg! bash: arg!: command not found [root@zoey /etc]# And still I can't get the damn things mounted. The hard drives are as autodetected... and I *did* install off the Mandrake cd... I just can't remount the bloody drives. Of (perhaps) importance: /dev/cdburner is quite obviously a cdburner. /dev/cdrom is no quite so obviously a dvd-rom drive. Please help, Thank you, John Hi, try something like: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt ormount -r /dev/cdrom /mnt The -r for read only. As I understand it you get an error back about not a valid block device . Mayhap without the final "cdrom" or "cdburner" They might come on line. The -r gives you read only so that probably isn't an option. This might be obvious but there should be a space between mount and the rest of the line. I hope none of this is to obviously newbie, but I am obviously a newbie and don't know " twice around a burnt bisquit " as my dear Mother used to say. The info above is out of one of the books I've been reading. Hope something works soon, you are sounding frustrated. Also, is it SCSI or IDE if IDE see the Linux - Mandrake webpages tutorial on CD burners. Looks like trouble to me. Still hoping something in all this helps you. Dennis
[newbie] Chopped up e-mail
Since we're not on the subject, anybody know why e-mail I write , looks okay on screen when I write it but then when it shows up on the net-mail it's all chopped up. I use Netscape and it's embedded e-mail. Non linux question, I think, but curious none the less.
Re: [newbie] LILO Boot Magic install ?
aifusionextreme wrote: HiI jave succesfully installed mandrake 7.0 before but on smaller dirves. When trying to install it on a 14 GB with only 1 partition, everything appears fine, but once we reboot, instead of lilo I get a screen full of '01010101010101 ..' for ever or until reboot.So I thought I would give Bootmagic a try ( comes with the macmillian release ), but it says something about not liking a partition that is greater than 1023 cylenders or something.Can anybody help me ascertain what restrictions there are for these boot managers, what can be done to correct it, and are there alternatives ( free ones ) that dont have these retricitons ?Thanks Yep, install GRUB. I'm not sure if it comes with mandrake 7.0 but its what I use in 7.1. It surpasses the 1024 cylinder limitations.
Re: [newbie] I just get a Big White Box :-(
I would check www.xfree86.org they have a part where it shows common problems and solutions listed by video card. I don't know if yours is on the list but I would check. Also check which version of XFree86 your using 3.3.6 or 4.0 and make sure you check that version on www.xfree86.org. Hope something in here helps you. John -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Dentremont) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 09:27:28 -0300 I'm running a pentium II 450 with 128 mb of ram...a Diamond Speedstart A55 (S3 Trio3D/2X)..a Sceptre dragon eye monitor. all well flawlessly well though the install of mandrake 7.1. An d I'm extremely happy with what I see!..the only problem that I have is that it seems no matter what resolution/monitor type or graphics card I chose I get a great big white box as a cursor...Does anyone else have this same problem or know a workaround?...I love this oswould be a shame if I couldn't get this part resolved..thanks for any assistance you may provide :-)
Re: [newbie] I just get a Big White Box :-(
I would check www.xfree86.org they have a part where it shows common problems and solutions listed by video card. I don't know if yours is on the list but I would check. Also check which version of XFree86 your using 3.3.6 or 4.0 and make sure you check that version on www.xfree86.org. Hope something in here helps you. John -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Dentremont) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 09:27:28 -0300 I'm running a pentium II 450 with 128 mb of ram...a Diamond Speedstart A55 (S3 Trio3D/2X)..a Sceptre dragon eye monitor. all well flawlessly well though the install of mandrake 7.1. An d I'm extremely happy with what I see!..the only problem that I have is that it seems no matter what resolution/monitor type or graphics card I chose I get a great big white box as a cursor...Does anyone else have this same problem or know a workaround?...I love this oswould be a shame if I couldn't get this part resolved..thanks for any assistance you may provide :-)
[newbie] rpmdrake 1.0 broken at Mandrake 7.1?
Hello, World! I installed Mandrake 7.1 on my machine. I wanted to add some packages with rpmdrake, so I ran 'urpmi.addmedia ftp Crypto_auf_ftp.leo.org ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-crypto/7.1/ with ./hdlist-crypto.cz2'. Now I have a new hdlist in /var/lib/urpmi and Crypto_auf... is added to /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg. Now I selected a package in rpmdrake and clicked on install, which only got me this error message: Installiere ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-crypto/7.1//sftp-0.7-3mdk.i586.rpm Died at /usr/X11R6/bin/grpmi.pm line 17, F line 12. This happens with any package, not only with sftp. sftp is available at that location (leo.org). I started rpmdrake as root. Is urpmi dying because of perl 5.6 ? Or what am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help! Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? PGP/GnuPG Keys als Antwort auf Mail mit Betr: Get GPG Key ICQ:7328191
[expert] LM7.1 - Blank screen during shutdown
BLANK SCREEN DURING SHUTDOWN EXPERIENCES WITH INSTALLING LINUX-MANDRAKE 7.1 INTRODUCTION I have a problem that I normally lose the display on shutdown. This e/mail describes two installations of LM7.1, the problems found and provides extracts of the relevant logs. I can provide full logs on request and ideas of how to solve the blank screen problem will be gratefully received. I will convert some of these problems into "bug reports" if they haven't been reported before. In the meantime, I may try a "custom" installation to see how different the logs look and I will scrutinize file attributes and permissions. My e/mail addresses are :- Home[EMAIL PROTECTED] Work[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. HARDWARE The hardware consists of :- Gigabyte GA-6BXD Motherboard with two 350MHz Pentium II CPU's and 128MByte of 100MHz synchronous DRAM. CMOS flashed to the latest version of the BIOS. Matrox Millenium II AGP 250MHz DAC and 8MByte SGRAM - Bios version 1.3.011 Creative / Ensoniq ES1371 Soundcard on PCI bus. Logitech Cordless Wheel Mouse - M/N M-RG45 setup as "IMPS/2" Creative Labs 24 times CDROM type CD2422E mounted /dev/hdd Second hard drive is a Quantum Fireball TM1080A 1GByte - Mode 4 - on /dev/hdc this was already formatted in extfs2 and contains /usr/local and /home from my previous LM7.0 installation. The first hard drive is mounted in a withdrawable cassette and the two hard drives of relevance are :- a Samsang SV2044D 20GByte - UDMA33 - on /dev/hda for the first installation of LM7.1 which can be swapped for a Samsang VG33402A 3.4GByte - UDMA33 - on /dev/hda for the second installation of LM7.1 Monitor is a 15" LCD Monitor - Selwyn Electronics Bravura 15PX running at 59Hz and 48kHz - resolution 1024 x 768 24bpp OUTPUT OF /sbin/lspcidrake /var/lspcidrake.log Intel Corporation|440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (unknown ignore) Intel Corporation|440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (unknown ignore) Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 ISA (unknown unknown) Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 IDE (STORAGE_IDE unknown) Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 USB (SERIAL_USB usb-uhci) Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (unknown unknown) Ensoniq|ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO es1371) Matrox|MGA G200 AGP [Millennium] AGP (DISPLAY_VGA Card:Matrox Millennium G200 4MB) - - - Note - The video RAM is wrongly reported as 4MByte. - Both Installations were carried out "clean" with no Windows partitions, dual boot etc. 2. FIRST INSTALLATION on 20GByte HDD "Expert" installation option was chosen to allow XFree4.0 to be "tried". ReiserFS used on /dev/hda with an extfs2 swap partition. The installation proceeded normally until the beginning of the "Configuration of X" stage where mouse behaviour became erratic and you were suddenly plunged in the "Choose your Keyboard" section! Once you had done that, the installation program send you back to the "Configuration of X" stage. This used to happen with LM7.0 and happened again on the second installation. Providing you keep to the keyboard for the remainder of the installation everything should be OK. Whether others have noticed this I don't know. Selection of XFree4.0 seemed to be straightforward and I accepted the probed selection on the "test" screen. I also set up the PC for graphical login (run level 5). The PC rebooted and I was presented with the KDM login display. The problems were that the mouse moved but the buttons were unresponsive and the keyboard was completely dead. I had to reboot via the soft reset button on the PC case. LM7.1 rebooted into XFree SVGA server version 3.3.6. This is symbolically linked to /etc/X11/X. Shutdown from KDM often provided no visual display of what was going on so when the hard drive had ceased operating for a short while I would key in "shutdown -h now" and press enter (just in case), all blind, and switch off after a further period of apparent inactivity. This behaviour was not cured by manually configuring "XF86Config" or "drakeres" (by rejecting the probed settings) for 8MByte of Videoram or by following a recommendation to set the Option "sw_cursor" in "XF86Config". The "sw_cursor" option did give me 's for password input in KDM login screen for the very first time and did seem to reduce the occurrences of the blind shutdown problem but it's not fixed yet. I had a second HDD so I could try again 3. SECOND INSTALLATION on 3.4GByte HDD Simular options were chosen to the first install but fewer packages were selected and as far as I can remember no "individual" packages were selected. At the beginning of the file installation stage I was told I couldn't install all my chosen packages. I concluded that the /usr partition was too small so I exited via a soft reset to reboot the CDROM. The partitions were re-sized on the second time round but I was confronted with "package header files missing" error message immediately prior
