[newbie-it] problemi con il mount
dopo aver smanettato il mio sistema operativo da root (Mandrake 7.0)) all'avvio mi si presenta un errore sul mount dei cd rom,infatti non fa piu il mount automatico e scrive una cosa del tipo: "Executing: /bin/mount -t msdos -o exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,conv=auto /dev/hdb6/mnt/DOS_hdb6 mount: wrong fs type ,bad option,bad superblck,on /dev/hdb6, or too many mounted file system (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition, instead of some logical partition inside?) ...Executing /bin/mount -o remount exec,dev,suid,rw /dev/cdrom2 ...Executing /bin/mount -t auto -o exec,dev,suid,rw /dev/cdrom3 /mnt/cdrom mount block device /dev/cdrom is write protected, mounting read only mount:no medium found il cd rom3 è un masterizzatore. A proposito sapete come cambiare i caratteri di scrittura di netscape _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
R: [newbie-it] non funziona la rete....
- Original Message - From: Fabio Coatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 8:23 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] non funziona la rete On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:45:20PM +0200, gg wrote: Ho installato Linux per la prima volta usando Mandrake 7.1. Tutto bene fino alla gestione della rete. La scheda, realtek 80139, è stata riconosciuta subito, ma il ping funziona solo per l'IP del mio pC (192.168.29.61/255.255.255.0) e sul loopback. Ifconfig su eth0 mi dice che "la risorsa è temporaneamente non disponibile" e se lo metto in UP non trova la scheda.Da win98 o NT funziona tutto perfettamente anche su WAN; continuando a fare prove poi riesco solo a perdere completamente la scheda, come se non fosse più nemmeno installata a proposito come faccio per "recuperarla" a quel punto ?) Qualcuno può dirmi dove sbaglio? Grazie anticipatamente Sei sicuro che il modulo della scheda di rete sia caricato? Prova a lanciare da da root lsmod e mandami il risultato... -- Fabio Coatti http://members.ferrara.linux.it/cova ecco cosa rileva il comando lsmod [root@beppe /root]# lsmod Module Size Used by soundcore 3748 0 (autoclean) (unused) vmnet 16160 3 vmppuser5520 0 (unused) parport_pc 7788 0 [vmppuser] parport 8284 0 [vmppuser parport_pc] vmmon 17664 0 (unused) usb-uhci 26660 0 (unused) autofs 9604 1 (autoclean) irda 84289 1 ppp21292 0 (autoclean) (unused) slhc4572 0 (autoclean) [ppp] nls_iso8859-1 2276 1 (autoclean) nls_cp437 3784 1 (autoclean) vfat 11164 1 (autoclean) fat32864 1 (autoclean) [vfat] keybdev 1832 0 (unused) usbkbd 2292 0 (unused) input 2880 0 [keybdev usbkbd] usb-storage10120 0 (unused) usbcore27236 0 [usb-uhci usbkbd usb-storage] supermount 15112 2 (autoclean) [root@beppe /root]# ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 vmnet1Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:01:00:00 inet addr:172.16.34.1 Bcast:172.16.34.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:37 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 [root@beppe /root]# ifconfig eth0 up eth0: unknown interface: Dispositivo inesistente ma cosa è vmnet1? prima dei miei pasticci avevo eth0, ma non so come posso averla disabilitata grazie
[newbie-it] scanner
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Re: [newbie-it] telnet linux e controlllo remoto....
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:27:34AM +0200, marco signoretto wrote: ho letto su una rivista che è possibilie connettersi a linux da remoto utilizzando telnet da una macchina che monta un qualsiasi sistema operativo. provando da win 2000 a eseguire "telnet indirizzoIp" tuttavia, il comp risponde "connessione rifiutata" (invece di richiedermi la passwd come avrebbe dovuto secondo la rivista). è veramente possibile fare una cosa del genere? se si, come? bisogna attivare qualche demone sulla macchina linux? marco In effetti il demone deve essere attivo, nel tuo caso l'inetd. Ma credo che non sia questo il problema. Più probabilmente il tcpwrapper blocca il tentativo di connessione (tcpwrapper è una sorta di "controller" per impedire la connessione a macchine esterne). La cosa migliore è che tu controlli i logs, con un tail -f /var/log/messages oppure less /var/log/messages se usi la linea di comando, oppure con un qualsiasi viewer/editor sotto X. semplicemente tenta la connessione, poi leggi immediatamente cosa vedi sul log. Magari il demone non è nemmeno installato.. -- Fabio Coatti http://members.ferrara.linux.it/cova
Re: [newbie-it] problemi con il mount
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:23:52AM +, Silvano Pisoni wrote: ...Executing /bin/mount -t auto -o exec,dev,suid,rw /dev/cdrom3 /mnt/cdrom mount block device /dev/cdrom is write protected, mounting read only mount:no medium found il cd rom3 è un masterizzatore. Beh, per il primo problema le cause possono essere diverse, ma per questo il "problema" è chiaro: all'atto del mounting un masterizzatore è visto esattamente come un cdrom; sono solo apposito programmi (vedi cdrecord) che scrivono e quindi lo trattano come masterizzatore. -- Fabio Coatti http://members.ferrara.linux.it/cova
Re: [newbie-it] telnet linux e controlllo remoto....
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:11:41PM +0200, Gino Pelliccia - TMC Software wrote: Altrimenti prova con Hyperterminal..usando il TCP/ip come dispositivo Dai invio e sei al login di linux Non ci siamo capiti... se è linux a non concedere la connessione, puoi provare con qualsiasi cosa, ma non entri comunque :-) -- Fabio Coatti http://members.ferrara.linux.it/cova
Re: [newbie-it] telnet linux e controlllo remoto....
[Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:27:34AM +0200] - marco scrive: ho letto su una rivista che è possibilie connettersi a linux da remoto utilizzando telnet da una macchina che monta un qualsiasi sistema operativo. provando da win 2000 a eseguire "telnet indirizzoIp" tuttavia, il comp risponde "connessione rifiutata" (invece di richiedermi la passwd come avrebbe dovuto secondo la rivista). è veramente possibile fare una cosa del genere? se si, come? bisogna attivare qualche demone sulla macchina linux? Mi permetto di darti un consiglio: invece di usare telnet, che trasferisce le paswd in chiaro, prova a vedere se per w2k esiste un client ssh. Ssh, che per linux e' pure free (gpl), critta le paswd, in modo tale che nessun "malitenzionato" te le sniffi e faccia il "cattivo" sulla tua macchina. http://www.openssh.org Tutte le distro hanno ormai i binari per il server (che nel tuo caso servirebbe), per il client e pure altre cose carine. -- Franco aka caparossa [god@heaven src]# tar -xvfz ~/universe-2.2.13.tar.gz [god@heaven src]# make config [god@heaven src]# make dep; make clean; make zlilo; [god@heaven src]# sync; sync; sync; reboot kernel panic
Re: [newbie-it] telnet linux e controlllo remoto....
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 05:08:05PM +0200, Franco Vite wrote: [Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:27:34AM +0200] - marco scrive: ho letto su una rivista che è possibilie connettersi a linux da remoto utilizzando telnet da una macchina che monta un qualsiasi sistema operativo. provando da win 2000 a eseguire "telnet indirizzoIp" tuttavia, il comp risponde "connessione rifiutata" (invece di richiedermi la passwd come avrebbe dovuto secondo la rivista). è veramente possibile fare una cosa del genere? se si, come? bisogna attivare qualche demone sulla macchina linux? Mi permetto di darti un consiglio: invece di usare telnet, che trasferisce le paswd in chiaro, prova a vedere se per w2k esiste un client ssh. Ssh, che per linux e' pure free (gpl), critta le paswd, in modo tale che nessun "malitenzionato" te le sniffi e faccia il "cattivo" sulla tua macchina. http://www.openssh.org putty.exe credo ci sia anche su ftp://ftp.ferrara.linux.it Non so se ci siano versioni diverse per w2k w98 NT ecc... Appena lo trovo posto l'url del main site... -- Fabio Coatti http://www.ferrara.linux.it/members/cova Ferrara Linux Users Group http://ferrara.linux.it GnuPG fp:9765 A5B6 6843 17BC A646 BE8C FA56 373A 5374 C703 Old SysOps never die... they simply forget their password.
[newbie-it] FTP
salve ho installato mandrake 7.1 workstation su un P133 32MRam MB VX ed ho la necessità di utilizzare il server ftp. Il problema è che non trovo il file in.ftpt. Temo non sia stato installato. Come posso fare per ovviare all'inconveniente? Premetto che drakeconf afferma che il pacchetto ftp è installato. Sono comunque certo che il summenzionato file non c'è. cordiali saluti Marco
Re: [newbie-it] problemi con il mount
Il ven, 13 ott 2000, hai scritto: A proposito sapete come cambiare i caratteri di scrittura di netscape Editi il file ~/.Xdefault e ci scrivi dentro: netscape-communicator*fontList:-jmk-neep-medium-r-normal-*-20-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 Al posto di -jmk-neep-medium-r-normal-*-20-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 metti il tipo di carattere che preferisci (i font li trovi in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts ). Ciao, Nicola.
Re: [newbie-it] telnet linux e controlllo remoto....
Il ven, 13 ott 2000, hai scritto: [Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:27:34AM +0200] - marco scrive: ho letto su una rivista che è possibilie connettersi a linux da remoto utilizzando telnet da una macchina che monta un qualsiasi sistema operativo. provando da win 2000 a eseguire "telnet indirizzoIp" tuttavia, il comp risponde "connessione rifiutata" (invece di richiedermi la passwd come avrebbe dovuto secondo la rivista). è veramente possibile fare una cosa del genere? se si, come? bisogna attivare qualche demone sulla macchina linux? Mi permetto di darti un consiglio: invece di usare telnet, che trasferisce le paswd in chiaro, prova a vedere se per w2k esiste un client ssh. Ssh, che per linux e' pure free (gpl), critta le paswd, in modo tale che nessun "malitenzionato" te le sniffi e faccia il "cattivo" sulla tua macchina. Sono ignorante perche' non ho mai visto win2000cacche ma se assomiglia ad NT la colpa e' sua e non di linux (con NT bisogna cambiare una cosa sul registro di configurazione). Scusate se ho detto cazz Ciao, Nicola.
[newbie-it] ISDN: hardware. Dov'è la mia scheda?
Non riesco a dire al mio computer che la scheda ISDN (su PCI, è una Winbond passiva) esiste e deve andare su un ttsyI*. L'HARDRAKE non me la rileva, ma riesco a trovarla tra le periferiche sotto il nome di "network controller" con un altro programma. Qualche idea? Qualche programma da utilizzare? Per il resto la configurazione per connettermi sembra andare bene. Grazie. Luca
[newbie-it] Problemi post-formattazione
Salve a tutti.Ho istallato Mandrake sul mio secondo HD, solo che essendo del tutto newbiedi Linux temo di aver fatto un po' di casino.. o meglio: ho 2 hd, uno con windows e uno con linux, e andava tutto benefinché non ho dovuto (ahimé) formattare l'hd con windows (un consigliospassionato: SE LE AVETE TOGLIETE LE NORTON UTILITIES, ndr...).Ho reistallato windows e va tutto bene, ma se scelgo da boot di partire conlinux mi chiede, nella schermata tipo DOS (quella col pinguino) una passwordche prima non mi chiedeva; ho provato a immettere la password per la rootche cmq mi aveva sempre chiesto (ma molto + avanti!), ma non la accetta...Che posso fare?C'erano forse dei file di linux anche sell'altro hd che sono andati persidurante la formattazione? E se sì, posso recuperarli?O cmq, come faccio a reistallare Linux, dato che da windows l'hd con sopralinux non me lo vede nemmeno?Vi prego di rispondermi nella maniera + semplice possibile, sono veramenteinesperto di Linux.Grazie, Marco
Re: [newbie-it] Installare Linux.
Vorrei tenere il boot di win2k e inserire nella lista dei SO Linux.. Esiste un Linux+NT howto http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader-6.html
Re: [newbie-it] ISDN: hardware. Dov'è la mia scheda?
At 01:59 AM 10/14/2000 +0200, you wrote: Non riesco a dire al mio computer che la scheda ISDN (su PCI, è una Winbond passiva) esiste e deve andare su un ttsyI*. L'HARDRAKE non me la rileva, ma riesco a trovarla tra le periferiche sotto il nome di "network controller" con un altro programma. Qualche idea? Qualche programma da utilizzare? Per il resto la configurazione per connettermi sembra andare bene. Grazie. Perche' hai la necessita' di farla andare su una tty*
Re: [newbie] OOPS: Help a dumbie please
alright, well, I was cooking just fine until i screwed something up and now it seems that the password has been changed for 'root'. Is there any way of changing or correcting the root password IF you don't know what it is to begin with? Currently, I can only access 'single' init. The X system won't start for some reason. Scott --- Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If ya have any questions about what certain services are just ask. Generally a home machine will want about a dozen things running but you should try doing a port scan on your machine to make sure you don't have a lot of weird ports open. Using tcp wrappers is at least as important as shutting down unused services. Also most of the worst danger services are in inetd so edit those out. If you screw your Linux box you can always (usually, unless you go totally psycho w/ security) use 'single' as an argument to lilo or grub and it'll put you into 'save your ass' mode even if you can't do a normal login. *^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein
[newbie] sb live! sound cards
Hello- This is chronos, System specs are as follows- gateway 20 gig drive partitioned 10 win98 se and 10 linux mandrake 7.0 128 ram pentium 3 500 and sb live sound card and svga video card. So, how in the world do i get the sb card to work with my linux system ? Tried drakx and sndconf and also installing the compatible driver into linux as well and still no luck. Suggustions ? Should I try another card and if so which one ? Also I have a sneaking suspicion that gateway preconfigures everything to run solely in windows. Is this correct ? Thanx, chronos.
[newbie] one problem sorted just makes room for another
Servers sorted. This message comes to you from kppp. LineOne (0845 0345 UK numbers) support linux-mandrake, at least (www.lineone.net) Can anyone help me to configure my sound card? Fraser
Re: [newbie] one problem sorted just makes room for another
Servers sorted. This message comes to you from kppp. LineOne (0845 0345 UK numbers) support linux-mandrake, at least (www.lineone.net) Can anyone help me to configure my sound card? Fraser Yes. Probably someone can. Paul (This is a microsoft like answer to your microsoft like question.. Make and model of the soundcard would be convenient to know...)
[newbie] Video AND Sound
Well, can anyone help out a real new newbie. L-M 7.0 went in over L-M 6.0 OK but I cannot get EITHER video or sound accepted. Could not in 6.0 either and hoped 7.0 would improve things. Shortly my foot will solve the problem because I have spent three weeks just getting L-M into the computer. Now I am stuck with TEXT mode and I HATE TEXT MODE. I have gone through virtually every combination of monitor/card, synchronisation and refresh rates one can find. Can someone just start me in the right direction PLEASE. Kev S, down under.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI
Robert, Now we all know that all software has bugs. So what differentiates between suppliers is not the interface but the support! From my experience (and others it would seem) mandrake don't provide it even though they advertise that they do. Its a great pity really. Mandrake have a nice configuration and tools, but without support they will never do any good. In my business (SI) I would never recommend them, because support is the number one difference between Linux verities. I won't use or recommend Mandrake for any of my customers. I also emailed Mandrake directly on their advertised line for comments and I still haven't heard from them. They don't seem to be after the commercial market at all, in fact they don't seem to be interested in anything else except selling product. Regards,Rod - Original Message - From: "KompuKit" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI I totally agreehey Mandrake...whats up with this? This isn't good for Mandrake...and I care about this distribution alot... I've even gone as far as setting up a message board on my server to help with questions...(link in my signature below) maynord wrote: In the U.S., support for Mandrake is supposed to come from the distributor - Macmillan. After purchasing the Deluxe version of Mandrake 7.1, I went through the process of getting the Macmillan support ID number, etc. Never heard from them at all. I also noticed a phone number available for a very limited number of hours -- but the printout says there is no support offered by phone. My installation problem turned out to be a common one, experienced by other users. It was legitimate, but not difficult for someone familiar with the specifics of verision 7.1. Why don't they simply set up an installation troubleshooting web site, instead of a registration process they cannot adequately respond to? Robert On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, you wrote: I had a problem installing 7.1 and as I had bough a package which came with support I emailed mandrake about the problem. I have not had a response from them and its now been four days. Has anyone out there had any experience of their support? I think four days is much too long. Incidentally, I finally got around the problem, but I would still like to hear from Mandrake. Rod -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
Re: [[newbie] Video AND Sound]
Please elaborate on the type of card and monitor and specs. Also, what do you have for Horiz and Vert freq settings? Check this in /etc/X11/XF86Config under monitor section. Brent "Kevin A Sadler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment: MIME Type: multipart/alternative - Well, can anyone help out a real new newbie. L-M 7.0 went in over L-M 6.0 OK but I cannot get EITHER video or sound accepted. Could not in 6.0 either and hoped 7.0 would improve things. Shortly my foot will solve the problem because I have spent three weeks just getting L-M into the computer. Now I am stuck with TEXT mode and I HATE TEXT MODE. I have gone through virtually every combination of monitor/card, synchronisation and refresh rates one can find. Can someone just start me in the right direction PLEASE. Kev S, down under. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
[newbie] Laptop driver support
I have just installed Mandrake on my laptop and I am having a few problems. I did a standard install and I do not think there is support for my sound card or modem. Dell Latitude LS Modem = LT Win Modem Sound Card = NeoMagic MagicMedia 256 Audio Do I stand a chance of getting these to work? Becuase this Laptop has no Serial port I have a USB to serial convertor made by entrega. Would any body have a clue how this would work. Also DHCP does not work. Matt Sim ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
[newbie] OOPS Maybe a better safer way
After thoughts on my problem when I stopped too many daemons. I am using Mandrake 7.0 here. This is the only linux I have ever seen so all comments are about this distro. Maybe a better safer way to stop daemons would be: During boot press 'I' to enter interactive mode. Any daemon that I wish to stop just answer 'NO' when the system asks if I wish to start it. If everything works OK then wonderful. If the system fails, just reboot. After I determine which daemons I can do without, then I can use DrakeConf to stop them. Thanks to all who helped me. This is a wonderful way to share knowledge. I hope one day to be able to contribute. Have a nice day Charles
Re: [newbie] Re: FW: How can I install LM 7.0 to laptop?
Carlton, Since you're installing Mandrake and your machine only has 700MB of total space you won't have sufficient space for a dual boot machine. In fact, you may find it a bit tight squeezing Mandrake on there. However, a workstation install should fit. To install with an older CDROM shouldn't be too hard. If you've got an Micro$oft CDROM setup disk lying around that will work wonderfully. If you don't just email me and I'll zip you one up and send it to you. That will allow you to boot your machine with the floppy and hopefuly load the CDROM drivers to get the whole process started. If that doesn't work you make have to make a boot floppy with the CDROM boot.img and try booting with that. Those iamges should be on the Mandrake installation CD's. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 7:54pm ,Carlton Dodd spake passionately in a message: (Second sending, Hoping to catch someone's attention who's done this) Anyone have any work-arounds to install LM 7.0 on a laptop? I have an old Texas Instruments P75 laptop with 40MB RAM and a 700MB HDD. I have two questions: 1. Is this laptop sufficient for running Linux? With a GUI? I will devote the system completely to Linux if I need to, but I'd love to be able to run a dual-boot if there's enough space so I can learn that as well. 2. How do I actually install from the CD? Unfortunately, I cannot simply boot from the CD like you can on newer machines. The install instructions say to just make a boot floppy and then install from the CD, but my laptop only allows me to install one drive (CD or Floppy) at a time. And I have to shut off the machine in between. Can I make a floppy that will install enough so I can shut down, swap to the CD drive, and go from there? Thanks for any help you can give, Carlton YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
Re: [newbie] Laptop driver support
little or no chance for the modem. As for the sound card...well let's say that this is likely going to be an adventure where you will learn many new searching skills. Have you checked the HCL at the Mandrake site yet to see if your sound card is supported? Linux doesn't always pickup the hardware that exists on the machine. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:30am ,Matt Sim spake passionately in a message: I have just installed Mandrake on my laptop and I am having a few problems. I did a standard install and I do not think there is support for my sound card or modem. Dell Latitude LS Modem = LT Win Modem Sound Card = NeoMagic MagicMedia 256 Audio Do I stand a chance of getting these to work? Becuase this Laptop has no Serial port I have a USB to serial convertor made by entrega. Would any body have a clue how this would work. Also DHCP does not work. Matt Sim ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI
Robert, Welcome...and there are LOTS of such sites. I will list a few URL's that you can visit and I'm sure when you've gone to these sites others will present themselves to you. http://www.linux.com"An excellant resource for checking Hardware and finding answers to questions." http://www.kernel-panic.org/newusers/ "This one is geared a little more towards dablers and tinkerers but will suit well too for the newbie" God Bless, -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 8:33pm ,maynord spake passionately in a message: In the U.S., support for Mandrake is supposed to come from the distributor - Macmillan. After purchasing the Deluxe version of Mandrake 7.1, I went through the process of getting the Macmillan support ID number, etc. Never heard from them at all. I also noticed a phone number available for a very limited number of hours -- but the printout says there is no support offered by phone. My installation problem turned out to be a common one, experienced by other users. It was legitimate, but not difficult for someone familiar with the specifics of verision 7.1. Why don't they simply set up an installation troubleshooting web site, instead of a registration process they cannot adequately respond to? Robert On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, you wrote: I had a problem installing 7.1 and as I had bough a package which came with support I emailed mandrake about the problem. I have not had a response from them and its now been four days. Has anyone out there had any experience of their support? I think four days is much too long. Incidentally, I finally got around the problem, but I would still like to hear from Mandrake. Rod
Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI
There is so much incredible, wonderful documentation on the web to support Linux that you can't possibly ever read it all. On the Mandrake site itself there are links to some of these great sites. Lift your eyes just a wee bit above the level of frustration and you will see a treasure trove of support and documentation. Personally, I've not known another distro to offer so much support for such a product that mostly free. Even when you do buy a package you're paying far less than you ever would from Microsoft. And we've all heard those tech support horror stories. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 9:48pm ,KompuKit spake passionately in a message: I totally agreehey Mandrake...whats up with this? This isn't good for Mandrake...and I care about this distribution alot... I've even gone as far as setting up a message board on my server to help with questions...(link in my signature below) maynord wrote: In the U.S., support for Mandrake is supposed to come from the distributor - Macmillan. After purchasing the Deluxe version of Mandrake 7.1, I went through the process of getting the Macmillan support ID number, etc. Never heard from them at all. I also noticed a phone number available for a very limited number of hours -- but the printout says there is no support offered by phone. My installation problem turned out to be a common one, experienced by other users. It was legitimate, but not difficult for someone familiar with the specifics of verision 7.1. Why don't they simply set up an installation troubleshooting web site, instead of a registration process they cannot adequately respond to? Robert On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, you wrote: I had a problem installing 7.1 and as I had bough a package which came with support I emailed mandrake about the problem. I have not had a response from them and its now been four days. Has anyone out there had any experience of their support? I think four days is much too long. Incidentally, I finally got around the problem, but I would still like to hear from Mandrake. Rod
Re: [newbie] OOPS: Help a dumbie please
Michael Alberts wrote: alright, well, I was cooking just fine until i screwed something up and now it seems that the password has been changed for 'root'. Is there any way of changing or correcting the root password IF you don't know what it is to begin with? Currently, I can only access 'single' init. The X system won't start for some reason. Scott --- Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If ya have any questions about what certain services are just ask. Generally a home machine will want about a dozen things running but you should try doing a port scan on your machine to make sure you don't have a lot of weird ports open. Using tcp wrappers is at least as important as shutting down unused services. Also most of the worst danger services are in inetd so edit those out. If you screw your Linux box you can always (usually, unless you go totally psycho w/ security) use 'single' as an argument to lilo or grub and it'll put you into 'save your ass' mode even if you can't do a normal login. *^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein Scott I run Mandrake 7.0 LILO. Here is the way I can change the root password if I forget it. reboot At the LILO prompt type 'linux 1'. No quotes of course. this will boot into a single mode with no need to logon (no need for a password). At the prompt type 'passwd' and press enter. Enter a passwod. Enter the password again. Now reboot and use the new password. Just use ALT+CTRL+DEL to reboot. Hope this helps. Have a nice day. Charles
Re: Re: [[newbie] wp8]
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Paul wrote: I went to www.download.com, found the Linux section and searched for 'wordperfect'. And there it was. Ta, Ron. -- The moving cursor writes, and having written, blinks on. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI
Get this... I properly registered my mandrake 7.1 and sent mandrake a support email yesterday and just got a reply today. Great turn around time! -Joel --Original Message-- From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 13, 2000 10:55:07 AM GMT Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI There is so much incredible, wonderful documentation on the web to support Linux that you can't possibly ever read it all. On the Mandrake site itself there are links to some of these great sites. Lift your eyes just a wee bit above the level of frustration and you will see a treasure trove of support and documentation. Personally, I've not known another distro to offer so much support for such a product that mostly free. Even when you do buy a package you're paying far less than you ever would from Microsoft. And we've all heard those tech support horror stories. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 9:48pm ,KompuKit spake passionately in a message: I totally agreehey Mandrake...whats up with this? This isn't good for Mandrake...and I care about this distribution alot... I've even gone as far as setting up a message board on my server to help with questions...(link in my signature below) maynord wrote: In the U.S., support for Mandrake is supposed to come from the distributor - Macmillan. After purchasing the Deluxe version of Mandrake 7.1, I went through the process of getting the Macmillan support ID number, etc. Never heard from them at all. I also noticed a phone number available for a very limited number of hours -- but the printout says there is no support offered by phone. My installation problem turned out to be a common one, experienced by other users. It was legitimate, but not difficult for someone familiar with the specifics of verision 7.1. Why don't they simply set up an installation troubleshooting web site, instead of a registration process they cannot adequately respond to? Robert On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, you wrote: I had a problem installing 7.1 and as I had bough a package which came with support I emailed mandrake about the problem. I have not had a response from them and its now been four days. Has anyone out there had any experience of their support? I think four days is much too long. Incidentally, I finally got around the problem, but I would still like to hear from Mandrake. Rod __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
Re: [newbie] Program to check usage of mail box
Micro-management sucks. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 3:27pm ,Vinay Kudithipudi spake passionately in a message: Hello Newbies, I was wondering if there is a command in linux to see the mail usage of the users mail box (i.e no of messages and size of mail box) or if there is a script which I can put in my cron job to run at regular intervals. I am using Mandrake 7.1. Thank you. Vinay.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake support
I had pretty poor "support" from Mandrake. What replies I got were either cryptic or were obviously canned messages. One time they told me my problem with installing grub was a "bug". When I asked what the bug was I never got an answer. Obviously a brush-off because I solved the problem and it was no bug. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Bob Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake support - Original Message - From: "Rod Baxter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:22 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake support I had a problem installing 7.1 and as I had bough a package which came with support I emailed mandrake about the problem. I have not had a response from them and its now been four days. Has anyone out there had any experience of their support? I think four days is much too long. Incidentally, I finally got around the problem, but I would still like to hear from Mandrake. Rod I also have been having problems with support form Mandrake. I have never really gotten a response from them. Even after several e-mails. Robert C. Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Montana, The Big Sky Country
Re: [newbie] Newbie: Windows Opera3 bookmarks to Linux Netscape
Make sure you do not try to install an i686 (pentium II) on an i586 (pentium) machine. Or a i586 on a 486 machine. Alpha and PPC are not for intel platforms either. In the case of Opera there is only one RPM file (type?) and trying to open it reports the error described. I'm beginning to wonder whether they're not using a newer version of rpm. My understanding is that v4.0 is out and about now. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Video AND Sound
Well, can anyone help out a real new newbie. L-M 7.0 went in over L-M 6.0 OK but I cannot get EITHER video or sound accepted. Could not in 6.0 either and hoped 7.0 would improve things. Shortly my foot will solve the problem because I have spent three weeks just getting L-M into the computer. Now I am stuck with TEXT mode and I HATE TEXT MODE. I have gone through virtually every combination of monitor/card, synchronisation and refresh rates one can find. Can someone just start me in the right direction PLEASE. Kev S, down under. I don't now how LM upgrade makes its decisions but if I were writing one, I wouldn't change whatever video setup was there, thinking that it must have been working or the guy wouldn't be doing an upgrade. If you want LM7.0 to so something about your video automatically, you might want to do a clean install. Beyond that, I can't advise as you haven't provided any information about your system and claim to have tried everything. That pretty much closes the door on providing aid. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI
Now we all know that all software has bugs. So what differentiates between suppliers is not the interface but the support! As this spools up into a beat up Mandrake support thread, you might be interested to know that Mandrake has taken control over support from Macmillan as they realized there were problems. From what I got from the thread here only a month or so ago, they will take steps to fix these problems. BTW, have you ever tried to get "support" from Microsoft on a Windoze problem? I won't use or recommend Mandrake for any of my customers. What do you recommend? I also emailed Mandrake directly on their advertised line for comments and I still haven't heard from them. They don't seem to be after the commercial market at all, in fact they don't seem to be interested in anything else except selling product. You've got to be kidding. You may not have received what you wanted (and they've admitted problems) but nobody's gonna get rich selling operating systems to the people who don't want to download it for free, especially at the prices Linux is being sold for. Open source is ALL about service. I suspect your problem is that you expect lots of it for $40 or whatever you paid for Linux and that just isn't going to happen. Cheers --- Larry
RE: [newbie] OOPS Maybe a better safer way
You just did... Carlton J "Doc" Dodd, MSgt, USAF Independent Duty Medical Technician Superintendent, Commander's Staff 726th Air Control Squadron (208) 828-3604 (DSN) 728-3604 -Original Message- From: ai4a [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 4:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] OOPS Maybe a better safer way After thoughts on my problem when I stopped too many daemons. I am using Mandrake 7.0 here. This is the only linux I have ever seen so all comments are about this distro. Maybe a better safer way to stop daemons would be: During boot press 'I' to enter interactive mode. Any daemon that I wish to stop just answer 'NO' when the system asks if I wish to start it. If everything works OK then wonderful. If the system fails, just reboot. After I determine which daemons I can do without, then I can use DrakeConf to stop them. Thanks to all who helped me. This is a wonderful way to share knowledge. I hope one day to be able to contribute. Have a nice day Charles
RE: [newbie] Re: FW: How can I install LM 7.0 to laptop?
A... THERE's the problem! This laptop has one drive bay. That means I can use the floppy drive OR the CD-ROM (so I can't boot from floppy and use the CD). Any way to write enough to the hard drive to allow a shut down and re-boot so I can switch to CD? Carlton J "Doc" Dodd, MSgt, USAF Independent Duty Medical Technician Superintendent, Commander's Staff 726th Air Control Squadron (208) 828-3604 (DSN) 728-3604 -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 4:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Re: FW: How can I install LM 7.0 to laptop? Carlton, Since you're installing Mandrake and your machine only has 700MB of total space you won't have sufficient space for a dual boot machine. In fact, you may find it a bit tight squeezing Mandrake on there. However, a workstation install should fit. To install with an older CDROM shouldn't be too hard. If you've got an Micro$oft CDROM setup disk lying around that will work wonderfully. If you don't just email me and I'll zip you one up and send it to you. That will allow you to boot your machine with the floppy and hopefuly load the CDROM drivers to get the whole process started. If that doesn't work you make have to make a boot floppy with the CDROM boot.img and try booting with that. Those iamges should be on the Mandrake installation CD's. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 7:54pm ,Carlton Dodd spake passionately in a message: (Second sending, Hoping to catch someone's attention who's done this) Anyone have any work-arounds to install LM 7.0 on a laptop? I have an old Texas Instruments P75 laptop with 40MB RAM and a 700MB HDD. I have two questions: 1. Is this laptop sufficient for running Linux? With a GUI? I will devote the system completely to Linux if I need to, but I'd love to be able to run a dual-boot if there's enough space so I can learn that as well. 2. How do I actually install from the CD? Unfortunately, I cannot simply boot from the CD like you can on newer machines. The install instructions say to just make a boot floppy and then install from the CD, but my laptop only allows me to install one drive (CD or Floppy) at a time. And I have to shut off the machine in between. Can I make a floppy that will install enough so I can shut down, swap to the CD drive, and go from there? Thanks for any help you can give, Carlton YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
Re: [newbie] Re: FW: How can I install LM 7.0 to laptop?
Newer machines have the CD second in the boot chain after the floppy. Try just putting the CD in and reboot - RH and Mandrake CD's are bootable. Worked for me. Kevin
[newbie] Upgrading Mandrake
Can I upgrad my mandrake without rebooting from the CD I means upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 or 7.1 to 7.2 from within 7.0
Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI
As this spools up into a beat up Mandrake support thread, you might be interested to know that Mandrake has taken control over support from Macmillan as they realized there were problems. From what I got from the thread here only a month or so ago, they will take steps to fix these problems. That is great news. In the meanwhile thank God for this forum. BTW, have you ever tried to get "support" from Microsoft on a Windoze problem? Wait a minute. This is Linux. We are not trying to emulate MS! :-)) Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
[newbie] HD.......
Hi, recently when i've been browsing the internet i have noticed, particularly when scrolling on a webpage that my hard drive is working a bit harder than usual, just seems a bit noisier and working overtime, it's like it's just spinning faster when i scroll...i'm running AMD K6-2 450mhz, 128meg Ram, 6.4 gig HD, dual booting win98/linux. If i haven't explained this properly please tell me, any help would be greatthanks in advance. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] sb live! sound cards
To philomen- Hi!- yes I have the driver but cant seem to get it installed correctly, I have it in my home directory and tried to follow the instructions but I must be seriously missing something. Do you have a better way and how did you or would you recommend I install the driver ? Otherwise any other suggestions ? Thank you, Chronos. At 08:15 AM 10/13/2000 -0400, you wrote: hi, did you try downloading and installing the most recent emu10k1 driver ? You can find it at www.opensource.creativelabs.com. That helps sometimes. philomen chronos wrote- System specs are as follows- gateway 20 gig drive partitioned 10 win98 se and 10 linux mandrake 7.0 128 ram pentium 3 500 and sb live sound card and svga video card.
Re: [newbie] Alps Printer Installation problem
"Bro. Lauren Ball" wrote: Hi All, Homemade AMD 350 processor, Mandrake Linux 7.1 Alps has never heard of Linux and Mandrake seems not to have heard of Alps. My printer is an ALP MD 1000 dry image transfer printer. Does anyone know where I can get a driver. Has anyone decompiled and Windows based printer driver and rewritten it for Linux. Is this possible? Are ther any other options. Thanks Lauren The old Alps dot matrix had Epson equivalents. You may find it referenced in their manual or possibly on their web page. -- Barry :-) Registered Linux User #183879
[newbie] Re: 3c905c and adsl-start
When I execute this command it times out. Prior to this there was a "\var\run]pppoe.pid file not found" message. Can someone help me configure my machine for DSL surfing? = Michael __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] security.sh in crontab
I think it's part of msec, it just checks for world writable files, changed set-uid root files...basically anything that would tip you off that you've had an intrusion onto your system. I'm just a newbie though so I could be wrong, but I set that cronjob to go off around 5am when i'm not awake, so it doesn't matter either way. Adam - Original Message - From: "John Hendrickx" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 2:17 PM Subject: [newbie] security.sh in crontab I've noticed that my machine starts accessing the disks and slows to a crawl at 12:00 midnight. I've traced the problem to a line in my /etc/crontab file: # Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too. 0 0 * * *root/etc/security/msec/cron-sh/security.sh My question is, what does this "security.sh" script do? It's a real pain in the ass, it effectively disables my computer for about 10 minutes, but I'd like to know what it does first. It apparently searches my disks for certain files using "nice +19", which basically means "butt in and take over the whole machine". Can anyone tell me why this was installed in crontab, why it has to be so intrusive? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] security.sh in crontab
It was Oct 13, 2000, 11:17, when John Hendrickx keyboarded: # Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too. 0 0 * * *root/etc/security/msec/cron-sh/security.sh searches my disks for certain files using "nice +19", which basically means "butt in and take over the whole machine". Can anyone tell me why this was installed in crontab, why it has to be so intrusive? The installer set this up. It is to ensure that things are safe in your system. The level of security depends on the level of paranoia you set up in your system. If it bothers you that it runs at midnight, you can set it at a time when you are sleeping, e.g. 4am. As root do crontab -e and update the time to 0 4 * * * etc. Of course, you can remove the entire bit and never be sure that the security on your system is checked. It does save you a slow system for 10 minutes. Paul -- If Jack Daniels makes your list of "Most Admired People." ...you might be a Redneck! http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] one problem sorted just makes room for another
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Fraser Kendall wrote: Servers sorted. This message comes to you from kppp. LineOne (0845 0345 UK numbers) support linux-mandrake, at least (www.lineone.net) Can anyone help me to configure my sound card? Fraser Try sndconfig in a terminal Regards Ted Packetmail :- g3tpi@gb7wfs.#25.gbr.eu Email :- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux
Re: [newbie] security.sh in crontab
I've got anacron set too, so it would start the next day when I restarted. I've just turned it off now. It might be useful but why run at nice +19, it really gets in the way now. --- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's part of msec, it just checks for world writable files, changed set-uid root files...basically anything that would tip you off that you've had an intrusion onto your system. I'm just a newbie though so I could be wrong, but I set that cronjob to go off around 5am when i'm not awake, so it doesn't matter either way. Adam - Original Message - From: "John Hendrickx" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 2:17 PM Subject: [newbie] security.sh in crontab I've noticed that my machine starts accessing the disks and slows to a crawl at 12:00 midnight. I've traced the problem to a line in my /etc/crontab file: # Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too. 0 0 * * *root/etc/security/msec/cron-sh/security.sh My question is, what does this "security.sh" script do? It's a real pain in the ass, it effectively disables my computer for about 10 minutes, but I'd like to know what it does first. It apparently searches my disks for certain files using "nice +19", which basically means "butt in and take over the whole machine". Can anyone tell me why this was installed in crontab, why it has to be so intrusive? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] OOPS: Help a dumbie please
thanks, but its not working. I am getting a bad password error when i type in anything for a new password. --- Barry Premeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Alberts wrote: alright, well, I was cooking just fine until i screwed something up and now it seems that the password has been changed for 'root'. Is there any way of changing or correcting the root password IF you don't know what it is to begin with? Currently, I can only access 'single' init. The X system won't start for some reason. Scott I got this from http://www.linuxmall.com/resourcesnlm/part1/forgotrootpassword.html. You are nearly there, since you can still log in at 'single'. Boot up as 'single'. At the bash#, enter: password It should then prompt you for a new root password, without asking for the old one. -- Barry :-) Registered Linux User #183879
Re: [newbie] Mandrake support
I did receive a rather prompt response from mandrake. However, their answer doesn't seem to work. I may be missing something but I have no one to go over it with. I have formatted my hard drive and now want to install linux. I have an older P60 Dell and I have to boot with a diskette, I have a MagicSpin cdrom that the system can not find. The response I got back was create a special boot disk using cdrom.img under rawwrite.exe. I am not able to do anything once I open rawwrite.exe am I missing something? From: "Bob Abbott" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake support Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:53:04 -0600 - Original Message - From: "Rod Baxter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:22 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake support I had a problem installing 7.1 and as I had bough a package which came with support I emailed mandrake about the problem. I have not had a response from them and its now been four days. Has anyone out there had any experience of their support? I think four days is much too long. Incidentally, I finally got around the problem, but I would still like to hear from Mandrake. Rod I also have been having problems with support form Mandrake. I have never really gotten a response from them. Even after several e-mails. Robert C. Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Montana, The Big Sky Country _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] OOPS: Help a dumbie please
Michael Alberts wrote: thanks, but its not working. I am getting a bad password error when i type in anything for a new password. If you try your rescue disk and it still fails, you may be left with a new install. Maybe someone else has another trick you can try. -- Barry :-) Registered Linux User #183879
Re: [newbie] sb live! sound cards
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, you wrote: To philomen- Hi!- yes I have the driver but cant seem to get it installed correctly, I have it in my home directory and tried to follow the instructions but I must be seriously missing something. Do you have a better way and how did you or would you recommend I install the driver ? Otherwise any other suggestions ? Thank you, Chronos. At 08:15 AM 10/13/2000 -0400, you wrote: hi, did you try downloading and installing the most recent emu10k1 driver ? You can find it at www.opensource.creativelabs.com. That helps sometimes. philomen chronos wrote- System specs are as follows- gateway 20 gig drive partitioned 10 win98 se and 10 linux mandrake 7.0 128 ram pentium 3 500 and sb live sound card and svga video card. Cronos, Have you tried to use sndconfig? If not, then get out of X completely and run /usr/sbin/sndconfig from the command line. I have to do this to get my sb live to work under both RH and Mandrake. Hope this helps KrYtOn
RE: [newbie] Mandrake support
rawrite.exe is a DOS program that must be run from a command line. It's the original program that was used to write Linux boot floppy back when there's no such thing as LILO. Hope this helps. Andy -- From: Tim Jackson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 3:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake support I did receive a rather prompt response from mandrake. However, their answer doesn't seem to work. I may be missing something but I have no one to go over it with. I have formatted my hard drive and now want to install linux. I have an older P60 Dell and I have to boot with a diskette, I have a MagicSpin cdrom that the system can not find. The response I got back was create a special boot disk using cdrom.img under rawwrite.exe. I am not able to do anything once I open rawwrite.exe am I missing something? From: "Bob Abbott" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake support Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:53:04 -0600 - Original Message - From: "Rod Baxter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:22 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake support I had a problem installing 7.1 and as I had bough a package which came with support I emailed mandrake about the problem. I have not had a response from them and its now been four days. Has anyone out there had any experience of their support? I think four days is much too long. Incidentally, I finally got around the problem, but I would still like to hear from Mandrake. Rod I also have been having problems with support form Mandrake. I have never really gotten a response from them. Even after several e-mails. Robert C. Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Montana, The Big Sky Country _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
[newbie] Cannot mount HPFS partition
Hallo!! I get the following message when trying to execute the following: # mount /mnt/HPFS mount: wronf fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda5, or too many mounted filesystems In /etc/fstab there's the following line: /dev/sda5/mnt/HPFShpfsuser,exec,dev,suid,rw11 Help!! 8-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] Laptop driver support
Matt: With regard to the modem, the winmodem presents a problem. Although some of them can be made to work with winmodems, most don't. The best source I have found is at: www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html I'll leave the sound card and USB questions to smarter people than me -- and there's lots of that kind on this mail list. I do know that LM 7.1 has some USB support, but I'm not sure what the limits are. (Jump in anytime, folks!) Regards, -- Carroll Matt Sim wrote: I have just installed Mandrake on my laptop and I am having a few problems. I did a standard install and I do not think there is support for my sound card or modem. Dell Latitude LS Modem = LT Win Modem Sound Card = NeoMagic MagicMedia 256 Audio Do I stand a chance of getting these to work? Becuase this Laptop has no Serial port I have a USB to serial convertor made by entrega. Would any body have a clue how this would work. Also DHCP does not work. Matt Sim
Re: [newbie] Ultimate Formatting
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote: That would be great, John. -Original Message- From: John Rye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Ultimate Formatting Rod Baxter wrote: Easy. Boot from a dos boot disk and use dos fdisk. Delete all partitions and reboot from the floppy. Then type fdisk /mbr which will rewrite a standard master boot record. But, (as allways!!) if you cannot delete an extended partition because it says 'cannot delete while logical drives exist' and when you go and look there are no logical drives you need to cheat a bit. Go into the bios and change the disk drive settings. If its running LBA, change it to normal. Reboot and you will find the logical drives will have dissapeared. Delete everything, then reboot and put it back to LBA mode. Then go through the loop again, and finish with the fdisk /mbr command. If its a small disk and you are not running LBA, then just change the drive type to something else. Rod - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Newbie'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 9:23 PM Subject: [newbie] Ultimate Formatting Anybody know how to completely wipe a HD clean?? I am having major problems and need to start over. I need to blow away partitions and all. Make it just like new. There is a rather smart wee utility called ZeroDisk out there somewhere which rewrites every sector. I have used that to do Security Wipes. I may have a copy here somewhere - whant to check thru the floppy box? Cheers After a two-day search thru better than 2500 floppies I found said ZeroDisk only to find it's for MFM/RLL harddrives from Maxtor!!! That sort of says I don't think it will be very useful. Sorry about that. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] Ultimate Formatting
Mark Weaver wrote: that's easy. Just use the partitioning utility in the setup program that runs when you install Mandrake on your computer. That can do anything you could think of to do to a HDD. -- Mark ...Larry isn't a cucumber. He's a PICKLE... ...WITH WARTS! Surprisingly on Wed, 11 Oct 2000 Kelly, Christopher had this to say! Anybody know how to completely wipe a HD clean?? I am having major problems and need to start over. I need to blow away partitions and all. Make it just like new. Just a thought on the end of this thread... A Dos-based version of the Norton Utilities had/has a version of 'wipeinfo' - I haven't been there in many years - I think it could also be used to re-write each sector on an already formatted dos-partition. However - that would presuppose having a dos 5.xx or so boot disk with the utility on it. I saw a few references to using the bios low-level format routines. I would very seriously suggest this is a BAD idea - I stuffed a perfectly good 2gig ide drive by accidently using this !!! If you need to reformat at that level - get the correct util from the drive manufacturer - I know Quantum have these so I would assume the others also have them. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
[newbie] New kernel and error messages
Hello, I've just compiled and installed a new kernel. I upgraded from 2.2.15 to 2.2.17 on my Portable PC. Everything runs fine, except during the boot process where I have a few error messages. These are the main ones : - This new kernel doesn't seem to recognize my Slim SCSI PC Card - Fast SCSI 1460D (Adaptec). With kernel 2.2.15 during the boot process, I have a message telling me that it has recognized this adaptor card (One scsi host detected). With kernel 2.2.17 I have no message at all. Is it because I forgot to do something during the kernel configuration? To configure the new kernel, I saved in a txt file my 2.2.15 kernel config, and loaded it when I run the "make xconfig" to create my new 2.2.17 kernel. - I have the following message too : "locate usb interface modprobe can't locate module usb-interface" (This one doesn't appear when I boot on 2.2.15). - And finally this one : "starting kheader -- failed" (It doesn't failed with kernel 2.2.15) How can I make it run the same way as my old kernel ? Thanks. Francois
Re: [newbie] 2 computers 1 mail database ?
Joan I've bought a laptop and i'd like to be able to use from this one the same messages database i've got in my computer at home... what will be the best way to have that working? 8-? I'm using Netscape for my mail... Sounds like the way I've got my account set up. Here's how I do it. The laptop connects to the LAN at work so I've got Netscape set up to use that instead of dialing up. Messenger is set up identically to the way it is at home, with one important difference; messages are not deleted from the server after download. What this means in practice is that I can download and read all my mail from work. Messages I delete on the laptop are also deleted from the server. Messages that I leave in folders or in my Inbox, remain on the server so I can download them again from home and store them as normal. To set this up you need to go to: Edit - Preferences... - Mail Servers In the 'Incoming Mail Servers' window, highlight the one you want to use (if you have more than one), then Click Edit. Select the POP tab. Select 'Leave messages on server'. Click Ok and Ok. That should be it. I do this under Windows by the way (not fully Linuxed yet). From what I've seen Netscape is the same on both platforms so this should work for you too. If I can help further Lance
[newbie] Kmail configuration
Is there a way to configure kmail in such a way that the "To" listing shows in addition to From, Subject, and date? Thanks Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
[newbie] bad table partitions in mandrake install
Hi everyone. I am trying to install mandrake 7.0. Currently I have RedHat 6.1 on my system, which I am tired of, and want to try this distro. However, the Mandrake installer says that my partition table is corrupted, and that it can't read it. It then prompts me that it will "blank out" the bad sectors if I press ok. If I press cancel, it goes to Disk Druid, or whatever partition program Mandrake uses. Needless to say, I have not pressed 'ok' because I don't have any idea what 'blank out' means here. Does it mean ignore, or reformat? My hard drive setup looks like this. Jafwin - FAT32 - Windows OS installed - bootable Linux - Linux native - Redhat 6.1 OS installed Tmp - Linux swap file *Windows Extended partition +audio1 - WinEX - Logical partition +audio2 - WinEX - Logical partition +audio3 - WinEX - Logical partition +audio4 - WinEX - Logical partition Fdisk under Dos reads all of this fine. The Corel installer reads it fine, but then crashes on the actual beginning of the installation. RedHat 6.1 Install will not read this, and gives and error. In both Windows and Linux, right now, all of my partitions are readable and working fine. However, I cannot afford to lose any data on my Windows Extended partitions. Obviously, there is nothing in my Linux partition that I have to keep. Can someone help me out on this one? Am I going to have to reformat to get this distro in? What is this 'blank out' messsgae? Thanks in advance -Jesse Farmer
Re: [newbie] security.sh in crontab
# Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too. 0 0 * * *root/etc/security/msec/cron-sh/security.sh My question is, what does this "security.sh" script do? It's a real pain in the ass, it effectively disables my computer for about 10 It looks through your entire file system and reports files that have had their permissions changed. Then it checks your ports and tells you what it thinks is going on. All of that is put into an email and sent to whoever/whereever you want it sent. If you don't want to check for such things, comment the line out. If you do want to keep it but don't want it to happen at midnight, change the time. You do sleep don't you? means "butt in and take over the whole machine". Can anyone tell me why this was installed in crontab, why it has to be so intrusive? Frankly, I don't understand why it causes problems its set to nice=+19 sets it at the lowest priority. You must have your system really loaded when it runs for it to slow things down much. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Mandrake support
Answer from a user: dont know if you tried this: when your computer boot press delete to acces the bios of your machine. find the part where it say order to boot , its probably a,b,c or something like that. change it to cd-rom first, c , a or something like that (important is to have cd-rom first. restart your machine when it restart put your distibution cd instalation in the cd-rom drive. if you miss it the first time, just restart the machine its suppose to use your cd-rom as boot If you have tried it sorry If it dont work sorry it works here If it work, well thank the Linux-mandrake gods for there blessing. hehehe __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Re: 3c905c and adsl-start
Are you using Roaring Penguin's pppoe package? Did you run the setup program? Did you follow the directions in the 'how to connect' file? I have a DSL connection also. Had a few similar problems until I did exactly as the 'how to connect' file stated. Also, after installation and configuration, it seems that there is a need to reboot Linux for some settings to take effect. The gurus here will probably let me know that there is a better way than rebooting, but that's all part of the learning curve. I'm no expert, but if I can be of any help, shout it out... On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, M. wrote: When I execute this command it times out. Prior to this there was a "\var\run]pppoe.pid file not found" message.Can someone help me configure my machine for DSL surfing? = Michael __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user #175132 Powered by Linux-Mandrake 7.1
Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI
The problem is that I registered the product and as install support is advertised I expected to get a reply at the least. $40 dollars or not they do advertise support. It just hasn't happened. I don't want to beat up any supplier, but I expect them to do as they say. Regards,Rod - Original Message - From: "Larry Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 10:16 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI Now we all know that all software has bugs. So what differentiates between suppliers is not the interface but the support! As this spools up into a beat up Mandrake support thread, you might be interested to know that Mandrake has taken control over support from Macmillan as they realized there were problems. From what I got from the thread here only a month or so ago, they will take steps to fix these problems. BTW, have you ever tried to get "support" from Microsoft on a Windoze problem? I won't use or recommend Mandrake for any of my customers. What do you recommend? I also emailed Mandrake directly on their advertised line for comments and I still haven't heard from them. They don't seem to be after the commercial market at all, in fact they don't seem to be interested in anything else except selling product. You've got to be kidding. You may not have received what you wanted (and they've admitted problems) but nobody's gonna get rich selling operating systems to the people who don't want to download it for free, especially at the prices Linux is being sold for. Open source is ALL about service. I suspect your problem is that you expect lots of it for $40 or whatever you paid for Linux and that just isn't going to happen. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Mandrake support
Tim Jackson wrote: I did receive a rather prompt response from mandrake. However, their answer doesn't seem to work. I may be missing something but I have no one to go over it with. I have formatted my hard drive and now want to install linux. I have an older P60 Dell and I have to boot with a diskette, I have a MagicSpin cdrom that the system can not find. The response I got back was create a special boot disk using cdrom.img under rawwrite.exe. I am not able to do anything once I open rawwrite.exe am I missing something? [snip] Timgo to a dos prompt and use rawrite.exe instead (it's in the same directory as rawwrite.exe). You'll need to know the path to the cdrom.img file. -- MandrakeSoft Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Altadena, CA USA --Alan
Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI
--- Rod Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that I registered the product and as install support is advertised I expected to get a reply at the least. $40 dollars or not they do advertise support. It just hasn't happened. I don't want to beat up any supplier, but I expect them to do as they say. Regards,Rod Have you tought that maybee the message nerver got there ? It happens sometime , have you tried to send the same message again? are you shure you used the right adresss? As your problem been fixed? what was the problem again maybee someone can help here? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Ebrarassed to ask this question
I have created a standalone boot linux using 'tomsrtbt'. This is a standalone bootable linux. It boots fine. But how do I access the files on my HD. MY partitions are: hda1 linux boot hda2 windows hda3 linux extended partition hda5 linux hda6 linux How do I mount the hda3(hda5,hda6) partitions? I am using Mandrake 7.0. Please show several mount commands so I can try and understand the mount command. I have read the 'man mount' pages and several books. I think they all presume I have a better background than I have. I am a newbie (so new I shine). The fstab in /etc/fstab (floppy) show only fd0. Thanks Charles
Re: [newbie] Ebrarassed to ask this question
Make a temporary "mount point" in the directory /mnt: mkdir /mnt/temp5 mkdir /mnt/temp6 (you don't have to call them 'tempX', but bear with me :-) ) As long as you are not trying to mount a swap partition, you can use the following for the linux partitions: mount -t ext2 /dev/hda5 /mnt/temp5 mount -t ext2 /dev/hda6 /mnt/temp6 If the windows partition is fat16: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/temp5 (I'm re-using the temp5 directory, assuming it's not already mounted when you try this) I'll guess your "linux extended partition" is your swap, and leave it alone. to "unmount" the partition: umount /dev/hdaX (where 'X' is the partition #) For a fat floppy: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy umount /dev/fd0 the '-t' denotes the file system, for a cdrom it would most likely be '-t iso9660'. The man page has a list of the different file systems your distro's kernel supports. But for many of them, you may have to re-compile the kernel toget functionality. An important hint: DO NOT COMPILE READ-WRITE FOR NTFS IN YOUR KERNEL... sorry for "yelling" but this can royally fuck things up. And, um, sorry about the language, but urgency can often be well demonstrated by profane emphatic expression. It's colourful, as well, and sometimes gets a rise out of co-workers in a stuffy office environment--you may shout it loudy over the cubical walls in a disguised voice and watch the surprised, somewhat perturbed faces on the prairie dogs as they begin popping up around you. I'm getting off topic? Anywaythe above is the typical usage for 'mount' MDK may, depending on the security level at which you installed, prevent you from mounting if you're not root. Y should be able to change this in linuxconf, by making the devices (/dev/...) user-mountable. If you have any questions... well... you've been here before. --Greg - Original Message - From: "ai4a" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have created a standalone boot linux using 'tomsrtbt'. This is a standalone bootable linux. It boots fine. But how do I access the files on my HD. MY partitions are: hda1 linux boot hda2 windows hda3 linux extended partition hda5 linux hda6 linux How do I mount the hda3(hda5,hda6) partitions? I am using Mandrake 7.0. Please show several mount commands so I can try and understand the mount command. I have read the 'man mount' pages and several books. I think they all presume I have a better background than I have. I am a newbie (so new I shine). The fstab in /etc/fstab (floppy) show only fd0. Thanks Charles __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
[newbie] Mandrake Support
Mandrake Folks: Just to clarify my comments regarding Mandrake installation support -- After experimenting with several Linux distributions, I tried Mandrake 7.1 and found it to be far superior. I am using 7.1 in a school setting where there are 25 networked machines in a lab, and multiple networked workstations in the classrooms. At this time, about half of the machines are running Mandrake 7.1 I set up new workstations continually. The principal of the school is running Mandrake 7.1. When I get a call saying that she needs help because "it won't print" (or some such), I must solve the problem (stress). Previously, the students were using W95 with Powerpoint, Word, etc. The Mandrake version of Linux has held up well in a setting where 350 kids are already fairly computer literate. They expect a lot - things must work. My comments regarding installation support were made as a Mandrake "fan" - not a detractor. Robert Maynord
[newbie] writing to a vfat partition?
It was my understanding that even though Linux could be setup to read and copy files from fat (dos) partitions by mounting them, it was not wise to write back to these fat partitions from within linux. Yet I read messages about doing that, I believe through fat32? My fat partitions are not fat32. Can I or cn I not save files to these partitions from linux? As I live more and more in linus it becomes important not only to access my data files from the fat p;artitions but also to save changes made back to those fat partitions. Safe or no? Thanks. -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
Re: [newbie] writing to a vfat partition?
Jeff Malka wrote: It was my understanding that even though Linux could be setup to read and copy files from fat (dos) partitions by mounting them, it was not wise to write back to these fat partitions from within linux. Yet I read messages about doing that, I believe through fat32? My fat partitions are not fat32. Can I or cn I not save files to these partitions from linux? As I live more and more in linus it becomes important not only to access my data files from the fat p;artitions but also to save changes made back to those fat partitions. Safe or no? [snip] Jeffyou sure can. -- MandrakeSoft Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Altadena, CA USA --Alan
Re: [newbie] writing to a vfat partition?
Jeff, I have fat32 drives and i save onto them from linux. i have not had any problems other than one little thing when i run norton disk doctor on my fat drives, if i have written to that drive from linux i will get "invalid date or time" error on some of the files on that drive. i'm guessing this relates to the way in which dos linux write the date/time information. but it seems to do no harm. i assume then you have fat16, yes?? i'd say just make a directory in win/dos, then go in linux, write a bunch of files into that directory, then go back to win/dos see if they are ok. i'm 99% sure they will be fine. after all, don't floppys still format fat16 under dos/win?? i think they do, and i can write to a floppy just fine. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5:46:45 PM 10/13/00 It was my understanding that even though Linux could be setup to read and copy files from fat (dos) partitions by mounting them, it was not wise to write back to these fat partitions from within linux. Yet I read messages about doing that, I believe through fat32? My fat partitions are not fat32. Can I or cn I not save files to these partitions from linux? As I live more and more in linus it becomes important not only to access my data files from the fat p;artitions but also to save changes made back to those fat partitions. Safe or no? Thanks. -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
Re: [newbie] Ebrarassed to ask this question
Greg Stewart wrote: Make a temporary "mount point" in the directory /mnt: mkdir /mnt/temp5 mkdir /mnt/temp6 (you don't have to call them 'tempX', but bear with me :-) ) As long as you are not trying to mount a swap partition, you can use the following for the linux partitions: mount -t ext2 /dev/hda5 /mnt/temp5 mount -t ext2 /dev/hda6 /mnt/temp6 If the windows partition is fat16: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/temp5 (I'm re-using the temp5 directory, assuming it's not already mounted when you try this) I'll guess your "linux extended partition" is your swap, and leave it alone. to "unmount" the partition: umount /dev/hdaX (where 'X' is the partition #) For a fat floppy: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy umount /dev/fd0 the '-t' denotes the file system, for a cdrom it would most likely be '-t iso9660'. The man page has a list of the different file systems your distro's kernel supports. But for many of them, you may have to re-compile the kernel toget functionality. An important hint: DO NOT COMPILE READ-WRITE FOR NTFS IN YOUR KERNEL... sorry for "yelling" but this can royally fuck things up. And, um, sorry about the language, but urgency can often be well demonstrated by profane emphatic expression. It's colourful, as well, and sometimes gets a rise out of co-workers in a stuffy office environment--you may shout it loudy over the cubical walls in a disguised voice and watch the surprised, somewhat perturbed faces on the prairie dogs as they begin popping up around you. I'm getting off topic? Anywaythe above is the typical usage for 'mount' MDK may, depending on the security level at which you installed, prevent you from mounting if you're not root. Y should be able to change this in linuxconf, by making the devices (/dev/...) user-mountable. If you have any questions... well... you've been here before. --Greg - Original Message - From: "ai4a" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have created a standalone boot linux using 'tomsrtbt'. This is a standalone bootable linux. It boots fine. But how do I access the files on my HD. MY partitions are: hda1 linux boot hda2 windows hda3 linux extended partition hda5 linux hda6 linux How do I mount the hda3(hda5,hda6) partitions? I am using Mandrake 7.0. Please show several mount commands so I can try and understand the mount command. I have read the 'man mount' pages and several books. I think they all presume I have a better background than I have. I am a newbie (so new I shine). The fstab in /etc/fstab (floppy) show only fd0. Thanks Charles __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif Thanks Greg. That was just what I needed. A few examples are worth a thousand words. I was able to mount my hda5, browse the files, edit them.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI
The problem is that I registered the product and as install support is advertised I expected to get a reply at the least. $40 dollars or not they I've registered a lot of software in my time but I've never expected a response. What do you want them to say? Presumably, if you have a problem, and you're registered, they'll help you do advertise support. It just hasn't happened. I don't want to beat up any supplier, but I expect them to do as they say. They say they'll give you email support, not be your friend :-) Cheers --- Larry
[newbie] mandrakeusers mailing list
I just created a new Mandrake Users mailing list, if anyone is interested... To subscribe to it: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and inside the body of the mailing, insert this: subscribe mandrakeusers -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
[newbie] Opera Beta
Good evening: I understand that Opera has released the beta of version 4.0. If you're braver than I am, you may wish to give it a try. If so, keep us posted. -- Carroll (not a Netscape fan)
Re: [newbie] Opera Beta
It is the first beta and it crashes pretty good. I'll wait for a second or third beta to try it again. It still missing some things like java support, etc. On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 21:38:41 -0400 To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Opera Beta Good evening: I understand that Opera has released the beta of version 4.0. If you're braver than I am, you may wish to give it a try. If so, keep us posted. -- Carroll (not a Netscape fan) -- Eddie Torres www.veloct.net
[newbie] bad table partitions in mandrake install
Hi everyone. I am trying to install mandrake 7.0. Currently I have RedHat 6.1 on my system, which I am tired of, and want to try this distro. However, the Mandrake installer says that my partition table is corrupted, and that it can't read it. It then prompts me that it will "blank out" the bad sectors if I press ok. If I press cancel, it goes to Disk Druid, or whatever partition program Mandrake uses. Needless to say, I have not pressed 'ok' because I don't have any idea what 'blank out' means here. Does it mean ignore, or reformat? My hard drive setup looks like this. Jafwin - FAT32 - Windows OS installed - bootable Linux - Linux native - Redhat 6.1 OS installed Tmp - Linux swap file *Windows Extended partition +audio1 - WinEX - Logical partition +audio2 - WinEX - Logical partition +audio3 - WinEX - Logical partition +audio4 - WinEX - Logical partition Fdisk under Dos reads all of this fine. The Corel installer reads it fine, but then crashes on the actual beginning of the installation. RedHat 6.1 Install will not read this, and gives and error. In both Windows and Linux, right now, all of my partitions are readable and working fine. However, I cannot afford to lose any data on my Windows Extended partitions. Obviously, there is nothing in my Linux partition that I have to keep. Can someone help me out on this one? Am I going to have to reformat to get this distro in? What is this 'blank out' messsgae? Thanks in advance -Jesse Farmer
Re: [newbie] writing to a vfat partition?
Thanks. Good to know. I have obviously been hampering myself unnecessarily. On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, you wrote: Jeff, I have fat32 drives and i save onto them from linux. i have not had any problems other than one little thing when i run norton disk doctor on my fat drives, if i have written to that drive from linux i will get "invalid date or time" error on some of the files on that drive. i'm guessing this relates to the way in which dos linux write the date/time information. but it seems to do no harm. i assume then you have fat16, yes?? i'd say just make a directory in win/dos, then go in linux, write a bunch of files into that directory, then go back to win/dos see if they are ok. i'm 99% sure they will be fine. after all, don't floppys still format fat16 under dos/win?? i think they do, and i can write to a floppy just fine. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5:46:45 PM 10/13/00 It was my understanding that even though Linux could be setup to read and copy files from fat (dos) partitions by mounting them, it was not wise to write back to these fat partitions from within linux. Yet I read messages about doing that, I believe through fat32? My fat partitions are not fat32. Can I or cn I not save files to these partitions from linux? As I live more and more in linus it becomes important not only to access my data files from the fat p;artitions but also to save changes made back to those fat partitions. Safe or no? Thanks. -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854 -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI
I am registered, and they have not responded to a request for assistance. Regards,Rod - Original Message - From: "Larry Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI The problem is that I registered the product and as install support is advertised I expected to get a reply at the least. $40 dollars or not they I've registered a lot of software in my time but I've never expected a response. What do you want them to say? Presumably, if you have a problem, and you're registered, they'll help you do advertise support. It just hasn't happened. I don't want to beat up any supplier, but I expect them to do as they say. They say they'll give you email support, not be your friend :-) Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Can not boot to windows after installation
your windows command need to have a check up sometimes your auto install misses especially if you have multiple partitions or you may have the wrong partition set as active but that is rare, im not sure what you need to press fo lilo check your linux cong file, if you use grub, i like it anyways looks a bit better i typ enough just to log in so i like being able to use the cursor keyes, with grub you press c now you can move to your windows selection and press e (i may have c-e backwards) but you want to check and make sure the windows command shows something like: /dev/hda1 that should be your windows partition
Re: [newbie] Fastest X for linux to use?
well if you want memory i suggest you dont use x! it will take up memory so far gnome has 3 different versions that i see and then you have kde, i find gnome enlightenment keeps things simple but it runs alot of aplets, kde runs god knows what and through all the bickering i herd i have ran upto 30 different programs at once on kde and gnome enlightenment and find them to be the most stable and still provide me with performance, i run 64mb sdram, 550 celeron processor, 152 L2 cache its a megar system in my opinion but linux makes the most of it!
Re: [newbie] ReiserFS or ext2 ?
In a message dated 10/12/2000 5:44:25 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've read about reiserfs and it seems to be better than ext2... can anyone tell me it's experiences with this file system?? Any problems i could get?? 8-? still in experimental stage if i remember the article correctly on linux.com so i wouldnt try it just yet
Re: [newbie] Cannot mount HPFS partition
sorry the only windows filesystems linux can read are fat vfat and fat32, i know it sucks but i run win 2000 and ust the ntfs and i used to use win98 so when i upgraded i found i had to create a new partition so i can swap my files between both os's
Re: [newbie] writing to a vfat partition?
had no problems i do it all the time, normally i access a fat32 system but you can access the other fat systems as well
Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI
Some of the Linux Mandrake OS that is sold in stores offers free tech. support (phone support) if you register with them. I have not tried to use it. But I WOULD expect them to help me as promised. Emails that are hit and miss suggestions is not tech support. It is community support. Some times it is very accurate and some times you never hear a reply, some times the answer is a how to that is 68 pages long and after you work thru it your just as confused as you were before you started. That is when it is nice to have a knowledgeable person help you. Just my 2 Cents. Robert - Original Message - From: "Larry Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 7:56 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI The problem is that I registered the product and as install support is advertised I expected to get a reply at the least. $40 dollars or not they I've registered a lot of software in my time but I've never expected a response. What do you want them to say? Presumably, if you have a problem, and you're registered, they'll help you do advertise support. It just hasn't happened. I don't want to beat up any supplier, but I expect them to do as they say. They say they'll give you email support, not be your friend :-) Cheers --- Larry
[newbie] starting apps when system boots
I am running Hawkeye on my mandrake 7.0 server. When I startup my server everything starts automatically except Hawkeye. When I go to a terminal window and type hawkeye it starts right away and everything works fine. How do I tell the system to start hawkeye when it boots? Thanks Eric
Re: [newbie] Linux version of Arachnophilia?
If you want bells and whistles and an interface similar to HomeSite, CoffeeCup works pretty well, although it ultimately is not free. If you just want to write HTML with some basic support, including Weblint to check it for you, try Bluefish, which is free. Another is AsWedit, which I like less well. Don J. On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: There is a powerful free webpage editor called Arachnophilia which I use and like in the NT world. There does not seem to be a Linux version of it (even though it is freeware). Does anyone know of a similar html editor in Linux? Thanks -- Don W. Jenkins 8^) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jinxinker.com | www.maxfarce.com "It is the nature and disposition of almost all men, when they get a little power, as they suppose, that they immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion." --Joseph Smith--
