[newbie-it] File Manager sempre in crash !!!
Ho aggiornato la Mandrake alla 7.2, tutto ok, ma il file manager non parte. Mi apre una finestra di Konqueror dicendo che è andato in crash con un errore di segnale 11 su Siginit. Ho provato a reinstallare KDE 2, ma il problema persiste. Ho guardato nei pacchetti installati relativi a Konqueror e precisamente : kdebase, kdelibs, kdesupport e ho trovato installato : kdebase 1.1.2-61 e kdebase 2.0-2 kdelibs 1.1.2-19 e 2.0-5 kdesupport 1.1.2-17 e 2.0 Cosa posso fare per farlo funzionare ? L'update non ha dato alcun problema. Grazie Pier Antonio
[newbie-it] Aggiornare a kde 2.0.1 per crash ?
Come ho detto in alcune mie mail precedenti non riesco ad utilizzare con il nuovo kde 2 il file managere ora mi accorgo neppure il Kpanel. Ho cercato nel Database dei bug ed ho visto che sono bug di konqueror. Nel Cd di Linux c c'è la versione di kde 2.0.1 che dovrebbe sistemare alcuni innominati bug. Volevo sapere ? Qualcuno di voi sa che bug sistema quest'aggiornamento ? Mi consigliate di aggiornarla ? Eventualmente il disinstallare kde 2 e reinstallare la vecchia versione darebbe controindicazioni con Mandrake 7.2 ? Grazie mille ciao Pier Antonio
Re: R: [newbie-it] I: Urgesi moduli
Germano wrote: Forse ho cantato vittoria prima del tempo. Ho eseguito i comandi che mi hai consigliato, ma con esito tragico.Ho cercato di capire prima cosa mettere al posto dei "" in " rpm -qlp kernelrpm" con "rpm -qi kernel" ed uscito fuori che il nome del pacchetto "kernel-2.2.15-4mdk.src.rpm". Non ci siamo capiti. Io davo per scontato che, se vuoi i moduli compilati, devi cercarli nel pacchetto rpm del kernel compilato e non in quello dei sorgenti. Quindi devi cercare in qualcosa tipo "kernel-..versione...-4mdk.586.rpm" Il problema la "p" nelle opzioni perch il pacchetto kernel installato completamente e quindi secondo lui non c' nient' altro da installare "-qlp" significa di cercare (query) la lista (l) dei file contenuti in un package.rpm (p). Ossia "rpm -ql pippo" ti dice cosa risulta gia` installato col pacchetto pippo controllando nel data base di rpm. "rpm -qlp pippo-4.5.5.mdk.586.rpm" cosa e` contenuto, pronto per essere installato, nel file del pacchetto leggendo nell'elenco presente nel file pippo-4.5.5.mdk.586.rpm . Il tutto serviva per appurare da quale file.rpm puoi estrarre i moduli che ti servivano. Un modo alternativo, visto che i moduli figurano come installati nel tuo database di rpm e` dare "rpm -qf /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/hisax.o" Infatti quei moduli li avevo installati ma poi cancellati a mano. E' possibile che il pacchetto sia solo nel Cd? se li hai cancellati dal disco e` difficile (quasi impossibile) recuperarli. Devi riprenderteli dal CD. Se cos come prendere da l solo ci che mi serve? Una volta che ti sei assicurato che quello che cerchi e` effettivamente in quel file lo estrai con "mc" o con una delle sue varianti kde/gnome: "kmc" o "gmc". O, volendo fare il "duro" con rpm2cpio. S invece anche nell' hard disk dov' e come fare a dirgli che voglio reinstallare un file precedentemente istallato? forse e` ancora anche sull'hrd disk. Pero`, cancellandolo tu hai detto al filesystem che quell'area di disco non e` piu` "riservata" a quel file. Quindi potrebbe essere stata usata per scriverci sopra qualcos'altro. Per recuperarlo dovresti capire qual'e` l'inode da cui partiva la memorizzazione del file e poi, con un editor esadecimale, sperando che sia tutto contiguo, recuperarlo. Sono cose che si fanno quando si e` disperati e quello che si cerca non e` recuperabile altrimenti (dati personali). Il punto piu` difficile per un file binario e` capire esattamente dove inizia e dove finisce. ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] I: I: ATT.NE NEW VIRUS !!!
LEGGERE IMMEDIATAMENTE Qualcuno sta trasmettendo un salvaschermo molto carino con le rane della birra Budweiser. * Se lo installi, perderai tutto! * Il disco rigido si rovinerà e qualcuno da internet vi toglierà l'e-mail * PER NESSUNA RAGIONE DEVI INSTALLARLO * E' uscito ieri. Per favore, distribuite questo messaggio. * E' un virus nuovo e perverso del quale poca gente ha sentito parlare. * Quest'informazione e stata diffusa dalla Microsoft ieri mattina. * Per favore, condividi quest'informazione con tutti quelli che conosci e che navigano in internet. * Invia questo messaggio a TUTTE le persone di cui hai l'indirizzo e-mail per frenare quest'espansione! * America On Line ha detto che si tratta di un virus molto pericoloso e che per il momento * NON HA RIMEDIO! veramente al lavoro già un paio di mac (un cube, ed un i-mac) hanno scaricato ed installato un salvaschermo con le rane della budwaiser...da almeno un paio di mesi...e finora non è successo nulla... ciao, osva
[newbie-it] Asuscom isdnlink 128k interno
Con Mandrake 7.2 riconosce detta scheda che interna, per la connessione isdn. Durante l'installazione configuro per la connessione, ma poi non trovo come fare a connettermi, anche se clicco su DrakConf, digito la password di root, poi clicco su Configurazione internet e rete locale e subito dopo sono connessa a internet con la linea isdn. Con kisdn, non riesco a capire, perch dopo che lo avvio la prima volta non si riavvia pi, in pi non s come funziona e come impostarlo (se deve essere fatto) anche perch dopo il primo riavvio non si apre pi e non si intalla pi. Se qualcuno ha un metodo pi semplice per connettersi a internet con la linea isdn con la suddetta scheda, vi prego aiutatemi. Grazie Con kppp, non riesco ad arrivare alla connessione, sente la linea isdn ma non arriva a connettersi. Caterina
Re: [newbie-it] stampante CANON BJC 5100
Francesco Speranza wrote: purtroppo credo che non ci sia nulla da fare ... se vai su list printer del sito di Mandrake la 5100 risulta fra quelle non funzionanti ... probabilmente a causa di un software proprietario della Canon a menocche' questa non rilasci un software specifico. Per sicurezza controlla su www.linuxprinting.org. Mandrake riporta solo le periferiche sicuramente funzionanti. Linuxprinting anche quelle che funzionicchiano con opportuni accorgimenti. E spiega come fare. Se pero` Linuxprinting te la classifica "paperweight", allora puoi usarla solo come fermacarte :-( Salvo che, in futuro, tutto puo` accadere. ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] masterizzatore ide
Salve a tutti. Scusatemi se vi chiedo cose che vi verranno sicuramente fuori per le orecchie ma sono in un vicolo cieco. Ho una mandrake 7.1 installata prima di acquistare il masterizzatore,un volta fatto l'acquisto (TEAC CD-W54E ide/atapi), ho montato l'hardware e ho avviato la macchina. A un certo punto del boot è partita un'applicazione che mi ha riconosciuto il dispositivo come cd-rom.Finito il boot però non vedo il masterizzatore (da kde) e tantomeno riesco a configurarlo in xcdroast. Ho letto un pò di HOW-TO, si parla di ricompilare il kernel, di attivare l'emulazione ide-scsi ecc... ,ma niente da fare, dopo ore di smanettamento sono punto e a capo.Sul sito di zio budda c'è scritto addirittura che dalla Mandrake 7 in poi non c'è bisogno di ricompilare il kernel,ma bisogna solo configurare xcdroast. Se qualcuno è già riuscito a sbrogliarsi da questa matassa, e vuol darmi una mano lo ringrazio già da adesso. Ciao e scusate la prolissità.
[newbie-it] Netscape e ISDN
Problema! Una volta configurata perfettamente la scheda ISDN e attivata la connessione dalla finestra di configurazione di Mandrake (non mi ricordo il nome... forse "drak conf"?), faccio partire Netscape o altri browser e tutti ignorano il fatto che la connessione sia gi attiva, dandomi quindi dei messaggi di errore ad ogni mia richiesta di visualizzazione pagnie web. Come fare? Grazie, Gianni
[newbie-it] Aiuto per kde
Scusate se "rompo" ancora, ma il problema è il seguente. Dopo l'update a Mandrake 7.2. ho problemi di crash su determinate applicazioni di kde (file manager, kpanel ) Ho provato a installare l'update a kde 2.0.1 con il comando rpm -F *.rpm poi il rebuilddb ed infine update-menus . Mi dà un errore di dipendenza in riferimento alcuni pacchetti. A questo punto sono andato nuovamente a controllare cosa c'è di installato nei miei rpm di kde e qui trovo un po' di versione 1... ed un po' di versione 2.0. Qualcuno doppio. Per esempio kdebase risulta solo la versione vecchia. Ora mi chiedevo, anzi vi chiedo. Se disinstallo i pacchetti con la versione precedente creo dei "casini" ? E' meglio che disinstalli interamente kde ed installi da zero la versione 2.0 ? Insomma cosa mi consigliate di fare ? Grazie mille Pier Antonio
[newbie-it] perdita tabella partizioni
Tentando di caricare mandrake 7.2 ad un certo punto è apparso lo slogan:"error loading ramdisk",proseguendo nell'installazione il sistema mi dice che non riesce più a leggere la tabella delle partizioni e che continuare sarebbe a mio rischio. A questo punto esco dall'installazione, riavvio e grub si ferma col prompt:"grub".Dopo prove e riprove capisco che effettivamente la tabella partizioni è sputtanata. C'è la possibilità di recuperarla? Prima la situazione era così:hd da 15 gb con due partizioni win (c: e d:)e una partizione ext2 per linux.grazie a chi vorrà aiutarmi (sono disperato :-( ).
Re: [newbie-it] perdita tabella partizioni
Ma sputtanata la tabella delle partizioni o solo grub che non riesce a far eseguire correttamente il boot? Se ho capito bene tu non riesci pi ad avviare il pc neanche in Windows per via del fatto che grub si impianta. Se cos ti sufficiente farti fare un dischetto di boot DOS da un amico (se non ce l'hai gi tu). Avvia il pc con il dischetto di DOS dove hai copiato sopra anche il programma fdisk (fdisk.exe). Gi da qui puoi vedere se il DOS riconosce le tue partizioni C: e D: Se le vede digita: fdisk /mbr questo comando ripristina il master boot record originale eliminando grub, dopo ci il pc riparte in Windows senza passare da nessun bootloader. ...a meno che la tua tabella delle partizioni non sia realmente sputtanata... in bocca al lupo, Stefano. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "newbie-it linux-mandrake" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:16 PM Subject: [newbie-it] perdita tabella partizioni Tentando di caricare mandrake 7.2 ad un certo punto apparso lo slogan:"error loading ramdisk",proseguendo nell'installazione il sistema mi dice che non riesce pi a leggere la tabella delle partizioni e che continuare sarebbe a mio rischio. A questo punto esco dall'installazione, riavvio e grub si ferma col prompt:"grub".Dopo prove e riprove capisco che effettivamente la tabella partizioni sputtanata. C' la possibilit di recuperarla? Prima la situazione era cos:hd da 15 gb con due partizioni win (c: e d:)e una partizione ext2 per linux.grazie a chi vorr aiutarmi (sono disperato :-( ).
[newbie-it] Settaggio Video
Ho un monitor Philips 15 brillance e una scheda video NVIDIA TNT2 64 , ma lo schermo e' leggermente spostato a destra per cui la barra di scorrimento e' parzialmente coperta e sono costretto a spostare le finestre leggermente a sinistra.Con Drakconf. non riesco a risolvere il problema in quanto non c'e' un settaggio ottimale ,da notare pero' che quando chiedo il test video lo schermo per circa 1-2 secondi ritorna ad uno stato perfettamentenormale , quindi presumo che linux non riesca da solo a settare il video. Ho provato con kvideogen per modificare il file XF86Conf modificando il file con un editor ma mi e' andata male (per fortuna avevo una copia ...a proposito.. quale editor mi conviene usare??? se dovessi riprovare..) ; su un HOWTO mi consigliano di utilizzare xvidtune .. ma dove lo trovo ??? e' forsenel programma di linux e se si dove ? Vi prego di aiutarmi
Re: [newbie-it] perdita tabella partizioni
Guarda la settimana scorsa mi capitata la stessa cosa. Con grub sono riuscito a recuperare Linux, mentre per Windows ho dovuto riformattare, non mi accettava senza formattazione neppure la reinstallazione Da grub digita help ciao Pier Antonio - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "newbie-it linux-mandrake" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:16 PM Subject: [newbie-it] perdita tabella partizioni Tentando di caricare mandrake 7.2 ad un certo punto apparso lo slogan:"error loading ramdisk",proseguendo nell'installazione il sistema mi dice che non riesce pi a leggere la tabella delle partizioni e che continuare sarebbe a mio rischio. A questo punto esco dall'installazione, riavvio e grub si ferma col prompt:"grub".Dopo prove e riprove capisco che effettivamente la tabella partizioni sputtanata. C' la possibilit di recuperarla? Prima la situazione era cos:hd da 15 gb con due partizioni win (c: e d:)e una partizione ext2 per linux.grazie a chi vorr aiutarmi (sono disperato :-( ).
Re: [newbie-it] Settaggio Video
Il 23:29, marted 30 gennaio 2001, scrivesti: cut... , quindi presumo che linux non riesca da solo a settare il video. Ho provato con kvideogen per modificare il file XF86Conf modificando il file con un editor ma mi e' andata male (per fortuna avevo una copia ... a proposito... quale editor mi conviene usare??? se dovessi riprovare..) ; su un HOWTO mi consigliano di utilizzare xvidtune .. ma dove lo trovo ??? e' forse nel programma di linux e se si dove ? Vi prego di aiutarmi Uhmmm... che vuol dire che ti e' andata male? Il file che devi editare e' /etc/X11/XF86Config Ciao, Nicola. -- __ chi va pian va san e va lontan
Re: [newbie-it] Aiuto per kde
Il 19:47, luned 22 gennaio 2001, scrivesti: Scusate se "rompo" ancora, ma il problema il seguente. Dopo l'update a Mandrake 7.2. ho problemi di crash su determinate applicazioni di kde (file manager, kpanel ) Ho provato a installare l'update a kde 2.0.1 con il comando rpm -F *.rpm poi il rebuilddb ed infine update-menus . Mi d un errore di dipendenza in riferimento alcuni pacchetti. A questo punto sono andato nuovamente a controllare cosa c' di installato nei miei rpm di kde e qui trovo un po' di versione 1... ed un po' di versione 2.0. Qualcuno doppio. Per esempio kdebase risulta solo la versione vecchia. Ora mi chiedevo, anzi vi chiedo. Se disinstallo i pacchetti con la versione precedente creo dei "casini" ? E' meglio che disinstalli interamente kde ed installi da zero la versione 2.0 ? Insomma cosa mi consigliate di fare ? Il readme secondo me sbagliato, crea qualche problema con le dipendenze. Procedi cos: metti in una directory tutti gli RPM, ed anzich -F usi le opzioni rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm ( brutale, installa i pacchetti anche se non avevi la versione vecchia installata ma funziona; ingnora pure i warnings) Poi puoi dare rpm --rebuilddb update-menus -v Mi raccomando, fallo da console, con Xwindow spento. (init 3, ad esempio) -- 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.
Re: [newbie] Windows 2000
Wine might work for you, but I doubt it'll be stable enough to use. Win4Lin is meant to be good at this sort of thing - some even say that it's faster than running Windos natively! Unlike wine, however, it costs money :-(. Plex86 (an open source VMware) is still very much under development, but it's worth a try. Your best bet, however, is to run a native Linux programme that can let you get your work done. Wordperfect is free for Linux (the free version is missing a few features, but you probably won't need those anyway). Since it is a direct port from Windos, it runs just like the Windos version. It can open and save M$ Word documents. Gnumeric is a great M$ Excel replacement, and it can open and save in Excel format. StarOffice is an integrated office suite that is a great replacement for (almost) all of M$ Office. I know it can open and save M$ Word and Excel files, and I think it can do Powerpoint files too. On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:24, Blomquist, Niklas wrote: All, I have installed MD 7.2 for a couple of days ago, and dam, I like it! But on my work do I need to run Office 2000. Is there any way to run Office 2000 under Linux (exept from VMWare)? Is there any Windows-emulator that works? /N -Ursprungligt meddelande- Frn: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 18 januari 2001 10:16 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mne: Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please. On Wednesday 17 January 2001 17:36, you wrote: Duplicate entry 'append' near line 17 in file /etc/lilo.conf what this mean? my lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="65532k" append="hdd=ide-scsi" read-only It means that you cannot have two appends make it append="hdd=ide-scsi mem=64M" Civileme -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Problem with deleting files...
add -r (rm -rf) in order to remove any child folders also. Mike Skye Louey wrote: If you are not the owner of the file/or in the group the file belongs to you will not be allowed to change it. Log in as an authorized user(or root) and you should be able to delete the file. Another thing you could try is rm -f filename to "force" removal. =) SkYE ? ?? ? "Zankoku na tenshi no youni." -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Blomquist, Niklas Sent: 2001?1?22? 15:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SV: [newbie] Problem with deleting files... have tried to do that with chmod, but it says the same thing. How do I change the permission? /Niklas -Ursprungligt meddelande- Frn: Mike Tracy Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 22 januari 2001 07:31 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mne: Re: [newbie] Problem with deleting files... Blomquist, Niklas wrote: All, I have a realy stupid problem. I have a drive that with vfat on, and I can't delete some files from it. The files have been copied from CD-rom and have read only and system. I get the error messages permission denied. How do I change this? /Niklas If you copied the files from a cdrom, you've also copied their read-only permissions. You need to change permissions on the files before you can delete them. Mike
SV: [newbie] Problem with deleting files...
I am the owner and root, but I can't delete this file. I have tried with rm -f as well... It is very annoing! /Niklas -Ursprungligt meddelande- Frn: Skye Louey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 22 januari 2001 08:47 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mne: RE: [newbie] Problem with deleting files... If you are not the owner of the file/or in the group the file belongs to you will not be allowed to change it. Log in as an authorized user(or root) and you should be able to delete the file. Another thing you could try is rm -f filename to "force" removal. =) SkYE ? ?? ? "Zankoku na tenshi no youni." -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Blomquist, Niklas Sent: 2001?1?22? 15:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SV: [newbie] Problem with deleting files... have tried to do that with chmod, but it says the same thing. How do I change the permission? /Niklas -Ursprungligt meddelande- Frn: Mike Tracy Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 22 januari 2001 07:31 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mne: Re: [newbie] Problem with deleting files... Blomquist, Niklas wrote: All, I have a realy stupid problem. I have a drive that with vfat on, and I can't delete some files from it. The files have been copied from CD-rom and have read only and system. I get the error messages permission denied. How do I change this? /Niklas If you copied the files from a cdrom, you've also copied their read-only permissions. You need to change permissions on the files before you can delete them. Mike
Re: [newbie] Re: I want Micro-EMACS
What? I do all of my text editing/writing in emacs and I have the downloaded verison. I can't imagine that the "complete" version wouldn't have it since the download version is basically the first to disks of the other versions. Fire up drakconf, start the package manager there, choose installing and search for emacs. You'll find it. Abe Len Lawrence wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, civileme wrote: Ummm, do you realize that the install of 7.2 you made probably has both emacs and xemacs? These run like Micro-EMACS (same commands plus some features) without a new compile. The 7.2 Complete distribution does not appear to have emacs. I had to install xemacs, which is fortunately able to use most of my old customization file (.emacs), although there are one or two keys which can no longer be used. The one link I found for a port of Micro-EMACS to linux _says_ it is GPL, but the original text from the author suggests it is shareware. It compiles easily, it runs nicely (in a terminal), and it supports a nice subset of emacs commands. The port does use French messages. It runs from whatever directory you put the binary into after compiling. It appears to demand that any files edited BE in that directory, because it doesn't appear to support directory paths. ftp.ac-grenoble.fr/ge/Office/microemacs-5.03.tgz is the link I used. I don't think I will use MicroEMACS unless I have a very limited machine. I would dearly miss the color-coding of c, bash, perl, and python source. Civileme -- Len Lawrence[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Problem with deleting files...
I have actually come across this problem before, what I had to do is boot into another operating system and delete the file. There could be a flag in the table that is preventing it from being deleted, Linux will not clear this flag but Windoze can (since you said it was VFAT and not ext2fs). Another thing to check is the mount rights. Check if it is mounted as RO. =) SkYE ? ?? ? "Zankoku na tenshi no youni." -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Blomquist, Niklas Sent: 2001?1?22? 16:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SV: [newbie] Problem with deleting files... I am the owner and root, but I can't delete this file. I have tried with rm -f as well... It is very annoing! /Niklas -Ursprungligt meddelande- Frn: Skye Louey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 22 januari 2001 08:47 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mne: RE: [newbie] Problem with deleting files... If you are not the owner of the file/or in the group the file belongs to you will not be allowed to change it. Log in as an authorized user(or root) and you should be able to delete the file. Another thing you could try is rm -f filename to "force" removal. =) SkYE ? ?? ? "Zankoku na tenshi no youni." -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Blomquist, Niklas Sent: 2001?1?22? 15:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SV: [newbie] Problem with deleting files... have tried to do that with chmod, but it says the same thing. How do I change the permission? /Niklas -Ursprungligt meddelande- Frn: Mike Tracy Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 22 januari 2001 07:31 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mne: Re: [newbie] Problem with deleting files... Blomquist, Niklas wrote: All, I have a realy stupid problem. I have a drive that with vfat on, and I can't delete some files from it. The files have been copied from CD-rom and have read only and system. I get the error messages permission denied. How do I change this? /Niklas If you copied the files from a cdrom, you've also copied their read-only permissions. You need to change permissions on the files before you can delete them. Mike
[newbie] newbie questions
hello forum i just installed my first linux, and intend to do that for a small networking. i have several questions (sorry if my english is bad): 1. My sound card is Yamaha PCI. how come my linux don't detect it ? is it not compatible yet ? what should i do ? 2. i have configured the basic networking stuff, and tested it by pinging to othe machines in my network. but my problem is when my modem dialled...it turned off by it self rite when it's going to connect. i have queried the modem from the kppp setup, it worked fine. what should i do ?? Thank so much all..
Re: [newbie] Getting into Linux..
On Sunday 21 January 2001 04:41, you wrote: Getting back in can be done with a boot disk (which hopefully you made when asked if you wanted one). If it were lilo, it would just be a matter of running /usr/sbin/lilo. Try that with grub and see if it works for you. (/usr/sbin/grub) You can also get back in this way: Put in your install CD#1 at the splash screen hit F1 and type "rescue" Now we hope you remember which partition on the hard disk that you put the filesystem labeled /. If you don't, then run this # fdisk /dev/hda p q where # is the system prompt and the other keystrokes are yours. You will then have a look at the partition table--record all partitions where the type is "Linux Native" Lets say for example that your linux native partitions are listed as /dev/hda5 /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda9 Do this # mount /dev/hda5 /mnt # cd /mnt/etc If you get an error message that the directory doesn't exist issue this command # umount /dev/hda5 and try the next on your list. If it changes directory then # cd / # chroot /mnt # /sbin/lilo # shutdown -r now And remove your boot CD. You will be using lilo, but you should be able to change back to grub (both stay in sync through drakboot). Civileme Chris Hall wrote: Hello, I recently had to reinstall Winblows and it wiped out Grub. How can I get back into linux and set it back up? Thanks!
Re: [newbie] linux-win lan thoughts.......
At 15:59 21.01.2001 -0800, you wrote: are you using DHCP on the windows machines or static IP's? i use static ips.no DHCP Quaylar wrote: hiho... as u will possibly know from various earlier posts i am trying to connect a linux and a win machine through thin ethernet. up to now i was having the problem that the 2 machines were not able to ping each other although everything was set right on both sides.. now i found a posting on deja where a guy described the same problem, he was stating that his lan was working IF: he first powered up the win machine and THEN the linux machine.. so i tried this and it really worked, the lan works when i am first powering up the win machine and then the linux machine, vice versa i get ping timeouts.. has anyone of u already experienced this or can anyone give any hints on this phenomenon ?... any thoughts will be appreciated..;) --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power
Re: [newbie] What file was it?
At 19:46 21.01.2001 -0800, you wrote: Hello! I just forgot what file and where is the file that I can enter commands so that it starts off daemons? I guess its like an autoexec.bat for windows but Im looking for the one in Linux. I want to start a oidentd daemon everytime I boot up. Thanks! are u talking about "ntsysv" ?..this command will open a small gui and let u choose wich services to run at startup, among others it will allow u to start the service "INET"... --quay __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] newbie questions
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:58, Riza Manshuri wrote: hello forum i just installed my first linux, and intend to do that for a small networking. i have several questions (sorry if my english is bad): 1. My sound card is Yamaha PCI. how come my linux don't detect it ? is it not compatible yet ? what should i do ? From a root console, type "sndconfig". If this doesn't work, then you need to install a package by that name for it to work. 2. i have configured the basic networking stuff, and tested it by pinging to othe machines in my network. but my problem is when my modem dialled...it turned off by it self rite when it's going to connect. i have queried the modem from the kppp setup, it worked fine. what should i do ?? What type of modem do you have? Is it Linux-compatible? Also, please don't post in HTML on this list. Text-only messages are preferred. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] ssh/vnc not working, this is getting silly
You had problems installing SSH on the machine? Myself, and a few other colleagues, have SSH installed with no problem. We're all running 7.1 or greater. We're also running OpenSSH as well. Not sure if you're running another "version" of SSH, but OpenSSH ran and installed with no problem, and my only complaint about it was that I can't seem to get it installed under SuSE. Check out http://www.openssh.com/ and download the RPMs, and install them. Here are the following packages I have: [root@yoda /root]# rpm -qa | grep opens openssl-0.9.5a-8mdk openssh-askpass-2.3.0p1-7.1mdk openssh-clients-2.3.0p1-7.1mdk openssh-2.3.0p1-7.1mdk openssh-server-2.3.0p1-7.1mdk All of which I downloaded either from OpenSSH or from Mandrake. If you'd like I can upload them to a public FTP site of yours, or another if you can't get ahold of them, but you shouldn't have a problem doing that. At which point I just put them all in the same directory, and ran a rpm -ivh opens* and it installed all of the packages. From there just create your key, ssh-keygen, and SSH is now installed. What problems did you have when trying to install and set it up? Are you using another "flavor" of SSH? I've noticed there are other versions made by other companies, some even more geared towards Windoze. One a quick side note, the openssl that I have listed above is NOT needed to get SSH up and working, but it's nice for added security in other appz, LICQ being one of them as well as a few other chat programs. Hope that helps, and if it doesn't, then hopefully I didn't waste your time reading this! :0) tdh -- T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.unixtechs.org/ "Real Men use Vi." * Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010119 19:34]: After failing to get ssh working I then tried to set vnc working. I used to use redhat and this worked easily. Before I ditch Mandrake and go back to redhat (which I don't want to do as I have installed oracle on it and like Mandrake) has anyone got any ideas. Maybe someone could tell me how to get telnet working. Regards, Ben *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ * Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44 (0)7970 269 522 * * Campaign Against proper English, Dyslexia division * * Homepagehttp://www.gifford.co.uk/~bedwards * * i-Contact Progressive Videohttp://www.videonetwork.org * * Smashing the Corporate image http://www.subvertise.org * * Bristol's radical newshttp://www.bristle.co.uk * * Open Directory Project http://www.dmoz.org * *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+
Re: [newbie] Getting into Linux..
Chris Hall wrote: Hello, I recently had to reinstall Winblows and it wiped out Grub. How can I get back into linux and set it back up? Thanks! Log in as root. From and command prompt, type in: lilo Press the enter key. Reboot you computer. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Penguin Charged Email
Re: [newbie] Windows 2000
You should also try running appz from the StarOffice suite. It should come installed *STANDARD* with Mandrake 7.2. But you should be able to create and open Office2000 files in StarOffice with very little problems. And there should be NO problems opening Office9x in StarOffice. If it did not come installed, check your Mandrake CDs for the RPMS, or download the packages. Personally I don't do anything on Office. But I have been sent docs from other people that I just open in various StarOffice appz and have had no problems todate. But running Office2000 in Wine... would be a very bad idea! Wine itself is a beast to configure and in my experience, not worth the work you put into it. But I've known people actually boot Win98 via Wine, but if you ask my opinion, avoid it like the plague! tdh -- T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.unixtechs.org/ "GUI... BAD! Console.. GD!! :0)" * Blomquist, Niklas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010122 00:24]: All, I have installed MD 7.2 for a couple of days ago, and dam, I like it! But on my work do I need to run Office 2000. Is there any way to run Office 2000 under Linux (exept from VMWare)? Is there any Windows-emulator that works? /N
Re: SV: [newbie] Problem with deleting files...
Don't forget to select execute. - Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Penguin Charged Email "Blomquist, Niklas" wrote: I am the owner and root, but I can't delete this file. I have tried with rm -f as well... It is very annoing! /Niklas -Ursprungligt meddelande- Frn: Skye Louey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 22 januari 2001 08:47 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mne: RE: [newbie] Problem with deleting files... If you are not the owner of the file/or in the group the file belongs to you will not be allowed to change it. Log in as an authorized user(or root) and you should be able to delete the file. Another thing you could try is rm -f filename to "force" removal. =) SkYE ? ?? ? "Zankoku na tenshi no youni." -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Blomquist, Niklas Sent: 2001?1?22? 15:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SV: [newbie] Problem with deleting files... have tried to do that with chmod, but it says the same thing. How do I change the permission? /Niklas -Ursprungligt meddelande- Frn: Mike Tracy Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 22 januari 2001 07:31 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mne: Re: [newbie] Problem with deleting files... Blomquist, Niklas wrote: All, I have a realy stupid problem. I have a drive that with vfat on, and I can't delete some files from it. The files have been copied from CD-rom and have read only and system. I get the error messages permission denied. How do I change this? /Niklas If you copied the files from a cdrom, you've also copied their read-only permissions. You need to change permissions on the files before you can delete them. Mike
[newbie] New to Mandrake
Hi everyone, I am getting back into the Linux world after 5 years. We're a huge NT shop and I now need to get some stability in here! I've researched the current distributions and have decided to go with Mandrake. I started my Linux days using the Slackware release and it appears a lot has changed in 5 years! I'd like to here from some of you to make sure I have made the right decision and to find out about any "Gotchas"! Where are all of the latest HOW-To's etc..?? I hope to be a regular contributor soon. Thanks, Jim
[newbie] DNS and Mandrake 7.2
Hi, I have installed Mandrake 7.2 on a Pentium III pc and need to configure the machine as a DNS server. Can anyone here help ? I've configured the DNS server settings in Linuxconf but if i type nslookup on the command line, an error message appears that says 'server unavailable'. Its not even using the 5 second timeout before the error message comes up. any help would be really appreciated. d
Re: [newbie] ssh/vnc not working, this is getting silly
Thanks for replying. I am using Mandrake 7.2, ssh was installed from the standard 2 CD distribution so I dont think I am using a strange flovour. I have done the keygen already. Was trying at one point to get a firewall/internet sharing working, but SSH did not work before this anyway. Maybe I should do a re-install and start from scratch. Is there anyway I can re-install linux without frying the oracle instalation I have. Not sure if you're running another "version" of SSH, but OpenSSH ran and installed with no problem, and my only complaint about it was that I can't seem to get it installed under SuSE. From there just create your key, ssh-keygen, and SSH is now installed. What problems did you have when trying to install and set it up? Are you using another "flavor" of SSH? I've noticed there are other versions made by other companies, some even more geared towards Windoze.
RE: [newbie] lilo config problems
Hi Sean Change the default setting to "windows" minus the quotes of course giving you a line that reads: default =windows That what i have been attempting to do using the emacs editor, but every time I run /sbin/lilo to get lilo to accept the edited changes I get the cylinder error message I spoke of. as for the cylinder error. I had a similar error when I disabled lba during installation. I take it windows on your system has something like the 1st 8gig of the HD? If so, look for where you are asked about lba suuport during installation. I can't recall exactly where it was now, but I suspect that may solve the prob. Windows ME actually takes up the first 4 gb of my HD and Mandrake the remaining 4GB, am I going to have to reinstall again? James - Original Message - From: "Sean Kenny" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 8:52 AM Subject: [newbie] lilo config problems Here's my lilo.conf file and below is the problem I'm having boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b default=linux keytable=/boot/uk.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda7 append=" hdb=ide-scsi" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda7 append=" hdb=ide-scsi failsafe" read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe I want to change this to boot into Windows by default, while I'm familairising myself with Mandrake, and because the kids insist, but whether I do this in Klilo or edit it myself in emacs and run /sbin/lilo I get the following error message warning: device 0x0307 exceeds 1204 cylinder limit Fatal: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (2991 1023) Wgat does this mean and how can I get around it?
Re: [newbie] Getting into Linux..
When I get a grub prompt it doesn't give me any option to log in as root. I've tried to su - root several times and I get nothing. I just slap in a Winbloze98 floppy in there, and do a fdisk /mbr. So how do I log in as root? tdh -- T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.unixtechs.org/ "GUI.. BAD! Console... GOOOD!" * Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010122 06:18]: Chris Hall wrote: Hello, I recently had to reinstall Winblows and it wiped out Grub. How can I get back into linux and set it back up? Thanks! Log in as root. From and command prompt, type in: lilo Press the enter key. Reboot you computer. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Penguin Charged Email
[newbie] fs fs=iso9660 not supported by kernel
I'm getting that error when I try to mount /mnt/cdrom same for the floppy. (MD 7.2) The same error occurs during the graphical boot process. In 'filesystems' the list of devices is correct. Any other file I can check? Don
Re: [newbie] Getting into Linux..
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:29:22 -0500, Tim Holmes said: When I get a grub prompt it doesn't give me any option to log in as root. I've tried to su - root several times and I get nothing. I just slap in a Winbloze98 floppy in there, and do a fdisk /mbr. So how do I log in as root? Tim, Did you make a boot disk when you installed Linux?? What options does your Grub menu give you?? I'm not familar with Grub but I'm sure there must be a 'failsafe', 'Single user' or similar option for you to try. Seriously the Linux boot disk is the best option, using a dos boot and then FDISK /MBR is going to destroy your boot sector in linux terms and throw you into your Windows system. If you can get into linux via grub, you should be able to su to root from your user account and make yourself a boot disk with the following commandline: " mkbootdisk `uname -r` " (without the double quotes but WITH the reverse quotes shown around the uname option) Give it a try ?? John * Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010122 06:18]: Chris Hall wrote: Hello, I recently had to reinstall Winblows and it wiped out Grub. How can I get back into linux and set it back up? Thanks! Log in as root. From and command prompt, type in: lilo Press the enter key. Reboot you computer. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Penguin Charged Email -- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)
[newbie] can't view ntfs
Hi, thanks that I could install my LM7.2 and W2K in the same hard disk without any trouble and with grub as the boot manager! Now I couldn't mount the ntfs to view my w2k partition, and I looked in the fstab but I think the ntfs doesn't exist. May be I have to install something. Any suggestion?
Re: [newbie] Getting into Linux..
Yeah, I have quite a few. Thanks. - Original Message - From: "David Julie Matheson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 1:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Getting into Linux.. Chris Hall wrote: Hello, I recently had to reinstall Winblows and it wiped out Grub. How can I get back into linux and set it back up? Thanks! Hi Chris Simply use your Linux boot Disk you do have one don't u?? then set up grub again and all should be fine
[newbie] Enlightenment Problems (yes, still)
Ok. I have still been unable to get the latest version of Enlightenment to compile. I thought that maybe if I tried removing the current version of Enlightenment (the one that came with Mandrake 7.2) and tried compiling the new one it might fix itself. Yes, in retrospect this was a dumb idea, but I had no other ideas. So I removed Enlightenment and the new version still didn't compile. It's still complaining about not being able to find IMLIB_CONFIG, even though I know it's there. I've even installed a newer version. Blah. The gods don't want me to use Enlightenment it seems. So, I gave up on getting the latest version of Enlightenment to compile. I tried to reinstall the older version from my Mandrake CDs through RPMDrake. It told me that it needed to install several required libraries. I said ok. It then complained that the versions of these libraries that I had on my system were newer than the ones it wanted to install. I said ok. The install crapped out. I think that's probably a bug. It seems to me that having newer libraries than what's necessary shouldn't make an install crap out. My next attempt was to try and install the enlightenment rpm from the command line. It gave me some sort of "dump" error that I didn't understand and crapped out. How am I going to get Enlightenment on my box? Does anyone have any ideas? This is getting pretty annoying. I'll post more specifics on the errors I'm getting if it helps. This really shouldn't be this difficult, should it? Tim Goodaire [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Memory Question
I have ML7.2 installed on my machine. I have about 128MB of RAM. After I log in if I see the mem occupancy using either Hard Drake or xsysinfo or one of the other X-utils, I see that only about 4-12 Megs appear to be free. Consequently the machine is horribly slow. Agreed that I am doing this on an old Cyrix 6X86 200MHz processor. But I still feel that 128 Megs ought to make the machine atleast launch an X-term quickly. Any idea why the machine is this slow? Thanks in advance Surya
Re: [newbie] newbie questions
- Original Message - edited-- What type of modem do you have? Is it Linux-compatible? Err..i'm not sure..it's just a usual plain 56 K modem with a rockwell chipset. when i detect it in harddrak, the result is unknown.should i change it ?? Also, please don't post in HTML on this list. Text-only messages are preferred. My apologies..
Re: [newbie] Memory Question
On Monday 22 January 2001 08:11 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have ML7.2 installed on my machine. I have about 128MB of RAM. After I log in if I see the mem occupancy using either Hard Drake or xsysinfo or one of the other X-utils, I see that only about 4-12 Megs appear to be free. Consequently the machine is horribly slow. Agreed that I am doing this on an old Cyrix 6X86 200MHz processor. But I still feel that 128 Megs ought to make the machine atleast launch an X-term quickly. Any idea why the machine is this slow? (in an Xterm): 'free' total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:255484 252656 2828 0 18276 60408 -/+ buffers/cache: 173972 81512 Swap: 184676 0 184676 You misunderstand memory usage. In my example above, I have very little 'Mem' shown as free, but that's because Linux is keeping 80mb available in 'buffers/cache'. That memory is readily available to any app that needs it. Memory handling is much different (and much better) than with Windoze. If you're not using a lot of swap (-0- in my example above), the slowness is prob'ly your hardware, particularly that Cyrix cpu. Have you used 'hdparm' to optimize your HDD's ? -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] can't view ntfs
Hey, Hi, thanks that I could install my LM7.2 and W2K in the same hard disk without any trouble and with grub as the boot manager! Well, let's say with "some" trouble. I too ran into trouble with ntfs. When I'd installed lm7.2 on my girlfriend's box, I'd alrady an existing dual-boot between RedHat 6.0 W2k. That install, deleting the RedHat partition installing lm7.2, went fine rw access to w2k existed without any special work from me except during the lm install. When I went to do the same on my Dell 500MHz box, I'd gone from a RedHat 6.0 only to dual-boot lm7.2 W2k. After the first attempt where W2k decided that it didn't want to install on the first, 10GB, partition installed on the second, 17GB, partition, I started over just setting up a 10GB partition leaving the remaining unformatted. Got eveything installed , wouldn't you know it, I couldn't mount the W2k partition rw -- it would only allow ro. I'd even planned to recompile my kernel to be sure that the ntfs rw module installed. I didn't bother though. I'm getting another scanner (eventually) from my father, so I'd reinstalled W2k on vfat to make things siimpler since W2k, now, is only for Windows DOS games -- once I get the scanner, if it doesn't work in Linux, I should be able to get something out of W2k. May be I have to install something. I would suggest you recompile. There are two ntfs kernel modules -- one is ro, the other (though considered experimental, I've used it with both NT 4.0 W2k without any trouble) is rw. You want to be sure both are set to install -- not just probe -- at boot. If you'd like, after you do some reading (if you've never compiled a kernel), I can send you a short explanation the easy steps tonight. Lemme know. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] HDparm question
How do I use HDparm to optimize my HD settings? Thanks guys, Chris Kelly --- Men are from Earth Women are from Earth Deal with it...
Re: [newbie] HDparm question
Go to www.linuxnewbie.org and check out their NHF section. They have some good info on optimization of your hard drive using hdparm. Hope this helps Monty
Re: [newbie] HDparm question
Check out this article...I've tried it and it works pretty good. http://linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/hdtweak.html good luck, Kevin - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Newbie'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 9:46 AM Subject: [newbie] HDparm question How do I use HDparm to optimize my HD settings? Thanks guys, Chris Kelly --- Men are from Earth Women are from Earth Deal with it...
RE: [newbie] HDparm question
Thanks, Monty -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HDparm question Go to www.linuxnewbie.org and check out their NHF section. They have some good info on optimization of your hard drive using hdparm. Hope this helps Monty
Re: [newbie] New to Mandrake
On Monday 22 January 2001 12:53, you wrote: Hi everyone, I am getting back into the Linux world after 5 years. We're a huge NT shop and I now need to get some stability in here! I've researched the current distributions and have decided to go with Mandrake. I started my Linux days using the Slackware release and it appears a lot has changed in 5 years! I'd like to here from some of you to make sure I have made the right decision and to find out about any "Gotchas"! Where are all of the latest HOW-To's etc..?? I hope to be a regular contributor soon. HOWTOs are on your installation diskettes and on www.linuxdoc.org Manuals are on the menu for any non-server installation. /usr/share/doc has a little additional information www.mandrakeuser.org has tips and tricks www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72last.php3 has some dodges for the odd hardware configurations www.linux/mandrake.com (Demos) has some nice tutorials and a few fixes. www.mandrakeforum.com has discussions and sometimes detail on warps, tips, and tricks as technical articles. This mailing list and the expert mailing list are both archived and the archive has a nice search engine. Links to the archives are at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/flists.php3 You will probably want to take a machine where you have done a workstation or development install and familiarize yourseld with webmin by opening konqueror or netscape and using this URL https://127.0.0.1:1 login as root with the root password and browse what you can do. There is corporate server 1.0.1 which has a collection of very stable packages and is updated on a schedule suitable for servers. Then there is the regular distro which always has some very new stuff and seems to be produced about 2.7 times per year. Finally there is cooker--the open development process--which has the most bleeding-edge things available. At present, new compilers, rpm versions, and libraries have made cooker not forward compatible with 7.2 though cooker is backwards compatible to 7.2 applications. /Mandrake-devel/unsupported contains quite a few rpms of the newest packages compatible with 7.2, including KDE 2.1 Beta. User-made packages are at places announced on www.mandrakeforum.com. Welcome to the community. Civileme Thanks, Jim
Re: [newbie] newbie questions
--- Riza Manshuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello forum i just installed my first linux, and intend to do that for a small networking. i have several questions (sorry if my english is bad): 1. My sound card is Yamaha PCI. how come my linux don't detect it ? is it not compatible yet ? what should i do ? Check Mandrake's Hardware compatibility list on their website. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Thoughts on sharing an internet connection with a windows box...
As I'm a cheap bastard I like to use free internet dialups like NetZero or Juno, etc. What are the thoughts on getting a 486 or P150 or something with a "minimal" winblows 95 and dial up networking running networked to my P3 600 Mandrake 7.2 box? Maybe I could find some kind of half baked windows "firewall" to keep things a little on the safer side. What is needed if I were to do this? (Software on the Linux end I mean...) There are advantages to this... I can keep the ad bar they throw at you on the windows box without a monitor and keep them happy. After I get settled and save up a little $ I'm getting DSL so this is a short term deal. While I'm writing are there and recommendations on DSL services especially considering Linux? For sure I know I can get COVAD and QWEST and I think ATT... I looked at QWEST's service info and it said some thing I didn't really want to see. Although I think I could get it set up fine by myself. I've found phone techs to really be terrible and not worth their wages anyway... Anyone know how they get it to not work with any other DSL modem? **NOTE: The Qwest Support Line for installation and repair only provides support to the single PC application. It does not provide support to a LAN or Hub application. Also, the Qwest Support Line will not support customers who work on a UNIX, LINUX or IBM OS2 platform. Final NOTE: Qwest MegaBit DSL service will only work with a Qwest modem, i.e., a Cisco 675, 605 or Intel 2100. Qwest does NOT support DSL modems purchased through ANY SOURCE OTHER THAN Qwest. Any modems purchased outside of the Qwest offering will NOT work. U S WEST MegaBit Services are designed to work only with Qwest modems. There are other brands and configurations of DSL modems on the market, installed in "DSL ready" computers and available through catalogs, the Internet and retailers. These alternative DSL modems DO NOT comply with the Qwest standard and WILL NOT WORK with MegaBit Services. Alternatively, the U S WEST MegaBit Services modems will NOT work on other vendors' DSL service. Also, if you need an initial or new Network Interface Card (NIC), you need to purchase it from a computer retailer. Qwest provides one NIC per DSL Line IF you choose one of the U S WEST MegaBit Services offerings along with the Cisco 675 modem. Qwest only supplies this NIC with the initial package.
Re: [newbie] DNS and Mandrake 7.2
On Monday 22 January 2001 13:03, you wrote: Hi, I have installed Mandrake 7.2 on a Pentium III pc and need to configure the machine as a DNS server. Can anyone here help ? I've configured the DNS server settings in Linuxconf but if i type nslookup on the command line, an error message appears that says 'server unavailable'. Its not even using the 5 second timeout before the error message comes up. any help would be really appreciated. d Well, that means the server is not running. Normally it is set to OFF. To make sure the server starts, you open DrakConf from a graphic desktop or type DrakConf from the command line. Go to startup services and make sure named is listed and configured to start at boot time. Now in addition, you may want to configure BIND8 from webmin. To do this, from the machine you want to configure, enter netscape or Konqueror and use this URL https://127.0.0.1:1 login as root and give the root password then click on the servers tab to configure BIND8 (BIND4 is old and should not be used for new installations) Of course Webmin can be accessed from a remote, given the right IP, with https on port 1, even using MSIE if you like. You have the option in webmin setup to change how it behaves and where it will listen. Also, you will have to do this if you have a server install since you won't have a local graphic desktop. Civileme
Re: [newbie] HDparm question
On Monday 22 January 2001 08:46 am, Kelly, Christopher wrote: How do I use HDparm to optimize my HD settings? First read 'info hdparm', it's one of the better man pages and contains a lot of useful and important info. Next, make sure either lilo or grub (whichever you use) doesn't have any "ide autotune" statements. Then as root, run hdparm, prob'ly with at least the -c1 and -d1 switches, eg, hdparm -c1 -d1 /dev/hd* where * is the letter of the drive you want to test. This turns on 32bit and DMA. For many drives it's all that's needed. Then runhdparm -tT /dev/hd*Once you have found the optimum hdparm line, add it to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local and then run it, eg, ./rc.local Be careful of enabling ata/66 (or /100). It will cause problems unless the HDD(s), the cable, and the motherboard/controller all together _properly_ support it. If you experience any problems, it's also the first thing to turn off. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] 7.2 Installation - System hangs after reboot
Hi All, I have gone thru the 7.2 install GUI (booted from the floppy) from the iso images available on the web. No problems with the install. When the pc reboots, it comes back up and displays "stage1" and hangs. I don't know what to do to correct it. I have gone thru the install couple of times and nothing seems to make a difference. Running a AST Bravo Pentium 133MHz, 96MB Ram. I have two physical drives and am trying to install Linux as the only operating system. Please Help Thanks Kishore Sr. Programmer. Sabre, Inc.
Re: SV: [newbie] Problem with deleting files...
The real problem is that your kernel is configured to show that windows partition as
read-only. What you need to do is recompile your kernel and say yes to the rw
(Experimental) capability for Windows95, That is why when even as root, you can not
delete any files from there. I had the same problem but after I recompiled my kernel,
I was all fine!
Cheers
-- Al
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"Blomquist, Niklas" wrote:
I am the owner and root, but I can't delete this file.
I have tried with rm -f as well...
It is very annoing!
/Niklas
-Ursprungligt meddelande-
Frn: Skye Louey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Skickat: den 22 januari 2001 08:47
Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mne: RE: [newbie] Problem with deleting files...
If you are not the owner of the file/or in the group the file
belongs to you
will not be allowed to change it. Log in as an authorized
user(or root) and
you should be able to delete the file.
Another thing you could try is rm -f filename to "force" removal.
=)
SkYE
? ?? ?
"Zankoku na tenshi no youni."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Blomquist, Niklas
Sent: 2001?1?22? 15:30
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SV: [newbie] Problem with deleting files...
have tried to do that with chmod, but it says the same thing.
How do I change the permission?
/Niklas
-Ursprungligt meddelande-
Frn: Mike Tracy Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Skickat: den 22 januari 2001 07:31
Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mne: Re: [newbie] Problem with deleting files...
Blomquist, Niklas wrote:
All,
I have a realy stupid problem.
I have a drive that with vfat on, and I can't delete some
files from it. The
files have been copied from CD-rom and have read only and
system. I get the
error messages permission denied.
How do I change this?
/Niklas
If you copied the files from a cdrom, you've also copied
their read-only
permissions. You need to change permissions on the files
before you can
delete them.
Mike
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Re: [newbie] 7.2 Installation - System hangs after reboot
I think that's GRUB the boot loader hanging. I had it happen too and I put the install disc in again and did an "upgrade" install and it fixed itself. There might be a better way though. --Matt White Bear Lake, MN - Original Message - From: "KishoreKolli" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:46 AM Subject: [newbie] 7.2 Installation - System hangs after reboot Hi All, I have gone thru the 7.2 install GUI (booted from the floppy) from the iso images available on the web. No problems with the install. When the pc reboots, it comes back up and displays "stage1" and hangs. I don't know what to do to correct it. I have gone thru the install couple of times and nothing seems to make a difference. Running a AST Bravo Pentium 133MHz, 96MB Ram. I have two physical drives and am trying to install Linux as the only operating system. Please Help Thanks Kishore Sr. Programmer. Sabre, Inc.
Re: [newbie] quick question
Hi Christopher , My Name is Scott , No you do not need to do a Fdisk on your drive . If you have the info on how to edit GRUB could you send it to me , send it to (home E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. ( this is from my UNIX box @ work ) please do not send it here ,, Thanks "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: That's what I thought. Thanks Aston. -Original Message- From: Po Kwok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] quick question "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: > > Do I need to Fdisk a drive before installing Linux? I can't remember. > > Thanks guys and gals, > Chris Kelly > --- > Men are from Earth > Women are from Earth > Deal with it... depends ... if you had all the approprirate partition spaces set out, then you don't really need to run a partition tool. aston sydney, australia
[newbie] installation of alsa for yamaha sound card
Basically i've got a problem with installing the alsa drivers 0.5.9d ;
0.5.10 and 0.5.10a for my yamaha pci sound card on Linux-Mandrake 7.2 .
In 7.1 where my sound didn't work at all, i installed 0.5.9d without a
problem. However, in 7.2 i have got sound but the quality is absolutely
terrible.
Incidentally 7.2 installed 0.5.9c for my soundcard. I followed the
instructions as provided by the 'Installing ALSA for the Yamaha DS-XG Sound
Card' from linuxnewbie.org.
'./configure' seems to work fine, but when i subsequently enter 'make' i
get the following error message with all 3 packages:
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:9: Warning: Ignoring changed section attributes for .modinfo
make[1]: *** [sound.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/creaktop/alsa-driver-0.5.10a/kernel'
make: *** [compile] Error 1
this message is preceeded by a whole load of other stuff that i dont
comprehend (not that i understand this!), but that does not seem to
be error messages.
I cant find any Mandrake specific rpms of alsa drivers beyond 0.5.9c,
which is currently installed.
I've looked all over, but cant find any documentation on this
error message, and i'd greatly appreciate some help.
BTW: can anyone recommend a file-utility with which i can access my
Linux harddrive from windows?
TIA
creaktop
Please contact me for my PGP key
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Re: [newbie] 7.2 Installation - System hangs after reboot
On Monday 22 January 2001 17:46, you wrote: Hi All, I have gone thru the 7.2 install GUI (booted from the floppy) from the iso images available on the web. No problems with the install. When the pc reboots, it comes back up and displays "stage1" and hangs. I don't know what to do to correct it. I have gone thru the install couple of times and nothing seems to make a difference. Running a AST Bravo Pentium 133MHz, 96MB Ram. I have two physical drives and am trying to install Linux as the only operating system. Please Help Thanks Kishore Sr. Programmer. Sabre, Inc. Well, your booter should have a "failsafe" choice, try that first. I am guessing that the kernel thought it recognized a situation for a fast disk and made some incompatible settings in the ide. Install as you did but add the following to the bootloader install--edit each system that comes up and plug this into the Append line. ide0=noautotune ide1=noautotune idebus=16 If you have PIO set for 33MHz and the chipset can only do 16.6 Anyway that should back the kernel off from optimizing enough to get you going. If it doesn't, then check your cabling and your memory in that order. The boot kernel will use almost all RAM available all of the time, and may be uncovering a defect in a memory chip. More likely, it is a drive cable that has seen too much vibration. Civileme
[newbie] Netscape engineers are weenies?
Hey Civileme: Could you please enlighten me/us as to what you meant by "...backdoors based on the phrase Netscape engineers are weenies (reversed) that go undiscovered for years." in a post to another list which was talking about the much ado over the recent redhat server security problem? -- +pax+ -michael-
[newbie] Using a Creative Webcam 3 in LM 7.2
As the Subject line says , anyone got anyideas? i know that Drakeconf see the webcam under USB but I don't have a clue how to access it and what programs would be able to use it . Is anyone out there doing webcam stuff with linux ?
RE: [newbie] quick question
Hey Scott, Here is my instructions for how to edit Grub. Open it up with an editor. Open a terminal, su to root, type in: vi /boot/grub/menu.lst then type: a then use the arrow buttons to navigate, backspace to delete something, type as usual. then type: Esc the escape key then type: : colon then type: wq Have fun, Chris Kelly --- Men are from Earth Women are from Earth Deal with it... -Original Message- From: Scott Mills [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 12:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] quick question Hi Christopher , My Name is Scott , No you do not need to do a Fdisk on your drive . If you have the info on how to edit GRUB could you send it to me , send it to (home E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED].. ( this is from my UNIX box @ work ) please do not send it here ,, Thanks "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: That's what I thought. Thanks Aston. -Original Message- From: Po Kwok [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] quick question "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: Do I need to Fdisk a drive before installing Linux? I can't remember. Thanks guys and gals, Chris Kelly --- Men are from Earth Women are from Earth Deal with it... depends ... if you had all the approprirate partition spaces set out, then you don't really need to run a partition tool. aston sydney, australia
[newbie] problem installin mozilla 0.7
I need two files for install mozilla 0.7: Libstoc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 libc.so.6 (Glibc-2.2) where can I download it??
RE: [newbie] Thoughts on sharing an internet connection with a windows box...
To me the easiest way to share a connection on a Win machine with a Linux machine is to use DHCP. You will need a NIC in each machine and I would suggest a hub (both you would most likly still be able to use when you upgrade to DSL). You will need to install MS Family Network on your Win machine. On your Linux machine you will need to install DHCP and using either DrakConf or netconf configure the network. (You can also accomplish this after all your hardware has been connected by running the Mandrake installation as an upgrade.) You will need to connect to your free ISP in Windows and then you should be able to access the connection from linux. As to a DSL provider I use BellSouth. The main reason for doing so is that they were the first to offer the service in my area. I will admit that I did make the wrong choice in modems. I choose a USB modem so I am forced to use the system I outlined above in order to use the connection in linux. As long as your local phone company offers DSL you should also be able to get it from any other national provider,i.e. MSN, Prodigy, Earthlink, Yahoo, etc. There are How-Tos availible for setting up your connection in linux so you need not worry if your ISP does not support linux. You can use this link for a listing of the providers who offer DSL in your area http://www.dslreports.com/ Once you get some $ and have DSL you will love it. Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Schroeder Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Thoughts on sharing an internet connection with a windows box... As I'm a cheap bastard I like to use free internet dialups like NetZero or Juno, etc. What are the thoughts on getting a 486 or P150 or something with a "minimal" winblows 95 and dial up networking running networked to my P3 600 Mandrake 7.2 box? Maybe I could find some kind of half baked windows "firewall" to keep things a little on the safer side. What is needed if I were to do this? (Software on the Linux end I mean...) There are advantages to this... I can keep the ad bar they throw at you on the windows box without a monitor and keep them happy. After I get settled and save up a little $ I'm getting DSL so this is a short term deal. While I'm writing are there and recommendations on DSL services especially considering Linux? For sure I know I can get COVAD and QWEST and I think ATT... I looked at QWEST's service info and it said some thing I didn't really want to see. Although I think I could get it set up fine by myself. I've found phone techs to really be terrible and not worth their wages anyway... Anyone know how they get it to not work with any other DSL modem? **NOTE: The Qwest Support Line for installation and repair only provides support to the single PC application. It does not provide support to a LAN or Hub application. Also, the Qwest Support Line will not support customers who work on a UNIX, LINUX or IBM OS2 platform.
Re: [newbie] problem installin mozilla 0.7
Emiliano Ogando wrote: I need two files for install mozilla 0.7: Libstoc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 libc.so.6 (Glibc-2.2) where can I download it?? Try searching for them at www.rpmfind.com With any luck, they won't be RPM 4. :) Out of curiosity, is it just me, or does Mozilla 0.7 crash a lot? I've also had some problems with Netscape 6. I tend to use Netscape 4.73 the most, since it seems to be faster and more stable, though there are some pages 4.73 is unable to view. Jesse -- !! Jesse C. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [___] `|' "I have the simplest tastes. I am always /|\ satisfied with the best." -- Oscar Wilde
Re: [newbie] quick question
Thanks Christopher , I'll give it a try . :-) "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: Hey Scott, Here is my instructions for how to edit Grub. Open it up with an editor. Open a terminal, su to root, type in: vi /boot/grub/menu.lst then type: a then use the arrow buttons to navigate, backspace to delete something, type as usual. then type: Esc the escape key then type: : colon then type: wq Have fun, Chris Kelly --- Men are from Earth Women are from Earth Deal with it... -Original Message- From: Scott Mills [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 12:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] quick question Hi Christopher , My Name is Scott , No you do not need to do a Fdisk on your drive . If you have the info on how to edit GRUB could you send it to me , send it to (home E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED].. ( this is from my UNIX box @ work ) please do not send it here ,, Thanks "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: That's what I thought. Thanks Aston. -Original Message- From: Po Kwok [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] quick question "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: Do I need to Fdisk a drive before installing Linux? I can't remember. Thanks guys and gals, Chris Kelly --- Men are from Earth Women are from Earth Deal with it... depends ... if you had all the approprirate partition spaces set out, then you don't really need to run a partition tool. aston sydney, australia
RE: [newbie] Enlightenment Problems (yes, still)
No. I couldn't figure out what was going on with $prefix. How do I use --enable-fsstd and what does it do? I'll try the E-devel mailing list next I guess. Thanks for your help though! Tim Goodaire [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jesse C. Chang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 3:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Enlightenment Problems (yes, still) Tim Goodaire wrote: So I removed Enlightenment and the new version still didn't compile. It's still complaining about not being able to find IMLIB_CONFIG, even though I know it's there. I've even installed a newer version. Blah. The gods don't want me to use Enlightenment it seems. Did you fix any discrepancies with $prefix and all that? Did you try --enable-fsstd? If you can figure out where imlib_config is being looked for, you can try creating a link there, assuming it's different from the actual path of imlib.config. Otherwise, I have no idea why you're having such problems. :( Have you tried posting to the E-devel mailing list? Jesse -- !! Jesse C. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [___] `|' "I have the simplest tastes. I am always /|\ satisfied with the best." -- Oscar Wilde
Re: [newbie] Unable to see cdrom
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:03:37 -0800,Mike wrote: ls: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error If I try to access /Root/mnt/cdrom from Konqueror I get:- unable to enter file:/mnt/cdrom. You do not have access rights to this location. I would be very grateful if anyone can help me. Mike Baker Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:29:08 You cannot access these files as a user Mike...try with root privileges, by click the big "K" ..then on the menu select "applications" then "file tools" then "file manager super user mode" Enter your root password into the block and you can now read all those root files..be careful what you change. Olly P Biloxi
RE: [newbie] Re: GNOME or KDE
"Thio Yu Jin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10:43:01 AM 1/20/01 Why is Enlightenment so much better than KDE or Gnome? Jin *haha* now you are starting a war. =) just kidding. i like E because it doesn't look like windows... no icons on the desktop. no menu bar at the bottom. i like the pagers as they make it easy to jump from one desktop to another. the eyecandy is great... i mean really really nice. sometimes i just turn off all the lights and look at the screen. =) it is very easy to customize, and tho some of the things are a bit difficult to figure out, once you get the hang of it cutomizing the menus, desktop, blah blah blah is really easy. it also comes with some nice themes, and you can download many more. it really is all just a matter of personal taste, and i would rather have a "slicker" interface that is a bit slower. i'm not in that much of a hurry. =) also, the E "team" (they are more like leaderless bandits) is working on Enlightenment 17. my understanding is they are completely recoding much of it, and expect the whole thing to be much faster, smoother, even easier to configure and there has been talk of an integreated file manager (don't quote me on the last one). so i think things will be much much better. also, Eterm is great. hey Civilme Mandrake, can we have Eterm 9.1 in the next release? i use it it's perfectly stable as far as i can tell. that would be the bomb. remember, to say E is "better" than X, Y or Z all depends on exactly what you want to do. for many users Blackbox or KDE or Gome is "better". this is what i like about the mandrake package. they give you a whole bunch of WM to play with. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Netscape engineers are weenies?
On Monday 22 January 2001 09:43, you wrote: Hey Civileme: Could you please enlighten me/us as to what you meant by "...backdoors based on the phrase Netscape engineers are weenies (reversed) that go undiscovered for years." in a post to another list which was talking about the much ado over the recent redhat server security problem? Heeheehee... OK It might be in various archives, but it refers to Windows NT version 4 . There was a backdoor in it based on a 62 character sliderule encryption scheme with the key "Netscape engineers are weenies!" backwards. Microsoft claimed it was unaware of the backdoor and promised to discover the employees responsible; the headlines vanished, and apparently it also vanished from the memory of most people. It had limited scope, but the summary is here: http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/Dvwssr_dll_allows_downloading_of_ASP_source_code___Netscape_engineers_are_weenies__.html and here: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-04/0059.html This was some time after the flap about the second cryptographic key in Windows not being a backup but actually a back door for the NSA (See http://www.cryptonym.com and read their archives). And there are many other back doors in commercial code which have even more blatant consequences. http://www.insecure.org has some three-year old ones for programs that will shock you. There are some games you may not want to play again over the 'net. Of course, some have been open-sourced and fixed since then. The point was and is, systems based on free software are inherently more secure for the user. Here's another example: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/11/1318207 Civileme
Re: [newbie] HDparm question
How do I use HDparm to optimize my HD settings? Hi, type "man hdparm" in the terminal and read it, it explins you how to use and the way to change hd settings. Thanks guys, Chris Kelly --- Men are from Earth Women are from Earth Deal with it...
Re: [newbie] HDparm question
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/272 abe "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: How do I use HDparm to optimize my HD settings? Thanks guys, Chris Kelly --- Men are from Earth Women are from Earth Deal with it...
Re: [newbie] problem installin mozilla 0.7
I use netscape 4.76 and occasionally Mozilla. Netscape 6 is slow, bloated and unstable IMO. I haven't found any websites that netscpae 4.76 can't view yet. Can you send me a link to one? I'm curious ;-) Abe "Jesse C. Chang" wrote: Emiliano Ogando wrote: I need two files for install mozilla 0.7: Libstoc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 libc.so.6 (Glibc-2.2) where can I download it?? Try searching for them at www.rpmfind.com With any luck, they won't be RPM 4. :) Out of curiosity, is it just me, or does Mozilla 0.7 crash a lot? I've also had some problems with Netscape 6. I tend to use Netscape 4.73 the most, since it seems to be faster and more stable, though there are some pages 4.73 is unable to view. Jesse -- !! Jesse C. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [___] `|' "I have the simplest tastes. I am always /|\ satisfied with the best." -- Oscar Wilde
[newbie] Kernel optimizations for AMD Athlon
Hello! Witch kernel optimizations should I use for a AMD Athlon? /Niklas
Re: [newbie] Unable to see cdrom
Sorry, I forgot to say I was logged in as root. At 19:38 22/01/2001, you wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:03:37 -0800,Mike wrote: ls: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error If I try to access /Root/mnt/cdrom from Konqueror I get:- unable to enter file:/mnt/cdrom. You do not have access rights to this location. I would be very grateful if anyone can help me. Mike Baker Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:29:08 You cannot access these files as a user Mike...try with root privileges, by click the big "K" ..then on the menu select "applications" then "file tools" then "file manager super user mode" Enter your root password into the block and you can now read all those root files..be careful what you change. Olly P Biloxi Mike Baker aka [RaG]Pixie[MwG] Frag Fest LAN Parties www.fragfest.f2s.com
[newbie] Install Problems with V7.2 and SystemCommander 2000 V5.04
Hello, I am attempting to multi-boot Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Mandrake 7.2 on an intel platform with System Commander. I have the Windows 98 and Windows 2000 boots installed and functional on the first harddrive HDA. The Windows 98 is there to house System Commander. Everything on that first drive works. I run the custom Mandrake install, not the "full expert" but the middle choice. I choose to install Mandrake directly, so I do not use the System Commander O/S create utility. I just let System Commander find it upon the reboot. BTW, this method works for custom installs of Red Hat or SUSE which I have done several times in the past. The Mandrake install is onto the 2nd drive fully, HDB, and I get all the way thru the install. System Commander finds the new Linux, but when I try to boot Mandrake I get the following: "panic unable to mount root filesystem" or something of that matter. I took a look at the Linux partitions from the System Commander 2000 disk partioning tool and see that the /boot partition is there and identified as a Linux EXT2 file system, which is good. However the rest of the Mandrake install space is not sliced into partitions, it is a single big partition that System Commander see as a generic Unix single partition. That would seem to be the problem, is there something special I need to know about Mandrake??? Can someone advise me? As said earlier I have been able to do the same setup methodology with Red Hat and SUSE and it worked. Thanks for anyones help Steve # Stephen LaBelle # # Senior Unix Systems Administrator# # Metropolitan State College of Denver # # Denver, Colorado USA# # [EMAIL PROTECTED]#
Re: [newbie] Install Problems with V7.2 and SystemCommander 2000 V5.04
did you partition the rest into more than one partition i.e. /usr /home etc.? did you use reiserfs? i installed lm7.2 onto a machine and thoughtlessly forgot to deselect the reiserfs package on installation and only realised i had done this when using partition magic i noticed that i couldn't resise my linux partitions bascule "panic unable to mount root filesystem" or something of that matter. I took a look at the Linux partitions from the System Commander 2000 disk partioning tool and see that the /boot partition is there and identified as a Linux EXT2 file system, which is good. However the rest of the Mandrake install space is not sliced into partitions, it is a single big partition that System Commander see as a generic Unix single
Re: [newbie] Kernel optimizations for AMD Athlon
with the 2.2.x series you can use PPro. If your using the 2.4.x kernel there is a K7 optimization option. "Blomquist, Niklas" wrote: Hello! Witch kernel optimizations should I use for a AMD Athlon? /Niklas
[newbie]Hearts game
Dear Romanator All, I finally have enough things in working order that I feel ready to tackle this Hearts game. Romanator, I believe you mentioned that you have the Hearts game working with LM 7.2? Excuse me if you are not the one who mentioned that. Either you or someone said they have the Hearts game for Linux working just fine in LM 7.2. I could not get any faces to appear on the cards after I installed it. I have LM 7.2 with the 4.x version of X. How did you or anyone get this game to work? I went as far as to contact the game's author about this.He wrote me personally to give me some advice, however my computer crashed shortly after that so I lost that info. Even he had the same problems I had when he put it on LM 7.2. It worked great for me when I had LM 7.0. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Marcia
Re: [newbie] messages
-michael- wrote: Has anyone else noticed the dearth of messages from the list the past couple days? -- +pax+ -michael- Yep. Me too. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Penguin Charged Email
RE: [newbie] Install Problems with V7.2 and SystemCommander 2000 V5.04
The problem most likely stems from the way the partitions were made. Use the SysCom partitioning tool to delete the extended partition and then to create it again with however many logical linux partitions you choose then during the Mandrake installation use DiskDrake only for mounting and formatting the partitions. The only time I have used the SysCom OS Wizard was to install BeOS and that is because the Be bootloader is not installed unless written to the MBR and the OS Wizards allows SysCom to pick-up the boot record. All the other installations on that system were done by setting the BIOS to boot from CD-ROM and inserting the installation CD. When the install completes all that is necessary is to toggle the needed partition as bootable and it is added to SysCom as a boot option. I have done it a few times. I have a 45GB and a 15GB hd on that system with all OSes being booted by SysCom2000. Those include Win98, BeOS, Storm, Caldera, Suse, VA Red Hat, and Mandrake and I have tried others. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen L LaBelle Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 4:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Install Problems with V7.2 and SystemCommander 2000 V5.04 Hello, I am attempting to multi-boot Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Mandrake 7.2 on an intel platform with System Commander. I have the Windows 98 and Windows 2000 boots installed and functional on the first harddrive HDA. The Windows 98 is there to house System Commander. Everything on that first drive works. I run the custom Mandrake install, not the "full expert" but the middle choice. I choose to install Mandrake directly, so I do not use the System Commander O/S create utility. I just let System Commander find it upon the reboot. BTW, this method works for custom installs of Red Hat or SUSE which I have done several times in the past. The Mandrake install is onto the 2nd drive fully, HDB, and I get all the way thru the install. System Commander finds the new Linux, but when I try to boot Mandrake I get the following: "panic unable to mount root filesystem" or something of that matter. I took a look at the Linux partitions from the System Commander 2000 disk partioning tool and see that the /boot partition is there and identified as a Linux EXT2 file system, which is good. However the rest of the Mandrake install space is not sliced into partitions, it is a single big partition that System Commander see as a generic Unix single partition. That would seem to be the problem, is there something special I need to know about Mandrake??? Can someone advise me? As said earlier I have been able to do the same setup methodology with Red Hat and SUSE and it worked. Thanks for anyones help Steve # Stephen LaBelle # # Senior Unix Systems Administrator# # Metropolitan State College of Denver # # Denver, Colorado USA# # [EMAIL PROTECTED]#
[newbie] l-m doesnt detect my modem or printer
hi, i recently installed l-m 7.1, and it detects neither my modem (56K, V.90 compatible data/fax modem) nor my printer (hp deskjet 710c). the printer drivetrs are not on the list it shows - is there anywhere i can download them? mind you, that wont help unless i can connect. thanks, michelle
Re: [newbie]Hearts game
marcia wrote: Dear Romanator All, I finally have enough things in working order that I feel ready to tackle this Hearts game. Romanator, I believe you mentioned that you have the Hearts game working with LM 7.2? Excuse me if you are not the one who mentioned that. Either you or someone said they have the Hearts game for Linux working just fine in LM 7.2. I could not get any faces to appear on the cards after I installed it. I have LM 7.2 with the 4.x version of X. How did you or anyone get this game to work? I went as far as to contact the game's author about this.He wrote me personally to give me some advice, however my computer crashed shortly after that so I lost that info. Even he had the same problems I had when he put it on LM 7.2. It worked great for me when I had LM 7.0. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Marcia Hi Marcia, Long-time-no-hear. Try reducing the resolution on your monitor. It could be your graphics card. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Penguin Charged Email
Re: [newbie] modem problem
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 03:39:54 ,Mark wrote: i recently bought a zoom 56k fax/modem. i added it to my computer and configured it properly. i then went to dial my isp and when it tried to initialize, it sat there for ever. and it did not dial. i am using mandrake 7.2 with kde. i was wondering if there was something i am overlooking. mark --- Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:12:00 Well Mark, I just went through a long struggle to finally get my Zoom 2920 working sucessfully You need to give a little more info...is it PCI? are you trying with KPPP? what errors are you getting? Olly P Biloxi
Re: [newbie] l-m doesnt detect my modem or printer
Hi, Michelle; I'm struggling with the modem issue myself right now (making progress, thanks to Charles). Please search the archives for "winmodem" and you'll find a number of discussions about these and other sorts of softmodems including linmodems for Linux systems, available for a few modems. A number of websites have been linked in just the past few days. But I can help you, I think, with the printer. I use an hp712c which is on the list. Just a little while ago by coincidence, I was using DiskDrake to poke around and look at stuff and noticed the driver installed for my printer was 710c.. not surprising since they're part of the same series. It is surprising that the 712c is and the 710c isn't on the list when it appears as though it's the 710c driver used for at least those 2 printers. Other possibilities also exist. In any case, try the 712c. I think that'll get you to where you want to be. Mine installed and tested well during the install. Great little printer, isn't it? um, wait.. I just noticed.. you are installing 7.1. Hmm.. I may have to step back a minute because I installed 7.2. Still, our printers are older than 7.1 so they ought to be included. Have you considered using 7.2? :) Another possible culprit might be that your BIOS are set to let the OS find your PnP devices. I believe with both Windows and Linux OS, the OS relies on the BIOS to detect your PnP devices so the option should read "no" or "disable". If you've not been in there before, it can be a little intimidating but if you pay attention to what you do, change nothing unless you are sure (this option, when you find it with the PnP options in your Setup, is the one you should change in this session and no other) and read the prompts in the legend to navigate, you'll be fine. If you are familiar with your BIOS, you probably already know to do this. Hopefully, someone else reading might find it useful. You see, if the BIOS think the OS system is supposed to detect PnP devices and the OS isn't programmed to, none are found. Since you didn't mention your CD device(s), I am guessing that this is not the issue in your case. Dave michelle cain wrote: hi, i recently installed l-m 7.1, and it detects neither my modem (56K, V.90 compatible data/fax modem) nor my printer (hp deskjet 710c). the printer drivetrs are not on the list it shows - is there anywhere i can download them? mind you, that wont help unless i can connect. thanks, michelle -- Dave Burrows 741 Cleveland Road Washington, PA 15301 USA
[newbie] install with /home unchanged
I run mandrake 7.1, with /, /home, /user/storage, swap on separate partitions. I wish to install mandrake 7.2. Can I leave everything except / untouched and retain my music binaries in /user/storage and my four identities and their desktop preferences in /home ? Or is it simpler and cleaner just to start over? I assume I just avoid formatting my storage and home as I install. Any help appreciated. Busterfred
Re: [newbie] l-m doesnt detect my modem or printer
dave, i got through my modem issues by looking at all the "man" pages i could. (do you know that command?) also i looked at all of the documentation that came with 7.2. it's very comprehensive. it sounds like your having fun. wish i had more time to fool witu stuff. talk soon. david Dave Burrows wrote: Hi, Michelle; I'm struggling with the modem issue myself right now (making progress, thanks to Charles). Please search the archives for "winmodem" and you'll find a number of discussions about these and other sorts of softmodems including linmodems for Linux systems, available for a few modems. A number of websites have been linked in just the past few days. But I can help you, I think, with the printer. I use an hp712c which is on the list. Just a little while ago by coincidence, I was using DiskDrake to poke around and look at stuff and noticed the driver installed for my printer was 710c.. not surprising since they're part of the same series. It is surprising that the 712c is and the 710c isn't on the list when it appears as though it's the 710c driver used for at least those 2 printers. Other possibilities also exist. In any case, try the 712c. I think that'll get you to where you want to be. Mine installed and tested well during the install. Great little printer, isn't it? um, wait.. I just noticed.. you are installing 7.1. Hmm.. I may have to step back a minute because I installed 7.2. Still, our printers are older than 7.1 so they ought to be included. Have you considered using 7.2? :) Another possible culprit might be that your BIOS are set to let the OS find your PnP devices. I believe with both Windows and Linux OS, the OS relies on the BIOS to detect your PnP devices so the option should read "no" or "disable". If you've not been in there before, it can be a little intimidating but if you pay attention to what you do, change nothing unless you are sure (this option, when you find it with the PnP options in your Setup, is the one you should change in this session and no other) and read the prompts in the legend to navigate, you'll be fine. If you are familiar with your BIOS, you probably already know to do this. Hopefully, someone else reading might find it useful. You see, if the BIOS think the OS system is supposed to detect PnP devices and the OS isn't programmed to, none are found. Since you didn't mention your CD device(s), I am guessing that this is not the issue in your case. Dave michelle cain wrote: hi, i recently installed l-m 7.1, and it detects neither my modem (56K, V.90 compatible data/fax modem) nor my printer (hp deskjet 710c). the printer drivetrs are not on the list it shows - is there anywhere i can download them? mind you, that wont help unless i can connect. thanks, michelle -- Dave Burrows 741 Cleveland Road Washington, PA 15301 USA
[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 installation problem
I have a 1 Ghz Athlon, Asus A7v motherboard, Plexwriter 8/4/32A CD-RW, 128 MB ram. I downloaded the two Mandrake 7.2 iso files and validated the md5 sums. I burned my own CD-RWs with Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4. I created the CD-RWs from the iso images. Selecting Create CD Disc-at-once options (I also tried Track-at Once). The CD-RWs burned successfully. I rooted from the install CD-RW and after it got to the initializing CDROM point, I got a message saying that the CDROM device did not seem to contain a Linux Mandrake CDROM. Any Ideas about what is causing this message? -- http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $7.99/mo! --
Re: [newbie] install with /home unchanged
On Monday 22 January 2001 11:12 pm, you wrote: I run mandrake 7.1, with /, /home, /user/storage, swap on separate partitions. I wish to install mandrake 7.2. Can I leave everything except / untouched and retain my music binaries in /user/storage and my four identities and their desktop preferences in /home ? Or is it simpler and cleaner just to start over? I assume I just avoid formatting my storage and home as I install. Any help appreciated. Busterfred Right, do not reformat the partitions you want to keep, and format the rest. That's the way I did it on one machine and so far no problems.YMMV. Good Luck, -- Dennis M. Registered Linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 installation problem
in windows what does explorer show as the contents of the cd's, iso files or a list of directories and files? i.e. did you 'create a cd from an image' or did you drag and drop the iso files to the cd listing before burning? bascule I downloaded the two Mandrake 7.2 iso files and validated the md5 sums. I burned my own CD-RWs with Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4. I created the CD-RWs from the iso images. Selecting Create CD Disc-at-once options (I also tried Track-at Once). The CD-RWs burned successfully. I rooted from the install CD-RW and after it got to the initializing CDROM point, I got a message saying that the CDROM device did not seem to contain a Linux Mandrake CDROM. Any Ideas about what is causing this message?
[newbie] pppd died unexpectedly
Hi all, I have a Pentium 133Mhz running MDK 7.2 with kernel-2.4.0-5mdk. When I try to connect to the internet using Kppp, it tells me, after the login process, that pppd has died unexpectedly. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John
[newbie] SCSI, Tape Drives and Linux compatibility
Can anyone comment on their experiences with SCSI? TapeStor DAT 240 6-Cart.$3,479.00 Ok, so I figured out that Linux supports Ultra 160... now can anyone tell me if I would run into problems sticking any old 6 tape capacity tape changer on there. I would imagine it needs Linux specific drivers in order to change the tapes and keep track of what is where. Can anyone reccommend a tape backup drive that can swap 4-6 tapes in Linux?
Re: [newbie] Kernel optimizations for AMD Athlon
Would this really make a difference in speed/performance? Most of what I've read regarding kernel recompiles say that there's not much to be gained from it. On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:36, abe wrote: with the 2.2.x series you can use PPro. If your using the 2.4.x kernel there is a K7 optimization option. "Blomquist, Niklas" wrote: Hello! Witch kernel optimizations should I use for a AMD Athlon? /Niklas -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] What is best Xfree upgrade option for 3D Blaster Savage4?
I have 7.2 running on it, with XFree 3.3.6 in some places and 4.0.1 in others (as it came with 7.2 cd). I found an upgrade on Creative Labs site, but it doesn't say what version its for in the README or anywhere else I could find.. I also found XFree 4.0.2, but its not available as an RPM, so I'd be on my own as far as getting it working. I heard that 4.0.2 supports the 3D Blaster Savage4. What is my best bet? Anyone else have the card, or has upgraded to 4.0.2, already? How was it? Any tricky things? Thanks, BobC
[newbie] Looking for 2 computer TCP/IP open source arcade type games
I have a son that wants to learn to code. Nothing like taking things that work, dissecting them, and tweaking them a bit as a fun learning tool. Any suggestions? Java games, maybe? I'll be playing, too (code and game wise). Thanks for any suggestions, BobC
Re: [newbie] pppd died unexpectedly
On Monday 22 January 2001 19:44, you wrote: to connect to the internet using Kppp, it tells me, after the login process, that pppd has died unexpectedly. Any help would be greatly appreciated. First, check your timeout setting. Make sure you are giving the ISP enough time to establish a connection. 2 minutes should be plenty. mine is set at 1 min. If that isn't the problem, then I would say its has to do with how your ISP wants you to connect and authenticate. To help you out with this I am going to need more information. What authentication method are you using? what pppd arguments are you using? etc... I could also be the modem initialization string you are using. your ISP may want a certain kind of connection and you are sending the wrong kind. For instance, my ISP operates with V.90 and 56K but not K56flex. So I have to make sure K56flex is turned off on my modem via the initialization string, which looks like atfw2s109=2s38=1%c0. This initialization string other things but mainly ensures a V.90 connection. Every ISP and modem are different. Consult your ISP and your modem's AT command manual. I lucked out, and my ISP offers linux support. Hopefully your does too. -jason
Re: [newbie] sing both cdrw and cdrom from X
Hola; After reading your details, I noticed you are from Murcia! While I have never been to Spain, my son and I have hosted 3 exchange students from Spain, and the last was from Murcia. Alejandro Romero Tejero. I have not heard from him in a while but I know I will again one day. I would like to visit Spain a lot. I'm real glad to have known all 3 boys. Anyway, your message is timely as I just installed Linux-Mandrake for the first time and my CD-ROM and CD-RW are not working although I can see them both in the device manager. What confused me until your message was that there were 2 incidents of the CD-RW, the second, a SCSI. I have no SCSI devices or interface on my machine. What you said sorta cleared up that mystery and also gave me an avenue of approach to make my drives operational. Gracias, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again This is not a message with a problem, but with a solution. Under mandrake 7.1 in my old Pentium II xcdroast detected both, the cdrom and the cdwriter. Under MDK 7.2 just the cdwriter emulating scsi is recognized, so the cdwriter must work hard, reading the origen cd and writing the new cd. Actually this is the situation using MDK installation, but I have read that this could be solved, I will show the steps I have followed in my case. I have a Sony CR-X160E cdwriter and a Hitachi DVD. The scsi emulation has been installed by Mandrake 7.2 just for the cdwriter, but it is also possible to do that for the DVD. Firs of all in my case the cdwriter is the hdc (ide 1, master) and the DVD is the hdd (ide 1, slave). 1) In all the lines of /boot/grub/menu.lst for start linux I had to add "hdd=ide-scsi" 2)From a konsole I typed "mknod scd1 b 11 8" 3) From konsole, I typed "ln -s scd1 cdrom2" 4) Due to a kudzu bug, I could not acces to cdrom2 for normal use; I needed to type also:" "cd /dev rm cdrom2 ln -s scd1 cdrom2" to solve the wrong link created by kudzu. 5) Restart linux It was easy to comprobate if everything were running; I try to read pc-cdroms from both cdrom units; no problems. I load the udf module and my DVD Hitachi could read a DVD disk. And to know if the scsi emulation was also running I use the next commands: cdrecord --scanbus (both cdrom and cdwriter were shown) cat /proc/scsi/scsi (similar results) run xcdroast and go to setup; both drivers appears. Now I can read the cds using my Hitachi DVD and burn they using the Sony CDwriter. great! Se you soon Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) -- Dave Burrows 741 Cleveland Road Washington, PA 15301 USA
Re: [newbie] can't view ntfs
Emilio, Ok it would be very usefull to install this modules and to recompile my kernel in order to view ntfs in LM7.2, I accept because I have never done it. Thanks No problem. Now, though trouble rarely occurse, be sure to back up your data first. And be sure to read my instructions to the end before you begin. If you've not installed your kernel source (ls -al /usr/src/linux-2.2.17 or whatever version of the kernel you have in /usr/src) do so from your CD now. Log out of XWindows , log out as user, log in as root open X, in a terminal type after the #: 1. # cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.17 2. # make xconfig In here, you'll mostly just want to look round become familiar (to some degree) with the layout -- someday you'll be coming in to make specific changes for new hardware. For now, you want to go to the OS tab (it may be a little different in your version), scroll down to the section for NT/W2k/ntfs, etc (it will likely read ntfs). There are two settings. The first, which is already set to load, is for read only access. There is another there for read/write access (you may find it in another sub section, requiring you click a button to get to it). Click on the option to load the module at boot as opposed to probing (I don't think it'll even allow probing, so just "turn it on". OK or save out close. 3. # make dep 4. # make clean 5. # make bzimage 6. # make modules 7. # make modules_install Each of these from number 5 will take a little time, so be prepared. There's one last step, but if you want to continue using grub as your boot loader instead of lilo, you'll have to read the grub documentation. You see, for those of us who prefer (or only use) lilo, the next step is to tell lilo (if grub, it's telling grub) that you've a new kernel. This, with lilo, is done by: 8. # make bzlilo I don't know the command for grub. Sorry. You shouldn't have any trouble. Once you've finished rebooted, try cd'ing to your W2k directory. Once there, do this: either as user or root (user might be better, but if root can do it, there's just a matter of making a few changes to some things). Now type: pico test press your Enter key. Type a few characters do Ctrl x to close pico. Then pico asks if you want to save the changes. Press y for yes press Enter to save it as "test". Now, watch the status line to see if pico saves the file or tells you it can't. There's no reason it shouldn't save the file, but if you'd done so as user, su to root try it again. If it still won't save, the partition isn't in r/w mode. So, cd to roots home, umount your W2k directory, check /etc/fstab to be sure fstab says to mount in r/w mode (the last bit on the line for your W2k partition should read something like this: user,exec,umask=0 0 0 If it is different, change it to what's above. Remount the W2k partition try it again. Should be fine:-). Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 installation problem
I did 'create cd from CD image'. Explorer shows lists of directories/files. The CD-RW does boot. I assume Mandrake can read the CD-RW or I would get a different error. I don't know what test is failing I downloaded an iso file from a different site and the same thing happened. How can I check that the CD-RW was written properly??? Thanks for any help - Original Message - From: "bascule" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 installation problem in windows what does explorer show as the contents of the cd's, iso files or a list of directories and files? i.e. did you 'create a cd from an image' or did you drag and drop the iso files to the cd listing before burning? bascule I downloaded the two Mandrake 7.2 iso files and validated the md5 sums. I burned my own CD-RWs with Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4. I created the CD-RWs from the iso images. Selecting Create CD Disc-at-once options (I also tried Track-at Once). The CD-RWs burned successfully. I rooted[booted] from the install CD-RW and after it got to the initializing CDROM point, I got a message saying that the CDROM device did not seem to contain a Linux Mandrake CDROM. Any Ideas about what is causing this message? -- http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $7.99/mo! --
Re: [newbie] Tape drive problem
Actually, I do have another idea. Try the command the other way. taper -T st0 I think you'll find that it works. I too have a SCSI tape device and that is the command that I use to start the program and tell it where and what it is. Mark On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Dan Shanahan wrote: Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 22:46:59 -0800 From: Dan Shanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Tape drive problem Thanks for the suggestion, I took a quick look at the documentation the command is taper -T scsi but it still doesn't work. When I select "Restore Module" taper does not resond I cannot exit (same as with mt -f /dev/st0). And when I check the status of the process, it again says "down". Again, I cannot kill the process. Any other ideas? Thanks, Dan Dan, try using Taper. as root use this command. taper -T st0 thats the program I use for my tape drive and it works fine. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Dan Shanahan wrote: I am not able to read from my tape drive. About 3 weeks ago, I installed Mandrake 7.1. Before that I had Redhat 5.2. I backed up some file on tape before installing Mandrake 7.1, but I can't read them. When I type in any mt command, like mt -f /dev/st0 tell the xterm appears to not respond. If I check the process in another xterm, the ps command lists the process as "down" I can't kill the process. Does anyone know what would cause mt to not respond? Thanks, Dan
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 installation problem
If you can view a list of directories in Explorer then the CD was written correctly. Are you running the Mandrake installation from your CD-RW drive or from a CD-ROM drive? If you are using a CD-ROM drive it is possible, especially if it is an older drive, that the drive can not read CD-RWs. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Johnson Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 installation problem I did 'create cd from CD image'. Explorer shows lists of directories/files. The CD-RW does boot. I assume Mandrake can read the CD-RW or I would get a different error. I don't know what test is failing I downloaded an iso file from a different site and the same thing happened. How can I check that the CD-RW was written properly??? Thanks for any help - Original Message - From: "bascule" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 installation problem in windows what does explorer show as the contents of the cd's, iso files or a list of directories and files? i.e. did you 'create a cd from an image' or did you drag and drop the iso files to the cd listing before burning? bascule I downloaded the two Mandrake 7.2 iso files and validated the md5 sums. I burned my own CD-RWs with Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4. I created the CD-RWs from the iso images. Selecting Create CD Disc-at-once options (I also tried Track-at Once). The CD-RWs burned successfully. I rooted[booted] from the install CD-RW and after it got to the initializing CDROM point, I got a message saying that the CDROM device did not seem to contain a Linux Mandrake CDROM. Any Ideas about what is causing this message? -- http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $7.99/mo! --
