[newbie-it] tar su macchine SUN
Salve, una domanda. Ho ricevuto via mail un file archivio .tar fatto su una macchina Sun con Unix, ma quando cerco di scompattarlo, mi si dice che non e' un file archivio. Stesso discorso con un .tar.gz (non e' un file compresso). E' dovuto ad una differenza tra le architetture o per caso v'e' qualcosa che mi sfugge ? Grazie in anticipo, Alberto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] gcc 3.x
Il 18:05, giovedì 26 luglio 2001, CaMiX scrisse: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables. prova a leggere cosa c'è nel file config.log che trovi nella dir dove hai lanciato il configure. Come posso risolvere io problema? Ho provato a dinstallare il pacchetto ma nel rpmdrake esso non compare (c'è la versione precedente, che, tralaltro, non riesco a togliere...). Forse è andato in crisi il database rpm; prova a lanciare rpm --rebuilddb -- 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-it] gcc 3.x
Ho provato a eseguire il comando ma non noto nessuna differenza. Continua a dirmi che c'è installato il gcc precedente... Riguardo al file config.log il messaggio d'errore è questo: configure:1515: rm -rf SunWS_cache; g++ -o conftestconftest.C 15 ld: cannot open crtbegin.o: No such file or directory configure: failed program was: #line 1510 configure #include confdefs.h Che fare? ;-) Adios CaMiX Il 06:20, giovedì 26 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Il 18:05, giovedì 26 luglio 2001, CaMiX scrisse: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables. prova a leggere cosa c'è nel file config.log che trovi nella dir dove hai lanciato il configure. Come posso risolvere io problema? Ho provato a dinstallare il pacchetto ma nel rpmdrake esso non compare (c'è la versione precedente, che, tralaltro, non riesco a togliere...). Forse è andato in crisi il database rpm; prova a lanciare rpm --rebuilddb
Re: [newbie-it] Mailreader + gpg
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 01:22:58 +0200 Mr_Brain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Il 05:58, mercoledì 25 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Se non ti serve l'interfaccia grafica allora mutt. Non e` male come idea (prima o poi studiero` anche mutt :) ), ma per il momento preferisco qualcosa di grafico... O:-) Sylpheed supporta il gpg pero' io non l' ho mai usato; come mailreader pero' e' insuperabile (a mio avviso, naturalmente;-) -- Sebastiano Cordiano
Re: [newbie-it] La rotella del mouse...
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:49:38 +0200 Tijuana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao! Ho una Mandrake 7.2, e un mouse Logitech Optical con rotella (Ps2)...Purtroppo la rotella non funziona! Sembra una stupidaggine ma ormai mi sono abituata a usarla ed è difficile tornare allo stato primitivo :-)) Premetto di essere una NewNewNewNewBie! Edita il file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ed assicurati che la sezione InputDevice sia cosi': Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocolimps/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option Buttons5 Option ZAxisMapping4 5 EndSection Ciao -- Sebastiano Cordiano
Re: [newbie-it] Mailreader + gpg
On Thursday 26 July 2001 18:43, you wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 01:22:58 +0200 Mr_Brain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Il 05:58, mercoledì 25 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Se non ti serve l'interfaccia grafica allora mutt. A me piacerebbe tantissimo usare Mutt. Ma non riesco a farlo andare. Premo m per mandare un messaggio. scrivo l'indirizzo (a proposito non c'è una rubrica?) scrivo l'oggetto. Premo Enter e mi dice aborting unmodified message. Che cavolo vuol dire???
R: [newbie-it] Mailreader + gpg
Fai prima ad utilizzare elm !! - Original Message - From: momotaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 10:47 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Mailreader + gpg On Thursday 26 July 2001 18:43, you wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 01:22:58 +0200 Mr_Brain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Il 05:58, mercoledì 25 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Se non ti serve l'interfaccia grafica allora mutt. A me piacerebbe tantissimo usare Mutt. Ma non riesco a farlo andare. Premo m per mandare un messaggio. scrivo l'indirizzo (a proposito non c'è una rubrica?) scrivo l'oggetto. Premo Enter e mi dice aborting unmodified message. Che cavolo vuol dire???
Re: [newbie-it] Secondo voi si può fare?
On Wednesday 25 July 2001 13:54, you wrote: Il 19:36, martedì 24 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Mi è arrivato tra le mani un portatile omnibook hp 486dx 75 con 8 mb di ram. Questo sistema io dovrei usarlo unicamente per scrivere testi con un programma tipo word e poco altro. I problemi che si pongono sono 2: il primo è che non dovendolo usare io di persona ma un mio amico totalmente digiuno di informatica ho bisogno di evitare ogni tipo di complicazione; il secondo è che con 8 mb di ram (vorrei provare a portarlo almeno a 16, ma non sono sicuro di trovare la memoria) non so minimamente cosa montare come OS. Tralasciando qualsiasi soluzione MS (anche se avevo fatto un pensierino a win 3.11 che dite? potrebbe andare?) mi sono orientato su Linux, ma se anche fosse cosa posso installare?? Avrei bisogno di qualche parere da qualche luminare in materia :)) io ho mulinux sul mio 486DX2 con soli 8MB. In modo testo funziona bene, ma la X di mulinux, pure molto leggera, richiederebbe più memoria; inoltre non c'è un prg. di elaborazione testi grafico, perciò dovresti compilaterlo tu uno leggero, magari su un'altra macchina, perché il gcc di mulinux non compila tutto. Secondo me l'unica cosa, con così poca memoria, è utilizzarlo per scrivere testi in ascii con vi e simili, oppure imparare *roff, tex o latex e rinunciare quindi alla composizione WYSIWYG. In questo caso mulinux può esserti utile: http://sunsite.dk/mulinux/ il tex addon contiene lyx che genera latex, un formato standard, però non credo che ti giri in modo praticabile con soli 8 MB. Altrimenti, installaci un DOS, come DR-DOS, e mettici qualche vecchio programma di word-processing grafico per DOS, che magari esporta in un formato leggibile anche dai nuovi programmi. Antonio http://king.rett.polimi.it/~ant
Re: [newbie-it] La rotella del mouse...
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:47:48 +0200 Alessandro Rocca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Sebastiano Cordiano [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 9:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] La rotella del mouse... Edita il file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ed assicurati che la sezione InputDevice sia cosi': Scusate l' OT, ma funziona così pure per la RH 7.1? Grazie Stessa cosa, l' ho fatto anche su RH 7.1 e funziona. -- Sebastiano Cordiano
Re: [newbie-it] PROBLEMI ROUTING !!
EHEHEHE !! ho risolto da solo grazie cmq volete sapere ? ho sistemato l'ip masquerade e ora va tutto a meraviglia !!
Re: [newbie-it] Mdk 8 - Perche' non funzioni?
Il giorno 24-07-2001 13:00, Mr_Brain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Se non hai fatto ancora importanti configurazioni, ti consiglierei di re-installare ancora una volta e di scegliere, durante l'installazione, di convertire la partizione da Ext2 a ReiserFs... Cosi` i black-out non ti daranno piu` problemi :)) Scusami per non averti ringraziato subito per l'informazione. Ero troppo preso... ;-))) Grazie di nuovo Ciao Franco
Re: [newbie] Integrated Video chip vs S3 Trio 64
thanks, I thought i810e uses my celeron processor. Right now I am trying to install BeOS, it is really cool, and it doesn't have any partitioning problems, but it doesn't work with my i810e video chip. I was thinking to put this 1 meg S3 card in, but wishing to know if the performance will be degraded too much under windows and linux. Thanks again Eric On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, civileme wrote: On Thursday 26 July 2001 13:12, Lin wrote: I had an i810 shared memory video accelerator(up to 11mb sdram), will it make a difference if instead I put in a 1 MB S3 trio 64 v2 video card to run Linux? I couldn't really find the video accelerator on my Motherboard, I am worrying it is actually using my processor to do all the work... Thanks all Eric It would absolutely assure that you had no video acceleration, and it would be non-trivial to configure. Actually the video accelerator is buried in the Northbridge of the i810 Chipset. The new NVidia Chipset is designed the same way, and no one can fault its projected performance. Civileme
Re: [newbie] Mounting NTFS partition
Kernels compiled by MandrakeSoft have read-only NTFS support built in. If you're satisfied with that, then you don't need to recompile. M$ have kept their NTFS specs secret, so write support in GNU/Linux is a matter of guesswork and clever reverse-engineering. At present, NTFS write support is still highly experimental (there's a good chance it may ruin the data), and it is left out of the default Mandrake kernel for this reason. If you still want to risk it, you should be able to compile in write support in without any external files. All you need is a Mandrake kernel-source package. I highly doubt that you can just add a ntfs.o file and have it work properly, if at all. On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 00:21, Kevin Khaw wrote: Besides recompiling the kernel and adding ntfs support, can I just get ntfs.o, place in in one of the libraries and do and insmod... followed by a mount? if anybody has ntfs.o (I dont have my red hat cd with me) could you please also add it with your next mail. Dont flood the list, you personally email it to me with instructions. Thanks -- 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] Extreme *nix user wantabee
Go in main subfolder: and type: ./configure make make install make clean But first read everyhing (readme , install notes , tutorials , how to's , and so on) On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:48:26 -0400, Chris Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first voyage into non-MS waters. Installed Mandrake 7.1 DL'ed NetAtalk from http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/obtaining.html I want to create a Linux file system for out DTP Macs. I TARed it and it created several subfolders. Now what? How to Install this app? Thanks Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Quicktime
Hi, Does anyone know how to play QuickTime (mov) under Mandrake? Also, is there a plugin available for mozilla? Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver Web Developer The InternetOne UK Ltd
[newbie] @ symbol in latin american keyboard
Hello everyone, I was wondering if any of you has a latin american keyboard layout. I have it, but I haven't found where the @ symbol is. Regards. Hugo
Re: [newbie] Quicktime
Try This http://heroinewarrior.com/quicktime.php3 Robert MacLean IDWS Technical Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.idws.com Tel: (011) 955-5613 ext 14 Fax: (011) 955-5611 NOTE: Please include this message in your reply. - Original Message - From: Jordan Elver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 9:38 PM Subject: [newbie] Quicktime Hi, Does anyone know how to play QuickTime (mov) under Mandrake? Also, is there a plugin available for mozilla? Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver Web Developer The InternetOne UK Ltd
Re: [newbie] ISP
There's a 'good' reason why you can't connect, and JUNO gave you line of BS for two reason. 1) They don't know how their network works since they don't maintain it. 2) It's not in their best interest to tell the world how it works. My day job is working for Worldcom, which handles, literally 80% + of the worlds dial in service. When you dial in you hit Worldcom equipment. Once you've athenticated on our network, with the userID passwd supplied in the software, you're then sent to their network which you then have to athenticate there as well. To authenticate on our network we use PAP. From there, JUNO uses CHAP. (At least last I heard they do.) Now, if somebody were to create a tool to dialup like that, it would be nice, but I'm sure it would be illegal. If it's not, then a lot of people would hunt after them trying to sue! So... what I'd suggest, is break out your phone book. Look up Internet services and then find an ISP there. There are tons of advantages to doing this. 1) Local people who can referr you to local dealers. Local support groups. 2) Friendly support due to lack of volume. You call AOL or EarthLink and you spend a lot of time on hold. They have POPs all over the world, they're busy! 3) Reliable dialup pools for your area. Since AOL and others have sucked up such a huge market, the chance of getting busy signals are very low, and they're caused by TELCO issues, not capacity issues. 4) Price. Some of these places have unlimited accounts for $15-$20. And a direct feed to the Internet. NO proxies, no transparent proxies. Just you, your machine, your modem, and the Internet. 5) Any OS you want! I worked at a such an ISP for a year. We supported Mac OS 7.1+, Win3.x, Win9x, WinNT, *nix. Since most of those ISPs are *nix based, they usually have people that can help with a Linux box. There's a webpage that lists and rates ISPs, but I can't remember the URL. Maybe somebody knows of the link. I know I heard Martin on TechTV's ScreenSavers mention the URL and other ways to help. Check out their site, they may have it there and available. http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/ One other thing I'd suggest. Join a Linux Users Group. (LUG) Almost all of them have mailing lists. Local people who can suggest and swear by their ISP. People in your area to suggeset an ISP in your area. Hope that helps! tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 11:38am up 6 days, 12:05, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 | | | Right now I have Juno as my dial up ISP. I tried connecting to Juno | by typing modem commands like, | | atdt . | | I get connected. When I enter the user/passwd it says there is a | user/passwd mismatch. I asked customer service and they said, | I have to use their dialing software because their dialing software | encryptes my password. | | So they said their software supports Windows only. | | Can anyone suggest me a dial up ISP where there is no kind of | special dialing software I am forced to use for encryption. This would help | me get connected to the internet from Linux. | | Regards, | | Karthigan. | _ | Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp | | --
Re: [newbie] Extreme *nix user wantabee
Basically anton's correct. It makes the Makefile clean. When you run a ./configure and it goes down and checks a lot of things, do you have this, do you have that, do you need this, do I care that you don't have this? Stuff like that. Then in the Makefile it adds a lot of extra stuff. When you run the make, it will then make the install information, but it can make it with a lot of extra stuff. Directories that aren't needed for your configuration, and others. It's a good idea to run make clean, but not needed. Some cases it's not supported. a lot like make depend. But always, and I stress ALWAYS read, at the very least, the INSTALL file. It will tell you if you need or should run the make clean. Hope that helps ya. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 12:18pm up 6 days, 12:45, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 | What does the 'make clean' bit at the end do? i aint never done that | before g |-- Jamie | | -- | From:anton[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent:26 July 2001 16:17 | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [newbie] Extreme *nix user wantabee | | Go in main subfolder: | and type: | | ./configure | make | make install | make clean | | But first read everyhing (readme , install notes , tutorials , how to's , and | so on) | | | | On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:48:26 -0400, Chris Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | My first voyage into non-MS waters. | | Installed Mandrake 7.1 | DL'ed NetAtalk from http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/obtaining.html | I want to create a Linux file system for out DTP Macs. | | I TARed it and it created several subfolders. | | Now what? How to Install this app? | | Thanks | Chris | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | _ | This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet | delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further | information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call | Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. |
[newbie] locked drives
This sounds like a lie, but it really is not. I expressed my sadness about the fact that I filtered some of you intelligent linuxers out of my e-mail. Then, I posted a few questions and have yet to receive a response. I am sure somebody did, but Ifiltered them out. For this reason, I have been trying to de-filter my mail,but I have no control over the mail server because I am part of an educational institution. Their server is not allowing this at this time. So, please, I would really appreciate a response from somebody who did not respond before. My CDRom and my floppy drive keeps getting locked. I manage to unlock them by different maneuverings of fstab or mounting and unmounting, but it gets to be a pain and I would really like to know why this occurs and how I can fix it more easily. I would appreciate any response. Thanks jim Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] Time
Marcelo Maraz wrote: How can I chanche the initial time of the lilo menu? at the momnet the actual time is 5s, but I sharing the M8 with another SO and I need more time to choose the SO. Mandrake Control Centre - Boot - Boot Config - Configure -Frans (I just read Paul's mail after composing this message, well, this is the GUI way :) -Frans
[newbie] test box took 5.75 hours to load mandrake..
Hi all, I just did an install on a test box I have here,, the box details are: CPU: Pentium Pro 200, RAM: 64mb EDO. MB: FX Chipset. Harddisks: 4.3 gig Maxtor, and 1.03 gig Seagate. CDROM: 24speed IDE Sony. Video: S3 Virge 2mb. I did a total install of Mandrake 7.2, and it just finished copying files, it took nearly 6 hours. is that normal?? rgds Frank
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 install hangs after IDE detection
I have remade the boot floppy from the CD and from downloaded files from the linux-mandrake site. The behavior does not change. At 09:34 PM 7/24/01, you wrote: Your machine's getting old, but I have had Mandrake 8.0 working on a similar machine. My guess would be that it is bad media. Quoting Kevin R. Bulgrien [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a system that successfully boots Mandrake 7.2... I want to install 8.0 instead, so I have the boot floppy and a bootable CD. I can boot both types of media. All installation choices fail with a hard system hang immediately after the system detects the IDE devices in the system. No error messages are displayed. Win98 works fine, Mandrake 7.2 works fine. What might be causing this low-level failure in the install process. I do not have cutting edge hardware... AMD K6-166, 96MB RAM, Advansys SCSI controller, SMC ISA 10MB NIC, ISA soundblaster AWE 64, ATI XPert 98 PCI video card. All the messages I have seen regarding installation failures seem to imply that other people get farther than I do... Any ideas? Thanks, Kevin R. Bulgrien CPUTYPE=AMD K6-166 COMPSPEED=166 MHz MEMRAM=96Mb DRIVES=Western Digital 4GB and Fujitsu 2GB PRINTERS=Canon BJC-600; BIOS=Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG12/04/97 DISPLAY=ATI Rage 128 GL SD PCI (English); MULTIMEDIA=Creative AWE64 16-bit Audio (SB16 compatible) CDROM=IDE and SCSI CDWriter on Advansys SCSI card MODEM=Zoom External 56K LT Voice Faxmodem;Zoom External 56K LT Voice Faxmodem; NETCARD=ISA SMC EtherEZ (8416); MONITOR=Super VGA 1280x1024; KEYBOARD=Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboar
[newbie] Dual booting win 2000 with NTFS file system with aurora and lilo
Hi all I've been actually dual booting one of my systems with win 2000 NTFS file system for some time now with MD 8.0 with no problems. All seemed to work flawlessly and was set up on original install no muss no fuss. However at this point I'm also trying on another system to get Red Hat 7.1 going. This box also has win 2000 on it with NTFS file system. So far I've not figured out how to get the RedHat booted with out using the boot up disk I made. The way the Red Hat is installed is similiar to the mandrake with the Root filesystem being on hdb5hdb1 is win NTFS as well as hda is all NTFS. Is the lilo used in mandrake totally different or is it the Aurora giving me the dual boot screen at start up. I get a dark bluish screen(I'm somewhat color blind so don't quote me on this could be purple too) offering me NT, Linux, Floppy. I can edit the properties of this screen in the GUI config offered in Mandrake as well. The Mandrake distro claims that this particular version of Aurora is made especially for them in RPM information but that downloads for other distros are available as well on their site. Any idea where that site would be. In searchs thus far no luck. www.aurora.com seems to be a company of some sort not related to the aurora I speak of here. Even if I find this site is it likely it will solve my problem? I realize this is a bit off topic being it is redhat oriented, but this list seems more informative then the redhat install list. Ya gotta give Mandrake a high 5 on this issue since they seem to have left redhat in the dust on dual booting. Any suggestions here other then just run mandrake would be greatly appreciated... :-) Thanks Tazmun
RE: [newbie] test box took 5.75 hours to load mandrake..
Those same CD's have loaded very quickly on other box's,, so I am left assuming its probably the cdrom that made it so slow.. oh well.. its loaded and running now anyways.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of mooseman Sent: Friday, 27 July 2001 3:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] test box took 5.75 hours to load mandrake.. X-RebelTech Is Here: www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit where did your cd come from? was it downloaded and then burnt from a winblows box? in the past i have had things like that happen when i got a cd that was written using packet writing (ie: direct cd). a lot of older cdroms don't like packet technology and will either barf right away or slug away at it and read the disc _really slow_ just a thought anyways. On Thursday 26 July 2001 16:29, you wrote: It was Fri, 27 Jul 2001 01:12:27 +0800 when Franki wrote: Hi Frank. That amount of time is definitely NOT normal. On my old P/II-400 (128Mb) it took about 45 minutes. On a 200mhz it will take some longer but never 6 hours. Perhaps someone else can shed light on the problem though. Paul I just did an install on a test box I have here,, the box details are: CPU: Pentium Pro 200, RAM: 64mb EDO. MB: FX Chipset. Harddisks: 4.3 gig Maxtor, and 1.03 gig Seagate. CDROM: 24speed IDE Sony. Video: S3 Virge 2mb. I did a total install of Mandrake 7.2, and it just finished copying files, it took nearly 6 hours. is that normal?? -- The universe is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering. -Chinese proverb http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
[newbie] two usb devices: conflict?
Hi all, I experienced a little inconvenience yesterday, when I noticed my scanner was no longer recognized since adding a usb joystick last week. Well, it turns out that this particular joystick will function hooked up the gameport when my other wouldn't (but what if it didn't?). So I talked the scanner into coming back (wasn't easy). But the problem isn't fixed, just worked around. What I'm wondering is it possible to have two usb devices function at the same time? Surely. If so, just curious, what do you suppose was the problem with the joystick and the scanner? Makes one think some kind of conflict, but rooting around in the /proc/bus/usb directory is a humbling experience. :-) Thanks in advance as always, -s
[newbie] Strange X problem I have never had before. (damn thing crashed again.)
Hi guys, just wondering if anyone can give me any ideas on this: The system: 200 Ppro 64mb ram. S3Virge 2MB ReiserFS The Problem: System boots in vga=788 mode with Aurora perfectly. when starting x, (after using drakconf and trying progressively lower res and color) the system locks up tight.. monitor starts flashing no sync signal and CTRL-ALT-DEL, or CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE or anything else works either.. altough the number lock and caps key lights are still working, so it doesn't look like a total lockup.. can't switch to another terminal either.. Latest problem, after another crash, this time haing tried 640x480 bit,,, the system is reporting this no boot (unsucessful boot I might add. INIT: version 2.78 booting INIT: /etc/inittab[6]: id field too long (max 4 characters) INIT: /etc/inittab[7]: id missing action field a heap of other stuff like that,,, then : Enter runlevel: no mater what I select, it tells me INIT: no more processes left on this runlevel anyone know how to fix that? I have just reinstalled this thing 3 times, don't want to make it 4 if it can be avoided.. The daft thing was, I had KDE running perfectly, had upgraded the kernel to 2.2.19 and did all my usual config stuff.. Then I tried to load aurora, got that working, then X disappeared, and now it appears that I have had a data coruption as well. This is not going well at all... any help, suggestions, general cursing,, anything at all is most welcome.. regards Frank
[newbie] login problem
running mandrake 8.0 on occasions following what is currently an undectable pattern, I get to the login window where i would enter root or my user name and password, enter the uid and password correctly, the system thinks for awhile and bounces me back to the same login window. I have to reboot under those circumstances, sometimes several times, sometimes powering off entirely and waiting for bios to clear, before the system accepts my uid and password. I'm careful to comfirm that I have entered the password correctly, and caps lock is off. The password is simple enough that mistyping multiple times is not a likely explanation. I've never had a situation where one (root or user) accepts but the other doesn't. login is set to start kde. I do not get to the kde loading panel before the bounce occurs. ideas? -- Gentlemen, it's in beta. That means it's like Windows. They're letting you test it while they continue to screw it up until it's totally useless. (Bigg Fredd in RCC talking about Google's temporary interface to the deja archives)
Re: [newbie] newbie and hardware questions
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:53, Robert MacLean wrote: Good Morning Bunnies ;) My next one is also hardware. I have a Genius Netscroll Optical mouse. But for some reason I can't select it, when I tried it during install it stuffed the mouse up. So I choose std mouse. Any way to fix this? I miss my mouse wheel :( Run mousedrake as root. 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 I'm using LM 7 and I notice it only has Genius Netscroll on PS2. I have a serial Netscroll mouse - any ideas how I can set it up? -- Thanks George Baker South Africa
[newbie]Virus and telnet commands
Hi - I read the mails about the new Windoze virus that sends a huge attachment and tonight while downloading my wife's e-mail (on a win box) I noticed that it was huge. Cancelled the download and telnet into the pop server. After list I suddenly realised I could not remember the command to view the mail (thought it was top). What is the command? Anyway the 2 mails were both 49+megs, so I deleted them. -- Thanks George Baker South Africa
[newbie]User privilages
I have a son who has discovered that Linux has games. How can I set him up as a user that only has access to the games. I tried removing all desktop icons and edited the K menu, but I could not get rid of the KDE menu items. Been searching through manuals, info, and docs with no real success. -- Thanks George Baker South Africa
[newbie] Sound card drivers
Hello, Hopefully this is the right place to ask. I'm trying to install drivers for my Aureal sound card. I downloaded the drivers from a site, but I don't know how to unarchive it. The file name is au88xx-1.0.5.tar.gz. I've been given examples of how to unzip it, but so far nothing has worked. Any help would be appreciated. The file is now on a floppy disk. I downloaded the file to win98 and then I copied it to a floppy. Now when I boot into Mandrake 8.0, I tried to unzip and couldn't. Would it be better if I moved it to the Mandrake partition and then unzip it, or is okay to try and unzip it on the floppy. If it's better to copy it, then will someone explain to me how to do that. I am very new at Linux, so the simplest explanation would be appreciated. Thanks to anyone who replies. Guy Gauthier GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
RE: [newbie] test box took 5.75 hours to load mandrake..
Thanks civilme, both hard drives are on the same channel. according to the bios, both drives are pio mode 4. I think its the CDROM, I just booted to rescue using it, and it took ages to do that as well... bloody OEM sony :-) PS, how do I mount a reiserfs harddrive from a rescue load? (I just booted from the CD and typed rescue, and now I don't know how to mount my hard disk, it keeps asking for a valid FS type. ) didn't want to try ext2 in case it corrupted things even more.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 27 July 2001 6:45 AM To: Franki; NEWBIE Mandrake List Subject: Re: [newbie] test box took 5.75 hours to load mandrake.. On Thursday 26 July 2001 17:12, Franki wrote: Hi all, I just did an install on a test box I have here,, the box details are: CPU: Pentium Pro 200, RAM: 64mb EDO. MB: FX Chipset. Harddisks: 4.3 gig Maxtor, and 1.03 gig Seagate. CDROM:24speed IDE Sony. Video:S3 Virge 2mb. I did a total install of Mandrake 7.2, and it just finished copying files, it took nearly 6 hours. is that normal?? rgds Frank That's a tad on the long side. If the maxtor and the Seagate are on the same channel and the Seagate is PIO3 or PIO2, that would explain a lot. PPro of course were way way before DMA and almost all thier chipsets run in PIO mode. PIO4 can do about 3-4 Mb/s on a good day, and if the Seagate was on the same channel as the Maxtor, more likely your best read speed was about 1.8 or 1.9 Mb/s Write is necessarily somewhat slower And you are talking about nearly 3G of software installed in a full version. Civileme
Re: [newbie] two usb devices: conflict?
On Thursday 26 July 2001 16:18, you wrote: What I'm wondering is it possible to have two usb devices function at the same time? Surely. If so, just curious, what do you suppose was the problem with the joystick and the scanner? Makes one think some kind of conflict, but rooting around in the /proc/bus/usb directory is a humbling experience. It is possible to have multiple USB devices active at the same time. I have played my USB radio, while synching my USB Visor and accessing my USB Zip drive all at the same time. Is it possible that there is some conflict between the specific devices that you are trying to use at the same time? -- Alex Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
Re: [newbie] Vacation Notice
I'm sure you'll be missed here Civileme by myself and others. Your contributions to help us learn are always very good. - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 5:23 PM Subject: [newbie] Vacation Notice I will be absent from posts to this list for the next two months. It is time from a vacation from my favorite hobby to turn my attention fully to my work tasks. LSB compliance testing, software testing, preparation of updates, and coordination of the crashtesters will replace helping people getting things running. I really enjoy this list, but I'm gone. Catch you in October. Civileme
Re: [newbie] THat stuck message from Kmail - again.
Hi Paul, No wonder I had no idea what you meant!!! :-) The only word that stuck out was cron and that from a warning to be very careful how you used it. some time ago I admit! Actually, I am involved in a project with the concept of making Mandrake accessible to the other 99% of the population. This means at least obtaining similar ease of access as Doze - vis: via a GUI. Linux *IS* fantastic -especially in workaround capabilty, but the black screen is no place for the person with no interest in pulling the engine apart only driving the thing from A to B. This is a bad fault in KDE, not like the lack of auto-adding respondent addresses, which is merely annoying, but along with the messy problems of getting the KDE Help Search Engine to work - probably THE most vital component of the whole suite - is going to lose a lot of people. So, again thanks for your help - I am posting a bit more of this info shortly on List as subject: Don't RTFM! On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 20:44, you manipulated electrons to produce: Leave interval checking off in kmail, then set up fetchmail as a cron job. When you need your mail fix, just retrieve it from local. Good luck! Paul -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
RE: [newbie] test box took 5.75 hours to load mandrake..
yep, just changed the cdrom for an 8 speed matsuhita and it seems to be a good bit faster... I am hoping that my previous data curruption can be fixed by doing an upgrade for a couple of packages.. see if that helps,, I got a copy of inittab from another computer running the same version of linux, and put it in the corrupted box, and it half worked,,, but not enough to get it up again, just changed the message to some others... fingers crossed.. I have had more trouble on this box then with any of my other installs (probably around 60 now) I thought linux was supposed to be good on older hardware :-) rgds Frank
Re: [newbie] test box took 5.75 hours to load mandrake..
I wonder which ide channels are the hard drives and the cdrom on. sure is a long time though. On Thursday 26 July 2001 15:42, mooseman wrote: X-RebelTech Is Here: www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit where did your cd come from? was it downloaded and then burnt from a winblows box? in the past i have had things like that happen when i got a cd that was written using packet writing (ie: direct cd). a lot of older cdroms don't like packet technology and will either barf right away or slug away at it and read the disc _really slow_ just a thought anyways. On Thursday 26 July 2001 16:29, you wrote: It was Fri, 27 Jul 2001 01:12:27 +0800 when Franki wrote: Hi Frank. That amount of time is definitely NOT normal. On my old P/II-400 (128Mb) it took about 45 minutes. On a 200mhz it will take some longer but never 6 hours. Perhaps someone else can shed light on the problem though. Paul I just did an install on a test box I have here,, the box details are: CPU: Pentium Pro 200, RAM: 64mb EDO. MB: FX Chipset. Harddisks: 4.3 gig Maxtor, and 1.03 gig Seagate. CDROM: 24speed IDE Sony. Video: S3 Virge 2mb. I did a total install of Mandrake 7.2, and it just finished copying files, it took nearly 6 hours. is that normal?? -- The universe is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering. -Chinese proverb http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] @ symbol in latin american keyboard
El Jue 26 Jul 2001 12:20, escribiste: Hello everyone, I was wondering if any of you has a latin american keyboard layout. I have it, but I haven't found where the @ symbol is. Regards. Hugo Hola, Hugo. Probá AltGr + q o si no AtlGr + 2 Suerte Carlos
[newbie] Time to Quit the Install?
Hi folks, Well, I purchased the official M8 Powerbox ( to avoid any problems with install) - in Oz it costs twice the price of USA - $140 After two weeks of at least half a day every day - asking for and getting great support here, it seems time to call a halt . The distro install is definitely deteorating - like my adrenalin reserves :-) I didn't have this many problems doing my first ever Concurrent-Dos Network twenty years ago, when my only expert quit suddenly and left me with the job. Side Note: I am an industrial psychologist. I NEVER tuned my own car :-). Possible causes: 1. Either it is my machine. 2. It is the Disks/Distro itself faulty. 3. My efforts at getting progs to work have broken it. 1. The machine EVEN runs W98SE with the only fault being the famous memory leak under heavy use. I can keep it going all day! 2. It seemed ok. Even though by accident of accepting all the defaults I could see, resulted in my installing a full Server version. It was very fast to get up and connect to the inet. 3. Till 48 hours ago, the problems seemed typical Newby. Where's the bathroom? Now, how do I flush? Then the neg reports/events began: As of this A.M.: 1. On startup many problems are reported - particularly relating to Disk Partitions. e.g. blocks 64 should be 8 -fixed(see 3) 2. On Logout, sometimes it offers a login alternative screen, sometimes it simply boots back into the default user - and continues the problem. 3. On Shutdown it reports numerous and seemingly increasing problems - particularly with both CDs and devices. 4. PPP dies unexpectedly regularly. 5. Kmail will suddenly whiteout and only a logout will help. This costs the loss of the display details of the KPPP. It is still connected, but no display of the fact is available. 6. Intense Disk activity (thrashing in the Doze world) has caused lockup 3 times in 2 days. Always involving Kmail. (VERY frustrating to duplicate 100+ emails downloaded! ) Resolved by hitting cancel button on display saying ( each reboot) indexing. ( On startup not relog, a display of Gnome is searching for Trash bins also appears and has to be cancelled. It does not go away.) 7. A Gnome Desktop has appeared on Dtop 4 and is un-cancellable 8. Hitting the Kill option has no effect on the locked-up programs. In the now severe cases. the final event is reminescent of the B.S.O.D. of Doze. Only recourse is a reboot. If it was a horse, I would put it down - it seems in great pain. :-) NOW: If I decide to start again, does this seem like: 1. Simple install interference? 2. Something broke? ( I have under advice hit the update button) 3. Only foreign body introduced was IBM's Websphere which brings Wine with it.. All others were part of the Distro. How would you suggest I re-install? 1. Uninstall 2. Delete entire partition. 3. Send away for new disks. ( Another week lost) Thanks again for all the fish folks, I promise that I'm trying to do my bit to come up with THAT Newby FAQ/Gotcha list. But I didn't expect to be the MAIN contributor :-) -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
Re: [newbie] login problem
what happens if you hit ctrl+alt+f4 (or any other f-key up to f6) and log in? On Thursday 26 July 2001 16:30, root wrote: running mandrake 8.0 on occasions following what is currently an undectable pattern, I get to the login window where i would enter root or my user name and password, enter the uid and password correctly, the system thinks for awhile and bounces me back to the same login window. I have to reboot under those circumstances, sometimes several times, sometimes powering off entirely and waiting for bios to clear, before the system accepts my uid and password. I'm careful to comfirm that I have entered the password correctly, and caps lock is off. The password is simple enough that mistyping multiple times is not a likely explanation. I've never had a situation where one (root or user) accepts but the other doesn't. login is set to start kde. I do not get to the kde loading panel before the bounce occurs. ideas? -- Gentlemen, it's in beta. That means it's like Windows. They're letting you test it while they continue to screw it up until it's totally useless. (Bigg Fredd in RCC talking about Google's temporary interface to the deja archives)
Re: [newbie] Newbies top ten commands tutorial
steve wrote: Suffer from termiphobia? Think that all this typing is a pain? Can't tell a cat from a tar? Couldn't compile your way out of a wet paper bag? Sick of man's and How-To's that assmume you already have a beard? Please allow me to present my Newbies guide to the ten commands no hacker[1] should be without http://www.cmm.uklinux.net/steve/ntt.html Comments, suggestions and ( ahem) corrections cheerfully received fleames/dev/null post em here or mail me direct with anything. [1] that is hacker as in quick and clever penguin abuser as opposed to M$ HacKEr script kiddie. Steve, Looks good. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey
Re: [newbie] Sound card drivers
Have you run sndconfig in a text console? if you have any questions about how to do this let me know. also what is the error message you get when you try to unzip it and what command are you using? also to untar a *.tar.gz file I believe the command is (with out the quotes of course) tar xzf /path/to/file/to/open where path/to/file/to/open is changed to the correct path to the file on your computer. to copy a file the command is cp filename /place/to/put file On Thursday 26 July 2001 16:47, Guy R Gauthier wrote: Hello, Hopefully this is the right place to ask. I'm trying to install drivers for my Aureal sound card. I downloaded the drivers from a site, but I don't know how to unarchive it. The file name is au88xx-1.0.5.tar.gz. I've been given examples of how to unzip it, but so far nothing has worked. Any help would be appreciated. The file is now on a floppy disk. I downloaded the file to win98 and then I copied it to a floppy. Now when I boot into Mandrake 8.0, I tried to unzip and couldn't. Would it be better if I moved it to the Mandrake partition and then unzip it, or is okay to try and unzip it on the floppy. If it's better to copy it, then will someone explain to me how to do that. I am very new at Linux, so the simplest explanation would be appreciated. Thanks to anyone who replies. Guy Gauthier GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
Re: [newbie] Sound card drivers
You don't have to copy it over. In a terminal, cd /to/where/you/want/it/unzipped enterthen tar -zxvf /mnt/floppy/au88xx-1.0.5.tar.gz enter Then cd au88xx-1.0.5 enter then cat INSTALL enter and cat README enter (use: ls to give you list of files). That will probably tell you to use the commands: ./configure, make, su, root password, make install Then you will probably/maybe have to put something in your /etc/modules.conf file, but the INSTALL should tell you. -s BTW, if you want to copy something, use cp. ex.: cp /mnt/floppy/au88xx-1.0.5.tar.gz /home/you/whatever/ If you want to copy a directory, use -r, ex.: cp -r /home/you/ /mnt/win_c/windows/Desktop/ On Thursday 26 July 2001 03:47 pm, you wrote: Hello, The file is now on a floppy disk. I downloaded the file to win98 and then I copied it to a floppy. Now when I boot into Mandrake 8.0, I tried to unzip and couldn't. Would it be better if I moved it to the Mandrake partition and then unzip it, or is okay to try and unzip it on the floppy. If it's better to copy it, then will someone explain to me how to do that. I am very new at Linux, so the simplest explanation would be appreciated. Thanks to anyone who replies. Guy Gauthier
Re: [newbie] AMR modems
Well, is there anything that slot is good for on Linux? ~Lance
Re: [newbie] Vacation Notice
Thank you, we will miss your assistance and wisdom. I am sure the rest of the folks around here will try help, but I ma sure we will not be able to fill the void you will leave here. hurry back (and don't take my next post seriously,) On Thursday 26 July 2001 18:23, civileme wrote: I will be absent from posts to this list for the next two months. It is time from a vacation from my favorite hobby to turn my attention fully to my work tasks. LSB compliance testing, software testing, preparation of updates, and coordination of the crashtesters will replace helping people getting things running. I really enjoy this list, but I'm gone. Catch you in October. Civileme
[newbie] ETH0/ETH1 changed in Mandrake 8.0
I have a strange problem! First my eth0 card was a 3com and my eth1 card a ne2k-pci after a uptime from 6 day's i found problems with my intern network, its was verry slow. The problem was my cards a changed, now is my 3com eth1 and ne2k-pci eth0 I have NO reboot my system, the config is changed in uptime. How is that posible?? I can't fix my old config. Herbert
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 install hangs after IDE detection
The install locks up the system only on the Western Digital WDC AC24300 drive. Various utilities report that there are no errors on that drive, though the Disk Minder utility whines about the boot loader not being present even though Grub works just fine. If I temporarily take the WD drive out and switch the Fujitsu to be the master drive, the install will not lock the system up, but, that is not the drive I want to install on... The onscreen message log is: --- block: queued sectors max/low 62581kB/20860kB, 192 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes : override with idebus=xx SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09 PCI: Assigned IRQ 14 for device 00:01.1 SIS5513: chipset revision 208 SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later SiS5597 ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio hda: WDC AC24300B, ATA DISK drive hdb: FUJITSU M1638TAU, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 --- At this point the system is locked up and only a power cycle will reset the system.
RE: [newbie] Vacation Notice
Civileme: The committee has reviewed your request for vacation, and are sad to inform you that it has been denied. Should you choose to ignore the committee's decision, you will be compelled to use a Microsoft OS in a pentablet to continue answering our intelligent questions during any time of leisure taken. Cordially, The Committee -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 5:14 PM To: civileme Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Vacation Notice Civileme: Hmmm... Does this mean that I've got to finally learn to RTFM? We'll survive, knowing that your hiatus has a lot to do with making 8.1 a blockbuster. Any chance that you'll get some REAL vacation time? You've earned it. Regards, Carroll civileme wrote: I will be absent from posts to this list for the next two months. It is time from a vacation from my favorite hobby to turn my attention fully to my work tasks. LSB compliance testing, software testing, preparation of updates, and coordination of the crashtesters will replace helping people getting things running. I really enjoy this list, but I'm gone. Catch you in October. Civileme _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] OT; the truth about Civilme's vacation
we all know the real reason Civilme is going on vacation, he has offered the chance to check into a Paris, France based branch of the Betty Ford clinic, while MOST people go there to learn how to enjoy life with out drugs or Alcohol, Our Friend, is going to take intensive training in how to relax. IF he gradutates, this will be followed up with a few days out of reach.. http://www.tenerife-direct.com Just a bit off the planet, much less off topic
Re: [newbie] ATTENTION all newbies!
Sridhar: Thank you very much for this link. I've forwarded it to several people who are in the thinking about Linux stage. The writer has done an excellent job of balancing all of the FUD about how hard it is to install Linux (it really isn't) with the message that Linux ain't exactly load-it-and-run-it (not to say that Windows actually falls in that category). About the only shortcoming that I could see was that he failed to mention that the installation includes a wealth of applications far beyond anything that you'll get from Microsoft. Thanks also for getting me to the IBM site. I'd never been there before, and I was very impressed with the amount and quality of information that is available. Regards, Carroll Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: IBM have just released a great FAQ titled Transitioning from Windows to Linux. I had a look at it and it appears quite Newbie-friendly: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-faq/?openl=252,t=grl,p=LinuxFAQ -- 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] segmentation fault at shut down
Root: Go to www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/troubles/tquick1.html and check out the last item on that page about GPF's after shutdown. You've got to edit your /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt file and change the -i -d -p option to -i -d. IIRC, Paul Pagan has this fix on his site as well, but I've lost the address. I had this problem with 7.1, 7.2 and 8.0 on some installations, but not this box -- perhaps because it has a newer BIOS. The actual code is different across the LM versions, but you shouldn't have any problem. By the way, I'll give an authentic attaboy to anyone who can tell me what the different options mean. Regards, Carroll root wrote: when shutting down, not rebooting, I am getting an odd segmentation fault. I don't get it on warm reboot since the problem occurs after the path diverges for reboot vs shut down. I have to power off to get out of it. message sequence in log is: halting system stopping all md devices power down general protection fault: f000 CPU:0 EIP:0050:[872b] EFLAGS:00010047 bunch of registers elided here Process Halt (PID:1319 Stackpage: c5add000) stack dump elided here CALL TRACE CODE: BAD EIP VALUE /etc/rc0.d/s01halt: line 1: 1319 segmentation fault halt -i -d -p tia -- Gentlemen, it's in beta. That means it's like Windows. They're letting you test it while they continue to screw it up until it's totally useless. (Bigg Fredd in RCC talking about Google's temporary interface to the deja archives)
[newbie] Windows 98 + LM 8.0 Networking Questions
Heres what I want to do: I have Linux on PC A and windows/Linux dual boot on PC B I want PC B to be able to access shared files on PC A no matter what OS PC B is in. I want PC A to be a web server, in which PC B could access through some way(probobly the IP num) PC A's web box. I made a program specifically for my business in CGI, I want PC A to run it while PC B could access it when PC A changes. Simular to the way the way in Internet works, just on my own private network. I tried a few things and I had no luck. Could someone point me to where some info could be? Thanks for everyones help in advance ~Lance
Re: [newbie] Lin4Win
I am always getting confused on this issue. In short: Lin4Win - http://www.netraverse.com/ Lnx4Win - Tool to install Linux-Mandrake on a Windos partition So I was right this time :-) SO close! But the NeTraverse product is Win4Lin, not Lin4Win. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure.
Re: [newbie] Windows 98 + LM 8.0 Networking Questions
have you tried SAMBA? it will allow you to access files on the linux box from winders. and NFS? or do you want apache running to serve web pages over the IP number to the dual boot via HTTP? On Thursday 26 July 2001 20:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heres what I want to do: I have Linux on PC A and windows/Linux dual boot on PC B I want PC B to be able to access shared files on PC A no matter what OS PC B is in. I want PC A to be a web server, in which PC B could access through some way(probobly the IP num) PC A's web box. I made a program specifically for my business in CGI, I want PC A to run it while PC B could access it when PC A changes. Simular to the way the way in Internet works, just on my own private network. I tried a few things and I had no luck. Could someone point me to where some info could be? Thanks for everyones help in advance ~Lance
Re: [newbie] USB modem
Alexander: Maybe. Some (where some could be any number from 0 to 100%) are winmodems. If yours is one of those, it may be difficult or impossible. It also depends on what Linux distribution and version that you have installed. Here are some places to look: www.qbik.ch/usb/devices -- follow the comm link www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html www.linux-usb.org You could also try reposting, but include the manufacturer and model number of your modem as well as the exact Linux that you are running. It's quite possible that someone else on this list can be more helpful. Regards, Carroll Alexander A. Aksyutik wrote: Hello All, I have USB modem. How I can use it with Linux? -- Best regards, Alexander mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Time to Quit the Install?
no problem, I really hope he gets it running as well as it should. I, on the other hand need to remember spellcheck. On Thursday 26 July 2001 21:37, you had thoughts to the concept of: Ed, Don't let him get under you skin. Roman On Thursday 26 July 2001 08:32 pm, you wrote: well, this looks like my opretunity to see if I am filtered. I believe you must have some services running that you should not or at least do not need. you are not running a server as much as a desktop at this time? what happens when you log into a different console (ie; ctrl+alt+f4 or any f1to6) as root and type top with out the quotes? if you ain't even gonna read it why should i type it? On Thursday 26 July 2001 18:26, you had thoughts to the concept of: Hi folks, Well, I purchased the official M8 Powerbox ( to avoid any problems with install) - in Oz it costs twice the price of USA - $140 After two weeks of at least half a day every day - asking for and getting great support here, it seems time to call a halt . The distro install is definitely deteorating - like my adrenalin reserves :-) detereroating? deteorating? ahhh, getting worse? I didn't have this many problems doing my first ever Concurrent-Dos Network twenty years ago, when my only expert quit suddenly and left me with the job. Side Note: I am an industrial psychologist. I NEVER tuned my own car :-). Possible causes: 1. Either it is my machine. 2. It is the Disks/Distro itself faulty. 3. My efforts at getting progs to work have broken it. 1. The machine EVEN runs W98SE with the only fault being the famous memory leak under heavy use. I can keep it going all day! 2. It seemed ok. Even though by accident of accepting all the defaults I could see, resulted in my installing a full Server version. It was very fast to get up and connect to the inet. 3. Till 48 hours ago, the problems seemed typical Newby. Where's the bathroom? Now, how do I flush? Then the neg reports/events began: As of this A.M.: 1. On startup many problems are reported - particularly relating to Disk Partitions. e.g. blocks 64 should be 8 -fixed(see 3) 2. On Logout, sometimes it offers a login alternative screen, sometimes it simply boots back into the default user - and continues the problem. 3. On Shutdown it reports numerous and seemingly increasing problems - particularly with both CDs and devices. 4. PPP dies unexpectedly regularly. 5. Kmail will suddenly whiteout and only a logout will help. This costs the loss of the display details of the KPPP. It is still connected, but no display of the fact is available. 6. Intense Disk activity (thrashing in the Doze world) has caused lockup 3 times in 2 days. Always involving Kmail. (VERY frustrating to duplicate 100+ emails downloaded! ) Resolved by hitting cancel button on display saying ( each reboot) indexing. ( On startup not relog, a display of Gnome is searching for Trash bins also appears and has to be cancelled. It does not go away.) 7. A Gnome Desktop has appeared on Dtop 4 and is un-cancellable 8. Hitting the Kill option has no effect on the locked-up programs. In the now severe cases. the final event is reminescent of the B.S.O.D. of Doze. Only recourse is a reboot. If it was a horse, I would put it down - it seems in great pain. :-) NOW: If I decide to start again, does this seem like: 1. Simple install interference? 2. Something broke? ( I have under advice hit the update button) 3. Only foreign body introduced was IBM's Websphere which brings Wine with it.. All others were part of the Distro. How would you suggest I re-install? 1. Uninstall 2. Delete entire partition. 3. Send away for new disks. ( Another week lost) Thanks again for all the fish folks, I promise that I'm trying to do my bit to come up with THAT Newby FAQ/Gotcha list. But I didn't expect to be the MAIN contributor :-)
Re: [newbie] Newbie network question
On Thursday 26 July 2001 11:16 pm, you wrote: Dear Jon, What they have done, is they have added dns entries for the IP's that they are serving out via dhcp. If you do an nslookup, it should resolve to a number similar to the one you had originally. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Thanks for the answer, thought maybe somthing was wrong
Re: [newbie] Time
Hi everyone I have installed timed daemon on my all linux machine for time synchronization. On one server machine timed daemon is running in master mode with following command. /usr/sbin/timed -M -F client1 client2 On all client machines the timed is running as slave mode with following command. /usr/sbin/timed Everything works smoothly if the server is up and then clients get booted. After power failure or some other problem if server is down or in case all clients get booted and server is not up then as server starts booting, the clocks of all clients goes reset upto a random value it may be 30-40 years past or in future. How can I come up with this strange behaviour of timed. -- Hitesh Kr. Gulati Engineer - SC [software] Institute For Plasma Research Near Indira Bridge Bhat, Gandhinagar(Gujarat) Ph.(079)3269001-15(O) Extn 226/315
Re: [newbie] login problem
On Thursday 26 July 2001 16:34, etharp wrote: what happens if you hit ctrl+alt+f4 (or any other f-key up to f6) and log in? nothing. no reaction at all On Thursday 26 July 2001 16:30, root wrote: running mandrake 8.0 on occasions following what is currently an undectable pattern, I get to the login window where i would enter root or my user name and password, enter the uid and password correctly, the system thinks for awhile and bounces me back to the same login window. I have to reboot under those circumstances, sometimes several times, sometimes powering off entirely and waiting for bios to clear, before the system accepts my uid and password. I'm careful to comfirm that I have entered the password correctly, and caps lock is off. The password is simple enough that mistyping multiple times is not a likely explanation. I've never had a situation where one (root or user) accepts but the other doesn't. login is set to start kde. I do not get to the kde loading panel before the bounce occurs. ideas? -- Gentlemen, it's in beta. That means it's like Windows. They're letting you test it while they continue to screw it up until it's totally useless. (Bigg Fredd in RCC talking about Google's temporary interface to the deja archives) -- -- Gentlemen, it's in beta. That means it's like Windows. They're letting you test it while they continue to screw it up until it's totally useless. (Bigg Fredd in RCC talking about Google's temporary interface to the deja archives)
Re: [newbie] cannot re-edit XF86Config-4
I concur with this conclusion. Most likely your /var/log/messages file (or one of the log files) is full. Boot up into console and delete whatever is in the message files and see if that doesn't allow you to get to X. If it does, the next step to fixing it is edit /etc/logrotate.conf and change any references to monthly to weekly (no quotes) and anything that is weekly to daily. And change the 4 to a 1 -- there isn't any reason to keep all those logs if you don't run a server. That may have prevented the boot to X in the first place (hopefully). That should stop the silliness permanently. eryl On Thursday 26 July 2001 01:52, Frans Ketelaars wrote: Scott Wagner wrote: I had a problem with the X font server (Mandrake 8.0)starting so I took someone's advice (not on this list) to change the port for xfs from unix/:-1 to port 7100. I changed this in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and in /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs. It didn't work. I opened the files from the command line with vim and tried to put them back the way they were but I cannot write changes to the file. I get error messages like write error in swap file and write error (system full?) Maybe a partition is full? IIRC that can prevent xfs from starting up. Check with df. Frans
[newbie] Help, odd IRQ/SCSI problem.
Okay, I just upgraded my computer to the following: Soyo mb (not raid, not KT133 via chipset) Onboard sound 850mhz AMD Duron, 256 megs of DDR RAM generic 56x IDE CD-ROM WinTV tuner card Telsys network card Geforce2 GT 32meg video card. (agp) Adaptec 2930 SCSI card for Plextor CDRW. I had the WinTV tuner card, Adaptec SCSI/Plextor setup in my previous Linux box, and they worked fine there (exception: install bug for SCSI in boot kernel adds wait-states, and causes a very long install) Anyways, I installed v8.0 from the generic 56x CD, and there was a very long pause after the message about installing the SCSI module. Finally, it went on. Rest of the install went smoothly, until I got to the desktop itself (I'm using KDE). First, of all, it takes it about 5 mins to get past the welcome (many lang.) screen. There was no icon for the burner, nor was there a scsi entry in /etc/fstab. I tried to add my own, but it said there was an i/o error regarding that device. In KDE's system control, it finds the 2930 card, on IRQ 11, but it has a conflict with the onboard sound, as well as the TV tuner card. I disabled USB in bios, to free up as many IRQs as I could, I moved the SCSI card into each slot on the MB (excepting the first slot next to the AGP slot, since everyone says thats a shared slot and can cause conflicts. I finally pulled the network card, as well as the TV tuner card. So...with nothing but the SCSI card, and the video card, I still get IRQ conflicts. I did a cat /proc/interrupts, and everything was clear except for the SSI adaptor, and the TV-Tuncer card and onboard sound still conflicting. (all on same line). I finally gave up and pulled the Adaptec card as well. Booting up, the 5 min delay is gone from the welcome screen. Anyone have any ideas how to get Mandrake 8.0 to recognize my Adaptec/Plextor combo? Thanks much! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Lin4Win
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:52, Michael Leone wrote: I am always getting confused on this issue. In short: Lin4Win - http://www.netraverse.com/ Lnx4Win - Tool to install Linux-Mandrake on a Windos partition So I was right this time :-) SO close! But the NeTraverse product is Win4Lin, not Lin4Win. I know. I posted an updated notice about five seconds after I sent this bad one :-) -- 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]User privilages
Is it possible to remove the K Menu entirely? I don't use KDE, so I'm not sure. I know that the menu (in fact, everything) can be removed from GNOME's Panels. You could also delete everything in the menu (except the games) with menudrake. Do this when logged-in in your son's account. If you do it as root you will mess up _all_ users. On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 05:18, George Baker wrote: I have a son who has discovered that Linux has games. How can I set him up as a user that only has access to the games. I tried removing all desktop icons and edited the K menu, but I could not get rid of the KDE menu items. Been searching through manuals, info, and docs with no real success. -- Thanks George Baker South Africa -- 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] Time to Quit the Install?
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 08:26, John Rigby wrote: Hi folks, Well, I purchased the official M8 Powerbox ( to avoid any problems with install) - in Oz it costs twice the price of USA - $140 After two weeks of at least half a day every day - asking for and getting great support here, it seems time to call a halt . Actually, the price is about the same when you take into account the exchange rate (about $US1 = $A2 at present). The distro install is definitely deteorating - like my adrenalin reserves :-) I didn't have this many problems doing my first ever Concurrent-Dos Network twenty years ago, when my only expert quit suddenly and left me with the job. Side Note: I am an industrial psychologist. I NEVER tuned my own car :-). Possible causes: 1. Either it is my machine. 2. It is the Disks/Distro itself faulty. 3. My efforts at getting progs to work have broken it. 1. The machine EVEN runs W98SE with the only fault being the famous memory leak under heavy use. I can keep it going all day! Wow, that's amazing! I used to reboot several times a day! With GNU/Linux, I only reboot (and not out of necessity) once or twice a week (I keep my machine on all the time). 2. It seemed ok. Even though by accident of accepting all the defaults I could see, resulted in my installing a full Server version. It was very fast to get up and connect to the inet. 3. Till 48 hours ago, the problems seemed typical Newby. Where's the bathroom? Now, how do I flush? Then the neg reports/events began: As of this A.M.: 1. On startup many problems are reported - particularly relating to Disk Partitions. e.g. blocks 64 should be 8 -fixed(see 3) If you use the Ext2 filesystem (the default), the machine will execute a file system check (fsck) on bootup if you didn't shut down correctly. It will also issue a periodic checkup after a certain number of boots (I've forgotten how many). This is normal. 2. On Logout, sometimes it offers a login alternative screen, sometimes it simply boots back into the default user - and continues the problem. That's odd -- things should be consistent here. I'm not sure about this one. 3. On Shutdown it reports numerous and seemingly increasing problems - particularly with both CDs and devices. What are the problems? Sometimes these are not problems at all (but then again, sometimes they are). 4. PPP dies unexpectedly regularly. You mean you get disconnected from the Internet? This could be a problem with your ISP, or from being logged in for too long, or maybe from an idle connection. 5. Kmail will suddenly whiteout and only a logout will help. This costs the loss of the display details of the KPPP. It is still connected, but no display of the fact is available. Turn off interval mail checking in KMail. Also, have you considered another client, like Evolution or Aethera, or maybe even Mozilla Mail? Wait for KDE 2.2 (due out on Aug 6). Maybe things will be fixed in there. 6. Intense Disk activity (thrashing in the Doze world) has caused lockup 3 times in 2 days. Always involving Kmail. (VERY frustrating to duplicate 100+ emails downloaded! ) Resolved by hitting cancel button on display saying ( each reboot) indexing. Try going to /home/username/Mail (after closing all instances of KMail) and delete all files with the extensions .sorted and .index. Now reload KMail. I find that this can often fix KMail errors. ( On startup not relog, a display of Gnome is searching for Trash bins also appears and has to be cancelled. It does not go away.) 7. A Gnome Desktop has appeared on Dtop 4 and is un-cancellable I assume you are using KDE? Have you tried logging out from GNOME? This should leave only KDE. When you exit from KDE, make sure that your session is saved (there's an option for this in the Control Centre). When you next log in, there should be no more GNOME. 8. Hitting the Kill option has no effect on the locked-up programs. In the now severe cases. the final event is reminescent of the B.S.O.D. of Doze. Only recourse is a reboot. In almost all cases, a reboot is unnecessary. Some apps don't die with an ordinary kill (e.g. as done through xkill). If you use an app like gtop (there are KDE equivalents, but I don't know them), you should have options to issue stronger kills than what is standard. Sometimes I find that this is necessary (although I do the same thing through a command line). If it was a horse, I would put it down - it seems in great pain. :-) Before you reinstall, try using other environments besides KDE. I personally find GNOME/Sawfish (i.e. not loaded inside KDE) to be far more stable (in face, rock-solid) than KDE. Other users find that the opposite is the case for them. Try a few alternatives and see what works best. You may even begin to like them :-) NOW: If I decide to start again, does this seem like: 1. Simple install interference? 2. Something broke? ( I have under advice hit the
Re: [newbie] Sound card drivers
On Thursday 26 July 2001 13:47, Guy R Gauthier wrote: Hello, Hopefully this is the right place to ask. I'm trying to install drivers for my Aureal sound card. I downloaded the drivers from a site, but I don't know how to unarchive it. The file name is au88xx-1.0.5.tar.gz. I've been given examples of how to unzip it, but so far nothing has worked. Any help would be appreciated. Relax, it ain't that hard. I have this card on two different linux boxes and it works great--Clapton's spinning as I write. First, according to my notes, you must be sure of which aureal card you have (there are three different versions--the 8810, the 8820 and the 8830. If you have a Montego II it uses the 8830. 1. PNP MUST be disabled in the bios 2. Create a directory (mine is /aureal), copy the tar to it and Unpack the distribution: tar xvzf au88xx-1.0.5.tar.gz 3. Change to the driver directory if you're not already there and become root if you're not already: cd /aureal su 4. Type the following install commands: If you have an 8830-based card make install If you have an 8810-based card make install10 If you have an 8820-based card make install20 You don't need to reboot. If you get unresolved symbol errors you need to rebuild your kernel with the sound support (soundcore) built in (not as a module) -- but I never have had that problem. And kudos to BOFH for developing this driver and this how-to, which I am passing on. eryl
Re: [newbie] Time to Quit the Install?
On Thursday 26 July 2001 15:26, John Rigby wrote: Hi folks, Well, I purchased the official M8 Powerbox ( to avoid any problems with install) - in Oz it costs twice the price of USA - $140 After two weeks of at least half a day every day - asking for and getting great support here, it seems time to call a halt . The distro install is definitely deteorating - like my adrenalin reserves :-) O.K., I'll probably get flamed for this, but I, too, had multiple problems with version 8.0, across multiple installs. Total lockups required hitting the reset button (something I've had to do maybe 3 times in 4 years with linux) happened at least twice a week. DNS problems which would come and go--sometimes dns worked, sometimes the browser would hang resolving hostname, and would require the kill command to close it. Ghost windows staying after I killed the proc, etc. And processes would sometimes take an inordinate amount of time to complete on my P233 developmental box that I had it installed on. After the third install I finally just went back to 7.2 and the problems have ALL GONE AWAY. I know there are lots of people out there that have had no problems with 8.0, but I'm not one of them. eryl
[newbie] libc.so.6
I am trying to install some software and keep getting errors. It say's Dependency Problem libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by my software. I looked at the list archives and found several people with the same problem, but never seen an answer. Could someone please tell me how to fix this problem.
[newbie] Libc.so.6
Linux 7.2 I am trying to install some software and keep getting errors. It say's Dependency Problem libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by my software. I looked at the list archives and found several people with the same problem, but never seen an answer. Could someone please tell me how to fix this problem.
Re: [newbie] test box took 5.75 hours to load mandrake..
It was Fri, 27 Jul 2001 01:12:27 +0800 when Franki wrote: Hi Frank. That amount of time is definitely NOT normal. On my old P/II-400 (128Mb) it took about 45 minutes. On a 200mhz it will take some longer but never 6 hours. Perhaps someone else can shed light on the problem though. Paul I just did an install on a test box I have here,, the box details are: CPU: Pentium Pro 200, RAM: 64mb EDO. MB: FX Chipset. Harddisks: 4.3 gig Maxtor, and 1.03 gig Seagate. CDROM: 24speed IDE Sony. Video: S3 Virge 2mb. I did a total install of Mandrake 7.2, and it just finished copying files, it took nearly 6 hours. is that normal?? -- The universe is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering. -Chinese proverb http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
[newbie] Newbies top ten commands tutorial
Suffer from termiphobia? Think that all this typing is a pain? Can't tell a cat from a tar? Couldn't compile your way out of a wet paper bag? Sick of man's and How-To's that assmume you already have a beard? Please allow me to present my Newbies guide to the ten commands no hacker[1] should be without http://www.cmm.uklinux.net/steve/ntt.html Comments, suggestions and ( ahem) corrections cheerfully received fleames/dev/null post em here or mail me direct with anything. [1] that is hacker as in quick and clever penguin abuser as opposed to M$ HacKEr script kiddie.
[newbie] Problem with Mozilla Messenger
I have been using Mozzila Messenger for about a month or two without any major problems. I do have a couple of major pains though. Mozilla seems to keep forgetting what I set the preferences at. It forgets that I set to spell check outgoing email, It forgets that I have a signiture file... Those are the two major ones. -- Kevin Fonner Vice President and CTO Greenfern Corporation Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (888) 411-3923 Fax:(877) 807-4064 Web:http://www.greenfern.com/
Re: [newbie] Time to Quit the Install?
well, this looks like my opretunity to see if I am filtered. I believe you must have some services running that you should not or at least do not need. you are not running a server as much as a desktop at this time? what happens when you log into a different console (ie; ctrl+alt+f4 or any f1to6) as root and type top with out the quotes? if you ain't even gonna read it why should i type it? On Thursday 26 July 2001 18:26, you had thoughts to the concept of: Hi folks, Well, I purchased the official M8 Powerbox ( to avoid any problems with install) - in Oz it costs twice the price of USA - $140 After two weeks of at least half a day every day - asking for and getting great support here, it seems time to call a halt . The distro install is definitely deteorating - like my adrenalin reserves :-) detereroating? deteorating? ahhh, getting worse? I didn't have this many problems doing my first ever Concurrent-Dos Network twenty years ago, when my only expert quit suddenly and left me with the job. Side Note: I am an industrial psychologist. I NEVER tuned my own car :-). Possible causes: 1. Either it is my machine. 2. It is the Disks/Distro itself faulty. 3. My efforts at getting progs to work have broken it. 1. The machine EVEN runs W98SE with the only fault being the famous memory leak under heavy use. I can keep it going all day! 2. It seemed ok. Even though by accident of accepting all the defaults I could see, resulted in my installing a full Server version. It was very fast to get up and connect to the inet. 3. Till 48 hours ago, the problems seemed typical Newby. Where's the bathroom? Now, how do I flush? Then the neg reports/events began: As of this A.M.: 1. On startup many problems are reported - particularly relating to Disk Partitions. e.g. blocks 64 should be 8 -fixed(see 3) 2. On Logout, sometimes it offers a login alternative screen, sometimes it simply boots back into the default user - and continues the problem. 3. On Shutdown it reports numerous and seemingly increasing problems - particularly with both CDs and devices. 4. PPP dies unexpectedly regularly. 5. Kmail will suddenly whiteout and only a logout will help. This costs the loss of the display details of the KPPP. It is still connected, but no display of the fact is available. 6. Intense Disk activity (thrashing in the Doze world) has caused lockup 3 times in 2 days. Always involving Kmail. (VERY frustrating to duplicate 100+ emails downloaded! ) Resolved by hitting cancel button on display saying ( each reboot) indexing. ( On startup not relog, a display of Gnome is searching for Trash bins also appears and has to be cancelled. It does not go away.) 7. A Gnome Desktop has appeared on Dtop 4 and is un-cancellable 8. Hitting the Kill option has no effect on the locked-up programs. In the now severe cases. the final event is reminescent of the B.S.O.D. of Doze. Only recourse is a reboot. If it was a horse, I would put it down - it seems in great pain. :-) NOW: If I decide to start again, does this seem like: 1. Simple install interference? 2. Something broke? ( I have under advice hit the update button) 3. Only foreign body introduced was IBM's Websphere which brings Wine with it.. All others were part of the Distro. How would you suggest I re-install? 1. Uninstall 2. Delete entire partition. 3. Send away for new disks. ( Another week lost) Thanks again for all the fish folks, I promise that I'm trying to do my bit to come up with THAT Newby FAQ/Gotcha list. But I didn't expect to be the MAIN contributor :-)
Re: [newbie] test box took 5.75 hours to load mandrake..
X-RebelTech Is Here: www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit where did your cd come from? was it downloaded and then burnt from a winblows box? in the past i have had things like that happen when i got a cd that was written using packet writing (ie: direct cd). a lot of older cdroms don't like packet technology and will either barf right away or slug away at it and read the disc _really slow_ just a thought anyways. On Thursday 26 July 2001 16:29, you wrote: It was Fri, 27 Jul 2001 01:12:27 +0800 when Franki wrote: Hi Frank. That amount of time is definitely NOT normal. On my old P/II-400 (128Mb) it took about 45 minutes. On a 200mhz it will take some longer but never 6 hours. Perhaps someone else can shed light on the problem though. Paul I just did an install on a test box I have here,, the box details are: CPU: Pentium Pro 200, RAM: 64mb EDO. MB: FX Chipset. Harddisks: 4.3 gig Maxtor, and 1.03 gig Seagate. CDROM: 24speed IDE Sony. Video: S3 Virge 2mb. I did a total install of Mandrake 7.2, and it just finished copying files, it took nearly 6 hours. is that normal?? -- The universe is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering. -Chinese proverb http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
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[newbie] Samba stopped working..
I have a LINUX OS computer which is used to store my back up files for all computers I have at home. It used to work but last week I could not access to this computer. I did not change anything at this computer. I checked everything and pretty sure that there is no problem with this computer except SAMBA. When I type IP of this computer from my windows computer browser and I saw it. Therefore I knew Apache was running. After I decided to re-install LM8.0, I could not get SAMBA back to work! Could anyone please explain for me and how to fix it? I am using Win2000 SPK2. I also have two more questions: How can I setup FTP and mail server? I know not thing at all. Thank all of you Tuan _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] Time
How can I chanche the initial time of the lilo menu? at the momnet the actual time is 5s, but I sharing the M8 with another SO and I need more time to choose the SO. thanks Maraz
Re: [newbie] Newbie network question
Dear Jon, What they have done, is they have added dns entries for the IP's that they are serving out via dhcp. If you do an nslookup, it should resolve to a number similar to the one you had originally. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:12 PM 07/26/2001 -0400, Jon Doe wrote: I have a road runner cable connection. For the first three months I have had a single IP, can't remember what it was now, 65. somthing, well today I have noticed my host is now called dhcp 19-43! What happened? Is this something I installed on linux or is this something RoadRunner would have done? Could this be related to my earlier unansweared post about netscape noticing my windows partition? I am clueless about the way all this network stuff works. I can connect and thats about it...lol.
[newbie] segmentation fault at shut down
when shutting down, not rebooting, I am getting an odd segmentation fault. I don't get it on warm reboot since the problem occurs after the path diverges for reboot vs shut down. I have to power off to get out of it. message sequence in log is: halting system stopping all md devices power down general protection fault: f000 CPU:0 EIP:0050:[872b] EFLAGS:00010047 bunch of registers elided here Process Halt (PID:1319 Stackpage: c5add000) stack dump elided here CALL TRACE CODE: BAD EIP VALUE /etc/rc0.d/s01halt: line 1: 1319 segmentation fault halt -i -d -p tia -- Gentlemen, it's in beta. That means it's like Windows. They're letting you test it while they continue to screw it up until it's totally useless. (Bigg Fredd in RCC talking about Google's temporary interface to the deja archives)
