[newbie-it] Alcatel Speedtouch USB
Salve a tutti, mentre attendoche mi arrivi pe postauna versione di Mandrake 8.1, continuo ancora stremato e senza speranza a settare il modem ADSLAlcatelSpeedtouch USBcon il Mandrake 8.0. Penso di aver confinato il problema al "ppp daemon", ma ancora niente. Ho trovato in rete un HOWTO su questo modem, ma alcune frasi mi sono ostiche; per esempio vorrei sapere che razza di significato ha questa frase: You'll need ppp support in your kernel. If needed compile these parts: M PPP (point-to-point protocol) support (CONFIG_PPP) M PPP support for sync tty ports (CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY) --- non ho capito se si tratta di istruzioni da dare nella shell di comando oppure altro. infatti il comando "M" nonviene riconosciuto. saluto e ringrazio Marco
[newbie-it] Kernel 2.4.16
Ho ricompilato il mio primo kernel (mi sento un po' come un papà..), volendo aggiornare la mdk8.1 dal 2.4.8 al 2.4.16. Dato il bzImage e poi il bzdisk per riavviare da floppy, poi i vari make modules, make modules_install, e per ultimo il depmod -a,ho riavviato, ottenendo (miracolo) un sistema funzionante. A questo punto volevo provare l'avvio da disco rigido, e per questo ho trasferito bzImage in /boot, rinominandolo vmlinuz-2.4.16, quindi in lilo.conf ho inserito la chiamata al nuovo kernel copiando quella vecchia e sostituendo, ovviamente vmlinuz-2.4.16 dove c'era vmlinuz. Salvato il tutto come ciliegina sulla torta ho dato lilo -v per agganciare il nuovo kernel, e quindi ho riavviato trepidante.. Risultato, schermo nero e timidi segni di vita del HD che frulla, mi pare, senza costrutto; nient'altro. Chi mi sa dire dove ho sbagliato? Per inciso, riavviando da floppy, il kernel non mi permetteva l'accesso al masterizzatore IDE/ATAPIin emulazione SCSI nonstante avessi selezionato "emulazione SCSI","SCSI support","SCSI generic support", definendolo un sistema di blocchi non valido; inoltre non funzionava il supermount (boh, poco male..), nonostante avessi compreso l'opzione. Problemi dovuti all'avviamento da dischetto, o si sarebbero presentati anche ad un avvio da HD? in sede di avvio in mezzo a tutti i messaggi con "OK", c'era un "FALLITO" in "Monto i filesystem locali Mount: tipo fs errato, operazione non valida superblocco su none (qualcosa..), o troppi filesystem montati"; poi però potevo tranquillamente passare dalla partizione Linux a quella Windows, accedere al CD-Rom ed al floppy. Ringrazio per eventuali illuminazioni.. Fabio
Re: [newbie-it] Alcatel Speedtouch USB
Ciao, Penso si riferisca alla ricompilazione del Kernel ed alla immissione come (M)oduli delle opzioni descritte.. Fabio - Original Message - From: Marco Fortini To: Mailing list Linux Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 2:35 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Alcatel Speedtouch USB Salve a tutti, mentre attendoche mi arrivi pe postauna versione di Mandrake 8.1, vorrei sapere che razza di significato ha questa frase: You'll need ppp support in your kernel. If needed compile these parts: M PPP (point-to-point protocol) support (CONFIG_PPP) M PPP support for sync tty ports (CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY) --- non ho capito se si tratta di istruzioni da dare nella shell di comando oppure altro. infatti il comando "M" nonviene riconosciuto. saluto e ringrazio Marco
Re: [newbie-it] Alcatel Speedtouch USB
Ciao, se può esserti utile, visti anche i miei numerosi problemi nel cercare di far funzionare l'Alcatel Speedtouch USB (Manta) anche su Mandrake 8.1, ti rimando ad un mio brevissimo tutorial passo passo che puoi trovare su un sito che sto creando. L'indirizzo è http://linux.nukien.com Ciao Marco Forti
Re: [newbie-it] Kernel 2.4.16
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 15:51, domenica 27 gennaio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] Kernel 2.4.16, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: vedo con piacere che continui col cross posting... .. riavviato, ottenendo (miracolo) un sistema funzionante. A questo punto volevo provare l'avvio da disco rigido, e per questo ho trasferito bzImage in /boot, rinominandolo vmlinuz-2.4.16, quindi copia /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage in /boot e rinominalo vmlinuz-2.4.16 ora aggiorna lilo se hai già installato i moduli, riavvia se ti compare ancora lo schermo nero (problemi col fb) aggiungi vga=normal al lilo Per inciso, riavviando da floppy, il kernel non mi permetteva l'accesso al masterizzatore IDE/ATAPI in emulazione SCSI nonstante avessi selezionato emulazione SCSI,SCSI support,SCSI generic support, definendolo un sistema di blocchi non valido; inoltre non aggiorna fstab rimuovendo le chiamate a /mnt/cdrom (ad esempio) e sostituendole con /dev/hdxx non hai più il supermount quindi non puoi chiamare le periferiche a partire dal punto di montaggio ma devi dire all'automount quali periferiche montare (/dev/hdxx) e dove (/mnt/xxx) funzionava il supermount (boh, poco male..), nonostante avessi compreso l'opzione. Problemi dovuti all'avviamento da dischetto, o si sarebbero presentati anche ad un avvio da HD? in sede di avvio in mezzo a tutti i messaggi con OK, c'era un FALLITO in Monto i filesystem locali Mount: tipo fs errato, operazione non valida superblocco su none (qualcosa..), o troppi filesystem montati; poi ok, problemi che si risolvono aggiornando fstab - -- bye miKe Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.16-pk @ hp Xe3 R.U.# 219755 - S.R.U.# 705 - R.M.# 110932 - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8VDyWYp6jtgQnzC0RAuCLAKCMMcdw1xDcAGJi/ojNFP8DG3nm1wCeL/jC r8AtoxNed88OOQEmm2MWoTM= =Xfm/ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Kernel 2.4.16
- Original Message - From: miKe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Kernel 2.4.16 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 15:51, domenica 27 gennaio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] Kernel 2.4.16, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: vedo con piacere che continui col cross posting... Uhm.. a questo punto mi sorge spontanea la domanda: cos'è 'sto cross-posting che tanto ti secca? Pensavo potesse essere l'inserire più di un indirizzo nel campo destinatari, cosa che non ho più fatto.. Se ho errato non so di errare, a questo punto.. Illuminami.. :-) Ciao, e grazie per le dritte, ti farò sapere se il parto avverrà con successo! Fabio
[newbie-it] grazie mike
vga=normal = bingo! Tutto qua. Gli altri problemi sono scomparsi con l'avvio da HD, come subodoravo... Il sottoscritto c'ha mdk8.1 con 2.4.16. Effettivamente una bella soddisfazione.. Grazie Fabio
Re: [newbie-it] Alcatel Speedtouch USB
Ringrazio Marco Forti per la cortesia, ho letto il tuo tutorial in Italiano, e prima di rimettermi a fare tentativi vorrei chiarirmi delle perplessità. E' circa un mese che mi sto arrovellando sui due HOWTO che dovresti conoscere: - Speedtouch USB Linux Driver di Johan Verrept - Speedtouch USB using Benoit Papillault's OpenSource drivers di Trias, Gomez e Brandl. Molti step sono simili ai tuoi, ma essendo io un principiante ho incontrato degli intoppi: Procedendo secondo la tua sequenza e ricordando che lavoro per ora sul Mandrake 8.0, queste sono le mie difficoltà: - ho costruito ed installato lo speedtouch (nessun problema) - ho costruito ed installato l'hotplug (nessun problema) - ho costruito ed installato lo speedmgmt (forse non dovevo installarlo ?) - ho letto di ricompilare il kernel per il supporto CONFIG_PPP e il CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY, ma sinceramente non so come si ricompila il kernel con queste integrazioni. - il comando ./MAKEDEV ppp è sconosciuto al mio computer, allora ho provato sia col ppp-2.4.0-mdk installato da CD, sia col ppp-2.4.0b2-2.i386.rpm scaricato da rete. - del file /etc/resolv.conf non me ne aveva mai parlato nessuno - il file /etc/ppp/peers/adsl lo ho creato, ma non so se esiste lo /usr/local/bin/pppoa2 - dei files chap-secrets e pap-secrets non ho capito bene il gioco dell'asterisco, ho comunque messo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * miapassword * - il comando modem_run -m -f /usr/share/speedtouch/mgmt.o da me era: modem_run -m -f /path/to/mgmt.o (comunque modem_run è comando sconosciuto) - infine pppd call adsl (non fa nulla) che posso fare per progredire un po' ? ringrazio Marco Fortini - Original Message - From: Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Alcatel Speedtouch USB Ciao, se può esserti utile, visti anche i miei numerosi problemi nel cercare di far funzionare l'Alcatel Speedtouch USB (Manta) anche su Mandrake 8.1, ti rimando ad un mio brevissimo tutorial passo passo che puoi trovare su un sito che sto creando. L'indirizzo è http://linux.nukien.com Ciao Marco Forti
Re: [newbie-it] Alcatel Speedtouch USB
Ringrazio Marco Forti per la cortesia, Troppo buono :-) Di seguito troverai le risposte alle tue domande (che spero possano aiutarti a capire meglio i passaggi necessari all'installazione). Se però mi permetti di darti un consiglio prova a seguire tutti i passaggi che ho indicato nel mio mini tutorial dall'inizio alla fine ... poi fammi sapere - risposte ai tuoi quesiti Molti step sono simili ai tuoi, ma essendo io un principiante ho incon trato degli intoppi: Procedendo secondo la tua sequenza e ricordando che lavoro per ora sul Mandrake 8.0, queste sono le mie difficoltà: - ho costruito ed installato lo speedtouch (nessun problema) Di driver per lo speedtouch non ne esiste solo uno, hai scaricato ed installato quello che ho consigliato nel mio minitutorial ? - ho costruito ed installato l'hotplug (nessun problema) Potevi farne a meno, è bacato e probabilmente non lo userai mai! ho costruito ed installato lo speedmgmt (forse non dovevo installarlo ? ) devi solo decomprimerlo (essendo in formato tar.gz devi decomprimerlo come descritto nel tutorial e copiare solo il file mgmt.o nella directory /usr/share/speedtouch/) - ho letto di ricompilare il kernel per il supporto CONFIG_PPP e il CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY, ma sinceramente non so come si ricompila il kerne l con queste integrazioni. A mio avviso con Mandrake 8.0 non dovresti aver bisogno di ricompilare il kernel! il comando ./MAKEDEV ppp è sconosciuto al mio computer, allora ho prova to sia col ppp-2.4.0-mdk installato da CD, sia col ppp-2.4.0b2-2.i386.rpm scaricato da rete. il comando ./MAKEDEV ppp serve a creare le devices (periferiche) ppp nella directory /dev nel caso non fossero già presenti. Per prima cosa accertatene spostandoti nella directory /dev con il comando cd /dev poi con il comando ls ppp* guarda se ottieni un output (elenco di file che iniziano con ppp) e solo se non vedi files che iniziano con ppp dovrai utilizzare il comando ./MAKEDEV ppp (che funziona anche dal tuo computer ma solo se sei nella directory /dev). - del file /etc/resolv.conf non me ne aveva mai parlato nessuno Io consiglio di modificarlo solo perché ho notato che l'uso dei DNS automatici con l'opzione usepeerdns crea in Mandrake 8.1 (almeno a me) qualche problema così è meglio indicarli esplicitamente nel file /etc/resolv.conf - il file /etc/ppp/peers/adsl lo ho creato, ma non so se esiste lo /usr/local/bin/pppoa2 Puoi accertartene con cd /usr/local/bin/ ls pppoa* ti fa vedere i file che iniziano con pppoa (probabilmente avrai sia pppoa2 che pppoa3 - dei files chap-secrets e pap-secrets non ho capito bene il gioco dell'asterisco, ho comunque messo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * miapassword * devi mettere il tuo username (quello comunicato dal tuo provider ... attento che non necessariamente deve avere @dominio.it, ad esempio BBB di telecom ti fornisce uno username senza @tin.it per collegarti) tra virgolette poi uno spazio poi un asterisco tra virgolette poi la tua password tra virgolette ed infine un altro asterisco tra virgolette esempio: pippo * p1pp0 * - il comando modem_run -m -f /usr/share/speedtouch/mgmt.o da me era: modem_run -m - f /path/to/mgmt.o (comunque modem_run è comando sconosciuto) attento /path/to/mgmt.o è solo un esempio che in italiano suonerebbe come: /percorso/di/mgmt.o quindi esattamente /usr/share/speedtouch/mgmt.o in quanto a modem_run questo esiste se hai usato il driver di Papillaut (quello consigliato nel mio tutorial) e funziona solo se lo lanci da root e non da utente - infine pppd call adsl (non fa nulla) diciamo che non da output ... per vedere se ha dato buoni frutti basta lanciare subito dopo il comando ifconfig ppp0 (da root) ... se da un output probabilmente ha funzionato. Ciao e fammi sapere Marco marco.forti[at]iol.it - la mente è una cosa meravigliosa tutti dovrebbero averne una !!! -
[newbie-it] help-me
ciao a tutti,chi può aiutarmi.io ho un sistema rh7.2, il mio prblema è questo: come faccio a configurare il tasto centrale del mouse Logitech,lo scroll???ancora ho letto che posso creare un CD boot per caricare Linux tipo floppy ? ho capito bene!!!GRAZIE MILLE Guerra Antonio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] Galeon e java
Uso abitualmente Galeon per la navigazione su internet,ma ho dei problemi con java: quando entro in siti che usano questo tipo di applicazione mi compare il messaggio per scaricare il plugin. L'ho fatto ma non ottengo alcun risultato. Dove sbaglio ? Grazie
[newbie] system slow
All, I recently used the ximian install script to update to gnome 1.4. Prior to this I had used red carpet to update the system but owing to a few problems ended up using the script instead. After using the script, the system started to work very slowly (click netscape button, hard drive light flickers, goes out, flickers, goes out and about 20 seconds later starts). It has never been this slow before. Owing to this, I had to reinstall LM 8.0 (I am not yet a competent troubleshooter!) and ever since doing this my system has been running the same. I repartitioned the hard drives, formatted, etc. There should be nothing left to screw things up. I had really just started to ditch M$ too, and now my LM system is running so slow it is frustrating. Even a terminal takes 20 seconds to open. I have a 40gig HD and a P4 1.6 so it is not a slug. Any suggestions? Thanks, Wayne __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hda5 critically full
I have have error message that hda5 is critically full. I have a 30gig hard disk ... it would seem (i did not set it up - and i am totally new) In the KDE Control Center it would seem that hd is in three sectors /dev/hda5 ext3 3.36 (mount point: /) 99.9% full! Plenty of room on hda7 (mount point: home) and hda2 is the windows partition. How can i check what is happening here, am not using the machine to any great extent - have only had it a week. Walter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hda5 critically full
I have have error message that hda5 is critically full. I have a 30gig hard disk ... it would seem (i did not set it up - and i am totally new) In the KDE Control Center it would seem that hd is in three sectors /dev/hda5 ext3 3.36 (mount point: /) 99.9% full! Plenty of room on hda7 (mount point: home) and hda2 is the windows partition. How can i check what is happening here, am not using the machine to any great extent - have only had it a week. Walter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Trouble De-Installing Linux on Dual OS computer
Hello, I have installed Linux-Mandrake 7.1 onto my computer, My computer was set up with two hard drives C: and D:. There are 2 D: drives, which we switch for whichever use we want. I installed Linux on the empty D: drive. Now I cannot change to the other D: drive to get my stuff. It won't boot. How can I de-install Linux???
Re: [newbie] System restarts itself
Thanks, I'll have a look at that. My cpu fan does appear to be working fine. I suppose that doesn't necessarily mean that it's not overheating though. Maybe I'll pull my modem first, as I have a dsl connection and I don't use it. Bill Davidson On Saturday 26 January 2002 10:16 pm, Erylon wrote: My first thought is hardware problem. I had a bad ethernet card that did that to me--took me months to find out what was causing it. Weird, I know. Also, an overtemp problem via the cpu can do this. How's your cpu fan? e. On Saturday 26 January 2002 11:21, you wrote: I started having a problem with my machine restarting every so often(at least once day). It's happened when I'm in kde and at a console(with no X-session). Any ideas? Hardwre problem perhaps? Here are a couple of lines from my /var/log/messages file: CROND[9306]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) syslogd 1.4-0: restart. kernel: klogd 1.4-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started. I cut the lines short so people don't have to scroll accross the page. Let me know if that's not enough. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to work PCMCIA
Es Diumenge 27 Gener 2002 08:10, en YUKKI va escriure: Hi all i wanna use PCMCIA for 3com 5C589C with mandrake 8.1 at Vaio C1XE Have you tryed to run DrakConf - Network with the card in ? If that doesn't work, what show the following commands: # ifconfig # cardctl ident Hope that helps... -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain Yahoo AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kde startup sound
Looks like all permissions are fine to me. I still don't see anything in kmix (just a grey window). Only one person has replied so I am assuming very few people have had this problem. (why me?) I will take this to a kde mail list and get back to this list in case someone else has this problem. [jason@cahill pics]$ ls -l /usr/bin/kmix -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 134524 Dec 6 10:25 /usr/bin/kmix* [jason@cahill pics]$ pwd /usr/share/apps/kmix/pics [jason@cahill pics]$ ls -l total 52 -rw-r--r--1 root root 461 Jun 5 2000 kmixdocked.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 323 Jun 5 2000 mix_audio.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 334 Jun 5 2000 mix_bass.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 489 Jun 5 2000 mix_cd.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 331 Jun 5 2000 mix_ext.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 350 Jun 5 2000 mix_microphone.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 337 Jun 5 2000 mix_midi.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 344 Jun 5 2000 mix_recmon.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 265 Jul 20 2000 mix_surround.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 350 Jun 5 2000 mix_treble.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 340 Jun 5 2000 mix_unknown.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 164 Jul 20 2000 mix_video.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 323 Jun 5 2000 mix_volume.png [jason@cahill pics]$ On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 09:01, Harry Ellis wrote: Jason wrote: Another strange thing is that in Kmix I don't see anything, just a grey window. No volume settings, nothing. Jason, I had the same problem. Surprised I haven't seen it posted more often. First, find the Kmix images in /user/share/apps/Kmix/pics (The easiest way is to go through the Home icon in root.) Right click each icon, go to properties and change the permissions so everyone can use the damn things. Second, check the permissions on Kmix itself just to be sure /usr/bin/kmix Hope everything works. I had an awful time with sound. Never did resolve everything. Harry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1012139545-762-3292 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System restarts itself
On Sunday 27 January 2002 01:15 am, Robin wrote: I agree with Erylon, I had the same problem 2 month back when I add in a new piece of RAM. I had one piece of 256 and added another piece of 256, then the machine started to reboot for no reason at all. The interesting thing was that it only happened when load started to get heavy. After I replaced the RAM, I then have no problem at all. Robin Funny you should mention that, because I noticed that it usually happens when it's been sitting for a while. The first thing I try to do will trigger it. Oh, well. I guess I'll start narrowing things down. Thanks for your reply. Bill Davidson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Trouble De-Installing Linux on Dual OS computer
Charles, Actually, you won't be able to remove the ext2 partitions with windows fdisk. What needs to happen is boot using something similar to tom's root / boot disk (link should be off the distribution page of linux.org) or into your linux install, run linux fdisk as root, remove all ext2 partitions. Boot into windows, run 'fdisk /mbr' (note, this is windows fdisk) -- at that point, you will have cleaned linux off your computer completely. This is, of course, the same set of instructions that civilme and myself have sent to the list countless times. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 07:48 PM 01/27/2002 +0900, you wrote: Martijn asked,How can I de-install Linux??? color=#ff size=4 color=#ff size=4There are probably many people who will give you better advice than I can on how to do this. If it were me, I'd probably end up having to boot up with Windows boot disks and use Fdisk to reformat the drive and reset the partitions. Or, if you have Windows still installed and accessible, you can wipe out the Linux partitions with the disk manager and reformat them to FAT or whatever you are using, and then reinstall Linux. color=#ff size=4color=#ff size=4One thing I found useful, however, before starting any work of this sort, is to use a disk imaging program like Norton Ghost to make an image of your drives before you start. Then if anything goes wrong, you can put in the Ghost boot disk and the CD you made, and return everything the way it was in 15 minutes. Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJK-English Dictionary http://www.acmuller.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] resizing partitions
With 768 meg or RAM, you'll be hard pushed to use any swap at all I'd have thought! Before you go off fidling with partitions, I'd fire up your installation disk in windows and use RAWWRITE to dump the MEMTEST image to a floppy disk. Reboot with the floppy in and MEMTEST will boot automatically. Let it test your memory (it'll take a while with 768 meg!). Make sure you don't have some flaky memory - it could cause the problem you are describing. As for seeing all of you memory in Use under Linux, this is perfectly normal, and it a GOOD thing - Linux uses as much memory as it can to cache stuff, to improve response time. Unused memory is wasted memory in Unix parlance. If any programs request memory which is being used for buffering or cache, then it will be released by the kernel and given to the requsting task. I suspect you'll find that more swap has no effect on your lock-up's but by all means try - it's always good experience, providing you don't lose anything! -Original Message- From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 1:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] resizing partitions Well, I am having a problem with it locking up, and I want to make sure it is not something in the original config. Using the old train of thought I configured a 128mg swap. I have 768mg real memory. If I do a 'free -m' I will see very little use of the swap (1-8megs) but real stays close to 750mg, as the system aproches 768 the swap does not increase, but if I go over 768 everything locks up. So I figure the first thing I need to do is bring the swap up to what everyone is recomending, I have a 40gig and and a 60gig drive in the box, so there is no reason why I should not at least try the 'double the ram idea'. Actually I was hoping that diskdrake would acomplish this because I was able to resize my son's windoze partition when he wanted to play with linux and I installed mandrake. Funny, this is the first time I have found a linux tool that will do to windoze what it won't do for itself GRIN. John On Saturday 26 January 2002 18:23, you wrote: I believe GnuPartEd can non-destructively resize partitions, but make sure you have any important data backed up first, just in case. What makes you think you need to resize your swap partition anyway? Does your machine come close to utilising all of your existing swap space now? -Original Message- From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 10:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] resizing partitions Hello, After following the swap partition thread, I have realized that I should increase my swap partition, how can I do this without distroying data? I do not want to use partition magic. TIA, John File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Cd-Rom / Digital Speakers
What does 'mount' say? -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 2:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Cd-Rom / Digital Speakers That was supposed to read... I can't access any of the cd-rom drives. On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 21:15:48 -0500 Paul Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as getting digital speakers to work on a sound blaster live you need to log in as root and the #emu-config -d this sets the port to digital. In case you where curious. For some reason I can access any of the cd-rom drives. I have two. In fact the cd-rom icon isn't even on the kde desktop. They worked yesterday and I haven't installed any new software. Any thoughts? Pk File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Book question.
Sounds like you want to learn how to use your desktop environment efficiently first. If you use KDE, start with the KDE manuals and then move onto LSAG (Linux system Administrators Guide). This book is available for installation from your disks - it comes with the distribution. -Original Message- From: Javier de Lázaro Redruello [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Book question. I´ve got a simple question for you, guys: Wich book should I read to beguin learning MDK Linux? I want to learn all those easy things as making short cuts, installing software, etc. Thank YOU! File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Books on Mandrake
I favor www.booksonline.com . Go to their Computer and Information Science area. Dan B - Original Message - From: "Charles Muller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:42 AM Subject: [newbie] Books on Mandrake Dear Newbies, I am looking for a good book on Mandrake, that introduces basic functions including installing new software, drivers, and so forth. I am living in Japan, so I don't have a wide selection of books in English available to me locally. I checked Amazon, but they only listed one book on Mandrake, which got pretty poor reviews. Would a book on Red Hat cover most of the same material concerning general Linux basics? Regards, Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJK-English Dictionary http://www.acmuller.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] installing 8.1
I just bought Mankrake 8.1 Standard edition but I am having trouble installing. The problem is that my laptop as a space for a floppy drive and CD-ROM drive however I can only have one in at once at my BIOS won't allow me to boot from a CD. Because I cannot use both floppy and CD at once I can't use a boot disk. The only workaround I can think of is to go into dos or whatever and open the install file but I don't what it is. Please could someone reply and tell me the name of the file. Tom. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] name of 8.1 install file
I just bought Mankrake 8.1 Standard edition but I am having trouble installing. The problem is that my laptop as a space for a floppy drive and CD-ROM drive however I can only have one in at once at my BIOS won't allow me to boot from a CD. Because I cannot use both floppy and CD at once I can't use a boot disk. The only workaround I can think of is to go into dos or whatever and open the install file but I don't what it is. Please could someone reply and tell me the name of the file. Tom. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] resizing partitions
After another crash last night I pulled out the third stick, so far so good, but I would like to do a mem test. One problem with this, I have NO windoze boxes, and have not for about 3 years now. can this be done with dd and if so what is the comand? TIA, John On Sunday 27 January 2002 11:27, you wrote: With 768 meg or RAM, you'll be hard pushed to use any swap at all I'd have thought! Before you go off fidling with partitions, I'd fire up your installation disk in windows and use RAWWRITE to dump the MEMTEST image to a floppy disk. Reboot with the floppy in and MEMTEST will boot automatically. Let it test your memory (it'll take a while with 768 meg!). Make sure you don't have some flaky memory - it could cause the problem you are describing. As for seeing all of you memory in Use under Linux, this is perfectly normal, and it a GOOD thing - Linux uses as much memory as it can to cache stuff, to improve response time. Unused memory is wasted memory in Unix parlance. If any programs request memory which is being used for buffering or cache, then it will be released by the kernel and given to the requsting task. I suspect you'll find that more swap has no effect on your lock-up's but by all means try - it's always good experience, providing you don't lose anything! -Original Message- From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 1:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] resizing partitions Well, I am having a problem with it locking up, and I want to make sure it is not something in the original config. Using the old train of thought I configured a 128mg swap. I have 768mg real memory. If I do a 'free -m' I will see very little use of the swap (1-8megs) but real stays close to 750mg, as the system aproches 768 the swap does not increase, but if I go over 768 everything locks up. So I figure the first thing I need to do is bring the swap up to what everyone is recomending, I have a 40gig and and a 60gig drive in the box, so there is no reason why I should not at least try the 'double the ram idea'. Actually I was hoping that diskdrake would acomplish this because I was able to resize my son's windoze partition when he wanted to play with linux and I installed mandrake. Funny, this is the first time I have found a linux tool that will do to windoze what it won't do for itself GRIN. John On Saturday 26 January 2002 18:23, you wrote: I believe GnuPartEd can non-destructively resize partitions, but make sure you have any important data backed up first, just in case. What makes you think you need to resize your swap partition anyway? Does your machine come close to utilising all of your existing swap space now? -Original Message- From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 10:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] resizing partitions Hello, After following the swap partition thread, I have realized that I should increase my swap partition, how can I do this without distroying data? I do not want to use partition magic. TIA, John File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
Are you quite sure your BIOS won't allow a CDROM boot? It must be a truely ancient laptop if it doesn't. It's not a Dell Insprion is it? What normally happens is that the CDROM can be connected top the parallel port via a special cable which carries the signal and enough power for the drive -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] installing 8.1 I just bought Mankrake 8.1 Standard edition but I am having trouble installing. The problem is that my laptop as a space for a floppy drive and CD-ROM drive however I can only have one in at once at my BIOS won't allow me to boot from a CD. Because I cannot use both floppy and CD at once I can't use a boot disk. The only workaround I can think of is to go into dos or whatever and open the install file but I don't what it is. Please could someone reply and tell me the name of the file. Tom. File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
Extremely ancient! I have an Olivetti Echos P90s. I've checked and sadly it's not possible to connect it via a cable :-( Tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 17:23 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Are you quite sure your BIOS won't allow a CDROM boot? It must be a truely ancient laptop if it doesn't. It's not a Dell Insprion is it? What normally happens is that the CDROM can be connected top the parallel port via a special cable which carries the signal and enough power for the drive -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] installing 8.1 I just bought Mankrake 8.1 Standard edition but I am having trouble installing. The problem is that my laptop as a space for a floppy drive and CD-ROM drive however I can only have one in at once at my BIOS won't allow me to boot from a CD. Because I cannot use both floppy and CD at once I can't use a boot disk. The only workaround I can think of is to go into dos or whatever and open the install file but I don't what it is. Please could someone reply and tell me the name of the file. Tom. File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
or rather the floppy drive has a cable, but the BIOS doesn't recognise it! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: 27 January 2002 17:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Extremely ancient! I have an Olivetti Echos P90s. I've checked and sadly it's not possible to connect it via a cable :-( Tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 17:23 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Are you quite sure your BIOS won't allow a CDROM boot? It must be a truely ancient laptop if it doesn't. It's not a Dell Insprion is it? What normally happens is that the CDROM can be connected top the parallel port via a special cable which carries the signal and enough power for the drive -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] installing 8.1 I just bought Mankrake 8.1 Standard edition but I am having trouble installing. The problem is that my laptop as a space for a floppy drive and CD-ROM drive however I can only have one in at once at my BIOS won't allow me to boot from a CD. Because I cannot use both floppy and CD at once I can't use a boot disk. The only workaround I can think of is to go into dos or whatever and open the install file but I don't what it is. Please could someone reply and tell me the name of the file. Tom. File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] resizing partitions
Yep - you can use dd. Insert your Installation disk (I'm usign MDK 8.0 but it should be roughly the same). 'dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/memtest.bin of=/dev/fd0' That' will copy the memtest.bin image file onto you floppy disk. It'll overwrite anything on the disk so make sure there's nothing on there you want to keep. Boot with it in the floppy drive and you'll get a blue screen and it'll start performing the memtest automatically. Good Luck. -Original Message- From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] resizing partitions After another crash last night I pulled out the third stick, so far so good, but I would like to do a mem test. One problem with this, I have NO windoze boxes, and have not for about 3 years now. can this be done with dd and if so what is the comand? TIA, John On Sunday 27 January 2002 11:27, you wrote: With 768 meg or RAM, you'll be hard pushed to use any swap at all I'd have thought! Before you go off fidling with partitions, I'd fire up your installation disk in windows and use RAWWRITE to dump the MEMTEST image to a floppy disk. Reboot with the floppy in and MEMTEST will boot automatically. Let it test your memory (it'll take a while with 768 meg!). Make sure you don't have some flaky memory - it could cause the problem you are describing. As for seeing all of you memory in Use under Linux, this is perfectly normal, and it a GOOD thing - Linux uses as much memory as it can to cache stuff, to improve response time. Unused memory is wasted memory in Unix parlance. If any programs request memory which is being used for buffering or cache, then it will be released by the kernel and given to the requsting task. I suspect you'll find that more swap has no effect on your lock-up's but by all means try - it's always good experience, providing you don't lose anything! -Original Message- From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 1:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] resizing partitions Well, I am having a problem with it locking up, and I want to make sure it is not something in the original config. Using the old train of thought I configured a 128mg swap. I have 768mg real memory. If I do a 'free -m' I will see very little use of the swap (1-8megs) but real stays close to 750mg, as the system aproches 768 the swap does not increase, but if I go over 768 everything locks up. So I figure the first thing I need to do is bring the swap up to what everyone is recomending, I have a 40gig and and a 60gig drive in the box, so there is no reason why I should not at least try the 'double the ram idea'. Actually I was hoping that diskdrake would acomplish this because I was able to resize my son's windoze partition when he wanted to play with linux and I installed mandrake. Funny, this is the first time I have found a linux tool that will do to windoze what it won't do for itself GRIN. John On Saturday 26 January 2002 18:23, you wrote: I believe GnuPartEd can non-destructively resize partitions, but make sure you have any important data backed up first, just in case. What makes you think you need to resize your swap partition anyway? Does your machine come close to utilising all of your existing swap space now? -Original Message- From: John Cichy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 10:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] resizing partitions Hello, After following the swap partition thread, I have realized that I should increase my swap partition, how can I do this without distroying data? I do not want to use partition magic. TIA, John File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 File: message.footer **
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
Hmmm - tricky. Have you got sfficient drive space to perform a Hard-drive install? i.e. copy the CD's onto HD and install from that, rather than a CD. -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 or rather the floppy drive has a cable, but the BIOS doesn't recognise it! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: 27 January 2002 17:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Extremely ancient! I have an Olivetti Echos P90s. I've checked and sadly it's not possible to connect it via a cable :-( Tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 17:23 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Are you quite sure your BIOS won't allow a CDROM boot? It must be a truely ancient laptop if it doesn't. It's not a Dell Insprion is it? What normally happens is that the CDROM can be connected top the parallel port via a special cable which carries the signal and enough power for the drive -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] installing 8.1 I just bought Mankrake 8.1 Standard edition but I am having trouble installing. The problem is that my laptop as a space for a floppy drive and CD-ROM drive however I can only have one in at once at my BIOS won't allow me to boot from a CD. Because I cannot use both floppy and CD at once I can't use a boot disk. The only workaround I can think of is to go into dos or whatever and open the install file but I don't what it is. Please could someone reply and tell me the name of the file. Tom. File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
i only have about 1gb which is nowhere near enough. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 17:33 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Hmmm - tricky. Have you got sfficient drive space to perform a Hard-drive install? i.e. copy the CD's onto HD and install from that, rather than a CD. -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 or rather the floppy drive has a cable, but the BIOS doesn't recognise it! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: 27 January 2002 17:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Extremely ancient! I have an Olivetti Echos P90s. I've checked and sadly it's not possible to connect it via a cable :-( Tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 17:23 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Are you quite sure your BIOS won't allow a CDROM boot? It must be a truely ancient laptop if it doesn't. It's not a Dell Insprion is it? What normally happens is that the CDROM can be connected top the parallel port via a special cable which carries the signal and enough power for the drive -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] installing 8.1 I just bought Mankrake 8.1 Standard edition but I am having trouble installing. The problem is that my laptop as a space for a floppy drive and CD-ROM drive however I can only have one in at once at my BIOS won't allow me to boot from a CD. Because I cannot use both floppy and CD at once I can't use a boot disk. The only workaround I can think of is to go into dos or whatever and open the install file but I don't what it is. Please could someone reply and tell me the name of the file. Tom. File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] System restarts itself
By the way, I just remembered something that you might want to check as well while you are at it. Some models of BIOS has an option of shutting off fans when the computer goes into stand by mode. And yes, it shuts off CPU fan. I have heard of people toasted their CPU after they leave their computer on over night in stand by. Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bill Davidson Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Robin Subject: Re: [newbie] System restarts itself On Sunday 27 January 2002 01:15 am, Robin wrote: I agree with Erylon, I had the same problem 2 month back when I add in a new piece of RAM. I had one piece of 256 and added another piece of 256, then the machine started to reboot for no reason at all. The interesting thing was that it only happened when load started to get heavy. After I replaced the RAM, I then have no problem at all. Robin Funny you should mention that, because I noticed that it usually happens when it's been sitting for a while. The first thing I try to do will trigger it. Oh, well. I guess I'll start narrowing things down. Thanks for your reply. Bill Davidson _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
I think this is one for Civileme - I have no idea now. My laptop is like yours, only either a floppy or a CD rom but not both, except that my machine allows me to boot off a CD rom. I just stick the CD rom in the drive, tell the BIOS to boot off CDROM first and away it goes. -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 i only have about 1gb which is nowhere near enough. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 17:33 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Hmmm - tricky. Have you got sfficient drive space to perform a Hard-drive install? i.e. copy the CD's onto HD and install from that, rather than a CD. -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 or rather the floppy drive has a cable, but the BIOS doesn't recognise it! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: 27 January 2002 17:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Extremely ancient! I have an Olivetti Echos P90s. I've checked and sadly it's not possible to connect it via a cable :-( Tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 17:23 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Are you quite sure your BIOS won't allow a CDROM boot? It must be a truely ancient laptop if it doesn't. It's not a Dell Insprion is it? What normally happens is that the CDROM can be connected top the parallel port via a special cable which carries the signal and enough power for the drive -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] installing 8.1 I just bought Mankrake 8.1 Standard edition but I am having trouble installing. The problem is that my laptop as a space for a floppy drive and CD-ROM drive however I can only have one in at once at my BIOS won't allow me to boot from a CD. Because I cannot use both floppy and CD at once I can't use a boot disk. The only workaround I can think of is to go into dos or whatever and open the install file but I don't what it is. Please could someone reply and tell me the name of the file. Tom. File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
According to Linux-on-laptops, it is possible. Here is how To install Linux from at CD-Rom, you need the cable that comes with the computer to attach the floppy drive to the parallel port. The procedure is as follows. Turn the computer off. Place the CD drive in the bay, and connect the floppy drive to the parallel port with the cable. Fasten the screws firmly. Now turn the machine on and press F2 to enter the setup. Find the configuration menu for integrated peripherals and change the mode of the parallel port to FDD mode. Initially it will probably be Uni-directional or Bi-directional. Save and exit the setup, and when the system boots, the now external floppy drive will be A:. From this point on your have a normal system with both floppy and CD-ROM drive and you can install as usual. If you want more information, here is the link http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/olivetti.html Hmmm, just a side note, judging from your model number, I am guessing it's Pentium 90, are you sure you want to put 8.1 on it? 8.1 does take quite a bit of resource to run it smoothly. Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:33 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Hmmm - tricky. Have you got sfficient drive space to perform a Hard-drive install? i.e. copy the CD's onto HD and install from that, rather than a CD. -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 or rather the floppy drive has a cable, but the BIOS doesn't recognise it! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: 27 January 2002 17:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Extremely ancient! I have an Olivetti Echos P90s. I've checked and sadly it's not possible to connect it via a cable :-( Tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 17:23 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Are you quite sure your BIOS won't allow a CDROM boot? It must be a truely ancient laptop if it doesn't. It's not a Dell Insprion is it? What normally happens is that the CDROM can be connected top the parallel port via a special cable which carries the signal and enough power for the drive -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] installing 8.1 I just bought Mankrake 8.1 Standard edition but I am having trouble installing. The problem is that my laptop as a space for a floppy drive and CD-ROM drive however I can only have one in at once at my BIOS won't allow me to boot from a CD. Because I cannot use both floppy and CD at once I can't use a boot disk. The only workaround I can think of is to go into dos or whatever and open the install file but I don't what it is. Please could someone reply and tell me the name of the file. Tom. File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies.
Re: [newbie] installing 8.1
i only have about 1gb which is nowhere near enough. is there not a way of installing Linux manually a floppies worth at a time? I would also be interested if there is as I am getting a old laptop soon (read no cd at all!) Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
One floppy at a time? Don't know about that, but reminded me of installing Win95 from some 50 or so floppies, I was up all night swapping floppies, the light on that poor laptop's floppy drive must have been on for 4 or 5 hours straight. Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Rick [Kitty5] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 10:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] installing 8.1 i only have about 1gb which is nowhere near enough. is there not a way of installing Linux manually a floppies worth at a time? I would also be interested if there is as I am getting a old laptop soon (read no cd at all!) Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch= 0x231E1CEA _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
that kind of worked. i got to the main menu screen, pressed enter and then just got a blank screen with Mandrake Linux 8.1 at the top. please help! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robin Sent: 27 January 2002 18:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 According to Linux-on-laptops, it is possible. Here is how To install Linux from at CD-Rom, you need the cable that comes with the computer to attach the floppy drive to the parallel port. The procedure is as follows. Turn the computer off. Place the CD drive in the bay, and connect the floppy drive to the parallel port with the cable. Fasten the screws firmly. Now turn the machine on and press F2 to enter the setup. Find the configuration menu for integrated peripherals and change the mode of the parallel port to FDD mode. Initially it will probably be Uni-directional or Bi-directional. Save and exit the setup, and when the system boots, the now external floppy drive will be A:. From this point on your have a normal system with both floppy and CD-ROM drive and you can install as usual. If you want more information, here is the link http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/olivetti.html Hmmm, just a side note, judging from your model number, I am guessing it's Pentium 90, are you sure you want to put 8.1 on it? 8.1 does take quite a bit of resource to run it smoothly. Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:33 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Hmmm - tricky. Have you got sfficient drive space to perform a Hard-drive install? i.e. copy the CD's onto HD and install from that, rather than a CD. -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 or rather the floppy drive has a cable, but the BIOS doesn't recognise it! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: 27 January 2002 17:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Extremely ancient! I have an Olivetti Echos P90s. I've checked and sadly it's not possible to connect it via a cable :-( Tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 17:23 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Are you quite sure your BIOS won't allow a CDROM boot? It must be a truely ancient laptop if it doesn't. It's not a Dell Insprion is it? What normally happens is that the CDROM can be connected top the parallel port via a special cable which carries the signal and enough power for the drive -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] installing 8.1 I just bought Mankrake 8.1 Standard edition but I am having trouble installing. The problem is that my laptop as a space for a floppy drive and CD-ROM drive however I can only have one in at once at my BIOS won't allow me to boot from a CD. Because I cannot use both floppy and CD at once I can't use a boot disk. The only workaround I can think of is to go into dos or whatever and open the install file but I don't what it is. Please could someone reply and tell me the name of the file. Tom. File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named
Re: [newbie] kde startup sound
Jason, I changed the permissions in pics to include execute as well. Not saying I should have but it seemed to do the trick. I think I put an x in every box I could find as a matter of fact. (Not running 8.1 now. Can't check.) Would like to hear what they say on the KDE newsgroup. Good luck, Harry - Original Message - From: Jason Jesso [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] kde startup sound Looks like all permissions are fine to me. I still don't see anything in kmix (just a grey window). Only one person has replied so I am assuming very few people have had this problem. (why me?) I will take this to a kde mail list and get back to this list in case someone else has this problem. [jason@cahill pics]$ ls -l /usr/bin/kmix -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 134524 Dec 6 10:25 /usr/bin/kmix* [jason@cahill pics]$ pwd /usr/share/apps/kmix/pics [jason@cahill pics]$ ls -l total 52 -rw-r--r--1 root root 461 Jun 5 2000 kmixdocked.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 323 Jun 5 2000 mix_audio.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 334 Jun 5 2000 mix_bass.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 489 Jun 5 2000 mix_cd.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 331 Jun 5 2000 mix_ext.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 350 Jun 5 2000 mix_microphone.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 337 Jun 5 2000 mix_midi.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 344 Jun 5 2000 mix_recmon.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 265 Jul 20 2000 mix_surround.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 350 Jun 5 2000 mix_treble.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 340 Jun 5 2000 mix_unknown.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 164 Jul 20 2000 mix_video.png -rw-r--r--1 root root 323 Jun 5 2000 mix_volume.png [jason@cahill pics]$ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
Try text mode and see what happens Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 10:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 that kind of worked. i got to the main menu screen, pressed enter and then just got a blank screen with Mandrake Linux 8.1 at the top. please help! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robin Sent: 27 January 2002 18:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 According to Linux-on-laptops, it is possible. Here is how To install Linux from at CD-Rom, you need the cable that comes with the computer to attach the floppy drive to the parallel port. The procedure is as follows. Turn the computer off. Place the CD drive in the bay, and connect the floppy drive to the parallel port with the cable. Fasten the screws firmly. Now turn the machine on and press F2 to enter the setup. Find the configuration menu for integrated peripherals and change the mode of the parallel port to FDD mode. Initially it will probably be Uni-directional or Bi-directional. Save and exit the setup, and when the system boots, the now external floppy drive will be A:. From this point on your have a normal system with both floppy and CD-ROM drive and you can install as usual. If you want more information, here is the link http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/olivetti.html Hmmm, just a side note, judging from your model number, I am guessing it's Pentium 90, are you sure you want to put 8.1 on it? 8.1 does take quite a bit of resource to run it smoothly. Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:33 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Hmmm - tricky. Have you got sfficient drive space to perform a Hard-drive install? i.e. copy the CD's onto HD and install from that, rather than a CD. -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 or rather the floppy drive has a cable, but the BIOS doesn't recognise it! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: 27 January 2002 17:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Extremely ancient! I have an Olivetti Echos P90s. I've checked and sadly it's not possible to connect it via a cable :-( Tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 17:23 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Are you quite sure your BIOS won't allow a CDROM boot? It must be a truely ancient laptop if it doesn't. It's not a Dell Insprion is it? What normally happens is that the CDROM can be connected top the parallel port via a special cable which carries the signal and enough power for the drive -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] installing 8.1 I just bought Mankrake 8.1 Standard edition but I am having trouble installing. The problem is that my laptop as a space for a floppy drive and CD-ROM drive however I can only have one in at once at my BIOS won't allow me to boot from a CD. Because I cannot use both floppy and CD at once I can't use a boot disk. The only workaround I can think of is to go into dos or whatever and open the install file but I don't what it is. Please could someone reply and tell me the name of the file. Tom. File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
Didn't you get a LILO: prompt on screen? If so, try typing Linux, or just hitting enter again. If your machine hung, then I suspect you might be trying to install a 586 compiled distribution on something which isn't quite a 586! If you are desperate, I can burn you a copy of mandrake 6.5 which I think would install onto a 486 based machine... -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 that kind of worked. i got to the main menu screen, pressed enter and then just got a blank screen with Mandrake Linux 8.1 at the top. please help! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robin Sent: 27 January 2002 18:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 According to Linux-on-laptops, it is possible. Here is how To install Linux from at CD-Rom, you need the cable that comes with the computer to attach the floppy drive to the parallel port. The procedure is as follows. Turn the computer off. Place the CD drive in the bay, and connect the floppy drive to the parallel port with the cable. Fasten the screws firmly. Now turn the machine on and press F2 to enter the setup. Find the configuration menu for integrated peripherals and change the mode of the parallel port to FDD mode. Initially it will probably be Uni-directional or Bi-directional. Save and exit the setup, and when the system boots, the now external floppy drive will be A:. From this point on your have a normal system with both floppy and CD-ROM drive and you can install as usual. If you want more information, here is the link http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/olivetti.html Hmmm, just a side note, judging from your model number, I am guessing it's Pentium 90, are you sure you want to put 8.1 on it? 8.1 does take quite a bit of resource to run it smoothly. Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:33 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Hmmm - tricky. Have you got sfficient drive space to perform a Hard-drive install? i.e. copy the CD's onto HD and install from that, rather than a CD. -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 or rather the floppy drive has a cable, but the BIOS doesn't recognise it! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: 27 January 2002 17:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Extremely ancient! I have an Olivetti Echos P90s. I've checked and sadly it's not possible to connect it via a cable :-( Tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 17:23 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Are you quite sure your BIOS won't allow a CDROM boot? It must be a truely ancient laptop if it doesn't. It's not a Dell Insprion is it? What normally happens is that the CDROM can be connected top the parallel port via a special cable which carries the signal and enough power for the drive -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] installing 8.1 I just bought Mankrake 8.1 Standard edition but I am having trouble installing. The problem is that my laptop as a space for a floppy drive and CD-ROM drive however I can only have one in at once at my BIOS won't allow me to boot from a CD. Because I cannot use both floppy and CD at once I can't use a boot disk. The only workaround I can think of is to go into dos or whatever and open the install file but I don't what it is. Please could someone reply and tell me the name of the file. Tom. File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies.
Re: [newbie] CD burning setup
Hi there Richard, Firstly thanks for using the correct list address ;-) Secondly, to get to your problem... Umm, this may be just a shot in the dark, however are you sure your writer IS supported? I see similiar ones like the PX-W8220 on http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdwriters-1.11.html just your one isn't there. If you are using LM 8 or 8.1 you would have to add the group of cdwriters to authorised users, however indeed as root this should not make any difference. The fact that scanbus detects your cd-writer says nothing of whether it's supported or not. Give the page a look, maybe you will see something I haven't. Good luck, Ralph On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, RichardA wrote: Chris I get this: Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R PX-W8432T' '1.07' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * My CDR is indeed the master on the second IDE channel. In GCombust, it looks at scsi 0,0,0 and, even as root, says 'wrong scsi settings or no permission to device' as stated. Am I right in thinking that root cannot have permission problems, so this is about scsi settings? Richard Chris Keelan, Saturday 26 January 2002 22:36: On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 22:27:31 +, RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] spilled a can of spare bits all over the network, which arranged themselves like so: I've done mostly as suggested. As mentioned in my original post, 'ls -l /dev/cdrom' gave 'No such file or directory', so I did this: # ln /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom # ln /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom2 Edited /etc/modules and /etc/rc.d/rc.local. /etc/lilo.conf already had 'append= hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount so I left it. Now, running GCombust as root, when I do 'check scsi settings' I get 'cdrecord failed to recognise selected drive (wrong scsi settings or no permission to device)!' How can root not have rights to a device? How can I get such a range of errors? (I left out all the problems I have had logging in this evening, kde complaining about failing to set up interprocess communication, dcop server not running, mouse services and named failing on closedown, etc.). Help! Richard, 2 things I'm noticing: 1. If you're using an IDE-SCSI (most CDRW's) it MUST be on the master device on a channel. Mine's installed on IDE-2 as the primary device. 2. As root, do: # cdrecord --scanbus Here's my output: Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-R/RW CRW6206A' '1.6A' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * Notice that my burner is /dev/scd0 NOT /dev/hdb ! I'm not sure where you need to make those changes in gcombust but make sure that it's looking for a burner on the (emulated) SCSI bus, not on the IDE devices bus (i.e. /dev/scd0). HTH - Chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] copying files from cd
Hi. I am really new to the Linux experience and just had a basic question. When I try to copy a file from a cd to my hard drive it copies over fine but shows up as a file with 0 bytes, and can not be opened. Wondering what I am doing wrong. -Jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] copying files from cd
You aren't copying it correctly! You should be doing something like 'cp /mnt/cdrom/afile.txt ~/afile.txt'. Are you doing this copy from the command line or the desktop. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 7:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] copying files from cd Hi. I am really new to the Linux experience and just had a basic question. When I try to copy a file from a cd to my hard drive it copies over fine but shows up as a file with 0 bytes, and can not be opened. Wondering what I am doing wrong. -Jeff File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System restarts itself
I didn't know that. That's not very good. I'll have to check up on that. Although I don't use standby as I don't know how to use the power management tools in linux. That's on my to-do list. On Sunday 27 January 2002 12:59 pm, Robin wrote: By the way, I just remembered something that you might want to check as well while you are at it. Some models of BIOS has an option of shutting off fans when the computer goes into stand by mode. And yes, it shuts off CPU fan. I have heard of people toasted their CPU after they leave their computer on over night in stand by. Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bill Davidson Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Robin Subject: Re: [newbie] System restarts itself On Sunday 27 January 2002 01:15 am, Robin wrote: I agree with Erylon, I had the same problem 2 month back when I add in a new piece of RAM. I had one piece of 256 and added another piece of 256, then the machine started to reboot for no reason at all. The interesting thing was that it only happened when load started to get heavy. After I replaced the RAM, I then have no problem at all. Robin Funny you should mention that, because I noticed that it usually happens when it's been sitting for a while. The first thing I try to do will trigger it. Oh, well. I guess I'll start narrowing things down. Thanks for your reply. Bill Davidson _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD burning setup
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 14:23:45 +, RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] spilled a can of spare bits all over the network, which arranged themselves like so: Am I right in thinking that root cannot have permission problems, so this is about scsi settings? Well, that's a definite maybe. I'd like to see if we can get some more troubleshooting info, so let's start at the hardware and work our way up. cdrecord can find your CDRW. That suggests to me that it's been installed properly. Try making a test iso in a temp directory. I'm going to pretend you've copied file1, file2, file3 into /temp (a total of say, 25Mb). As root, # mkiso -r -J /temp/test.iso /temp/file* Then do: # cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=2 -dummy /temp/test.iso This is a dummy burn and won't actually toast a CDR. Watch the debug output carefully (anyone know how to pipe this to a file?) If that works, then both your CDRW and the underlying cd-burning programs are configured correctly. This, then may be a problem with gcombust which I won't be able to help you with, since I burn everything via command line. If it doesn't work, let us know what errors occur. - C Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] For Help
Hello, I am Jamil. I am a novice user of Linux Mandrake 8.0 and i am facing difficulties wihin it. can u please help me by letting me know that how can i get inti a server ( e.g : latcs5.cs.latrobe.edu.au) from the Terminal. As it will help me to do my studies. I want to get in this server and execute linux command. I tried a lot, but i failed. I would be very greateful if u let me khow. Thank u. jamil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
i think it is in text mode anyway. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robin Sent: 27 January 2002 18:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Try text mode and see what happens Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 10:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 that kind of worked. i got to the main menu screen, pressed enter and then just got a blank screen with Mandrake Linux 8.1 at the top. please help! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robin Sent: 27 January 2002 18:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 According to Linux-on-laptops, it is possible. Here is how To install Linux from at CD-Rom, you need the cable that comes with the computer to attach the floppy drive to the parallel port. The procedure is as follows. Turn the computer off. Place the CD drive in the bay, and connect the floppy drive to the parallel port with the cable. Fasten the screws firmly. Now turn the machine on and press F2 to enter the setup. Find the configuration menu for integrated peripherals and change the mode of the parallel port to FDD mode. Initially it will probably be Uni-directional or Bi-directional. Save and exit the setup, and when the system boots, the now external floppy drive will be A:. From this point on your have a normal system with both floppy and CD-ROM drive and you can install as usual. If you want more information, here is the link http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/olivetti.html Hmmm, just a side note, judging from your model number, I am guessing it's Pentium 90, are you sure you want to put 8.1 on it? 8.1 does take quite a bit of resource to run it smoothly. Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:33 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Hmmm - tricky. Have you got sfficient drive space to perform a Hard-drive install? i.e. copy the CD's onto HD and install from that, rather than a CD. -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 or rather the floppy drive has a cable, but the BIOS doesn't recognise it! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: 27 January 2002 17:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Extremely ancient! I have an Olivetti Echos P90s. I've checked and sadly it's not possible to connect it via a cable :-( Tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 17:23 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Are you quite sure your BIOS won't allow a CDROM boot? It must be a truely ancient laptop if it doesn't. It's not a Dell Insprion is it? What normally happens is that the CDROM can be connected top the parallel port via a special cable which carries the signal and enough power for the drive -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] installing 8.1 I just bought Mankrake 8.1 Standard edition but I am having trouble installing. The problem is that my laptop as a space for a floppy drive and CD-ROM drive however I can only have one in at once at my BIOS won't allow me to boot from a CD. Because I cannot use both floppy and CD at once I can't use a boot disk. The only workaround I can think of is to go into dos or whatever and open the install file but I don't what it is. Please could someone reply and tell me the name of the file. Tom. File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. **
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
h... i don't know what machine i have got, how do i find out? i would rather not install previous versions because i got this one packaged in a shop which cost £30! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 18:51 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Didn't you get a LILO: prompt on screen? If so, try typing Linux, or just hitting enter again. If your machine hung, then I suspect you might be trying to install a 586 compiled distribution on something which isn't quite a 586! If you are desperate, I can burn you a copy of mandrake 6.5 which I think would install onto a 486 based machine... -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 that kind of worked. i got to the main menu screen, pressed enter and then just got a blank screen with Mandrake Linux 8.1 at the top. please help! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robin Sent: 27 January 2002 18:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 According to Linux-on-laptops, it is possible. Here is how To install Linux from at CD-Rom, you need the cable that comes with the computer to attach the floppy drive to the parallel port. The procedure is as follows. Turn the computer off. Place the CD drive in the bay, and connect the floppy drive to the parallel port with the cable. Fasten the screws firmly. Now turn the machine on and press F2 to enter the setup. Find the configuration menu for integrated peripherals and change the mode of the parallel port to FDD mode. Initially it will probably be Uni-directional or Bi-directional. Save and exit the setup, and when the system boots, the now external floppy drive will be A:. From this point on your have a normal system with both floppy and CD-ROM drive and you can install as usual. If you want more information, here is the link http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/olivetti.html Hmmm, just a side note, judging from your model number, I am guessing it's Pentium 90, are you sure you want to put 8.1 on it? 8.1 does take quite a bit of resource to run it smoothly. Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:33 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Hmmm - tricky. Have you got sfficient drive space to perform a Hard-drive install? i.e. copy the CD's onto HD and install from that, rather than a CD. -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 or rather the floppy drive has a cable, but the BIOS doesn't recognise it! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: 27 January 2002 17:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Extremely ancient! I have an Olivetti Echos P90s. I've checked and sadly it's not possible to connect it via a cable :-( Tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 17:23 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Are you quite sure your BIOS won't allow a CDROM boot? It must be a truely ancient laptop if it doesn't. It's not a Dell Insprion is it? What normally happens is that the CDROM can be connected top the parallel port via a special cable which carries the signal and enough power for the drive -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] installing 8.1 I just bought Mankrake 8.1 Standard edition but I am having trouble installing. The problem is that my laptop as a space for a floppy drive and CD-ROM drive however I can only have one in at once at my BIOS won't allow me to boot from a CD. Because I cannot use both floppy and CD at once I can't use a boot disk. The only workaround I can think of is to go into dos or whatever and open the install file but I don't what it is. Please could someone reply and tell me the name of the file. Tom. File: message.footer
Re: [newbie] For Help
J Hello, J I am Jamil. I am a novice user of Linux Mandrake 8.0 and i am facing J difficulties wihin it. can u please help me by letting me know that how J can i get inti a server ( e.g : latcs5.cs.latrobe.edu.au) from the J Terminal. As it will help me to do my studies. I want to get in this J server and execute linux command. I tried a lot, but i failed. I would J be very greateful if u let me khow. Thank u. J jamil The server name you gave, seems to have both ssh and telnet service available. In your linux system, open a terminal window in x-windows, (or in the console) - telnet telnet the_name_of_the_server and you will be able to login. - ssh ssh -l your_user_name the_name_of_the_server - for telnet, telnet client, for ssh, openssh must be installed in your system. (you can find them in your mdk cd's) Regards, Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
Upon boot-up, when the BIOS messages are being displayed, there are normally messages informing you of the CPU speed, the type of processor detect, the amount of detect RAM and so forth. What type of processor is detected? A Pentium II hopefully. Also, how much ram is installed in this laptop - you really want 32+ meg, and ideally 64 or 128 if you wish to use some of the prettier window managers. I'm afraid we're going to be telling you that you should take the package back to the shop and obtain a refund! :( -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 h... i don't know what machine i have got, how do i find out? i would rather not install previous versions because i got this one packaged in a shop which cost £30! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 18:51 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Didn't you get a LILO: prompt on screen? If so, try typing Linux, or just hitting enter again. If your machine hung, then I suspect you might be trying to install a 586 compiled distribution on something which isn't quite a 586! If you are desperate, I can burn you a copy of mandrake 6.5 which I think would install onto a 486 based machine... -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 that kind of worked. i got to the main menu screen, pressed enter and then just got a blank screen with Mandrake Linux 8.1 at the top. please help! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robin Sent: 27 January 2002 18:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 According to Linux-on-laptops, it is possible. Here is how To install Linux from at CD-Rom, you need the cable that comes with the computer to attach the floppy drive to the parallel port. The procedure is as follows. Turn the computer off. Place the CD drive in the bay, and connect the floppy drive to the parallel port with the cable. Fasten the screws firmly. Now turn the machine on and press F2 to enter the setup. Find the configuration menu for integrated peripherals and change the mode of the parallel port to FDD mode. Initially it will probably be Uni-directional or Bi-directional. Save and exit the setup, and when the system boots, the now external floppy drive will be A:. From this point on your have a normal system with both floppy and CD-ROM drive and you can install as usual. If you want more information, here is the link http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/olivetti.html Hmmm, just a side note, judging from your model number, I am guessing it's Pentium 90, are you sure you want to put 8.1 on it? 8.1 does take quite a bit of resource to run it smoothly. Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:33 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Hmmm - tricky. Have you got sfficient drive space to perform a Hard-drive install? i.e. copy the CD's onto HD and install from that, rather than a CD. -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 or rather the floppy drive has a cable, but the BIOS doesn't recognise it! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: 27 January 2002 17:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Extremely ancient! I have an Olivetti Echos P90s. I've checked and sadly it's not possible to connect it via a cable :-( Tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] For Help
You need some client utils installed. The safest way would be to use SSH if yur server will accept it, failing that the really insecure way would be to use Telnet (the passwords are sent plain text across the web). Anyway, whatever you decide, open the software manager and search for either 'ssh' or 'telnet' with 'client' in the name. Select which one you want and install it. Whichever one you decided, open a new shell window, and enter 'ssh latcs5.cs.latrobe.edu.au -l userid' or 'telnet latcs5.cs.latrobe.edu.au -l userid'. The userid is the remote userid you have on the server. You will be asked to authenticate yourself. HTH Dave, On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 07:12:37 -0500 Jamil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am Jamil. I am a novice user of Linux Mandrake 8.0 and i am facing difficulties wihin it. can u please help me by letting me know that how can i get inti a server ( e.g : latcs5.cs.latrobe.edu.au) from the Terminal. As it will help me to do my studies. I want to get in this server and execute linux command. I tried a lot, but i failed. I would be very greateful if u let me khow. Thank u. jamil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] installing 8.1
I think you have a Pentium 90, check this page too see if it fit what you have in hand http://www.seindal.dk/rene/linux/echos.php3 You mentioned that you hit Enter at the main menu, have you tried F1? Type test or vgalo at the prompt. Just a thought, can you use boot disk and start install with the 2nd disk? Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 h... i don't know what machine i have got, how do i find out? i would rather not install previous versions because i got this one packaged in a shop which cost £30! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 18:51 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Didn't you get a LILO: prompt on screen? If so, try typing Linux, or just hitting enter again. If your machine hung, then I suspect you might be trying to install a 586 compiled distribution on something which isn't quite a 586! If you are desperate, I can burn you a copy of mandrake 6.5 which I think would install onto a 486 based machine... -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 that kind of worked. i got to the main menu screen, pressed enter and then just got a blank screen with Mandrake Linux 8.1 at the top. please help! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robin Sent: 27 January 2002 18:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 According to Linux-on-laptops, it is possible. Here is how To install Linux from at CD-Rom, you need the cable that comes with the computer to attach the floppy drive to the parallel port. The procedure is as follows. Turn the computer off. Place the CD drive in the bay, and connect the floppy drive to the parallel port with the cable. Fasten the screws firmly. Now turn the machine on and press F2 to enter the setup. Find the configuration menu for integrated peripherals and change the mode of the parallel port to FDD mode. Initially it will probably be Uni-directional or Bi-directional. Save and exit the setup, and when the system boots, the now external floppy drive will be A:. From this point on your have a normal system with both floppy and CD-ROM drive and you can install as usual. If you want more information, here is the link http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/olivetti.html Hmmm, just a side note, judging from your model number, I am guessing it's Pentium 90, are you sure you want to put 8.1 on it? 8.1 does take quite a bit of resource to run it smoothly. Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:33 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Hmmm - tricky. Have you got sfficient drive space to perform a Hard-drive install? i.e. copy the CD's onto HD and install from that, rather than a CD. -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 or rather the floppy drive has a cable, but the BIOS doesn't recognise it! tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Harris Sent: 27 January 2002 17:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Extremely ancient! I have an Olivetti Echos P90s. I've checked and sadly it's not possible to connect it via a cable :-( Tom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 27 January 2002 17:23 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] installing 8.1 Are you quite sure your BIOS won't allow a CDROM boot? It must be a truely ancient laptop if it doesn't. It's not a Dell Insprion is it? What normally happens is that the CDROM can be connected top the parallel port via a special cable which carries the signal and enough power for the drive -Original Message- From: Tom Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] installing 8.1 I just bought Mankrake 8.1 Standard edition but I am having trouble
[newbie] KDE 2.2.2
Hallo! I've used rpmdrake to upgrade to Kde 2.2.2, and i've been asked to force installation of libpng3 (conflict with gdk-pixbuf). I've choosen yes but after having restarted kde didn't show most of its icons and gave some errors... Any idea? I suppose it's better to wait until kde 3 final... Thanks! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain Yahoo AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no sound with xawtv
Thanks for the advice. That worked like a charm. On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 13:24, Andris Maziks wrote: Hi, About bttv module, here is at least two important options , which should be specified in /etc/modules.conf : card number un tuner type, where card number is number for your card and tuner type also number for your tuner - these both numbers can be obtained from CARDLIST file in kernel documentation video4linux/bttv section, here also the sample modules.conf file and module options descriptions is available. in my case card=37 and tuner type=5 ( I using Prolink Pixelview PlayTV Pro bt878 chip with philips PAL tuner) in accordance with documentation of bttv my modules.conf contains the following lines for bttv: alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 bttv options bttv card=37 tuner=5 radio=1 options tuner type=5 debug=1 I hope this will help BR Andris I have exactly the same problem as Chuck. I have an AverMedia TV-Phone card with the BT848 chip. Can you be more specific about what the options should be, and in which file (/etc/modules.conf?), or can you mention a document that contains the details? Thanks, Kathy Andris Maziks wrote: Hi, Check out tuner type in tuner module options... BR, Andris =_1011730690-762-2236 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] copying files from cd
I am doing everything from the desktop, I am way to new to try anything else. From Nautilus right click copy, go to a new directory, right click paste. files go in but 0 bytes. I changed from Gnome to Windowmaker and it worked fine. -Jeff On 27 Jan 2002, you wrote: You aren't copying it correctly! You should be doing something like 'cp /mnt/cdrom/afile.txt ~/afile.txt'. Are you doing this copy from the command line or the desktop. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 7:35 PM To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] copying files from cd Hi. I am really new to the Linux experience and just had a basic question. When I try to copy a file from a cd to my hard drive it copies over fine but shows up as a file with 0 bytes, and can not be opened. Wondering what I am doing wrong. -Jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] copying files from cd
I've never used Nautilus, so I can't comment, but what you are doing sounds correct. or at least plausible. No ida why it gives you an empty file though. Any Nautilus users who can comment? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] copying files from cd I am doing everything from the desktop, I am way to new to try anything else. From Nautilus right click copy, go to a new directory, right click paste. files go in but 0 bytes. I changed from Gnome to Windowmaker and it worked fine. -Jeff On 27 Jan 2002, you wrote: You aren't copying it correctly! You should be doing something like 'cp /mnt/cdrom/afile.txt ~/afile.txt'. Are you doing this copy from the command line or the desktop. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 7:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] copying files from cd Hi. I am really new to the Linux experience and just had a basic question. When I try to copy a file from a cd to my hard drive it copies over fine but shows up as a file with 0 bytes, and can not be opened. Wondering what I am doing wrong. -Jeff File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] copying files from cd
Also works fine in KDE/Konqurer. -Jeff On 27 Jan 2002, you wrote: I've never used Nautilus, so I can't comment, but what you are doing sounds correct. or at least plausible. No ida why it gives you an empty file though. Any Nautilus users who can comment? -Original Message- From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] copying files from cd I am doing everything from the desktop, I am way to new to try anything else. From Nautilus right click copy, go to a new directory, right click paste. files go in but 0 bytes. I changed from Gnome to Windowmaker and it worked fine. -Jeff On 27 Jan 2002, you wrote: You aren't copying it correctly! You should be doing something like 'cp /mnt/cdrom/afile.txt ~/afile.txt'. Are you doing this copy from the command line or the desktop. -Original Message- From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:Sunday, January 27, 2002 7:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] copying files from cd Hi. I am really new to the Linux experience and just had a basic question. When I try to copy a file from a cd to my hard drive it copies over fine but shows up as a file with 0 bytes, and can not be opened. Wondering what I am doing wrong. -Jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] copying files from cd
Being perfectly honest, it's fairly easy from the command line and is worth having a play with jsut to get yourself comfortable with using the CLI. It's often easier from CLI, as you are fairly sure of getting some error message back when there was a problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 10:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] copying files from cd Also works fine in KDE/Konqurer. -Jeff On 27 Jan 2002, you wrote: I've never used Nautilus, so I can't comment, but what you are doing sounds correct. or at least plausible. No ida why it gives you an empty file though. Any Nautilus users who can comment? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:26 PM To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] copying files from cd I am doing everything from the desktop, I am way to new to try anything else. From Nautilus right click copy, go to a new directory, right click paste. files go in but 0 bytes. I changed from Gnome to Windowmaker and it worked fine. -Jeff On 27 Jan 2002, you wrote: You aren't copying it correctly! You should be doing something like 'cp /mnt/cdrom/afile.txt ~/afile.txt'. Are you doing this copy from the command line or the desktop. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 7:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] copying files from cd Hi. I am really new to the Linux experience and just had a basic question. When I try to copy a file from a cd to my hard drive it copies over fine but shows up as a file with 0 bytes, and can not be opened. Wondering what I am doing wrong. -Jeff File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Book question.
On Sunday 27 January 2002 14:58, Javier de Lázaro Redruello wrote: I´ve got a simple question for you, guys: Wich book should I read to beguin learning MDK Linux? I want to learn all those easy things as making short cuts, installing software, etc. On your mdk cds is a package called RUTE. It installs a truly excellent (IMHO) introduction to linux in pdf format, which you can read with xpdf or the Adobe Acrobat reader. Don't expect to finish it in a few hours: it is pretty big. And no one has ever claimed that it is for dummies You might have it installed already, in fact. Check if the file /usr/share/doc/rute0.X.X/rute.pdf exists on your system Apart from that, the best way to learn almost anything to do with a computer is to switch it on and start playing with it. Make mistakes, figure out how to fix your mistakes, lurk the newsgroups, browse the linux websites, if you don't understand a command then immediately type man commandname, and it is amazing how you start picking up on the tips and tricks. I'll allow one exception to that rule: When you go and learn a new programming language, a book helps you to find out what the major commands are! But generally, books are overrated. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cd-rw
Hi. I am having trouble reading a cd-rw cd. This is a brand new installation of 8.1. I am trying to look at a cd that was created in windows. My Sony crx0811 seems to see cd-r but not cd-rw. It mounts but shows only two files: autorun.inf and udfrinst.exe. -Jeff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] about network interfaces
hi how i do to tell to my linux box that the interface to use when it find web pages is the ppp interface and not the eth0 interface thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NTFS question
hello. does anyone know of any program i can u use to resize my NTFS hard drive. it won't let me do it on the install. and i can't do it when i install windows cause it uses a recovery image.. so i'm lookin for something that will let me resize to make another partition that i could put linux on..
Re: [newbie] NTFS question
Partition Magic is one of the best known and most popular. I heard of a free one but do not recall it at this moment.
Re: [newbie] NTFS question
i was thinkign of using a program like that.. but i'm trying to do this on a laptop. and the only way i have of re installing XP it i screw it up (again) is w/ the recovery disk. will those still work if i use some type of partition program.. Joe
[newbie] accessing cdrom causes segv
There is a possiblity of ur cdrom being an archaic type and the new kernel does not support the same. Try to reload the os once again and then $ mount /mnt/cdrom then try and access the same. Alternatively Search for the folder containing drivers for the CDrom drive and re install the driver with the and then inform me. -- S.Ganesan Principal Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-625237 (R) Fax:0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NTFS question
The recovery disks I've seen just wipe out everything and set the machine up in an arbitrary predetermined way. Therefore I would say that it doesn't matter what you try - at worst you can put it back the way it came. Brian On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 15:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was thinkign of using a program like that.. but i'm trying to do this on a laptop. and the only way i have of re installing XP it i screw it up (again) is w/ the recovery disk. will those still work if i use some type of partition program.. Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Running a shell script at boot
I have written a shell script I would like to run as root at boot time. Where do I put the command to run it? thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running a shell script at boot
On 28 Jan 2002 18:54:50 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have written a shell script I would like to run as root at boot time. Where do I put the command to run it? thanks Brian not sure but i think on the line just before the last in /etc/rc.local. lets wait for confirmation. ;-) ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
