Re: [newbie] MS is at it again... Now Really OT!!!
On Thursday 24 Jul 2003 11:53 pm, Robin Turner wrote: Todd Slater wrote: Why is it that the only time anybody gets their panties in a bunch is when the talk turns political and controversial? The reason I jumped in to this particular thread was because I was not prepared to let Anne be abused without saying something. There is nothing as impotent as a list at such times, nevertheless to sit by and say nothing would have been both unacceptable and shaming. As for the original flames I wrote twice, off-list, to the poster being abusive but, when the flames were directed publicly at a member of the list who is unfailingly courteous and attempts to help anyone with a problem... As I say it's an impotent action really, nevertheless the opinion MUST be posted. Arguments that the flames should be allowed to die only allow the flamer to assume that his, or her behaviour, is acceptable in public company. regards Daryl -- The Arkansas legislature passed a law that states that the Arkansas River can rise no higher than to the Main Street bridge in Little Rock. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
On Tuesday 22 Jul 2003 12:13 pm, Robin Turner wrote: [...] In American law it's a person - comes from a case around the turn of the century: Dartmouth College vs. someone-or-other. Time we took this thread to the OT list? Sir Robin And in the UK it's Salomon v Salomon Ltd, turn of the 20th century, though my memory isn't so good these days. ;o) Yes you're right, it's well OT now. regards Daryl -- When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, How would the Lone Ranger handle this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MS is at it again... Now Really OT!!!
On Tuesday 22 Jul 2003 9:18 pm, JoeHill wrote: [...] No, I don't appreciate being treated with disdain by someone whom I have gone *out of my way* to be nice to, to help, to treat as a friend. You only get one chance with me, unfortunately, in that kind of situation. So, fuck off. Wow, you really are a prick aren't you? The mails that I replied to earlier I now notice were direct to you. Despite being polite you chose to be abusive in return. Your reply to Anne, who is unfailingly courteous, not to mention one of the regulars who will help anyone with a problem, says far more about you than you can imagine. I'd like to imagine you as a sulky teenager which would at least provide some sort of poor excuse for you, unfortunately I suspect the rreality falls in the first line of this reply. regards Daryl -- Marriage is the waste-paper basket of the emotions. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
On Monday 21 Jul 2003 8:54 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:47:37 +0100 Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: According to Roger Scruton, whose lectures I attended many years ago, a corporation has the status of a person in law. This strikes me as unfortunate as a corporation, while possessing similar appetites, lacks many of the moral characteristics of a person - occasional inclinations towards altruism, any sense of fairness - above all, it completely lacks a sense of shame. It can, however, afford more and better legal help than the average regular person. Give that man a CIGAR! If the corporation is protected by the law, it is *bound* by it, ie. it kills, it is charged with murder and the company officers go to *jail*. If they pollute, they are charged with criminal negligence and the corporate officers go to *jail*. If they steal millions from honest shareholders and pensioners, the company officers go to *jail*. And yet when millions of punters swap, copy and give away legitimate works protected by copyright it isn't seen as theft at all. I'm prepared to get as excitable as the next person about excessive profits and ripping off punters. There is a legitimate argument to be made from economics that when the prices are too high there is something rotten somewhere. HOWEVER, the fact remains that too many people have been getting on some very high horses having somehow levitated themselves into the saddle. They sure didn't climb there step by logical step. Breach of copyright is theft. The Millenium Act isn't the answer but then again two wrongs never did make a right eh? regards Daryl -- A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PostgreSQL
it's probably postgres. If there is a password allocated as well and you don't know what it is, (blowed if I can remember) try su root then su postgres :o) As postgres you are the main postgresql user and can create other users - including yourself. There are huge volumes of notes available with the package and from the site. regards Daryl On Tuesday 25 Mar 2003 1:40 pm, Christopher Shaffer wrote: Forgive my silly question, but I'm trying to experiment with PostgreSQL (all I've used till now is MySQL...) on Mandrake 9.0, but I have know idea what the default username/password is. Is it kind of like MySQL, with a root user? Thanks, Chris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com -- It's NO USE ... I've gone to CLUB MED!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [OT]: U.S. politics in Linux? Was: Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Which i s better:KDE or Gnome?]
One might just as easily ask if you joined a linux list or a politics list... ;o) On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 4:29 am, Todd Franklin wrote: hmm. did u not see the OT in the subject line? Anthony Abby wrote: What does any of this crap have to do with Linux? Can you guys please take your political diatribes off to some private la la land? Thanks [...] -- Mum's the word. -- Miguel de Cervantes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: U.S. politics in Linux? Was: Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?]
A quick check on my own server gave me 352 newsgroups that included the word politics in the title... some scope there I would suggest ;o) regards Daryl On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 10:40 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Milos Prudek wrote: [...] I think that this list is intended for discussion about Mandrake Linux. While I appreciate your opinion and actually agree with most points, in my opinion this list is not appropriate to discuss politics. John Richard Smith wrote: That is quite correct , I tend to agree , but people are very worried about this situation, little scope to discuss these things really exists, and in this instance at least , here is an opportunity . John -- If God is perfect, why did He create discontinuous functions? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installing java
You can, in fact, install Star Office without Java if neccessary however... :o) The Java package is pretty much self installing, from memory. Could you post the name of the package you downloaded please because there are sources, which is done one way, and RPMs which are done another. For example I downloaded the rpm.bin. regards Daryl On Wednesday 25 Dec 2002 1:24 pm, Owen Berio wrote: At 08:10 PM 12/24/2002 -0800, you wrote: X86 / 9.0 (Dolphin) / Installation Q I have down loaded java j2re-140-03 from Sun Microsystems download page. It now resides in /home/owen/dlsoftware. (dlsoftware is a folder I created). Now how do I go about installing it? Please explain step by step. As a newbie my skill level stopped with pushing icon buttons. My end objective is to install Star Office but the installation stalls because I lack the necessary java software. Owen -- A definition of teaching: casting fake pearls before real swine. -- Bill Cain, Stand Up Tragedy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] palm pilot
Yes, but it was a bit idiosyncratic to start. Let's see, from memory... I'm using serial so made a soft link from /dev/pilot to /dev/ttyS1. Configured the conduits for diary files and to-dos etc... there is a good bit in the manual about this. Remember to identify the user. Once everything you can think of is configured, close the application and kill the daemon. (Trial and error m'boy, trial and error!) Start the daemon, start the application click on the hotsync button on the app then do the same on your palm and it should work. I'm using a Palm IIIc on serial port 2. regards Daryl On Sunday 08 Dec 2002 2:46 pm, walt wrote: Anyone manage to get a palm pilot to sync in mandrake 9.0? Walt -- If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. -- Vannevar Bush Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound Is Impossible
It's taken me 4 weeks of fairly constant tinkering, adjustment and experimentation to arrive at the conclusion that it is impossible to configure my sound card - which seems remarkable as in most ways it is getting recognised. Forgive the long post but if anyone has anything constructive to add at least all the information should be here :o) Hardware Configuration ABIT VP6 mother board Twin Pentium III processors 1000 mhz 512Mb ram 1 x 40 Gb drives 1 x HP CdROM RW 1 x Adaptec SCSI I/F 1 x Travan SCSI tape 1 x GE Force 2MX video card 1 x Creative Blaster 4.1 Digital Software Started with a purchase of Mandrake 8.0 Powerpack because I liked 7.2 Currently using 8.2 because it came on the cover of Linux Today and I hoped it would self-configure the sound. The Bios in the machine has been tried with plug'n play switched on and off. It's currently on Information Output from dmesg shows no recognition of a sound card at all, though there have been times during this saga when I have seen es1371 mentioned. My /etc/modules.conf is : alias usb-interface usb-uhci # ALSA native device support alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major = 116 snd_cards_limit = 1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371 # OSS/Free setup alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss probeall scsi_hostadapter advansys alias eth0 3c59x Output from lsmod is: Module Size Used byNot tainted sr_mod 15192 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-midi3424 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss26112 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3504 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq43056 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss18848 1 snd-pcm-plugin 16144 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 4704 0 [snd-pcm-oss] parport_pc 22280 1 (autoclean) lp 6624 0 (autoclean) parport25440 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] snd-card-ens13712208 1 snd-ens137110624 0 [snd-card-ens1371] snd-pcm33824 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1371] snd-timer 9568 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi10688 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371] snd-seq-device 4028 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 25504 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-mixer 25416 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371 snd-ac97-codec] snd35648 1 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer] soundcore 4452 7 [snd] nfsd 70592 8 (autoclean) lockd 50080 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 67860 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] af_packet 13896 0 (autoclean) ipchains 38440 0 usb-uhci 22692 0 (unused) usbcore62048 1 [usb-uhci] 3c59x 26536 1 (autoclean) st 28052 0 (unused) supermount 62308 2 (autoclean) ide-scsi8096 0 rtc 6680 0 (autoclean) reiserfs 172032 6 advansys 86668 0 (unused) sd_mod 11512 0 (unused) scsi_mod 96060 5 [sr_mod st ide-scsi advansys sd_mod] The relevant line from ps reads: 2737 ?S 0:09 /usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -d -b 16 -s 1 -m artsmes Running drakxservices shows that both Alsa and Sound are started at boot and running. Checking further I find that in Control Centre my board is recognised as an Ensoniq 5880 Audio PCI using kernel module es1371 (which was why I used this module when setting up modules.conf) The configuration tool produces nothing however and neither does sndconfig. The IRQ is 11 and is shared between advansys, usb and ensoniq The ports are cc00-cc3f Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI Interestingly the PCI report states: 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) Subsystem: Ensoniq: Unknown device 8001 Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at cc00 [size=64] Capabilities available only to root The last line certainly makes me gnash my teeth because I can't see why that would be the case, however... I am at the end of my tether. The card appears to be recognised and has a module available but has defied all my efforts to get a peep out of it. If there are any suggestions I would be more than willing to hear/try them out. As I say, after 4 hard weeks I figure I'm out of ideas and patience. The only thing I can say for certain is that there are plenty of people writing to a variety of ngs
[newbie] Sound Is Impossible
It's taken me 4 weeks of fairly constant tinkering, adjustment and experimentation to arrive at the conclusion that it is impossible to configure my sound card - which seems remarkable as in most ways it is getting recognised. Forgive the long post but if anyone has anything constructive to add at least all the information should be here :o) Hardware Configuration ABIT VP6 mother board Twin Pentium III processors 1000 mhz 512Mb ram 1 x 40 Gb drives 1 x HP CdROM RW 1 x Adaptec SCSI I/F 1 x Travan SCSI tape 1 x GE Force 2MX video card 1 x Creative Blaster 4.1 Digital Software Started with a purchase of Mandrake 8.0 Powerpack because I liked 7.2 Currently using 8.2 because it came on the cover of Linux Today and I hoped it would self-configure the sound. The Bios in the machine has been tried with plug'n play switched on and off. It's currently on Information Output from dmesg shows no recognition of a sound card at all, though there have been times during this saga when I have seen es1371 mentioned. My /etc/modules.conf is : alias usb-interface usb-uhci # ALSA native device support alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major = 116 snd_cards_limit = 1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371 # OSS/Free setup alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss probeall scsi_hostadapter advansys alias eth0 3c59x Output from lsmod is: Module Size Used byNot tainted sr_mod 15192 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-midi3424 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss26112 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3504 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq43056 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss18848 1 snd-pcm-plugin 16144 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 4704 0 [snd-pcm-oss] parport_pc 22280 1 (autoclean) lp 6624 0 (autoclean) parport25440 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] snd-card-ens13712208 1 snd-ens137110624 0 [snd-card-ens1371] snd-pcm33824 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1371] snd-timer 9568 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi10688 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371] snd-seq-device 4028 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 25504 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-mixer 25416 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371 snd-ac97-codec] snd35648 1 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer] soundcore 4452 7 [snd] nfsd 70592 8 (autoclean) lockd 50080 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 67860 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] af_packet 13896 0 (autoclean) ipchains 38440 0 usb-uhci 22692 0 (unused) usbcore62048 1 [usb-uhci] 3c59x 26536 1 (autoclean) st 28052 0 (unused) supermount 62308 2 (autoclean) ide-scsi8096 0 rtc 6680 0 (autoclean) reiserfs 172032 6 advansys 86668 0 (unused) sd_mod 11512 0 (unused) scsi_mod 96060 5 [sr_mod st ide-scsi advansys sd_mod] The relevant line from ps reads: 2737 ?S 0:09 /usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -d -b 16 -s 1 -m artsmes Running drakxservices shows that both Alsa and Sound are started at boot and running. Checking further I find that in Control Centre my board is recognised as an Ensoniq 5880 Audio PCI using kernel module es1371 (which was why I used this module when setting up modules.conf) The configuration tool produces nothing however and neither does sndconfig. The IRQ is 11 and is shared between advansys, usb and ensoniq The ports are cc00-cc3f Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI Interestingly the PCI report states: 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) Subsystem: Ensoniq: Unknown device 8001 Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at cc00 [size=64] Capabilities available only to root The last line certainly makes me gnash my teeth because I can't see why that would be the case, however... I am at the end of my tether. The card appears to be recognised and has a module available but has defied all my efforts to get a peep out of it. If there are any suggestions I would be more than willing to hear/try them out. As I say, after 4 hard weeks I figure I'm out of ideas and patience. The only thing I can say for certain is that there are plenty of people writing to a variety of ngs
Re: [newbie] OfficeJet drivers
You had to ask AFTER I ripped my notes up :o) CUPS contains a driver for the G85 Office Jet and Sourceforge contains information on these drivers. If you log on to HP and search for linux drivers you will find an address for this project which gives a table of suitable drivers to use. regards Daryl (just found a quarter of paper in the bin :o) hpoj.sourceforge.net/suplst.shtml ) On Thursday 07 February 2002 07:49, you wrote: We're thinking of moving our HP OfficeJet R65 printer/scanner from a Windows box to my Linux box, but HP don't provide Linux drivers for this model. Printing works with the HP 600 series driver, but I'm not sure about scanning software. Anyone have any experience in this area? Robin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-9; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- No user-servicable parts inside. Refer to qualified service personnel. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HW: combo printer/scanner/fax?
On Thursday 27 December 2001 14:21, you wrote: HP have a supported project to support their own products with linux drivers accross all product lines. There is even a website pointed at from www.hp.com which tells you which m/cs are fully supported and which are still only partly supported. [...] regards Daryl -- Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo! -- J. R. R. Tolkien Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adaptec 1510 scsi card
On Friday 21 September 2001 05:38, you wrote: After extensive experience with this card, I can report that it is possible to get the card recognised by the system but I failed completely to get the equipment plugged in to it to be recognised. Eventually I gave up and spent thirty quid ($45) on an Advansys card which was recognised immediately along with the tape drive plugged in to it. If you want to give it a go then e-mail me and I will send some further details. regards Daryl Hello, my Adaptec AHA 1510 SCSI adapter(ISA bus) is not being detected at install, so cannot install mandrake 8.0!! The Adaptec 1510 is not in the Hardware database, but a very similar model, Adaptec AHA 1520 (also ISA bus) *is* in the database as reported to be supported, but not as tested by mandrake team. The install program gives a list of drivers and asks which of these should be used to detect the SCSI adapter. 3 of these are AHA, but none are the exact model. However I feel that one of these will probably work. After I try them though, it then asks for parameters, and I do not know what to type next. I have used windows device manager to find the I/O range and IRQ, but I am not sure in what form/syntax to pass these paramaters to the install program and/or kernel, or even if these are the paramaters it wants! Finally, I also read somewhere (actually, it was in the install guide) that if your ISA card is PnP then you may have to reset the card to non PnP using the floppy that came with it from the manufacturer. I have this floppy and may be able to do this, but am unsure how to do it, if it's really necessary, or really what I'm doing at all at this stage! What should my next step be?? Thanks Wendy Langer -- The average home computer user now has more processing power, storage and bandwidth than was available to the US Government scarcely a generation ago... www.potlatch.net -- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Maryann's Law: You can always find what you're not looking for. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Security -J.Miner and Microsoft
Been on holiday have we? g On Thursday 12 July 2001 10:43, Charles A. Punch wrote: What ever happened to free speech? If you don't agree with someone, why not express your opinion, instead of whining? If it really is too much trouble to simply delete what you don't want to read, why not get another account for the list? ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user #217118 Jeanette Russo wrote: How many people would like to see this thread taken off list it is OT. - Original Message - From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 4:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Security -J.Miner and Microsoft I hate threads like this. Makes you stop and think about why you use these mailing lists!!! John W -- Serenity through viciousness.
[newbie] Linux Virus
You have just received a virus which only runs under linux. You are honour bound to delete twenty or thirty files at random from your hard drive and then pass this e-mail along to everyone on your e-mail list.. regards Daryl -- Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind the railroad yards. - H. L. Mencken, writing of William Jennings Bryan, counsel for the supporters of Tennessee's anti-evolution law at the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925.
Re: [newbie] missing smbadduser
What is the name of the file that you use to add samba users?? I thought it was smbadduser but a seach doesn't turn it up (I do have smbpasswd in /usr/bin) [...] try smbpasswd -a yourusername regards Daryl -- You will hear good news from one you thought unfriendly to you.
Re: [newbie] Samba stopped working..
I have a LINUX OS computer which is used to store my back up files for all computers I have at home. It used to work but last week I could not access to this computer. I did not change anything at this computer. I checked everything and pretty sure that there is no problem with this computer except SAMBA. When I type IP of this computer from my windows computer browser and I saw it. Therefore I knew Apache was running. After I decided to re-install LM8.0, I could not get SAMBA back to work! Could anyone please explain for me and how to fix it? I am using Win2000 SPK2. I generally start by running testparm at the command line. If this runs then at least I cn see the shares that are working and what defaults are being used.. Second place I look is the sambapassword set-up. The things that seem to interfere with samba running are not using an encrypted passwords flag in the samba.conf file and then not adding the user names to the smbpasswfile smbpasswd -a johndoe1 then following the prompt issu the appropriate password. Whenever you make any changes remember to stop and then re-start samba. I also have two more questions: How can I setup FTP and mail server? I know not thing at all.
RE: [newbie] Pls help me!
Get a book from the library on the use of SQL - the creation of tables in
postgreSQL is the same as creating a table in any other variant of SQL (as
far as I know, only used a few). In postgreSQL
%createdb mydatabase
PostgreSQL as well as mySQL both come with documentation including how to do
these things (/usr/share/doc/postgresql-vNo or /usr/share/doc/MySQL-vNo).
Population of tables is the same - get the afore-mentioned book from the
library or check through the docs that came with the installation - create
tables in the database then populate them with data.
%CREATE TABLE names (
firstName varchar(10),
lastNamevarchar(15),
etc
);
%INSERT INTO names
VALUES ('Mickey', 'Mouse', etc);
Lastly, I suspect that the fourth query is the key one. There ARE add-on
packages which add a gui to different variants of SQL but unless you have
installed one then you are going to be using command line instructions to
create, populate and manipulate your tables.
Daryl Johnson
Proplan Associates
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of AOL Systems
Sent: 14 July 2001 05:02
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Pls help me!
To whom it may concern
I just want to know something about postgreSQL
1. how to create tables?
2.how to populate tables?
3.where to get resources aside from postgreSQL.com,.org,.net
4.how to see the GUI side of it i really cannot find the GUI of Postgre?
Thanks i hope someone answers it.
thanks and God Bless!
Respectfully
AOL
RE: [newbie] Samba problem!
Boy you certainly dive nto the deep end don't you? When you install samba from RPMs, which is what I assume you have done from your earlier posts, you have all the files installed for you in the appropriate places. The configuration file you are referring to is /etc/smb.conf and contains a lot of fairly standard configuration options that can be switched on by removing a semi-colon. It isn't quite as straight forward a package as you seem to be assuming however and I would guess that you have a bit of research and effort to undertake yet. Once again, check in /usr/share/doc/samba-verNo and see what docs have been installed. Frankly I don't see you installing and making samba work in a n/w without going through the docs supplied with the package. Learned though some of the people on this list are - not to mention helpful, they aren't going to wave a magic wand for you. It is possible to answer specific queries as to why something doesn't work but to be honest, IMHO, you're not going to get samba up and running without an effort on your part first. If you are short of docs, or packages then www.samba.org is the place to look. If you have RPMS available on cdrom then you require three RPMs, the server, the common files and the client. If you are going to compile from sources then I believe v 2.1 is the lowest version that will deal properly with NT. As a final comment, you should be able to get a linux server working well with win98 but you will have a more... interesting, task on your hands with WinNT Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of AOL Systems Sent: 14 July 2001 05:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Samba problem! To all my firends Can you pls send me a configuration of SAMBA from installation and configuration cause my notes is missing and I will use it in our office can anyone pls help me I'll be configuring a Linux server to Windows NT and WIN98 workstation pls help me and how can I download the browser for samba. Respectfully AOL www.aolsystems.com The Technology Specialist
RE: [newbie] Pls help me!
However further down my reply I included a few more instructions ;o) Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates 07710 908817 -Original Message- From: Michael D. Viron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 July 2001 15:56 To: Daryl Johnson; AOL Systems Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Pls help me! At 02:00 PM 07/13/2001 +0100, Daryl Johnson wrote: Get a book from the library on the use of SQL - the creation of tables in postgreSQL is the same as creating a table in any other variant of SQL (as far as I know, only used a few). In postgreSQL %createdb mydatabase Actually, that creates a database, not a table. If I remember correctly from my database systems class, it goes (using -- to indicate part of) row--table--database -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
RE: [newbie] Internet Security -J.Miner and Microsoft
Hmmm, interesting, as a relatively disinterested reader of this correspondence I nevertheless found myself interested enough to check with deja-news... I am totally puzzled by this post of Roman's: I have been following Judith Miner's email posts since 1996 through the her Wordstar postings on another news group. It appears that she is not new to the Microsoft Windows OS. This goes back as far as Windows 3.11 and DOS. I don't know if she is really who she says she is... but she has been pi**ssing off at lot of people over the years. She is well known through other newsgroups. I'm well known through other newsgroups??? I don't recall ever posting anything to newsgroups. In fact, I haven't read Usenet newsgroups in years. The only newsgroups I've read in the past two years have been on the Adobe and Corel sites, and I just lurked, I didn't post. It makes for an interesting search on so many topics contributed to by at least one Judith Miner ;o) Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates 07710 908817
RE: [newbie] samba security=domain
All I'm saying to you is that you are not able, or very unlikely to be able, to use your samba box as a domain master with an NT machine. This doesn't mean that you won't be able to have a share available between them. I can only say that I find NY Client particularly obstructive in this respect in that I can get the NT machine to browse the samba server and to use the samba server as a print server fairly effortlessly, even at the same time as the samba server is working as a domain log-on for Win 98 machines. Making the NT machine available to the samba box however is a whole different story though, as of course is having the NT box log on to a samba controlled domain. You actually only need a very limited smb.conf file to achieve this and you can do this using the supplied sample file if you wish. You mention that you have used the Samba manual for reference and this certainly contains all the information that you will require. Refernce to the gotchas file supplied is, sadly, very instructive in respect of domain log-on utility with NT machines ie there is none :o( If you are determined to have a samba controlled domain that will allow NT4 log-ons the the only advice I am able to give you is go to samba.org and d/l the latest version then compile it for your m/c. Remember the fault is not with the samba box but with the way that NT4 behaves. regards Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: SK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 July 2001 01:49 To: Daryl Johnson Subject: Re: [newbie] samba security=domain Hi! My current samba ver is samba-2.0.7-3. I need to join my samba with my nt4 server. Can you please guide what to do. I really need HELP because my date line is coming neer. Thank You Best Regards, SKLIM
RE: [newbie] Tape Backup drive?
OK sounds like you have an ide tape drive. Actions you can take to start with include : a) run dmesg on the command line and check the output to see if the tape drive is recognised by the m/c. If the drive isn't recognised then you have an uphill task on your hands. So, open a console window, type 'dmesg | more' which will allow you to examine the boot and initialisation process a screen at a time. Look for a message that is identifying your drive, maybe as st0 or tape. b) check the Howto on ftape. It was installed as part of your installation process and is certainly available under documentation on the kde desktop. Hope this gives you a starting point. Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates 07710 908817
RE: [newbie] Networking
You are at the start of the samba adventure. Your distro came with samba almost certainly. Install it and read through the docs. My distro also included the manual as printed by O'Reilly. Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Harrison Sent: 17 April 2001 19:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Networking My question is, can you access networks such as Novell or NT to gain access to the files shared on the server through linux? I am running linux on my laptop at work and I can get the Internet to work through the network but I would like to be able to access some of the files on the servers (We have both a Novell and an NT Server). Also, if I were to setup a totally Linux Based network (server and clients) can you gain access to printers and files? Thanks. Matt
RE: [newbie] Tape backup
Taking a second bite at this though, tar is fine and has plenty of options to allow you to achieve all sorts of different results from a backup but if this isn't enough there's always taper which certainly came with my distro. Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kelly, Christopher Sent: 13 April 2001 19:50 To: 'Newbie' Subject: [newbie] Tape backup Does anybody have any suggestions for good tape backup software for Linux? Thanks, Moose
RE: [newbie] Tape backup
First get your tape drive working - and if you do, then let me know how you did it! Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kelly, Christopher Sent: 13 April 2001 19:50 To: 'Newbie' Subject: [newbie] Tape backup Does anybody have any suggestions for good tape backup software for Linux? Thanks, Moose
RE: [newbie] file server
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mattias Segerdahl Sent: 10 April 2001 09:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] file server Well, For a fileserver you don't need that much cpu or ram, but ofcourse hard drives... You would probably be best of reading about samba in this case, samba is a "netbui" fileserver which U beg pardon? Netbeui? Well, makes a change from TCP/IP ;o) Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates
RE: [newbie] file server
If you meant the one after the 'let' then I did but I made allowances that English is probably not your first language. If I have completely misinterpreted your post then I apologise. regards Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mattias Segerdahl Sent: 10 April 2001 12:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] file server Did you notice the "'s ? - Original Message - From: "Daryl Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:33 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] file server -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mattias Segerdahl Sent: 10 April 2001 09:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] file server Well, For a fileserver you don't need that much cpu or ram, but ofcourse hard drives... You would probably be best of reading about samba in this case, samba is a "netbui" fileserver which U beg pardon? Netbeui? Well, makes a change from TCP/IP ;o) Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates
RE: [newbie] Intel inside Idiot outside
There are all sorts of manuals and books that will claim to take you to the state of being a linux guru. In my experience there is no one source. The first purchase I made after going the unix route (NetBSD) was Essential System Administration by Aileen Frisch. It's pretty good. I also got hold of the BSD 4.4 User's Reference manual and System Administrator's manual. The FAQs are also worth reading for linux as well as the packages that you may install. (/usr/share/doc ;o) ) I found the FAQs that came with various Amiga distributions both informative as well as non-machine specific. The point is I think you will have to attempt several different sources - also, hopefully, have access to someone who knows the subject sigh sounds hard doesn't it? It's rewarding though and does start to make sense after a while. Good luck Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mcintosh, Duncan Sent: 10 April 2001 14:14 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Intel inside Idiot outside hi there Im looking for documentation for linux for an idiot. Iv checked a bunch of sites but they all seem to be different. How to configure the kernel A to Z. In that matter everything from A-Z Iv been to www.Mandrakecampus.com Iv been everywhere. If anybody knows where I can download a book or something like that please help out.
RE: [newbie] file server
Look Mattias I might just as well ask didn't you see the smiley on my comment? I have offered you a public apology but if you do not wish to accept it then we can carry on the argument via e-mail as it is clearly something that does not belong on the list. regards Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates
RE: [newbie] networking question
You need to run Samba on the linux box. Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of BJS Sent: 05 April 2001 02:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] networking question Ok Box #1 runs windows 2000 Box #2 runs mandrake 7.2 and windows 2000 they are networked together with a lynksys 4 port router. I have a cable modem for internet access. I know how to get them networked for file sharing when they are both windows 2000... but what about when Linux is running? (which is what I want to do full time on the second box) I can see all my files on my windows partition in linux. I would love be be able to share out that directory so I can still access them on the win2k box. Is this easily done? I realize this question might not be suited for this list.. so if anyone could point me to a good website on this or maybe reccomend a good book? = Brian J Susol Raynham MA http://people.ne.mediaone.net/negative ICQ# 9088592 Yahoo: bsusol __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
RE: [newbie] Merge several html docs into one?
There is a program on freshmeat that does this. It's a perl script I believe but if you search freshmeat using 'merge html documents' it will show up as an answer. Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of n6tadam Sent: 03 April 2001 10:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Merge several html docs into one? Hi, I would just like to say, that if you are merging html files, then using cat is not all that effective, try the following: cat filehtml | mv file2html amalg HTH, Thomas Adam - Original Message - From: Meph Istopheles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 7:48 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Merge several html docs into one? Is there a quick and easy way to merge several html docs into one file? Can the images also be merged at the same time? Have you tried cat'ing them with something like: cat file,file,file,etc newfile (to copy them to another) cat file,file,file,etc newfile (to move them to another) I don't often cat to file, so you might want to fool with it -- or better, read the man file. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux Please note that the content of this message is confidential between the original sender and the intended recipient(s) of the message. If you are not an intended recipient and/or have received this message in error, kindly disregard the content of the message and return it to the original sender. If you have any complaints about this message please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Purbeck School E-Mail server running: users.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk
RE: [newbie] scsi drivers for Mandrake
Well, if you don't indentify the card how do you expect anyone to help with it? If it's an Adaptec 1505 you're in for an interesting time - maybe :o) Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joel Carvalho Sent: 27 March 2001 20:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] scsi drivers for Mandrake Hello! I got a scsi card and i got Linux Mandrake. Well, it just don't recognize the scsi card... [...]
RE: [newbie] Linux PDA: would you use one?
The answer to this one, for me, is that I couldn't give a crap what os my pda uses (it's a Palm BTW) The point about my PDA, and I would cry for days if anything happened to it ;o) is that it does three or four essential tasks extremely well. It maintains my calndar/schedule brilliantly, and does a great job with my address list. Even more important, for now, is that it interfaces well with Outlook so I can keep it synchronised with my laptop. Oh and it has a great game of Hearts on it. If I wanted to tinker, or do other things then I would use a device more suited to the purpose, like a laptop or desktop machine. I acknowledge that those folding keyboards are great for making a pda more useable but frankly I see the use of a PDA for anything more than basic tasks as akin to using a hammer to drive a screw, possible but not the best tool for the job. The only area where I have been tempted by another device is the Handspring - which uses Palm os. It 'writes' better and more effectively and it takes useful clip-ons like sat-nav or digital cameras. The underlying point being that these too are very dedicated apps. regards Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: 07 March 2001 15:04 To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] Linux PDA: would you use one? Just curious, if it was affordable would y'all go for a linux PDA over a palm or ce PDA? I wonder if running linux on PDA would make it a lot more customizable and more extensible than the other PDA OSs on the market? I've been looking for a PDA that was more than just a glorified organizer. I don't care about storing 5 years worth of appointments or 100,000 email addresses. I want a PDA to be general purpose computing device. I want my PDA to be a thin client to my linux server so I can turn the coffee maker on and pull up my MP3 playlist from my couch. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5023907.html
RE: [newbie] Partition information?
Yet your problem, as stated, just asked for a way of listing the partitions because you had lost your aide memoire. df appears to do exactly what you asked - and you are clearly aware of /swap without being reminded :o) Oh and BTW like another poster I too was unaware of kdf, what a cool little gizmo. Is there a larger problem here that you haven't defined yet Sridhar? Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: 10 March 2001 02:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Partition information? The problem with df is that it only lists mounted partitions and it omits swap partitions. I believe there is a programme called gpart that can identify partitons, even damaged ones. On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 06:03, Michael O'Henly wrote: Oh, boy. I don't know if Linux is up for that! :-) Try "df" at the command prompt. Cheers. M. On Thursday 08 March 2001 16:09, you wrote: I have gone and lost the paper on which I had written down what partitions on the hard disk contain which Linux partitions. Is there some way to get informaion about this in Linux -- some kind of command I can give, or some kind of application I can run? The best thing would be if I could get that information in a form that I can understand, preferably something like this: /dev/hda5 / 1.2 GB /dev/hda6 /usr 1.2 GB /dev/hda7 /home 650 MB /dev/hda8 /swap 500 MB I understand that this is probably asking way too much though, so I'll settle for information about how big the partitions are, and what they are called (/dev/hda?). I can probably figure out what they contain just by getting information on how big they are. DRX -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
RE: [newbie] 8.0 Beta
Heyy cool! :o) regards Daryl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Julio Gutierrez Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta Ok my apologies to all the girls age of 16 subscribed to this list, also to all females subscribed to it, and to all the parents of 16 yr old girls who SORRY again!!! Laters Julio
RE: [newbie] 8.0 Beta
Can't say I mind crude language or dirty jokes, but references of this kind make me distinctly uneasy. :o/ regards Daryl To all you people! I just downloaded 8.0 beta and let me tell you this OS is tighter than a 16 yr old girl, you guys should check out the new interface, it's outta this Guys in this case perhaps acknowledging that there are some females on this list?
RE: [newbie] Installing a SCSI card
Well you can give it a try from the command line with insmod aha152x aha152x=0x340,11,7,1,1,0,500,0 this makes certain assumptions about the parameters that you are supplying of course. In particular the IRQ (11) and the port (340). If this works then you can modify /etc/mod.config in accordance with these requirements. I've only just got this driver to work on my machine so if you are struggling after trying insmod, give me an e-mail and I'll go into extreme detail of my own struggle. regards Daryl -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of BobSent: 04 March 2001 19:21To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Installing a SCSI card Hi folks, Im having trouble getting my SCSI card working on a new install of MD 7.2. For some reason, I am unable to get it to see the card. I have seen other posts showing the format I need to use to manually insert the card (aha152x=0x340,11,7,1 the defaults for this card), but I dont remember seeing which file or files I need to edit or is this done from a command line. This is an Adaptec AHA-1520A/1522A ISA to SCSI Host Adapter. Thanks in advance
[newbie] Tape Device
Now that I appear (fingers crossed, remove the duck from my head) to have got the Adaptec 1505 working... ...I need to find a device for my Colorado tape drive. Checking in /dev reveals that rst0 is empty and I've never used MAKEDEV before so I'd welcome any suggestions you may care to make. regards Daryl
RE: [newbie] repost : lan problems
Well, I'm guessing that you need Samba running. Regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Quaylar Sent: 03 March 2001 21:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] repost : lan problems hi all ! im reposting because i still have my win-linux lan problem. let me describe: i have 1 win2k box and 1 mandrake box. win2k : 1) surecom ep325 configured to utilize BNC port 2) no resource conflicts 3) LAN connection is up with 192.168.0.1/24 4) firewall is down mandrake box: 1) 3com 3c509 : initialized - no resource conflicts - modules are loaded - using BNC port 2) eth0 is up with 192.168.0.1/24 3) routes are set properly by linux 4) ipchains is down the 2 boxes are connected via thin ethernet coax, cable lenght approx. 10m, terminated at each end. wiring and terminators are known to be ok, because switching them for new ones didnt solve my problem. problem : ping timeouts from win - linux and vice versa...100% packet loss plz, i would appreciate any advice, this is driving me crazy... --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power For confidental email plz encrypt with PGP
RE: [newbie] Linux partitioning
It allows you to use several different kernels more easily. Some people have a need for it, some don't :o) regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: 27 February 2001 23:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux partitioning Daryl, You're correct...I did miss that part. Could-a swore you were suggesting a 10MB /. However, why would you want to waste so much space on something that isn't likely going to ever need that much space provided /var and /usr are on seperate partitons? Even if didn't put /var on it's own partition and only put /usr on it's own partiton you still wouldn't need that much space. Sorry for the misunderstanding. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Daryl Johnson wrote: Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 18:15:27 - From: Daryl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux partitioning Uh Mark you appear to have misread my post. I wasn't suggesting a 10Mb / but a 10Mb /root - a significant difference as I am sure you would agree. What I suggested was that / should be the remainder of the drive which I would expect to be anything from 2Gb upwards. I would also expect the suggestions I made to allow the system to run correctly, particularly if his hd is larger than 4Gb. regards Daryl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux partitioning Ok...but what does he do if he wants his system to run correctly? He's clearly going to need more room on "/" then 10MB. What about /etc, or /var which both have a tendency to "grow"...sometimes a lot. It also depends on what type of installation he wants to perform. [...] So : /swap = 2 times Ram (unless you have large amounts of Ram /home = 10Mb or more depending on number of users and what personal files/configurations they have /root = /10Mb say? / = the rest. [...]
RE: [newbie] Adaptec SCSI Installation AVA 1505
Well, the full story is : Portbase = 0x340this is jumpered on the board IRQ = 9 this too is jumpered on the board SCSI ID = 7 which is fairly standard recconect is enabled parity is enabled synchronous is enabled delay = 500 extended translation is disabled thus we get the command insmod aha152x aha152x=0x340,9,7,1,1,0,500,0 and for a glorious half hour last night that seemed to be accepted so that when I checked KDE/Information/IRQ against 9 it said AHA152x and against KDE/Information/Ports against 340 it said AHA152x. dmesg identified the board and wqas suggesting ftape as a tape device - even though that didn't seem to work. Anyway, now the command insmod etc no longer works, I have the same error message I started with: Using /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/scsi/aha152x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters including invalid IO or IRQ parameters and dmesg says: aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s) aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=9, SCSI ID=7, recconect=enabled parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=500, extended translation=disabled aha152x: trying software interrupot, lost. aha152x: IRQ 9 possibly wrong. Please verify. So in the words of the prophet and philosopher Foul Ole Ron - 'buggrit, millenium hand and shrimp, I tole 'em.' (Explanations upon request :o) ) So if anyone has any valid suggestions for my problem... regards Daryl (ps Valid suggestions for my problem do NOT include 'rub ointment on it'!) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of mark Subject: RE: [newbie] Adaptec SCSI Installation AVA 1505 What error message do you get? On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, you wrote: Damn me if it hasn't stopped again. Any suggestions? regards Daryl
RE: [newbie] Adaptec SCSI Installation AVA 1505
Damn me if it hasn't stopped again. Any suggestions? regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daryl Johnson Sent: 27 February 2001 21:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Adaptec SCSI Installation AVA 1505 At Last! I found a doc which suggested that the silk screening of the jumpers on the board was faulty but use the diagram instead in the online manual available on the Adaptec site. I checked and found that I WAS using the correct jumper for IRQ 9 and also port 0x140, neither of which were causing conflicts in the tables. On a whim I jumpered the board top use port 0x340 and tried the insmod command insmod aha152x aha152x=0x340,9,7,1,1,0,500,0 and the board loaded! scenes of riotous joy All I have to do now is find out which tape device in /dev my Colorado likes. Sheesh. Thanks Mark regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of mark Sent: 22 February 2001 02:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Adaptec SCSI Installation AVA 1505 Try this: insmod aha152x aha152x=0x140,9,7,1,1,0,500,0 Don't ask me what it all means, but it works on this card. [...]
RE: [newbie] Terminal Linux
Well, the easiest way of allowing a 286pc to be used like a terminal is to use a terminal program. The last time I did anything like this (10 years ago I think) I used Procomm plus. regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of dison Andrs Sent: 27 February 2001 16:51 To: Linux Novatos Subject: [newbie] Terminal Linux Hello all I received a message with this link: www.ltsp.org Anybody knows if Can I use a 286 PC like a terminal? How Can I do it? See ya -- dison Andrs Rivera Norea Ingeniero de Sistemas Departamento de Informtica Universidad de San Buenaventura Medelln - Colombia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos
RE: [newbie] Linux partitioning
Including my error where I refer to /root instead of /boot? scarlet blushes Well, I've been sick :o( regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of blacksun Sent: 26 February 2001 20:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux partitioning Thanks for all your help! -Gregg. I'll keep this in the keep folder for sure. On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Ok...but what does he do if he wants his system to run correctly? He's clearly going to need more room on "/" then 10MB. What about /etc, or /var which both have a tendency to "grow"...sometimes a lot. It also depends on what type of installation he wants to perform. Lets assume that he's going for the whole thing. Doing a developer install requires quite a bit of space. Lets also assume that since he's real new at all this that he's going to use a very simple, basic partitioning scheme. Since a developer install requires 2.5GB of disk space we already know that /use is going to be large. As well as /lib. So, the layout might go something like this. Assuming we're installing on a 10GB drive and 128MB of RAM SWAP = 300MB# approximately 1 1/2 times the amount of RAM / = 500MB # the filesystem's root and mount point /home = 4GB /var = 1GB # this is planning for system growth which includes database # files /usr = 4GB This scheme should accomodate an installation for a newbie quite nicely and allow for growth over at least a years time until they're at the point where they can seriously look at change and modification. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Daryl Johnson wrote: Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 23:24:37 - From: Daryl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux partitioning Hmmm, well, having answered this one already a few days ago it looks to me as though there may be some mileage in both a FAQ and an archive in a more formally structured ng. Anyway here goes. If you have 128Mb memory it seems like a good idea to make swap partition = double RAM. You certainly need a / partition, which can be pretty large and a /home partition for users and their assorted personal/mail files does no harm either. Say... anything from 10Mb upwards for /home? A /root partition is quite a good idea if you are going to be using more than one kernel. This one can be limited to say 10Mb. So : /swap = 2 times Ram (unless you have large amounts of Ram /home = 10Mb or more depending on number of users and what personal files/configurations they have /root = /10Mb say? / = the rest. From all the good things being said about reiser in this ng it is worth considering this format instead of ext2. Um oh yes, there is lots of information on this topic in already existing FAQs and Howtos. regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gregg Black Sent: 25 February 2001 22:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux partitioning I'm reading up on setting up linux, and it states that many will setup separate partitions for /usr and /home besides ones swap space. I would like to ask you how you usually setup your partitioning. I was a little bit confused on it, for you at least need a mounting point of root. This is how I did it, but I'm not sure if it's how it should be done. I set one partition for about 3/4 of the drive as '/'. I thought that would cover my separate partition for /usr as well as the mount point. My second partition and about 1/4 of the drive (not all, as the last is for swap) I set as mount point /home. Then of course the remaining 256 megs I set for swap. At first I was going to create a 7 meg partition just for mounting root, then the larger 3/4 approx for /usr, and then the last primary for /home but I thought it just made more sense to make just a / and /home partition. Maybe I'm just not thinking about this correctly. Any suggestions would be appreciated! I'm using mandrake 7.2 -Gregg
RE: RE: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this is crazy.....!!!!
Or possibly we just enjoy our moment of amusement and amazement at the immaturity shown, laugh at the web page and then get on with aiding and abetting the assistance that most of us joined the list for? regards Daryl [snip] Subject: Re: RE: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this is crazy. snip This one HAS got to be a joke! Right. If not, then I would like to see a show of hands for all those in favor of us each sending to him at [EMAIL PROTECTED] the mickey page that Romanator was so kind as to have saved and sent us. [snip]
RE: [newbie] Yet another question.
Open a terminal window and type 'man shutdown' which should give you all the options available to you. The command line entry 'shutdown -h now' has always worked for me though like most I have occasionally had to crash out and have my hard drives checked ;o) regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthew Harrison Sent: 25 February 2001 04:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Yet another question. As I am a total newbie to linux, I have a question on how exactly do I use the shutdown command to shutdown the computer. Right now I have to just let it reboot and shutdown as soon as it resets. Thanks. Matt
RE: [newbie] X Question - URGENT
I believe you use a tool called YaST2. regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dale Kosan Sent: 25 February 2001 10:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] X Question - URGENT First off, it says he's running SUSE.I dont think SUSE has Drakeconfig.I would send this message to a SUSE list and find the tool that SUSE uses.I believe YAST has a entry for xconfig in it,not sure though...
RE: [newbie] Some problems
I was advised once not to use kill -9 if I could get away with using one of the other signal numbers as it is so 'brutal'. (It was described as 'like creeping up behind the process and hitting it with an axe'.) I'm impressed that this option doesn't work and don't know what to suggest sorry. regards Daryl A) Sometimes kwintv hung and it is impossible to kill it (kill -9 ps or killall kwintv doesn't work). If I shutdown the computer every thing seems to be OK, but starting the computer again, the partition hdb8 (/home) is not well umounted and needs to be fixed. One time I did: umount /home before to shutdown and the message doesn appear when the computer started again, but this is not a good solution, If kwintv hang and I like to watch tv I need to shutdown the computer. Does anybody know a way to kill efectively kwintv when this occurs? [...]
RE: [newbie] Linux partitioning
Hmmm, well, having answered this one already a few days ago it looks to me as though there may be some mileage in both a FAQ and an archive in a more formally structured ng. Anyway here goes. If you have 128Mb memory it seems like a good idea to make swap partition = double RAM. You certainly need a / partition, which can be pretty large and a /home partition for users and their assorted personal/mail files does no harm either. Say... anything from 10Mb upwards for /home? A /root partition is quite a good idea if you are going to be using more than one kernel. This one can be limited to say 10Mb. So : /swap = 2 times Ram (unless you have large amounts of Ram /home = 10Mb or more depending on number of users and what personal files/configurations they have /root = /10Mb say? / = the rest. From all the good things being said about reiser in this ng it is worth considering this format instead of ext2. Um oh yes, there is lots of information on this topic in already existing FAQs and Howtos. regards Daryl -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gregg BlackSent: 25 February 2001 22:09To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Linux partitioningI'm reading up on setting up linux, and it states that many will setup separate partitions for /usr and /home besides ones swap space. I would like to ask you how you usually setup your partitioning. I was a little bit confused on it, for you at least need a mounting point of root. This is how I did it, but I'm not sure if it's how it should be done. I set one partition for about 3/4 of the drive as '/'. I thought that would cover my separate partition for /usr as well as the mount point. My second partition and about 1/4 of the drive (not all, as the last is for swap) I set as mount point /home. Then of course the remaining 256 megs I set for swap.At first I was going to create a 7 meg partition just for mounting root, then the larger 3/4 approx for /usr, and then the last primary for /home but I thought it just made more sense to make just a / and /home partition. Maybe I'm just not thinking about this correctly. Any suggestions would be appreciated!I'm using mandrake 7.2-Gregg
[newbie] Adaptec SCSI Installation AVA 1505
I have come into posession of an Adaptec AVA 1505 scsi i/f board (isa bus), which, if I can get it running will allow me to use my Colorado tape drive. The board appears to have generated a lot of mails on one group and another. What is common to all of them is that it is implied that the board is usable with the aha152x driver - which certainly comes with the 7.2 distribution. I have set the card's jumpers to use interrupt 9 and i/o port 140. It is installed in my sole, available isa slot. Using the command insmod aha152 aha152x=0x140,9 gives me the message Using /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/scsi/aha152x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters including invalid IO or IRQ parameters I have tried including the device number (7) in the command. I have tried using modprobe instead (modprobe -a aha152x aha152x=0x140,9,7 etc) If anyone can come up with the magic technique I would be thrilled, grateful, ecstatic (insert adjective of choice). regards Daryl Johnson
RE: [newbie] a few questions to 7.2
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Quaylar Sent: 20 February 2001 19:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] a few questions to 7.2 1) how do i get rid of the graphical boot procedure ?.i would like to have my old "terminal style" bootup back. vi /etc/inittab then change id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault should do it I think. At least you can give it a go and if it doesn't work then change it back. [...] regards Daryl
