RE: [newbie] motherboard compatibility: asus
My 2cents-I have been trying to get 7.2 to install on a BCM I810P, but it doesn't seem compatible with Linux. KDE, Gnome, and X have problems with it. Don W. Jenkins www.jinxinker.com www.maxfarce.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] motherboard compatibility: asus On Thursday 01 February 2001 08:15 am, Mark Johnson wrote: I checked the mandrake site for MB compatibility but couldn't find any information. I was planning on getting an Asus ATX Super7 5/2 [P5A] does anyone anticipate problems. no problem, Asus makes a very good board, so does Gigabyte mostly I had a gigabyte board and linux refused to install with the CDROM I got for it. what cdrom?, some are almost useless, Sony comes to mind It installed fine when I tried the same CDROM on my dell PC so I just assume the gigabyte board was the problem I'd rank anything Dell first. Dell only uses the absolute lowest cost, limited, often substandard, proprietary stuff they can arm-twist thru volume buying hardware. Does anyone think I'll have problems with this Asus board? nope, other than it won't be compatible with a Dell case/power supply. The cure is to get rid of Dell junk as much as possible -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] FW: Mandrake 7.2 install/missing font/XFree86?
Don W. Jenkins www.jinxinker.com www.maxfarce.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Don W. Jenkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 8:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mandrake 7.2 install/missing font/XFree86? Until recently, I was the happy master of a dual boot system with Win 98/Mandrake 7.1. I got a new machine so I could be separate from the rest of the family, and it initially came with Win ME installed. I then attempted to install Mandrake 7.1 on a second HD, but I could never get a clean install-packages didn't get installed which were critical to the system, so it wouldn't even run. I suspected that the medium was faulty, as I had gotten these errors earlier on the other machine. So I bought the Mandrake Complete 7.2 boxed set (4 CD), and the install seemed to go fine, no error messages. It even did a good job of setting up the internet connection, which worked. One of the few things that does. When I booted up again, I found that neither KDE nor Gnome will run. Blackbox is OK, which is fine with me, but there are programs from both KDE and Gnome that I need to run. When I try to start any KDE programs, I either get a total crash message, or I get an error message that no acceptable fixed font can be found. The version of Xfree86 is 4.0.1, and I'm wondering if this is part of the problem. A time or two, when I tried to open something it didn't like, X just crashed, leaving me to a command line console. The only way to restart X is to reboot. I'm wondering why there is/are missing fonts, or if they aren't missing why X can't find them. I'm wondering if things would run better with the previous version of Xfree86. My system is a Celeron 566, 64 mb of ram, one 20 gig HD with Windows and one 15 gig HD for Linux. The MB is a BCM IN810P, with onboard video and sound. I can't figure out from the manual what the video RAM is. Anyway, does anyone have any insight into this problem? I had been pleased with Mandrake up to this point. Thanks! Don W. Jenkins www.jinxinker.com www.maxfarce.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Where did D: go?
Don't know if it is like this, but my Windows 98 regularly switches drive letters on me between my second partition HDD, and my Zip drive, supposed to be E:. I regularly wind up with the letters reversed, and shortcuts not working, etc. You might check to see if Windows is calling it something else. Don J. - Original Message - From: "Paul R" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 8:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Where did D: go? Hi, Caroll, this is a bug on the 7.1 installer when run in non-expert mode. There is a fix at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/heliumlast.php3 halfway down the page (2nd error scenario). Download the script and save it as a file and then run it using the command "perl linux_extended_fix.pl". Searching the list's database you can find explanations of what caused this problem, I'm not really sure off the top of my head (actually, I didn't understand it when I read it). :) Good luck! I hope this helps! -paul r Carroll Grigsby wrote: I'm in the process of undergoing a major rebuild/reinstall. I've replaced the old m/b with an Abit KT7 and Athlon 800. Neat. After I god the system up and running, I said to decided to just kill all of the old software and start over. That turned out to be not so neat. After removing all of the old partitions from both drives with PM 6.0, I installed Win98SE on the master -- 10 gb, two partitions. Sorta got that working, so tonight I put LM 7.1 on the other drive (15 gb). Not wanting to push things, I settled for the basic LM install. All went well with one exception: I can access the win d: from Linux, but windows can't. Says there ain't no such critter. Any ideas about how I can convince windows that the extended partition is still there? If worse comes to worse, I can always use windows' fdisk to recreate the partition and reload the stuff that's in there, but I'd like to avoid that hassle. (The thing that really ticks me off about this is that I've done this before without a hitch. Guess I forgot something.) Regards, cmg __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and Netscape 6
I had the same problem with Netscape's own installer program, but I recalled that I had seen a download link at Icewalkers for the tarball itself. I downloaded that with wget just fine, no cut-offs, and untarred it and than ran the installer that is included. It works much better that way than trying to do it from Netscape. The link is: http://www.icewalk.com/softlib/app/app_00916.html Good luck. Don J. On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: Has anyone else had a problem d/l the Netscape6 browser? I get part way through, a download and the netscape server seems to die. I still have a internet connection but get 0 from the d/l server. I didn't hear of any time limits on the connection but I am trying to get it with a 56k modem. I have seen the 6 at work and it does look like Mozilla. Maybe I should just wait for Mozilla to get to alpha and let Netscape keep trying to get back their windows share. Any one with thoughts or suggestions? Dennis M. -- Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842 -- Don W. Jenkins 8^) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jinxinker.com (Under Development) | www.maxfarce.com Registered Linux User 190728 Linux Box 84430 -- I can make the Penguin crawl, but it usually takes 30 or so open windows.--
Re: [newbie] Linux version of Arachnophilia?
If you want bells and whistles and an interface similar to HomeSite, CoffeeCup works pretty well, although it ultimately is not free. If you just want to write HTML with some basic support, including Weblint to check it for you, try Bluefish, which is free. Another is AsWedit, which I like less well. Don J. On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: There is a powerful free webpage editor called Arachnophilia which I use and like in the NT world. There does not seem to be a Linux version of it (even though it is freeware). Does anyone know of a similar html editor in Linux? Thanks -- Don W. Jenkins 8^) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jinxinker.com | www.maxfarce.com "It is the nature and disposition of almost all men, when they get a little power, as they suppose, that they immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion." --Joseph Smith--
Re: [newbie] Running Setiathome
Thanks! Downloading as we speak. Don J. On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Trevor Reynolds wrote: Dan, You may want to use a GUI on top of Seti go to: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/links.html#links_unix and you'll find some nice accessories. Good luck Trevor - Original Message - From: "Dan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 5:55 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Running Setiathome If you want to run it in text mode you can add the verbose option. Just add -verbose at it will show lots of detail and once in a while the percentage done. If you let it run all the time it will try to connect to the internet and get a new work unit. I think it checks every hour for a network connection so if you have dial up only and stay on for an hour it will connect automatically. If not you can shut it down and restart it when you are connected. --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was Oct 2, 2000, 22:03, when Dennis Myers keyboarded: I downloaded Setiathome and installed, initiated the first download from the website and started just fine. Now I can't see what progress is made or not and can't figure out how to get another work unit if my first one is done. Doesn't it tell you when you log on to the net that it want's to connect for download? This could be fun if I can figure out how to run it. Some help to a man or faq page or just some enlightenment by email would be appreciated. You can get the xsetiathome package to see what the progress is. When it's done, it will try to connect to the net to get the next package, unless you specify -stop_after_process with it Paul -- Windows crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- Don W. Jenkins 8^) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jinxinker.com | www.maxfarce.com "It is the nature and disposition of almost all men, when they get a little power, as they suppose, that they immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion." --Joseph Smith--
Re: [newbie] Some Emails Returned
I got the same problem with AOL, as well as some others. I think I solved the problem by using Pine with SMTP rather than Postfix. I don't know if that will help you. It seems that programs like Netscape Messenger and Pronto which don't use Postfix are all right, too. Don J. On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Michael R. wrote: Is anybody else having trouble sending emails to persons using AOL? I recently reinstalled Mandrake 7.1 after two months with very little trouble.Emails sent to AOL addresses get returned with the following message: " This is the Postfix program at host localhost.localdomain. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host zb.mx.aol.com[152.163.224.33] refused to talk to me: 550 DIRECT CONNECTION FROM DIAL-UP OR DYNAMIC-IP DENIED" Everything else works great and I didn't have trouble sending messages to friends using AOL before I reinstalled 7.1. Any ideas? My system: dual boot with W98. AMD500, 64 Meg RAM, 10 Gig Hard. ISA Modem Thanks, Michael E. -- Don W. Jenkins 8^) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jinxinker.com | www.maxfarce.com "It is the nature and disposition of almost all men, when they get a little power, as they suppose, that they immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion." --Joseph Smith--
Re: [newbie] mail-client software
Paul wrote: On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, pungki wrote: Hi everybody Is there any mail-client software besides Messenger or KMail ? Thanks. Pine, Mutt, Mahogany, Balsa, to name a few... Paul -- "I think there is a world market for about five computers." (Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM 1943) http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- Spruce, Arrow, Elm. -- Don W. Jenkins 8^) | It is the nature and disposition [EMAIL PROTECTED]| of almost all men when they get [EMAIL PROTECTED]| a little power, as they suppose, www.jinxinker.com | that they immediately begin to exercise www.maxfarce.com| unrighteous dominion --Joseph Smith--
Re: [newbie] 2nd hardrive follow up
markOpoleO wrote: Ok i got a second hardrive for linux, had 7.0 installed on it but some reason is said Kernel was corrupt, so i get 7.1 in mail and when i try to boot up from CD it just goes to LILO and not the CD, how the heck do I format my linux drive so i can do fresh install on 7.1? markOpoleO You need to change the boot sequence in the bios. When your computer boots, at the first screen it will give you the option, probably by pressing "Delete" to enter setup mode. When there, you have to look around for the place where you can change the sequence of boot devices so that your CDROM is first. Then you can boot from the CD. You are going to LILO because your HD is listed first. When you are through installing, you can change back. Actually, a good default sequence is A, HD, and then CDROM, if that is an option. The computer will look for a boot record on the floppy drive, not find it and go to the HD to boot, unless you need to use a boot disc, and then you are all set. Exactly where you will find this setting depends on your Bios. Hope this helps. Don J. -- Don W. Jenkins 8^) | It is the nature and disposition [EMAIL PROTECTED]| of almost all men when they get [EMAIL PROTECTED]| a little power, as they suppose, www.jinxinker.com | that they immediately begin to exercise www.maxfarce.com| unrighteous dominion --Joseph Smith--
[newbie] 7.1 install funkiness
I saw another posting about a problem with 7.2 beta 1 not wanting to get past the partition check on the installation. Well, I had the same problem with the "stable" version of 7.1, for which I paid far too much money apparently. I go through the whole process of making my partitions on a totally blank new HD, and when I proceed to the formatting screen, I get a cryptic message about "mount" failing because of invalid arguments. Well, since I didn't provide any arguments, I'm at a loss as to what makes the difference. I was able to install 7.0 all right. I'm debating trying to upgrade to 7.1 now that I have 7.0 running, but I remember how long that took last time I tried it, and how partially successful it was. When I was done, it never booted to the new kernel, even though the vmlinuz link in /boot pointed to 2.2.15-4. Still booted 2.2.14-15. Any ideas? Thanks! Don J. -- Don W. Jenkins 8^) | It is the nature and disposition [EMAIL PROTECTED]| of almost all men when they get [EMAIL PROTECTED]| a little power, as they suppose, www.jinxinker.com | that they immediately begin to exercise www.maxfarce.com| unrighteous dominion --Joseph Smith--
Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION (Documentation)
I installed 7.0 on a second hard disc, and the key seems to have been that there were already Linux partitions on the second hard disc--it was already ext2. If you establish at least one ext2 partition on the second HD, I think Mandrake will find it. All the distros I haved tried seem to do it. Don J. - Original Message - From: Edison Gica [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 1:45 PM Subject: [newbie] DISCUSSION (Documentation) I have not yet installed 7.0 coz I'm still reading the stuff on installation. My comment is in the documentation (Installation Manual). It only explains or presumes that the user has only one hard disk and that if the option 'Custom' or 'Expert' is installed it is again presumed that the user knows what to do. Now in my case, I have 2 hard disks and found out from the demos in the web that I have to go to either 'Custom' or 'Expert' installation to be able to install 7.0 in my second hard disk w/c I want to do. I'm a newbie (obviously :) ) and if I have not read those I would have accidentally used the 'Normal' installation and it would go and shrink my Win partition (!) w/c I would not want to happen. A well organized installation procedure posted in the web site would be great if printing a bulky manual is not considered economical. Thanks for letting us users give feedback. Hey, this is one great way to compete with MS so this should be done more often. No sleep guys :D edison Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] HD problems during install - cylinder 1024
The boot loader can't be installed on a partition that goes beyond cylinder 1024. I believe one solution is to make a small boot partition that is at the very first of the the HD on which Linux is to be installed. Don J. - Original Message - From: Fu Shanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 10:10 PM Subject: [newbie] HD problems during install - cylinder 1024 Installing: Mandrake 7.0 Complete on a 5GB partition Running: Windows 98 WD 15 GB 7200RPM HD When trying to install BootMagic, it says it cannot install since the partition is beyond cylinder 1024. I have the same problem using DiskDrake and LILO (LILO won't install due to this problem). Any suggestions? Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] staroffice as user
No. I think you can chown the soffice binary to user and it will run as user. I know I had the same problem in the past and was able to solve it without a reinstall. Try that first. Don J. At 03:38 AM 5/19/00 +0200, you wrote: David Olsson wrote: I installed staroffice as root, now I cant access staroffice as user. How do I do? David in Sweden Hey David You will have to install it 'again' when you are logged in as user. Mogens Jæger
Re: [newbie] staroffice as user
It should be /home/user/Office51/bin/soffice, as I recall. Don J. At 07:27 PM 5/18/00 +0200, you wrote: On Thu, 18 May 2000, David Olsson wrote: I installed staroffice as root, now I cant access staroffice as user. How do I do? David in Sweden Locate the binary that starts StarOffice (so51 or something, in a 'bin' directory of the staroffice install, if I remember correctly), and do a chmod u+x filename on it. I think that should do it. Paul )0(---)0( 2nd Law of Tests: 80% of the final will be on the one lecture you missed about the one book you didn't read. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Michael-Pine
At 07:02 PM 5/16/00 +0200, you wrote: I use Pine, too, along with Getmail. I like Getmail because it will deliver my Pop3 messages directly to my inbox, and then Pine can pick them up. It also appears to me that Pine can be configured to use SMTP to send messages out directly through my ISP, as that is the way it is working for me. Which is a good thing, as I can't get Mutt to send, and it works in conjunction with Postfix/Sendmail. The only thing I would really like Fetchmail for is its polling ability, but there again, I can't get it to work, as it also works with Postfix/Sendmail, and I have no idea where the messages are ending up with Fetchmail. Not the inbox. Do you know if there is any way for Getmail to poll the server periodically or run ad a daemon? I guess its beauty is its simplicity. I like Pine, too because it is easy to read, it will open URL's either in Netscape or Lynx, and I can do everything without moving my hands from the keyboard. Don J. On Tue, 16 May 2000, Michael wrote: Paul, Thanks for the heads up. I only venture forth into Bill's world when forced. So you use Pine, eh? I am comfortable with NS' mail program; guess if comfort was my criterion I wouldn't be on this list, though, so where would you point me to in terms of help files, to be able to get it (Pine)up and running? Hi Michael, First off: Pine is not graphical. It is all text-based although in a konsole-window it reacts to mouse clicks (reall neat). I picked pine because I don't want colored backgrounds and music and jumping images in my mail. I am colorblind, and most of the colored background stuff makes it impossible for me to read the actual mail. Pine is a Mail User Agent. That means you use it to type mail and tell it to dump it somewhere. Then a Mail Transport Agent picks up the mail and sends it out. NS Mail does this all for you, it directly connects to SMTP and POP servers. For MTA you have several choices: Sendmail (standard in the package, but see the "Sendmail in a nutshell" and be scared) -used ver much, terrible (for me) to configure Qmail (www.qmail.org) -Easier to install (although that gave me some extra grey hairs too) and apparently more safe than Sendmail. ALthough for 1 person, that is not a big deal I guess. To pull mail from a server you can either use FETCHMAIL (standard in the package) or Getmail (which I use) Now you know this, decide if you want to venture into Pine or Mutt (also text based) and let the world know... Paul )0(---)0( Law of Life's Highway: If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] getmail/mutt-partial success
I recently downloaded a small program called getmail, a simpler substitute for fetchmail, and I got it working pretty much. I wrote a script that fetches the mail from my pop account and deposits it into the correct folder /var/spool/mail/$USER. Mutt reads it all fine, and then I compose and send a reply or a new message, and Mutt seems to send it, or says it does. But I don't see the messages arriving where they are sent, and I'm at a loss as to where they are going. My system uses Postfix, and I'm not sure if it could be a Postfix config problem or something else. Is there a queue somewhere that eats the messages? I don't see them in any outbox or sent-mail box. It is bemusing, because it used to be the other way around--I could send OK, but Fetchmail didn't seem to be putting the messages anywhere. I have to say that Mutt was working fast doing whatever it was doing. I need to figure out why Getmail leaves the messages on the server when I supposedly am supplying the -d option for deleting them. Later, Don J. -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff!
Re: [newbie] Can someone answer me these questions three
You don't have to touch hda with your Windows 98 on it. You will be asked to create Linux partitions, which you must be sure you are doing on your second drive, hdb, or whatever it turns out to be. Be sure that when you do your partitioning and formatting that you are working with the space on hdb and not hda. The only thing that your installation procedure will do that may involve your Windows partition is when you get to the part about installing lilo, the boot loader. You will get the opportunity to chose whether to install it in the MBR on the Windows partition, or on the first partition (/boot) on your Linux drive. If you don't mind having Lilo manage booting up for both Windows and Linux, you can chose the first way. Or if you don't mind booting from a floppy all the time, you can chose the second way. A third way, which I use is to have a separate boot manager, Boot Magic in my case, that manages both systems and gives you the opportunity to chose either at boot up. But Lilo does this, too. Other than Lilo, don't do anything to your Windows disc at all. Don J. On Wed, 03 May 2000, Tim Schmidt wrote: Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 17:29:01 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tim Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Can someone answer me these questions three I hope someone can help me on these Mandrake installation problems. First, I'm trying to install 7.0 on a second hard drive with windows 98 on the first one. Someone told me in order for Lilo to work I have to reformat hda and answer yes for large disk support and no for no for using the whole disk. Is this true? I'd like to be sure before I mess with it. My second and third questions have to do with installing 7.0 on a IBM Thinkpad 380E. When installing it tries to check the pcmcia cards then I get "An error occurred: insmod pcmcia core failed" How do I fix this? Last but not least if I skip checking for pcmcia cards it goes a little farther before I get " No available partition" even though I used fdisk and format. How can I fix this problem? Much thanks for any help given. Tim Schmidt -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z And isn't as greasey. Do Good Stuff! 8^)
Re: [newbie] Don: About moving /usr and /home (fwd)
I had to alter a few things, but essentially, it worked pretty well. I found that what I needed to do was to make a switch between /usr, which is huge, and /home, which is not quite so huge. I finally had to just make all the switches and hope for the best, as there wasn't enough room to save /usr.old and do everything else, too. But so far, things seem to be working. I moved /usr to the second hard drive where it sits all alone on its big partition, and I moved /home to the main hard drive. I'll let you know if anything else crops up, as things tend to do at atimes. But for now, thanks a lot! Don J. On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Paul wrote: Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 08:26:58 +0200 (CEST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Don: About moving /usr and /home (fwd) Hi Don, This is one of the mails I got to help me in this, and it worked all great. Hope it helps you too! Paul )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:03:10 +0200 From: flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Moving usr and home Paul wrote: Hi all, Now I am in need of an answer. I have /usr and /home as subdirectories on the / (root) partition. This is a 1.6 Gb partition. Now I got 2 large partitions extra available, 4 and 4.5 Gb. I want to move /usr to one of them, and /home to the other one. These extra partitions now are called /b1 and /b2. Can someone tell me how I should go about with this, without messing up my entire system? Thanks for the help and advice you can give me. Paul First of all, if you're not confident with linux, read the whole mail before proceeding, and make sure you understand everything (if you don't, read the related man pages). I mean, don't do it "blindly". Let's say your / partition is on /dev/hda1 and you want to move /usr to /dev/hda2. All the following should be done ad root, so TAKE CARE AND THINK TWICE BEFORE HITTING YOUR 'ENTER' KEY! You should take one more precaution by going into single user mode (by typing "init 1") before doing this. Ok. Here we go. - First, you create a ext2 file system on /dev/hda2 with mke2fs. mke2fs /dev/hda2 - Then you mount this partition. (Let's say in /mnt/tmp) mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/tmp - You now have to transfer your /usr to /mnt/tmp. To do this, I'd use a command as : (cd /usr tar cpf - .) | (cd /mnt/tmp tar xpf -) Once this is done, rename your /usr directory (for instance in /usr.old), create a new /usr directory, umount your /dev/hda2 partition, and remount it into /usr. mv /usr /usr.old mkdir /usr umount /mnt/tmp mount /dev/hda2 /usr Finaly, update your /etc/fstab and add the line : /dev/hda2/usr ext2defaults1 2 Voila! You're done! Useless to say that you do exactly the same for your /home partition. To go back to your previous runlevel, type init 3 (console login) or init 5 (graphical login). ONCE YOU'VE SEEN THAT YOUR NEWLY CREATED PARTITIONS ARE OK, you can delete your /usr.old and /home.old directories. If you need more infos, take a look at the Hard-disk-upgrade mini-HOWTO HTH Flupke -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z And isn't as greasey. Do Good Stuff! 8^)
Re: [newbie] ISP
Found it: http://www.teledyn.com/products/FreeWWW/ Good luck! Don J. On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, "Don W. Jenkins" wrote: Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 14:59:42 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Don W. Jenkins" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ISP One I have used and it works pretty well is freewwweb.com. I'm not sure of the url for the sign-up page, but I'll post it when I find it. This one is good, because you don't need any software. You sign up and get a pop3 account and a phone number to configure your dialer or scripts with. Don J. At 05:22 PM 4/30/00 -0400, you wrote: Also another i saw with no ads but havent used http://www.isps-free.com/ - Original Message - From: doom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ISP yes there is.i have not tryed it though yet.cause its beta heh.it is called freenet.check it out. http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ if you try it tell me what you think. === You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your digital alarm clock goes off and you think "Bloody Macs!" === - Original Message - From: "The Buckster" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 4:52 PM Subject: [newbie] ISP Is there any free ISP's that I can use with Mandrake? I know that there's quite a few for Windows enviroment, including FreeISP.com that will be a DSL connection... Appreciate the help! _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z And isn't as greasey. Do Good Stuff! 8^)
Re: [newbie] ISP
Actually, I have stayed on longer than 5 hours, so I'm not sure how they keep track of your time--by the day or by the month. But it is fairly easy to get two or three accounts and then switch off from one day to the next or even the same day. No reason to pay. Don J. On Mon, 1 May 2000, Michelle Schneider wrote: Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 11:29:45 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Michelle Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ISP On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: One I have used and it works pretty well is freewwweb.com. I'm not sure of the url for the sign-up page, but I'll post it when I find it. This one is good, because you don't need any software. You sign up and get a pop3 account and a phone number to configure your dialer or scripts with. Don J. It's www.freewwweb.com. You have to have there home page set as the home page of your browser. You cannot stay on more than5 hours at a time or 80 hours a month, but they allow you to open multiple accounts. Michelle -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z And isn't as greasey. Do Good Stuff! 8^)
Re: [newbie] Don: About moving /usr and /home (fwd)
Thanks! I'll be giving it a try and let you know how it flies. There may be an added complication/ step as the empty partition is mounted at /home at the moment, but I'll sort that out before I start. Don J. At 08:26 AM 4/30/00 +0200, you wrote: Hi Don, This is one of the mails I got to help me in this, and it worked all great. Hope it helps you too! Paul )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:03:10 +0200 From: flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Moving usr and home Paul wrote: Hi all, Now I am in need of an answer. I have /usr and /home as subdirectories on the / (root) partition. This is a 1.6 Gb partition. Now I got 2 large partitions extra available, 4 and 4.5 Gb. I want to move /usr to one of them, and /home to the other one. These extra partitions now are called /b1 and /b2. Can someone tell me how I should go about with this, without messing up my entire system? Thanks for the help and advice you can give me. Paul First of all, if you're not confident with linux, read the whole mail before proceeding, and make sure you understand everything (if you don't, read the related man pages). I mean, don't do it "blindly". Let's say your / partition is on /dev/hda1 and you want to move /usr to /dev/hda2. All the following should be done ad root, so TAKE CARE AND THINK TWICE BEFORE HITTING YOUR 'ENTER' KEY! You should take one more precaution by going into single user mode (by typing "init 1") before doing this. Ok. Here we go. - First, you create a ext2 file system on /dev/hda2 with mke2fs. mke2fs /dev/hda2 - Then you mount this partition. (Let's say in /mnt/tmp) mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/tmp - You now have to transfer your /usr to /mnt/tmp. To do this, I'd use a command as : (cd /usr tar cpf - .) | (cd /mnt/tmp tar xpf -) Once this is done, rename your /usr directory (for instance in /usr.old), create a new /usr directory, umount your /dev/hda2 partition, and remount it into /usr. mv /usr /usr.old mkdir /usr umount /mnt/tmp mount /dev/hda2 /usr Finaly, update your /etc/fstab and add the line : /dev/hda2/usr ext2defaults1 2 Voila! You're done! Useless to say that you do exactly the same for your /home partition. To go back to your previous runlevel, type init 3 (console login) or init 5 (graphical login). ONCE YOU'VE SEEN THAT YOUR NEWLY CREATED PARTITIONS ARE OK, you can delete your /usr.old and /home.old directories. If you need more infos, take a look at the Hard-disk-upgrade mini-HOWTO HTH Flupke
Re: [newbie] ISP
One I have used and it works pretty well is freewwweb.com. I'm not sure of the url for the sign-up page, but I'll post it when I find it. This one is good, because you don't need any software. You sign up and get a pop3 account and a phone number to configure your dialer or scripts with. Don J. At 05:22 PM 4/30/00 -0400, you wrote: Also another i saw with no ads but havent used http://www.isps-free.com/ - Original Message - From: doom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ISP yes there is.i have not tryed it though yet.cause its beta heh.it is called freenet.check it out. http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ if you try it tell me what you think. === You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your digital alarm clock goes off and you think "Bloody Macs!" === - Original Message - From: "The Buckster" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 4:52 PM Subject: [newbie] ISP Is there any free ISP's that I can use with Mandrake? I know that there's quite a few for Windows enviroment, including FreeISP.com that will be a DSL connection... Appreciate the help! _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Moved /usr and /home!
I haven't been following this thread closely, but I have been having what must be similar problems with space, as my / partition is full, and I must do something or I won't be able to save or create new docs or print or stuff like that. I have two hard drives involved. On one, I have a /boot partition of 18,000k, and a swap partition of 131,000k, and lastly a / partition of 1.5 gigs, which contains everything except /home. The / partition is full. On a second hard drive, sharing space with a FAT32 partition, I have an EXT2 partition that contains /home, and that has about 1.2 gigs free. I have attempted to simply copy my /usr directory to /home and link it up with a symlink, and that worked for a lot of things, but I discovered that things got dropped on the way, so odd stuff would happen, like no backspace on the keyboard. I also tried the whole process of creating new mount points and remounting directories, but that caused even worse side effects. So, HDA1 is Windows HDA3 is /home with 1.2 gigs free. mounts at /mnt/DOS_hda3 HDC1 is /boot HDC2 is swap HDC3 is /(everything else) I need to move whole file systems around and still have things work. I would appreciate feedback as to the surest way to accomplish this without destroying my system. Thanks! Don J. On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Paul wrote: Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 09:52:11 +0200 (CEST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Moved /usr and /home! Hi all, Thanks for the great advice on my question, I have just moved /usr and /home to the new partitions, and it all went without a problem. Paul )0(---)0( Why do you need BELIEF when you KNOW? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z And isn't as greasey. Do Good Stuff! 8^)
Re: [newbie] HTML Editor
I installed Coffecup, and I like the interface, which resembles Homesite in some ways. However, unless you purchase, most of the goodies are disabled, so I can't comment on that. Are you having problems with the install. It's been a while, but I don't recall any. Don J. Martin Solms wrote: Does Mandrake 7 include a default HTML editor (not including Netsape)? then, has anyone had any luck installing CoffeeCup (http://www.coffeecup.com) on Mandrake? Cheers -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff!
Re: [newbie] HTML Editor
Bluefish is a good one, too, with fewer bells and whistles than Coffecup, but it does use Weblint to check your HTML for you. Another possibility is AsWedit, although I would chose Bluefish over that as far as the free editors. Don J. Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Download bluefish from ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker You'll have to check both the cooker and contrib RPMS because I can't remember which one it's in. - Original Message - From: "Martin Solms" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 12:46 AM Subject: [newbie] HTML Editor Does Mandrake 7 include a default HTML editor (not including Netsape)? then, has anyone had any luck installing CoffeeCup (http://www.coffeecup.com) on Mandrake? Cheers -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff!
Re: [newbie] fetchmail and pine
I'm sorry I can't offer an answer, but I just wanted echo your frustration. I have
had the identical problem with
fetchmail--I have no idea where the messages are going, so there is no way to use pine
or mutt to any advantage.
No one so far has seemed to know what is going on. So I will add my plea for help.
Don J.
Jeff wrote:
ok ive been trying to configure fetchmail an pine and im having some
difficulty.. i have pine sending msg's and im recieving them fine but
fetchmail isnt putting my msg's in /var/spool/mail/LeadingEdge i dont know
where its puttibng them but ive lost quite a few msg's since i started messing
with it..
ok heres what i did ..
first i ran fetchmailconf and got it running. fetchmail seems to be running
good it downloads mesg's but not to /var/spool/mail/LeadingEdge so im thinking
maybe its the file permissions getting in the way. so i do
"chmod a+rw /var/spool/mail/LeadingEdge" so now everyone on the box has read
write permission to that file, but that doesnt matter as im the only one on
here.. still no good the mesg's im downloading just arent in there. instead
of running fetchmail in daemon mode at this point im just using fetchmail to
check once when i type the command cause ive lost alot of mail and have no idea
if anything there was important..
ok and for pine i got it set up and it sends msgs but of course cant read the
mail cause nothing is in /var/spool/mail/LeadingEdge
heres the config files
(sorry this is so long i just wanna be detailed)
-fetchmail--
# Configuration created Fri Apr 28 23:23:53 2000 by fetchmailconf
set postmaster "LeadingEdge"
set bouncemail
set properties ""
poll mail.nccw.net with proto POP3
user "Leading_Edge" there is Leading_Edge here
-end fetchmail
---pine-
# Over-rides your full name from Unix password file. Required for PC-Pine.
personal-name=Jeff
# Sets domain part of From: and local addresses in outgoing mail.
user-domain=kmfms.com
# List of SMTP servers for sending mail. If blank: Unix Pine uses sendmail.
smtp-server=mail.nccw.net
# NNTP server for posting news. Also sets news-collections for news reading.
nntp-server=news.nccw.net
# Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={mail.somewhere.edu}inbox
# Normal Unix default is the local INBOX (usually /usr/spool/mail/$USER).
inbox-path=
# List of incoming msg folders besides INBOX, e.g. ={host2}inbox, {host3}inbox
# Syntax: optnl-label {optnl-imap-host-name}folder-path
incoming-folders=
# List of directories where saved-message folders may be. First one is
# the default for Saves. Example: Main {host1}mail/[], Desktop mail\[]
# Syntax: optnl-label {optnl-imap-hostname}optnl-directory-path[]
folder-collections=
# List, only needed if nntp-server not set, or news is on a different host
# than used for NNTP posting. Examples: News *[] or News *{host3/nntp}[]
# Syntax: optnl-label *{news-host/protocol}[]
news-collections=
# List of folder pairs; the first indicates a folder to archive, and the
# second indicates the folder read messages in the first should
# be moved to.
incoming-archive-folders=
# List of context and folder pairs, delimited by a space, to be offered for
# pruning each month. For example: {host1}mail/[] mumble
pruned-folders=
# Over-rides default path for sent-mail folder, e.g. =old-mail (using first
# folder collection dir) or ={host2}sent-mail or ="" (to suppress saving).
# Default: sent-mail (Unix) or SENTMAIL.MTX (PC) in default folder collection.
default-fcc=
# Over-rides default path for saved-msg folder, e.g. =saved-messages (using first
# folder collection dir) or ={host2}saved-mail or ="" (to suppress saving).
# Default: saved-messages (Unix) or SAVEMAIL.MTX (PC) in default folder collection.
default-saved-msg-folder=
# Over-rides default path for postponed messages folder, e.g. =pm (which uses
# first folder collection dir) or ={host4}pm (using home dir on host4).
# Default: postponed-msgs (Unix) or POSTPOND.MTX (PC) in default fldr coltn.
postponed-folder=
# If set, specifies where already-read messages will be moved upon quitting.
read-message-folder=
# If set, specifies where form letters should be stored.
form-letter-folder=
# Over-rides default path for signature file. Default is ~/.signature
signature-file=
---i think this should be enuff-
--
My dual-boot system
Works better than
my Z, and isn't as greasey.
Do good stuff!
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 knows its name not
I believe that in order to run Netscape 6, you have to cd to the directory it is installed in and then type ./netscape. It is still in development, and I guess it needs to be run from its own directory. Don J. Vic wrote: I tried installing Netscape 6 and went straight back to Netscape 472 because when I would either click my netscape icon, or type netscape or-- /usr/local/package/(name of binary) or whatever the whole path was, it still did not know its own name. -- ** Signature: Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff!
Re: [newbie] Problems with IWheel
Dropping in on this thread, as I have never been able to get imwheel to work, either. I don't have a /home/user directory. Should I create one? Where is my autostart folder supposed to be located? Thanks! Don J. Michael Holt wrote: You need to add these lines to your /etc/X11/XF86Config file under the pointer section: Buttons 3 ZAxisMapping4 5 Then comment out (with the # symbol) the lines: Emulate3Buttons Emulate3Timeout Next, drop a copy of /etc/X11/imwheelrc into your /home/user directory and put a copy of /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel into your autostart folder and use the -k option. i.e. 'imwheel -k' Mike Hawk82 wrote: I downloaded IWheel from the Mandrake ftps and installed it. It is a rpm, so I figured that is all I had to do. It does not work. I can't scroll though web pages. Thanks for the help. Josh -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff!
[newbie] DOS naming vs Linux recognition
I have a question regarding the DOS convention of naming files with spaces, such as C:\Program Files. When I use a program like Wine, Linux can't follow a path that includes spaces, so I'm wondering if there is a way to write the file names so Linux can recognize them, or do I have to copy the programs to folders and give them names that don't include spaces? Thanks! Don J. -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff!
Re: [newbie] MS Word
Star Office from Sun will read Word documents. I use it for that reason. Hint, though, don't save the word docs as rtf, but as .docs, as it works better. Star Office is a huge download, but it is free. Don J. Martin Solms wrote: I am looking for software that can open Word documents - I don't want to keep rebooting to read my bosses documents!! Thanks Martin -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff!
