[newbie] xcdroast
Has anyone ever made a bootable cdrom with xcdroast? I'm getting an error that it can't find the boot catalog file. It's looking at /boot.catalog. Is this right? Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mozilla and gftp
I have found that I have problems from time to time when downloading files with mozilla... especially big files and also iso files. However I have found gFTP to be reletivly reliable when downloading files. Is their anyway that I can set Mozilla to open up gftp to download a file when I click on an ftp link o a file? Thanks, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ipchains? iptables? iproute2?
I setup sharing my internet connection under Mandrake Control Center on MDK 8. It installed ipchains, iptables, and iproute2? Are all these programs used for the internet sharing or does it install some of these for a just in case senerio? What are they all supposed to do? Thanks, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Best NAT Internet Sharing program
I do have a linksys router... however I am trying out some software that works on a linux gateway. I configured the Internet Sharing under the Mandrake Control Center. Is this controlling bastille? Also... I noticed it is handing ip addresses to the cliants on my home network. What program is handling the fuctions of the dhcp server and where can I adjust those settings? Thanks, Kevin John W wrote: Aside from one of the chea cable/dsl routers linksys or netgear you could download Mandrake Single Network Firewall. HTH, John At 12:17 PM 9/19/01 -0400, you wrote: What is the best, simple Internet Sharing program to use that shares it's internet connection with NAT? Thanks, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Internet Sharing feature in Mandrake Control Center
What programs is the Mandrake Control Center controlling to share you internet connection?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Best NAT Internet Sharing program
What is the best, simple Internet Sharing program to use that shares it's internet connection with NAT? Thanks, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ERROR??? perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
I am getting the error below... perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = en, LC_ALL = (unset), LC_MESSAGES = en, LC_TIME = en_US, LC_NUMERIC = en_US, LC_CTYPE = en_US, LC_MONETARY = en_US, LC_COLLATE = en_US, LANG = en are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C). Any idea where these paticular settings are and where to correct this??? Thanks, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpm problem??
OK so I gave up on Mandrake Corporate Server and went with Mandrake 8 as my starting platform. However MDK come with RPM 4.0 and to put together the source rpms it says I need 4.0.2. I noticed 4.0.3 is in cooker but when I try to upgrade just rpm through software manager it wants to upgrade half my damn system! Why do I need to upgrade alsa libs and another 20 or so irrelevant things to put a newer version of rpm on my computer? Is their an solution to this? Michael D. Viron wrote: At 09:18 PM 08/21/2001 -0400, Kevin Fonner wrote: I decided since I wanted to learn more about what was going on undernieth the system that it would be fun to upgrade just the packets I want to on corporate server. Any ways I keep getting a wierd error message from rpm command. only packages with major numbers =3 are supported by this version of rpm what exactly does this mean and any ideas how to fix it? Kevin, This means that corporate server is using rpm 3.x and that you've chosen a package that was built for rpm 4.x (or later). The only way to get around it (maybe) is to rebuild from srpm, which may involve fiddling with the .spec file or upgrade to rpm 4.x, which will cause more problems than it is worth. You'd be better off using the update packages under 1.0.1 (in the updates directory), or using packages built for 7.x. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] new rpm problem???
OK so I gave up on Mandrake Corporate Server and went with Mandrake 8 as my starting platform. However MDK come with RPM 4.0 and to put together the source rpms it says I need 4.0.2. I noticed 4.0.3 is in cooker but when I try to upgrade just rpm through software manager it wants to upgrade half my system! Why do I need to upgrade alsa libs and another 20 or so irrelevant things to put a newer version of rpm on my computer? I understand the difficulty with going from v3.x to v4.x now, but is it supposed to be difficult to go from 4.0 to 4.0.2? Is their a solution to this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] rpm problem??
I decided since I wanted to learn more about what was going on undernieth the system that it would be fun to upgrade just the packets I want to on corporate server. Any ways I keep getting a wierd error message from rpm command. only packages with major numbers =3 are supported by this version of rpm what exactly does this mean and any ideas how to fix it? On another note sorry if my email was bouncing back at all last week. I know how annoying that can be. Earthlink had my email screwed up all last week. Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Qmail Log
I was thinking of setting up a qmail mail server. Did you set it up on Mandrake? If so I noticed they recommend to use tcpserver instead of xinetd with qmail? Was this difficult to switch? Thanks, Kevin SK wrote: Hi! I have coonfigure Qmail in my Linux server. Where can I see the log files ? In sendmail I can use the command tail -f /var/log/maillog so ..that I know , that the message has been deliver to user server. How about Qmail ? Best Regards, SKLIM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up a new mail server
Thanks, for your help! I have learned how to use vi and do some neat command line stuff but I am still learning. I think I will just use MDK8 so I can get on with my work and sit down and learn it when I have more time. Thanks, Kevin Pascal Goguey wrote: Hello! I noticed Mandrake had a distribution called corporate server. I am setting up a new mail server for my small company. What should I use to get started. A copy of Mandrake 8.0 set up as a server or the corporate server 1.0.1? I tried out corporate server and it seemed extremly old. I have never tried the corporate server. However, the reason might be that for a server (i.e. a box lying in the corner), you don't need a nice graphical interface. You set it up and it should run forever, at least until the cleaning agent unplugs it to plug the vacuum cleaner. I don't know what you call a small company, but if it's for a few users, I would use Mandrake 8.0. It is very easy to install and you can configure it basically without even popping a terminal. If you're an experienced sys admin, that's another story, you will feel frustrated if you don't use a terminal an vi a few config files. Thanks, Kevin Have fun! Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Setting up a new mail server
I noticed Mandrake had a distribution called corporate server. I am setting up a new mail server for my small company. What should I use to get started. A copy of Mandrake 8.0 set up as a server or the corporate server 1.0.1? I tried out corporate server and it seemed extremly old. Thanks, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Is postfix really neccesary?
I know postfix is some kind of mail server. Is their anything else it does? Why is it installed by default on workstations? Is it ok to uninstall it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is postfix really neccesary?
We'll actually I am planning on setting up my own personal email server. I was thinking of using qmail. I would be interested in hearing opinions of qmail versus postfix. I was just thinking it would be kind of redundent if I have my own mail server AND had a mailserver on every single workstation. Thanks, Kevin Paul wrote: I know postfix is some kind of mail server. Is their anything else it does? Why is it installed by default on workstations? Is it ok to uninstall it? Postfix is used by Cron (which does all kind of work for you) to send you mails on what went wrong. You can uninstall it, and never know what goes wrong in maintenance jobs. Not everyone cares. If you are happy connecting to the pop3/imap and smtp servers of your ISP, that would be okay. I wouldn't uninstall postfix though. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SMTP Server advice / help
I am planning on setting up my own mail server for my home as well. I did use mail deamon when I was in the windows world to grab all my mail out of a single pop mailbox for the domain. I would imagine some linux mail servers would have this feature as well. I have been so busy I haven't had the chance to look yet. Let me know if you find anything. You can then access the mail server via imap anywhere in the house. To access it from the internet use a dynamic dns service. This service allows your computer to update a dns server on the internet with it's current static ip address. Kevin Jamie Kerwick wrote: Basically i want to use my home PC as a mail server. Now there are 2 problems i have, my PC is only on a dial-up connection and as such doesn't have a stable IP or a proper domain name registered for it. now the main thing is that i want to be able to use it no matter what internet connection i am using. I don't plan on having an open relay i want to make it neccessary to log into the smtp server, how would i go about doing that?? any adivce would be great thanks Jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Different ways of starting X???
Ahh, I think I am beginning to understand... So what has happened to kdm. When my computer boots up it is supposed to go to a graphical login screen. It use to do that, however now it just comes to a grey screen. Is their a paticular script I should be looking at? Thanks Kevin Naka Gadjov wrote: Kevin Fonner wrote: OK, Ive got a new interesting problem... If I type startx from a command prompt then X starts up fine... Hoever if I type X then it starts up with that sort of grey screen with a pointer on it but never gets any graphics. I know kdm tries to start x with an X command so why is this behaving this way? Oh and by the way I remember their was a key sequence to force X to shutdown What was that? X is only X server. This is only gray screen. But the KDE is program that runs under X. There are different program for starting - startx, xinit and X. startx is a script that start many others things after starting X. You can use xinit for example for starting X and the 1 program under it. You can try by example xinit /usr/bin/xclock (if i could remember /usr/bin/xclock is a proper PATH). If you try xinit along - this start X and the terminal. Now type startkde in tne terminal or xclock or some X program. Naka. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Keeping Mine own copy of cooker???
I have serveral computers in my house and even more in my office. I find while I'm learning linux that I am downloading files from cooker all the time and I get fustrated with some of the servers when they get slow. Is their any way that I can set up my own private mirror of some sort so that I have the most up to date files on my own network? Thanks, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Different ways of starting X???
OK, Ive got a new interesting problem... If I type startx from a command prompt then X starts up fine... Hoever if I type X then it starts up with that sort of grey screen with a pointer on it but never gets any graphics. I know kdm tries to start x with an X command so why is this behaving this way? Oh and by the way I remember their was a key sequence to force X to shutdown What was that? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla Bookmarks
Where are the bookmarks for mozilla stored? Thanks, Kevin
[newbie] Mail Server
What is a good mail server for linux. I was looking for these features... IMAP Web Interface Server side mail (rules) sorting for the individual users and the ability for it to grab mail for a domain out of a single pop mailbox and sort it into each of the accounts on the mailserver. Thanks, -- Kevin Fonner
[newbie] problem installing cups
I was just about ready to set up my printer on my home linux system when I ran into a problem. When I click on the printer under the Mandrake Control Center it begins to download files for the drivers. It grabs a couple of the files however it seem to not be able to grab the cups common rpm and a few others. Why is this doing this? Thanks, Kevin
[newbie] Where is the proper place the edit the path?
Where is the proper place the edit the path? I notice .bashrc referred to /etc/bashrc and then that reffered to the profile file. Is this file I am supposed to edit or is their a better way to do this?
[newbie] boot menu
Where do I configure the boot menu and and the menu item names. I had windows 2000 and Mandrake on my system and then I reconfigured the partitions. Now the Windows 2000 menu item boots up to the wrong partition. Thanks, -- Kevin
[newbie] Delivery Receipts
When I was running Windows I used Outlook 2000 and we have a MSExchange server. On outlook I could choose to get a delivery receipt(I don mean read receipts). I always hated those read reciepts except on sesitive documents. When I would check delivery reciept I would get an email back stating that my mail server had succesfully delivered it into the mailbox on so and so on this mail server. Is their a way to do that with linux? Either with a client or a client/server combination? -- Kevin
[newbie] pretty graphical editor
I know I asked this question once and got some reponses but if it ok I would like to just check once more but being a little clearer. Perhaps I am contaminated coming from the windows world but I like it when I am programming in a graphical editor and the editor colorizes on my code depending on whether it a comment or a function... I have JBuilder and it works great for java code. Are their any really good editors like this for C? I tried emacs, and well... we just didn get along. Thanks, -- Kevin
Re: [newbie] Delivery Receipts
No... You didnt read my email carefully. What you described was a read receipt. These are common to most mail clients, and your right! They are a real pain when used for anything except important emails. I am talking about a DELIVERY receipts. They are not returned by the user but by the mail server. I know Microsoft Outlook has them when you use Exchange server. I find them very valuable. I was wondering if any clients or client/servers have this feature? Carroll Grigsby wrote: Kevin: Netscape provides several options for this; don't know about other mail programs. Go Edit Preferences Return Receipt. I'm not sure how effective it is, though. Several weeks ago I sent an important document and requested a receipt. The doc went through, but I never got a receipt. It turned out that the server at the other end stripped all receipt requests from external mail. However, please make sure that you don't ask for receipts when posting to this list. It's a real pain, causes a lot of unnecessary traffic, and may result in some nasty messages back to you. Regards, Carroll Kevin Fonner wrote: When I was running Windows I used Outlook 2000 and we have a MSExchange server. On outlook I could choose to get a delivery receipt(I don mean read receipts). I always hated those read reciepts except on sesitive documents. When I would check delivery reciept I would get an email back stating that my mail server had succesfully delivered it into the mailbox on so and so on this mail server. Is their a way to do that with linux? Either with a client or a client/server combination? -- Kevin
[newbie] Problem with Mozilla Messenger
I have been using Mozzila Messenger for about a month or two without any major problems. I do have a couple of major pains though. Mozilla seems to keep forgetting what I set the preferences at. It forgets that I set to spell check outgoing email, It forgets that I have a signiture file... Those are the two major ones. -- Kevin Fonner Vice President and CTO Greenfern Corporation Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (888) 411-3923 Fax:(877) 807-4064 Web:http://www.greenfern.com/
[newbie] Santa Cruz Audio Card Utility
I probably shouldnt complain but as I get further into this linux stuff, I keep trying to do more and more and more. Anyways I have a Santa Cruz audio card. This audio card has multiple output channels and stuff like that. I was just curious if anybody new of a utility that would allow me to utilize my card to its full potential... such as enabling all 6 output channels into a hall effect and other goofy things like that. Thanks, Kevin
[newbie] advanced editor or editing c programs
I am starting to learn c and I noticed when I was typing in some basic
programs into advanced editor the my { were coming out as |. At
first i thought they just were not being displayed right but then I
noticed that adanced editor was color coding the code and that it wasn
coming out right. Any help or a nudge in the right direction would be
appreciated. I really don know what I am talking about here.
Kevin
[newbie] zip files
When I click on a zip file KDE opens it up in Archiver and then Archiver gives me an error Sorry, the utility zip is not in your PATH. Please install it or contact your system administrator. What is it looking for and how do I go about correcting this? Thanks, Kevin
[newbie] -deferglyphs 16
What exactly dows this switch do and is it important? I looked in the help and didn really understand it. When I removed this switch it solved my duel screen graphical login problem.
[newbie] Mount Point
I created a new windows partition on my second harddrive. I was going to use diskdrake to set linux to automatically mount it. It won let me mount it at /mnt/win98. How do I get linux to automatically mount a new partition? Thanks, Kevin
[newbie] mp3 encoding
I have been looking at Grip and it's interface seems simple and easy to use however I noticed it talks to other mp3 encoding programs. None of them seem to be installed. I was wondering which one would be best to do mp3's? lame? bladeenc? I3enc? mp3encode? their are others also listed. Thanks Kevin
[newbie] Real Audio Support in Mozilla
According to Mandrake Real Player is already installed. How do I get it to work with Mozilla? Thanks, Kevin
Re: [newbie] mp3 encoding
If I only had the time!!! Robert wrote: On Wednesday 18 July 2001 16:02, Kevin Fonner wrote: I have been looking at Grip and it's interface seems simple and easy to use however I noticed it talks to other mp3 encoding programs. None of them seem to be installed. I was wondering which one would be best to do mp3's? lame? bladeenc? I3enc? mp3encode? their are others also listed. Thanks Kevin I have found bladenc and mp3encode to be the quck pair, but hey, d/l em all and decide for yourself
[newbie] Selecting a version of X on install
I know on the cd's their are two version's of X on the CD. Version 3.something and Version 4.something. I wanted to install version 4.something. I am sitting here at the package selection screen on install and can't seem to find the Xfree86 packages. Any idea what catagories they are under???
[newbie] PCL, HPGL file formats
Are their any veiwers for PCLand HPGL file formats? I have heard of swiftview however I was looking for a cheap or even free solution. Thanks. Kevin
[newbie] mutli platform html editor
Are there any decent web page editors that are compatable with bot linux and windows. What I mean is a program with binarys for both platforms. Thanks Kevin
[newbie] What is the best cd-ripper for Linux
Just curious what your guys opinions on the best cd-ripper to use. Thanks, Kevin
[newbie] Remote X-windows session
How do I log on to a Remote computer through the internet and pull up a Xwindows session for it. I thought that this was possible... Thanks, Kevin
[newbie] Acrobat
Has anybody had any luck installing adobe acrobat reader on Mandrake yet? They don't have a lot of support on their site and when I try to run the install script in says it can't find a configuration file. Thanks, Kevin
[newbie] mount a floppy
what is the command to mount a floppy drive? Kevin Fonner Vice President and CTO Greenfern Corporation Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (888) 411-3923 Fax: (877) 807-4064 Web:http://www.greenfern.com/
[newbie] These wacky mice!!
I have had my up and downs with this! I have two mice on my laptop. A built in Glidepoint and a USB optical logitech. At first I could I only get one or the other to work under the Madrake control panel. Then I learned how to set up both mice by editing XF86config-4 file. It didn't work at first but for some reason both mice started working and all was well with the world. Then about 20 boots later the automatic hardware detection dected two different mice. Sure enough it rewrote my XF86config-4 file and screwed up my duel mouse setup. I copied my old X86config-4 file back into place and I thought that would correct everything back again. Nope, I'm back to only being able to get one or the other mouses to work through the Mandrake control panel and no matter what I do to the XF86config-4 file it doesn't matter. Is the mouse controlled in other places as well as the X config file? Any ideas? Thanks, Kevin
[newbie] usb floppy
I have a NEC usb floppy drive on my compaq 1400 laptop. The hardware detection detects it as a SCSI device as /dev/sda. How can I mount this to /mnt/floppy??? Kevin
Re: [newbie] Test report ext2resize and ext2online
Thanks for the update. I appreciate it. You know if it's one thing I like about the Linux community, it's the commradery. Sure we had our windows system engineer circles, but nothing even close to what I have experienced with the Linux groups. Thanks, Kevin - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 7:36 PM Subject: [newbie] Test report ext2resize and ext2online These are the basic tools for dealing with single partitions I tested them very basically to see what was available The kernel would need a recompilation to activate ext2online (which expands mounted partitions), but ext2 resize works, even on a partition containing a bootable system. /spare on my main system mount is my test area for corporate server, and I tried a boot in the middle after sizing down. Transcript of testing session follows: ext2online fails because a flag has to be enabled to allow it when the kernel is compiled. ext2resize works... even a little too well. The first resize left me unbootable because I had no spare blocks for the system to use. The second made me bootable again. Civileme [tester@civileme tester]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb9 6.3G 2.7G 3.3G 45% / /dev/hdb8 1.6G 398M 1.1G 26% /calm /dev/hda7 2.2G 2.1G 23M 99% /home /dev/hda6 2.9G 589M 2.2G 21% /jose /dev/hdb7 2.9G 1.3G 1.4G 48% /oldhome /dev/hda1 478M 414M 39M 91% /oldroot /dev/hda8 5.4G 3.1G 2.0G 61% /spare /dev/hdb6 3.0G 57M 2.8G 2% /7.1b /dev/hda1 478M 414M 39M 91% /7.2b [tester@civileme tester]$ [root@civileme tester]# umount /dev/hda8 [root@civileme tester]# e2fsck /dev/hda8 e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/hda8: clean, 173920/715264 files, 832492/1427769 blocks [root@civileme tester]# ext2resize /dev/hda8 3400m ext2resize v1.1.17 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b [root@civileme tester]# df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb9 6.3G 2.7G 3.3G 45% / /dev/hdb8 1.6G 398M 1.1G 26% /calm /dev/hda7 2.2G 2.1G 22M 99% /home /dev/hda6 2.9G 589M 2.2G 21% /jose /dev/hdb7 2.9G 1.3G 1.4G 48% /oldhome /dev/hda1 478M 414M 39M 91% /oldroot /dev/hdb6 3.0G 57M 2.8G 2% /7.1b /dev/hda1 478M 414M 39M 91% /7.2b [root@civileme tester]# mount /dev/hda8 [root@civileme tester]# df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb9 6.3G 2.7G 3.3G 45% / /dev/hdb8 1.6G 398M 1.1G 26% /calm /dev/hda7 2.2G 2.1G 22M 99% /home /dev/hda6 2.9G 589M 2.2G 21% /jose /dev/hdb7 2.9G 1.3G 1.4G 48% /oldhome /dev/hda1 478M 414M 39M 91% /oldroot /dev/hdb6 3.0G 57M 2.8G 2% /7.1b /dev/hda1 478M 414M 39M 91% /7.2b /dev/hda8 3.3G 3.1G 12M 100% /spare [root@civileme tester]# ext2online /spare 5g ext2online v1.1.17 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b ext2online: resizing to 1310720 blocks ext2online: resize failed while in kernel ext2online: Invalid argument [root@civileme tester]# man ext2online Formatting page, please wait... [root@civileme tester]# ext2online /spare 5G ext2online v1.1.17 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b ext2online: resizing to 1310720 blocks ext2online: resize failed while in kernel ext2online: Invalid argument [root@civileme tester]# e bash: e: command not found [root@civileme tester]# umount /spare [root@civileme tester]# ext2resize /dev/hda8 5g ext2resize v1.1.17 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b [root@civileme tester]# mount /dev/hda8 [root@civileme tester]# df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb9 6.3G 2.7G 3.3G 45% / /dev/hdb8 1.6G 398M 1.1G 26% /calm /dev/hda7 2.2G 2.1G 22M 99% /home /dev/hda6 2.9G 589M 2.2G 21% /jose /dev/hdb7 2.9G 1.3G 1.4G 48% /oldhome /dev/hda1 478M 414M 39M 91% /oldroot /dev/hdb6 3.0G 57M 2.8G 2% /7.1b /dev/hda1 478M 414M 39M 91% /7.2b /dev/hda8 4.9G 3.1G 1.6G 66% /spare [root@civileme tester]# ext2online /spare 5400M ext2online v1.1.17 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b ext2online: resizing to 1382400 blocks ext2online: resize failed while in kernel ext2online: Invalid argument [root@civileme tester]# ext2online /spare 5300M ext2online v1.1.17 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b ext2online: resizing to 1356800 blocks ext2online: resize failed while in kernel ext2online: Invalid argument
[newbie] TV Card
Anybody ever get a ATI TV wonder to work on Mandrake? I looked at some of the tv programs some people have listed in the past and none of them specified the ATI TV Card. Thanks, Kevin
Re: [newbie] Disk Resizers
Ahh. I took a look at it ealier and didn't see any resize buttons. Then I pressed unmount. Thanks, Kevin - Original Message - From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Disk Resizers -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Disk Drake is included with Mandrake (at least 7.2, I would assume 8.0 as well). On Friday 29 June 2001 18:47, thus spake Kevin Fonner: Are their any partition resizers that are made to run on Linux? Kevin - Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: - - -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit. (No fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money.) - - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7PRqWOiMJhTaLf3MRAkz6AJ91Q/mGBMVB+jBfRK+pafLw2dTb/QCfVigQ 7U6+gy7Qbo1WREpRw7AximI= =niR0 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] Disk Resizers
I can't seem to move or resize my / drive. Will I have to create some special boot disk to do this or something or is their a way to do it? Thanks, Kevin - Original Message - From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Disk Resizers -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Disk Drake is included with Mandrake (at least 7.2, I would assume 8.0 as well). On Friday 29 June 2001 18:47, thus spake Kevin Fonner: Are their any partition resizers that are made to run on Linux? Kevin - Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: - - -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit. (No fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money.) - - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7PRqWOiMJhTaLf3MRAkz6AJ91Q/mGBMVB+jBfRK+pafLw2dTb/QCfVigQ 7U6+gy7Qbo1WREpRw7AximI= =niR0 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie] another shutdown problem
When I shutdown Mandrake the last thing it says is Power Down and then my computer locks up. At one time it actually shut off my laptop but now it just sits their. I know it's not waiting for me to turn it off because I have to hold down my power button to force it to the off position. Kevin
[newbie] ext2 file system
Does mandrake use the Linux ext2 file system? Because I have a copy of partition magic 6.0 and it is supposed to understand the partition and it is not demonstrating it that way to me. Kevin
Re: [newbie] mouse curson pointing to a shifted grid
I had the same problem with my Compaq 1400. When I did a cold reboot (Completely shutting off the system) it went away. For some reason just rebooting the system didn't help. Kevin - Original Message - From: Travel GZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 7:46 PM Subject: [newbie] mouse curson pointing to a shifted grid Hi, On my Compaq 1200 xl106 laptop I installed Mandrake 8. After using KDE for an hour or two, suddenly the mouse seems to work on a shifted frame than the monitor! Meaning, in order to click on a button (or anthing) my mouse cursor actually doesn't sense the button is where I see it but about 10 pixels to the right! So that the button, which normally doesn't switch to darker color when a mouse is over it, changes colors even when the mouse is 10 pixels right of its right boundary, but is unaffected if the mouse is within 10 pixels of its left boundary. Plus, the mouse stops 10 pixels from the left edge of my monitor but goes off on the right edge of my monitor. Anyway idea why or at least where I should look? Thanks! G __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
FW: [newbie] Mandrake linux with windows me, help...
I'm quite an experienced systems administrator and I have to agree that windows no matter how hard you try eventually screws itself up. Sure if you have no life you can constantly clean the registry and go through your OS every day file by file. Normal people don't typically want to do that and the utilities out there usually screw things up too. Thought I'd share a trick of mine though. Many moons ago I made an image of my windows system with Ghost with just the base operating system, drivers, and a few programs I know I'll never change. Every 4 months I blow that image on and spend an hour reloading the additional apps. Saves considerable time on reloading and I always seem to have a peek system. I keep all my data files on a separate drive. I also don't spend years trying to figure out what I did with all those dam driver disk! :) Kevin -Original Message- From: mooseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake linux with windows me, help... X-RebelTech Is Here: www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit while i agree with a lot of what you said regarding windows and hardware issues and the support that is out there, i don't agree with the viable indefinately. this would be perhaps true if you never used it or installed any software on it. my experience with umpteen hundred win machines around here is that after 12 months of operation, you are on borrowed time before weird issues start to crop up. however, if you never install any of MS other software like office, or upgrade IE, and just use software that follows the rules of not F-**ing with the OS then it runs a LOT longer without problems. anyways, i guess my rant is OT. so, i should end my part. moose. On Tuesday 26 June 2001 18:00, you wrote: On Tuesday 26 June 2001 04:44 pm, Jason Guidry wrote: Should be able to resize your windows partition and then install on the remaining space. Make sure the windows partition is defragd and healthy or it will give you problems. If that doesn't work, then try partition magic and resize. Or, what I really recommend is backing everything up and wipe the whole disk clean and start over. I agree. Before you attempt to resize active partitons it's only prudent to back up everything you want or can't afford to loose. So why resize? Wipe and start over, replace your data from the backups. . This way you can reinstall windows with minimum pain. All operating systems, but especially windows, experience bit-rot which will slow sown your system, and will only be fixed by re-installing regularly (3-6 months depending on use). bit-rot ?? I sort'a kind'a think that's a myth, ala urban legend. Windoze, even the bug laden W95 can be kept viable indefinitely. Most of the problems Winblows users have are user, and lately win-hardware problems. The first one is that they never want to, or do learn how to properly maintain the OS. Most believe they don't or shouldn't have to. Just like Linux, administration of the OS is the users responsibility. I also tend to agree with those who've posted on another thread that there's just as many resources for user support for Winblows as there is for Linux. Most windoze users just don't seek it out tho. Also, with either, or any OS for that matter, hardware knowledge is paramount. Users don't know, or wanna admit, that they or their hardware is the problem, so it gets blamed on the OS.
Re: [newbie] laptop monitor - Mandrake not using the full screen
I had the same problem with my Compaq laptop... I upgraded to version 4.x of X... Tried changing the resolution again... Worked in a jiffy! - Original Message - From: Ravi Malghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 7:28 PM Subject: [newbie] laptop monitor - Mandrake not using the full screen Hello: I installed Mandrake 8.0 on my laptop which has a 15 monitor. The linux OS seems to be only taking about 12 of that. The laptop is a HP n5470 model. Anybody has figured this out ? Thanks Ravi __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] USB Mouse and Mandrake 8.0
I have a Logitech usb optical mouse too! I just went under the Mandrake control center.. under hardware.. under mouse and selected a usb generic mouse. I still have not yet get the wheel to work on mine though but I really haven't tried yet. Hope that helps. Kevin - Original Message - From: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 3:46 PM Subject: [newbie] USB Mouse and Mandrake 8.0 I am new to the list. I have a logitech Optical USB mouse. 1. Is it possible to get it to work during the install? I can use text install and get by without, but would like to get it to work in XWindows. 2. If it is possible to get it to work in XWindows, what do I need to do? It works fine in Redhat 7.1 Thanks Jeff
[newbie] Desktop Publishing
I want to get into graphics and animation, but at the same time I am beginning to use Linux more and more. Do any professional graphics editing, desktop publishing, and animation programs exist out there? Kevin Fonner Vice President and CTO Greenfern Corporation Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (888) 411-3923 Fax: (877) 807-4064 Web: http://www.greenfern.com/
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Bankrupt ?? -- No Way!!
Whew!! Am I glad. After you said that earlier I immediately scanned all the linux news sites and couldn't find it anywhere. Mandrake is the only linux distro I'll use! - Original Message - From: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: preston smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Bankrupt ?? -- No Way!! Preston, There is no truth to this at all. I don't know where your friend reads his news. In fact, Mandrake's sales have never been better. Their sales surpass RedHat's. I would recommend that you refer to the news section on the Mandrake web site. Make a print out and show it your ill informed friend. I have included the link below: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/pr-deny.php3 Roman Registered Linux User #179293 This email is powered by the Tux Email Utility preston smith wrote: Hi!! A friend of mine (who is in the business and is pro-OS/2 and anti-windows tells me that he heard the Mandrake had gone bankrupt. Is there any truth to this? Before I load Mandrake for the first time, i would like to make sure I am not going down a dead end street. Hopefully, he is wrong. Preston --- Betti Ann Preston Smith Head of St Margaret's Bay, NS [EMAIL PROTECTED] MGB RV Owners -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 This email is powered by the Tux Email Utility
[newbie] a mouse click away??
I just got a wierd and annoying problem. When I click on my mouse it clicks on something that is about half an inch to the left. Rebooting didn't help. My mouse icon doesn't seem to lined up with what the system thinks it is over? Any ideas??? Kevin Fonner
[newbie] mutiple moniters
Has anybody ever delt with mutiple moniters in linux? Is it it possible? Is their a How-To?
