[newbie] Boot Problem: cannot mount root fs
Hello everyone, I have been using Linux Mandrake 8.0 on my Dell Laptop for almost a year now. I set it up as a dual boot with Windows ME. It has a single 10 GB hard drive. Last weekend I tried to install a software package using Windows ME, and it locked up the machine. I had to physically remove all power to get the laptop to reboot. Now, I can't seem to boot my Linux! :-( Here is the message that is displayed on the screen: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:08. Can anyone tell me if this is repairable? If so, how do I repair it? If not, can I reinstall Linux without losing my personal data files? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Mike = May the Force be with you. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Any hope for Java on Linux?
Dear Dr. Evil, I too have installed Sun's jdk1.3.1 on Mandrake 8.0, and I use it every day to write software in Java. As long as you set up the appropriate environment variables (namely PATH and CLASSPATH), you shouldn't have any trouble writing, compiling, and running Java programs. If you would like more details on how I set up my environment to support Java development, I would be more than happy to share them with you. Just send me a reply, and I will help you unravel the Java mysteries... By the way, it is my humble opinion that getting the environment configured correctly is at least half the battle in learning how to program in Java. It's not always intuitive at first, and it's definitely easier to get started if you have the help of someone who has already set things up before on several different OS's. And yes, compiled Java classes are truly portable across OS's without recompiling (with a few exceptions like Java Native Interface API and multi-threaded programs). Hope this helps you want to try again. Please contact me if you would like help getting Java set up on your Mandrake box. Mike --- Dr. Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems very difficult to get the Linux java stuff working. When I installed Mandrake, it came with a bunch of java stuff: /usr/bin/java /usr/bin/javac /usr/bin/javadoc /usr/bin/javakey /usr/bin/javap However, when I set my java interpreter to /usr/bin/java in Konqueror, it wouldn't run java applets. I downloaded the Sun JDK, and installed it in /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/, and then set Konqueror's java to /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/bin/java. Now Konq shows java applets just fine. So, what was /usr/bin/java for? Also, I am now trying to write some of my own java stuff. When I use Sun's JDK javac, I can compile things just fine, but when I try to run even the simplest java thing from the commandline, I get this error: Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: test/class So, what's the story on java with Linux? So far it seems that java is write once, run nowhere. Shouldn't this stuff be built in the kernel? In other words, shouldn't the kernel be able to execute java binaries by using some kind of built-in JVM? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com = May the Force be with you. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SPAM
Actually... SPAM is a lovely meat *food* product that comes vacuum-packed in a tin. The taste is so wonderful, it can be used at practically any (non-kosher) meal in combination with any other *food* product. SPAM is a first cousin to the good old Christmas fruitcake, commonly known as a paperweight, doorstop, or just brick. To get the full gist of what SPAM really entails, you need to sit yourself down with the entire Monty Python's Flying Circus video library... 'Nuff said there. Hence the term SPAM has been stretched (nice visual image there folks!) to include all that lovely unsolicited email that knowone really wanted in the first place. Have a nice day, Mike --- Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi SPAM is any unsolicetied, unwanted mail that is sent in bulk/to multiple recipients. I didn't want the trash that CHris Harvey sent, nor did I request it and it was sent in bulk (via the Newbie list) thus it is SPAM. Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 11:59 AM Subject: [newbie] SPAM Could someone define what spam is for me? That is is there a dictionary definition for Spam. I thought spam was sending e-mail that someone is trying to sell me something or someone sending me repeated e-mail even when I have asked them not to. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com = May the Force be with you. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ping (MySQL)
Hello Edmund, I have a fresh installation of LM 8.0 running on my laptop. I poked around a bit to see if I could use MySQL, as it was installed with the OS. You should be able to see the two default databases with the following command: [me@mySystem /]$ mysqlshow This should produce output that looks like: +---+ | Databases | +---+ | mysql | | test | +---+ You can use the mysqladmin command to create new databases, and do all kinds of other things. I have some really good notes from a friend; let me see if I can find them, and I will email them to you a little later... They may be in MS Powerpoint format, but you should be able to open that using StarOffice on LM 8.0. Hope this helps, Mike --- Mitchell, Edmund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all I'm trying to take my first steps with either MySQL or PostgreSQL, and the documentation at those websites, while great, is hard to follow from a Mandrake perspective (it seems the files are in different places from what those websites say is customary, and there must be some small setup involved, because things like 'initdb' are producing error messages implying that all the ducks are not in a row). Can someone point me to some LM-specific docs, or tell me the first few steps to perform to get things going on a clean install? Thanks Edmund = May the Force be with you. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
RE: [newbie] JAVA SDK on Mandrake 8.0
I've been using the JDK 1.3.1 daily for about a month and a half now, and have not had any problems (I can work all day without a single O/S crash and burn). I really like doing my Java Development on LM 8.0, as I can use the .jar and .class files on my WinDoze partition! :) I also now have decent source code control and a relational database on Linux, which I did not have when using WinDoze. Long live the Penguino! M!ke --- Mitchell, Edmund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't had any troubles - everything by the book. Edmund -Original Message- From: Alwan Sadagopan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hi, Planning to install J2SDK 1.3.1. Are there any known issues on J2SDK on LM 8.0. Kindly let me know. -- = May the Force be with you. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] USB : 56K V90 Modem
Scott, I ran into a similar problem running Linux Mandrake 8.0 on my Dell Laptop. I decided to research the available PCMCIA Modems on the market to ensure that I purchased one that was known to be Linux compatible. I bought a ZOOM/PC CARD 56K Dual Mode Fax/Modem card, Model 2957, plugged it in, and just worked like a charm. I paid approximately $89.00 USD for it, but for me it was worth every penny. I am now happily free from the clutches of the M$ Empire! I even did my last presentation slides in Star Office 5.2, and my manager was none the wiser. Long live the penguin! I hope you find a modem solution that works for your particular situation. Mike --- Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott: This may be a winmodem, in which case you have a problem. I went to the Buslink site, and they list Win98 as one of the requirements. That ain't good. Read over the winmodem-and-Linux-HOWTO for an explanation of winmodems versus real modems. If you do have a winmodem, go to www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html and see if a solution exists. Good luck, Carroll Scott Mills wrote: I have the BUSlink USB 56K V90 Modem , I'm running duel boot system Win98 SE LM 8.0 . It's telling me The port is busy , try to configuring it . I tried to re-configure it using different ports I got the same thing . If someone could give me a little direction . Thanks in advance , Scott = May the Force be with you. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Video Problems - Mandrake 8.0 on Dell Latitude C800 Laptop
Hello, I am trying to get Mandrake 8.0 up and running on a brand new Dell Lattitude C800 Laptop, but I am seeing some really nasty video behavior. It acts like it doesn't want to use the right-most 1/3 of the screen. The video card is an ATI M4, with 32 MB RAM. Has anyone else seen this type of behavior before? Is there a different video driver I can use to make Mandrake 8.0 work correctly on this Laptop? I installed it just fine on my Dell Inspiron Laptop, but the Latitude just doesn't seem to want to cooperate... Thanks in advance, Mike = May the Force be with you. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Java (again)
Hi Marcia, Here's what I think you will need to do to get your Java working again. I am assuming that when you login to Linux, you do so as a regular user, NOT AS root. In order for Java to run, you need to set up a minimum of two environment variables so that it can find the files it needs to run. These two environment variables are named PATH and CLASSPATH. You can set them up in one of two ways: 1) temporarily, good for the life of the shell you are running in; or 2) as permanent environment variables, available to every shell you open. I use method 2... You can use the following command to view your current environment variable settings (the [obiwan@localhost]$ represents my shell prompt; yours should look similar...): [obiwan@localhost]$ export To set things up so that each new shell is using the same global environment variable settings, perform the following steps. I will mark any comment lines here using a '#' in the first column. # ASSUMPTIONS I AM MAKING: # # I am assuming you know the directory where you installed # the JDK. I installed mine into: /usr/local/j2sdk1.3 # This is normally referred to as JAVA_HOME, and we will # indeed set up just such an environment variable, as well # as PATH and CLASSPATH. # # I am assuming that you know that the system will expand # out the name of an environment variable whenever it sees # a '$' at the beginning of an environment variable name. # This is why you say: 'cd $HOME' to change the current # directory to your home directory. # # I am assuming you will REMOVE any previous edits you made # to the /etc/profile, so they don't conflict with the things # I suggest that you do. # Step 1. You need to edit the file that sets the environment variables in your shell of choice. I use the default bash shell, so the file I edited is named: $HOME/.bashrc Type in the following command to open this file in the editor: [obiwan@localhost]$ gedit $HOME/.bashrc Inside the editor you will most likely see something similar to: # .bashrc # Source global definitions if [ -r /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi # Step 2. Go to the last line of the file, and type in the following two lines to set up a new environment variable that represents where you installed Java: # Set up the Java Development Environment Variables export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/j2sdk1.3 # # The export command will make this variable visible in all shells # Step 3. Next, type in the following two lines to modify your existing PATH variable to work with Java: # export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH Step 4. Create a CLASSPATH variable, so that Java will know where to search for class files. Type in the following two lines: # export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib/classes.zip Step 5. Save the file, and exit the editor. The file should look *similar* to the one shown below: # .bashrc # Source global definitions if [ -r /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi # ### # Set up the Java Development Environment Variables ### # export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/j2sdk1.3 # export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH # export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib/classes.zip # # end setup for Java Development Environment Variables ## Step 6. To export the new variables into the environment (without rebooting), type in the following command at a shell prompt: [obiwan@localhost]$ source .bashrc Now you should be ready to Rock 'n Roll. Try running anything Java! Later on, you can add new directories or jar files to the CLASSPATH variable following this same technique... The next time you log in as that same user, you will instantly have those same environment variables available to your shell(s)! Good luck - if you have any questions, you know where to find me. Mike --- Anguo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcia, Try one more thing and if it doesn't work, we'll have to ask more advanced people for help. In the console, type 'which java'. - $ which java /usr/local/j2re1.3.0/bin/java - Thanks for the instructions. I went into the file as root and did what you described Exactly? Can you confirm that you did change the path to fit yours? According to the which java command above, my path is: PATH=/usr/local/j2re1.3.0/bin:$PATH Did you set up yours according to your path (which would be different since you have another version of java). except I did not know exactly where my entry should go. I put it under the other Path entry. Yes, this question got me puzzled too. I believe anywhere is fine, on a separate line. I put my command more towards the top g. It is there now, but nothing has changed yet. I am perplexed that this does not work now after working before. Thanks for the help. I am a newbie like you. I
[newbie] telnet not installed?
Hi Folks, I just got Mandrake 8.0 installed on my laptop, but I can't seem to find the telnet program. Anyone have any ideas where it might be, or why it wasn't installed? Thanks in advance, M!ke = May the Force be with you. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
