[newbie] scrolling screen
I just installed v10 and have found the "scrolling screen" Where do I turn that feature off, I HATE IT! thanks, normna -- Norman LeCouvie Norman LeCouvie Executive Director - Government Sector International Americas Sun Microsystems Inc. 613-787-5229 www.sun.com
[newbie] scrolling screen
I just installed v10 and have found the "scrolling screen" Where do I turn that feature off, I HATE IT! thanks, norman -- Norman LeCouvie Norman LeCouvie Executive Director - Government Sector International Americas Sun Microsystems Inc. 613-787-5229 www.sun.com
Re: [newbie] scrolling screen
tried that, could not find it there, it is S annoying, thanks anyways norman Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 08:38, Norman LeCouvie wrote: I just installed v10 and have found the "scrolling screen" Where do I turn that feature off, I HATE IT! thanks, norman You should be able to turn it off under Mandrake Control Centre = Hardware = Display stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Certified virus-free since we don't use Microsoft products The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity. ... Fuss, the god of the Southern Ocean, and Fret, the god of the Northern Ocean, happened once to meet in the realm of Chaos, the god of the center. Chaos treated them very handsomely and they discussed together what they could do to repay his kindness. They had noticed that, whereas everyone else had seven apertures, for sight, hearing, eating, breathing and so on, Chaos had none. So they decided to make the experiment of boring holes in him. Every day they bored a hole, and on the seventh day, Chaos died. -- Chuang Tzu -- Norman LeCouvie Norman LeCouvie Executive Director - Government Sector International Americas Sun Microsystems Inc. 613-787-5229 www.sun.com
[newbie] 8.0 to 9.0 upgrade
I would like to update a Squid Server which has Mandrake Linux 8.0 and with Squid-2.3.STABLE4-5mdk on it. I have also been asked to put updated versions of php and apache on the machine. As this is being used by a school and it is some 50 miles from my home I feel I need to be sure I do have everything I need when I go. I have downloaded the 3 Mandrake 9.0 isos and burned the CD's I have installed this on my home machine. Can I safely choose to do an update rather than an install? Or can I use Mandrake Update over the internet? If so, are there any files I should back up to floppy before I start? The school has a fast internet connection not just a modem Once it is installed I would allow it to do the updates it requests especially the security and bug-fixes? Any help would be much appreciated. tia Norm -- Noose Head? Lambs Slaughter? Lemmings Cliff? Link? Oh, silly me, could it be Microsoft Software users?:) registered Linux user 277766 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ECS K7S5A mobo
Sevatio wrote: Have any of you used the ECS K7S5A mobo with Mandrake? Are there any known problems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I have one with a 900MHz Duron and 392 Meg SDRam Had Mandrake 8.0 running and could not get the onboard NIC to work. Bought a PCI NIC for it. Installed Mandrake 9.0 a few weeks ago and decided to see if the onboard NIC would now work. It does ( sis900 module ) Haven't tried the onboard sound, I had already a SoundBlaster 128 which I knew had a better spec. Had some problems with my ImmoVision NVidia GForce2 200MX card under 8.0 but it does work better with 9.0 using supplied drivers. Haven't tried it on 9.0 with the driver from NVidia site. Norm -- Noose Head? Lambs Slaughter? Lemmings Cliff? Link? Oh, silly me, could it be Microsoft Software users?:) http://www.nelliott.co.uk registered Linux user 277766 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LM8.0 crash recovery
Dear all, I have a linux Mandrake 8.0 box which crashed yesterday when I tried to mount the iso image of for cd1 LM9.0 to a dir in / as root. An initial hardware reboot seemed to work ok, however at some stage it failed and the screen went black. Since then I cannot boot without using the rescue option on the LM8.0 installation cdrom. (I tried the tomsrtbt disk but that fails with message: LILO Error 0xFF.) at the prompt, I don't really know what to do. The suggestions at MU.org don' t help at the moment as no fs is mounted. When trying to do a mount e.g. mount -t ext2 /dev/hda7 /mnt/disk -o ro I get unknown device. Can anyone help what to do next ? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] partition
Hi, I'm trying to setup my Linux box using RAID. Is it possible to setup Linux RAID then xfs? Does software RAID means no xfs? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] /root
In 8.2 I can creat a /root partition on its own, but in 9.0 I can longer do that. When I try, I get a prompt telling me that /root should be with the root partition. Does anyone know if this is be design or bug? Can I still create /root on its own? Thanks. Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to get write permission to a mounted folder?
fifner the dragon wrote: Hi, I made a shared folder (called J) on my other box(windoze). I can access it from /mnt/J using Samba. To read and copy from it is no problem. If I log in as root I can write to it. How can I write to it without logging in as root? Cheers, Fifner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com try the following: cd /mnt ls -l J as this is a Windows PC you should see something like drwxrwxrwx 18 root root 4096 Dec 31 1969 J/ If you get the line starting drwxr-xr-x then only the user who created the directory has write access ( in this case root ) So then ( logged in as the user root ) do chmod 777 J and the problem should be solved. best wishes, norm -- http://www.nelliott.co.uk registered Linux user 277766 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM 9 scsi problem
Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: I installed Mandrake 9 yesterday, no apparent problems. I tried using my HP 5p SCSI scanner today and xsane can't see it. If I do cat /proc/scsi/scsi both my SCSI devices are recognized. I have a CD burner set up as IDE-SCSI that had been working fine along with the scanner. Now neither work. I notice when I boot the system the first message I get is that the scanner SCSI card driver doesn't get loaded, then I get insmod exited abruptly. Where should start looking for the problem? It's beginning to look like a general SCSI problem. Thanks, Well I don't know a lot about this but if your SCSI Card driver isn't loading then you will not be able to see the scanner so I think you need to start with it. dmesg should give you a good starting point as it reports errors at boot time which should give you some clues. best wishes, norm -- http://www.nelliott.co.uk registered Linux user 277766 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mozilla plugin
In mozilla when I tried to open a page, I get This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm) that can only be viewed with appropriate Plug-in I think it is the java virtual machine machine. But I don't know where to get in RPM format. I have the CDs but I don't know what the filename is. Would someone please help me in this regard? Thanks, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mozilla plugin
: In mozilla when I tried to open a page, I get : : This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm) that can : only be viewed with appropriate Plug-in I found the plugin and downloaded from Sun. May I ask how do I create a symbolic link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in /usr/java/j2re1.4.0_02/plugin/i386/ns610. I tried copying this file to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. But when I try to view the java page, mozilla crashes. Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] disk quota?
Hi, I enable Use Quotas on /home in webmin/system/Disk and Network Filesystems to Users and Group. But webmin/system/Disk Quota still cannot be enable or started? Would someone please give me some help? Thanks, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] password
Hi, I am trying to reset expired passwords, so I boot up with a floppy and enter, linux init=/bin/sh -rw and I get init-2.05# I tried passwd username and entered new password. But I get the following error message, PAM_pwdb[22]: user (username/id) update failed; pwdb: another process has locked resource passwd: Critical error - immediate abort Would someone please tell me how can I solve this? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] stock imap
Hi, Would someone please tell me if the stock imap server is any good. Does it support postfix? Or do I need cyrus? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can I switch my IDE controllers?
Isaac Curtis wrote: Right now I've got my HP 9100 CD-RW plugged into Primary Master, Windows IBM Deskstar 30 Gig on Secondary Master with this Linux HD, a Maxtor 20, on Secondary Slave. I did this because I originally wasn't able to get either the IBM HD or the CD drive (I can't remember which, it was over a year ago) to run right in the more normal configuration of Primary=HD / Secondary=CD. I know much more about PC hardware stuff now, so I'm thinking about popping the lid and switching the hard drives over to Primary and the CD-RW to Secondary. I have to change the floppy cable anyway, so this would be a good time to do it. My question is: Is there any risk involved in switching these IDE/ATAPI drives around? Could I lose or damage data? Will my Linux bootloader be looking on the Secondary Slave controller for the hard drive when I try to go to Linux? If there's anything I should worry about, please let me know. Thanks, Isaac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com In itself there should be no problems but and it's a BIG BUT Your Linux is on /dev/hdd and the boot-loader is on /dev/hdc I am not sure what will happen as far as the loader is concerned it may load anyway. Problem is it will look on /dev/hdd for Linux and you will have moved it to /dev/hdb so, even if the loader does start up it won't find Linux. I am fairly sure you could edit some files, probably /etc/fstab and also /etc/lilo.conf amd run /sbin/lilo BEFORE you change over the connector. WARNING THIS MAY NOT BE ALL YOU NEED TO DO hth, norm -- http://www.nelliott.co.uk registered Linux user 277766 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] expired password
How do I get that if I am using GRUB? I don't see the linux single on the menu. Norman - Original Message - From: _nast-mdk81 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Norman Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Norman Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:10 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] expired password On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 08:45, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, My root password has expired. Is there any way that I can login to the system and change the password? Regards, Norman Hello, When LILO asks you to choose a boot option, select linux single (may be slightly different spelling). Then you should be able to do passwd root. Choose a nice password, cross your fingers and reboot! Regards, _nasturtium Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] expired password
Please excuse my previous post. I did managed change the passwords. Thanks. Regards, Norman - Original Message - From: Norman Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] expired password How do I get that if I am using GRUB? I don't see the linux single on the menu. Norman - Original Message - From: _nast-mdk81 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Norman Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Norman Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:10 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] expired password On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 08:45, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, My root password has expired. Is there any way that I can login to the system and change the password? Regards, Norman Hello, When LILO asks you to choose a boot option, select linux single (may be slightly different spelling). Then you should be able to do passwd root. Choose a nice password, cross your fingers and reboot! Regards, _nasturtium Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] expired password
Hi, My root password has expired. Is there any way that I can login to the system and change the password? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ISDN Card Mandrake 8.2
When you say : But the connection works what makes you think it is working? When i then click on the connect button it says it is connecting again, and comes with the same message (failed) and,,, yes the web browsers are not working.. This means it is not working ( or at least not doing what you want. ) How can i know for sure if my computer is connected or not? It can be rather expensive to be online all day.. if you start an xconsole up and then type ifconfig ( then press the enter key ) you should get information about the interfaces. I have not used an ISDN modem but you should get at least 2 interfaces my PC is on a network so I get : eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:A7:10:D4:79 inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:4508 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5006 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:57 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:2566221 (2.4 Mb) TX bytes:563387 (550.1 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xff00 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:484 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:484 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:33880 (33.0 Kb) TX bytes:33880 (33.0 Kb) You should get the lo one and probably one for ppp0 ( or similar ) If you are also on a network you will get the eth0 one as well. If you only get lo then you have not got your internet connection set up. and your dialup connection will also need configuring. Did you have the ISDN modem and switched on when you installed Mandrake? I would have expected it to offer to set it up at that time if you did. hth norm -- registered Linux user 277766 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Surestore 5000
dfox wrote: I assume /dev/nst0 is used if you just want to append extra Well, it's used in conjunction with 'mt' to position the tape to the proper point. One can have index marks (they work like the ones on VCRs) so if I am at beginning of tape and want to fast forward to right after the first archive, I do: # mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf1 Use of the no rewind device is critical here. Obviously I want to write or read after the first index mark, otherwise I wouldn't use the mt command. If I put # mt -f /dev/st0 fsf1 Thanks, Thought it might be something like that. I used to look after a few Novell Servers where I worked a few years ago so am used to tape backups in that environment. Usually they had gui front-ends ( we used Arcserve ) mt wasn't on my system so I have just fetched an rpm off rpmfind. The one I got is mt-st-0.6-3mdk.i586.rpm which seems to be the most recent stable version for Mandrake. best wishes, norm -- registered Linux user 277766 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Surestore 5000
Well guys I understand a lot more about tape drives now than I did 3 days ago. A pity more of the people who think MS means computing don't see how much more there is to it than re-installing screwed up DLL's, VXD's etc. I feel sure the great slew of ideas from just this one thread would open a few eyes. thanks to all, norm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Surestore 5000
dfox wrote: I think there's a Tape howto over in the howto docs, but once you have the tape working, it's pretty easy to use - you just use the /dev/st0 (it is scsi, right?) or /dev/nst0 devises - the second is the no-rewind device. Is it worth playing with? Do yuo like to make backups? Or do you want to risk losing your data? :) Which tape would work with it? My surestore drive uses 4mm DAT tapes - they are DDS-2 and capacity is 2 gigs uncompressed. When I got the drive, that was just right for copacity; nowadays it is a bit small. But I rarely need to back everything up. The tapes I've been using are Imation 4mm tapes - $5 bucks a pop when I got the drive. What backup software could I use with it? Lots support tapes - since it is a device you can just use 'tar'. I've found that 'tar' is just as easy to use, and probably preferable over other backup software. Plus, Arkeia would need X, which translates to a pretty big system build before you could restore a tape. Tar can fit on a rescue diskette. Thanks, tar cvf /dev/st0 /home/norman did a backup of my home directory. I thought I would need some software to rewind the tape not realising that this would happen automatically after the above command completed. I assume /dev/nst0 is used if you just want to append extra stuff after the first write. best wishes, norm registered Linux user 277766 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] HP Surestore 5000
Hi all, I have been given one of these drives. I have 3 different tapes with it. One tape is DDS another is DDS2 and the third is DDS3. It is connected to my Advansys SCSI Card which also has a Scanner attached. A scan of the scsi buses gives : scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) 'HP ' 'HP35480A' 'T603' Removable Tape 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 8200 ' '1.0f' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) *-- registered Linux user 277766 The CD-Writer is an IDE device and it works. My problem is that I have no idea how to use the tape drive. Could someone give me some pointers please. Is it worth playing with? Which tape would work with it? What backup software could I use with it? I installed Arkeia on my Mandrake 8.0 kernel 2.4.3 system when I bought it but the temporary license expired long before I got the drive.. ( at the moment I am using cdbackup 0.6.2 with the CDRW ) thanks, norm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] assign alias ip
Hi, I can't seem to be able to add additional ip alias to my eth0. Would someone please give me the right command for it? I tried, ifconfig eth0 add x.x.x.x netmask y.y.y.y but after /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart nothing happens. Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] system hang
LM 8.2 sometimes hang without any signs. The hard disk stop responding, keyboards dies, but the mouse can still move. I need to give my machine a power cycle. Which logs do I go through to obtain more information on the cause? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How To Determine Webserver?
Go to www.netcraft.net - Original Message - From: Sevatio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:37 AM Subject: [newbie] How To Determine Webserver? How do you determine what server a particular website is using? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] pop before smtp
Hi, My mail server is setup to stop open relay. So I need to supply a password before sending mail through SMTP. In KMail there's no option that I supply a password before sending mail. I only can retrieve mail via POP but cannot send. Does anyone know if there's a fix to this? Or is there an another email client I can use with support this feature? Thanks, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] USB printer
Hi, My mail server is setup to stop open relay. So I need to supply a password before sending mail through SMTP. In KMail there's no option that I supply a password before sending mail. I only can retrieve mail via POP but cannot send. Does anyone know if there's a fix to this? Or is there an another email client I can use with support this feature? Thanks, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB printer
Hi, Sorry I posted the wrong question on my last thread. LM 8.2 detects my HP2200D USB printer during installation. But I cannot send print jobs to the printer, not even the test page. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this. I tried LPR, CUPS. But nothing went through. Thanks, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] pop before smtp
Just tried it. It does not work. I still get RCPT 550 error: No relay. Norman - Original Message - From: drwhat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] pop before smtp On Sunday 28 April 2002 08:53 am, you wrote: On Saturday 27 April 2002 23:18, Norman Zhang opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Hi, My mail server is setup to stop open relay. So I need to supply a password before sending mail through SMTP. In KMail there's no option that I supply a password before sending mail. I only can retrieve mail via POP but cannot send. Does anyone know if there's a fix to this? Or is there an another email client I can use with support this feature? i think most other mail clients do. this has been a short coming for kmail for awhile but the newest version in KDE 3 solves it, so try just about any other linux mail program or try KDE 3. i doubt (but don't know) that you can get the new kmail without a full KDE upgrade though. erps... sorry to say.. you can do it with kde 2's kmail I have the same setup... gotta check pop, before I can send mail... you can find the setting: settings--configure kmail--miscellaneous--folders and check the option: send mail in outbox folder on check this will send mail to mail server immediattly after a pop check Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] segmentation fault
Hi, I am trying to install LM 8.2 on my workstation. But I get the following error message when trying to select language. Segmentation fault: seems like memory is missing as the install crashes. The machine is fine running LM 8.1. I got an exactly the same machine and it is running LM 8.2 fine. Does anyone know why? I don't think there's anything wrong with the hardware, as this machine works with 8.0 and 8.1. Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dual boot with XP
Hi, I am trying to dual boot Linux Mandrake 8.2 with XP. XP runs on the primary disk, and LM 8.2 runs on the secondary disk. They are both on the IDE slot 1. I put LILO on hdb. Would someone please tell me how I can edit boot.ini to make it boot for both OS? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problems
Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble getting LM 8.1 to connect to the internet through my home LAN. My setup is as follows: - Machine sharing the internet connection: Win98 (running Wingate), ip 192.168.0.2 - Client: LM 8.1, setup through Mandrake Control Center with ip 192.168.0.1, gateway 192.168.0.2, DNS 192.168.0.2. This is how it is supposed to be done according to the Wingate manual. I can ping the Win98 box from LM and vice-versa. From the client machine I can also ping any ip on the internet. But I can't ping hostnames (i.e. ping www.linux-mandrake.com returns unknown host: www.linux-mandrake.com). So I think it has something to do with DNS. But what? My /etc/resolv.conf file has just one entry: nameserver 192.168.0.2 Any help is appreciated. TIA, -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I do not use windows except for trivial things but your setup is telling your Linux box that the windows PC is a DNS Server. If it doesn't fetch that information and pass it on to the Linux box then it will fail. There is no reason why you need to use your local PC as a DNS Server except for speed reasons. I doubt that a win98 PC would be good for that. Your ISP will have DNS servers and I expect they will have supplied you with the IP addresses for them. Just tell your Linux PC one of them as the DNS Server to use and it should be fine. When you get into using Linux I think you will find it better to use the Linux PC as the gateway. hth norm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation
Barran, Richard wrote: Morning all, I've received a very interesting Mandrake Community Newsletter this morning. I'm including here the two most relevant paragraphs: Even though all of us here at MandrakeSoft are excited about the upcoming release, we've also been distracted by financial concerns. Despite continuous good reviews in the press; despite having millions of users throughout the world; despite producing an award-winning Linux distribution that is a solid competitor to both UNIX and Window$, the Mandrake Linux distribution's short-term future is in jeopardy due to a simple factor: money. As a company, we make our revenue by selling packaged versions of the distribution and by delivering services such as consulting, training, etc. -- but our development costs and community-based services are not yet covered by income. It is estimated that we will break even by the end of 2002, but it is unlikely that MandrakeSoft can remain unchanged during these next few months without drastically cutting costs unless additional revenue is generated quickly. The newsletter then goes on to urge people to sign up to Mandrake Club ASAP. I received a newsletter from the Club yesterday which also hinted at financial troubles. I haven't seen this mentioned yet by anyone on either this list or on the expert list. Is this a bit of scaremongering or is Mandrake really in dire straits? Regards, Richard PS Here follows a short message from my employer's legal department... *** This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the above named recipient(s) only and are confidential and may be privileged. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or disclose them or any part of their contents to any person or organisation; please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail and its attachments from your computer system. Please note that Internet communications are not necessarily secure and may be changed, intercepted or corrupted. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when e-mailing us and we will not accept any liability for any such changes, interceptions or corruptions. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and its attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. Copyright in this e-mail and attachments created by us belongs to Littlewoods. Littlewoods takes steps to prohibit the transmission of offensive, obscene or discriminatory material. If this message contains inappropriate material please forward the e-mail intact to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it will be investigated. Statements and opinions contained in this e-mail may not necessarily represent those of Littlewoods. Please note that e-mail communication may be monitored. Registered office: Littlewoods Retail Limited, Sir John Moores Building, 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L70 1AB Registered no: 421258 http://www.littlewoods.com *** -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com As a member of the club I receive a newsletter regularly. The last one said in part : This time we aren't asking for sweat or blood - all it takes to assure the development of Mandrake Linux in the future is the equivalent of one or two cinema tickets a month in the form of the Mandrake Club membership fee. Explain to them that they will not only receive the pleasure of assuring the future of the Mandrake Linux distribution, but they will even receive some special club privileges: - Club-only download of commercial applications. - A place in MandrakeSoft's Hall of Fame. - Possibility to ask questions (and receive answers) in Ask Mandrake series. - Direct trading of MandrakeSoft shares. - Special discounts on third party software (coming soon). There are millions of Mandrake Linux users out there, but only 2000 have joined the club so far. You are one of these 2000 people, and nobody can explain the reason why you did it better than you can. = I feel that I would have to pay much more by following the MS route. I believe I might easily be forced to pay out more and more as MS dictate rather than when I want or need to. By supporting Mandrake I feel I am at least putting something back for all of the stuff that's out there. If they do fold it wont have cost me much anyway and Linux will still go on. If they succeed then we all benefit from a
Re: [newbie] fonts too small
Damian Gatabria wrote: hi! does anyone know how to make fonts bigger for browsers? i'm finding more and more websites difficult to read ( my screen resolution is not that high ) and i can't find an option on any of them to enlarge the text Only on Konqueror, but it only makes buttons and widgets bigger how can i change this? sizes are OK for everything else thanks! Damian In Netscape ( I'm using 477 ) go to Edit - preferences - fonts and take your pick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
[newbie] Quanta cannot start in Mandrake
I compiled quanta-2.0.1. When I tried to quanta I get the following error message. I get a popup screen saying, File share/apps/quanta/syntax.xml not found! Check your installation! The file is in the share/apps/quanta folder when I checked. In shell the following error messages were obtained, Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.0 Xlib: extension RENDER missing on display :0.0. QFile::open: No file name specified KCrash: crashing crashRecursionCounter = 2 KCrash: Application Name = quanta path = unknown pid = 2359 Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.0 Xlib: extension RENDER missing on display :0.0. Backtrace gives the following, 0x411501d9 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #0 0x411501d9 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x411cdef8 in __check_rhosts_file () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x409dbc6e in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3 #3 0x40af8847 in _IO_2_1_stderr_ () from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 Appreciate anyone can give some help. TIA. Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] noarch?
Hi, I am trying to download some source codes for compilation. But it comes in two flavors, one is regular and the other is noarch. What does noarch stands for? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] block error and e2fsck
Dear all, My system is using following setup: PC with Intel P4 OS: Mandrake Linux 8.0 10Gb HDD for OS 2x 78GB HDD IBM Deskstar for RAID 3ware Escalade 6200 IDE Raid controller (lives in a PCI slot) I have a problem: on bootup I got this message with regards to one HDD connected to the RAID1 Error reading block 8126559 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resultet in short read) while doing inode scan /dev/sda5: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e., without -a or -p options) Failed to check filesystem. Do you want to repair errors? (beware, you can loose data) I have managed to start up and ar logged in as root. All my disks are mounted exept for /dev/sda5. I have tried e2fsck /dev/sda5 and it runs until block 8126559. Then it told me Error on block 8126559 (attempt to read block from filesystem resulted inshort read) while doing inode scan. Ignore error y? I typed y and it got me one block further. After about 200 y's more it got more complicated and it asked to fix errors. I have then done a control+c in order to stop this. Is there a suggested method of going ahead. I have had a look at the e2fsck man pages, but I would like some advise on how to continue. Many thanks, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] StarOffice Base
Hi, I usually use Star Office and have version 5.2 on my Linux-Mandrake 8 PC I recently read that StarOffice BAse is available and that it can handle MSAccess database files. I have downloaded a .bin file, changed the permissions and then run it as root. I cannot figure out what I am supposed to do next. It seemed to be installing and yet I cannot see what I can launch so I can proceed to use it. Can anyone help please? Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Same install many PC's
Thanks for the reply. I have been looking at my test PC which also has Mandrake Linux 8 on it. In total df shows just under 1.8Gig used. At that size I might only need one CD and a controlling floppy. I am wondering if it would be practical to tar and bzip2 the partitions, which are / /home /usr /var and set up a floppy and CD, or even a bootable CD to clone the first PC. At the moment I think I need to partition and format the disc and mount the partitions then unpack the various compressed files to the correct places then run lilo to end up with the copy. I expect I will need to learn quite a bit such as how to partition the discs without user intervention but is it practical? Norm Michael D. Viron wrote: During an expert installation of MandrakeLinux 8, it should ask if you want to create a replication floppy--at least it does with 7.2 not sure about 8.0 or 8.1. I'm not sure how exactly it works, but it should be pretty close to what you want. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:46 PM 09/19/2001 -0400, you wrote: Hi, I recently installed MandrakeLinux 8 for a school and set up Squid as a proxy server for their Win98 PC's They are now interested in having Linux for a number of their Desktop PC's. I would be happy to install it but, as many of them are identical, I wondered if it would be possible to install on one then create a cd with a copy of it and have some means of automatically reinstalling the identical configuration on the others. I realise that it would need things like host names to be different on each one but I think it should be possible to write some small script to allow that sort of question to be asked. Does anyone have any idea how I could go about this? Thanks. Norman 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] user X resolution
Hi there, I have got a Mandrake 8.0 PowerPack installation and would need some admin help please. How can I set up the screen resolution for a specific user. The PC Monitor where Mandrake is installed uses 1024x768 and all users so far use the same. Now one new user who accesses the Linux box from his PC using Exceed 6.1 only uses 800x600 on his PC. Now the screen picture he gets is all squashed somehow. What do I as an administrator do so that he can log on and have a nice 800x600 display resolution. Thanks in advance. Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Still LM8.0 Box crash/hang up ?
Civileme and Paul, Many, many thanks to you for your replies on my post yesterday. Thankfully I do not have the Southbridge686B problem chip and my BIOS settings were also not the reason for my crashes. Yes, my Etherexpress pro 100 is built into the motherboard (Intel D850GB). I was able to disable it in the bios and install a PCI Ethernet card. And guess what - the box is still running. So far I was not able to crash the PC with my previous tests. Due to the fact that I also had the problems with a ATI Mach 64 3D Rage II which sits in a PCI slots, I do not know if it is a AGP related problem. However, from the lspci output one can see that both use IRQ11 and therefore it is probably an interrupt related problem. My question now is: Can I configure (in the BIOS maybe) my AGP video and my onboard network card to use different interrupts in order to happily live together or do I have to stick with my extra PCI network card? If I have to get another card would not be the end of the world. Anyway, many thanks again to Civileme and Paul. Norman :-)
[newbie] XFree 4.1 from Cooker Installation
Dear all, I have downloaded the XFree86 4.1.0 RPMs from Mandrake Cooker and installed them using the Software Manager. When looking in the Mandrake Control Centre after I restarted X there is no option to choose 4.1 instead of 4.03. How can I select and configure Linux to use XFree86 4.1 now? Thanks. Norman
Re: [newbie] LM8.0 Freezes
Civileme, Thanks for your help. I have disabled Aurora and use Xtart to start the X window manager KDE. My question now is, where do I go from here? Will this be a permanent condition, because I would like to access my Linux box using Exceed as well, which it does not seem to allow me anymore? Norman
[newbie] LM8.0 Freezes
Hi all, I am slowly getting desperate here.my LM8 box freeces completely now and then for no apparent reason. Sometimes it happens when I highlight a window or something in KDE or Gnome. After that: no keyboard or mouse response, and no pinging from another computer is possible. I have to hardware restart. If I have used KDE before the crash, KDE won't start, until I had a session using Gnome (maybe just due to the crash). My box is: Intel P4 256 MB Ram ATI Radeon Fujitsu 10Gb HDD (with LM8 and W2k (using Fat 32)) 3ware RAID using 2 IBM 75Gb HDD Ricoh DVD In order to investigate what is happening, which logfiles do I need to look at and what should I look out for? Please help, Cheers, Norman
Re: [newbie] LM8.0 and Promise FastTrack RAID 1
Dear all, FALSE HOPES !!! In my previous email I said that I can access both IBM drives on the Fasttrack RAID controller, however this is not true. On installation, I was able to format and select a mount point for the first drive but not for the second drive. Then using Harddrake I was able to format and set the mountpoint for the second drive on the array after the installation. This let me to thinking that now I was able to access both of them. However, today on reboot, I could not re-mount the second drive. Although, Harddrake shows it to be formatted as Linux Native, I am not allowed to set a new mount point. Even deleting the partition and trying to set a new mount point does not work. Sorry for raising your hopes on the Fasttrack RAID controller. I suppose, I will have a look at the 3ware's version of RAID controllers or just use Linux Software RAID. Anyway, thanks for your help. Norman civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/21/01 12:24am On Wednesday 20 June 2001 11:45, Norman Teferle wrote: I have posted a message with respect to my Mandrake 8.0 box with a Promise FastTrack Ultra ATA-100 RAID 0 - 1 controller a couple of days ago with no response. Scrolling throught the mailing list archive, I can see that this topic has come up recently numerous times. Anyway, following the recommendations of the www.promise.com linux support for RH6.2/7.0 and some recent mailings (ie Richard Kleeman - Fix for Mandrake8.0 install on Promise IDE controller from Friday June 15, 2001) I have managed to install Mandrake 8.0 and can access my 3 harddrives hda, hde and hdg, with hde and hdg being two IBM DTLA 307075 drives. W2k and M8.0 live on hda, and the idea was to have RAID 1 configuration using both IBM disks. From some mails (Civileme - Common Errors - 28 May, 2001 and Civileme - Mandrake 8.0, Promise Fasttrack 66/100, Lockups, only sees one channel - 18 May, 2001) I also learned that it is possible to gimmick a RAID1 configuration by only installing one drive and using it in mirroring mode, using the controller to copy to the second drive. Could someone please tell me how to do this? Could you please tell ME how you got that thing working? We'll post it and give you credit. ;-) Well if you have identical drives, you ask the controller to make a copy to the second drive in RAID1 configuration. But if you have THREE drives on that controller, then leave it is straight IDE mode and RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID4 and RAID5 using any pieces you choose of those three drives all belong to you through linux software raid, which is just as efficient as the controller's RAID 1 and far less restrictive. As with most Linux facilities, linuxdoc.org has a giant HOWTO on this which, for once is not especially difficult to read. You will also find Software RAID partitons available as a partition type at install time. Civileme Civileme Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks Norman
RE: [newbie] printing to Laserjet 4000 Series PS
Tuan, many thanks. After spending 1.5 days trying to get my printer working from my Mandrake box I finally managed within one hour using CUPS. Cheers, Norman Tuan Duc Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/20/01 03:12am Well, The best way to setup is using CUPS. First, I assumed you installed CUPS Second, you need to open browser (Ex. Netscape) and type http://localhost:631 it will ask you ROOT password. from this page you can add new printer. When it ask you the port; select app/jet direct. It will show socket:// . you need to type: socket://(your printer server IP):9100) (EX. socket://192.168.0.1:9100). It will ask you to select printer and it also ask you if you want to print a test page. I use Jetdirect170 so I put IP:9100. If it does not work with your print server, try to use 9101 or 9102. FYI, It seem like my printer prints slower when I use Linux but it does good job. Tuan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Norman Teferle Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] printing to Laserjet 4000 Series PS Hi all, I really need advice here. I have installed LM8 and want to set up a printer. We have a LaserJet 4000 Series PS on a network and use Netware (ipx,spx protocol) for the Windows pc's to print on it. I have set up the HP JetDirect print server on the printer and can talk to it via its ip address. From all the websites and howto's I see there are many different options for me CUPS, LPRng and so on. Can someone comment on my options please, eg. what is easy to set up? Thanks, Norman _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] printing to Laserjet 4000 Series PS
Hi all, I really need advice here. I have installed LM8 and want to set up a printer. We have a LaserJet 4000 Series PS on a network and use Netware (ipx,spx protocol) for the Windows pc's to print on it. I have set up the HP JetDirect print server on the printer and can talk to it via its ip address. From all the websites and howto's I see there are many different options for me CUPS, LPRng and so on. Can someone comment on my options please, eg. what is easy to set up? Thanks, Norman
[newbie] Promise Fasttrack100 Raid Card and LM8
Dear all, can somebody help me to get my Fasttrack100 Ultra ATA/100 Raid Card working under Mandrake 8? I have installed LM8 but cannot see my Raid drives at all. Harddrake says unknown device. The Promise Technology, Inc website describes how to do it under Red Hat 6.2 but I am stuck. Any comments welcome. Thanks Norman
[newbie] LM8-command not found
Dear all, Thanks Sridhar and Serafim for your responses and help. However, I was only partly able to solve my problems. using ./myscript.ksh still gave the message : command not found however using sh myscript.ksh worked fine. using: perl myperlscript.pl enabled me to run the perl script, which I would not need as I have included !#/usr/bin/perl as first line in my script (which perl gave /usr/bin/perl). I have also noticed that vi does not work (also: command not found) I have run printenv PATH and the result was /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin export PATH=.:$PATH also resulted in an error message (command not found) Could anyone comment please? Cheers, Norman
[newbie] LM8-comand not found
Dear all, I have installed LM8 in a new PC and everything seems fine. However when trying to run perl or any other sh-scripts in my user environment in a terminal I get the message comand not found although chmod +x was set. Can someone help please. Thanks in advance. Norman
[newbie] inetd
Does anyone know if inetd has been removed from the Mandrake 8.0 distribution CDs? I can't find it except xinetd. Where can I find it? Regards, Norman
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 doesn't recognize PS/2 mouse
Did you upgrade your BIOS? And try setting PNP BIOS to no PNP. - Original Message - From: A. Rick Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 10:09 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 doesn't recognize PS/2 mouse You also won't find a working install. I tried the text install and it did exactly what I figured it would do. It still doesn't recognize the PS/2 mouse. Thus, you get the new 8.0 image, and you can't do a thing. sigh There goes two days worth of work. I'm just glad I didn't try an upgrade on a real, working server. So for the time being, Mandrake 8.0 doesn't support, nor run on an IBM Thinkpad, and presumably, any computer using a PS/2 mouse. At 12:22 PM 5/9/2001 -0700, you wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2001 05:44, A. Rick Anderson wrote: I successfully installed several versions of 7.2, including the latest freq pack. However, the install program for 8.0 won't recognize either my trackpoint, nor an attached PS/2 mouse. I've tried both. I am running on a IBM Thinkpad 600 with Max memory (298 MBytes I believe). PS/2 Mouse support seems like a bizarre thing to break on a new OS release. Speaking of bizarre things, all the other distros are activating the lm_sensors module by default. The IBM laptop owners who try to check battery power are in for a factory-return-for-new-motherboard level surprise. You will not find the lm_sensors loaded or activated by default on this distro. The bugfix for PS/2 keyboard without PS/2 mouse freezing the install was responsible for breaking this one. Since IBM has less than 5% market share on laptops, we don't have one readily available for testing. However, I did test an install and it worked fine, using F1 at the splash screen Then typing text expert without the quotes Then proceeding with text install... Civileme
[newbie] Re: [newbe] Linux for Windows Installation Help
Hi Michael, Thank you for your comments. In the end I created a couple of linux partitions with fips2.0. That worked great. I also decided not to install lnx4win, but the full MDK7.0 version. Thanks a lot Norman "Michael N. Proffitt" wrote: I don't believe you want to allow the setup to repartition your hard drive at that point; that program may cause data loss on the Windows partition. Since you want to install with the lnx4win option, you shouldn't need to modify your partitions at all. If you do decide to change your partition sizes, then use the Partition Magic program that came in the package. It can do the job without causing problems with your Windows partition. Mike - Original Message - From: "Hazel Norman Teferle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 6:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux for Windows Installation Help Thanks to Paul and Alan. I have managed to create a boot disk with rawrite. I can now also boot from the cdrom and get into the DrakX installation program were I encounter my next dilemma. What to do in the Setup Filesystems menu? Do I say OK when DrakX needs to resize my Windows partition? or do I cancel. I want to install lnx4win and thought that I don't need a new partition. Further, do I also have to select mount points in the following menu point? Could someone help me please?. Thanks a lot paul haine wrote: So far I have tried the CD only. When using the PCPLUS cd-rom i cannot create a boot disk, I get the message LoadLibrary16 failed! I have tried to set the bios to boot from CD, but my bios doesnt handle that. It can only boot from disk or hd. Make sure that the cd is in the drive and then go to the MSDOS command prompt, and type d:\dosutils\rawrite.exe, where d: is your cd drive. You should be able to create a bootdisk this way.
Re: [newbie] Linux for Windows Installation Help
Thanks to Paul and Alan. I have managed to create a boot disk with rawrite. I can now also boot from the cdrom and get into the DrakX installation program were I encounter my next dilemma. What to do in the Setup Filesystems menu? Do I say OK when DrakX needs to resize my Windows partition? or do I cancel. I want to install lnx4win and thought that I don't need a new partition. Further, do I also have to select mount points in the following menu point? Could someone help me please?. Thanks a lot paul haine wrote: So far I have tried the CD only. When using the PCPLUS cd-rom i cannot create a boot disk, I get the message LoadLibrary16 failed! I have tried to set the bios to boot from CD, but my bios doesnt handle that. It can only boot from disk or hd. Make sure that the cd is in the drive and then go to the MSDOS command prompt, and type d:\dosutils\rawrite.exe, where d: is your cd drive. You should be able to create a bootdisk this way.
[newbie] Linux for Windows Installation Help
Hi there, I would really appreciate if someone could help me installing Linux for Windows of the latest PCPLUS CD-rom. I have a Dell Dimension, 450 MHz, 256Mb Ram, Toshiba DVD-ROM, 1 year old. I got to the point where after running install.bat and setup.bat I have to reboot my pc to start installing DrakX. The computer then just hangs up in the boot process giving following message: VFS: Cannot open root device 08:01 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 Has anyone encountered the same problem? Thanks, Norman
Re: [newbie]
mkdir /dosfs mount /dev/hd1 (if 1 is correct) -t mstos /dosfs Norman On 25 Feb 2000, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Hi, I have a drive that is formatted (fat16) that I use for downloading files to and then bring home to load on my linux-Mandrake 7.0-2 box (I have a real internet connection at work, compaired with 33.6 at home). So when I install this drive, as the slave on the secondary controller, and power up, Mandrake sees the new device and askses if I would like to configure it, I answer yes and all looks well. After I login I cant seem to get to it. It dosent apper in the file manager and I cant seem to mount it. However when I use Loather to view the devices I can see it, I can also see that it is "hdd1". Do I first have to establish a mount point?? If so how? How do I access this drive/filesystem??? Thanks. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
