Re: [newbie] Telnet
Don;t know witch distro you running but on 7.2 there is VNC woks just like pcanywhere and somewhere you will find the windows executable to. file:/usr/share/doc/vnc-doc-3.3.3/index.html This will be the path in 7.2 for all the info you will need. Hope it helps Stefaans On Thursday 19 April 2001 09:14, Mcintosh, Duncan wrote: HI there Iv got Linux running on a HP Vectrea VL5 It works just fine I am currently accessing this box via telnet. However the screensize of telnet is limited and I'm looking for someother kind of tools that lets me work from a windows machine. Something like PCanywhere. I dont want to use X as I'm a newbie and want to practice the command in shell. Anybody got any ideas?
Re: [newbie] more upgrading madness ...
STOP this bloody html Stefaans On Friday 20 April 2001 04:56, Michel Clasquin wrote: html font size=3To continue my ongoing battle with MandrakeUpdate and rpm, have a look a this br lot, cut 'n pasted straight from my terminal:brbr [root@localhost grpmi]# rpm -Uvh kdelibs-2.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpmbr error: failed dependencies:br nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.0-5mdkbr nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-devel-2.0-5mdkbr nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0-5mdkbr [root@localhost grpmi]# rpm -Uvh kdelibs-devel-2.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpmbr error: failed dependencies:br nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; kdelibs = 2.0.1 is needed by kdelibs-devel-2.0.1-2mdkbr nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; kdelibs-devel = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0-5mdkbr [root@localhost grpmi]# rpm -Uvh kdelibs-sound-2.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpmbr error: failed dependencies:br nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; kdelibs = 2.0.1 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.0.1-2mdkbr nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; kdelibs-sound = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0-5mdkbr [root@localhost grpmi]# rpm -Uvh kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpmbr error: failed dependencies:br nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; kdelibs-sound = 2.0.1 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0.1-2mdkbr nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; kdelibs = 2.0.1 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0.1-2mdkbr nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; kdelibs-devel = 2.0.1 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0.1-2mdkbrbr It's a perfect vicious circle - you can't install a until b is present, but b br requires c, which needs a. The only way I can see to install this lot is for br something, somewhere along the line, to be forced to install. Which is br supposed to be a Bad Thing (tm). Any guesses on which one to force first? My br guess is kdelibs, but that's just because it has the shortest name ...brbr Maybe there is something to this Debian stuff after all ...brbr -- br Michel Clasquinbr [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.zabr a href="http://www.geocities.com/clasqm" eudora="autourl"http://www.geocities.com/clasqm/abrbr This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PCbr /font/html
Re: [newbie] more upgrading madness ...
The magic sequince is. drumrolll Rpm -Uvh *.rpm --test Now check dependencies and ignore kdesu NOW rpm -ivh *.rpm --nodeps --force --replacefiles *grin* Just make sure you arein a directory with only the kde files present Cheers Stefaans On Friday 20 April 2001 00:08, Michel Clasquin wrote: To continue my ongoing battle with MandrakeUpdate and rpm, have a look a this lot, cut 'n pasted straight from my terminal: [root@localhost grpmi]# rpm -Uvh kdelibs-2.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.0-5mdk kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-devel-2.0-5mdk kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0-5mdk [root@localhost grpmi]# rpm -Uvh kdelibs-devel-2.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: kdelibs = 2.0.1 is needed by kdelibs-devel-2.0.1-2mdk kdelibs-devel = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0-5mdk [root@localhost grpmi]# rpm -Uvh kdelibs-sound-2.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: kdelibs = 2.0.1 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.0.1-2mdk kdelibs-sound = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0-5mdk [root@localhost grpmi]# rpm -Uvh kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: kdelibs-sound = 2.0.1 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0.1-2mdk kdelibs = 2.0.1 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0.1-2mdk kdelibs-devel = 2.0.1 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0.1-2mdk It's a perfect vicious circle - you can't install a until b is present, but b requires c, which needs a. The only way I can see to install this lot is for something, somewhere along the line, to be forced to install. Which is supposed to be a Bad Thing (tm). Any guesses on which one to force first? My guess is kdelibs, but that's just because it has the shortest name ... Maybe there is something to this Debian stuff after all ...
Re: [newbie] Problem about apache 1.3.19 install on Mandrake 8.0
Why not try the rpm's ? Stefaans On Friday 20 April 2001 06:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ¶ê§Î¹ÏDear : I have used linux on Redhat6.2 and 7.0 for a while. But I am new to use Mandrake 8.0, I am happy to use Mandrake 8.0. I have tried successfully installed mysql-3.23.36 + openssl-0.9.6 + mod_ssl-2.8.1-1.3.19 + php4.0.4pl1 on Redhat 6.2 But I got some errors when applying those on Mandrake8.0. Here is the installation steps and the messages on Mandrake: # (1) install mysql, suppose now on the mysql path ./configure make make install scripts/mysql_install_db /usr/local/share/mysql/mysql.server start # It works, and I can use Mysql database # (2) install openssl, suppose now on the openssl path sh config \ -fPIC \ no-idea make make test # It works # (3) install modssl, suppose now on the modssl path ./configure \ --with-apache=../apache_1.3.19 \ --with-crt=... --with-key=... # It works # (4) install apache, suppose now on the apache path SSL_BASE=../openssl-0.9.6 \ ./configure \ --prefix=/usr/local/apache \ --enable-module=most \ --enable-shared=max \ --enable-module=ssl \ --enable-shared=ssl make The screen shows that I got some errors /usr/local/apache_1.3.19/src/modules/standard/mod_auth_dbm.c:85:22: db1/ndbm.h : No such file or directory I found that when I installed Mandrake 8.0, it doesn't create the directory /usr/include/db1, so it gets an error while trying to read /usr/include/db1/ndbm.h file. So, I think it probably an error on Mandrake 8.0. However, as I remove the line --enable-module=most \ , that is: --prefix=/usr/local/apache \ --enable-shared=max \ --enable-module=ssl \ --enable-shared=ssl make make install It all works, and I can successfully configure php later, but I can not #load additional module on apache, such as gd or zlib etc.. So I think I cannot comment out --enable-module=most Thanks in advance. Content-Type: text/html; charset="big5"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: Content-Type: image/jpeg; charset="big5"; name="Pie Charts Bkgrd.JPG" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] [Fwd: Playing .mpg files ? 2
Use mplayer Search from freshmeat or sourceforge Stefaans On Thursday 19 April 2001 01:20, Joan Tur wrote: Now i've tryed xine-0.3.5-1mdk and the following error messages appear: video_out_xv: no video port found Hope that helps! Joan Tur escribi: I've got a .mpg video file and i'm not able to play it. I'm using Aktion and it's using xanim. Xanim shuts with a "segmentation fault"... -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] delaying eth0...
Scott Wojtowicz wrote: I get a message saying "Delaying eth0 Initialization" on boot up. What are possible causes to this? Thanks, Scott Wojtowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intercities.tv/swojtowicz Had the same problem go to netconf and setup your eth0 properly there. It will now work! Stefaans
Re: [newbie] delaying eth0...
Scott Wojtowicz wrote: Actually, I guess i should of said it's a 3Com 509b in a PC. Sorry, Scott - Original Message - From: "Dave" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Scott Wojtowicz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 7:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] delaying eth0... If you are using a PCMCIA network card in a laptop, it is delayed until the pcmcia module starts. Dave At 04:46 PM 4/17/01 -0500, you wrote: I get a message saying "Delaying eth0 Initialization" on boot up. What are possible causes to this? Thanks, Scott Wojtowicz mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intercities.tv/swojtowicz "...[W]e preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God." (1 Cor 1:23-24) I have the same card and linux still strugles with pnp on a isa bus Stefaans
Re: [newbie] problem with too much ram
"Liaw, Andy" wrote: Apology for taking a while to follow up... I downloaded kernel 2.4.3 from kernel.org and followed the instructions Stefaans provided in another post to compile a custom kernel. The process went smooth and now we do have 2GB of RAM and a spanking new kernel! I haven't kept track of any speed improvements though. BTW, I'm still on LM7.1 (still have problem installing 7.2--- it kernel panicked at the point when it's supposed to load the ram disk). Thanks a ton, Stefaans! Andy -Original Message- From: Stefaans Mostert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 4:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Tim Holmes' Subject: Re: [newbie] problem with too much ram "Liaw, Andy" wrote: Don't be jealous... The machine is being used by the whole dept. (about 5 heavy duty users) for running large computational tasks. It originally came with 512MB RAM, but one user's "modest" job brought the machine to its knees. That's why we are adding RAM like that. (We actually have 2 machines like this. Haven't got the second one setup yet.) The machine is fairly new (6 months). According to Compaq, the mobo uses Intel 840 chip set (whatever that means), and can hold upto 4GB of 800-MHz ECC RDRAM. I'm quite sure the RAM modules were purchased from Compaq authorized dealers, so they ought to know what they are doing. Anyone else has any hints? Andy From: Tim Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Most motherboards have a certain amount of RAM it will support. A lot of them stop at 1.5 GB. The one I have does support 2 GB. But you should check the web page for the Motherboard and find out if that board will support the 2GB All I know is I'm jealous... 1.5 GB and a dual processor machine? :0( That would be SWEET!!! One other thing I just thought of, which most likely won't be an issues, but I know Comcrap (lol) used to only accept proprietary RAM. I'm pretty sure the did away with this, but I'm not sure how old your Motherboard is either. So it's possible that it doesn't support 2 GB of RAM, or it needs to be RAM from Comcrap. Extremely jealous, tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real Men use Vi." * Liaw, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010409 15:18]: | Hi everyone, | | I have a problem with adding RAM that I hope someone can help me with. | | We have a Compaq SP750 (dual P3 866 Xeon) that had 1.5GB of RDRAM. When we | added another 512MB to bring the total up to 2GB, the LM7.1 installed on the | machine refuse to boot. It gets to the place where it's suppose to load the | RAM disk (I think) but go into kernel panic: unable to mount root. We tried | just putting in 1792MB of RAM, then the machine boots up w/o any problems. | Anyone has any idea why? | | TIA. | | Andy Try booting into it with a lesser amount of ram and then ad one of the 2.4 series kernels and compile it with big mem support and some of the other goodies in there. Then put you extra ram in and boot it should work and if it does not pick up all your ram ad the following line to lilo.conf append "mem=1536000" hope that is right just check it ;-) If it doesn't work mail us again or get me off list.You will not believe what the new kernels do with a dual processor machine. It is WOW !!! In my experience the 2.4.3 kernel works the best on MDK 7.2 just make sure you upgrade your glibc (compile yourself) reiser utils and modutils,and hdparm it is all covered in the HOWTO'S Anyway have fun and let us know what the outcome is Stefaans -- GIF87an BTW if you have a ramdisk problem try another cdrom it worked for me! Just be carefull of dvdrom as they sometimes give problems. Now also use hdparm to enhance your disk performance just make sure you do have the hdparm that is correct for your kernel and that you do not have autotune in lilo when you boot that specific kernel. Also look at your dma and UDMA options in your 2.4.* kernels they make a huge difference Cheers Stefaans
Re: [newbie] problem with too much ram
"Liaw, Andy" wrote: Apology for taking a while to follow up... I downloaded kernel 2.4.3 from kernel.org and followed the instructions Stefaans provided in another post to compile a custom kernel. The process went smooth and now we do have 2GB of RAM and a spanking new kernel! I haven't kept track of any speed improvements though. BTW, I'm still on LM7.1 (still have problem installing 7.2--- it kernel panicked at the point when it's supposed to load the ram disk). Thanks a ton, Stefaans! Andy -Original Message- From: Stefaans Mostert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 4:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Tim Holmes' Subject: Re: [newbie] problem with too much ram "Liaw, Andy" wrote: Don't be jealous... The machine is being used by the whole dept. (about 5 heavy duty users) for running large computational tasks. It originally came with 512MB RAM, but one user's "modest" job brought the machine to its knees. That's why we are adding RAM like that. (We actually have 2 machines like this. Haven't got the second one setup yet.) The machine is fairly new (6 months). According to Compaq, the mobo uses Intel 840 chip set (whatever that means), and can hold upto 4GB of 800-MHz ECC RDRAM. I'm quite sure the RAM modules were purchased from Compaq authorized dealers, so they ought to know what they are doing. Anyone else has any hints? Andy From: Tim Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Most motherboards have a certain amount of RAM it will support. A lot of them stop at 1.5 GB. The one I have does support 2 GB. But you should check the web page for the Motherboard and find out if that board will support the 2GB All I know is I'm jealous... 1.5 GB and a dual processor machine? :0( That would be SWEET!!! One other thing I just thought of, which most likely won't be an issues, but I know Comcrap (lol) used to only accept proprietary RAM. I'm pretty sure the did away with this, but I'm not sure how old your Motherboard is either. So it's possible that it doesn't support 2 GB of RAM, or it needs to be RAM from Comcrap. Extremely jealous, tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real Men use Vi." * Liaw, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010409 15:18]: | Hi everyone, | | I have a problem with adding RAM that I hope someone can help me with. | | We have a Compaq SP750 (dual P3 866 Xeon) that had 1.5GB of RDRAM. When we | added another 512MB to bring the total up to 2GB, the LM7.1 installed on the | machine refuse to boot. It gets to the place where it's suppose to load the | RAM disk (I think) but go into kernel panic: unable to mount root. We tried | just putting in 1792MB of RAM, then the machine boots up w/o any problems. | Anyone has any idea why? | | TIA. | | Andy Try booting into it with a lesser amount of ram and then ad one of the 2.4 series kernels and compile it with big mem support and some of the other goodies in there. Then put you extra ram in and boot it should work and if it does not pick up all your ram ad the following line to lilo.conf append "mem=1536000" hope that is right just check it ;-) If it doesn't work mail us again or get me off list.You will not believe what the new kernels do with a dual processor machine. It is WOW !!! In my experience the 2.4.3 kernel works the best on MDK 7.2 just make sure you upgrade your glibc (compile yourself) reiser utils and modutils,and hdparm it is all covered in the HOWTO'S Anyway have fun and let us know what the outcome is Stefaans -- GIF87an Huge big pleasure!! To repay me do it for someone else ;-) Stefaans
[newbie] Test
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[newbie] mdk7.2 kernel 2.4.3
Hi all Well I did it and for someone as new to linux as me I am positively beeming ;-) And for all the others who had a problem out there this is what you do 1 # cd /usr/src 2 #rm linux (it is a symbolic link pointing at the current kernel) 3 #tar -xvzf linux-blah.tar.gz 4 #mv linux linux-2.4.3 5 #ln -s linux-2.4.3 linux 6 #ln /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include (mandrake does not put this in by itself) 7 #cd linux 8 #make menuconfig (or what you prefer) 9 #make dep;make clean;make baImage;make modules;make modules_install 10 when this is finished prepare your /boot first 11 #cd /boot/ 12 #rm System.map 13 mv /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.3-1 14 #ln -s System.map-2.4.3-1 System.map 15 #mv /isr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-1 16 #ln -s vmlinuz-2.4.3-1 vmlinuz-2 17now comes the important part you must tell the kernel where you put the modules of the new kernel so edit /etc/modules.conf to look exactly and I mean EXACTLY like mine -- depfile=/lib/modules/2.4.3/modules.dep pcimapfile=/lib/modules/2.4.3/modules.pcimap isapnpmapfile=/lib/modules/2.4.3/modules.isapnpmap usbmapfile=/lib/modules/2.4.3/modules.usbmap path[boot]=keep lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/sound path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/2.4.3 path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/2.4. path[pcmcia]=/lib/modules/2.4.3/pcmcia path[video]=/lib/modules/2.4.3/video path[drivers]=/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers path[fs]=/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/fs path[net]=/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/net path[block]=/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/block path[parport]=/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/parport path[sound]=/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/sound path[ipv6]=/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/net/ipv6 alias char-major-108ppp_generic alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate alias net-pf-4 ipx pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc post-install snd-card-ens1371 modprobe snd-pcm-oss pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 /proc/parport/0/irq alias sound-slot-0 es1371 alias char-major-195 NVdriver - 18 now just configure lilo and point it at vmlinuz-2 (for some reason it must be a symbolic link) 19Reboot and ENJOY 20 Mail me and tell me how much you love me if this works ;-) Stefaans -- GIF87an
Re: [newbie] problem with too much ram
"Liaw, Andy" wrote: Don't be jealous... The machine is being used by the whole dept. (about 5 heavy duty users) for running large computational tasks. It originally came with 512MB RAM, but one user's "modest" job brought the machine to its knees. That's why we are adding RAM like that. (We actually have 2 machines like this. Haven't got the second one setup yet.) The machine is fairly new (6 months). According to Compaq, the mobo uses Intel 840 chip set (whatever that means), and can hold upto 4GB of 800-MHz ECC RDRAM. I'm quite sure the RAM modules were purchased from Compaq authorized dealers, so they ought to know what they are doing. Anyone else has any hints? Andy From: Tim Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Most motherboards have a certain amount of RAM it will support. A lot of them stop at 1.5 GB. The one I have does support 2 GB. But you should check the web page for the Motherboard and find out if that board will support the 2GB All I know is I'm jealous... 1.5 GB and a dual processor machine? :0( That would be SWEET!!! One other thing I just thought of, which most likely won't be an issues, but I know Comcrap (lol) used to only accept proprietary RAM. I'm pretty sure the did away with this, but I'm not sure how old your Motherboard is either. So it's possible that it doesn't support 2 GB of RAM, or it needs to be RAM from Comcrap. Extremely jealous, tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real Men use Vi." * Liaw, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010409 15:18]: | Hi everyone, | | I have a problem with adding RAM that I hope someone can help me with. | | We have a Compaq SP750 (dual P3 866 Xeon) that had 1.5GB of RDRAM. When we | added another 512MB to bring the total up to 2GB, the LM7.1 installed on the | machine refuse to boot. It gets to the place where it's suppose to load the | RAM disk (I think) but go into kernel panic: unable to mount root. We tried | just putting in 1792MB of RAM, then the machine boots up w/o any problems. | Anyone has any idea why? | | TIA. | | Andy Try booting into it with a lesser amount of ram and then ad one of the 2.4 series kernels and compile it with big mem support and some of the other goodies in there. Then put you extra ram in and boot it should work and if it does not pick up all your ram ad the following line to lilo.conf append "mem=1536000" hope that is right just check it ;-) If it doesn't work mail us again or get me off list.You will not believe what the new kernels do with a dual processor machine. It is WOW !!! In my experience the 2.4.3 kernel works the best on MDK 7.2 just make sure you upgrade your glibc (compile yourself) reiser utils and modutils,and hdparm it is all covered in the HOWTO'S Anyway have fun and let us know what the outcome is Stefaans -- GIF87an
Re: [newbie] SiS on-board graphics
Tim Holmes wrote: What kind of video card is on board? Normally I would agree with the person, and saying that intergrated anything is just EVIL, but some cards work well from my experience. For example, on board "AGP" ATI cards. I have two mo-bo's that have on board "AGP" ATI cards, and they work just fine. It may just be that the one you have isn't support. Could be that the one you have is altered and isn't an "out of the box" kind of thing if you bought a $40 video card. I've been fortunate in that mine have been, you might not be. Also all my mo-bo's at home are ASUS, and they have a good contract with ATI and they just intergrate it. Almost as if they just sent you the video card with the mo-bo. So check the card's web site. They may provide Linux drivers. But you may consider going to a local computer store and buying an "old" ATI card for the system. I bought the XPert 98, I think, and it was $39. I bought it from Amtech Computers, which is local to Ann Arbor, MI, but they do have a web page that you could order from, they have pretty good prices for video cards, at least that I've seen. www.amtechonline.com/ Good luck! tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.unixtechs.org/ "Real Men use Vi." * Martin Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010401 01:15]: Hello Folks! I've installed Mandrake 7.20 on a machine which has a Jetway 531CF m/board. Although the installation appeared to work just fine, I'm having problems with video. The m/board has SiS 620 on-board graphics and no matter what I do with the video settings, I'm getting thin, randomly spaced, broken vertical lines on screen. Ideas anyone? Regards, Martin --- CrossPoint v3.30.021 R Try suse's website they have the best sis drivers Stefaans
Re: [newbie] Linux Box
Andrew wrote: Hello all, I am willing to offer anyone on this list a free account on my Mandrake Linux box whoever wants one. I also run a secure ftp server on it so that secure transfers are possible and I do host alot of mp3s, tutorials, and some programs on the machine I will take no time at all to disable an account if activity on it is not cool,,I am trusting you. If you might be interested then email me back supplying a username and password and I will do my best to set you up an account.. Andrew Hi Andrew That sounds cool! I am from South-Africa and would love to see your mp3's As my username : stefaans password : stefaans99 Tnx Stefaans Mostert
Re: [newbie] Apache
Stefaans Mostert wrote: Robert E Wipfler wrote: Hi, How can I tell if Apache is configured and running correctly?. I am trying to Install Arcserve for Linux on LM 7.2 which requires Apache to be installed and running. However when I start the Arcserve install it says Apache must be installed and running first. Where do I put the command to have Apache start on bootup?. Any help is greatly appreciated. Robert Right As root give the following command #/etc/rc.d/init.d.httpd start (on a command line) ;-) if it does not tell you that is has started it is not installed If it says it startted test it by opening lynx (console) or netscape (gui) and pointing it at localhost i.e $netscape localhost If you are by now sattisfied that it is working and installed on the console as root type #ntsysv Spacebar selects and you want httpd, i think there is a utillity in drakconf to do it. but real men use the console ;-) that's it Cheers Stefaans OOPS!! that is #/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start Stefaans
Re: [newbie] Apache
FreezeR wrote: or apachectl start man apachectl ! On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Stefaans Mostert wrote: OOPS!! that is #/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start Tnx never knew that! Stefaans
Re: [newbie] Linux Box
Ian Land wrote: Stefaans I don't think you want to email this to the *list*, but directly to Andrew. Hi Andrew That sounds cool! I am from South-Africa and would love to see your mp3's As my username : stefaans password : stefaans99 Tnx Stefaans Mostert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They said I was mad; and I said they were mad; damn them, they outvoted me" - Nathaniel Lee I know it was a moment of weakness and. well use your imagination!! *grin* Stefaans
Re: [newbie] I can't enter X
Miguel Gomes Domingos wrote: - Original Message - From: Stefaans Mostert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] I can't enter X Miguel Gomes Domingos wrote: I use mandrake 7.2 and I can't enter "graphic mode" because the monitor strats the suspend mode when I try to do it. I tried XFree86 but it only appears the mouse pointer with a background colour, and XF86Config is not installed. I have a file called "XF86Config" where i can configure my monitor but I don't know what to change on that file to put the monitor working on. So i'm sending the file in an atachement to this letter, so someone can read it and tell me what to change in the file. I also tried testing several monitor types with several resolutions using Xconfigurator and none of them worked. Note: my monitor works perfectly in windows in a resolution of 800x600@75 HZ with an H-Freq of 46.8 KHz and at high colour (16 bits), or in a resolution of 1024X768@60 Hz with an H-Freq of 48.4 KHz and at high colour (16 bits). Name: XF86Config XF86ConfigType: unspecified type (application/octet-stream) Encoding: quoted-printable Before you go mad and edit your files try running the following command as root #Xconfigurator You will know what to do after that,a grade 1 could use it,and it works like a charm. if not let me know and I will take you through the steps of installing it in commandline. Cheers Stefaans --- Hello Stefaans I tried Xconfigurator and I choosed many types of monitors that tested well, in many resolutions and so I could enter X in failsafe mode, but I still can't enter X in normal mode (linux) because the monitor enters automatically in "suspend mode". Can you help me editing the file XF86Config, or maybe this is another kind of problem? Send me your Xf86 file and I will see what I can do But before you do that run #Xconfigurator again and choose your monitor as "non-interlaced svga" and your resolution as 800x600 16 bit also let me know what type of video card you have Stefaans
Re: [newbie] Linux Box
John Hogan wrote: All hail Stefaans for sending his user/pass to the whole list :-) - hogan Hi Andrew That sounds cool! I am from South-Africa and would love to see your mp3's As my username : stefaans password : stefaans99 Tnx Stefaans Mostert Well I guess there is no medication for stupidity!! ;-) *grin* Stefaans
Re: [newbie] Apache
Altoine B wrote:
Stefaans Mostert wrote:
FreezeR wrote:
or apachectl start
man apachectl !
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Stefaans Mostert wrote:
OOPS!!
that is #/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
Tnx
never knew that!
Stefaans
or
/sbin/service httpd start
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[newbie] gnome
While I am dwelling the halls of mandrake talking a huge load of utter nonsense. There is something I would apreciate yor help on.In lm7.2 I see the switchdesk utillity has been removed so how do I now switch to gnome? From my dim past I can remember there is a way arounnd by putting a .bashrc file in your home directory but there must be an easier way!! Tnx Stefaans
Re: [newbie] XFCE -- How to close application?
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Using XFCE. How in the world do you close down an application in XFCE that is frozen? I have tried Cnt +F4. I have tried to click on the X in the right hand corner. Etc. Etc. Cn+Alt+ Esc does NOT work in XFCE. Only in KDE. Every time an application like Netscape freezes up, I have to quit with Cnt+Alt+Backspace. This lands me back in the console or, even worse, right in the middle of Mandrake's Aurora bootdown (usually at postfix). Thank you so very much. Benjamin Hold down the shift key and left click on the close button Stefaans
Re: [newbie] Apache
Robert E Wipfler wrote: Hi, How can I tell if Apache is configured and running correctly?. I am trying to Install Arcserve for Linux on LM 7.2 which requires Apache to be installed and running. However when I start the Arcserve install it says Apache must be installed and running first. Where do I put the command to have Apache start on bootup?. Any help is greatly appreciated. Robert Right As root give the following command #/etc/rc.d/init.d.httpd start (on a command line) ;-) if it does not tell you that is has started it is not installed If it says it startted test it by opening lynx (console) or netscape (gui) and pointing it at localhost i.e $netscape localhost If you are by now sattisfied that it is working and installed on the console as root type #ntsysv Spacebar selects and you want httpd, i think there is a utillity in drakconf to do it. but real men use the console ;-) that's it Cheers Stefaans
Re: [newbie] Applix
marcia wrote: Dear All, I just downloaded the Applixware 4.4.2 demo and I cannot figure out how to install. There were no directions from the webpage and the readme txt. just says run the 'ax-demo' script or something close to that. I tried this and just got a no such command error message. Has anyone installed this? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Marcia Where did you find the demo ? url? Cheers Stefaans
Re: [newbie] I can't enter X
Miguel Gomes Domingos wrote: I use mandrake 7.2 and I can't enter "graphic mode" because the monitor strats the suspend mode when I try to do it. I tried XFree86 but it only appears the mouse pointer with a background colour, and XF86Config is not installed. I have a file called "XF86Config" where i can configure my monitor but I don't know what to change on that file to put the monitor working on. So i'm sending the file in an atachement to this letter, so someone can read it and tell me what to change in the file. I also tried testing several monitor types with several resolutions using Xconfigurator and none of them worked. Note: my monitor works perfectly in windows in a resolution of 800x600@75 HZ with an H-Freq of 46.8 KHz and at high colour (16 bits), or in a resolution of 1024X768@60 Hz with an H-Freq of 48.4 KHz and at high colour (16 bits). Name: XF86Config XF86ConfigType: unspecified type (application/octet-stream) Encoding: quoted-printable Before you go mad and edit your files try running the following command as root #Xconfigurator You will know what to do after that,a grade 1 could use it,and it works like a charm. if not let me know and I will take you through the steps of installing it in commandline. Cheers Stefaans
Re: [newbie] the origin's of bash?
Anthony wrote: http://www.d.kth.se/~d96-jja/bash/bashtut.html#history Basically it's the GNU replacement for sh. Does anyone know where bash came from? -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit. Origenally there was the bourne shell in unix, when linus needed a shell he revived it,improved it and called it the bourne again shell or bash !! Cheers
Re: [newbie] i would like feedback on a system configuration ...
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:37, Aston wrote:
Greetings. I would like some feedback on a power user workstation I
am considering to purchase. I am particular interested in whether
the system will work with Linux almost out of box (ie I am
interested in a smooth installation). I am considering either
Mandrake 7.2, Redhat 7.0, or SuSE 7.0. In the near future, it will
also be running VMware workstation for Linux :
Go with Mandrake 7.2. It has great hardware support out of the box and
it is very easy to configure and use.
{
AMD 1.1 GHz CPU
MSI K7T Pro 2A Motherboard with onboard AC97 sound
I personally am a real fan of the Abit KT7 (about $A280). Don't worry
about putting a UATA-100 hard drive on a UATA-66 motherboard, since
the bandwidth above 66MB/s is almost never used (only for the
occasional burst read). If you have a bit more money, go for the Abit
KT7 RAID (which does have UATA-100 support). Integrated solutions are
usually not a good idea, especially for Linux. For sound, get a Sound
Blaster Live! Value (which is great value for the sound quality you
get with it). If sound is not important then maybe a Sound Blaster
Vibra PCI128 is for you.
256MB SDRAM PC133
If you use both Linux and Windows (via VMware) heavily (e.g. run
memory-hungry apps) at the same time, you should probably get more RAM
than this. One of the best (and cheapest) ways to keep a machine fast
is to eliminate its need for swap (although you should always have
swap in place, just in case). I use VMware Workstation on my Linux box
with 256MB of RAM and my machine slows down after a little while since
both running OSs start using their swaps.
Quantum Atlantis AS 30GB E-IDE HDD ATA 100MB/sec (7200 rpm)
2MB buffer
or
IBM Desktar 30GB IDE HDD ATA/100 (7200 rpm) 2MB buffer
While both drives are good, the IBM is a bit better. Why not get a
bigger drive? My friend just bought a new computer a week ago with a
46GB IBM Deskstar. I can't remember the exact price, but it didn't
cost much more than the 30GB version. He got his computer from Forte
Computers (http://www.fortecomputers.com.au/ - They're in Sydney).
32MB Riva TNT2 AGP Graphics Card
Why get a TNT2 when you can get a GeForce 2 MX for about $A200? Even
if you don't play games you will benefit from the extra speed of the
card. If you do play games then a GeForce 2 GTS doesn't really cost
that much more.
Panasonic 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive
Pioneer 16X DVD-ROM Drive
Very good DVD drive :-)
Sony Internal SCSI CD-RW (12x8x32)
Very nice.
Tekram DC315U PCI SCSI Controller Card
Great.
ATX Medium Tower Case with 300w Power Supply
Make sure the case is good for ventilation and upgrading (good layout,
lots of space inside, etc.). You may want a good CPU cooler, like the
Chrome Orb (about $A50, which is $20-$30 more than a standard
fan/heatsink combo).
Standard PS/2 Keyboard
Genius PS/2 Scroll Mouse
and probably a Philips 17 inch Monitor (107E) or a Samsung 17
inch Monitor
19 inch monitors are not too expensive these days. If you can afford
it, get a Hitachi 19 inch flat screen. It's a steal at about $A850.
Forte sell ordinary 19 inch Hitachi monitors (i.e. not flat screen)
for $A740). Remember that the monitor is the part of the computer that
you look at, so make sure that you're looking at something pleasant
(that doesn't give you a headache after a while!).
}
I imagine the main problems will be the onboard AC97 sound and the
hard drive with ATA/100. i have noticed some discussion regarding
hard drives with ATA/100, and I am under the impression that the
latest stable kernel does not support hard drives with ATA/100. Is
this correct? If so, what exactly do I have to do to make the
kernel work with ATA/100 without waiting for 2.4 kernel to come as
part of a distribution.
The problem is not the hard drive, it is with the UATA-100 controller
on the motherboard. You can plug in an UATA-100 drive into a UATA-66
socket with no problems at all (my friend's new computer is like
that). Besides compiling a 2.4 kernel for yourself, I hear there is a
bootup option that allows you to run UATA-100 drives and controllers.
I can't quite remember it, though :-(
Regarding the onboard sound, how much hacking will I need to do to
get it work, or should I just get the Creative Vibra PCI128 Sound
Card?
Go with a real sound card. See my comments above regarding this.
I apologize if this has been extensively discussed before. Due to
time constraint, I don't always follow every topic in the discussion
group.
Thanks All.
Aston
Sydney, Australia
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] apache won't start
Adrian Gunawan wrote: Does anyone know why my apache server won't start when i tried to run it it said "chown: apache.apache: invalid user" anyone know how to fix it this one ? thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ Try doing it as root
Re: [newbie] Macromedia Shockwave Player
Johnny Kwan wrote: Does Macromedia Shockwave Player has a Linux version. A site keeps telling me that: "This page contains information of a type (application/x-director) than can only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-in." I already have Flash Player installed and running properly. Can anyone please help? ICQ# 1678616 Office # 972-506-3411 eFax # 419-818-7262 Homepage: johnnykwan.web-page.net Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 Yes they do Go to shockwave.com and download it. If you don't come right mail me and I will mail it to you Cheers Stefaans
Re: [newbie] Im Sorry,
Roger Sherman wrote: Is it just me, or does this sound a little sarcastic? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Beckycould wrote: Sorry, I'm Sorry, Please forgive me. I'm SOrry. Please Forgive Me. Please I'm SOrry. Sorry. Please. Oh Please forgive my mistake. Oh HTML Sorry Oh Please. Sorry... I'm Sorry. - Original Message - From: "Mark Hillary" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 1:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Hosting Primary and Secondary Please can you not use HTML when emailing to the list. It can be very annoying to some of us. I see that you are usign MS Outlook, you can turn HTML of by clicking Format - Plain Text or type ALT o x. Sorry I don't know how to solve your problem, but maybe some one else will. Thanks Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: Beckycould To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 8:13 PM Subject: [newbie] Hosting Primary and Secondary Hi Fellow-Penguin Newbies! When I disconnect my Primary Server from service- I want the Secondary server to automatically take over providing the websites I am Hosting. My question is: Does MY DNS Info at the Open SRS Database tell the world to look at my Primary IP and if it is "down" will traffic automatically look for my Secondary IP? I Can type in my Secondary IP and pull up the index.html of my main website. I Cannot type in a URL and see any sites come up FROM my Secondary. (when the Primary is out of service) Presently The Only way "I know Of" to have the Secondary Server take over AS the Primary is to change the DNS and IP using LINUXCONF and making the Secondary BECOME the Primary. I welcome all help I can get Thank You, Becky Look for piranah It is cool clustering software where you can set it up for load bearing(sharing the load if traffic is high) or high availabillity (one takes over from the other when it goes off line) It is configured with your browser and is verey cool. You will need a controller node though.
Re: [newbie] Hosting Primary and Secondary
Beckycould wrote: Hi Fellow-Penguin Newbies! When I disconnect my Primary Server from service- I want the Secondary server to automatically take over providing the websites I am Hosting. My question is: Does MY DNS Info at the Open SRS Database tell the world to look at my Primary IP and if it is "down" will traffic automatically look for my Secondary IP? I Can type in my Secondary IP and pull up the index.html of my main website. I Cannot type in a URL and see any sites come up FROM my Secondary. (when the Primary is out of service) Presently The Only way "I know Of" to have the Secondary Server take over AS the Primary is to change the DNS and IP using LINUXCONF and making the Secondary BECOME the Primary. I welcome all help I can get Thank You, Becky Look into piranah clustering (red-Hat)
[newbie] Twice mail
Is there anybody else that recieves the mail twice? I checked it is not one html and one text but all text.Beckey espesially you seem to be sending it all twice. Cheers Stefaans
Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2
Martin Sprenger wrote: Hi *!*@*, I'm trying to install 7.2 on my machine. I got an 800MHz Thunderbird on an ABit KT7-RAID. I have disaibled all IDE controllers on the board. There is an IBM DDRS 9 GB SCSI drive and a Pioneer DVD-304 drive connected to my Advance Peripherals 2941 U2W SCSI Controller. After a lot of problems I managed to boot from my 7.2 Installtion CD. After I have pressed return to install I only get a black screen mit a blinking cursor in the top left corner. that's all. Is there anybody who has an idea why this happens? Cheers, merry x-mas and a happy new year! Martin -- cYA! What vga card do you have?
Re: [newbie] Reinstallation necessary after mobo change?
Christian Reidys wrote: I hope you find the time answering this one: I have installed mandrake 7.2 via an Abit KT7 Raid board and have to change motherboards to an Asus A7V. Can I just use the existing mandrake installation or do I have to install mandrake completely, again? Thank you for your help, duck The chipsets arthe same so I can't see a huge problem,the only thing that worries me is the fact that you will be going from ide-raid to standard ide. what I would suggest is create a partition and call it /store or something of that nature and put all your files you do not want to lose in there and then try it and let us know I am pretty sure kudzu will pick it up and ask you to configure it. On the console(not xwindow) type ntsysv and make sure kudzu is enabled I think it is enabled by default. Pop it in and see!! Please mail me with what happened beacause In was actually curios about that myself. Cheers from sunny South-Africa Stefaans
Re: [newbie] permission
marcia wrote: Dear All, Whenever I try to save an email to a directory or file I get a no permission allowed dialog. How do I change this? Thank you for your help. Marcia pleas give more details i.e is this after reinstall or was it allways? From wich account? If it is in your home directory su to root and type chmod -R 777 nsmail A quick hack that works but is not the most secure.
Re: [newbie] 7.2 crash
marcia wrote: Dear All, I purchased vmware not too long ago and finally got the nerve up to begin installing it. After I opened the rpm of vmware 2.00 everything on my screen froze. I waited and waited then finally tried control-alt-backspace, control-alt-delete, and control-alt-esc. Nothing worked so I had to push my reset button. That crashed my Linux and I could not get into X anymore. I tried rescue and that did not work. I had to reinstall Linux. I did it as an expert and used upgrade which worked very well. By the way I, I have Linux Mandrake 7.2. This was the first time that I installed as an expert and from now on I will do it that way if needed. My question is: If everything freezes in that manner is there a way to get to a console screen? None of my control keys worked and the control-alt-F3 did not work. This has happened before many times and I ended up reinstalling many times before. That is fine except I am tired of losing my emails and signing up for Netscape over and over again. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you. Marcia Sounds like a dud video card. what happenes is x crashes but it shoulden't take anything with it. Try running Xconfigurator and set your resolution lower and when you install anything from rpm use the command line. rpm -Uvh your rpm My gues is it is a SIS video card let me know if I am right Cheers Stefaans
Re: [newbie] how to write scripts
Paul wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Stefaans Mostert wrote: Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31 Remember netscape is in fact /usr/bin/netscape/ Give you a clue :-) Thanks. But the note from Cron was that netscape could not connect to the display... So netscape was run. Of course, you are free to try it too :) paul -- Two is not equal to three, even for large values of two. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31 Was x started at the time?
Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (Alan)
Revenant wrote: IIRC, Debian used to have a DOS/Windows tool that could create a LILO MBR. Perhaps you could find something like that? "Mr. Smith" wrote: Install linux and then Windows and create a boot floppy next time...but besides that nope. Sorry...I had the same problem at one point in time...back with Redhat 5.2 I accidentally did the same thing you did...but I didn't have an internet connection or anyone to ask so I just formatted it and started over. Mr. Smith well, thx Alan but my problem is that I have the mbr in the windows partition cause I had to format (...) and now i cant access the linux partition. Any ideas? -- Society Design Mailing List http://www.egroups.com/group/Society_Design For any and all aspects of designing societies, from discussion of real- world utopian ideas to fantastic fictional or roleplaying worlds. ---Revenant [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- Tried theire mailing list and nothing yet. Did the bootdisk idea work?
Re: [newbie] Install Hang on in second stage install
Kris wrote: I can't count how many times I have had this happen... and not just with 7.2 - I had it a lot with 7.0 (486) and 7.1 as well. I finally gave up trying to install those releases on those particular machines and went with either Redhat or Slackware. The rest of the machines had no problem with any version of Linux-Mandrake - go figure! It came down to the motherboards in the end. No combination of hardware would install LM on those motherboards (and I can make a lot of combinations with 4 brands of cdrom and 5 brands of hard drives - IDE and SCSI, not to mention the various controllers I tried). registered linux user #...now where did I put the number...ohno I've lost my identity---aarrgh! On 18 Dec 2000, at 22:42, mike wrote: I had the exact same problem during install of Mandrake 7.2 after trying BIOS settings and searching for help for 2 weeks I have given up trying to install 7.2 on my computer. It stops the install after failing to initialize RAMDISK. If anyone does know how to correct this install error, I'd like to know, Mandrake support has not responded to my questions... I have that problem with Red-Hat 7.0!! What a dud
Re: [newbie] Freezes when playing MPEGs?
Revenant wrote: When I play MPEGs my computer freezes _hard_. I can't switch to other shells and the only way I've found to escape it is to reboot. Can anyone tell me please how to isolate and identify the cause of this problem? Thank you. P.S. Thanks to the people who provided advice on detecting my new partition. It worked brilliantly. Society Design Mailing List http://www.egroups.com/group/Society_Design For any and all aspects of designing societies, from discussion of real- world utopian ideas to fantastic fictional or roleplaying worlds. ---Revenant [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- Go look in /var/log/messages/ Tell us what it says there
Re: [newbie] Disk filling up
Mark Weaver wrote: Hi list. Something strange happened to me today here at work. I had received an attachment from someone. It was an MS Powerpoint file. On a lark I decided to attempt and open the file with Star Office. I was curious, so sue me! Anyway, things didn't go well. X crashed and "something" happened that ate up ALL the remaining available space on my /home partition. I've checked and rechecked and checked again and for the life of me I can't find or figure out what in the world is going on or what is being written to that is causeing this. It's very bizzare. What in the world could have happened and what can I do to regain the space on my HDD? Before this happened the partition was only at 26% used. It is now at 86% and that is after I got rid of a bunch of junk files that I know I didn't need. Thanks in advance, -- Mark ..Wisdom begins when the mouth is closed and the palms are turned upward. ext2 bug It doesn't resize well. So a directory will bloat gut not beacome small again! So copy all your files from /home/yourhome i.e cp /home/yourhome/* /bakup I create a directory in / called backup (mkdir /backup) now recreate all your directories in home and selectively copy the files back Plz let me know how it went Just remember to delete /backup afterwards or /partition will run uot of space!!! Cheers Stefaans
Re: [newbie] bootdisk
Pieter De Troyer wrote: Hi, is there a bootdisk image somewhere with which you can make a bootfloppy that doesn't start the installation? I did the installation already, but forgot to make the bootfloppy. P Use kfloppy and format a floppy leave it in the drive and make sure it is mounted (right click floppy icon) Open a shel prompt window su to root and type mkbootdisk follow instructions. Whallah!!! Stefaans
Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (again)
Sousa wrote: hey! that upgrade idea can be a good one! thx [] my mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll try to upgrade it if I manage 2 do it I will send a mail, else you know what happened... lol thx Don't do anything rash!!! Just wait I have posted to some buddys we might have a solution for you Cheers from sunny South-Africa Stefaans
Re: [newbie] how to write scripts
Paul wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Joseph Red wrote: I think what you want to do is setup a cron job. Do a search for "how do I set up a cron job" you should get some helpful info. Can someone please give me clear detailed instructions (other than cryptic man page references) on how to write a script file, which opens netscape at certain times during the day? I am not even sure if it is possible to kick a netscape to a running Xwindow system from inside cron. Let;s try it... (And yes, folks, it is Xwindow. Not Xwindows. ;-) Why do you need this? Note that some versions of netscape do not like it when you run several instances next to each other (pre 4.7x for instance) from command lines. Okay, I checked it by adding 01 20 * * * netscape to my crontable. It did not work. I could see it tried to do something, but it could not connect to the Xserver. So cron is not the way to go. (Cron sent me a mail that it could not open the display, too.) You could think of a script that checks date and or time, which runs in a minimized xterm, and runs netscape at certain moments. I would not know exactly how to set that up all that fast. Perhaps you can find some useful tool at www.linuxapps.com or www.freshmeat.net Good luck! Paul -- Two is not equal to three, even for large values of two. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31 Remember netscape is in fact /usr/bin/netscape/ Give you a clue :-)
Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (the saga continue s)
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Kelly, Christopher wrote: I'll send the disk tonight Cheers, Chris Kelly Linux user #185775 -Original Message- From: Sousa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (the saga continues) well, the site was o good. it had everything but the mdk boot disk. but thx anyway, i can think of some downloads of that page. Well, thank u Stefaans Mostert for your psicologic support ill be waiting for any solutions. Thax the guys who are helping me, I'm really apreciating. [[]] Guysthe chances of Sousa's and Mark's systems having the same partition as root are probably pretty low, so Sousa may need to specify at boot time which hard disk partition is his system's root partition using this syntax at the boot prompt: boot: linux root=/dev/hdaX where X is the partition number of the root partition. -- Alan Cool idea
Re: [newbie] Mounting windows 2000 on Linux
"Dr. Trevor J. Stocki" wrote: Hi, I have a windows 2000 partition (20Gb) and 3 linux paritions (20 Gb total) and I have installed mandrake linux 7.1 and I am un able to see the windows 2000 parition. I tried: mkdir /mnt/windows mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows and I got the error message: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1 or too many mounted file systems. I don't have very many mounted file systems (3 or 4). So I am not sure why it is giving me that message. I am running windows 2000 on the other partition. I ran a program called diskdrake (comes with mandrake) to look at the different partitions. It had labeled the windows partition as other, and not as fat. I tried to use diskdrake to set a mount point on the windows 2000 partition and it gave a page of error messages. Is there a manual (ie I type in the commands) of setting up mount points? Thank you in advance, Sincerely, Trevor -- Dr. Trevor J. Stocki Research Scientist Optical Communications and Electrophotonics Section Broadband Network Technologies Research Communications Research Centre 3701 Carling Avenue Box 11490, Station H Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2H 8S2 phone: (613) 990-5810 fax: (613) 993-7139 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is infact a ntfs5 partition and as far as I know is not supported yet
Re: [newbie] Locked out at the LOGIN :
Type your user name and password. When it gives you a bash prompt type "startx" without inverted commas And whallah!! bob's your uncle! This will bring up your xwindows. Now how to get it back every time!!! open a shell prompt (that funny screen icon in your task bar) now type "su" now give it your root(adminestrator) password now type "pico /etc/inittab/" in the editor window there will be a line that says "id:3:initdefault:" change the 3 to a 5 now your line says id:5:initdefault Type ctrl-x , enter and enter What did you do? You edited the /etc/inittab/ file (with pico) and set the default runlevel to 5 (above the line you changed was a nice explenation) now when you hit ctrl alt backspace (killing x) it will respawn (not die but restart) Hope you have fun!! Cheers from sunny South-Africa Stefaans
