Re: [expert] Failing to install 6.0pre: non SMP capable motherboard

1999-05-21 Thread Jacques Le Marois
Yann-Erick Proy wrote: Hi everybody, Whenever I try to install mariner 6.0pre (2 tays ago image), the install process aborts just after having selected packages individually. The message logged to the console is "Detected non SMP capable motherboard" (which is true anyway). Any idea

[expert] Dial in server

1999-05-21 Thread duncan
I was wondering is there a nice package that will set up me machine as a dial in server for a single modem connection. I would also like to be able to use the same modem for dialing out and receiving faxes? Any clues? I've looked at mgetty but it seems like lots of work. Dunc

Re: [expert] Failing to install 6.0pre: non SMP capable motherboard

1999-05-21 Thread Yann-Erick Proy
Jacques wrote: Could you try again with a fresh install ? (ie the installation have been rebuild) I did it in vain. I'm attempting FTP install (with bootnet disk) from a private FTP server mirroring sunsite.uio.no. The computer is a low end Pentium class (P75, P90?), with 40 MB RAM, a 1 GB

Re: [expert] Failing to install 6.0pre: non SMP capable motherboard

1999-05-21 Thread Jacques Le Marois
Yann-Erick Proy wrote: Jacques wrote: Could you try again with a fresh install ? (ie the installation have been rebuild) I did it in vain. I'm attempting FTP install (with bootnet disk) from a private FTP server mirroring sunsite.uio.no. The computer is a low end Pentium class

Re: [expert] Dial in server

1999-05-21 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
Use mgetty. It's not that hard, you just have to read the very good documentation. ;) Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 21 May 1999, duncan wrote: Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 19:11:26 +1000 From: duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [expert] Failing to install 6.0pre: non SMP capable motherboard

1999-05-21 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Yann-Erick Proy wrote: The computer is a low end Pentium class (P75, P90?), with 40 MB RAM, a 1 GB HD, a low end graphics card and NE2000 PCI ethernet. It is intended to act as a cheap Internet ISDN gateway for a customer's LAN. Everything goes fine until I end

RE: [expert] local floppy CD

1999-05-21 Thread Al Smith
let me see, if I have this correct. Do you want the user to be able to access there local floppy on the server? I.E. grab programs off the local floppy and access it on the Mandrake server? Al Smith Systems Engineer Thomas Jefferson University Hospital [EMAIL PROTECTED] both floppy and cdrom

Re: [expert] gnome?

1999-05-21 Thread Al Smith
I like Mandrake and KDE I love them both. I have used a many of flavor's of linux and Mandrake is the best one I have seen so far. And as far as KDE, it's great as well. I have used the FUVM*, CDESim and KDE .9-1.1 and I prefer KDE. It's cleaner and it has a better interface. Go KDE!!! Go

Re: [expert] Failing to install 6.0pre: non SMP capable motherboard

1999-05-21 Thread Al Smith
From what I understand, it looks like some initated a kill commaned to lose the connection. Which is a possiblity. (kill -l number 11 is a SEGV, possible segment violation). Or it could be that the server reset your connection. How fast are you connecting (T1, 56K)? Al Smith Systems Engineer

Re: [expert] Install of Mariner

1999-05-21 Thread Jacques Le Marois
Al Smith wrote: Hello ladies and gentelman, I have just downloaded my copy of Mariner and tried to create the cd, but I was getting the error message that there is no boot catalog (boot.cat). Well I looked in the /images directory and low and behold no boot.cat. So instead what I did

[expert] Re: [Re: [Re: NE2000 PCI clones dont work]]

1999-05-21 Thread Yann-Erick Proy
[crosspost from [EMAIL PROTECTED]] There is a new bootnet.img since yesteday (with a new install) And I can confirm, from my numerous attempts these last hours, that with the previous bootnet.img (not the one three days old, though) there was no way to have the ne2k configured during

Re: [expert] Failing to install 6.0pre: non SMP capable motherboard

1999-05-21 Thread Dan Brown
Steven J Mackenzie wrote: I had thought that upping bus speed from 66 to 75 was trivial, but the HDD doesn't seem to like it; Windows never had any problem, which I think was because I wasn't using DMA, but Linux does. In my case, bumping the bus to 75 MHz stopped Mandrake (and

[expert] Install of Mariner

1999-05-21 Thread Al Smith
Hello folks, Well I was able to get the CD bootable (I forgot a switch the first time). But I get the same error that I do with a boot disk and the system hangs on boot: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Anygive me a clue?

Re: [expert] Install of Mariner

1999-05-21 Thread Jacques Le Marois
Al Smith wrote: Hello folks, Well I was able to get the CD bootable (I forgot a switch the first time). But I get the same error that I do with a boot disk and the system hangs on boot: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Anygive me a clue? Are you sure you get the very