Re: [expert] CDROM Issues

1999-07-21 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
William Meyer wrote: Of course you could (I think) remove^H^H^H^H^H^Hcomment out this code and revert back to a symlink, but then I'm not sure whether you could mount a CD as a standard user (not root) ... Why not just edit the content of /etc/fstab? You are right, I expressed myself

[expert] I think I have an IO conflict.

1999-07-21 Thread Mike Bulmer
Hello Two days ago I installed Mandrake 6.0 and Its great, except my soundcard is playing hard to get. I have used this soundcard with Debian,Stampede and RH5.2 so I know it can be done, and works great too. As of RH6 and this install of Mandrake 6 I get these red errors at boot ( they

[expert] Fixed frequency monitor

1999-07-21 Thread Marco Fioretti
Hello, I am trying to use a SUN GDM 1962 monitor with a MATROX G200 AGP video card and, obviously Mandrake 6.0. The monitor has a 13W3 connector, but I have a 13W3 to VGA adapter from SUN, so the problems are that: (solved) Fixed frequency means only one possible modeline, which I

[expert] Suggestions for next release

1999-07-21 Thread Marco Fioretti
Hello, I'm not on the cooker mailing list, so please excuse me if these issues have already been taken care of. 1) Make CD iso image with all crypto package included available where legal. 2) Check or promt the user during installation to know what the chipset/HD controller is, and

[expert] VMware Troubles with Mandrake 6.0 2.2.9-27mdk

1999-07-21 Thread Darryl White
Thanks for the CDROM help Next question: Has anyone got Mandrake 6.0 with 2.2.9-27mdk kernel to work with VMware 1.02. Everytime I attempt to start the virtual machine, I get a segfault. I've checked Deja for answers and found only questions. Apparently I am not the only one having

Re: [expert] VMware Troubles with Mandrake 6.0 2.2.9-27mdk

1999-07-21 Thread R. Tolga Korkunçkaya
You should check out the vmware discussion list which must be linked at vmware site. Darryl White wrote: Thanks for the CDROM help Next question: Has anyone got Mandrake 6.0 with 2.2.9-27mdk kernel to work with VMware 1.02. Everytime I attempt to start the virtual machine, I

Re: [expert] VMware Troubles with Mandrake 6.0 2.2.9-27mdk

1999-07-21 Thread Patrick Putteman
VMware can be made to work with the 2.2.9-27mdk kernel, IF you compile your own. It won't work with the 'out of the box kernel' from the mandrake mirrors. The same counts for the 2.2.10 kernel series in the cooker distro Patrick - Original Message - From: Darryl White [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Serial link

1999-07-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, you wrote: I'm looking for some documentation on how to setup a serial link between two linux box and doing some files replication between them. Thanks. Wouldn't it be faster to use 10 megabit ethernet? I mean, you can copy files FASTER over ethernet than you can with

Re: [expert] VMware Troubles with Mandrake 6.0 2.2.9-27mdk

1999-07-21 Thread Darryl White
Patrick, I installed the source from the mdk update ftp. Will compiling that source work, or should I go get the 2.2.9-27 / 2.2.10 kernel from kernel.org. Darryl Patrick Putteman wrote: VMware can be made to work with the 2.2.9-27mdk kernel, IF you compile your own. It won't work with the

Re: [expert] VMware Troubles with Mandrake 6.0 2.2.9-27mdk

1999-07-21 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Patrick Putteman wrote: VMware can be made to work with the 2.2.9-27mdk kernel, IF you compile your own. It won't work with the 'out of the box kernel' from the mandrake mirrors. Any clue what you need to change when you compile it yourself (i.e. leave some options out?)

Re: [expert] Serial link

1999-07-21 Thread Axalon
Yes but you can rig up a serial link (better yet a parallel link) with spare speaker wire and get better than floppy speeds with out the floppy inconvienence. On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, you wrote: I'm looking for some documentation on how to setup a

Re: [expert] Serial link

1999-07-21 Thread Axalon
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote: Yes but you can rig up a serial link (better yet a parallel link) with spare speaker wire and get better than floppy speeds with out the floppy inconvienence. Ah. Ok. I can see thishowever, even standard

Re: [expert] Sound card

1999-07-21 Thread Tom Berger
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 09:56:12AM -0800, Ramon Gandia wrote: I am getting this HP computer ready to go with Mandrake. It came with a combination soundcard/HCF winmodem, and has one open ISA slot. Since I have no use for a modem, I used the ISA slot for my network card. I still need to

Re: [expert] VMware Troubles with Mandrake 6.0 2.2.9-27mdk

1999-07-21 Thread Tom Berger
On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 12:36:25PM +, Darryl White wrote: Thanks for the CDROM help Next question: Has anyone got Mandrake 6.0 with 2.2.9-27mdk kernel to work with VMware 1.02. Everytime I attempt to start the virtual machine, I get a segfault. I've checked Deja for answers

[expert] Mandrake Kernel Configuration

1999-07-21 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hello list. Does anybody have a configuration file for the 2.2.9 kernel tht comes with Mandrake 6.0 ? I'd like to rebuilt it with new options/modules, but I'd also like to avoid the loss of other settings. Thanks. Dominique

Re: [expert] VMware Troubles with Mandrake 6.0 2.2.9-27mdk

1999-07-21 Thread Patrick Putteman
heuu, forgot, just wanted to tell you guys at mandrake what a great job you are doing (I know, it's off topic, but hey, can't help myself to be grateful). Keep it up. You made me discover Linux, you made me enjoy it. Patrick - Original Message - From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer [EMAIL

Re: [expert] VMware Troubles with Mandrake 6.0 2.2.9-27mdk

1999-07-21 Thread Patrick Putteman
the upgraded kernel sources from mandrake will do just fine. Patrick - Original Message - From: Darryl White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [expert] VMware Troubles with Mandrake 6.0 2.2.9-27mdk Patrick, I installed the

Re: [expert] VMware Troubles with Mandrake 6.0 2.2.9-27mdk

1999-07-21 Thread Patrick Putteman
got NO idea what makes it work with a self compiled kernel... Tried it on several machines and always with the same result. Nothing special on them, just the basic options for everyday machines. Patrick - Original Message - From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Serial link

1999-07-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote: Requires cards, the other just ports. which is more standard? ;) I must say you've got a good point therestill, just thinking about the slow xfer speeds makes me shudder. ;-) John

[expert] UDP

1999-07-21 Thread James J. Capone
Does anyone know of a Program that can Send UDP packets with different IP addresses in it. Where I work out some of our Equipment uses CDPD like a open communications line that uses IP address. What we want is to test out having say 100+ of our units pinging us at the same time. Then have a

[expert] Mandrake pre-login logo

1999-07-21 Thread Linux Happy User
Hi everyone I recently upgraded my good-old PC from RedHat 6 to Mandrake 6. Fortunately, little of my previous config was modified and i kept much of the important files i had. Due to the good feeling i got from the Mandrake's distro, i also re-installed from the same Mandrake CD another machine

Re: [expert] Serial link

1999-07-21 Thread Ty C. Mixon
Could be worse - until I got my Linux modem I had to dwnld via NT into a 'swap space' of FAT16 and then reboot into Linux. Dreadful!! Of course, that was on just one puter. Ty On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote: On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote: Requires cards, the other just ports. which is

[expert] Samba 2.0.5

1999-07-21 Thread Richard Potter
I'm new to Mandrake, just jumping from RedHat and Slackware prior to that. Anyway, the new release of samba is out. Will Mandrake release their RPM for this, or do we just grab the source RPM for RedHat and rebuild? I use spec files and rebuild things also, but obviously you have to be careful

Re: [expert] Mandrake pre-login logo

1999-07-21 Thread Axalon
/usr/bin/linux_logo -c -n -f /etc/issue called in /etc/rc.d/rc.local On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Linux Happy User wrote: Hi everyone I recently upgraded my good-old PC from RedHat 6 to Mandrake 6. Fortunately, little of my previous config was modified and i kept much of the important files i

Re: [expert] Mandrake pre-login logo

1999-07-21 Thread Linux Happy User
Cool ! Thanks a lot. Didier Axalon wrote: /usr/bin/linux_logo -c -n -f /etc/issue called in /etc/rc.d/rc.local On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Linux Happy User wrote: Could anyone point me to the program that generates the cool Mandrake logo. On my machine, the 'issue' file is rewritten every

[expert] MandrakeUpdate.pm Script File

1999-07-21 Thread David Peerless
Is it possible to edit the MandrakeUpdate.pm script file so that it will update the system using the rpms from the 'cooker' directory instead of the 'updates' directory? Also, is there any way I can get the script file to clean-up and delete the files from the '/tmp' directory after the update

[expert] script help

1999-07-21 Thread Robert Sheskin
I have a little log analysis perl script that I am trying to run. When starting form a terminal it works fine with the following in an executable script; #! /bin/bash echo "Mail Stats Log Analysis" echo "" su - root -c "DISPLAY=$DISPLAY; export DISPLAY; aterm -bg black -fg yellow -e perl

[expert] fix for updatedb/slocate hang up

1999-07-21 Thread Ben Derr
Evening all. After reading some of your messages and running into this irritating problem myself, I did a bit more poking around this bug. If you look at /etc/updatedb.conf it has this section: # Which Directory to exclude. EXCLUDE="/proc,/tmp/,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/net,/afs" I added my

Re: [expert] Serial link

1999-07-21 Thread Stephen Carville
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote: -On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote: - Yes but you can rig up a serial link (better yet a parallel link) with - spare speaker wire and get better than floppy speeds with out the floppy - inconvienence. - -Ah. Ok. I can see thishowever, even standard telephone

Re: [expert] Serial link

1999-07-21 Thread Carl St-Jacques
I wasn't thinking to create such discussion on serial link But my goal is to have a replication between two linux servers. With this replication i'm gona be able to respond very quickly in case of system crash or failure of the primary server. I was thinking of serial link between the servers

Re: [expert] Samba 2.0.5

1999-07-21 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
Richard Potter wrote: I'm new to Mandrake, just jumping from RedHat and Slackware prior to that. Anyway, the new release of samba is out. Will Mandrake release their RPM for this, or do we just grab the source RPM for RedHat and rebuild? I use spec files and rebuild things also, but

[expert] Hey guys

1999-07-21 Thread Morpheus The Sinful Weeper
HEy guys I just scored an internship with a local ISP, they're giving me a silicon graphics to work with, i need any tutorials, websites, or books you could point me to i really need to get good at this thanks a lot in advance

Re: [expert] I CANT BELIEVE IT

1999-07-21 Thread Arandir
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Sinful Weeper wrote: I just have 2 little questions to set this up correctly i seem to have a desktop bigger than my screen, how do i fix this ? and i think i didnt configure the size well cuz to my left side, theres a black frame This out to be in a FAQ somewhere

Re: [expert] Samba 2.0.5

1999-07-21 Thread Richard Potter
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Sergio Korlowsky wrote: Richard Potter wrote: Anyway, the new release of samba is out. Will Mandrake release their RPM for this, or do we just grab the source RPM for RedHat and rebuild? I use spec files and rebuild things also, but obviously you have to be careful

[expert] EQL

1999-07-21 Thread DJ
Hello all Would anyone have a url for a faq/howto for serial load ballancing? I need to ballance from 4 to 10 serial modems... later..

[expert] network

1999-07-21 Thread Mike Fistonich
Hi Does anyone how I can reduce the long delay when telnetting between two linux (L-M 5.3) boxes , they can ping eachother with no delay but ftp telnet do nothing for 30s or so before the login prompt . cheers _ Do You Yahoo!? Get

Re: [expert] Fixed frequency monitor

1999-07-21 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
"Jay Summet for [EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: The card I had came with (ms-Dos) software to change the settings for the text display modes as well (basically, a modeline for text mode) and I was able to get text mode working in Dos without much trouble. However, I don't know of anything in Linux

Re: [expert] Serial link

1999-07-21 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Carl St-Jacques wrote: I wasn't thinking to create such discussion on serial link But my goal is to have a replication between two linux servers. With this replication What do you mean, _servers_ ??? So, you would likely _already_ have ethernet on each, so what's the beef ??? i'm gona

[expert] How can I modify the routing from the command line!!

1999-07-21 Thread Duncan Hall
Hi, I need to know where in the file system I can find the file that contains the routing information for the gateway? Dunc