Re: [expert] Boot hang with 2 eth cards

1999-09-10 Thread alann
paul johnson wrote: > > I was successfully running Mandrake 6.0 with no problems until I tried > to use linuxconf to add a second ethernet card, eth1, an Intel Pro/100. > When I tried to activate the changes the machine hung. I powered off > and now the boot process never gets beyond activating

Re: [expert] Why are bugs not fixed ?

1999-09-10 Thread Arandir
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Harald Schreiber wrote: > Hi, > > I've sent several bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > but all I get is an automatically generated confirmation and > nothing happens at all. All bugs are still present in Cooker > and Cassini (but one of them has been fixed in RedHat Lorax ;-

Re: [expert] Filled Up Root Partition, HELP!

1999-09-10 Thread Ron Stodden
Gustavo Viola wrote: > Btw, does anyone how I can repartition my HD to make my swap smaller? Invest in Partition Magic, and then DON'T use anything else. -- Ron Stodden

[expert] Boot hang with 2 eth cards

1999-09-10 Thread paul johnson
I was successfully running Mandrake 6.0 with no problems until I tried to use linuxconf to add a second ethernet card, eth1, an Intel Pro/100. When I tried to activate the changes the machine hung. I powered off and now the boot process never gets beyond activating eth1. It hangs there eternal

Re: [expert] Why are bugs not fixed ?

1999-09-10 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Kit Ngan wrote: > Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > > > On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Harald Schreiber wrote: > > Because debbugs isn't fully in use yet, Chmouel recieves the vast majority > > of those bug reports. Try submiting them to the mailing lists that all our > > developers are subs

Re: [expert] Is 6.1 ready?

1999-09-10 Thread Kit Ngan
Darin wrote: > I just happened to be checking the primary mirrors at ftp.sunet.se and > sunsite.uio.no have fresh 6.1 directories. In fact, the Norway site > was in the process of updating while I was there.Does this mean that > 6.1 is done? Hope it is not... at least fix the software raid prob

Re: [expert] Why are bugs not fixed ?

1999-09-10 Thread Kit Ngan
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Harald Schreiber wrote: > Because debbugs isn't fully in use yet, Chmouel recieves the vast majority > of those bug reports. Try submiting them to the mailing lists that all our > developers are subscribed to. What about the virtual ip aliases in l

Re: [expert]Suggestion for Mandrake

1999-09-10 Thread Kit Ngan
> Hmm, wanna do me a favor? issue a rpm --rebuild some_frivilous.src.rpm on > each of those and tell me where the outputed rpm goes to Any idea to put imwheel inside the 6.1? -- Rgds Kit K&B Computer Technology Co. ICQ: 28280598 http://www.knb.com.hk

Re: [expert]Suggestion for Mandrake

1999-09-10 Thread Kit Ngan
Michael Moore wrote: > Ummm, well I don't want to rain on anyone's parade but it should be > known that at least one pentium class processor is mis-recognized and > about half the updates will not install because "package is for a > different architecture". > > I refer to the Cyrix MediaGXi-S > H

[expert] Is 6.1 ready?

1999-09-10 Thread Darin
I just happened to be checking the primary mirrors at ftp.sunet.se and sunsite.uio.no have fresh 6.1 directories.  In fact, the Norway site was in the process of updating while I was there.   Does this mean that 6.1 is done?   Darin -

Re: [expert] Filled Up Root Partition, HELP!

1999-09-10 Thread Tom Berger
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, you wrote: > Tom Berger wrote: > > Though I can see your point, using more partitions has an advantage in the case > > of drive corruption. > > Usually / should be very small to minimize this danger by reducing the number of > > accesses to it. If your partition becomes corrup

Re: [expert] Filled Up Root Partition, HELP!

1999-09-10 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Traci Collins wrote: > Tom Berger wrote: > > Though I can see your point, using more partitions has an advantage in the case > > of drive corruption. > > Usually / should be very small to minimize this danger by reducing the number of > > accesses to it. If your partition bec

Re: [expert] Why are bugs not fixed ?

1999-09-10 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Harald Schreiber wrote: > > Hi, > > I've sent several bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > but all I get is an automatically generated confirmation and > nothing happens at all. All bugs are still present in Cooker > and Cassini (but one of them has been fixed in RedHat Lora

Re: [expert] Filled Up Root Partition, HELP!

1999-09-10 Thread Traci Collins
"Ji-Haw, Foo" wrote: > > Oh yes I agree. For people who like multi-booting, check out also this guy's > freebie s/w called Ranish's Partition. It can be found via Altavista search > engine. It is a very small DOS program that does wonders...for free! Will either of these non-destructively repart

Re: [expert] Filled Up Root Partition, HELP!

1999-09-10 Thread Traci Collins
Tom Gwilt wrote: > > The problem with a 100M root partition is found in one of two places: > > /usr > /var Okay, I have a separate /usr partition with several gb left over so that isn't my problem. I did follow someone else's suggestion and deleted old logs from /var and got back 6mb so that my

Re: [expert] Filled Up Root Partition, HELP!

1999-09-10 Thread Traci Collins
Tom Berger wrote: > Though I can see your point, using more partitions has an advantage in the case > of drive corruption. > Usually / should be very small to minimize this danger by reducing the number of > accesses to it. If your partition becomes corrupted somewhere in /usr you're > lost. With

[expert] Why are bugs not fixed ?

1999-09-10 Thread Harald Schreiber
Hi, I've sent several bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but all I get is an automatically generated confirmation and nothing happens at all. All bugs are still present in Cooker and Cassini (but one of them has been fixed in RedHat Lorax ;-)). Why are the Mandrake people make beta tests if no on

Re: [expert] Kernel and Tar file ?

1999-09-10 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Tom Berger wrote: > Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > > > > On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote: > > > > > > > > No. The symlink will get overwritten, but not the 2.2.9-27 directory. > > > > > > > My experience (tar xvf after un-bzippin

Re: [expert] Filled Up Root Partition, HELP!

1999-09-10 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Tom Berger wrote: > Vincent Danen wrote: > > > > On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Traci Collins wrote: > > > > > > Now you see why I, after two years, I only use three partitions: swap, / and > > > > /home. Swap is obvious. /home is where I store downloads and files I want to > > > >

Re: [expert] Filled Up Root Partition, HELP!

1999-09-10 Thread Tom Berger
Vincent Danen wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Traci Collins wrote: > > > > Now you see why I, after two years, I only use three partitions: swap, / and > > > /home. Swap is obvious. /home is where I store downloads and files I want to > > > keep. Everything else goes in /. When it's time to u

Re: [expert] Kernel and Tar file ?

1999-09-10 Thread Tom Berger
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: > > > On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote: > > > > > > No. The symlink will get overwritten, but not the 2.2.9-27 directory. > > > > > My experience (tar xvf after un-bzipping) is that it does not > > overwrite the DIRECTORY name, b

Re:[expert]Suggestion for Mandrake

1999-09-10 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Michael Moore wrote: > Ummm, well I don't want to rain on anyone's parade but it should be > known that at least one pentium class processor is mis-recognized and > about half the updates will not install because "package is for a > different architecture". > > I refer to th

RE: [expert] Small System.map problem and answer to the the mono- liguals

1999-09-10 Thread BOUCARON Julien CNET/DSE/SOP
-Message d'origine- De: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: vendredi 10 septembre 1999 15:36 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: RE: [expert] Small System.map problem and answer to the the mono- liguals On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, you wrote: > I copy and rename the System.map into my /boot

RE: [expert] Small System.map problem and answer to the the mono- liguals

1999-09-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, you wrote: > I copy and rename the System.map into my /boot , > I'm not using a RPM kernel distribution but a .tar.gz distribution > that while i must fix it manually. > I'd also re-run /sbin/lilo just to be on the safe side. :-) John

[expert] 6.1b (Cassini) New ISO-image

1999-09-10 Thread Hoyt
Forwarded from the Cassini mail list; 6.1 final due in a week or so. Hoyt - Original Message - From: Pål Arne Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 5:37 AM Subject: [Cassini] New ISO-image Hi! I've put a new ISO-image made from the sunsite.u

Re: [expert] Filled Up Root Partition, HELP!

1999-09-10 Thread Gustavo Viola
I am no expert, but will post here anyway. Sorry for the intrusion. I agree with what Vincent said, decide how big you want /home to be -- but also give some thought to the size of /swap. I have a swap of 127 MB, and with 64 MB of RAM that seems to be a lot for the kind of software I use (namel

Re: [expert] HDA not ready...IRQ

1999-09-10 Thread Tom Gwilt
Yann-Erick Proy wrote: > I don't know if you already have checked this issue but it could be > merely hardware related. > That was the problem. I had a spare HD sitting around at work, so I popped it in. No more problems. I made the mistake of assuming that a brand new machine would work. They

Re: [expert] How do I run softoss??

1999-09-10 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Karsten Römling wrote: > However, a modprobe softoss2 loads the module, I haven't tried softoss yet (I don't see why it should be done in kernel space when timidity does it in userspace...), but: > where the Heck do I place the sound patches? May I use the ones provided > fo

Re: [expert] Beautiful baby girl

1999-09-10 Thread Jeanette Russo
Great I am sure you all will be very happy together. Jeanette - Original Message - From: David Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 1:30 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Beautiful baby girl > For anyone who cares to peek there are pictures of the

RE: [expert] Small System.map problem and answer to the the mono-liguals

1999-09-10 Thread BOUCARON Julien CNET/DSE/SOP
I copy and rename the System.map into my /boot , I'm not using a RPM kernel distribution but a .tar.gz distribution that while i must fix it manually. Thanks for the Tip. -Message d'origine- De: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: vendredi 10 septembre 1999 11:39 À: [EMAIL P

Re: [expert] Small System.map problem and answer to the the mono-liguals

1999-09-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, you wrote: > The mono-lingual responds , that it was a silly error on the email address. > In french , "expert" and "confirme" have the same signification. > > So I rewrite my small problem: > I caught many problems while recompiling the basic kernel include in the > Ma

[expert] HOWTO to fix Version problem with Kernel Modules and Services

1999-09-10 Thread BOUCARON Julien CNET/DSE/SOP
Fixing the bad version problem : 1) Go in the Kernel Source Root Directory 2) Copy the System.map file into /boot and rename the file System.map.kernel version for example 3) Change the Symbolic Link System.map in /boot that it points to your current kernel System.map file you have alrea

RE: [expert] Kernel Modules and Version Numbers

1999-09-10 Thread BOUCARON Julien CNET/DSE/SOP
Hello, I caught an other trouble with the same consequence , while installing Mandrake 5.3 and 6.0 on a Fujitsu Laptop which has a DEC Tulip Eth Card. DEC Tulip chipset is on many cards but DEC ( Compaq) lets the manufacturers of Eth Card using this chipset change the microcode of the Chip, so t

[expert] Small System.map problem and answer to the the mono-liguals

1999-09-10 Thread BOUCARON Julien CNET/DSE/SOP
The mono-lingual responds , that it was a silly error on the email address. In french , "expert" and "confirme" have the same signification. So I rewrite my small problem: I caught many problems while recompiling the basic kernel include in the Mandrake 6.0 (with the kernel loader) , so I

Re: [expert] FYI: ATI Rage 128 accel'ed X server available

1999-09-10 Thread caillat
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Gael Duval wrote: > Tom Berger wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > SuSE (http://www.suse.com/) announced the availability of an free XFCom server > > for Ati Rage 128 based graphic cards, namely ATI Rage Fury, ATI Rage Magnum, ATI > > Xpert99, Ati Xpert 128, ATI Xpert2000 and ATI All-