RE: [expert] maximal mount count?

1999-10-11 Thread Bois, Mathieu
It also happens the next time you reboot, if you exit from Linux without unmounting the partitions (typicly, in the case of a power outage). Mathieu > -Original Message- > From: Ken Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 12 October 1999 04:57 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ex

[expert] X-Windows login

1999-10-11 Thread Stephen Carville
I hate to keep pestering you all with these problem but my Mandrake installation has developed a new quirk I cannot solve I normally boot into runlevel 5 and log in as a normal user. Up until recently, this worked fine but now the first time anyone besides root tries to login with kdm, the X-Ser

[expert] TOTALLY STUMPED!!! I can't make my 9.1 GB IBM IDE work with LILO on Helios

1999-10-11 Thread timothylewis
Very bizarre. I install 6.1 to my new 9.1 GB IBM DeskStar just fine. On re-boot, LILO hangs at LI. I have tried the 'linear' mode setting, hda=1108,255,63 kernel option, and it just won't work. However, if I install Mandrake Venus 6.0, it works fine. Please Help!!! Thanks guys and gals, Tim

[expert] how to build a wireless 2 ethernet bridge.

1999-10-11 Thread Brian
Can someone help with this project??   using mandrake 6.0, how can i make a working bridge using eth0 (3c509) and eth1 (lucent/wavelan pcmcia ieee) wireless card.?   I have no problems getting both cards to work except when i try to bridge them.. the situation is this:   i'm trying to extend

Re: [expert] Static IP trouble

1999-10-11 Thread Stephen Carville
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear Mandrake tech support, > > I've encountered a very strange problem with my Mandrake system -- I'm > using a 3com 3c595 ethernet card that worked fine under NT, and as long > as I keep mandrake under DHCP it handles all port 80 functions fine, but > as soon as I

[expert] MDK 6.1 and IP Aliasing is not working

1999-10-11 Thread Eric Wieling
I have a stock Mandrake 6.1 install (this happens on two systems, one with the couple of 6.1 updates, one with no updates). I used linuxconf to set up virtual ip addresses (IP Aliasing). It doesn't appear to work. There are no aliased interfaces as shown by ifconfig. I CAN manually ifconfig et

RE: [expert] True Type fonts in Mandrake.

1999-10-11 Thread Ken Wilson
This works for me but your mileage may vary. Make sure you only have reference to iso-8559-1 fonts in your fonts.dir file by deleting all the others. Then make sure the number at the beginning of the file represents only the number of fonts actually in the file. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisa

[expert] True Type fonts in Mandrake.

1999-10-11 Thread Stephen Carville
Does anyone know how to get True Type fonts working with Mandrake 6.0? After I figured out they were not on by default I tried to enable then using xfs. I went to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts/ and ran 'ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale'. Then I used mkfontdir to create the fonts.dir file. I restart

Re: [expert] Dynamic DNS (slightly off topic)

1999-10-11 Thread Stephen Carville
Thanks to everyone who replied. I have my computer's address in dhs.org and everything is working fine. -- Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the

[expert] Where is the C++ compiler in Mandrake?

1999-10-11 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi Folks, Every time I try to compile KDA programs in Mandrake (Helios 6.1), the configure script stops with the following error message: configure: error: no acceptable C++-compiler found in $PATH Where is the c++ compiler in MAndrake, and what it is called? What should I put into my PATH to

RE: [expert] maximal mount count?

1999-10-11 Thread Ken Wilson
It's a routine check. All your Linux partitions will get this check after they've been mounted x number of times. It checks for fragmentation and other disk ailments and attempts to correct the situation. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (St

[expert] maximal mount count?

1999-10-11 Thread David van Balen
I just booted my machine and got the message: "/dev/hdb1 has reached maximal mount count, check forced" after which linux proceeded to run a check that lasted several minutes. Does this indicate a problem? Or is it just a routine check? If so, what's it checking for? DvB

Re: [expert] Static IP trouble

1999-10-11 Thread Gary Wilson
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [expert] Static IP trouble > Dear Mandrake tech support, > > I've encountered a very strange problem with my Mandrake system -- I'm > using a 3com 3c595 ethernet card that worked fine under NT, and as long > as I keep mandrake under

Re: [expert] Alt-key in Netscape

1999-10-11 Thread Steve Philp
S. Newhouse wrote: > > Hello, > Why is it that the default installation of Netscape-4.61mdk disables > the key sequence Alt-L for "open page?" > > This does not happen with RedHat's netscape. Anyone know how to fix > this? Remove /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Netscape.ad and all will be bac

[expert] Static IP trouble

1999-10-11 Thread cyclone
Dear Mandrake tech support, I've encountered a very strange problem with my Mandrake system -- I'm using a 3com 3c595 ethernet card that worked fine under NT, and as long as I keep mandrake under DHCP it handles all port 80 functions fine, but as soon as I assign a static IP it can't even ping an

RE: [expert] ssh VPNs?

1999-10-11 Thread Jason Bodnar
Well, I found the problem on my own. The O'Reilly book is missing a -t for ssh to open a pseudo-terminal. That fixed that problem but I'm still having others. If anybody has setup a vpn I'd love to hear how you did it. On 11-Oct-99 Jason Bodnar wrote: > Has anybody set up a VPN using ssh? I've be

Re: [expert] Please help with gAIM or AIM

1999-10-11 Thread Payne Stanifer
Thanks TIK worked immediately. I highly recommend it. >From: alann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [expert] Please help with gAIM or AIM >Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 16:26:18 + > >root wrote: > > > > Get the rpm from www.linuxberg.com. Go to

RE: [expert] ssh VPNs?

1999-10-11 Thread Rickard Åberg
This doesn't answer your question... but search for vpnd at www.freshmeat.net. That's a pretty good vpn solution. We run it at our company without any problems at all. Rickard Åberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?" O

[expert] Alt-key in Netscape

1999-10-11 Thread S. Newhouse
Hello, Why is it that the default installation of Netscape-4.61mdk disables the key sequence Alt-L for "open page?" This does not happen with RedHat's netscape. Anyone know how to fix this? TIA, -sen

[expert] ssh VPNs?

1999-10-11 Thread Jason Bodnar
Has anybody set up a VPN using ssh? I've been trying to do it following the instructions in the O'Reilly book "Virtual Private Networks" as well as the VPN mini-howto. I've run into a pppd problem that I can't overcome. When I do /usr/sbin/pppd on the slave machine I get garbage as expected. If

Re: [expert] are these supported? (under linux and vmware)

1999-10-11 Thread Paulino Michelazzo
Opa Quando vi o nome em portugues fiquei imaginado, mas na duvida :))) Maestro nao funciona devido a uma briga da ESS Tech com o povao de Linux. Quando vc instala o OSS, o mesmo manda ver sem problemas. A unica coisa e que nao eh free ou GPL, mas sim shareware Nao precisa de chipset pois ele da

Re: [expert] are these supported? (under linux and vmware)

1999-10-11 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Oi Paulino! Saudações daqui da California... :-) Onde voce está? Então o Maestro não funciona bem? Com o OSS, qual tipo de chipset seria escolhido pra fazer funcionar? Abraços Ricardo On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:04:11 -0200 Paulino Michelazzo wrote: > The ATI RAGE is full suported, but the Maestr

Re: [expert] are these supported? (under linux and vmware)

1999-10-11 Thread Paulino Michelazzo
The ATI RAGE is full suported, but the Maestro PCI Sound no Here I use the Maestro Sound card with OSS On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm looking at a notebook (k6-III) which has: > > ATI Rage LT Pro (AGP2x) and ESS M2EM PCI Sound > > Are these well supported under lin

Re: [expert] Gimp's fonts

1999-10-11 Thread Larry Sword
Marco Fioretti wrote: > Larry Sword wrote: > > > > Ramon Nieto wrote: > > > > > when i try to use the > > > scripts-fu to do some logos, it says i don't have the > > > fonts installed. > > > > > > so, where are the fonts in the distro's CD? how can i > > > install them? > > > > Most of the script

RE: [expert] Re: [newbie] vmware hardware compatibility

1999-10-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: > In all fairness, I believe that Win 2000 is recommending 64 meg of > ram and a 300Mhz pentium at a minimum. I believe they prefer 128 meg of > ram. > > In vmware, on a 475 mhz machine, NT 4.0 boots in about a minute. > Win 2000, RC1 takes 15 minutes. It feels

RE: [expert] are these supported? (under linux and vmware)

1999-10-11 Thread Vanco, Donald
> -Original Message- > From: Ricardo Kleemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 12:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] are these supported? (under linux and vmware) > > > Hi everyone, > > I'm looking at a notebook (k6-III) which has: > > ATI Ra

[expert] Wizards 2000 (ie. Win2k or)

1999-10-11 Thread Mark Holloway
Strange..I have Win2k Server on a PII/300 with 128MB and it runs fine. Well, I only have two other NT boxes talking to it. At work I use Win2k Pro w/128MB (RC1) and it's ok. Windows 2000 should be called Wizards 2000 (or Wiz2k). Any idiot could administor a Win2k box.. Immediately after you com

RE: [expert] Re: [newbie] vmware hardware compatibility

1999-10-11 Thread Bug Hunter
In all fairness, I believe that Win 2000 is recommending 64 meg of ram and a 300Mhz pentium at a minimum. I believe they prefer 128 meg of ram. In vmware, on a 475 mhz machine, NT 4.0 boots in about a minute. Win 2000, RC1 takes 15 minutes. It feels like the machines I've used where a 486

[expert] Linuxconf lilo management broken?

1999-10-11 Thread Vanco, Donald
Hi all - When I try to use linuxconf to install a new kernel image it's telling me that my root partition (/dev/hda1) is either not a valid partition or not a "linux" partition. What gives? Yes - editing lilo worked fine... Don

[expert] are these supported? (under linux and vmware)

1999-10-11 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hi everyone, I'm looking at a notebook (k6-III) which has: ATI Rage LT Pro (AGP2x) and ESS M2EM PCI Sound Are these well supported under linux? I also want to set these up under vmware... I assume if they work under linux then it'll be ok under vmware? Thanks Ricardo

RE: [expert] Netscape 4.7

1999-10-11 Thread Yongling Ding
i assume that "--irix-session-management mean" is harmless on linux. am i right? how can i get rid of the starting page of mandrake? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Harald Schreiber Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 9:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [expert] Re: [newbie] vmware hardware compatibility

1999-10-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: > I've been told that the price rise has something to do with the earth quake > in taiwan a few days ago... > That and the fact that Windows 2000 (AKA NT5.0) is recommending a MINIMUM of 500 megs of RAM! :-) That's making RAM a precious commodity these days. Tempor

[expert] Mandrake as a Server?

1999-10-11 Thread Mark Holloway
Ok, this is going to sound lame, but since I was using OpenVMS for a while I'm not totally up on Linux..so if someone could fill me in that would be great..   I installed Mandrake on my PII/300 and it works great.  On the Mandrake home page it says the Mandrake distro is the most "user frien

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.7

1999-10-11 Thread Harald Schreiber
Alwyn Schoeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When will the updates be out? > I'm using the netscape-4.7-rpms from the RedHat updates since a few days. If you are using KDE you have to remove the option "--irix-session-management" from the RedHat wrapper script. HTH Harald -- -

Re: [expert] SCSI parameters

1999-10-11 Thread Paulino Michelazzo
> > This is from _Running Linux_ 2nd ed: > > aha1524=iobase > > Thus, if the hex address for the 1542 is 0x340, your options would be > > aha1542=0x340 > > N.B., I have never configured a 1542 in Linux. Dear Mr. Mike and Mr Ronald Thanks for attentiion and advice. The SCSI card is running

[expert] Latest Version of Kmail

1999-10-11 Thread Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
I have just spent a frustrating period of time prowling around www.kde.org. Can someone give me a URL (and path) that will have the latest version of KMail, the one with nested folders? Thanks in advance. --- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.

Re: [expert] Gimp's fonts

1999-10-11 Thread Marco Fioretti
Larry Sword wrote: > > Ramon Nieto wrote: > > > when i try to use the > > scripts-fu to do some logos, it says i don't have the > > fonts installed. > > > > so, where are the fonts in the distro's CD? how can i > > install them? > > Most of the scripts-fu use the fonts sharefonts and freefonts

[expert] Netscape 4.7

1999-10-11 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
When will the updates be out? -- ~~ Alwyn Schoeman Systems Engineer Prism Secure Solutions

RE: [expert] .htaccess + ACLs + groups

1999-10-11 Thread Bois, Mathieu
Hi, I don't know how much groups a user can belong to. I think it depends on Unices. In fact I wasn't aware of it : a workmate told me that, but I'm not completely sure about it, and if it is true also under Linux. Does anyone knows about it ? I've read (while wandering on the net ;-) that there

[expert] problems installing Perl DBI module

1999-10-11 Thread Duncan Hall
Hi all, Has anyone been able to install the perl DBI module? I get: In file included from DBIXS.h:19, from Perl.xs:1: /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/CORE/perl.h:2546: redefinition of `union semun' make: *** [Perl.o] Error 1 /usr/bin/make -- NOT OK I have no idea what a

RE: [expert] Re: [newbie] vmware hardware compatibility

1999-10-11 Thread Marc . MOURIER
I've been told that the price rise has something to do with the earth quake in taiwan a few days ago... > -Message d'origine- > De: Alex ZIJDENBOS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Date: samedi 9 octobre 1999 13:55 > À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet: Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] vmware hardware compa