On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Steve Philp wrote:
Bug Hunter wrote:
[..]
DOS and Wind*ws and Mac applications and OS tends to hold peoples hands,
making it more difficult (not impossible) to screw up an installation to
the point a single user can't use it. Mind you I'm not talking about
I guess it's a good thing then that I picked Mandrake 6.0 tonight for if
I hadn't made the rescue disk I would never have been able to access it.
:-)
Pj
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Is it possible to have windows 98 share drives using nfs instead of
: samba?
:
:Short Answer: NO
:
:Longer Answer :NO!
:
Both answers are wrong AFAIK. Right answer is YES and NO.
However, I am not sure if I am really going to recomend it.
- Vanilla windows cannot do it.
- However, (AFAIR)
:In standard FTP, "mget" filespec gets a directory at a time. You may
:want to turn prompting off with "prompt".
:
:Better, use ncftp, and don't worry about "prompt".
:
:You might look at sitecopy, which will do what you want, although it isn't
:intended for it. :-)
Or "wget" which is intended
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
Axhold it! I don't think so! You mean to tell me that both of my
6.1 CD's are 'faulty'! Two different CD's from two different sources!?
One is an official MandrakeSoft CD and the other is a LinuxMall CD and
neither one has an /images/rescue
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear friends:
Realizing, after what Axalon said, that perhaps I had messed up my
permissions in StarOffice for good, I decided to download a completely
new copy of SO51a from Sun. Before doing anything, I first deinstalled
SO through SOSetup, then
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, ibi wrote:
I guess it's a good thing then that I picked Mandrake 6.0 tonight for if
I hadn't made the rescue disk I would never have been able to access it.
:-)
Pj
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nah, the cdrom it's self makes a pretty handy rescue disk (howto in one of
the
Hi, everybody.
I thought this might interest You - i have just posted this story on
LinuxPR and Slashdot (no idea if they are going to accept it. Sorry for
the html:
++
P
a href="http://www.linux-mandrake.com"Mandrake/a, a distribution
rather similar to a
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Axhold it! I don't think so! You mean to tell me that both of my
6.1 CD's are 'faulty'! Two different CD's from two different sources!?
One is an official MandrakeSoft CD and the other is a LinuxMall CD and
neither one has an /images/rescue sub on it.
These are the only images on my Mandrake 6.0-2 CD as well. boot, bootnet,
and pcmcia. img's
On the Mandrake 6.x CD there is a little distribuition that can stay
on a single floppy. Usually I use that little floppy.
What are you referring to here? I do not see any such
distribution
A friend of mine has RH 6.1, it does not have rescue.img on it either. And
since Mandrake is derived from RH perhaps this is why.
-Original Message-
From: Ramon Gandia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 2:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert]
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote:
A friend of mine has RH 6.1, it does not have rescue.img on it either. And
since Mandrake is derived from RH perhaps this is why.
No that is not why, it was simply moved and forgotten. redhats rescue.img
sucks big time, tomsrtbt has easy
Well son of a, ok not my fault. I just double checked the iso on my ftp
and your right. I have no clue how that happened. I don't have a 6.1 boxed
set to check the other disks, I do know it was tight on space and they
stuck a bunch of stuff elsewhere, I was pretty sure it was on the 6.1 beta
but
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 09:07:36PM +, Civileme wrote:
- "Lord And Master;)" wrote:
-
- Is it possible to have windows 98 share drives using nfs instead of
- samba?
-
- Short Answer: NO
-
- Longer Answer :NO!
-
- Reasoned Answer: Samba was created mostly by Andrew Tridgell from some
-
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 07:51:52PM -0700, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
- On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Charles Curley wrote:
-
- I have been running Red Hat 5.2 for over a year now. I have just put
- Mandrake 6.1 on the same system. However, RH 6.0 was a disaster, so this
- time I took things carefully: I
Another good boot disk is the one inluded with peanut linux. It includes
midnight commander.
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, you wrote:
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote:
A friend of mine has RH 6.1, it does not have rescue.img on it either. And
since Mandrake is derived from RH
Which version of Gnumeric are you using? I installed October GNOME
(which comes with GNUMERIC 0.38) and I do have file
/usr/share/fonts/fontmap; it was created, I believe, by a post-install
script.
Sasha
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 02:58:17PM -0800, Derek Simkowiak wrote:
When I try to run
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Charles Curley wrote:
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 07:51:52PM -0700, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
- On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Charles Curley wrote:
-
- I have been running Red Hat 5.2 for over a year now. I have just put
- Mandrake 6.1 on the same system. However, RH 6.0 was a
Yep definatly completed a full circle on this one :)
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, webmedic wrote:
Another good boot disk is the one inluded with peanut linux. It includes
midnight commander.
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, you wrote:
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote:
A friend of
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Nick Kay wrote:
Well son of a, ok not my fault. I just double checked the iso on my ftp
and your right. I have no clue how that happened. I don't have a 6.1 boxed
set to check the other disks, I do know it was tight on space and they
stuck a bunch of stuff elsewhere, I
Tomexactly! So does my LinuxMall Mdk 6.0, but not either of my MDk
6.1 CD's (Official Mandrake Linux Mall). I don't think that they're
"faulty", I think that the /images/rescue sub was left off of the 6.1
distro (maybe by oversight).
Alan
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, you
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Axhold it! I don't think so! You mean to tell me that both of my
6.1 CD's are 'faulty'! Two different CD's from two different sources!?
One is an official MandrakeSoft CD and the other is a LinuxMall CD and
neither one has an /images/rescue sub on it.
I noticed that the files haven't changed for a little while. Is now a
good time to redownload and set this up?
it would be interesting if Red Hat bought Corel as is rumored...
DvB
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Denis Havlik wrote:
Hi, everybody.
I thought this might interest You - i have just posted this story on
LinuxPR and Slashdot (no idea if they are going to accept it. Sorry for
the html:
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, you wrote:
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 02:47:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Sorry for this boneheaded query, but I can't figure this out and this list should
be the quickest answer::
-
- ftp, interactive mode. How the heck can I retrieve a whole directory
Charles Curley wrote:
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 07:51:52PM -0700, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
- On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Charles Curley wrote:
-
- I have been running Red Hat 5.2 for over a year now. I have just put
- Mandrake 6.1 on the same system. However, RH 6.0 was a disaster, so this
-
-Original Message-
From: Civileme [mailto:
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 4:16 PM
Just a note to let you know I saw your post.
I am still trying to duplicate the behavior. Anything else I
should know
about your install? Did you format all partitions or just
some?
remove
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 01:43:05PM +, Nick Kay wrote:
-
- Well son of a, ok not my fault. I just double checked the iso on my ftp
- and your right. I have no clue how that happened. I don't have a 6.1 boxed
- set to check the other disks, I do know it was tight on space and they
- stuck a
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, you wrote:
Arrg!
Under RH 5.2 I tried that manually, with:
# mkfs /dev/sda7
and it put an ext2fs file system on the partition. I then tried:
# mkfs -t swap /dev/sda7
mkfs.swap: No such file or directory
So I don't think it will will work when I reboot to
It appears that my vanishing mouse pointer is a bug in the MACH64 Xserver
(3.3.5) and the ATI RAGE LT Pro chipset. After exchanging a few notes with
Civileme it dawned on me that past installs on this laptop have been
configured with the SVGA server - this time I used the MACH64. Sure enough
-
Can someone recommend a good, easy to use (preferably
perl-based) mailing list package for RedHat/Mandrake? My
boss gave me the job of coming up with a package to do
that.
Also keep in mind that it will probably be remotely
installed, configured and managed via ssh, so the easier
the better! :-)
Do this,
File-New-Text document
type blah
Dear Axalon:
You did it!
In StarOffice, as you suggested, I did the following:
File-close
yes to save, file name is blah, Ok
Now,
File-# (it's 1 if you've fresh install)
type "blah blah", so now you have three blahs
File-Close
yes to save
Now look
- Original Message -
From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Web site (doubleblink)
CivilemeI don't think it's too suprising that the poll came out like
that, after all, there have been two
- Original Message -
From: Derek Simkowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Pumping Up PPP
The serial ports are character devices (unbuffered) under Linux. I
don't know if there is any equivalent to the
Is there any linux os flavor (or any os period) that allows the loading of multiple
kernels? I remember a professor during an SMP discussion stating that a "low level
SMP kernel" can be used to load "higher OS kernels" onto individual processors. This
type system would allow os redundancy on
- Original Message -
From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Rescue.img
Derekit's on the 6.0 disc but is not on the 6.1 disc. It's called
'tomsrtbt' (Toms root boot) and is in /images/rescue.
"Vanco, Donald" wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Civileme [mailto:
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 4:16 PM
Just a note to let you know I saw your post.
I am still trying to duplicate the behavior. Anything else I
should know
about your install? Did you format all
John Aldrich wrote:
Can someone recommend a good, easy to use (preferably
perl-based) mailing list package for RedHat/Mandrake? My
boss gave me the job of coming up with a package to do
that.
Also keep in mind that it will probably be remotely
installed, configured and managed via ssh, so
mget usually works pretty well for multiple files.
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Sorry for this boneheaded query, but I can't figure this out and this list should be
the quickest answer::
ftp, interactive mode. How the heck can I retrieve a whole directory structure?
I've tried many
You may want to try using "synps2" as the mouse type. This will make gpm
use the Synaptics touchpad driver.
Run "gpm -t help" for a complete list of mouse types. Also, the
Laptop-HOWTO has information on how to configure your mouse.
I have a Compaq Prosignia 150 laptop with Mandrake 6.1 and
AHHhhh Vaporware... I have many memories of my time with IBM and waiting for
all those promised OS/2 applications. (text book study in vaporware)
Many PS/1 machines had a pleathora of undocumented "features" Like for
instance... IBM Token Ring adapters won't work in your 486 PS/1. Much to the
Thanks to Ramon Gandia for his suggestions.
Reread the NTP FAQ and discovered that it can take up to 20 minutes to synch and
properly begin services. I am stoopid :P. Our network is all happily on proper time
now. I am using NTP because our M$ NT 4.0 DHCP server supports the option. Now
Johnthat's not what I said, but you are correct. There is no file
called rescue.img on my Mdk 6.0 CD or either of my Mdk 6.1 CD's.
However on the Mdk 6.0 CD there is a sub called /images/rescue and in it
are the three "Tom's root boot" files (they are not named rescue.img).
Alan
John
I've heard/read about using chroot to force an FTP user to only have access
to certain areas of the disk by making a subdirectory on the file system
their 'root' directory ('/').
However, I can't seem to find anywhere to do this. Can someone help me out?
Using Mandrake 6.0 and BeroFTPd 1.3.4.
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Lord And Master;) wrote:
Is it possible to have windows 98 share drives using nfs instead of
samba?
Yes, but you need a "pay" client in order to do it. NFS servers exist for
WinNT, but Win98 only has NFS clients (well, I think there's *one* server
app for 98). Best I've
John Aldrich wrote:
Can someone recommend a good, easy to use (preferably
perl-based) mailing list package for RedHat/Mandrake? My
boss gave me the job of coming up with a package to do
that.
Also keep in mind that it will probably be remotely
installed, configured and managed via ssh, so
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, you wrote:
Thanks to Ramon Gandia for his suggestions.
Reread the NTP FAQ and discovered that it can take up to 20 minutes to synch and
properly begin services. I am stoopid :P. Our network is all happily on proper time
now. I am using NTP because our M$ NT 4.0 DHCP
Can someone recommend a good, easy to use (preferably
perl-based) mailing list package for RedHat/Mandrake? My
boss gave me the job of coming up with a package to do
that.
Also keep in mind that it will probably be remotely
installed, configured and managed via ssh, so the easier
the
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
Can someone recommend a good, easy to use (preferably
perl-based) mailing list package for RedHat/Mandrake? My
boss gave me the job of coming up with a package to do
that.
Also keep in mind that it will probably be remotely
installed, configured and
Jason Antonacci wrote:
Is there any linux os flavor (or any os period) that allows the loading of multiple
kernels? I remember a professor during an SMP discussion stating that a "low level
SMP kernel" can be used to load "higher OS kernels" onto individual processors. This
type system
Dear friends:
Again, my thanks to everyone who helped.
OK, here is the lowdown after an hour or so of playing around with SO's
backup feature.
First, I downloaded the 70 meg binary from Sun into my home directory,
then untarred it as a user and installed it as a user in my /home
partition
Can someone recommend a good, easy to use (preferably
perl-based) mailing list package for RedHat/Mandrake?
If you have root access on the remote system to set it up, I'd recommend
Majordomo. Installation is pretty simple if you read the documentation and
instructions and if you set it up to
Hoythow do I get on the MDB mailing list? :-)
Alan
Hoyt wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Web site (doubleblink)
CivilemeI don't think it's too
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, you wrote:
Nickrescue.img is not the name of the file. On the Mdk 6.0 distro
there is a sub called /images/rescue/ and in that sub are three files:
tomsrtbt-1.7.134.dos.zip (create the floppy in a dos environment)
tomsrtbt-1.7.134.tar.gz (create the
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, you wrote:
mget usually works pretty well for multiple files.
Sure does...but AFAIK, it doesn't do recursive gets of directories..
John
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, you wrote:
Is there any linux os flavor (or any os period) that allows the loading of multiple
kernels? I remember a professor during an SMP discussion stating that a "low level
SMP kernel" can be used to load "higher OS kernels" onto individual processors. This
type
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, you wrote:
I've got ezmlm installed on the work server along with qmailadmin for a
web-based administration of the whole system (pop accounts, forwarding,
aliases, mailing lists, and auto-responders). It's a pretty nice setup,
I must say.
Thanks...otoh, since the
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, you wrote:
John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can someone recommend a good, easy to use (preferably perl-based)
mailing list package for RedHat/Mandrake? My boss gave me the job of
coming up with a package to do that.
IMHO sympa is very robust configuratble
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, you wrote:
Johnthat's not what I said, but you are correct. There is no file
called rescue.img on my Mdk 6.0 CD or either of my Mdk 6.1 CD's.
However on the Mdk 6.0 CD there is a sub called /images/rescue and in it
are the three "Tom's root boot" files (they are not
At 12:45 2/12/99 +, you wrote:
John Aldrich wrote:
check out mailman it has a www interface and a built in archive (all www
based)
we switched from majordomo to mailman here @ work becuae of the ease of use
for those not familiar with *NIX, or command sending through email, and
wanting to
Can someone recommend a good, easy to use (preferably
perl-based) mailing list package for RedHat/Mandrake?
If you have root access on the remote system to set it up, I'd recommend
Majordomo. Installation is pretty simple if you read the documentation and
instructions and if you set it
Johnthat is the fun of all this, learning new things! ;-)
Alan
John Aldrich wrote:
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, you wrote:
Johnthat's not what I said, but you are correct. There is no file
called rescue.img on my Mdk 6.0 CD or either of my Mdk 6.1 CD's.
However on the Mdk 6.0 CD
I would disagree about the "no maintenance".
Yes, granted, if you're constantly adding new lists or tweaking the
configuration then yes, there is work to do. But once it's all in place and
you have no more changes to make, Majordomo requires no maintenance to keep
running.
And there are plenty
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Vanco, Donald wrote:
-snip
- And if the Exchange is anywhere near to being a standard
- mail-server, than you should be able to use just about any
- mail-program
- which supports POP3 and/or IMAP. I.e. just about any mail
- program at all.
-
- To name few: pine, elm,
- Original Message -
From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Web site (doubleblink)
Hoythow do I get on the MDB mailing list? :-)
Alan
Sorry, that particular distro has a few, um, copyright
I have to agree to this one:
Mailman is very easy to install, very configurable, has a web based
administration interface, archive possibilities, e-mail administration and
is FAST.
Patrick
- Original Message -
From: "Ronald J. Yacketta" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
Jason Antonacci wrote:
Is there any linux os flavor (or any os period) that allows the loading of multiple
kernels? I remember a professor during an SMP discussion stating that a "low level
SMP kernel" can be used to load "higher OS kernels" onto individual processors.
This type system
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Steve Philp wrote:
Jason Antonacci wrote:
Is there any linux os flavor (or any os period) that allows the loading of
multiple kernels? I remember a professor during an SMP discussion stating that a
"low level SMP kernel" can be used to load "higher OS kernels" onto
And there are plenty of tools out there (ie: Majorcool) which will automate
the process of adding/removing new lists, etc.
Yes, I've heard of (and experimented with) Majorcool, but what
other ones are there?
One != plenty.
--Derek
Dear Alan:
OK, subject closed. That's exactly what I get, too. Each .bak copy is
always one generation behind the .sdw file and I only need to use Save
to save. No need for Save As. When I delete the extra material (which I
added by stages, i.e. by "generations") from .sdw, the .bak will not
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