Well, since so many people seem to discourage the use of Athlon CPU's, here's my
affordable alternative...
Take a look at the specs for the Abit BP-6 mobo. It's a dual socket 370 (Celeron
only) motherboard with a built in PCI ATA/66 channel on top of the standard
ATA/33 one (meaning you can
Chunnuan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Vinay Gupta wrote:
Chunnuan Chen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chunnuan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
I am using Mandrake 7.0-2. I was trying to use gv to open a .ps or .pdf
file and got an error message like
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Dana J. Laude wrote:
Here's a interesting snip after running "fdisk /dev/hdb".
clip
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1247. There is
nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could
in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software
For some reason, on startup, a couple of my boxes wand to scan for hdb and
hdd devices. There are none. After that, it tries to run Hard Drive
Optimization on those 2 non-existing devices and of course it fails. Other
then the fact that it takes a little longer to start up and displays those 2
Despite being a glibc distribution, I believe that Mandrake packages the
libc5 version of Netscape because it's more stable.
Andrew
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
Mandrake is a glibc-based distribution.
But while we're on it . . .
Netscape crashes left and right on me under Mandrake
Not sure why it wants to check those two, but if you have a "typical"
modern PC system, you don't want to limit it to hda; you want hdc as
well, which will be your CD-ROM drive.
You could presumably just
rm /dev/hdb* /dev/hdd*
if you wanted a crude approach to short-circuiting the bogus
Just question
Has anyone tested in mdk 7.0 "midi-karaoke-player" what comes with
kde?
I have now tried and no succesWhen try play a song I get reply,
can't open /dev/sequencer, propably there is another program using it.
?
Can't figure how to find reasonIf you gurus have found
There seems to often be a little more stability trouble
when upgrading especially with RH6.1 to L-M 7.x or even LM 6.1.
My L-M 6.1 with netscape 4.70-1mdk and
LM 7.0/Cooker with Netscape 4.70-6mdk are remarkably stable for
Netscape anyway. The most stable for me since 3.0x. Graphic intensive
Andrew Post wrote:
Despite being a glibc distribution, I believe that Mandrake packages the
libc5 version of Netscape because it's more stable.
There are also some plugins (e.g. Acrobat Reader) which AFAIK are
only available for libc5 Netscape ...
--
Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Thanks for the reply.
Yes I have tried using the onboard floppy controller, with the same lack
of success.
I gotta tell you that this linux - ftape - backup stuff is really new to
me,
so the problem is probably something very basic.
Anyhow, I have read that
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
| Did you try editing /etc/fstab? For some reason, the install seems to set up
| SCSI emulation then neglects to modify fstab as well. Try changing the dev=
| line to point to /dev/scd0.
Thank you very much!
I could have sworn I'd tried this much earlier, but
Sorry, but that did not work. I just got a different error upon startup. The big
time waster is when it sits there trying to detect the non existent hard drives.
It takes longer at that step the it takes to completely come up... The only real
difference in the error was it was unable to find
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/1527/1/
http://serverwatch.internet.com/articles/vfa/index.html
Is it possible to merge partitions from separate disks so that they are view as one
partition?
Seve
SO Is it possible to merge partitions from separate disks so that they are
SO view as one partition?
PartitionMagic will allow you to do this.
--
Best regards,
Kevin
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, you wrote:
I did exactly as you stated and added:
ALL: 192.168.0.11, localhost
in my hosts.allow file, and tried to ftp from the Win98 box and I get:
C:\WINDOWSftp 192.168.0.10
ftp: connect :10061
ftp
It's waiting for a command line, most likely. You might want
Michael, this seems to indicate that there's a problem with your hard disk
partition table or possibly the hard drive itself.
-Original Message-
From: Michael D. Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 12:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert]
Check permissions?
Try running it as root perhaps. If that works
then you know it is the permissions issue which
I will let someone else address as I always stumble
around with that one ! :)
Under KFM do you see sequencer in /dev?
William Bouterse
Jarmo wrote:
Just question
Has anyone
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Is it possible to merge partitions from separate disks so that they are view as one
partition?
you may want to look into the logical volume manager for linux. It will let you do
this.
I know it was under
I installed Netscape 4.72. It still hangs when hitting some fancy pages
(probably those that have some java applets). I hope this problem will go
away when the next release or Mozilla comes out.
Chunnuan
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
Mandrake is a glibc-based distribution.
But while
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Well, since so many people seem to discourage the use of Athlon CPU's, here's my
affordable alternative...
Take a look at the specs for the Abit BP-6 mobo. It's a dual socket 370 (Celeron
only) motherboard with a built in PCI ATA/66 channel on top of the
Thanks for your assistance. I found out that Mandrake left out many useful packages
even if I chose to install all the packages in the downloaded ISO. As for the
ghostscript, I just installed 6.0 and now gv is working.-- Chunnuan
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Chunnuan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Mandrake is a glibc-based distribution.
But while we're on it . . .
Netscape crashes left and right on me under Mandrake 7.0, though it's
not Mandrake-specific; it started crashing all the time when I upgraded
my RedHat 6.1 distribution to X 3.3.6.
Are
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
SO Is it possible to merge partitions from separate disks so that they are
SO view as one partition?
PartitionMagic will allow you to do this.
Not if it's separate *PHYSICAL* disks...
John
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Here's a interesting snip after running "fdisk /dev/hdb".
clip
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1247. There is
nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could
in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at
I keep getting Segmentation Fault when Taper performs a Restore. It will get this
after restoring for a few minutes. Why does it
happen and how can it be fixed?
Seve
Hello John,
JA On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
SO Is it possible to merge partitions from separate disks so that they are
SO view as one partition?
PartitionMagic will allow you to do this.
JA Not if it's separate *PHYSICAL* disks...
JA John
You're right. Obviously I read
Here is what is in my fstab file:
/dev/hda8 / ext2defaults1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2defaults1 2
/dev/hda6 /home ext2defaults1 2
/dev/hda5 /usr
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
| Is it possible to merge partitions from separate disks so that they are view as one
|partition?
|
Sure. You just want to use "linear (append) mode."
I've never used it, but it's one of the kernel options, and the module
is, per the kernel doc (from make
On Fre, 25 Feb 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
Is it possible to merge partitions from separate disks so that they are view as one
partition?
The kernel can do this.
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig - block devices - multiple device driver support
I never used this, read the docu ;-)
-Cajus
Sevatio Octavio wrote:
Is it possible to merge partitions from separate disks so that they are view as one
partition?
Seve
Yes ... but first compile your kernel to support this feature.
strange question...
does tar stand for "Tape ARchive" utility? AFAIR, it does, but I'm
checking with the experts. :)
You've probably already checked this, but the BIOSes aren't set to
autodetect on all 4 of the IDE drives, are they?
Just a though,
Wayne
-Original Message-
Argh... This only happens on 3 of my boxes. I currently running 10 boxes
and the
other 7 have no problems. The only factor that
I have an older RH 5.2 system running as a dialing router. Want to upgrade
to a system with a graphical interface (read Gnome or KDE) so that it is
easier for the users of the system to deal with it. I did use diald on the
old system, is there a better option today or is diald still the
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Michael D. Kirkpatrick wrote:
For some reason, on startup, a couple of my boxes wand to scan for hdb and
hdd devices. There are none. After that, it tries to run Hard Drive
Optimization on those 2 non-existing devices and of course it fails. Other
then the fact that
Anyone know of mailing lists that deal specifically with "new frontiers"
under linux: Multimedia, Video Conferencing, Audio and video editing and
processing, Home automation, etc
Harondel J. Sibble
Sibble Computer Consulting
Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user.
BINGO!!
Tape Archive (TAR)
Rich Clark wrote:
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Bug Hunter wrote:
strange question...
does tar stand for "Tape ARchive" utility? AFAIR, it does, but I'm
checking with the experts. :)
U yeah, it do. Even says so on the man page.
--
Rich Clark
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Rich Clark wrote:
| On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Bug Hunter wrote:
|
|
|strange question...
|
|does tar stand for "Tape ARchive" utility? AFAIR, it does, but I'm
| checking with the experts. :)
|
|
|
| U yeah, it do. Even says so on the man page.
You
So this will let you merge existing partitions? I use this when setting up a computer
- but did not
know you could merge existing partitions. I guess I will have to do some reasearch.
but on the other hand why do we need something like this in linux - just mount the
second partition
to the
well if you are mainly using this for a dialing router. Get e-smith
www.e-smith.net it's interface is a web page. You can only get to the
management from the inside network. It has samba up and running already. it has
diald configured. We are using this at work for our internet gateway-firewall
Actually, WD "used" to have great hd's around 2-3 years ago.
Matter
of fact, and I have a 2 and 2.5GB that are still going strong on
another
computer. ;) We ran into a batch of bad ones about the same time
period, same batch #'s. Btw, I ran the diag, and came up with a
0258 error, which
It'll take me a week to download the ISO with a modem I think I'll order
the cd. Thanks anyway
Guillermo,
You could download the iso, then mount it like you would a regular volume,
then cp -R the files from the iso to a directory on your system. Here's
how to do the mount:
mkdir
First of all, I have been very happy with this list for the entire 24
hours or so I've been on it. I have taken care of both of the major
hangups I've had with my system, and I've also been able to contribute
to helping other people.
It's a really wonderful resource, but I do have a few
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