Re: [expert] How to make hd.img installation see second hdd?

2000-04-14 Thread huth
comment: i have installed mandrake 6.0, 6.1 and also 7.0 directly from hdd hdd (it´s no dupe, it means 4. "harddiskdrive" or secondary slave) with no problems. i always used self-burned cdrom from downloaded iso-files. heiko Mike Corbeil wrote: > > Does anyone know if there's a way to make ins

Re: [expert] deb packages

2000-04-14 Thread huth
Guillermo Belli wrote: > I would also like to know if it's possible to extract the files from a .rpm > package without installing it. i think using midnight commander you can go into rpm like in any packed file and copy files, but i haven´t tried it yet. heiko

Re: [expert] Follow-up - Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-14 Thread Kirk McElhearn
On 14/04/00 0:06, Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: >Kirkyour designations of boot1, boot2etc. Do partitions >exist with those namesnot!? Ok, do me a favor. You say >Caldera is running, so go into a console in Caldera and type >fdisk /dev/hda then do a p

Re: [expert] OT: Perfect operating system

2000-04-14 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Vic wrote: > > i dont remember seeing multics in operation, but > i have heard well of it. I remember unix when I was > growing up in the 70's. > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Deryk Barker mewed: > > Thus spake Brian T. Schellenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > > > > AmigaDOS was the perfect operat

Re: [expert] OT: Perfect operating system

2000-04-14 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Vic wrote: > > Could the AmigaDos have as many characters > in the filename like linux? > > Could you have sound and stability like unix? Oh yes -- AmigaDOS was very stable and the multimedia on the Amiga kicked serious ass The Amiga brought multimedia to the desktop - everyone else, including

Re: [expert] deb packages

2000-04-14 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i think using midnight commander you can go into rpm like in any packed > file and copy files, but i haven´t tried it yet. Correct. I use this frequently. BTW you can not only _extract_ files inside the archive, but also _view_ them without extracting (in fact they ar

[expert] It doesn't work - Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-14 Thread Kirk McElhearn
Well, after all, I cannot boot off of anything on the second disk. I first tried a boot manager called gag, that runs off a floppy. I figured that this would be easier than messing with liloconf. No dice, it does not seem to want to boot off the second HD. I suspect it has something to do w

Re: [expert] How to make hd.img installation see second hdd?

2000-04-14 Thread Kirk McElhearn
On 14/04/00 9:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: >> Does anyone know if there's a way to make installing Mandrake from the second >> hdd, hdb, work? I'm using a boot floppy created with or from the cdrom >hd.img >> file, but when booting with this diskette, the

Re: [expert] Unzipping a file

2000-04-14 Thread Ron Stodden
Brian, tar can interface directly with bzip2 as needed: tar -cvf --use-compress-program bzip2 * tar -xvf --use-compress-program bzip2 It all works beautifully (except that bzip2, as you would expect, takes a very very very long time to do its job). "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > > I fin

RE: [expert] IP Masq problems (Resolved somewhat)

2000-04-14 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
Well last night I double checked everything on the Win box. DNS, Gateway, IP. Everything is setup as before. This machine is my gf's. ftp to outside, great. Telnet to Linux machine, fine, print fine. Checked route on Linux, fine. Kept starting and closing IE. Nothing, the restarted IE and just

[expert] Still can't install KNEWS

2000-04-14 Thread Jim Hodgers
At 11:17 PM 04/12/2000 -0400, brian wrote: >GETTING IT WORKING: >== > >You can fix your immediate problem with > >cd /usr/lib (or cd /lib, whereever they got installed), and > >ln -s libpng.so.2 libpng.so.0 >ln -s libjpg.so.6 libjpg.so.4 > >[verify which version it actually insta

Re: [expert] OT: Perfect operating system

2000-04-14 Thread Vic
I take it you remember the Video Toaster then, it was built for the Amiga OS, which I wonder, did Amiga OS have protected memory like Linux/Unix? On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Stephen F. Bosch mewed: > Vic wrote: > > > > Could the AmigaDos have as many characters > > in the filename like linux? > > > >

Re: [expert] Unzipping a file

2000-04-14 Thread Mike Corbeil
Ron Stodden wrote: > Brian, > > tar can interface directly with bzip2 as needed: > > tar -cvf --use-compress-program bzip2 * > tar -xvf --use-compress-program bzip2 > > It all works beautifully (except that bzip2, as you would expect, > takes a very very very long time to do its job). > Does b

[expert] LILO problem

2000-04-14 Thread Kirk McElhearn
OK, I have finally managed to get two distributions installed, and to get lilo to work. But when I try to tweek the lilo.conf, I get a message that each of my choices is added, but then it says No images have been defined. It does not update my changes in the mbr. What could I be doing wron

Re: [expert] It doesn't work - Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:18:11AM +0200, Kirk McElhearn wrote: -> Well, after all, I cannot boot off of anything on the second disk. -> -> I first tried a boot manager called gag, that runs off a floppy. I -> figured that this would be easier than messing with liloconf. No dice, -> it does n

Re: [expert] How to make hd.img installation see second hdd?

2000-04-14 Thread Mike Corbeil
Kirk McElhearn wrote: > On 14/04/00 9:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is > reported to have said: > > >> Does anyone know if there's a way to make installing Mandrake from the > second > >> hdd, hdb, work? I'm using a boot floppy created with or from the cdrom > >hd.img > >> file, but wh

Re: [expert] Unzipping a file

2000-04-14 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Mike Corbeil wrote: > > Does bzip2 take any longer than gzip? > Yes. TANSTAAFL ... bzip2 is based on arithmetic compression which is more CPU-intensive but produces better compression than gzip which is based on an enhanced LZW algorithm. > What ever happened to cpio? This one seems to have b

Re: [expert] It doesn't work - Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-14 Thread Mike Corbeil
Kirk McElhearn wrote: > [snipped] > Then I tried Lilo, and that doesn't work either. I have the following: > > hda1 is my win partition > hda6 is my Mandrake 1 partition What's a Mandrake 1, 2, ... partition? Actually, you explained 2 below, kind of, but even that's not clear to me. What's

Re: [expert] How to make hd.img installation see second hdd?

2000-04-14 Thread Mike Corbeil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > comment: > > i have installed mandrake 6.0, 6.1 and also 7.0 directly from hdd hdd > (it´s no dupe, it means 4. "harddiskdrive" or secondary slave) with no > problems. > i always used self-burned cdrom from downloaded iso-files. > I think that either you snipped out so

Re: [expert] Re: g++ libraries

2000-04-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > Thank you, now it works, but why must I have /usr/include/g++-2 and > /usr/include/g++-3 ??? > And in both there is iostream.h ??? > I'm *guessing* that what you did was rpm -i instead of rpm -U. This would APPEAR to be a newer version of g++. John

Re: [expert] A rescue CD

2000-04-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: > On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Hoyt wrote: > > > Tomsrtbt would be a good bootable image to use for a rescue disk - you could fill >the CD with teh specific utilities you would need if tomsrtbt did not have them. > > er... IIRC, floppy images to make a boot cd shou

Re: [expert] Follow-up - Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-14 Thread Mike Corbeil
Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > Mike Corbeil wrote: > > Actually, I guess that the boot directory doesn't need to be named /boot, as > > long as the correct path is specified in the boot configuration. This may be > > incorrect; however, the reason I say this is because linuxconf lilo boot > > config

RE: [expert] IP Masq problems (Resolved somewhat)

2000-04-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Well last night I double checked everything on the Win box. DNS, Gateway, IP. >Everything is setup as before. This machine is my gf's. ftp to outside, great. Telnet >to Linux machine, fine, print fine. Checked route on Linux, fine. Kept starting and >closing IE

Re: [expert] deb packages

2000-04-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Hello all: > > I wanted to install a program in .deb format, and every time I click on the > file kpackage opens and closes instalntly (it crashes, I guess). Is it possible > to install .deb packages in Mandrake? > I would also like to know if it's possible to e

RE: [expert] IP Masq problems (Resolved somewhat)

2000-04-14 Thread Russ Johnson
I'd start with a very simple ruleset for ipchains, and then work my way to secure. For instance, start with this: #!/bin/sh # /sbin/depmod -a /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_quake /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_quake ports=26000

Re: [expert] Follow-up - Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-14 Thread Andrew George
> You're perfectly right: lilo only needs to find the kernel image, > and you could often, in theory, put that anywhere as long as you > specify it correctly in lilo.conf > > However, the /boot directory is part of the File System Standard (FSS) > in linux, and this standard has been elaborated

Re: [expert] LILO problem

2000-04-14 Thread Mike Corbeil
Kirk McElhearn wrote: > OK, I have finally managed to get two distributions installed, and to get > lilo to work. But when I try to tweek the lilo.conf, I get a message > that each of my choices is added, but then it says No images have been > defined. It does not update my changes in the mbr.

Re: [expert] How to make hd.img installation see second hdd?

2000-04-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > I don't think we're using the same hd.img file, because the only hdd > partitions available with the hd.img I'm using are those on hda. This might > only be a discrepancy created by the people at Planete Linux mag., because the > cdrom I have was obtained with

[expert] Dynamic Languages

2000-04-14 Thread Joe Sheble
If I'm wanting to write some scripts for Apache (using a PostGreSQL database for content) would I be better off using Perl, Python, or PHP? I know next to nothing about either one of these, but am looking to take a crack at one of them, just not sure where I would be better off directing my effor

Re: [expert] OT: Perfect operating system

2000-04-14 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Pj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I remember when Caterpillar got their first main-frame in the early > 60's. I don't remember if it was fed *key punch* cards or not, but a > friend programed it to play chess. I have no idea about the OS.. maybe > some form of UNIX. Not in the early 60s it wa

Re: [expert] OT: Perfect operating system

2000-04-14 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Stephen F. Bosch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] > It should be pointed out that AmigaDOS was modeled on Unix, and yes, > many people loved Multics (was that Control Data?) Wasn't AmigDOS based on Martin Richards' Tripos? Multics was originally GE then Honeywell when GE bowed out of the com

Re: [expert] Dynamic Languages

2000-04-14 Thread Bug Hunter
I have an opinion. It is my opinion. PHP has perl beat hands down, in my opinion. Other people will differ with me. Perl is too feature rich, and the syntax can be puzzling. I've been able to modify perl scripts, but creating other than simple ones is still a chore. PHP runs quickly a

Re: [expert] Follow-up - Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-14 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Mike Corbeil wrote: > However, in following the general guideline, I make /boot a separate filesystem or > partition, and do this regardless of the filesystem being above or below the 1024 > limit. The reason for this generalized approach is merely to make sure that there's > more flexibility for

Re: [expert] OT: Perfect operating system

2000-04-14 Thread Pj
I won't deny my memory is not what it used to be. Cat did get one of the first main frames. I was trained to type the cards-which I hated. It was after this time period that Cat got the it. Now my curiosity is aroused. I will have to inquire as to the date. If I can remember. Pj Deryk Barker

Re: [expert] It doesn't work - Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Kirksure it works with seperate / and /boot. Here's one of my multiboot systems that uses scsi drives to boot Dos 6.22, Mandrake 7.0, Storm 2000 and Windows 98 SE. Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 126208813+ 6 FAT16 /dev/sda2

Re: [expert] Re: g++ libraries

2000-04-14 Thread Alen Salamun
John Aldrich wrote: > I'm *guessing* that what you did was rpm -i instead of rpm > -U. This would APPEAR to be a newer version of g++. > John Hi! I am not shure: [alien@hal9000 alien]$ rpm -qf /usr/include/g++-2/iostream.h egcs-c++-1.1.2-24mdk [alien@hal9000 alien]$ rpm -qf /usr/include

Re: [expert] A rescue CD

2000-04-14 Thread Marcos Dione
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Tom's works just fine. It's similar to M$ factory floppies. > John not at al... tom's, as I said, is 1700k size. And I read somewhere that the boof images should be either 1440k either 2880k... Am I right?

Re: [expert] Sound Problms witn 7.0_2

2000-04-14 Thread Larry Sword
Eosnet wrote: > All that is in there, but even in sndconfig I get the modprobe error, or > rather it doesn't work. > > Any ideas? > I don't understand something. If the Ml boots up and recognized the card, places the appropriate one line in the conf.modules file, then why do a modprobe for the c

[expert] Linux frustration

2000-04-14 Thread Andrew Vogel
I started with a plan. A simple plan... Create a Linux box from 'left-overs' from previous computers and learn the OS. After researching, Linux-Mandrake became my choice, and I jumped on it at the 6.0 series. I'm currently using 7.02. I want to be able to do simple things on my Linux machine --

RE: [expert] OT: Perfect operating system

2000-04-14 Thread james.fogg
I hate to jump into an off-topic thread, but multics was developed at MIT. Ya gotta love the rings (Ninth and nevermost, Zero is God). -Original Message- From: Deryk Barker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] OT: Pe

Re: [expert] USB SCanner

2000-04-14 Thread Christopher Quale
Wayne, I have a Canon 620U USB, and I looked for SANE drivers but could not find any (although I believe some other brands of USB scanners are supported). I emailed Canon asking about their policy wrt Linux and their hardware, and the response I got was that they had no immediate plans to supp

Re: [expert] Tulip NIC problem

2000-04-14 Thread Larry Sword
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Careful with the Linksys 10/100 under Linux, or any 10/100 NIC with a "PNIC" Chip. >I've been to the website of the writer about two months ago, and discovered this >little note: > > "Due to the lack? of documentation on the PNIC chip, autosensing > the network" is/wa

Re: [expert] Sound Problms witn 7.0_2

2000-04-14 Thread Eosnet
Because any setup that I do it wanting to do one. Plus I am not getting sound and in 6.0-6.1 you did a modprobe to wake the card up. - Original Message - From: "Larry Sword" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Sound Prob

Re: [expert] OT: Perfect operating system

2000-04-14 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Vic wrote: > > I take it you remember the Video Toaster then, > it was built for the Amiga OS, which I wonder, > did Amiga OS have protected memory like > Linux/Unix? Oh yes, I remember the Toaster -- and it may surprise you to hear that there is a company *still* making the Amiga platform and

Re: [expert] IP Masq problems (Resolved somewhat)

2000-04-14 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: > > Well last night I double checked everything on the Win box. DNS, Gateway, IP. >Everything is setup as before. This machine is my gf's. ftp to outside, great. Telnet >to Linux machine, fine, print fine. Checked route on Linux, fine. Kept starting and >closi

Re: [expert] LILO problem

2000-04-14 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Kirk McElhearn wrote: > > OK, I have finally managed to get two distributions installed, and to get > lilo to work. But when I try to tweek the lilo.conf, I get a message > that each of my choices is added, but then it says No images have been > defined. It does not update my changes in the mbr

Re: [expert] Re: g++ libraries

2000-04-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, you wrote: > John Aldrich wrote: > > I'm *guessing* that what you did was rpm -i instead of rpm > > -U. This would APPEAR to be a newer version of g++. > > John > Hi! > > I am not shure: > > [alien@hal9000 alien]$ rpm -qf /usr/include/g++-2/iostream.h > egcs-c++-1.1.

Re: [expert] A rescue CD

2000-04-14 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: Marcos Dione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [expert] A rescue CD > On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > Tom's works just fine. It's similar to M$ fa

Re: [expert] Linux frustration

2000-04-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > My frustration is this... Even though I'm pretty computer saavy, having > used them for more than half of my life, I have only been able to get the > webserver running on my machine. ZIP and SAMBA are still not working. > > I've read darned near everything I c

Re: [expert] A rescue CD

2000-04-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, you wrote: > On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > Tom's works just fine. It's similar to M$ factory floppies. > > John > > not at al... tom's, as I said, is 1700k size. And I read somewhere > that the boof images should

[expert] VMware for Linux/Win98 -- CD-Rom won't run

2000-04-14 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I am trying to install Win98 on VMware for Linux 2.0. My problem is that the CD-Rom does not work. The icon comes on the screen, but I apparently need a driver for it. The address on VMware's documentation page for CD-Roms is: http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/troubleshooting/per

[expert] VMware for Linux/Win98 -- CD-Rom won't run

2000-04-14 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I am trying to install Win98 on VMware for Linux 2.0. My problem is that the CD-Rom does not work. The icon comes on the screen, but I apparently need a driver for it. The address on VMware's documentation page for CD-Roms is: http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/troubleshooting/per

Re: [expert] OT: Perfect operating system

2000-04-14 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Deryk Barker wrote: > > Thus spake Stephen F. Bosch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [...] > > It should be pointed out that AmigaDOS was modeled on Unix, and yes, > > many people loved Multics (was that Control Data?) > > Wasn't AmigDOS based on Martin Richards' Tripos? Well, I don't know some of the mo

Re: [expert] OT: Perfect operating system

2000-04-14 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake james.fogg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I hate to jump into an off-topic thread, but multics was developed > at MIT. Multics was a joint project (fundede by ARPA) for a "computer utility"; roughly speaking MIT produced the OS, Bell Labs the compilers and GE the hardware. But it was GE and

RE: [expert] Tulip NIC problem

2000-04-14 Thread Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)
I own one of these Linksys Adapters and it works fine, although I have a static IP I think the point that the first poster was making is that the driver doco explicitly states that there is an issue. So his point to avoid the tulip (10/100 Linksys) board is valid. Hardware is worthless without

Re: [expert] Linux frustration

2000-04-14 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Andrew Vogel wrote: > > I started with a plan. A simple plan... Create a Linux box from > 'left-overs' from previous computers and learn the OS. > > After researching, Linux-Mandrake became my choice, and I jumped on it at > the 6.0 series. I'm currently using 7.02. > > I want to be able to do

Re: [expert] It doesn't work - Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-14 Thread Edward
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Well, after all, I cannot boot off of anything on the second disk. > >snip > > Then I tried Lilo, and that doesn't work either. I have the following: > hdb1 is my Mandrake 2 /boot partition > hdb11 is my Mandrake 2 / partition > >snip > > Lilo won't accept an

Re: [expert] VMware for Linux/Win98 -- CD-Rom won't run

2000-04-14 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Dear friends: > > I am trying to install Win98 on VMware for Linux 2.0. My problem is that > the CD-Rom does not work. The icon comes on the screen, but I apparently > need a driver for it. The address on VMware's documentation page for > CD-Roms is: > > http://www.vmwa

Re: [expert] FTP: 500 Illegal PORT Command

2000-04-14 Thread Deim Ágoston
On 14 Apr 00, at 16:30, Ross Xu wrote: > ftp> ls > 500 Illegal PORT Command. Did you enabled the users to list directories ? Bye, Ago "If you love somebody set them free..." Sting is GPL fan :-)) A hivatalos magyar KDE oldal : www.kde.hu

Re: [expert] FTP: 500 Illegal PORT Command

2000-04-14 Thread Marcos Dione
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Ross Xu wrote: > Dear there, > > I have a problem about configuring FTP server (wu-ftp) on linux Mandrake 7. > I can connect to the ftp server on clinet side using ftp command. > But when I type ls, I alway get an error: > ftp> ls > 500 Illegal PORT Command. > 425 Can't buil

Re: [expert] A rescue CD

2000-04-14 Thread Marcos Dione
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Hoyt wrote: > Assuming it is not, there's nothing to stop you from creating a 2.88MB floppy image >and copying tomsrtbt to it. > > Hoyt you're right! what an idiot thinking about it! thanks! -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dific

Re: [expert] LILO problem

2000-04-14 Thread Marcos Dione
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Mike Corbeil wrote: > Lastly, this is truly a newbie question and should be asked in the newbie > mailing list. don't mean to start a flamewar here... but don't try to discriminate... I mean, I don't think he's a newbie if he's trying to boot another kernel. I think

[expert] reconfiguring disk

2000-04-14 Thread lorne schachter
I've got an interesting problem. 1 have a 2-disk system, 12G and 4G split as follows: cdrive - 8G Windows98 and 4G Linux ddrive - 3G Windows98 and 1G Linux. I boot Windows directly and Linux from a floppy (because I'm past the 1024 sector boundary?). What I want to do is to shrink the W

Re: [expert] A rescue CD

2000-04-14 Thread Marcos Dione
uh... another question? is it true that a cd-booting bios should present a menu if there are several boot images? or a special bios doing so? or a program? -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen a

Re[2]: [expert] A rescue CD

2000-04-14 Thread tymanthius
Gateways do, which I love, but I know that at least HP's don't. > uh... another question? is it true that a cd-booting bios should > present a menu if there are several boot images? or a special bios doing > so? or a program? > > -- > "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece

Re[2]: [expert] A rescue CD

2000-04-14 Thread tymanthius
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Re: [expert] USB SCanner

2000-04-14 Thread Wayne Petherick
Thanks Chris, I think it may be a matter of waiting for some generic third party drivers to come along. Damn, one more thing I have to use windows for... Wayne On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Wayne, > > I have a Canon 620U USB, and I looked for SANE drivers but could > not find any (althou

Re: [expert] reconfiguring disk

2000-04-14 Thread Pj
I use Windows version Partition 5.0 to re-partition on the fly. Unless Windows partition is full, you should be able to reduce the size of FAT or FAT32 and increase the size of Ext2. If you want to contact me privately I can try to walk thru it step by step. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] lorne schachte

Re: [expert] Linux frustration

2000-04-14 Thread root
Andrew Vogel wrote: > This is tremendously frustrating. IMHO, this is why Quake is so popular with Linux users - there is nothing like a fragging session for getting rid of those pent up frustrations It really does take time to learn the ins & outs of Linux, & sometimes you just have to wa

[expert] CD-Rom in VMWare/Linux

2000-04-14 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Stephen and friends: Thanks so very much for trying to help and for your advice. This seems to be the chicken and the egg question. How do I install the Mitsumi driver in Dos/Windows if Win98 is not even installed? I need to install Win98 first, but I can't without the Mitsumi driver, which

Re: [expert] A rescue CD

2000-04-14 Thread root
Hoyt wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: Marcos Dione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 10:26 AM > Subject: Re: [expert] A rescue CD > > > On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > > Tom's works j

Re: Re[2]: [expert] A rescue CD

2000-04-14 Thread Marcos Dione
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Gateways do, which I love, but I know that at least HP's don't. bios? version? thanks. -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them d

[expert] Troubles With Partitions

2000-04-14 Thread tessonec
Hi all. Last week i bought a box with w98 preloaded. Without thinking about it, i took my mdk 6.1 cd (i didn't burned a 7.0 cd yet) and i repartitioned the HD to install linux in the PC. Obviously i deleted the old w98 installation. i was trying to install wnt4.0 in a separate partitio

[expert] Digital camera

2000-04-14 Thread tessonec
Hi again I have another question. the only reason why i decided to install a win partition is due to a digital camera fujifilm mx1200. if a want to download the photos to my box, the bundled software is for winbugs. Does anybody know if there is software for such cameras??? It simply has

[expert] What happened???

2000-04-14 Thread Sean Armstrong
What happened to the list??? I haven't received anything for over a day and a half now. Thanx, SA __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [expert] My floppy went away!

2000-04-14 Thread Sean Armstrong
So then this is not the ONLY floppy that doesn't work. Because if it is the only floppy that doesn't work then your floppy is toast. Good Luck. SA >From: Stephen Bosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [expert] My floppy went away! >Date: Thu,

Re: [expert] More space for Linux

2000-04-14 Thread Sean Armstrong
Partition Magic 4.0 works fine for me. But that is a costly Windblozes program. Good Luck. SA >From: Fabio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [expert] More space for Linux >Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:59:58 +0200 > >Dear All, >my PC has 2 HD;

[expert] IP Masquerading, The ABCs of

2000-04-14 Thread David Nordlund
Hi, I've got a system arrangement that goes something like this. I have computer A(Mandrake 7) and computer B(Corel 1) connected to a hub. Also connected to the hub is a cable modem, C. C is good friends with A, but isn't really on speaking terms with B. (The cable modem is set up for the

Re: [expert] CD-Rom in VMWare/Linux

2000-04-14 Thread Warren Doney
Is your floppy working in VMWare? - should be. IIRC the windows boot disk has generic CD drivers, Mitsumi included, try starting the install of W98 from floppy(hit option "start computer with cdrom support" & 9/10 times the bootdisk will find the correct driver for your cdrom) -WBD ...who

Re: [expert] CD-Rom in VMWare/Linux

2000-04-14 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Warren: Thank you so much for responding. I finally got the CD to work by configuring Win98 manually instead of using the Configuration Wizard. I configured the S-M as a /dev/cdrom and everything worked. Thank you so much for writing. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: [expert] reconfiguring disk

2000-04-14 Thread Mage Grimau
Which version of partition magic? 4 doesn't work right for 98 OR linux. --- lorne schachter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got an interesting problem. 1 have a 2-disk system, 12G and 4G > split as follows: > > cdrive - 8G Windows98 and 4G Linux > ddrive - 3G Windows98 and 1G Linux. >

Re: [expert] CD-Rom in VMWare/Linux

2000-04-14 Thread Mage Grimau
Install a minimal DOS under VMWare first? --- Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Stephen and friends: > > Thanks so very much for trying to help and for your advice. > > This seems to be the chicken and the egg question. How do I install the > Mitsumi driver in Dos/Windows if Win98

Re: [expert] Troubles With Partitions

2000-04-14 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all. > > Last week i bought a box with w98 preloaded. Without thinking > about it, i took my mdk 6.1 cd (i didn't burned a 7.0 cd yet) and i > repartitioned the HD to install linux in the PC. Obviously i deleted the > old w98 installation. i was trying t

Re: [expert] Digital camera

2000-04-14 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 22:23 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have another question. the only reason why i decided to install > a win partition is due to a digital camera fujifilm mx1200. if a want to > download the photos to my box, the bundled software is for winbugs. Does > anybody

Re: [expert] Troubles With Partitions

2000-04-14 Thread Mage Grimau
NT4 can only make a 2G FAT partition, but it sometimes pretends otherwise. If you need more than 2G for NT you need to make it NTFS. The FAT partition created by NT4 won't format correctly with Linux, so format it with NT then install linux and tell it NOT to format the NT partition. NT will happi

Re: [expert] Here is one for ya...

2000-04-14 Thread Karsten Roemling
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 04:04:57AM -0700, Eosnet Team wrote: > I just installed mandrake 7.0_2 and I had 6.0 power pack in before. My > question is this, what happened to my telnet server? It seems to have > dissapeared. > > Yes, a stupid question. But, I can't imagine a linux distro without a >

Re: [expert] IP Masquerading, The ABCs of

2000-04-14 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
David Nordlund wrote: > > Hi, I've got a system arrangement that goes something like this. > I have computer A(Mandrake 7) and computer B(Corel 1) connected to a hub. > Also connected to the hub is a cable modem, C. C is good friends with > A, but isn't really on speaking terms with B. >