Lane Lester wrote:
If you're an expert you'll probably think this is a newbie question.
g. I've looked at a bunch of man pages, howtos, and Web sites without
finding the answer... which may be the answer!
Can you put two "low-level" directories in the same partition? For
example, can I
root wrote:
After a lot of download and adjusting work I finished a homebrew
Mandrake-iso, which I burned on CD. But it only contains the default
configuration files...
Is there a possibility to include my adjusted configuration files (i.e.
isdn-files, crontab...) in the installation files
"S. Newhouse" wrote:
Hello,
I am using Mandrake-7.02.
I am trying to use cdrecord to write on an ide CD-RW drive.
I can write to CD-R just fine, but it doesn't work with any CD-RW
media.
cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 zoot-i386.iso
Cdrecord 1.8.1a09 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)
"S. Newhouse" wrote:
I am trying to use cdrecord to write on an ide CD-RW drive.
I can write to CD-R just fine, but it doesn't work with any CD-RW
media.
Your cdrecord should have a -blank parameter for use of CD-RW,
shouldn't it?
--
Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
Hi,
I'm setting up a box to be a webserver with mysql as the backend database
and I need a little advise about hot I should partition things.
I have 3 drives:
2 - 18 gig SCSIs set up as a level 1 raid
1 - 20 gig ide
What are good sizes for the partitions?
I want to put everything on the raid
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Asheesh Laroia" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 8:43 PM
Subject: [expert] "Hydrogen" new release?
I was surfing my local linux-mandrake mirror and I found a directory
called
Hi,
I use mkisofs and cdrecord to create multisession CDs with my
weekly backups.
I have a CDR with already 2 sessions on it.
I get the offset for the new session:
$ cdrecord -msinfo dev=4,0
145740,157642
I make the image (foo.raw) from all inside /BACK to write it on
the multisession CDR in
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 17:09 +1000, Ron Stodden wrote:
Your cdrecord should have a -blank parameter for use of CD-RW,
shouldn't it?
From your mail (and others) I gather that I should 'cdrecord
-blank dev=4,0' with all *fresh* CD-RWs before putting the first
image on it.
That sounds like
I'm looking for a non-Microsoft equivalent of Frontpage. And of course, something
that does not require server-side extensions.
Suggestions?
Seve
Am Die, 25 Apr 2000 schrieben Sie:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Hmm. Wouldn't it just be easier to use that very sendmail daemon to send
directly to people?
For example,
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: I love using sendmail (nt)
would just be
I just moved my / and /boot over to raid1 partitions. It works. There is a
trick to setting up lilo for /boot on raid1. I uninstalled lilo and
installed lilo-21.4.1 from a ftp site before I got it working. However, I
think it may work with the stock Mandrake lilo.
I started off with
Hi there.
Anyone out there knows how to setup this avance 4000 sound card
in Mandrake 7.0? TIA.
Bugs T. Buquid
John,
Thats kind of what I thought. I wasn't even sure if my question was even
intelligent in Linux. I know that in the old school days of OS/2 and even
Windows 95 it was a good idea to hack away at a config file or two to control
how much physical RAM was being used as a disk cache. Perhaps
simple question:
has anybody used the TV-OUT of a diamond viper550 AGP, and is there a utility to
switch between monitor and TV.
heiko
I just installed Mandrake 7 yesterday. I cant get pppd to work. It states
something like "The remote computer is requested to authenicate itself
I however am unable to supply [secret] password to get an IP address"
something like this. This does not change whether I am Root, or user.
Actually
Hi there.
Anybody out there knows how to setup a DLink DE-200 CE network
card? There's only two dlink in the list and both failed during the
setup. I also used NE2000 and compatible but to no avial.
Please help. Any ideas?
Bugs T. Buquid
Civileme wrote:
On my system they DO show up, but that little display is dependent on
security level.
However, look at this AS ROOT
Kmenu-Settings-Applications-Login Manager
Civileme
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
I recall there being a discussion a while back regarding users added
Simon Anun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When I want open a PostSript file (*.ps) with Ghostview the messagges
displayed are
unknown device x11alpha
Error: PostScript interpreter failed in main windows
or
unknown device x11
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Simple: When you MOUNT the CDRW drive, you're treating it
as a standard CDROM. You don't mount a CDRW drive when
burning a CD. :-)
John
oh, ok... Next question: why *don't* you mount a CDRW when
burning a disk? Is it because it is not yet
Your card is NE-2000 compatible and possibly Plug and Prey (the newer DE-220
is PP). You might try a boot to see if your bios picks up the presence of
the card as a PP device.
The NE2000 driver for Linux is trouble-free, but you will have to tell it
the address and interrupt (if it is running as
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote:
John,
Thats kind of what I thought. I wasn't even sure if my question was even
intelligent in Linux. I know that in the old school days of OS/2 and even
Windows 95 it was a good idea to hack away at a config file or two to control
how much physical RAM was
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote:
I just installed Mandrake 7 yesterday. I cant get pppd to work. It states
something like "The remote computer is requested to authenicate itself
I however am unable to supply [secret] password to get an IP address"
something like this. This does not change
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Hi there.
Anybody out there knows how to setup a DLink DE-200 CE network
card? There's only two dlink in the list and both failed during the
setup. I also used NE2000 and compatible but to no avial.
You need to look at the physical card and see what chipset
Hi,
Anybody knows what kind of 'secure' is the 'kernel-secure' that is
distributed with Mandrake 7.0-2? I couldn't finfd any details on
www.linux-mandrake.com. Specifically, I need to know whether the patches
applied have anythiong to do with Openwall (Solar Designer) patches for
2.2.14. And if
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 12:47:42PM -0700, Tom H wrote:
-
-
-
-I have hooked up my Linux (Red Hat 6.1) to the DSL I am running Ip
-Masqurading on the system and it is routing to the internet for the
-other 4 systems. The strange thing is I am unable to astablish a
-
Ummm . . . what was "item 3"?
And actually I used csh, but I tried it under bash to verify that it
wasn't a shell-specific change. It must be a change in some underlying
system library because this doesn't seem to depend on the shell being
used.
Charles Curley wrote:
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000
Well, yes and no.
There is a 1 : 1 relationship of partitions to mountpoints
(directories).
So you can do something *like* this, but only by the use of symbolic
links.
However, as Mr. Shirley already pointed out, you really can't put /etc
on a seperate mount point anyway; you need /etc to
Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote:
I just installed Mandrake 7 yesterday. I cant get pppd to work. It states
something like "The remote computer is requested to authenicate itself
I however am unable to supply [secret] password to get an IP address"
something like this. This does not change
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 08:29:33AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote:
- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
-
- On 23 Apr 00, at 18:03, Charles Curley wrote:
-
-
- And in which case the card is out of spec. The PCI spec requires that
- software be able to assign a base address to the card in all
Hi,
I would like to create a large file ( 2^31 bytes).
The following simple test :
dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=4096k count=600
returns an error, regardless of the distribution (Mandrake 7.0, Redhat 6.2).
I don't know if I have to patch the kernel, the glibc or both of them.
Does anybody have
Hi,
I had this problem too.
You must use "netcfg" the first time, make pppd work well, and then, you will
be able to use kppp.
So, as root, start the application "netcfg", and add an interface ppp.
Then, get pppd work : ifup ppp0
Surf on the internet.
Then, you can stop pppd : ifdown ppp0.
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, james.fogg wrote:
Your card is NE-2000 compatible and possibly Plug and Prey (the newer DE-220
is PP). You might try a boot to see if your bios picks up the presence of
the card as a PP device.
but, if it's a pci card, you should use ne2kpci module intead of
hi! this may seem some OT (no flames, please), but I need info
about distributed filesystems. I need to set up a 64Gb ftp server using 16
4Gb disks included in respectives machiines... does anyone have any hint
for me? No, putting al disks in one machine is not an option, and yes, I
read
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote:
use netconfig to setup your gateway information (should be nothing there), unless
you are masquerading from another machine and if that is the case supply
that IP address.
Don't think that's the problem. I *think* that there's a
bug whereby PPPD is
Hi Burkhard
and list,
thanks for your answers. It's not a question for me, that mandrake is one of
the best distris - otherwise I wouldn't have it.
But I think, it would be a good and useful idea, if mandrake would take an eye
of the changed programs and docs and give some docs, which explains
Hi,
think, you are NOT hacked, because on one of my LM-Boxes, which is NOT
connected to the internet directly, I get the same mail-listing every night.
But I've NOT found any usefully explanation yet.
My msec-level is 3 on this box.
bye
Hans Schneidhofer
Am Die, 25 Apr 2000 schrieben Sie:
I
Sevatio Octavio wrote:
I'm looking for a non-Microsoft equivalent of Frontpage. And of course, something
that does not require server-side extensions.
Suggestions?
Seve
CoffeeCup if you must have GUI and WYSIWYG
Bluefish
Amaya
But my favorite has to be sdf.
Är dålig på Engelska så jag skriver på Svenska och hoppas på svar :)
Jag kan inte få fram @ tecknet i Windowmaker när jag kör på runlevel 3,
men det fungerar när jag kör på runlevel 5.underligt!!
Det finns säkert fler tecken som inte fungerart men har inte testat.
Tacksam för all hjälp
Check out the Global File System. I haven't used it, but I'm looking at it
for a future project.
http://ultramonkey.sourceforge.net/gfs.html
At 12:38 PM 4/25/00 -0300, you wrote:
hi! this may seem some OT (no flames, please), but I need info
about distributed filesystems. I need to
Thank you Ron for the info on cdwriter programs,
I've yet to master writing a multisession CDRW.
I sure would like a way to backup my files.
Vern
Ron Stodden wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Question, though: why is /dev/sr0 mounted ro, even though it
is a CD-RW?
Because there is NO kernel
H! That's a new one, I may have a CDRW in the
same condition. We need a CDRW analyzer! The cdrecord
does a pretty good job of identifying the CDRW even to
the point of knowing the company of manufacture.
Vern
Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 17:09 +1000, Ron Stodden
Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote:
I just installed Mandrake 7 yesterday. I cant get pppd to work. It states
something like "The remote computer is requested to authenicate itself
I however am unable to supply [secret] password to get an IP address"
something like this. This does not
I believe that you need to install the ghostview/ghostscript "both"
package (sorry, I forget the exact name).
Simon Anun wrote:
When I want open a PostSript file (*.ps) with Ghostview the messagges
displayed are
unknown device x11alpha
Error: PostScript
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 07:40:03PM -0400, Hoyt wrote:
-
- - Original Message -
- From: "Asheesh Laroia" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 8:43 PM
- Subject: [expert] "Hydrogen" new release?
-
-
- I was surfing my local linux-mandrake mirror and
"Yacketta,Ronald J" wrote:
Hello ALL!!
I am thinking of getting both xDSL and a cable modem
I want to dedicte the xDSL to a HalfLife/Quake server and use the
cable modem for intet access for my home pc etc..
I am thinking of takeing my linux box and putting three nics in it
eth0 for
Please use English on this list.
Pj
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mahmuth Mathumbha The III wrote:
Är dålig på Engelska så jag skriver på Svenska och hoppas på svar :)
Jag kan inte få fram @ tecknet i Windowmaker när jag kör på runlevel 3,
men det fungerar när jag kör på runlevel 5.underligt!!
In kppp config, go to accounts, edit (or add one if you haven't), in the dial
tab select arguments and add "noauth" without the quotes.
For you X problem, you have to supply more information about the video card in
order to help you.
Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS, escribió:
I just installed
Charles Curley wrote:
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 08:29:33AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote:
- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
-
- On 23 Apr 00, at 18:03, Charles Curley wrote:
-
-
- And in which case the card is out of spec. The PCI spec requires that
- software be able to assign a base
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Since I could not get 'chroot' working, 'mkbootdisk' was not possible.
Sure it is...it's just a bit more difficult. :-) You just
have to recall when doing it to preface all paths with
"/mnt/hdb1" as in "mkbootdisk
/mnt/hdb1/boot/vmlinux-some-version"
Jean-Louis Debert wrote:
root wrote:
After a lot of download and adjusting work I finished a homebrew
Mandrake-iso, which I burned on CD. But it only contains the default
configuration files...
Is there a possibility to include my adjusted configuration files (i.e.
isdn-files,
John Aldrich wrote:
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote:
use netconfig to setup your gateway information (should be nothing there), unless
you are masquerading from another machine and if that is the case supply
that IP address.
Don't think that's the problem. I *think* that there's a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking for a non-Microsoft equivalent of Frontpage. And of course, something
that does not require server-side extensions.
Suggestions?
Seve
Just found this and thought it would be of interest
http://www.jp.ibm.com/esbu/E/toppage/features1_2.html
IBM's
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote:
It does not. I tried this on a working system.
After booting up with tomsrtbt, I did...
mount /dev/hda5 /newboot (/boot directory)
mount /dev/hda8 /mnt (/ directory)
Hmm...strange. Oh, well... MOST commands should work. I'm
not sure why
Civileme writes:
Ummm--don't you have to blank CDRWs before writing to them?
Civileme
OK,
Here is the output of trying to blank the CDRW:
[root@chaos Stalag]# cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 -blank=all
Cdrecord 1.8.1a09 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 JTOC
Type: 1 = CD-ROM
Hanshave you checked http://www.linux-mandrake.com? On the
Contacts page,
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/email.php3 there's a choice
called:
Documentation: Any comments, wishes, errors in Mandrake-specific
documentation (manuals, DrakX, written help in general) please
send email to
I've created a new mailing list called rpmhelp for those of you into
making your own RPMs. It's to help augment the Linux Mandrake mailing
lists a little bit, plus help people out with building RPMs. It's
primarly Mandrake-oriented, but will be valuable to people building RPMs
under other
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote:
yeah you are right, there is a bug in pppd, but if your using kppp to connect,
what I discribed above will work..
Or, just put "noauth" in the KPPP "Arguments" (I think
that's where it goes. G)
John
I am experiencing an issue with shutting down a server I have which has
Mandrake 7.0 installed.
When I restart the machine, it goes through the normal KXY scripts. I
notice eth0 is high up on the list. Eth0 shuts down, a few other
services go down, and then the system reaches killall. At this
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Hi,
I had this problem too.
You must use "netcfg" the first time, make pppd work well, and then, you will
be able to use kppp.
So, as root, start the application "netcfg", and add an interface ppp.
Then, get pppd work : ifup ppp0
Surf on the internet.
Grzegorz Staniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
Anybody knows what kind of 'secure' is the 'kernel-secure' that is
distributed with Mandrake 7.0-2? I couldn't finfd any details on
www.linux-mandrake.com. Specifically, I need to know whether the patches
applied have anythiong to do with
Where does one find the "gogo" encoder?
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Ok... I've found it. It's a command-line app that can record audio directly to mp3
using Lame as the encoder. I haven't tried it
yet and I'm not sure if it can utilize the much faster Gogo encoder.
Not really. For the most part I stuck w/ the default
kpackage which is part of Drakconf. When I've looked for
information in the online manuals installed on my system, I
found _very_ sparse information on RPMDrake and the
corresponding text mode. I confess to not having
completely read the man
Hi,
I'm interested in installing j-pilot and the companion pilot-link in order
to sync my PalmV with my PC running Linux-Mandrake 7.0-2. However, when
looking at the Cooker RPMs, I find the following unsatisfied dependencies:
libreadline.so.4.1
L-M 7.0-2 has libreadline.so.4.0 installed.
Johnnope, it's /etc/ppp/options where 'noauth' goes. ;-)
Alan
John Aldrich wrote:
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote:
yeah you are right, there is a bug in pppd, but if your using kppp to connect,
what I discribed above will work..
Or, just put "noauth" in the KPPP "Arguments" (I
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 09:35 +0200, Hans Schneidhofer wrote:
But if we know, how we - the users - can make a help in completing such missing
files and can upload such files on a certain area of mandrakes FTP-Server or
anywhere, I think, there would be a lot of users, which would do that
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Fixed it!
The clue was buried in the serial HOWTO. Not explicitly, mind you. But it
suggested running "lspci -vv" in regard to seeing how the PCI cards were
really configured. When I did that I saw that the modem card was using I/O
0xe000 instead of 0xec00
I've been trying to hack my xinitrc file to start a few programs when
open blackbox, my fave window manager.
Mandrake have written in a bunch of scripts which call various other
scripts. The startx man page says:
NOTE: The startx script supplied with the X11 distribution
is a sample
David Hugh-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What have I done and how can I fix it?
/etc/X11/window-managers
man chksession
--
MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com
San-Diego, CA USA.--Chmouel
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
Asheesh Laroia wrote:
Do any of you have the Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 972Cse printer? It is an
excellent printer (I know; I have one).
I have one connected to a windows machine called 'HAL'. I use SMB
printing through Samba to let my computer print to it
REGIMBEAU M InfoDpcCli wrote:
Hi,
I would like to create a large file ( 2^31 bytes).
The following simple test :
dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=4096k count=600
returns an error, regardless of the distribution (Mandrake 7.0, Redhat 6.2).
I don't know if I have to patch the kernel, the
Ok, I was able to get to both www.nec.com and www.wellsfargo.com and to
get to the links therein.
I was accessing them using IE5 under Windows 98,
on our home LAN, using my old laptop as an IP Masqerader / Firewall.
The firewall's external ethernet card connects to a cable modem
(RoadRunner).
To do *that*, you would either have to re-create the RPMs involved, or
write a "post-install" script that replaced the relavent files. The
latter wouldn't be quite as automatic as you want but it would a heck of
a lot easier.
DCH wrote:
Jean-Louis Debert wrote:
root wrote:
After a
thanks!
I was expecting responses like "yes"
;-)
Gavin
--
From: "Bill Shirley" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [expert] disk partitioning help for new server
Date: Tue, Apr 25, 2000, 4:23 AM
I just moved my / and /boot over to raid1 partitions. It works. There
I am running Red Hat 6.1 I believe it uses 2.2.X
ok
I am also able to hit all the sites from the Linux Box. It seems to me
the sites I am trying to hit are either trying to place cookies or get some
type of communication back They are just not getting out communication from
the Microsoft
My guess would be that you have to get an Alpha to get this to work . .
. anybody here know for sure?
Ron Johnson wrote:
REGIMBEAU M InfoDpcCli wrote:
Hi,
I would like to create a large file ( 2^31 bytes).
The following simple test :
dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=4096k count=600
I've worked with Helius for several years, and was surprised to find that you
are right. I haven't checked with them, but they might be willing to share
their drivers if you ask them. If you email the company, ask that your note be
forwarded to Mr. Mossbarger, the president. That way you won't
Hello.
These are some general questions about CDRs CDRWs before
I go and buy one:
Will existing cd writers do what I ask in the "Subject:"?
My thought is if is possible to create a rescue floppy that
only boots and knows how to read a CDRW drive and has a few
utilities like mkext2.
This
Hi,
I've got a question. In the 7.1 beta XFree86 4.0 is included. Does anyone
have the status on:
a) It's stability
b) If it's DRI or not. I 'm guessing not b/c I'm assuming they are using a
2.2.x kernel.
c) How will it work with a voodoo3. I know that there are special drivers
for a voodoo3
DCH wrote:
Jean-Louis Debert wrote:
To manage this:
1. mount your CD normally, as a normal iso9660 fs.
Note. now it's too late, but you _could_ have done it _before_
burning anything, by mounting your cd _image_ with the "loopback"
option. This may be useful later on.
2. in your
There are many CD-R/RW writers that can now do the 700MB discs. I have a
yamaha scsi that does fine w/ them. Don't have the model # off hand or I'd
give it to you. It's speeds are 4/6/16 (R/RW/ROM) if that's any help.
As for the rest, I'd bet you could do it, but I don't have the knowledge
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