Subject: Re: [expert] 7.1: I want reduced password complexity enforcement
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:18:37PM -0700, Heinz Wittenbecher wrote:
That's really wierd. I haven't tried it with 7.1 (can't anymore
since it's now straight cooker), but with 7.0 you can set the
password to
there were 4 cd's listed in the linux mandrake install.
two I have (the first two) is ther an image file for the other two?
Hello,
I would like to execute two commands during boot and I need to know where to go
for the info on configuring this.
I would like to execute
fan -n
and
powertweak
Thanks
Ivan
[matt@q local]$ man 5 crontab
This man page describes the fields for cron very well. If you want a
half-hour bong, try the following in /etc/crontab:
/30 * * * * root play /usr/local/sound/bong.wav
What does this mean?
Every 30 minutes (/30) of every hour (*) of every day (*) of every month
--
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Wil-Sun Pc Systems
tel:(012) 333-2276
fax:(012) 333-6644
South Africa
Hi !
I'm still new to linux but am advancing quite a bit.
My first query.
I've just bought myself an AMD DURON Spitfire 600Mhz with 196k CACHE on Chip
running on the gigabyte ga-7zm mother board and you
Norton's Ghost http://www.ghost.com does NOT support windows 2000
(just checked) and does NOT support any Linux ext2 O/S.
The version 5 of Norton Ghost does INDEED support ext2. I have used it a couple times
to clone a hard disk, and it even resized a partition correctly.
Bob
I installed the cooker KDE2 rpms in Mandrake 7.1 (Using XFree86-4 if that
matters). I also needed to install bzip2-1.0.1-6mdk.i586.rpm and
TiMidity++-2.9.5-1mdk.i586.rpm along with qt2-2.1.1-8mdk.i586.rpm.
It runs slow, the display is frequently corrupted and programs frequently
just disappear
I am trying to ftp into my linux box to place a web page into
/home/httpd/html directory no matter what I try access is denied (to copy a
file I can read all I want .
I tried chomod I changed user access user groups
what to I need to do to allow us to ftp in and upload the new web pages?
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, maxtor wrote:
I want to have a web server but I don't want to use the default port "80". I
have changed the listen to port to "90" (90 is the port that i want to use) and
also in my /etc/services.conf on the www settings i changed that from 80 to 90
also. But now I
Try `reboot` (as root). Remember, your connection will be forcefully
terminated as soon as networking is stopped (maybe before, as it trys to
TERM and KILL all running processes), so you won't know what is going on.
I hope all goes well.
-Matt Stegman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000,
For those of you that have to use EZ-Disk because your BIOS cannot
support Large harddrives (8Gigs):
Can LILO and the EZ-Disk software exist together on the MBR portion of
the harddrive?
Seve
I have a remote box running LM 7.1 without a monitor. How do you
instruct that box to reboot via Telnet?
Seve
OK - I accidentally allowed the install of 7.1 to enable DMA on a machine
whose BIOS doesn't support it. Of course I'm getting crashes - luckily no
data loss so far. I tried using hdparm to disable dma, bith on normal login
and single user login, but each time the system freezes, and the next
Hi List,
Yesterday I saw something in one of the posts about Vmware and decided to
go and get it. It's installed and working, but I have No idea how to use
it, nor where the documentation is for it. The `man' page is really no
help at all. Anyone have any suggestions on where to find info for
How do I set up /etc/fstab so that I can write to my windows drives when
I'm a regular user?
I have no trouble writing as root, but I can't as a regular user.
Thanks,
Lorne
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(732) 819-0460, (732)819-0460 (FAX)
http://www.intact.com/~lorne
begin:vcard
n:Schachter;Lorne
I have not seen any of my post in the messages.
please let me know if you have seen this or any of my other post.
thanks
All of my system monitor applications (I first noticed with gtop) refuse
to completely run... they lock up, and a process listings says they're
in 'disk sleep' or somesuch. I'm assuming they're trying to get disk
information, and they're blocking on one of the devices, though I know
not which...
Hello, everyone. I am back after a long absence (caused by a rush towards
milestone at work).
I have one of those "classic" problems, but there are some
peculiarities that prevent me from devining the cause of the trouble:
A Mandrake 6.1 machine that I configured in March to run telnet and
OK, so I compiled the new kernel yeasterday, so I could try out the new Linux
Diskless Terminal version (they recommend using 2.3.somethingoranother, but I
figured the 2.4 would be safer). Anyway, I had no problem with the compilation,
added it using linixconf as I always have done ( I recompile
I have another non Linux related example from Diamond...
Many years ago I bought Diamond S3 864 chipset and it was really a pain to
get it working properly under OS/2 because
Diamond had tweaked chipset so that S3 drivers which worked with other
cards having S3 chipset simply refused to work
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Stephen F. Bosch wrote:
Gilbert Baron wrote:
I tried both ways. OBVIOUSLY I am not going to use FDISK or DISK DRAKE on a
functional system with WIN2000 because it will destroy it. Even if it could
do it non-destructively it would not matter. it does not allow you
I sent this out last night, but got no reply. Can anyone help? Is
anyone there? Hello?
Shutting down httpd:FAILED
For the second time now, when shutting down Mandrake 7.0 I saw that
message. When I try to restart, it all seems to go as expected, right
up until you would expect the
test123
:~Ummm...Dennis, am I missing something here? I've looked a couple of times
:~and just can't seem to find "any" Mandrake "discussion
:~forum" anywhere! What gives?
It gives Denis on vacation .-)
http://forum.mandrakesoft.com
cu
Denis
--
I tried to reply directly, as requested in the post, but that mail
bounced.
Try running the install disk--don't actually *do* anything, but make
like you are installing the O/S (any O/S). Boot off the CD-ROM if you
can.
If that works, then you know it's something with your O/S setup; if that
Reply-to address screwed up . . . mail bounced . . .
Here's what I wrote:
Why on earth would ou use a DOS environment to make the paritions? Use
fdisk or DiskDrake during the install process itself.
I'm running Linux on a hard drive that has never been touched by
Microsoft software, and
Anyone know of any reasonably priced software (say us$40 and under) that will
allow one to manipulate tgz files, including creating tgz's on an ms windows
box? There is one package out there that I know of, but it is something like
us$200. For only occaisional use, that's a tad expensive.
:~My company appears to have tied themselves quite closely to MS. The mail
:~servers are NT boxes requiring domain logins which to me means no POP and no
:~SMTP. I don't know enough about Outlook/Exchange to know what protocol the
:~client/server system uses. I do know the system normally acts
:~I am a Windows NT Network Administrator "MCSE" now i would like to extend my
:~skill go for Linux Administration. now the question is that does my
:~being an Nt administrator help me in any way with Linux.?
:~Also what should i know to be a good Linux Admin ? I heard linux users have
:~to
:~do
I have just changed from Red Hat to Mandrake 7.1 after using Red Hat for
six months or so.
When I installed Mandrake I chose "medium" security.
My problem is that when a remote user telnets into my machine, I cannot
communicate with him by using the "talk" program, I have to use the more
Oh -- and is it entered in /etc/inetd.conf?
Hi there..
I have just changed from Red Hat to Mandrake 7.1 after using Red Hat for
six months or so.
When I installed Mandrake I chose "medium" security.
My problem is that when a remote user telnets into my machine, I cannot
communicate
Vince Barwinski wrote:
Hi there..
I have just changed from Red Hat to Mandrake 7.1 after using Red Hat for
six months or so.
When I installed Mandrake I chose "medium" security.
My problem is that when a remote user telnets into my machine, I cannot
communicate with him by using the
Upon reflection that's what I should have done also before attempting the
4.74 install. I guess there are just some things one must learn the hard
way before they're remembered.
--
Mark
** =/\= No Penguins were harmed
I'm sitting here trying to type and laugh my arse off at the same
time. I've always wanted to holler about that very thing, but never could
bring myself to do it. Why in the world would one do such a thing. One
side O the fence or t-other.
--
Mark
Hi folks,
I just finished a stock install of 7.1, and taking the option of X
version 4.0. I've noticed that the X setup program included in DrakConf
always reverts back to 3.3.6. Any way to prevent this? Next, I installed
Xfree86 4.01 and now the font server won't work at all! Has anybody
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote:
I'm working with some internet cafes in Thailand and are using a Linux
box as
a server and connection to the internet. We use the Squid package to
cache
locally. My question is, is the an easy fix to disconnect the ppp0
device
after about 10 mins of idle
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:00:08PM -0600, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
Just wondering from you mandrake guys in the magic sysrq keys
option was enabled for the stock kernel on LM7.0
Don't know.
Is so is there anything that needs to be done configuration
wise to enable it?
No. On my German
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
I would like to be able to 'try' a distro while not affecting my
original. For those of you that are running a system that has at least
two Linuxes on one drive... What's your method for achieving this?
Have one / (root) partition for every
In the /etc/ppp/options file you can try adding the following lines:
# Set 'demand' for compatible kernel
demand
# Satisfy the need for an IP address until
# dial-up has assigned one.
:10.0.0.0
# Wait for 10 minutes until bringing down
# connection.
idle 600
If that does not work
Have you tried slapping the poor sickly drive into another machine (as hdb) and
attempted mounting the needed partitions from working box?
Does this yeild anything? This is actually the first thing I do when a drive seems to
crap out on me. If I can't read the drive as a slave in aanother box,
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 10:59:32PM +1200, Franck Martin wrote:
I have checked the MandrakeUpdate or the helix updater and the tools look
great. However for a corporation they seems a waste of bandwidth.
If you have 10 computers to upgrade you will have to download 10 times the
same package
Don't know about the Mandrake Update, but the Helix-Gnome update store its rpms in the
/tmp/helix-update directory during download and install.
If you tar up all the rpms in the directory BEFORE you click the finish button, you
can bring all those files to another machine.
You'll still have
Hello!
I recently purchased a Voodoo 3. The Mandrake 7.1 install warns me that this
card is not supported under XFree4.0, and then fails the graphical test. I set
the default resolution I would like, choose the Monitor that can do 1280x1024 @
60 Hz entry for my monitor, and choose a generic
what kind of client/server network are you running? If you're running a
Novell network you're going to be needing NDS in order to log onto the
network and identify yourself to the servers. You will also need to use
IPX protocols if you're making use of this protocol, which many still do
that run
Daniel Bodanske wrote:
Date:
Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:33:53 +0700
From:
Daniel Bodanske [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My question is, is the an easy fix to disconnect the ppp0
device
after about 10 mins of idle time and redial if there is a client request
(for
i get an error while partitioning my hard disk during LM 7.0 installation
which is your cylender are set to 1048 which exceeds 1024 limit .. this
will cause problem for lilo to boot .
how can we change it ?
I get an error when i log into host through telnet
you are not authourised to run X server !!
I can run X win when logged in locally how to grant permission ???
- Original Message -
From: "rharvey" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] the cd's listed in the linuxmandrake install
there were 4 cd's listed in the linux mandrake install.
two I have (the first two) is ther an image file for the other two?
The 2 extra CDs come with 7.1 Deluxe
After compiling the kernel did you:
copy your System.map-xx.xx.xx to /boot , and
rm /boot/System.map
ln -s /boot/System.map-xx.xx.xx /boot/System.map
??
Eric
Daniel Bodanske wrote:
OK, so I compiled the new kernel yeasterday, so I could try out the new Linux
Diskless Terminal version (they
If i copy my whole root partition on another harddrive i have everything
under root partition
then if i boot from that other harddrive will it work
ofcourse i will point my lilo towards that partition !
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, you wrote:
John,
Thanks for letting me know. However, I'm still a bit puzzled as to the
causes. It could be a combination of : 1-I recently switched to
StarOffice5.2. 2-The List keeps putting me on the junk-mail list.
Perhaps you can assist me in pinpointing the
- Original Message -
From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 3:26 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] How to use JDK 1.2.2 with StarOffice52
Charles A Edwards wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Ken Thompson" [EMAIL
Hi.
The hard drive is a Maxtor 92048D8 20 gig hard drive that runs at 7200 RPM
and is a plain old IDE, No ATA66.
I am sure that you mean out of spec. I doubt it is out of spec, this drive
is pretty new. It performs flawlessly in other systems. I they accepted
before they should not
Create a small (~10mb) partition for /boot (thereby keeping the
boot/lilo below the infamous 1024 limit), then create the other
partitions above this.
Regards,
Ozz.
faisal wrote:
i get an error while partitioning my hard disk during LM 7.0 installation
which is your cylender are set to 1048
- Original Message -
From: "faisal" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 8:09 AM
Subject: [expert] IDE cylenders !
i get an error while partitioning my hard disk during LM 7.0 installation
which is your cylender are set to 1048 which exceeds 1024
Subject: Re: [expert] 7.1: I want reduced password complexity enforcement
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Heinz Wittenbecher wrote:
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 05:27:02PM -0700, Heinz Wittenbecher wrote:
Vic, excellent try but it seems to have no effect at all.
Mandrake still insits
I believe that you can change the security level from drakconf.
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===
"... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and
violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... "
- Buddha
For an awsome fantasy role playing game
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, you wrote:
OK, so I compiled the new kernel yeasterday, so I could try out the new Linux
Diskless Terminal version (they recommend using 2.3.somethingoranother, but I
figured the 2.4 would be safer). Anyway, I had no problem with the compilation,
added it using linixconf
Guten Tag zusammen!
Ich will mit kdevelop ein C++-Programm für die Shell schreiben. Ich
bekomme dann beim Compilieren
folgende Fehlermeldung:
c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -O0 -g3 -Wall -c main.cpp
In file included from main.cpp:22:
/usr/include/iostream.h:47: stdcomp.h: Datei oder
Gilbert Baron wrote:
I think you will find that with Linux, the BIOS only handles the drive
until the relevant parts of the kernel have loaded. After that, Linux
handles the job itself.
This would be stupid in my opinion. There are too many drives. It is like no
drivers would be
Hi!
I have one question that I hope somebody could answer me. I have an
IDE zip drive and a PIII 550 with 128Mb with an
everything-motherboard, my mdk installation is (still) 6.1,
But this weekend I'll upgrade. Well, when I mount a zip disk onto the
/mnt/zip, and I copy a reasonable amount
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:16:34PM -0400, Fran Parker wrote:
freedb.freedb.org
us.cddb.com
Thanks. I just added those two and at least I've gotten rid of the
time-out message.
What one doesn't have the other seems to have.
Not all the cddb 'libraries' are the same.
Thanks, useful tip
Yes, get tar and gzip :-) It's included in cygnus and also available
seperately.
"Harondel J. Sibble" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01.08.2000 07:26:09
Bitte antworten an [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kopie: (Blindkopie: Alexander Skwar/de/delphiauto)
Thema:[expert]
Has anyone got a list of CDDB servers?
http://www.cddb.com/stats.html
chmod 755 dev
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Vince Barwinski wrote:
Hi there..
I have just changed from Red Hat to Mandrake 7.1 after using Red Hat for
six months or so.
When I installed Mandrake I chose "medium" security.
My problem is that when a remote user telnets into my machine, I
This is a HOAX. Please do not spread this further
At 11:54 AM 7/28/2000 -0400, Bill Shirley wrote:
I received this e-mail and want to know if anyone knows if this is true:
Thanks in advance,
Bill
This is not right, the Government wants to put a charge on email!
We knew this was
download sound drivers from http://www.alsa-project.org and install them..
they work with AC97 fine.. also check if u're motherboard has SB
emulation.. in that case u're current SB drivers will work too!
-sarang
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Gilbert Baron wrote:
I told you. Nobody ever asked before. It is the BIOS that handles this
anyhow is it not. Version 7/1 should not se anything that 7.0 did not.
This message is useless, it does not ell why it is refusing to
accept it.
I think you will find
-Original Message-
From: Jean-Louis Debert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 9:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert]
Gilbert Baron wrote:
I think you will find that with Linux, the BIOS only handles the drive
until the relevant parts of the
-Original Message-
From: Stephen Bosch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 10:59 AM
To: Gilbert Baron
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [expert]
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Gilbert Baron wrote:
I told you. Nobody ever asked before. It is the BIOS that
handles
It was sort of a long link to cut and paste, so just go to www.ask.com
and type 'bill 602p' in the box and one of the returns it will give you
is an internet rumours site. Check it out.
Mike
Bill Shirley wrote:
I received this e-mail and want to know if anyone knows if this is
true:
You could try www.linhardware.com.
This lists all devices known to work with Linux.
Regards,
Ozz.
Gilbert Baron wrote:
The install code worked with version 7.0, it fails with 7.1. That is simple.
Thai is not acceptable. I don't understand exactly what is happening and it
seems that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was just wondering if anyone has ever attempted to make a serial
connection to a device using a Linux machine. I have a Cabletron hub I
would like to configure using my linux box but am not sure how exactly to
get the connection or how to set a serial port up to
Can someone tell me how to edit my MX settings for my domain registrar?
Say my firewall/web server/mail server box is named "homer", and my domain is
thesimpsons.net.
I have entries for "Host Name" and "Mail Server" that I need to fill out with
my domain registrar, and I will be using Postfix as
This is a hoax and has been going around the internet for some time now. I
think I first heard about it like 18 months ago. The site:
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html
lists it under "E-Mail Tax". A good way to determine if any email you
receive is a hoax or not is to go to the above
Charles Curley wrote:
Has anyone got a list of CDDB servers? The ones I have in my CD player set
up appear to be defunct.
Thanks
--
I'm not sure which player you're using, but upgrading the player itself
will probably help. cddb upgraded their system awhile back rendering
the lookup
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Thorsten Brenner wrote:
i want to setup a faxserver under Mandrake 7.1, but i don't know which
one is the best that comes with the LM7.1.
I also want to be able sending faxes over my network.(From a Windows-Box)
Can anybody please tell me which is the best i can ake?
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, rharvey wrote:
What do I have to do to get access to my Linux box? I installed the
newest version of Linux mandrake.
I choose high security. I can get out to the network. I can ping the
Linux box. but I cant access the www server or the ftp server or any other services
At 09:53 AM 08/01/2000 -0400, you wrote:
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Gilbert Baron wrote:
= Is there any answer to this yet/
/snip/
I've been using Linux for nearly eight years and do everything with it
that I need to do on a computer, except CAD. And now there's a CAD
package for Linux. There's
- Original Message -
From: "Gilbert Baron" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Stephen Bosch" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 12:11 PM
Subject: RE: [expert]
-Original Message-
From: Stephen Bosch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday,
This is a hox. It's not even a new hoax. It's probably at least
1-1/2 years old by now.
At 11:54 AM 07/28/2000 -0400, you wrote:
I received this e-mail and want to know if anyone knows if this is true:
Thanks in advance,
Bill
This is not right, the Government wants to put a charge on
Has anyone been able to get matlab to work using Xfree86 4.0? I know that
matlab was compiled against the old libc5 libraries. I have installed these
old libraries on my box but I am still unable to get matlab to work. It is
having problems with the Xfree86 libraries. Does anyone know how
Bentley released a student version of Microstation for Linux - awesome
package - puts AutoCAD to shame. I think I paid like $169 for a student
version.
Stew Benedict
1:42pm up 14:57, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.85, 0.72
Have you had your Open Source today? if not, why not!?
Heinz Wittenbecher wrote:
I know that's how earlier RedHats and even RH 6.2 behaves.
It just "suggests" but 'drake seems to insist.
Heinz
Are you sure it's not accepting the passwords. My Mdk 7.1 system
(medium security) behaves exactly as our RH 6.2 systems. It complains
about
You can definitely boot without a monitor. As for the keyboard, you using
have to change a setting in your BIOS to ignore keyboard errors. Linux
won't care that it's missing.
Matt
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000
leith wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to create an xterm window to
pop up when I log in. I have read that I will have to create a file
called .xinitrc and issue the command: xterm -name "xterm" ,but I am
not 100% sure. Any help will be appreciated.
Leith
If
Gilbert Baron
If anyone can explain why I can load 7.0 but not 7.1 and can explain why
this should be so, perhaps I could be convinced, but I doubt it.
To paraphrase: nothin condemns a person to ignorance more than
contempt prior to investigation. To place that idea into this
Use the uid= and gid= options in that fstab line (do a 'man mount' for
further details). FAT systems have no concept of user IDs and Linux
defaults to UID/GID of the mounter (which is root during the boot sequence).
The override fixes that.
-Original Message-
From: lorne schachter
faisal wrote:
i get an error while partitioning my hard disk during LM 7.0 installation
which is your cylender are set to 1048 which exceeds 1024 limit .. this
will cause problem for lilo to boot .
how can we change it ?
When you're partitioning your drive to install linux on create a
You could also run them all under VMWare for Linux. If you are looking for
capatibility issues, you need multiple partitions and no vmware. OTOH, if
all you want is to take a quick looksee at another distro, then vmware works
fine.
Matt
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I tried both ports 25 and 110. 110 is active, but 25 is dead. Any other
ideas on how mail gets out?
Matt
-Original Message-
From: Todd Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 10:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] I'll be back
The way it
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, you wrote:
faisal wrote:
i get an error while partitioning my hard disk during LM 7.0 installation
which is your cylender are set to 1048 which exceeds 1024 limit .. this
will cause problem for lilo to boot .
how can we change it ?
When you're partitioning
Hi guys, a little request here - could everyone *please* remember to add
something to 'subject' line in your request for help? When you're
looking at 300 messages a day, it makes it a lot easier to get through
things when you have at least an idea of what you're getting into before
you start.
on 7/28/00 8:10 AM, Charles Curley wrote:
Has anyone got a list of CDDB servers? The ones I have in my CD player set
up appear to be defunct.
Thanks
try cddb.org
hi,
I can't get cron to work for users.
I added /etc/cron.d/cron.deny with no entries
I ran #crontab myfile.txt as the user
#crontab -l shows it worked
15 * * * */usr/bin/lynx -dump http://server.com/myscript.php /dev/null
but when the time comes nothing happens.
I just want lynx to
Dennis wrote:
Change the mouse. :)
Dennis.sg
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Hello All:
I am running LM 7.0 in dual boot on my laptop. I have been using a
serial mouse up until now with no problems. I am wanting to switch to a
ps2 mouse to free up my serial port to use with
When you upgraded the kernel did you get "all" the packages associated
with the kernel such as the kernel header files and such things?
--
Mark
** =/\= No Penguins were harmed |
** _||_ in the making of this
Hi,
I installed Mandrake 7.1 under windows 98 and after installation, Grub
provided a menu to choose operating system, Linux and windows. It worked
well. Later, I wanted to set windows to be default OS, So in
DrakeConf-DrakeBoot, I set the boot device from hda to hda1. Now I know I
should not
Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how to make changes permanent
in ifconfig? Example: my default ifconfig reports the MTU setting at 1500.
Using DSL, this setting will not let me transmit e-mail. A setting of 1452
for MTU will. However, I have to change to 1452 manually.
Jason Munson wrote:
Hi folks,
I just finished a stock install of 7.1, and taking the option of X
version 4.0. I've noticed that the X setup program included in DrakConf
always reverts back to 3.3.6. Any way to prevent this? Next, I installed
Xfree86 4.01 and now the font server won't
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