Thanks a gob. Went to bios, put the ide cdrom above the hard drive in the boot
sequence and voila, linux cd booted! First new thing that I've learned this
year! Omen for the year. Yee haa. Wish the same for all.
Tom Berkley
Brian Hartman wrote:
> It's a BIOS issue. ide cd-rom's can be bootable
On Saturday 30 December 2000 11:54, you wrote:
> Svante Signell wrote:
> > I'm getting errors like this when booting kernel 2.4.0-x, eg x=0.14mdk
> > They does not happen with kernels 2.2.x. Do I have to compile a kernel
> > on my own, not using the precompiled ones?
> >
> > hdb: dma_intr: status=
On Sunday 31 December 2000 20:37, you wrote:
> Installed Mandrake 7.1 along with HPLaserjet 4l printer (non-postscript).
>
> WordPerfect runs the printer without a problem. But, when I try to print a
> test.txt file
>
> $lpr text.txt
>
> I get:
>
> lpr: lp:: printer unknown.
>
> #printtool reveals
Hi,
Does anyone know if it is possible to use Microsoft Netmeeting through a
linux box using IP masquerading. Chat works but talk and video don't
Thanks
Iain
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On Monday 01 January 2001 12:23, you wrote:
> Are you sure, I believe it depends on your BIOS first
> and foremost, if you can set it to boot in a priority
> of cd-rom, floppy,HD.
>
> Al
>
> --- Tom Berkley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You need a cdrom that is bootable. I have never been
> > abl
You can use the H.323 masquerading module which is an open source
implementation of the protocol Netmeeting uses .. you can find it at ...
http://www.coritel.it/projects/sofia/nat.html
Regards
Ali
On Monday 01 January 2001 12:57 pm, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to
When I try $lpr lp0 test.txt it seems that the printer (or something) is
recognized because I no longer get "printer unknown". But still the printer
does not print.
I checked /var/spool/lpd/lp0/status and found: "lp0 is ready and
printing". Strange. Might it be that the file is queued by fo
Hi:
I had hoped never to see this, but I got the following message (when
logged on as root):
mon[1256]: failure for servers telnet 978304853 localhost
does anyone know what this means.
Fortunately, I got rattled and was able to make a backup of all the
data. Now the PC won't boot. It had be
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Hi Mandrakers,
Is anyone successfully using the ALSA rpms from the 7.2 CD? I installed
them and am not having a lot of success with getting them to work properly
with my SB Live! soundcard.
Any suggestions/ideas/feedback greatly a
On Monday 01 January 2001 17:44, you wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I had hoped never to see this, but I got the following message (when
> logged on as root):
>
> mon[1256]: failure for servers telnet 978304853 localhost
>
> does anyone know what this means.
>
Well, it sounds like Christmas was a little early
It will work, whether it's mentioned or not on Mandrake's site.
A friend of mine is currently using it under mdk 7.2
Thanks
> I believe the Plextors are listed on the Mandrake web site
> www.linux-mandrake.org, but you might be right, this
> one may not be listed.
>
> I am ordering the Plextor
[This is an email copy of a Usenet post to "alt.os.linux.mandrake"]
Hi
I had fun this morning when trying to get the following to work together:
Mandrake 7.2, kernel 2.2.17
Creative SBLive soundcard (with game port)
Logitech Wingman Interceptor joystick on above game port.
The problem is that t
Civileme,
When I run xpp I get the response: command unknown. The same response I got
when I tried the command lpstat. What is xpp?
Michael Coady
At 10:29 AM 1/1/01 +0100, you wrote:
>On Sunday 31 December 2000 20:37, you wrote:
> > Installed Mandrake 7.1 along with HPLaserjet 4l printer (non
On Sunday 31 December 2000 04:45 pm, you wrote:
> Hi, I have an application that runs under X, that I would like to start
> automagically on boot-up. Unfortunately X always wants we to log in.
>
> Is there a way to start x in an rc.xxx file, which in turn will start the
> application, prior to any
For what it's worth,
I installed these on a virgin 7.2 system. The upgrade appears
to have gone flawlessly.
NOTE: There are duplicates of several packages. Be sure to select
the latest version of any dupes.
-Mark
Christopher Molnar wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have made a set of update RPM
windows on my system has access to c,d,and,e drives normally, and all of the
rest of my hard drive space is for linux, so i know it must be a linux
formated area...sectorwise, it is located between win c and the normal win d
on the drivei had to do that because of the 1024th sector thing (its
O cool!!
Thanx for the info
On Mon, 01 Jan 2001, Anthony Russello wrote:
> It will work, whether it's mentioned or not on Mandrake's site.
>
> A friend of mine is currently using it under mdk 7.2
>
> Thanks
>
> > I believe the Plextors are liste
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On Monday 01 January 2001 12:40, you wrote:
> When I try $lpr lp0 test.txt it seems that the printer (or something) is
> recognized because I no longer get "printer unknown". But still the printer
> does not print.
> I checke
Is it possible to pass an executed program over to the super-user
from a user? I tried nohup and the ampersand in X as a user,
but once the terminal closes -- the command terminates.
Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing
list address in Cc: and my email address i
> >
> > Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 Users: These RPM's should work for you as well but
> > you will need to find several dependencies to get them to install. You
> > can find the directions for these at:
> > http://kde2.newmail.ru/mandrake_rpms.html - I have not teste
I'm currently upgrading from MDK7.2 (glibc-2.1) to the cooker development
distribution (glibc-2.2). In this process user login with kernels 2.4.0-0.x is
non-functional. Also a an older 2.3.48 kernel shows the same
behavior. Everything seem OK, but after supplying username and
password _nothing_ ha
Hey Aric,
Relax, don't drink the beers and ponder this. I would use Partition Magic to
remove all traces of Linux first. Then I would create a 2MB partition and
format it as ext2. Then, and again, using Partition Magic I would create a
15mg partition at the top of C: drive (above Windows) and ins
Hello Experts,
Sorry for intruding, a super newbie, but the newbie list was no help
and nothing in the archives searching for "linux_extended_fix.pl".
I am hoping I gave enough information to get a fix to see my last
partition in Windows with Mandrake 4.72 installed on its on partition.
The scrip
Hi list,
As I recall I remember seeing something about this before on the list, but when
I searched the archives on this subject the search was rather fruitless. I
wasn't able to come up the information needed to aliviate the problem. The
problem is that I'm unable to print from Star Office 5.2 o
I put a Sound Blaster Live! in my main Linux box running mdk 7.2 and it was auto
detected and configured at boot. The sound that I get out of it is perfect and I
can even get multiple programs to use the card at the same time.
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> Hi Mandrakers,
Thanks for the response, unfortunately the suggestion doesn't seem "doable"
from here. If I select Drakconf from the dektop, the options available are:
X Configuration (monitor selection only)
Change X- Resolution
User Addition
Security Level
Startup Services
Keyboard Choice
Package Mana
Hi list,
I just had an epiphany. CUPS PRINTING SUCKS!!@#Q#$%#!#@!
I liked the printer support that I had back in Mdk 7.1. It was simple, direct,
to the point, and...IT FRIGGIN WORKED WITHOUT HAVING TO SACRIFICE SMALL
BARNYARD ANIMALS TO THE GODS OF MORONITY IN ORDER TO GET IT TO WORK.
Eh, actually I've seen this myself.
It was NOT a hardware problem at all.
Rather one of the local services was not "turned on" during installation.
I went thru the services list and turned on several daemons and installed the
appropriate RPM's for Telnet, etc.
Afterwards the message disappe
You might also want to take a look at SmoothWall at www.smoothwall.org.
It is also on the December Linux Format Magazine CD. (Probabally still on the
newsstands as Linux Format
runs a month behind in the US, I just picked up my copy two days ago...)
> On Friday 29 December 2000 14:49, [EMAIL PR
You might also want to take a look at SmoothWall at www.smoothwall.org.
It is also on the December Linux Format Magazine CD. (Probabally still on the
newsstands as Linux Format
runs a month behind in the US, I just picked up my copy two days ago...)
> On Friday 29 December 2000 14:49, [EMAIL PR
You might also want to check out SmoothWall at
www.smoothwall.org. It is also available on the December
2000 Linux Format Magazine CD which should still be
available as the US distribution is about a month behind.
> On Friday 29 December 2000 14:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> > > hi,
> >
> > c
Tony, your suggestion revealed a curious thing.
#lpc status
lp0:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
no daemon present
lp1:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
no daemon present
#printerdrake
revealed t
I ran the AOL Instant Messenger program gAIN and attempted to log in to
my AOL Instant Messenger account. Upon login I keep getting the message
NO CONFIGURATION at the bottom of the login dialog box and can go no
further. My wife is given the same indication when attemtping to log
into her account
On Monday 01 January 2001 12:35 pm, you wrote:
> On Monday 01 January 2001 17:44, you wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > I had hoped never to see this, but I got the following message (when
> > logged on as root):
> >
> > mon[1256]: failure for servers telnet 978304853 localhost
> >
> > does anyone know what
** Reply to message from M Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 01 Jan 2001 09:40:24
-0800
Try deleting the printer definition and recreating it. This sometimes helps
with my problematic printing situation (printer is connected to a Win2K box,
using Samba to print to the printer from Linux)
John Le
** Reply to message from Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01 Jan 2001 16:57:49
EST
> Hi list,
>
> As I recall I remember seeing something about this before on the list, but when
> I searched the archives on this subject the search was rather fruitless. I
> wasn't able to come up the informatio
** Reply to message from Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01 Jan 2001 17:59:50
EST
> I'm not ungrateful to those who are clearly working very hard on this Linux
> distribution. You all are doing a fantastic job. But DAMNIT! when something is
> working LEAVE IT ALONE, will ya?
>
With a few ex
My Drakconf and my Control Center menus are entirely different from yours.
The autologin is only on 7.2 as far as I know. If you are running 7.1- or
older the autostart folder is there but you'll have to edit your rc.local
file to start x and your application. What version of mandrake are yo
I think what you're seeing is output from the "mon" service which checks
whether particular services are available. If it finds, for instance, that
telnet isn't responding (i.e., you've turned off that service), then it
reports a "critical" error. Check "man mon" for details.
You could turn of
So sprach Traci Collins am Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:59:43AM -0700:
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed with the update
> given the extremely long error screen?
Push the key while trying to move the window around. This way, you
don't have to move it at the top of the window, but
So sprach Moe am Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:01:29PM -0800:
>Is there limitations with the number of char with
> mkisofs command? Whats the max number of char?
Don't know about mkisofs, but the ISO specs and also the rock ridge
extension limit the number of allowable chars for a complete path. D
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On Monday 01 January 2001 19:00, you wrote:
> Tony, your suggestion revealed a curious thing.
>
>
> #lpc status
>
> lp0:
> queuing is enabled
> printing is enabled
> no entries
> no daemon present
> lp1:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > And Merry Xmas to all!
> >
> > Thanks Mike, for the clarification on not having the
> > ability to have more
> > than one disk or partition mounted in the same
> > place, this is exactly what
> > my hesitantcy has been in editing my fstab, and
> > inadverdantly inserting my
>
Try PMFirewall. This is about as easy as it gets for setting up a
masquerading (NAT) firewall. PMFirewall is a Perl script that asks you
questions about the services that you're running (ssh, ftp, www, etc) and
then creates scripts with the proper IPChains rules. It's _really_ quick,
easy a
Michael O'Henly wrote:
> Well, son of a gun. That worked!
>
> Is a CD audio cable for my drive/sound card (HP8100/SB128 PCI) the kind of
> thing I can buy or make easily?
Sorry for the wait replying.
Yes it is - you can but a `CDROM to soundcard audio cable' at any computer store.
They're stand
Again, thanks for the reply. I am using 7.0, so there goes that idea, don't
really fancy upgrading to 7.2 at the moment. I have managed to get it up an
running by playing around with some rc.local entries and changes to
.xinitrc.
Again thanks for taking time to respond
Barry
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Submitted 01-Jan-01 by Mark Weaver:
> I just had an epiphany. CUPS PRINTING SUCKS!!@#Q#$%#!#@!
I agree, which is why I don't use it.
May I suggest that you remove all printer queues, deinstall cups, install
lpr and rhsprintfilters (and anything else you may need). Then configure
using "/
On Monday 01 January 2001 09:16 pm, you wrote:
> Submitted 01-Jan-01 by Mark Weaver:
> > I just had an epiphany. CUPS PRINTING SUCKS!!@#Q#$%#!#@!
>
> I agree, which is why I don't use it.
>
> May I suggest that you remove all printer queues, deinstall cups, install
> lpr and rhsprintfilters (and a
civileme,
Recently, you posted a message about the command to run on the update CD
if you had run the install in expert mode. Was it the live_update or
live_update2? I had run it then discarded the message, but I've since
reinstalled to move things around a bit.
Thanks,
Holly
I noticed the nice ipchains script in the init.d directory. It's
supposed to read a ruleset and activate or deactivate ipchains whenever
you switch runlevels.
I want to make that script read my current firewall/masq'ing script. I
noticed how the ipchains script in /etc/rc.d/init.d allows you to p
while compiling a kde application the compiler created a 320 MByte
/proc/kcore file. It filled up my hard drive and then crashed. How can I
reset this file to a small size or remove it?
I'm getting this [noncritical] error message when installing various
packages. What do I edit to make it go away? Google
didn't help much, neither did browsing /etc for soemthing that looked
relevant...
Thanks in advance,
Mike
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Below are the results of hdparm running 2.2.18-1mdk. (I cannot login to
the 2.4.0-0.15mdk kernel, see separate posting. My HUB is also broken
so remote login is not possible either)
I have not found any boot-up message indicating ide0=autotune, nor any
files with this text. Where to look for this
I have recently installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 [Macmillan].
Then I ran the updates utility, and all want well until I came to the update
for linuxconf-r5-5mdk.rpm.
It requires a file named libgd.so.1 which is not on my system.
Where can I locate this file?
Do need to be concerned with any version n
Hi Mark and all of you suffering from upgrades,
In the not too distant past, I belonged to the same group as you. If
I saw new packages (usually rpms) of the latest and greatest, I
went ahead to installed them, and a lot of times ended up reinstalling
everything, sometimes the whole system. The
On Tuesday 02 January 2001 06:06, you wrote:
> civileme,
>
> Recently, you posted a message about the command to run on the update CD
> if you had run the install in expert mode. Was it the live_update or
> live_update2? I had run it then discarded the message, but I've since
> reinstalled to move
On Tuesday 02 January 2001 08:44, you wrote:
> Hi Mark and all of you suffering from upgrades,
>
> In the not too distant past, I belonged to the same group as you. If
> I saw new packages (usually rpms) of the latest and greatest, I
> went ahead to installed them, and a lot of times ended up rei
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