[expert] Linux stops at mounting other filesystem

2001-05-22 Thread Joe
Hi Linuxians, I got a problem with my linux box. Normally i would not reboot the box unless it is really required to do so. Everytime the box booted, it will stop at "Mounting other filesystems...". It does not stop indefinitely though as it will continue booting after one or two days. I have ch

Re: [expert] NICs

2001-05-22 Thread Brandon Caudle
No pierre i am buying the router w/ ethernet & homepna and a homepna adapter dsl | router(linksys) upstairs homepna > / \ From: Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Brandon Caudle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EM

Re: [expert] Mandrake going under

2001-05-22 Thread Al Baker
>From what I've read (on both slashdot, newsforge, and linux-mandrake.com), it seems like the Americans (who were bent on creating a 'linux training' general company got the boot. Are there any US offices left? Working @ Mandrakesoft seems like a great employment opportunity (at least in terms o

Re: [expert] NICs

2001-05-22 Thread Pierre Fortin
Brandon Caudle wrote: > > >From: Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Brandon Caudle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: [expert] NICs > >Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 20:54:07 -0400 > > > >Brandon Caudle wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > >I recently got a dsl and then a linksys router (the

Re: [expert] Mandrake going under

2001-05-22 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 05:52 pm, Civileme wrote: > On Tuesday 22 May 2001 06:10, Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote: > > Hi > > > > Just read some wired things about mandrake at newsforge and slashdot > > > > > > is this true > > > > ___ > > Mvh./Yours sincerely > > > > Lars > > Rumors of our impending

[expert] Linux PDAs?

2001-05-22 Thread Al Baker
Hi All, I've been wondering if anyone uses a Linux PDA with their Mandrake desktop and what kind of impression they have with that? Specifically, I've been looking at 3: Compaq's iPaq (which you can reload with linux) Agenda's V3R (monochrome :( ) Yoppy (can only get in developer version) : ht

Re: [expert] RE: Word97 in Linux using Wine -- official word from Codeweavers

2001-05-22 Thread Al Baker
Hi Benjamin, I too have been under the same dilemma, I need to use MSWord for my documents at work, star office/abiword just don't get the tables right, and I can't do without that at work. However, I did notice a post on slashdot (regarding the linux desktop being dead), someone posted a link t

[expert] Re: Linksys NC100 NIC - Still won't compile

2001-05-22 Thread David Rankin
Craig Sprout wrote: > > Hi David! > > Glad to hear that your NIC is up and running. I just had a quick question > for you -- were you able to compile that module from the linux source > tree, or did you do it by itself? > > Just wondering, since I've never been able to compile it with the kern

Re: [expert] NICs

2001-05-22 Thread Brandon Caudle
>From: Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Brandon Caudle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [expert] NICs >Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 20:54:07 -0400 > >Brandon Caudle wrote: > > > > Hello, > >I recently got a dsl and then a linksys router (the one with >the > > ethernet and HomePNA

Re: [expert] OT - ... - no space left on device

2001-05-22 Thread Mark Weaver
Thank you Tom, But, you do realize that i'm going to be chewing on this one for a little while to really digest it. Even so, I so much appreciate you taking the time to explain this to me. This is an awesome slice of the "linux" steak as it were for me to chew on. File system theory is good brain

[expert] NFS problems (2.2.19 serving 2.4.3)

2001-05-22 Thread Woody Green
Got an interesting problem. senario: Server: MDK 7.1 (2.2.19-4.3mdk) running NFS Client: MDK 7.2 (2.2.17-21mdk) works fine Client: MDK 8.0 (2.4.3-20mdk) problems* * Runs way flippin slow (~ .5k sec over a 100Mbit network) The MDK 8.0 client can scp the same file (~ 2Mb) in under 1 sec. I've tr

[expert] xawdecode

2001-05-22 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
I put one message like this two weeks ago but not answer. I am trying again: I am trying to install xawdecode under MDI 8.0; , tar, make and make install don't gives me any error, but when I try to run I just have sound and the programme closes immediately: " File /root/.xawdecode/yuvtab10_6 no

RE: [expert] need help with pgaccess in 8.0

2001-05-22 Thread David Joham
Apologies if this is sent twice, but I sent this Email this morning and haven't received it yet. Posting a second time... << I'm having some difficulties with pgaccess in mandrake 8.0. It loads up fine, but I can't actually do anything with it. If I try to create a database, I get the foll

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0, draknet and isdn

2001-05-22 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 08:06 +0200, Anes Lihovac wrote: > The problem is that I get the connect and then the remote site drops the > connection. In > /Var log/messages I can see that something like this: > isdn info: no CHAP secret for this user > But the chap and pap secrets are there in t

Re: [expert] rpmdrake update

2001-05-22 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
hmmm, rpmdrake wanted libcurl.so.2, which i installed, but it seems grpmi wanted libcurl.so.1. a quick 'ln -s' and rpmdrake is chugging along...

Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Todd Flinders am Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:05:17PM -0700: > Is that going to be a problem? Will there be any No problem. I myself have a 160 GB partition, running fine. No special setup at all (well, besides the fact that it is a software raid...) Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: h

[expert] rpmdrake update

2001-05-22 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Okay, so I went and downloaded libcurl2-7.7.3-1mdk and installed it. rpmdrake came up fine. I told it to update the list and it started printing out messages in my terminal window (since i launched it manually). Next thing I know, rpmdrake is gone, and i see this: * Connected to www.linux-mand

Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach B.V.L.S.Prasad am Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:06:53PM +0400: > the cylinder numbering should not exceed 1024.. That's LONG gone. Both grub and lilo (in 8.0) can handle large partitions. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepag

Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-22 Thread ninjaz
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote: > I bought a nice 40 gig drive a while back (although it > is NOT the boot disk), made one big partition, and its > happy: > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda6 2190632819352 126 39% / >

Re: [expert] Matrox G450 and G400 ..

2001-05-22 Thread Jeremy Blosser
B.V.L.S.Prasad [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Hello Jeremy, > Please do the favour of how you corrected by yourself.. > so that I can also do that I just edited the XF86Config file to have the correct listing. Really what it calls the card doesn't matter; what matters is what mode lines

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-22 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 03:41 PM 5/22/2001 -0700, Civileme wrote: >Well either grab rpmdrake/software manager from cooker (we know this works) >or try (strictly experimental) > >ldconfig -v | less > >to locate which library lincurl is in > >then > >cd (library path for libcurl) && ln -s libcurl.so.2 libcurl.so.1 tu

Re: [expert] Matrox G450 and G400 ..

2001-05-22 Thread B.V.L.S.Prasad
Hello Jeremy, Please do the favour of how you corrected by yourself.. so that I can also do that thankyou for the helpor informing about this...no body on the list really confirmed it...as you did. It should be useful to dean aswell. prasad. On Mon, 21 May 2001, Jeremy Blosser

Re: [expert] Matrox G450 and G400 .. -- Mem size.

2001-05-22 Thread B.V.L.S.Prasad
Hi leonard and Experts, earlier I had RIVA TNT2 ...that was showing the ram as you have expressed at the boot time...but Matrox card is not showing.. is it Matrox peculiarity..or my system problem... Does Matrox CARD show the VRAM at boot time... can any body clear this point

Re: [expert] LimeWire will not work on Mandrake 8.0

2001-05-22 Thread Graham Perkins
I couldn't get the Self-Extracting one to work, but I did manage to get the Java one working with the Sun JRE from http://www.javasoft.com -Graham On Tue, 22 May 2001, Praedor Tempus wrote: > I have been trying different gnutella clients. Many simply do not work on > Mandrake 8.0. A particul

[expert] the saga continues...

2001-05-22 Thread Julia A. Case
I managed to upgrade enough packages by hand to get the tools to do a LiveUpgrade... but when I was done and rebooted, ssh didn't work, apache was dead, php was messed up and half of my passwd file and group file was missing! There has to be a better way... Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [

[expert] Re: Linksys NC100 NIC - Still won't compile

2001-05-22 Thread David Rankin
Craig Sprout wrote: > David Rankin wrote: > > > > Craig, thanks for the tulip.o and pci-scan.o, we almost had a winner! > > Unfortunately, there is a Kernel mismatch. Yours were compiled with > > 2.2.17 kernel, mine tells me it need 2.2.17mdk. Picky, picky, picky. I > > am going to search for ano

[expert] NICs

2001-05-22 Thread Brandon Caudle
Hello,    I recently got a dsl and then a linksys router (the one with the ethernet and HomePNA adapter)  and I want to buy a home pna adapter for my linux box up stairs.  Is there any home pna currentky supported?   brandon caudleGet your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.ms

Re: [expert] Matrox G450 and G400 .. -- Mem size.

2001-05-22 Thread Leonardo T. de Carvalho
"B.V.L.S.Prasad" wrote: > > Hi leonard and Experts, > > earlier I had RIVA TNT2 ...that was showing the ram as > you have expressed at the boot time...but Matrox card is not showing.. > > is it Matrox peculiarity..or my system problem... > > Does Matrox CARD show the VRAM at bo

Re: [expert] LimeWire will not work on Mandrake 8.0

2001-05-22 Thread Leonhard Gruener
On 22 Mai 2001 17:16 you wrote: > I have been trying different gnutella clients. Many simply do not work on > Mandrake 8.0. A particularly nice client is LimeWire. I successfully > installed it on my laptop running Mandrake 7.2 but trying to do the same > thing with the same binary in Mandrake

Re: [expert] Mozilla problems -- Solved (and this time I mean it!)

2001-05-22 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Brian Hartman wrote: > > > Actually, it looks like you went one step too far. You really only need to > > clear the cache. If I read it right, it looks like you disable it > > completely. This would impact the performance (and Mozilla can't afford > > that.. :) > > > > Ric > > Actually, I

Re: [expert] OT - ... - no space left on device

2001-05-22 Thread Tom Schutter
Lets say that you have /var on a separate partition, i.e. you have a /var entry in /etc/fstab. To make this work, you must have an existing /var directory in the root "/" partition to mount the physical partion on to. Normally the /var directory in the / partition is empty. If a file exists on

Re: [expert] iso images

2001-05-22 Thread Ric Tibbetts
The HOW-TO you're looking for is something like CD Writing, or such. I don't believe that there is on that addresses ISO images by them selves. It's just too short a subject. ":) I think you're missing the point of the ISO image. You don't need to "open" it to write it to a CD, that's handled by y

[expert] LimeWire will not work on Mandrake 8.0

2001-05-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have been trying different gnutella clients. Many simply do not work on Mandrake 8.0. A particularly nice client is LimeWire. I successfully installed it on my laptop running Mandrake 7.2 but trying to do the same thing with the same binary in Mandrake 8.0 proves impossible. It comes in

[expert] aurora and vga

2001-05-22 Thread Gavin
Got a question for ya, I have a ASUS CUSL2 JumperFree PC133 AGP Pro/4x Motherboard. I have my monitor connected to it and I would like to use aurora. I've checked aurora in the boot config box and rebooted the system, when the system comes up I still get the basic text version. My question is do

RE: [expert] need help with pgaccess in 8.0

2001-05-22 Thread David Joham
<< I'm having some difficulties with pgaccess in mandrake 8.0. It loads up fine, but I can't actually do anything with it. If I try to create a database, I get the following error message: "Tcl error executing pg_exec create database is not a valid postgresql connection" If I try to open a

Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-22 Thread ergeorge
3ware RAID controller works great with Mandrake. It is detected & configured automatically. The RedHat userland utilities are fine also. One thing you might consider though, is that if your single, 90 GB partition gets corrupted, you lose everything. If you split it into smaller (but still

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-22 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 03:41 PM 5/22/2001 -0700, Civileme wrote: > > i appreciate that, i really do. if i could just get rpmdrake working > > i'd be pretty happy (the problem with libcurl?) > > >Well either grab rpmdrake/software manager from cooker (we know this works) >or try (strictly experimental) > >ldconfig -

Re: [expert] Matrox G450 and G400 ..

2001-05-22 Thread Jeremy Blosser
Dean S. Messing [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Hello Prasad. > > I have (I hope) a G450 in my system running Mdk 8.0, which I thought > had 32 MB of RAM as well. > > I just started Harddrake. Like you, I have seeing it return G400 with > 16MB of memory. I'm now concerned. It is a new machine

Re: [expert] Mandrake going under

2001-05-22 Thread Civileme
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 06:10, Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote: > Hi > > Just read some wired things about mandrake at newsforge and slashdot > > > is this true > > ___ > Mvh./Yours sincerely > > Lars > Rumors of our impending doom have yet to prove themselves .-) The production staff is intact.

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-22 Thread Civileme
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 06:10, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2001, Civileme wrote: > > > /root/dedebug.log > > > > > > Civileme > > > > And here I go replying to my own post... > > > > We have used the install CD you did and then run an update-type install > > of 8.0 which would not of

Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-22 Thread Rusty Carruth
Todd Flinders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > > I want to purchase two 60 gig IBM 60GXP ATA/100 hard > drives and a 3ware RAID controller. I will give 30 > gigs to Windows and 90 gigs to Linux. > > Is that going to be a problem? Not likely, unless windows has a problem with 30 Gig ;-)

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-22 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Civileme wrote: > > /root/dedebug.log > > > > Civileme > > > And here I go replying to my own post... > > We have used the install CD you did and then run an update-type install of > 8.0 which would not of course affect any of the cooker packages on that first > install but w

Re: [expert] Matrox G450 and G400 .. -- Mem size.

2001-05-22 Thread Leonardo T. de Carvalho
"B.V.L.S.Prasad" wrote: > > Hello dean and all experts.. > it will be great if you express any information on > the difference between these 2 cards > the vendor has given me telling that its the latest one.. > even after I stressed him to give me g400 32MB. > > please help..

[expert] Mandrake going under

2001-05-22 Thread Lars Roland Kristiansen
Hi Just read some wired things about mandrake at newsforge and slashdot is this true ___ Mvh./Yours sincerely Lars Lars Roland Kristiansen | Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Stud. Scient. Mathematics

Re: [expert] RE: Word97 in Linux using Wine -- official word from Codeweavers

2001-05-22 Thread Civileme
On Monday 21 May 2001 11:59, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > Below is the official word on installing Word97 or MicrosoftOffice in Linux > using Wine, in this case, Codeweavers Wine. See below. > > It would appear that if Codeweavers thinks it can't be done, then it can't > be done. > > I

Re: [expert] Not so graceful exit from Word97/Wine

2001-05-22 Thread Dave Sherman
Benjamin, Congratulations on finally getting wine to run Word 97. It sounds like it was a valiant effort and noble experiment, but perhaps not worth pursuing at this time. I am thining Codeweavers might find documentation of your efforts interesting, perhaps even helpful in their development.

Re: [expert] SWAT on LM8.0

2001-05-22 Thread Dave Peat
I have tried both.  Now, I can bring up the web page for Apache on both HTTP and HTTPS, they both work.>>> Dan Swartzendruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/18/01 02:07PM >>>On Fri, 18 May 2001, Dave Peat wrote:> Hello,> I have SAMBA running (I ran smbclient aginst my machine) but I can't> seem to ge

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-22 Thread Civileme
On Monday 21 May 2001 17:34, Civileme wrote: > On Monday 21 May 2001 06:01, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > On Mon, 21 May 2001, Civileme wrote: > > > On Sunday 20 May 2001 17:36, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > > > > > Mandrake Update was merged with rpmDrake in a new Software manager for > > > 8.0 >

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-22 Thread Civileme
On Monday 21 May 2001 08:37, Larry Sword wrote: > Civileme wrote: > > Mandrake Update was merged with rpmDrake in a new Software manager for > > 8.0 > > > > I have no idea how you tried to use mandrakeUpdate with 8.0--it isn't > > there. > > > > Civileme > > Yes, very interesting. :-) > > I have a

[expert] VMware /dev/rtc error

2001-05-22 Thread J Mulvaney
I get this no matter what OS I'm installing- checked and /dev/rtc is there. Anybody able to point me in the right direction? Thanks! The high resolution timer is not currently available (/dev/rtc: NThe high resolution timer is not currently available (/dev/rtc: No such device). It is possible

Re: [expert] Matrox G450 and G400 ..

2001-05-22 Thread B.V.L.S.Prasad
Hello dean and all experts.. it will be great if you express any information on the difference between these 2 cards the vendor has given me telling that its the latest one.. even after I stressed him to give me g400 32MB. please help sincerely, prasad. Happy Day, Pras

[expert] Matrox G450 and G400 ..More info...More interesting.

2001-05-22 Thread B.V.L.S.Prasad
Hi , one more interesting thing I observed: I bought Matrox G450 I informed in earlier mail: In LM8.0 through harddrake, its showing g400 and 16MB , but interestingly, in the XF86Config-4 it identifies the name of the card as g450 automagically complicating the situation... In w

Re: [expert] Not so graceful exit from Word97/Wine

2001-05-22 Thread Michael Scottaline
Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I did a little more research at Wine headquarters > (http://www.winehq.org) under Search: Word97, etc. I found from the > correspondence that no one has succeeded in getting Word97 to work in > anything even close to a satisfactory way. I

RE: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-22 Thread T . Bizot
No problems with 50GB on mandrake 8 -Original Message- From: B.V.L.S.Prasad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: dinsdag 22 mei 2001 10:07 To: Todd Flinders Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs? I dont think it will be a problem... except

Réf. : Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-22 Thread Patrick . Bussi
I am almost sure that it is not any more useful to take care about the 1024 cylinder limit, at least since mdk7.1 release that I installed last year on the second half of a 20GB drive, shared with WIN9x. It ran happily. --- Patrick Bussi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any opinions expressed are my own and n

[expert] Not so graceful exit from Word97/Wine

2001-05-22 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: First, my thanks again to all of you who took out time from their busy schedules to respond to my Word97/Wine query. I added all of my Windows True Type fonts to Linux. You do that automatically in LM 8.0 (available since LM 7.1 or 7.2) in K, Configuration, Other, Drakfont. Ju

[newbie] Mandrake 8.0, draknet and isdn

2001-05-22 Thread Anes Lihovac
During the installtion of Mandrake 8.0 I was able to give in all my parameters to make an internet connection. But I am not able to connect to my ISP. The problem is, that I get an connection and immediatly after I got it, the remote party hangs up. In /var/log/messages i can see that he cannot fi

[expert] problem with usr 56k modem

2001-05-22 Thread BAUDRILLARD GILLES
I have recently bought a external 56k US Robotics modem and I can't make it work under LM 7.2. It doesn't respond to any query. It is not a hardware problem (the thing works almost correctly under Win95) and not a serial port config problem (If I unplug it and replace it by my old Olitec, things w

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0, draknet and isdn

2001-05-22 Thread Anes Lihovac
ken wrote: > > On Monday 21 May 2001 04:12 am, you wrote: > > Hello ! > > > > During the installtion of Mandrake 8.0 I was > > bale to give in all my parameters to make > > an internet connection. But I am not able to > > connect to my ISP. The problem is, that I get an > > connection and immedia

Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-22 Thread B.V.L.S.Prasad
I dont think it will be a problem... except take care that while partitioning , the /boot partitioning , the cylinder numbering should not exceed 1024.. ofcourse this partitioning logic is a bit old... thats all...everything else will fit ..well.. may be present boot loaders will take care of th

Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-22 Thread Todd Flinders
Should I hold out for Civilme to write the Maxtor Controller Card install? The Maxtor card does UDMA 100, right? I understand that the 3ware only goes up to UDMA 66. Will these burst rates make an important difference if I plan to use RAID 0? --- "B.V.L.S.Prasad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >