Re: [expert] Mounting Partitions

2001-12-21 Thread J. Craig Woods
At 01:33 AM 12/22/2001 -0500, Nelson Bartley wrote: >(I'm sorry if there are typos... copying doesn't work in KDE between >Evolution and Konqueror) > >Sorry about the *gibberish & Stuff* but That's alot of typing for >something that works :) I just can't help myself when I see such toil being don

Re: [expert] Mounting Partitions

2001-12-21 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Ok, that looks excessive, but workable. Personally, I'd do away with all the options on /winex, you really don't need them. But it shouldn't stop it from loading. Now, since the filesystem level looks ok (allowing that the ext3 partition was set up correctly, and the journal was created (?)... L

Re: [expert] Mounting Partitions

2001-12-21 Thread Nelson Bartley
(I'm sorry if there are typos... copying doesn't work in KDE between Evolution and Konqueror) /dev/hda7 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda5 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tempfs defaults 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto *gibberish* /dev/hdd /mnt/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 *G

Re: [expert] Mounting Partitions

2001-12-21 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Ok, what does your /etc/fstab look like. Let's start there. Ric On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 20:37, Nelson Bartley wrote: > Now this all makes sense except for one tiny little detail. > I had already changed the file system type to ext3, and have files on it > now. with the ability to set permissions

Re: [expert] difference between enterprise and SMP

2001-12-21 Thread Michael Viron
Not sure what the specific differences are, but very generally the 'enterprise' kernel is compiled for 1 GB of ram or more whereas the 'smp' kernels are built for multi-processor systems. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinner

Re: [expert] LM 8.1 GUI Installation Problem on VGA On board

2001-12-21 Thread Michael Viron
Wendy, Although the people on this list don't mind helping, please turn off the notification for whether or not someone has received your e-mail. I don't particularly care to have to keep dealing with those -- typically people that use html e-mail or those annoying notification messages end up o

RE: [expert] FTP to outside through Bastille

2001-12-21 Thread Marek
Hi try running bastille interactive and allow ftp, you will also have to include your clients, should work. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Scott Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 5:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] FTP to outsi

RE: [expert] Where did LM 8.1 hide /dev/sda4 (parallel zip)?

2001-12-21 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
8.1 uses devfs by default. add devfs=nomount (IIRC) to lilo.conf. Reboot, then you will have the mount points. I had same problem with scsi mountpoints, this works. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Tarragon Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, Decembe

Re: [expert] Mounting Partitions

2001-12-21 Thread Nelson Bartley
Now this all makes sense except for one tiny little detail. I had already changed the file system type to ext3, and have files on it now. with the ability to set permissions and ownership as well. I've got about 2GBs of data on there I can access once it's mounted. even though I've already change

Re: [expert] Mounting Partitions

2001-12-21 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 17:51, Nelson Bartley wrote: > Interesting situation. > > When I originally partitioned my hard drive I created it in the Disk > Drake utility during setup. It was created w/ a 5GB win drive, followed > by a 250MB /boot, 250MB swap, and 4GB ext3 / drive, and the other 8GB >

[expert] Fw: Fw: Yet another printing question

2001-12-21 Thread robfleet
Greetings once again, Well, suffice it to say, no one has chimed in with any suggestions yet. I have another clue which my eyes noticed during the boot process last night, for what it's worth. Don't know if this means anything since I had problems configuring printing during the reinstall/up

[expert] Netscape 6.2 on stock Mandrake 8.0

2001-12-21 Thread gnerd
I installed Netscape 6.2 on a stock Mandrake 8.0 system and there's a problem with the menu bar and menus. I can see Options and Tasks in the menu bar of this Compose window, but there are four menu items I can't see except for a tiny raised area on mouse-over: File, Edit, whatever sits betwe

[expert] Mounting Partitions

2001-12-21 Thread Nelson Bartley
Interesting situation. When I originally partitioned my hard drive I created it in the Disk Drake utility during setup. It was created w/ a 5GB win drive, followed by a 250MB /boot, 250MB swap, and 4GB ext3 / drive, and the other 8GB was created into another win partition. Well after having decid

Re: [expert] Comcast @home

2001-12-21 Thread Jerry Sternesky
James, After banging my head at it for about an hour I picked up the phone only to find out the date on my letter was incorrect, From what the phone tech told me I now go live on the 27th. So I will try again then. On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 14:24, James Sparenberg wrote: > Jerry, > From one who m

[expert] Mandrake Update Hanging Problem Help Needed

2001-12-21 Thread Ralph F.De Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello: Mandrake Update is now hanging when it goes to read source datebase for the update site. I believe that the ftp source database has become courrupted. Where is that database located and what is it called.? I would like to delete it and force

Re: [expert] mozilla rpms for "recient" builds not available

2001-12-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »J. Grant« am 2001-12-21 um 11:53:43 +0900 : > Hi > > I am looking for recient rpms BTW: I just noticed, that a friend of mine build mozilla 0.9.6 for Mandrake 8.1. They are available at my server: http://rpm.digitalprojects.com/ Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://l

Re: [expert] mozilla rpms for "recient" builds not available

2001-12-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »skidley« am 2001-12-21 um 17:23:15 -0400 : > Actually I use cooker rpms on 8.1 all the time, always have with all > versions. Whenever I want to upgrade something I used cooker. So you're rather using a Cooker system by now? Because on a plain 8.1 system, you cannot use a Cooker Mozi

Re: [expert] Comcast @home

2001-12-21 Thread J. Craig Woods
At 11:24 AM 12/21/2001 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: >Jerry, > The only hassle was teaching the weenies at ATT that the reason I and > even windwoze users were having trouble was because they had the gateway > and your IP number on two seperate subnets. Yes I know this is doable but > doing i

Re: [expert] mozilla rpms for "recient" builds not available

2001-12-21 Thread skidley
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: > So sprach »J. Grant« am 2001-12-21 um 11:53:43 +0900 : > > So, is mdk planning a release of an updated rpm? I could always grab the > > cooker rpm, but i would rather get an 8.1 rpm if possible. > > Can't speak for MandrakeSoft, but it's generally the

Re: [expert] Comcast @home

2001-12-21 Thread James Sparenberg
Jerry, From one who made the switch about 2 weeks ago from ATT@home to ATT@play *grin* I can say. Ignore most of what they tell you. It was straight forward DHCP for us here. The only hassle was teaching the weenies at ATT that the reason I and even windwoze users were having trouble was be

Re: [expert] Where did LM 8.1 hide /dev/sda4 (parallel zip)?

2001-12-21 Thread Dinos Kouroushaklis
I have the same problem but I have another SCSI adapter card, a Tekram 390F. When the card is on the machine I can not see the ZipDrive. When I remove the Tekram SCSI adapter card, the ZipDrive is fine. Does anyone know anything on how to make this work? Regards At 14:50 21/12/2001 +1100, you w

Re: [expert] Where did LM 8.1 hide /dev/sda4 (parallel zip)?

2001-12-21 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 00:11, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: > Hello > > No, it didn't. There is /dev/sda and nothing else. > > > How can I create /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 ... /dev/sda4? And then mount the > zip drive? > > Thanks > > Ed You might like to try adding "devfs=nomount" to your append line

Re: [expert] LM 8.1 GUI Installation Problem on VGA On board

2001-12-21 Thread Ed Tharp
does the vid card share ram witht he sytstem? when asked to specify amount of ram, you need to subtract the amount used for video ram from the total On Friday 21 December 2001 05:36, you wrote: > Why LM 8.1 force to do TEST SCREEN? This Test Screen automatically make my > installation hang (The

Re: [expert] pre-INIT boot logs?

2001-12-21 Thread George Abdo
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:19:21 -0500 Charles A Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 19:06:03 +1100 > George Abdo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I am trying to diagnose an error that I am getting about a missing library, but > > it flashes before INIT kicks in during

Re: [expert] mozilla rpms for "recient" builds not available

2001-12-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »J. Grant« am 2001-12-21 um 11:53:43 +0900 : > So, is mdk planning a release of an updated rpm? I could always grab the > cooker rpm, but i would rather get an 8.1 rpm if possible. Can't speak for MandrakeSoft, but it's generally their policy to *not* release new packages just because

[expert] Comcast @home

2001-12-21 Thread Jerry Sternesky
Any other comcast @home users out there. Have you received your package yet about switching to the new network, with the failure of @home. Mine is a cd that run windows only software and wants to set outlook express as the default mailer. Since I use linux I can't run this When I tried goi

[expert] FTP to outside through Bastille

2001-12-21 Thread Scott
Hi all- I am running Mandrake 8.1 with the standard firewall configuration. My set-up is this: ppp0 - Dials my ISP eth0 - Shares the connection to my internal LAN using 192.168.0.x My problem is my internal machines can not FTP outside to the Internet. If I read right, I should add this to m

Re: [expert] Where did LM 8.1 hide /dev/sda4 (parallel zip)?

2001-12-21 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello No, it didn't. There is /dev/sda and nothing else. How can I create /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 ... /dev/sda4? And then mount the zip drive? Thanks Ed - Original Message - From: "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 9:42 PM Subject:

Re: [expert] Where did LM 8.1 hide /dev/sda4 (parallel zip)?

2001-12-21 Thread Ed Tharp
is your "append devfs mount" or "devfs nomount" in lilo.conf? I (and last I read the errita for 8.1, so did Mandrake) recommend "nomount" if using the kernel that came with the CDs. if you edit lilo.conf, remember to type "lilo" as root in a text console, without the quotes to get lilo to chec

[expert] LM 8.1 GUI Installation Problem on VGA On board

2001-12-21 Thread Wendy Nexcom
Why LM 8.1 force to do TEST SCREEN? This Test Screen automatically make my installation hang (The LM help say just wait for 10 seconds, and I wait for 2 hours! Nothing happen!) I remember before LM has choice to DON't TEST SCREEN. So, in lm 8.1 I should do Expert Installation that could ignore t

[expert] Dual Boot Problem w GRUB

2001-12-21 Thread Paul Sue
Hi, I installed mdk8.1 on 1st hard disk and FreeBSD 4.4 on 2nd disk. After installing FreeBSD, I went back into mandrake to add FreeBSD to /boot/grub/menu.lst: title linux kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 devfs=mount quiet vga=788 title freeBSD root (hd1,a) kernel /boot/loader Whe

[expert] difference between enterprise and SMP

2001-12-21 Thread J. Grant
Hi can someone point me towards a definition of the difference between enterprise and SMP kernels used in mandrake. I run a dual athlon system so i expected to see SMP listed in uname -a but it says enterprise i am using mdk8.1 JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] what writes resolv.conf at boot?

2001-12-21 Thread tester
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 16:10, Brian Parish wrote: > Ed Tharp gave me lots of assistance over on the newbie list with getting some > network issues fixed in my setup. The remaining small problem is that every > time my machine boots the resolv.conf file is overwritten by something and I > lose t

Re: [expert] Where did LM 8.1 hide /dev/sda4 (parallel zip)?

2001-12-21 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello I have been using my zip drive with linux since Caldera 1.3 in 1999. All zips have the fourth partition. I have to reformat the disk if I want an ext2 (see mini-howto on zip). You can check that by issuing the command fdisk /dev/sda and then list the partitions. As for your questions, t

[expert] Whats up with Mandrake-Update?

2001-12-21 Thread Andrew George
Hi I ran rpmdrake this morning and updated a security source (wtfo) to see if the latest packages were uploaded yet...lo and behold, the application hung while building the source list for wtfo. OK, probably a bad download I thought, go into /var/lib/urpmi and kill all the files with wtfo in th

[expert] Fake Modem Blues 3 - Intel HaM

2001-12-21 Thread Felix Miata
civileme wrote: > On Wednesday 19 December 2001 11:46 am, Felix Miata wrote: > > civileme wrote: > > > On Wednesday 19 December 2001 08:02 am, Felix Miata wrote: > > > > I got the so-called "driver" (Intel-v92ham.tgz) for this from > > > > http://developer.intel.com/design/modems/support/driv

[expert] Fake Modem Blues 3 - Intel HaM

2001-12-21 Thread Felix Miata
civileme wrote: > On Wednesday 19 December 2001 11:46 am, Felix Miata wrote: > > civileme wrote: > > > On Wednesday 19 December 2001 08:02 am, Felix Miata wrote: > > > > I got the so-called "driver" (Intel-v92ham.tgz) for this from > > > > http://developer.intel.com/design/modems/support/driv