Re: [expert] Floppy Tape Backups

2000-02-24 Thread Dan Westlake
I have to reset it up Mandrake 7.0 but I had my QIC drive working under 6.1. If I recall it correctly if you have ftape and zftape the command is modprobe /dev/ftape I hope this helps. Regards Dan - Original Message - From: "James Barley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

[expert] Ooops on ftape.

2000-02-24 Thread Dan Westlake
The command would simply be modprobe ftape. Regards Dan

Re: [expert] Parallel tape drive

2000-02-24 Thread Dan Westlake
If it is likeparallel ort scanners you are probably correct but I'm no expert. On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Ivan Trail wrote: > I have a parallel port tape drive. It deems that neither ftape nor Kdat > support them. Can someone kindly direct me to a source of info to learn more > about configuring and

Re: [expert] auto X start

2000-03-13 Thread Dan Westlake
I'm not sure, but when the LILO prompt comes up at boot enter linux 3 and that is for text mode. Regards Dan - Original Message - > Hello, > I have a question pertaining to the option that starts X automatically. I > tried to configure a serial mouse and I thought all was well until I

Re: [expert] dual boot

2000-03-16 Thread Dan Westlake
Find a DOS 6.x or Win9x or any boot disk with FDISK.EXE on it. Boot go to C: drive and emter a:\fdisk /mbr this fixes the master boot record. Hopefully NT will boot for you then. After that is done you can boot into Linux with your Linux boot disk and restore LILO. - Original Message - F

Re: [expert] Memory upgrade

2000-03-20 Thread Dan Westlake
Edit /etc/lilo.conf and add the line append="mem=192M" then run lilo by typing lilo at the prompt. Reboot and see what it says. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 3:39 AM Subject: [expert] Memory upgrade > Hello All, > t

Re: [expert] Mail programs

2000-04-01 Thread Dan Westlake
I took a look at it and it looks like it could be nice. Myself I have been using one called Spruce which I like. Spruce can be found at http://spruce.sourceforge.net/ Regards Dan On 01 Apr 2000, Lane Lester wrote: > Wayne Petherick said: > > I am slowly getting used to Linux and am currently l

Re: [expert] OT - Spruce

2000-04-02 Thread Dan Westlake
What version are you using? I believe I have 5.18 and it works fine. Have you double checked to make sure your e-mail information is set up correctly like your password? Regards Dan - Original Message - From: "Wayne Petherick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, A

Re: [expert] Re: [OT] Mini How-To's

2000-04-02 Thread Dan Westlake
It should be http://mandrakeuser.org/ > > Why not send them to Tom at www.mandrake-user.org ? > > > > Hoyt > > The website doesn't seem to work. Does anyone else have this problem? > > > Regards > > > > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to yo

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-06 Thread Dan Westlake
Hi Glyn Change it to append ="mem=32M" then type lilo to run the change and reboot. - Original Message - > This is an old question but for me its a new machine. > > It's an AMd K6 450 with 32 mb RAM (soon to be increased!) > > On firing up Mandrake 7 (with kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk), it te

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-07 Thread Dan Westlake
I don't know why but on some systems you have to go one less than the number. Since below your total is (23 at boot plus 8 meg for video) 31 then try append="mem=31M" and rerun lilo. Then reboot. Regards Dan - Original Message - > > The crash came at re-boot time (after adjusting /etc/l

Re: [expert] Linux frustration

2000-04-16 Thread Dan Westlake
I don't have the url's handy but Linneighborhood works real well and so does kruiser. Regards Dan > Thanks, John... I added 127.0.0.1 to my hosts.allow to make that much easier. > Got Samba/SWAT working now... Now if I could just figure out how to access my > PC from my LINUX... I can access Lin

Re: [expert] lost bootup disk, recover ?

2000-04-23 Thread Dan Westlake
Copy rawrite.exe from the cdrom to a directory on your hard drive and put your new cdrom.img in the same directory on your hard drive. From a dos window in the same directory the command would be rawrite -f cdrom.img -d a: which creates the install disk to install from CDROM. Regards Dan - O

Re: [expert] 128Meg memory problems

2000-05-02 Thread Dan Westlake
I know you mentioned that you tried various append="mem=128M" in lilo.conf, and that you ran /sbin/lilo after. I vaguely recall reading that for some reason on some machines it needs to be 1 less than the actual number. Try append="mem=127M" and run /sbin/lilo again and see if that helps. Rega

Re: [expert] Multiple entries in inetd.conf

2000-05-16 Thread Dan Westlake
Did you just update our version of Samba? SWAT is a html based configuration tool for Samba. - Original Message - > Hi, > I have just been looking at my inetd.conf and found the following on the > end. Can anyone suggest what process may have put them there as I > didn't consciously do

Re: [expert]

2000-06-09 Thread Dan Westlake
I don't know what caused it but I had this happen when I turned off my second drive. Check to make sure both drives are still being detected in your BIOS or that the correct C,H,S (cylenders, heads and sectors) are set. On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Anton Graham wrote: > > > > first letter of LILO "L" the

[expert] Little News Server

2000-06-16 Thread Dan Westlake
I'm close but not quite there. I ran a small Java based news server under Windows for a few small local news groups that I am trying to get working under LM 7.02. I downloaded and installed the JRE1.2.2 and I can run the news server fine from the command line when the system boots up and I have l

Re: [expert] Modem and serial port(s)

2000-06-16 Thread Dan Westlake
If it is one of the older ISA modems that supports both the use of jumpers for configuration and PnP you might try the following if you haven't already. Use the jumpers to configure the modem for COM2 IRQ and disable your build in COM2 in your CMOS setup. Although my modem isn't a USR is is the me

Re: [expert] Apache + CGI = Error?

2000-06-17 Thread Dan Westlake
Pretty well every script written requires that you edit them first to work on your system. Most scripts come with documentaion on what changes you have to make to them when setting them up on your server, most times the documention is comments within the script it's self. Step 1 make sure that t

[expert] KDE2 1.91 and dcopserver

2000-06-18 Thread Dan Westlake
I downloaded the various RPM's for KDE2 1.91 (the only thing I couldn't find was libasound.so.1) but that isn't a biggie. My problem is dcopserver, as soon as I run it to run KDE2 I get this error: networkIdsList argument is NULL what configuration file did I miss editing? Do I require an entry

Re: [expert] Strange problem with the users with Samba

2000-06-30 Thread Dan Westlake
I came in on the tail end of this so I don't know if this pertains to your problem or if I'll be of much help. I'm running LM 6.1 with Samba 2.07 and could access the Linux box fine from my wifes Win95 machine but couldn't access it from my Win98 system. I forgot that the encryped password settin

[expert] Mailing List

2000-07-01 Thread Dan Westlake
Has something happened to the list? I haven't seen 1 message in a couple of days.

Re: [expert] OLD Tape Colorado 250

2000-07-01 Thread Dan Westlake
I haven't used my tape drive in a while so I don't know if this will help. But try the following lsmod (to see if the module zftape or ftape is loaded) modprobe zftape Then try your taper -T zftape after the module is loaded. - Original Message - > Hi! > > I have an old colorado 250 in

Re: [expert] Mailing List

2000-07-01 Thread Dan Westlake
I simply re-suscribed and the messages have returned. - Original Message - > on 6/28/00 4:46 AM, Dan Westlake wrote: > > > Has something happened to the list? I haven't seen 1 message in a couple of > > days. > > > > no problem on my end.

[expert] KDE2 dcopserver error

2000-07-02 Thread Dan Westlake
The first version of KDE2 1.91 I tried I didn't have a problem but ever since the one that came out on June 10th I can't get it to run. When I try to run dcopserver I get the follwoing error: BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dl-version.c:210: _dl_check_map_versions: Assertion `needed != ((void *)0)'