Re: [expert] Advice on Mobo

2000-09-28 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
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Re: [expert] will pci hardware modems work under kernel 2.4?

2000-09-27 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
with only PCI and AGP slots that had serial ports I concur. I would even say that I personally NEVER saw ANY motherboard (with or without ISA) without not one but TWO serial ports (which are usually built into the southbridge chip anyway). -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74

Re: [expert] Eating Crow with mandrake 7.2 beta and sound issues

2000-09-14 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
e: the above is just an example, DON'T try to write to "raw" /dev/hda1, the write would work but would likely destroy your existing partition ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Eating Crow with mandrake 7.2 beta and sound issues

2000-09-14 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
-session _data_ disks. What I really meant is: to _use_ an audio cd (for music) you don't _need_ to mount it. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [OT] .bw? was (Re: [expert] ncftpget firewall problem)

2000-09-14 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
"Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: Out of curiosity, what country is .bw? That's BOTSWANA (in Africa) Please see URL: http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/general/africa.html -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan Keep in touch

Re: [OT] .bw? was (Re: [expert] ncftpget firewall problem)

2000-09-14 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
"Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: Out of curiosity, what country is .bw? That's BOTSWANA (in Africa) Please see URL: http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/general/africa.html -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan Keep in touch

Re: [expert] Maximum file size

2000-09-06 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
and magneto-opticals). Or alternatively, you could organize your backup to be segmented in "slices" of less than 2GB. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Insanely Large ( 33GB) IDE disk Mandrake

2000-09-06 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
it should work. Now, _booting_ is something else ... lilo uses BIOS calls to load the kernel, so you have to make sure that your BIOS correctly sees the disk. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: Unresolved symbols (was: RE: [expert] Mylex DAC960 root device)

2000-08-30 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
t want to reboot, I'm not sure that the new module _can_ work with your previous kernel. If it can, I guess you could try to replace the System.map under /boot for modprobe to use. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] where find X 4.01 in RPM

2000-08-30 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Maximo Monsalvo wrote: where find X 4.01 in RPM http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ByName.html -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Partage de fichiers avec NFS entre linux et solaris

2000-08-30 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
" and "debutant" are very different words, "expert" spells exactly the same in English and French ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Linux free ISP's

2000-08-30 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
(of course, many of the sites I do visit, also carry ads, but that's another story ... hint: you can get rid of most of it, on Linux at least, with a few filters in your ipchains). -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Anyone have a Motif license?

2000-08-25 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
rself from www.openmotif.org -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

[Fwd: [expert] Anyone have a Motif license?]

2000-08-25 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Jean-Louis Debert wrote: You DON'T need a Motif license anymore, or rather, the Motif licensing changed lately (somewhen during the 1st half of 2000) and Motif is now free for use on Linux and any other open-source OS. So, you can download Motif yourself from www.openmotif.org Scratch

Re: [expert] AMD K7 Athelon vs. Intel PIII and Linux?

2000-08-24 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
defeat its purpose IMHO. But the K6-3 also has 256K of _L2_ cache (yep, level 2, the cache on the MB, if any, is level 3) running at full processor speed. This is a bit like the Celeron, which only has 128K of L2 cache on-chip. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] bus speed

2000-08-22 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
both edges of the clock). what does this mean? Can I set the bus speed to 133MHz by simply adding "idebus=133" at boot time? will everythign still work properly? Don't ever do this !!! You could at the very least, lose data, and very possibly __fry__ your hardware ... -- Jean-Lo

Re: [expert] G400 Boot Problems

2000-08-17 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
your mainboard chipset and video chipset). Anyway the agpgart is _not_ supported by any 2.2.x kernel as in Mandrake distribution, it's _only_ supported by _development_ kernels. You have been warned ... If you just ignore the message, your XFree will still work, only it will _not_ use any 3D

Re: [expert] Creating PDF Dcouments

2000-08-15 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
automagically by defining a "pseudo-printer" device with proper gs options ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] howdo I single boot?

2000-08-15 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
kernel without asking you, you can remove the prompt in lilo specification, and/or specify a zero delay. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Modems For PCI Slots?

2000-08-10 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Tim Litwiller wrote: and the low end motherboards have no isa and no serial ports, only pci and usb. While it's true that you see more and more MBs without ISA slot, I _never_ ever saw any without a serial port ... Could you please give us examples (to be avoided ...) ??? -- Jean-Louis

Re: [expert] Sites for FTP/HTTP install (for UltraSparc)

2000-08-09 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
CClinux at http://www.CosmicChaos.com/CClinux/index.shtml etc So, if you can have the use of a PC for the time it takes to install (I'd say one or two hours) your problem is solved ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] SCSI CD install problem on UltraSparc

2000-08-04 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
er ID (say, 3 or 4) just to check ??? -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] are there any dos emulators??

2000-08-03 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
ram though, there is usually no difficulty at all (apart from initial dosemu configuration). -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Full permission to VFAT partitions

2000-08-03 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Stephen Bosch wrote: General rule: If it's not HP-PCL or PostScript, you are going to have trouble running it on Linux. Again, that's not a general rule: most Epson printers are neither, and most print _perfectly_ with Linux. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse

Re: [expert]

2000-08-02 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
ivers too) don't use the BIOS after initialization. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] XFree86 4.01 and Mandrake 7.1 fontserver

2000-08-02 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
it should still work if configured properly). For more info: man XF86Config -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] FreeBSD

2000-07-28 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
the partition in the partition table(s) on the disk, it will not make a filesystem ... (this is not specific to ufs, it would be the same with _any_ filesystem type). Even with M$-DOG, you have to execute fdisk _then_ format. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-27 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
John Aldrich wrote: Hey, speaking of the ORIGINAL topic here anyone remember MFM hard drives??? And by the way, you __can__ support such beasts (if you have any) in Linux, using the "XT hard drive" driver. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France

Re: [expert] Change X-Resolution Fails

2000-07-27 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Jeff Malka wrote: Newbie dumb question: How do you find out which version you are running? $ X -probeonly will tell you all about your X server. (as the output is rather lengthy, better redirect it to a file ...) -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France

Re: [expert] unable to mount CDROM

2000-07-27 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
stfixed. I have tried mounting /dev/hdc , /dev/scd0 etc but same results. Stupid question, but ... Are you __sure__ your drive is still connected to hdc (maybe the cable disconnected when you moved the machine ???) -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Running an X app from remote host

2000-07-26 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
= local-host-ip:0 -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] XFree 4.0 wheel mouse issue

2000-07-24 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] MKNOD

2000-07-24 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
with a symbolic link ??? e.g. (as root)# cd /dev; ln -sf video0 video This should work, as there are already some of these links in /dev -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] XFree 4.0 wheel mouse issue

2000-07-23 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
(for this functionality) between Xfree 3.x and 4.0, is that XFree 4.0 supports natively more buttons, so that I can code directly: ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7(for the two wheels of my mouse). -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] SUCCESS believe it or not

2000-07-18 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
doesn't have (yet...) a specific driver. It only requires that you have a VESA BIOS 2.x or more (it uses VESA BIOS extensions to find hardware setup parameters) and allows you to support all modes supported by your card's BIOS, but _without_ any hardware acceleration. -- Jean-Louis Debert

Re: [expert] LM 7.1 and Tekram DC-390 SCSI controller

2000-07-17 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
tely at the bottom of the list. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Good vidoe card to use

2000-07-17 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
, in Linux, I wouldn't know about Windows 2000 :-) If you have a problem with this card it _must_ be something specific to your system (e.g. I/O port or interrupt conflict ... but if that, it can usually be overcome using BIOS setup). -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France

Re: [expert] SUCCESS believe it or not

2000-07-17 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
7.1. GO figure. I repeat, I also have a Voodoo Banshee and I had no problem whatsoever when installing 7.1. So it must be something specific to your system. Did you activate VGA IRQ in your BIOS ? -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Tape Backup

2000-07-17 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
uot;). By the way, you mailer is screwed up: it produces unusable "To" and "Reply to" addresses in the headers... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] SLOW boot

2000-07-17 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
it or not using linuxconf. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] CD burner Howto..

2000-07-15 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
the device where your CD burner is. The hdd on the article was just an example. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1

2000-07-10 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
RTFM first ... Also, I agree that in a few more months (?) the question will become irrelevant as more and more new mobos don't even _have_ any ISA slot ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] root file/dir permission screwup

2000-07-03 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
is message on the list. Is there a "loop" somewhere ??? -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Assigning IRQ to PCI NIC

2000-06-30 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
, because you are _not_ supposed to do it yourself, it's normally the PCI controller that arbitrates this ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Attn: Civileme Again

2000-06-30 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
the normal ide driver (ide-cd.o) and the normal /dev/hdx or any link pointing to it. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Metro-X

2000-06-30 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Netscape is running or not, you can check access to the Internet by, e.g., ping www.some.hostname -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] netscape fonts.

2000-06-26 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
). -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] netscape fonts.

2000-06-26 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
the config is supposed to be in the XF86Config file, unless redirected by orders in XF86Config itself). -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Fwd: Can't Install 7.1

2000-06-26 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
be too difficult to find (or possibly to make yourself). I do believe that most serial mouses have exactly the same micro-controller and program as the PS/2 ones, so it should be only a plug problem (not even an electrical one IMHO). -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse

Re: [expert] apm

2000-06-26 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Matt Stegman wrote: Or better yet, `mv S75apmd K75apmd` so that you don't lose the link, but apmd still will not run. Or better yet, use something other than S or K as first character S(tart) is for Starting the daemon, and K(ill) for stopping it. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL

Re: [expert] mc listing and rpm problem

2000-06-21 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
uot; attributes set, EVEN when I mount the fs with "noexec". This prevents me from browsing the .rpm's on the CD. Any ideas ? -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Creative CDRW 4224 problems!

2000-06-15 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
to support, the K6-3. If this changes anything the culprit is more likely the chipset than the K6-3 itself ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Old Netscape and Java

2000-06-15 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
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Re: [expert] Old Netscape and Java

2000-06-15 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
"Alan N." wrote: Make sure 75dpi fonts are installed. No, it's the 100dpi fonts 75dpi are almost always installed by default for most screens (unless you're using a 40-inch display ???) It happened to a number of people. Right, it's becoming a FAQ now ... -- Jean-Lo

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 Plus -- LinuxLAND

2000-06-09 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
=www.LLand.com At least the two others (LinuxMart and LinuxMall do use Linux ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] stupid IPMASQ question

2000-06-07 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
ase forget it ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] not able to set up udf filesystem.

2000-06-04 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
know about UDF (it has recognized it as a filesystem), it just says that it doesn't know WHERE it is ... Conclusion: you have first to _make_ the filesystem (with mkudf) then _mount_ it with proper options (-t udf, maybe -o loop) and don't bother with modprobe at all. -- Jean-Louis Debert

Re: [expert] Xfree86 programming info.

2000-05-31 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
this would be a good start point for your project. Have a look at: http://x.mame.net -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] High definition console

2000-05-29 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
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Re: [expert] High definition console

2000-05-29 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
the penguin ?? Sure I like it, but this has nothing to do with _working_ with it ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] chown for normal users

2000-05-19 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
n _delete_ a file that you cannot even access (or _rename_ it), as long as you have permissions on the _directory_. At the very beginning when I was tackling Unix concepts, I used to think that it was a bug, but it is not ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] GNOME instead of KDE...

2000-05-18 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 17-May-00 by Harlan Whitley: | [-- octet-filter file type: "MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows" --] | | WINA20.386: DOS/Windows executable Excuse me, but *what* is this? Some virus ??? -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PRO

Re: [expert] X 4.0 update from Cooker RPM's

2000-05-01 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
to boot (with DRI) which you DON'T get with 3.3.6 -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] VCD Player

2000-04-30 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
program, maybe with a little less functionality (e.g. if I remember well, you cannot do pause ...) -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [newbie] Re: [expert] VCD Player

2000-04-30 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
VCD format, and you specify the _device_ (e.g. /dev/scd0) not the file. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Howto integrate new settings in homebrew ISO?

2000-04-27 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
ew install cd-rom suited to your own network, then as I see it, this also requires modification of the install script themselves so as not to ask for pre-configured values ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Two Directories on Same Partition?

2000-04-25 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
u can see the method ...) 2. there is AFAIK no way to put /etc in a different partition from / because /etc is needed at once at boot time, before filesystems other than / are mounted. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Howto integrate new settings in homebrew ISO?

2000-04-25 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
f you have enough work disk space) you can check it by mounting it with "loopback". 4. when you are satisfied, you can burn it. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] cdrecord CD-RW problems

2000-04-25 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
physically_ (indexes or such) so that the max available for data is about 525 MB or so ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Howto integrate new settings in homebrew ISO?

2000-04-25 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
DCH wrote: Jean-Louis Debert wrote: To manage this: 1. mount your CD normally, as a normal iso9660 fs. Note. now it's too late, but you _could_ have done it _before_ burning anything, by mounting your cd _image_ with the "loopback" option. This may be useful later on.

Re: [expert] Network card causes modem to disappear

2000-04-19 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
er because the wrong device would answer ? The PCI arbitration is supposed to resolve this too, but maybe the devices _CAN'T_ use any other address, in which case you are screwed ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Stop using kdm

2000-04-19 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
u probably can find some *getty in ps output. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Intel Chip Types (was) Mandrake sub-optimized for i686?

2000-04-19 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
it be like the 486's ??? I had once a 486S (DX-2/66) and the S was for "SL Enhanced" which was some power saving feature. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Stop using kdm

2000-04-19 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
, you might prevent most of your users to EVER use console mode, and _this_ can have security advantages ... OTOH, of course, there might be valid reasons that your users have to have console mode. YMMV -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] CD-RW UDF?

2000-04-17 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
ts/udf/ However it does NOT yet support writing on CD-RW drives, only as yet on HD, floppy and MO drives. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] More Serial Null modem Problems.

2000-04-17 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
those you won't be able to connect to the Internet at the same time that you have your link running. Better use either 192.168.x.y, or 10.x.y.z, which are reserved on the whole Internet for just this purpose. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Re: The right way to do a private network

2000-04-17 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
uted (the correct naming is "private networks"), is RFC 1918 (which obsoletes RFC 1597). See http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/rfc/ For class A networks, the legal private network address is 10.x.y.z, not 90 ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] reconfiguring disk

2000-04-16 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
values. Fortunately, modern disks (and BIOS and OS's) use LBA (logical block adressing) which is simply a 32-bit sector counter in ANOTHER FIELD, and simply DON'T use cyl-head-trk values at all. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] deb packages

2000-04-14 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
executable, you can mount the CD but _all_ files (and directories !!!) are executable and you can't change it in Linux ... so I have to copy the .rpm files from the CD to my HD first (and alter their permissions) to be able to use mc on them. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse

Re: [expert] Unzipping a file

2000-04-14 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
package. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Unzipping a file

2000-04-13 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
- -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Follow-up - Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-13 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
can make sure that a boot kernel will be physically below the limit. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Null Modem Serial connections.

2000-04-12 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
o ifconfig yourself on device sl0 -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] You people just don't get it

2000-04-11 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
config. For beginners there is ANOTHER list, in fact there are several as there are language-specific versions. So, my point is that beginners DON'T BELONG HERE ... or at least they should avoid to advertise themselves with LOUD messages. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74

Re: [expert] Unzipping a file

2000-04-11 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Wayne Petherick wrote: How do I unpack a file with a .tar.bz2 extension? bzip2 -cd yourfile.tar.bz2 | tar -xf - -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [Re: [expert] Solved! - was: Refuses to install... :-(]]

2000-04-10 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
support UDMA at all (it might support DMA). Please check with cd-rom doc. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Encrypt utility missing....

2000-04-10 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
e you sure it's a standalone utility ? As far as I remember, the crypt() function is part of the (g)libc, so you can use it in any development environment. As to Mandrake, I guess that it also uses PAM modules, so have a look into this too ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74

Re: [expert] Solved! - was: Refuses to install... :-(]

2000-04-07 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
??? (It may only support _DMA_ which is not the same thing). As for myself I can choose in the BIOS (AWARD 4.51PG) either PIO or UDMA (or AUTO) for each _device_, not each _controller_. So I disabled UDMA for the CDROM on hdd, but it is still active for both disks on hda and hdc. -- Jean-Louis

Re: [expert] Multiple VGA Cards = Multiple X sessions ?

2000-04-05 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
have several keyboards in a PC, and each X server probably needs one ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

[expert] Where is tdfx.o ?

2000-03-20 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
uot;tdfx.o" kernel module ? -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] OT linux filesystems

2000-03-15 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
for some exaplanation (since I didn't see why my post would trigger moderation) and have yet to receive any answer ... Besides, my original post _did_ appear on the list anyway ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Lost interrupt revisited

2000-03-07 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
) While it is not exactly the same problem, it has also to do with "lost interrupt" and it seems to be a pure hardware problem. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Monitor config Problems

2000-03-01 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
this is probably less a problem with the memory amount than it is with dot clock, but the result is the same: if you raise either the resolution or the color depth, the chipset is unable to follow ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Network Question:

2000-03-01 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
workplace PC, and configure it (the workplace PC) as a router/firewall for your home PC ??? That's easy to do with Linux (IP masq) and the home PC wouldn't even know the difference, even if it runs Windows ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Network Question:

2000-03-01 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
for the utilities (man ipchains) and the HOWTOs: . IP Masquerading mini-Howto . IPCHAINS Howto and of course you still have newsgroups and ML (such as here) for more help ... but please read the doc FIRST !!! -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-01 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
bing hangs ...) so it is _always_ a good idea to re-compile your own kernel after install, so that to have only drivers you actually use. As to install itself (which runs under linux too) the root device is the _ramdisk_ so again, it doesn't need scsi to boot, even if you have only scsi disks ... --

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-01 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
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Re: [expert] Network Question:

2000-02-29 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
charging you for the modem connection, that's okay ... and if by chance you have a toll free number to your workplace, you may even avoid the phone line charge ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.72 -- which one for Mandrake 7.0

2000-02-25 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Andrew Post wrote: Despite being a glibc distribution, I believe that Mandrake packages the libc5 version of Netscape because it's more stable. There are also some plugins (e.g. Acrobat Reader) which AFAIK are only available for libc5 Netscape ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL

Re: [expert] Getting the eepro100 pci to work

2000-02-23 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Rich Clark wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Jean-Louis Debert wrote: Re-read the thread *carefully*. He's already told us that it's not jumpered and there's no software config available. Please read again yourself: what about this "DOS setup program" he talks about ??? -- Jean-Lo

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