I'm the guy who whined about not being able to install 7.1 because of
PS/2 port problems. Well, there was a loose connection in my mouse
which was to blame. I apologize for wasting bandwidth and for the ugly
thoughts I had about the authors of the install routine.
All is not well, of course. I h
think that's characteristic of the download version. I downed both
Linux and Windows versions, and have installed only Windows. It also
complained of not finding the Adabas stuff.
Lane
Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
PS/2 port is broken
or what on my mainboard, but it doesn't work in Windows, either.
I could live with all of the above if only the text install didn't
crash.
Lane
Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
l tackle the project. Thank you for taking the
time to compose so thorough a response.
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ter's name?
b. The college's email address is "emmanuel-college.edu", so I guess
that b is "emmanuel-college" and...
c. ... is "edu".
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ouble-clicked, it said I didn't have room for them! So I
gave up and let it dump everything on there.
So how do you unselect and select at the screen where each individual
program is listed?
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7;m thinking a fresh
install would be in order. But I also suspect I'd be asking for even more
trouble if I reinstalled 7.0-2 with its older stuff. What's the word on
when a 7.1 iso will be available?
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's been some time since I upgraded and got that feature. I did it because
I could not get any SANE-related plugins to show up (they still don't).
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t get to the OK button.
Actually, I don't think the fix is in the Preferences menu, anyway, because
I tarred my .netscape directory at home and copied to the office without
fixing the situation.
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u filled your root partition! That's what
has caused me to get that message. Check its space with df, and if I'm
right, it's time to start deleting some stuff. The easiest tool I've found
for that purpose is mc.
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GXedit, etc.
I've tried a bunch of the easy ones, and I prefer Nedit. The thing I like
best is the long list of previously-edited files that it remembers. The
list can be edited to eliminate obsolete entries.
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s transmitted
via the signature, not an attachment.
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had
to use 124 because my on-board video uses 4M.
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cking up 10 gig drives is a major
undertaking; I generally back up only data, not programs that can be
reinstalled).
FWIW, I have an up-to-date BIOS, and EZdrive does its thing before LILO
runs.
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Vic said:
> What is ViaVoice?
> Where is it?
It is IBM's voice recognition software. I have used the version that
came with Lotus Word Pro for Windows and found it quite capable.
Presumably you can download the Linux version from some IBM site.
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ewhere else (maybe from you), but it said simply
to get a more recent version of mkisofs, which I've done. I still have
yet to set aside the time to try to write a CD with the programs
recently discussed... baseball and hockey, y'know.
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A friend who is not on this list downloaded IBM's ViaVoice for Linux,
and is getting seg faults. He's looking for some help. Is there anyone
on here who's working with this package? If so, I'll tell him to join
the list and post his problems.
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be such an option in printtool. And I'm not so sure about that,
anyway; I don't want lpr adding anything to a 1" margin I set in
WordPerfect.
Comments?
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ve / in one partition and both /etc and /usr in one
separate partition? If so, what goes in fstab?
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id,exec,dev,ro 0 1
(former entries for zip and cdrom removed)
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worked for IDE:
/dev/hdd /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0
..and this is what works for IDE-SCSI:
/dev/sda /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0
But remember, I'm the guy with the ghost in his machine that always
switches him to runlevel 5.
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ensions: RRIP_1991A
And the above gave me the clue I needed for the zip drive: sda is what
it wants to see in fstab:
/dev/sda /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0
I got tired of all the deleting and relinking to /dev/zip, so I just
put /dev/sda in fstab.
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ensions: RRIP_1991A
And the above gave me the clue I needed for the zip drive: sda is
what
it wants to see in fstab:
/dev/sda /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0
I got tired of all the deleting and relinking to /dev/zip, so I just
put /dev/sda in fstab.
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not sure about the ZIP, since I don't have one.
I sure wish you did, because I really need to solve that. But I
appreciate very much your help; it looks like I have CDRW capability
now. Time to do a test CD write!
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s scd0 sr_mod# load sr_mod upon access of scd0
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi # before sg, load ide-scsi
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # before sr_mod, load ide-scsi
Do you see what remains to be done?
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Direct $108-$20 rebate).
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f
> files is probably good advice . . .
I sent my lilo.conf, and my inittab is below my sig.
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id:3:initdefault:
# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1
onder if it could be the linuxconf-setup link. Just before the switch to
runlevel 5, there is some linuxconf stuff, including a line I don't remember
from the original install, "Dropin's commands" or something like that. I =did=
install a newer version of linuxconf.
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SCSI emulation just
> as well as the CDR. You might try SPECIFYING the Zip drive
> as well...
Hey, that's an interesting idea! I'll try it a bit later. Right now I've
managed to screw up the install of Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux that
came today, and I'm
Larry Sword said:
> I suppose it doesn't hurt to ask: You have set the jumper switches on the
> cd-rom and zip drive to the correct master and slave configuration?
It sure doesn't hurt me! Yes, both the BIOS and Win98 recognize the drives
correctly.
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;t do that).
Actually, I included =only= the cd-writer (hdc) in lilo.conf. That's just
one of the strange things about the unspecified zip (hdd) being
"captured" by the ide-scsi thing.
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l 3.) I suspect not, and that 'init' is some "special" magical
> string that will require a more expert expert than me to decipher, but
> I figured we could eliminate the obvious first.
I don't see anything like that in rc.local (copied below sig).
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fstab stuff) that I don't want to change right now.
XCDroast has a nice feature that shows how the devices are being perceived by
the system. As I think I said, I suspect that the cd-writer first gets 0,0 and
then the zip replaces it.
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ormal
append = "init 3"
root = /dev/hdb8
read-only
image = /mnt/mandrake2boot/vmlinuz
label = m2
vga = normal
append = "mem=124M"
root = /dev/hda7
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boot-time
programs.
And /etc/rc.d/rc.5 has symlinks to 15 of the programs in init.d. Here are the
links:
K08autofs@ K50snmpd@ S10network@ S50inet@ S90xfs@
K35smb@ K55routed@ S30syslog@ S60lpd@ S99linuxconf-setup@
K40ldap@ S05kudzu@ S40crond@S75keytable@ S99local@
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Acquire item in the File menu which shows xsane (although it still
doesn't show up in the plugin menu list).
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Stephen F. Bosch said:
> Windows Tetris runs great in Wine!
>
> *LAUGHS*
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job with large publications, and the
day that Corel ports it to Linux will be the day that I can virtually quit
using Windows!
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sure that's true of =some= Windows programs, but it sure isn't true
of Kyodai, a Windows version of Mahjongg. It runs extremely slowly and is
crash-prone. There may be some trick to getting it to work better... I wish I
knew what it was.
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ght show something about switching to
> run-level 5. Perhaps it will give a clue to who is doing it?
I'll the lines from one boot below my sig.
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Apr 9 12:38:52 localhost syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
ows up. I
=think= my solution may be to switch the cd-writer and zip connectors.
Unfortunately, it's not that easy to get into my system, and also I'm sick and
tired of all the experiments I tried with this already. Since almost all of my
cd writing needs are still in Win 98, I've p
it says?
Hey, I'm willing to indulge you guys quite a bit for helping me out.
Here is what "runlevel" says when X is running: # 5
And here's what it says with just the console after I exit X completely: #5
So I guess you're right about the run levels being broken.
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ether or not kudzu was executed. I
turned kudzu off because it slows the boot, and I know I don't have any new
hardware. I have it on right now, because I was recently trying to get my IDE
cd-writer to work (another long story).
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s controlled by the first line in inittab.
Perhaps you haven't been following the whole thread. I've had:
id:3:initdefault:
for a long time without effect. It was not until I commented out:
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
that I finally was able boot without X automatically
24M" because my onboard video
uses 4M.
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t is
running is KDE, not my preferred and previous IceWM. I think I can find
where that is going on and make the change.
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r and from an email list.
http://seanreilly.com/java/moneydance/
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e.net
echo "$R" >> /etc/issue.net
echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $SMP$(uname -m)" >> /etc/issue.net
fi
modprobe ide-scsi
/usr/local/sbin/ledd 1>/dev/null 2>&1 &
(the last line is for the "ledcontrol" daemon that lets me use the Scroll L
a reinstall?
> > John
>
> Whoa -- that's a Micro$oft solution.
>
> Nope -- we need to find out what the problem is, or he'll go and
> reinstall and then something ELSE won't work (and his original problem
> may still exist).
Whew!
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ould install the initscripts and wipe out any customizing I've done, if you
think it's a good idea. Unless the name of the file is initscripts.rpm, I might
need some help identifying it.
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ntain, if so?
Well, I have one, but it seems to be "empty."
#!/bin/sh
#xscreensaver &
#exec icewm
The above was part of an earlier experiment with something else.
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c proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
and
rgrep -i -l -r telinit /dev/pts
didn't turn up anything.
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PWD=/root
COLORFGBG=15;default;0
WINDOWID=41943042
HOSTNAME=localhost
HISTFILESIZE=1000
> We are NOT lookiing for files of the nature
> /home///*,
>nor /var/lib/*.rpm, nor /var/lib/*.db if you elect to
> do this more thorough search.
That looks like all I got.
> Also post the output of
> $ grep "^id:" /etc/inittab
[root@localhost /root]# grep "^
s like errors, and the last
line is like "Waiting for X server to shut down."
I might add that, even with the last line commented out, during the boot
process I still see the line, "INIT: Switching to runlevel 5."
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/dev/hdb8
> > read-only
>
> Again -- have you tried "mx init 3"? Init doesn't know you're talking to it
> unless you say "init".
OK, I tried "mx init 3" with the same result. At one point in the boot it says:
INIT: Switching to runl
> tick.gatech.edu
>
> would work just handily
>
> Leave the rest alone and quit, quit, activate changes.
Linuxconf complained that it couldn't find rdate, and indeed it doesn't seem to
be on my system. I installed everything-but-server-Mandrake. A search at
freshme
arger
I can see, I can see! What a wonderful difference that makes! I have
deteriorated vision, and the new fonts are really terrific.
I find puzzling the instructions to create a directory and edit the makefile.
The standard install using "make install" took care of everything.
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ettings and whether you want to boot directly into X or go straight to the
> command line.
The X Configuration button just provides resolution choices for me. If I click
the Linuxconf button, then it presents "Init default runlevel" options.
However, I've had that set to 3 for some
124M"
root = /dev/hda7
Something somewhere in my system is overriding the usual controls of whether
Linux boots just to the console or autostarts X. No one knows just what that
is.
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Entering "mx 3" does not prevent X from autostarting. Here is the lilo.conf
stanza:
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk
label = mx
vga = normal
append = "mem=124M"
root = /dev/hdb8
read-only
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Civileme said:
> "rdate -s (yourfavoritetimeserver); hwclock --systohc" (without
What is a good choice for "yourfavoritetimeserver"? Please give the full URL or
whatever goes in the linuxconf field.
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h doesn't work)
or win (Win98).
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.xsession to start programs with X, but it
seems that Mandrake ignores that one and only responds to .xinitrc.
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n
After I rebooted, sure enough, I stayed in the console. However, when I
executed startx, X started to the gray screen and then crashed back to the
console!
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Tom Berkley said:
> What are the last two lines in your /etc/inittab?
# Run xdm in runlevel 5
# xdm is now a separate service
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
Is that it?
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hat could be overriding the inittab line?
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nner. I presume their
devices have changed, but I can't figure out to what. Suggestions?
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Deim Ágoston said:
> the Linux version of Pegasus Mail.
I'm not aware that there is such a version.
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on, and a
terrific program will be available. Visit the home page at:
http://cyberdeck.org/cscmail/index2.html
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cate command instead of find.
Yes! Sometimes I'll install a new program and not know where it ended up. I'll
go ahead and do an 'updatedb' so that I can use 'locate' on it. I have /mnt
excluded from the search, so that speeds things up quite a bit by ignoring my
ab:
Default Gateway (checked)
Assign... (checked)
Put your full email address in the Login ID field on the main window.
That's it!
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Civileme said:
> Lane Lester wrote:
> >
> > Both on the Internet and in local documents, I often need to insert the
> > same information. I have an excellent utility in Windows, ActiveWords,
that
> > traps keyboard input, and auto-completes strings of text when it
nks for making me take a look. I found the following in cron.daily, which
seems to control the process. I was glad to pull it up, because I had been
meaning to add /mnt to the list to be excluded:
/usr/bin/slocate -u -f "nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts" -e
"/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,
de the office
desktop.
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rict the search for a
precise set of characters (I didn't find it in the man page... at least not so
I could understand it).
For example, I was looking for "core" files to delete, and locate gave me a
flock of "corel" entries.
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receptions?
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I have made a number of application substitutions in my long-range goal of
moving from Windows to Linux. One of the jobs I have to do fairly often is
scanning printed pages into documents that can be edited. Are there any OCR
applications for Linux?
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Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
arameters, a big nuisance for an X user.
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nu, and that at least got me down
to 2 clicks.
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oint, I had to use mem=124M
because my onboard video uses 4M
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ould have answered a few more
questions like:
Is this machine a laptop? No, so forget pmcia.
Are you going to operate a newsgroup server? No, so off with innd.
Etc.
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Brian T. Schellenberger said:
> All you need to do is to run an ftp server on your Linux machine and
> then use FTP on the Windows machine to send 'em . . .
>
> But if it's small ascii files, then just send them in e-mail. That's
> even easier!
Good grief! O
List Price: $29.95
>Our Price: $23.96
Thanks for the reference. Since I need to share small ASCII files (a detail
I neglected to mention), I'm hoping for a solution that won't cost me $25.
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rk is between netstat
and ntalk, and it's Automatic and Running.
Oh, yes, regarding innd, it's also Automatic and Running, and if I click on
it, Linuxconf crashes... it's evidently a Gnome version of Linuxconf.
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John Aldrich said:
> UmmI think "network" is pretty self-explanatory, don't you?
Well, I think it refers to two or more computers hooked together, but since
that presumably includes dialup, it seems like a good service to have
running even on a standalone machine.
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accessing
> online directory services.
Am I correct that this is not used by a standalone machine with only dialup
access to the Internet?
> network - Huh? what are you referring to?
Beats me, but it's right there in DrakConf's list, between netfs and
numlock.
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ve an account at FreeDrive, and the purpose could be accomplished with
that. However, it would be somewhat unwieldy, and I'm wondering if there's
a more streamlined approach.
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ful, but it still leaves dhcpd, innd, kudzu, ldap,
network, postfix, usb, and xntpd unexplained!
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do... omigosh, are you going to say, "man [name]"?
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> I'm afraid you still have to wander through the manuals to do the thing!
Well, if I have to, I have to. :-)
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estion on the newbie list, but no one seemed to know
the answer.
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