Keyboard Freeze

2003-02-05 Thread Peter
Several months ago when I changed from RH7.2 to RH7.3 the keyboard would freeze when trying to open certain games like tuxracer or invoking some screensavers or doing 'blank screen now' in screensaver window. A lot of suggestion I got from this list, none of which could solve the problem. I the

Authorising a Linux DHCP server in MS Active Directory

2003-02-05 Thread Adam Luchjenbroers
Trying to setup RIS, the current network uses a Linux DHCP server/firewall. RIS requires that both the RIS server and the DHCP server are authorised in Active Directory (the MS documentation states that only a Win2k DHCP server can be authorised - but it's MS documentation, so it wouldn't sugge

Re: Network card and kernel module problems

2003-02-05 Thread whitnl73
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Amin wrote: > Hi people, > > First --- sorry about not including specific error messages earlier. The > attached file is a (snipped) list of bootup messages, and contains the > messages I'm concerned with. > > I've decided to reinstall, perhaps try a different distro, and see

Re: How to install two linux OSes on the same PC

2003-02-05 Thread whitnl73
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Narsimha Reddy CHALLA wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to do two different linux installations rh 7.2 and rh > 8.0 on the same pc with single hard disk. I installed the rh 7.2 in > partitions say /dev/hda5 ( /) , /dev/hda6 (/home) , /dev/hda7 ( > /usr) , > /dev/hda8 ( /tmp)

Re: ppp-go anomoly??

2003-02-05 Thread whitnl73
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Hal -- Look at the logs; usually, pppd (and chat, if your setup uses it) > reports more detail on failures there than what you are seeing at the > command line. It could be something like LCP negotiation timing out. > Speculating as to why it happens some

Re: ppp-go anomoly??

2003-02-05 Thread Ray Olszewski
Hal -- Look at the logs; usually, pppd (and chat, if your setup uses it) reports more detail on failures there than what you are seeing at the command line. It could be something like LCP negotiation timing out. Speculating as to why it happens sometimes but not others is hopeless until you get

Re: partition resides on first track

2003-02-05 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:46 AM 2/5/03 +0100, Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote: Above is returned by fdisk (more or less; I am at a different machine and can't remember exactly). Presumably, this is why trying to install Mandrake 9.0 failed repeatedly at the bootloader stage (with no way out of the installation program

ppp-go anomoly??

2003-02-05 Thread Hal MacArgle
Greetings: Slackware 8.0 w/2.4.13 kernel, using 'pppsetup' to configure - working perfectly for several months.. All of a sudden, for no apparent reason; when invoking 'ppp-go', I get the screen report "Connect script failed" and no cursor.. Entering a ^C, then invoking ppp-go again - starts the

Re: How to install two linux OSes on the same PC

2003-02-05 Thread pa3gcu
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 22:08, Narsimha Reddy CHALLA wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to do two different linux installations rh 7.2 and rh > 8.0 on the same pc with single hard disk. I installed the rh 7.2 in > partitions say /dev/hda5 ( /) , /dev/hda6 (/home) , /dev/hda7 ( > /usr) , > /

partition resides on first track

2003-02-05 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
Above is returned by fdisk (more or less; I am at a different machine and can't remember exactly). Presumably, this is why trying to install Mandrake 9.0 failed repeatedly at the bootloader stage (with no way out of the installation program) and eventually trashed the partition table (now rebui

How to install two linux OSes on the same PC

2003-02-05 Thread Narsimha Reddy CHALLA
Hi All, I want to do two different linux installations rh 7.2 and rh 8.0 on the same pc with single hard disk. I installed the rh 7.2 in partitions say /dev/hda5 ( /) , /dev/hda6 (/home) , /dev/hda7 ( /usr) , /dev/hda8 ( /tmp),... /dev/hda11 etc. But how can I install the rh 8.0 in