Re: [newbie] Did the Lothar project get onto Mandrake's 6.0?

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
  Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Linda and Mike wrote: > My subject line tells it all? No, because it's not yet generally usable. It's more likely to make it for 6.1... LLaP bero Why was it said at the Mandrake site that it would have "Lothar" I've been looking all over my CD'

Re: [newbie] boot disks?

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
Jeremy Mann wrote: > > At 06:51 PM 6/24/99 -0500, you wrote: > > >I'm thinking more on the lines of a self-contained mini > >kernel and a very small editor... > > Found it sooner than I thought ;) > > http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/05/20/927180998.html > > CCLinux. Just what you were

Re: [newbie] can someone tell me?

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
I was thinking this was a linux list, sorry Jeanette - Original Message - From: Hugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 8:28 PM Subject: [newbie] can someone tell me? > Hi all, > I was wondering if we had a list for linux users? I had problems

RE: [newbie] Mandrake and DSL

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
well, when I was on US West, the cisco 675 was a bridge, not a router, so it has no IP of it's own.  you need to set the computer to DHCP.  I dunno how to do that in Linux except at install, but I'm 99% sure if you are assigning a IP to a us west dsl bridge it's wrong.  How is your win box s

Re: [newbie] boot disks?

1999-06-24 Thread Lloyd
John Aldrich wrote: > > Sure... its' called "rescue.img." :-) Download it from your favorite FTP > site (i.e. one of the RedHat or other distro mirror sites) or get it off > your CD if you have one and load it onto a disk with rawrite and use it in > conjunction with the disk made from the "boot.

Re: [newbie] discovery of the boot problem--FINALLY!!!

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
Thanks for the hint. I don't have a turbo switch but by setting the PIO mode for the IDE channels in the BIOS setup screen I was able to boot. Now I am experimenting on how high I can set the PIO mode. So far I am up to PIO mode 3 no DMA for the hard drives PIO 0 no DMA for the CD-ROM. A cas

Re: [newbie] kppp

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
Still no luck. I am using the login script that you suggested with one modification. Each time I tried to log into MSN I got a 'bad password' error. After checking and rechecking I established that the password is the same one that I use to connect to MSN through Window 98. I removed the 'expe

Re: [newbie] Installing kernel RPMs

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
On 24 Jun, Flight16 wrote: > > I just upgraded my kernel via an RPM, but the old kernel still loads. How > do you get the new kernel to work? > > Flight16 > U might have to edit lilo.conf adn run lilo to let the mbr know where ur new partition is if u r not comfortable editing lilo.conf d

Re: [newbie] boot disks?

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
There are actually a bunch of mini-distributions that can be used for rescue/boot purposes...there are some that even run X! look for tomsrtbt and go to hteir webpage...they have links to other mini-distributions on one/two/several floppies (example : tomsrtbt, loaf, lrp, mulinux, cclinux, et

[newbie] kernel upgrade

1999-06-24 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
I installed the latest kernel RPM, 2.2.9-27 and there's no problem installing, recompiling, etc. The problem I'm having is with the modules. I do a "make modles" and "make modules_install" and the modules get installed to the old module directory instead of the new one. Any ideas? Or does it matte

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and DSL

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
Well, if the Cisco is anything like my Netgear router (ISDN) you'll need to assign an IP address to it. The IP address for my Netgear ISDN Router INSIDE is 192.168.0.1. I manage this box by telnetting to it at the aforementioned address. My Ethernet is 192.168.0.x, where x is greater than 1, but l

Re: [newbie] Did the Lothar project get onto Mandrake's 6.0?

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Linda and Mike wrote: > My subject line tells it all? No, because it's not yet generally usable. It's more likely to make it for 6.1... LLaP bero

[newbie] Did the Lothar project get onto Mandrake's 6.0?

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
Bero, My subject line tells it all? I still have 5.3 on my computer. Linda At 12:52 AM 6/26/99 +0200, you wrote: >On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, jsm wrote: > >> Being new to Linux , I've noticed ( I don't think it's my imagination ) >> that the internet is much faster that Win98 with the same hardware

Re: [newbie] Newbie internet ????

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, jsm wrote: > Being new to Linux , I've noticed ( I don't think it's my imagination ) > that the internet is much faster that Win98 with the same hardware . > Can someone explain why ? Easy - the TCP/IP stack of Windoze sucks as much as the rest of the OS. ;) And Windoze do

Re: [newbie] Boot disk creation

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
except generally a dos prompt won't work, you have to reboot into dos mode. It's a memory addressing problem as far as I can tell. As a result, you can't do this from NT :-( Don -- On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, you wrote: > when the floppy is formatted..it won't be bootable unless you do a

[newbie] Newbie internet ????

1999-06-24 Thread jsm
Being new to Linux , I've noticed ( I don't think it's my imagination ) that the internet is much faster that Win98 with the same hardware . Can someone explain why ? Thanks !! Jeff

Re: [newbie] Boot disk creation

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
when the floppy is formatted..it won't be bootable unless you do a full format.. a quick format won't be bootable. are you doing "rawrite" from a dos promt ? if not cd to the drive that is the cdrom then cd to \dosutils ...enter command "rawrite.exe" ...it will ask where the image file is...on re

Re: [newbie] Core Dump

1999-06-24 Thread Suryo Mataram
Thanx for the info guys. I'll be real carefull with this "core" >> When something crashes or exits abnormally it may "core dump"... >> I'm no expert but I think this is the programms way of trying to preserve >> debugging or unsaved info? ..in anycase, you'll be left with a file

RE: [newbie] Mandrake and DSL

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
Aaron do you mean all I need to do is change the eth0 interface to a DHCP protocol ? Or is there more to setting up DHCP than that. The information I have listed below regarding the Cisco is right out of the USWest book and does get the Router logged in.   I just need to make the Linux box

RE: [newbie] Mandrake and DSL

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
You've answered your own question, you don't have an IP so why are you setting one?  You need to set up DHCP -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rich McCabeSent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 11:40 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newb

[newbie] Mandrake and DSL

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
Can some one give me the information (step by step) to get my Linux machine hooked up to my DSL line. I am lost and have tried everything. Either it is a very complicated process or I have missed something obvious.   My current setup is:   Mandrake 6.0 with two ethernet cards   eth1 IP a

[newbie] Something to look into?

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
This was taken from LWN: There have been consistent reports of file corruption errors in 2.2.9 and beyond. This is a strange problem - it affects relatively few people, and has proved to be very hard to nail down. It was initially tho

Re: [newbie] Boot disk creation

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, you wrote: > Hi, > first time I've strayed from MS and I'm stuck. > Six attempts to install 6.0 and they all hang at the mouseconfig screen. > Apparently I have installed it but not configured it. Unfortunately I didn't get to > the creation of the bootdisk so my ques

Re: [newbie] using xwindows instead of kde

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
I guess most of your questions will be answered if you look on the web page, or more importantly (since you have the mandrake 6 cd) by installing mandrake 6. Upon installing it I learned that it comes with kde, gnome, afterstep, ice, etc etc - all nice managers. If you did the default install yo

Re: [newbie] using xwindows instead of kde

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Matt Stegman wrote: > - Original Message - > From: Michael Asbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [newbie] using xwindows instead of kde > > > > two further simple questions: > > > > 1) kdm what is it and how do I 'fire it up'? > >what does kdm stand for?

Re: [newbie] pager in enlightenment

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Alex Brown wrote: > > Anyone know how to get the enlightenment pager running in the mandrake > gnome/enlightenment setup??? > > I used to use E15.5 on RH5.2, and it was there in that but not under > Mandrakeis it even compiled in to the Mandrake rpm I wonder? > The

Re: [newbie] pager in enlightenment

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Mike Abney wrote: > Alex Brown wrote: > > > > Anyone know how to get the enlightenment pager running in the mandrake > > gnome/enlightenment setup??? > > > > I used to use E15.5 on RH5.2, and it was there in that but not under > > Mandrakeis it even compiled in to the

Re: [newbie] using xwindows instead of kde

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Michael Asbridge wrote: > 1) kdm what is it It's a GUI login tool that also lets you select which environment you want to use. > and how do I 'fire it up'? Just type kdm, or init 5 >what does kdm stand for? KDE Display Manager > 2) What other windows managers does l

Re: [newbie] pager in enlightenment

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
Alex Brown wrote: > > Anyone know how to get the enlightenment pager running in the mandrake > gnome/enlightenment setup??? > > I used to use E15.5 on RH5.2, and it was there in that but not under > Mandrakeis it even compiled in to the Mandrake rpm I wonder? According to what I've heard fr

[newbie] kppp & callback

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
Hi all, i've a problem with my provider. He has installed a M$-like callback protocol. I'm not allowed to use it, but since it was installed, kppp in not more able to connect to the server. It seems that kppp receives a "^F" signal before authentication and stops connection. Any suggestion? by

[newbie] Boot disk creation

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
Hi, first time I've strayed from MS and I'm stuck. Six attempts to install 6.0 and they all hang at the mouseconfig screen. Apparently I have installed it but not configured it. Unfortunately I didn't get to the creation of the bootdisk so my question is how to do this from DOS in the

Re: [newbie] using xwindows instead of kde

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
- Original Message - From: Michael Asbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [newbie] using xwindows instead of kde > two further simple questions: > > 1) kdm what is it and how do I 'fire it up'? >what does kdm stand for? >do you mean I just boot up linux and log in as root--and

Re: [newbie] Core Dump

1999-06-24 Thread Andrea Celli
Suryo Mataram wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm new with LINUX. Can anyone tell me what Core Dump is all about? > Many thank's in advance. > > Suryo Mataram. It means a program crashed and a map of memory has been saved in order to detect the problem: the core file. Unless you are a guru or the pro

[newbie] Not Mandrake Related

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
This is a general linux question. What does /dev/zero do? I've found that if I type in cat /dev/zero > myfile.tmp it can create a very big file! Jason

Re: [newbie] using xwindows instead of kde

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, you wrote: > two further simple questions: > > 1) kdm what is it and how do I 'fire it up'? >what does kdm stand for? >do you mean I just boot up linux and log in as root--and then what? >or do I just go into the kde and do it from there? I quote from the docs: W

[newbie] Suggestion to Mandrakesoft

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
It seems from this list that several people have had trouble getting Venus to boot, myself included. The problem seems to stem from LM6s hard drive optimization routine. Is it possible to provide a revised initscript with that part commented out? A note could be added telling users how to change i

[newbie] pager in enlightenment

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
Anyone know how to get the enlightenment pager running in the mandrake gnome/enlightenment setup??? I used to use E15.5 on RH5.2, and it was there in that but not under Mandrakeis it even compiled in to the Mandrake rpm I wonder?

Re: [newbie] Core Dump

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
- Original Message - From: Alex Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Core Dump > On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Suryo Mataram wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I'm new with LINUX. Can anyone tell me what Core Dump is all

Re: [newbie] using xwindows instead of kde

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
two further simple questions: 1) kdm what is it and how do I 'fire it up'? what does kdm stand for? do you mean I just boot up linux and log in as root--and then what? or do I just go into the kde and do it from there? basic questions I know! 2) What other windows managers does linux-m

Re: [newbie] using xwindows instead of kde

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
two further simple questions: 1) kdm what is it and how do I 'fire it up'? what does kdm stand for? do you mean I just boot up linux and log in as root--and then what? or do I just go into the kde and do it from there? basic questions I know! 2) What other windows managers does linux-m

Re: [newbie] Core Dump

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Suryo Mataram wrote: > Hi all, > I'm new with LINUX. Can anyone tell me what Core Dump is all about? > Many thank's in advance. > > Suryo Mataram. > > When something crashes or exits abnormally it may "core dump"... I'm no expert but I think this is the programms way

Re: [newbie] perl..

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
in the dir where your perl script is: "./perlscript.pl" but make sure that the first line of the script ie the path to the perl executible is correct do a "which perl" to checkI noticed that I had to change this when I used perl scipts form my solaris system on my linux system. On Wed,