On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Matthew A Stegman wrote:
> Ah-ha! At last, oh long last, I have Internet access from Linux once
> again! Ah, I am filled with elation, joy, happiness, etc.
>
> I think I managed to upgrade the DHCP client, but I'm not sure. I booted
> into Windows, jotted down the info,
OK
You have selected install. One way to avoid the problem is to choose
"Workstation" and let the installer worry about the unformatted or non-windows
partitions. The second way is to select CUSTOM and use Disk Druid.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES select SERVER, because this installation wipes you
Civileme wrote:
> The mileage of others may vary. The trick is to remember that your initial
> partitioning cannot be changed without a full backup/clean wipe. On the other
Sure it can--just use partition magic (and, of course, re-run lilo).
--
Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Med
Woo Hoo
A 10 G HDD for LM all its own? And this is a STANDALONE?
OK try 127M for Swap, 42M for /boot 2G for /usr 3G for / (since you have
/pub, /opt, and /var folded into it), and give the balance to /home. If ever
you run a server, you have plenty of space in /home for web sites and ftp
s
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> There is something wrong with kfm's ftp function. It used to be (in mandrake
> 5.3) that I can do:
>
> ftp://myusername@myserver/
>
> And I'd be able to ftp to and fro with impunity - as long as I stuck to my
> user's access rights.
>
> However,
Would the ftp command look something like this instead
ftp://myusername:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ???
Thanks,
James
-Original Message-
From: Kuraiken
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 6:41 PM
To: Newbie Support
Subject:[newbie] kfm's ftp is definitely broken
Hello all,
There is
Hello all,
There is something wrong with kfm's ftp function. It used to be (in mandrake
5.3) that I can do:
ftp://myusername@myserver/
And I'd be able to ftp to and fro with impunity - as long as I stuck to my
user's access rights.
However, in mandrake 6.0, this is broken. I can point kfm to t
- Original Message -
From: Matt Stegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linux Newbie List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] DHCP and RoadRunner
> > Maybe the Internet Police are going to come after me.
-
> Isn't that what IP stands for...?
Th
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, you wrote:
>
> You did just "su", not "su -". The difference is that "su -" reruns the
> login scripts, etc., so you get the right PATH for root.
>
Ah. I just learned something new. :-) I didn't know about
"su -" Thanks. :-)
--
John Aldrich
COL Tech Support
I know this is petty.. but.. can you have the cool screen savers that are in
Gnome and KDE for the X based logon manger? Thanks!
---
Tim Beacham, HDIS ¤ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, try not.. do, or do not.. there is no try. -Yoda
Hi All,
I've gotten my Diamond sonic impact s90 working under venus, but
.wav files are choppy and sampled incorrectly they sound like chipmunks!
I'm using OSS 3.9.2o, and it autodetected my vortex soundcard, cd audio and
mp3 playback is fine. I was playing around with the media play
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, you wrote:
>
> When you do "su" you don't always get the PATH environment of root
> (depending on the system)
> The above error was because "timed" is not in your path - not
> because you cannot run it. Try "/usr/sbin/timed" instead.
>
Ahh...Ok. That makes a bit of sense the
> I haven't been cut off in Windows (well, not yet anyway). This leads me to
> believe that the Road Runner login program isn't necessary. If it's not for
> Windows, why should it be for Linux? On the other hand, maybe I'm just not
> patient enough- they'll kick me off later.
I have an @home
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
> Okone I can give you right off the top is "timed" It
> will NOT run as SuperUser, but it WILL run as "root." It
> comes back with "timed command not found." This is from a
> text-mode prompt, not a window prompt, just a standard
> shell prompt. Howev
I guess it's time to relate more info regarding my problem (which I should
have done initially- sorry).
> Maybe the Internet Police are going to come after me.
Isn't that what IP stands for...?
Each ISP independently determines how it will hand out IP addresses. This
particular ISP just doesn't
John Aldrich wrote:
> Okone I can give you right off the top is "timed" It
> will NOT run as SuperUser, but it WILL run as "root." It
> comes back with "timed command not found." This is from a
It will still run just fine as su, but you need to specify the path to
it. When you su, i
At 12:20 13/07/99 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, you wrote:
>
>> For a program to run as root and not when su - root, it would have to
>> step thru parent pid's looking specificly for su (it could test the parent
>> pids uid, they all eventualy lead to root), which is posible but ugly.
>>
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> For a program to run as root and not when su - root, it would have to
> step thru parent pid's looking specificly for su (it could test the parent
> pids uid, they all eventualy lead to root), which is posible but ugly.
> As for editing system files, I am quite c
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, David Peerless wrote:
>
> > Sorry to respond to my own post, but I did some further research
> > concerning the system sounds...It seems that the first user to log-in
> > gets sound, but any user thereafter that logs-in doesn't get sound.
>
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, you wrote:
>
> >
> > there isn't a single difference between su - and loging in as root (ok one
> > the utmp entry, but that has nothing todo with anything major)
> >
> Well, MY experience has been that there are some
> applica
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, you wrote:
>
> there isn't a single difference between su - and loging in as root (ok one
> the utmp entry, but that has nothing todo with anything major)
>
Well, MY experience has been that there are some
applications that can ONLY be run as "root." Editing system
files a
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, you wrote:
>
> Also, I can mount cd's ok under kde however when I try to play
> audio cd's I get an error stating that I have to specify the filesystem.
> When looking in /etc/fstab the filesystem setting is set to 'auto.' is
> there something I have to specify in addition t
Try sndconfig --help
You'll get 2 options -> I used sndconfig -noautoconfigure (I think)
You should try that option above if you're computer hangs.
Suryo Mataram.
>I am big time newbie to Linux (only a couple of weeks now). Got
>internet working (this message even) Everything working but sound
A couple of weeks ago I saw the InfoMagic Workgroup Server still available on
cheapbytes. I still use it, yes it is great.
> for a while. An old system based on ipfwadm might be available from
> infomagic... Their excellent but discontinued workgroup server software.
>
> Petey wrote:
>
> >
- Original Message -
From: Theo Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 2:27 PM
Subject: [newbie] More keyboard problems on a Toshiba 4000CDT notebook!
> I've made the changes to the rc3.d filenames (S45pcmcia to S98pcmcia),
> and it rebooted and
I installed netatalk 2.1.3 on top of Mandrake 6.0 on a 686 Intel,
and all worked. Later, we put in a second ethernet card connected
to a different subnet. Now the Linux server does not show in the
chooser, and the Mac says "server not responding" when given the
Linux server IP. I cant be sure th
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