Hello,
i have bought Linux Mandrake 6.0 in germany.
There are a few problems :
1. The Home and End keys doesn't work correct in KDE konsole. It
only beeps when i press Home or End. When i start the Midnight
Commander out of the KDE konsole and edit a file and press Home
a 'H' appears,
Andy Goth wrote:
Best way is to find out what kind it is,but the next best is to look
closely at the bottom.and see how many jumpers there are on it,on most
drives there's only one,and that will be in the master position
already,so just move the jumper over one set of pins and you
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Lloyd Osten wrote:
Today I received two messages from this list dated July 12 (today is
the 21st)
Strange.anyone else have that happen?
Lloyd Osten
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
yep.stuff happens
no problemo here though
good thing I did'nt email my isp with a
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote:
Eh, personaly i'd have just installed aciddraw onto my dosemu image ;)
Aciddraw?
And what does dosemu have to do with this?
Well, Acid Draw is a dos program and I bet Axalon dos not waste space on his
machine with dos or windoze :)
John Love
[EMAIL
So did you or didn't you hear Linus?
Seth
At 08:21 PM 7/21/99 -0500, you wrote:
Oh yes, that was the first thing that I ran. It seems to have no effect at
all. :(
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Matt Stegman wrote:
Have you run 'sndconfig' yet?
-Matt
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Beo d'Wulfie wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Hello,
i have bought Linux Mandrake 6.0 in germany.
There are a few problems :
1. The Home and End keys doesn't work correct in KDE konsole. It
only beeps when i press Home or End. When i start the Midnight
Commander out of the KDE konsole and
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Actually, it sounds like you just need to edit your lilo.conf file.
There's a section on how to do that in the Mandrake docs on the CD,
which you can view with a web browser. After editing the file, you
must run lilo again, i.e., /sbin/lilo
When the boot
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote:
I heard that I should have two Linux partitions. Can anyone give me
more information on this?
You need a bare minimum of two partitions for Linux. One will be your
root partition and the other partition will be your swap partition.
It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Andy Goth wrote:
mind. If only I could map "\Program Files" to be on a different
partition...
Of course, such things are trivially easy in Linux... Wonder why
Microsoft chose such a half-assed method of drive management...
Because they're
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote:
I cna runxf86 under root only if i try and run it under any other user i get
a an authenication error. Anyone know how to fix this?
I know there's a program called mkxauth or something like that.I
assume that's what it's for (MK X Authentication) At least that
I heard that I should have two Linux partitions. Can anyone give me
more information on this?
Sure. You should have one partition for files, and another for swapping.
Of course, you can distribute your file system between several partitions-
I have /home on a separate partition so that when
Is it possible to edit the MandrakeUpdate.pm script file so that it will
update the system using the rpms from the 'cooker' directory instead
of the 'updates' directory?
well, yes, though not very easily...
but i'm in a nice day :) here is patch for /usr/X11R6/bin/MandrakeUpdate.pm :
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote:
%_Hi people:
recently I had a problem with a "Diamond Monster Fusion" 16Mb AGP
(Chip Banshee) I have Mandrake 6.0 and unfortunally Mandrake does not provide driver
for banshee chips so I downloaded one from www.linuxberg.com and they worked
Dan wrote:
Andy Goth wrote:
mind. If only I could map "\Program Files" to be on a different
partition...
Of course, such things are trivially easy in Linux... Wonder why Microsoft chose such
a half-assed method of drive management...
--
Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Meddle not in
How do I install LILO on a different disk? How do I make sure it
doesn't trash the Ontrack program?
Well, the "boot=..." line tells LILO where to put itself- in the MBR of
the specified drive, or in the boot sector of the specified partition. As
for trashing the Ontrack program, there's one
Robert Sheskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a little log analysis perl script that I am trying to run. When starting form
a terminal it works fine with the following in an executable script;
#! /bin/bash
echo "Mail Stats Log Analysis"
echo ""
su - root -c "DISPLAY=$DISPLAY; export
How do I extract or decompress a gz file?
For example if the filename is file.gz, what the command line should be
looked like?
thanx
"-=Memphis=-" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How do I extract or decompress a gz file?
For example if the filename is file.gz, what the command line should be
looked like?
thanx
gunzip file.gz for extracting.
zcat file.gz for reading it.
or zless file.gz
i go gunzip file.gz
then if it ends in tar, i use
tar -xvf file.tar
-Original Message-
From: -=Memphis=- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 7:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Extracting GZ File
How do I extract or decompress a gz file?
For example if
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:02:43 -0500, "Andrew R. Etzler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been trying to download the KxICQ file in Netscape 4.6. Previously
this has not been a problem. Just in the last day, instead of asking
where it should save the file to, it simply downloads the file into the
I've got an old luggable computer with a Hercules mono display.
It now has a new Pentium board, large hard disk, zip-drive, etc...
It's a super Linux machine.
Will this thing run KDE and Gnome with the Hercules display card?
How do I do it?
Thanks, Don.
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote:
http://www.acid.org
doing ansi by hand is a long drawn out proccess i personaly do not enjoy.
I'm downloading it now.
Is it anything like TheDraw?
In the sense that it is an ansi drawing program yes, I'd say all
similarity ends there. It
Do you own a hammer?
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Ty C. Mixon wrote:
Ok, but it's with Star Office 5.1. I can print a test page from the printer
setup screens, but no documents print. Any ideas?
--
Ty C. Mixon
ICQ #: 26147713
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Andrew R. Etzler" wrote:
I've been trying to download the KxICQ file in Netscape 4.6. Previously
this has not been a problem. Just in the last day, instead of asking
where it should save the file to, it simply downloads the file into the
browser, giving me all sorts of gibberish. Has
Somebody kick the mailer over there please, i'm going to find this anoying
here sooner or later.
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Bert Bullough wrote:
it's the list, i check this on 2 different machines using 2 different clients.
the same thing happened to me
"Ty C. Mixon" wrote:
I've been
If it is their PCI modem it won't work they do make serveral isa modems
that are useable, and any drivers will never be in the mainstream kernel
Both Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox have stated such.
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote:
Thank you for your answer. By the way you understood the
I had this problem a couple of times. The easy solution is to right
click on the link and choose 'save as . . .'
Ty
Original Message
On 7/22/99, 7:02:43 AM, "Andrew R. Etzler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
regarding [newbie] Downloading Files:
I've been trying to download the KxICQ file in
This is a fault of Netscape. It foten thinks that binary files are
actually text files, and so loads the binary file into the browser, giving
you plenty of gibberish. It has something to do with file extensions and
MIME types on the server, and I'm not sure if you can configure Netscape
to
tar xvcf filename
"-=Memphis=-" wrote:
How do I extract or decompress a gz file?
For example if the filename is file.gz, what the command line should be
looked like?
thanx
Morpheus The Sinful Weeper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
tar xvcf filename
uh
x and c in the same command :-o
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, you wrote:
How do I extract or decompress a gz file?
For example if the filename is file.gz, what the command line should be
looked like?
thanx
If you want to extract it for installation, you'd run
gunzip filename or gunzip -r filename if you suspect
that you're
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, you wrote:
How do I extract or decompress a gz file?
For example if the filename is file.gz, what the command line should be
looked like?
thanx
PS -- type "man gunzip" at a console prompt for more
details.
That option had come to mind, however, I did something (only the Gods
know) and it works now. :) I'm even using it for e-mail, as I like
the integrated system. Maybe when Koffice comes out I'll switch to
it.
My only real gripe with SO right now is that I don't like the way it
handles
Andy Goth wrote:
mind. If only I could map "\Program Files" to be on a different
partition...
I don't put things there, unless forced. It is a path embedded in so many
install tools, though, that you have to be vigilant when you install, and
some programs will give you no choice.
Hello list.
Does anybody have a configuration file for the 2.2.9 kernel tht comes
with Mandrake 6.0 ? I'd like to rebuilt it with new options/modules, but
I'd also like to avoid the loss of other settings.
Thanks.
Dominique
Use Save Link As under File on the menu bar
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew R. Etzler
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 7:03 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Downloading Files
I've been trying to download the KxICQ
i had a 56k cardinal isa modem that i could never get to respond in kde.
even tho statserial said it had a modem on cua3. now i have put a 336
isa in there and statserial says its on cua2, but the ppp program still
gets no response from the modemthis is the only thing holding me
back from
I installed Linux on a 400MHz PII. It has three drives, 2 SCSI, and 1
IDE. Windows 98 is on the IDE, and Linux is on the SCSI. My problem is
as follows:
I can boot from a floppy, but not into Windows. When I boot from
the IDE drive which has lilo installed, all i get is repeating 10
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Lloyd Osten wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Andy Goth wrote:
mind. If only I could map "\Program Files" to be on a different
partition...
Of course, such things are trivially easy in Linux... Wonder why
Microsoft chose
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote:
i go gunzip file.gz
then if it ends in tar, i use
tar -xvf file.tar
-Original Message-
From: -=Memphis=- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 7:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Extracting GZ File
How do I
Joe Patton wrote:
One other question for Mandrake: Where do I find my registration
number? I tried to fill out the online registration form, but I
cannot find any information in the documentation that came with the
software to tell my what my registration number is.
Can't help with the
I wanted fixed-ip addresses for the local network. But I
need dynamic IP for the isp.
-Original Message-
From: Lloyd Osten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 2:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Kppp question
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote:
I've
There isn't, the code is on your cd under misc/src/ should you feel
adventurous.
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what's the command to run disk druid from a terminal?
Dont set a default route for your localnet if it only has one route it
will use it, i am unsure why sometimes ppp refuses to replace the
exsisting route.
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Bill Moshier wrote:
I wanted fixed-ip addresses for the local network. But I
need dynamic IP for the isp.
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Well Netscape has to get the blame partially but a big part of the blame has
also to go to the guys administering the webserver as well. There is a file
called mime.types (it is there in linux systems as well probably under the conf
dir in httpd).
Can anyone answer this question for me? Can you run Mandrake on a Mac? If
not can you run ANY version of Linux on a Mac?
-Bill
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 20:36:27 -0500
From: Arthur Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mandrake...
I'm a Mac
Ok, I'm gonna be upgrading a large amount of my hardware and need to make
sure I buy linux compatible hardware. Most notable I'm gonna be getting a
new modem, vid card, NIC, and something else I seem to be missing. Is there
a website I can go to and check if all the hardware I'm looking into
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, you wrote:
How do I extract or decompress a gz file?
For example if the filename is file.gz, what the command line should be
looked like?
thanx
One step
tar -zxvf filename
--
Michael Doyle
Adelaide, South Australia
Thanks Axalon,
I actually discovered another (I don't know, if recommended - but it
worked for me) method:
I deleted my "~/.kde/share/config" dir and KDE asked me simply "do I
need new config?".
Thanks,
Sean Brzozowski
Axalon wrote:
mv ~/.kde ~/dot-kde.backup
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Sean
Have any one working SBlive with with mandrake 6.0 kernel 2.2.9 if so please
help to make it work please.
Thanks in advance...
Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at
http://webmail.netscape.com.
I have been trying very hard to get Mandrake 6.0 to see my Initio 9100 SCSI card. Has
anyone gotten this to work? I have tried the disks for Red Hat 6.0 at the Initio
site. I have tried doing a modprove and adding it to my /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file. I
have also tried adding the alias
Hi all, first let me thank Civileme for the info for a digest form of this
list.
Now the questions:
1- is there a way to get Lilo to give me a choice about booting w98 or
linux?
I have it set to allow me to type Dos in at the boot prompt, But I would
like it to wait for me to respond.
2- Now
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, hevnsnt wrote:
Can anyone answer this question for me? Can you run Mandrake on a Mac? If
not can you run ANY version of Linux on a Mac?
-Bill
I believe there is a work in progress for a Mandrake iMac(tm), all though
the website(http://www.imandrake.com) seems to link
sorry directions were to short, if you create a backup you can then use
'diff' to hunt down the actual problem.
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Sean Brzozowski wrote:
Thanks Axalon,
I actually discovered another (I don't know, if recommended - but it
worked for me) method:
I deleted my
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Can anyone answer this question for me? Can you run Mandrake on a Mac? If
not can you run ANY version of Linux on a Mac?
-Bill
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 20:36:27 -0500
From: Arthur Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
Lloyd Osten wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Lloyd Osten wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Andy Goth wrote:
mind. If only I could map "\Program Files" to be on a different
partition...
Of course, such things are trivially easy in Linux...
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There is Yellow Dog Linux for Apple macintosh G3 and then there is LinuxPPC and
MkLinux for PowerMacs ... dont know if these fit your hardware ... not very
familiar about macs...
On 23-Jul-99 hevnsnt wrote:
Can anyone answer this question for me?
I heard it put best just this morning actually. Yellow Dog Linux is the
RedHat for Macs and Black Lab Linux is to Yellow Dog as Mandrake is to
RedHat.
Ty Mixon wrote:
I don't think that there is a Mandrake version for Macs, but there is
a Linux for Macs. Depends on what type of Mac you have
I wonder if I can get help with recompiling my kernel in order to
support
ntfs file system. When I tried "make xconf" it failed saying there are
no
rules for target xconf.
--
Regards,
Periklis
---
Periklis Christodoulou
CSIRO
I broke my disk up in 3 partitions. 2 Gig or so for "/root", 64M for "swap", and
the balance (6Gig) for "/home". This allows me to reinstall (reformat :-0 ) the
/root and swap and not touch any home (user) files
What about /usr and all those other directories I am forgetting?
So, what if
Installing Mandrake is pretty easy since it uses all those cool Red Hat
configurator programs. I'm sure Bill would like to discredit it by
saying, "But that's text mode! Windows has the edge since it uses
graphics." Edge? I really like text mode. Text mode graphics is fun
to do since it's
Probably for the same reason DOS can only use 640kB RAM. I can
hear it now... "Nobody will ever have a drive larger than 2GB!"
Correction: Nobody will ever BE ABLE TO have a drive larger than 2GB!
That is, with DOS.
I like learning about the internals of my computer. I try to learn all
I
mind. If only I could map "\Program Files" to be on a different
partition...
Of course, such things are trivially easy in Linux... Wonder why
Microsoft chose such a half-assed method of drive management...
Because they're Microsoft and want to make things as easy as
I heard that I should have two Linux partitions. Can anyone give me
more information on this?
You need a bare minimum of two partitions for Linux. One will be your
root partition and the other partition will be your swap partition.
It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you use a swap partition.
Mine is 1994.LBA is Logical (or Linear) Block Addressing. All new
IDE HDs support it. My 1995 WD does. It's just a different way of
numbering the heads, sectors and tracks. I'm pretty sure it does
translation, too. Maybe there's a BIOS update for your
motherboard-assuming it has a flash rom
No problem! You can run MkLinux on Macintosh (www.mklinux.apple.com)
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How do I install LILO on a different disk? How do I make sure it
doesn't trash the Ontrack program?
Well, the "boot=..." line tells LILO where to put itself- in the MBR of
the specified drive, or in the boot sector of the specified partition. As
for trashing the Ontrack program,
All that is great info and right on track except it doesnt matter where the
hard drive goes on the cable. On a dual floppy setup, you must put the A
Drive on the end because of a cut and twist in the ribbon cable, but not on
an IDE. The wires are all in a parallel manner and the drive doesn't
Then run Linux . . . ;)
Ty
Original Message
On 7/22/99, 8:39:38 PM, Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah:
mind. If only I could map "\Program Files" to be on a different
partition...
Of course, such things are trivially easy in
In the sense that it is an ansi drawing program yes, I'd say all
similarity ends there. It has a much larger working area, allowing for all
those awesome pics you'll find linked there also.
As always, your Framebuffer console advocate, I recommend viewing these
via console running in
From: Periklis Christodoulou [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wonder if I can get help with recompiling my kernel in order to
support
ntfs file system. When I tried "make xconf" it failed saying there are
It's make xconfig. Make sure you're in /usr/src/linux when you do
this.
- Original Message -
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
mind. If only I could map "\Program Files" to be on a different
partition...
Of course, such things are trivially
Then run Linux . . . ;)
I am not the only user of the computer--I have to share it. My dad uses
Office on it, and everyone uses DOS games. Just so you know, X runs
very, very slowly, so don't bother suggesting using a X Window Office
workalike.
I read that Das Boot document, and I learned
All that is great info and right on track except it doesnt matter where the
hard drive goes on the cable. On a dual floppy setup, you must put the A
Drive on the end because of a cut and twist in the ribbon cable, but not on
an IDE. The wires are all in a parallel manner and the drive
the sblive works just fine with mandrake 6. Download the driver from the
creative labs development site: http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/
Uncompress it and read the readme file for installation instructions. FOLOW
THE MANUAL INSTALLATION PROCEDURE as otherwise the installation script will
I used to copy mine to E:\, then run a program called "Registry Search Replace"
and replace all instances of c:\program files with e:\program files. Reboot and then
delete c:\program files. Never a problem. If some poorly written program insisted on
c:\, I would let it install, then repeat
On 23-Jul-99 Andy Goth wrote:
I broke my disk up in 3 partitions. 2 Gig or so for "/root", 64M for
"swap", and the balance (6Gig) for "/home". This allows me to reinstall
(reformat :-0 ) the /root and swap and not touch any home (user) files
What about /usr and all those other
I understand - my g/f would kill me if I didn't let her have the 8gb
hd for WinNT. BTW, if you have a burner, I have 98 (don't use it) and
Office2k (nice).
Ty
Original Message
On 7/22/99, 10:35:09 PM, Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah:
Then run Linux .
OK, the IP addresses are for the INTERFACES, not for the systems.
What I understand is that you have two computers connected by ethernet.
One has a ppp connection to an ISP for internet connectivity. You
need several simple things:
1. Your local static IPs had best be class A, B, or C addresses
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On 7/23/99, 1:32:34 AM, Morpheus The Sinful Weeper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [expert] Personal little server:
Hello,
[snip]
PS:
The more I use linux, the more stuff i find out i can do with it, the
more excited i get, the more i hate windows
I second
Try make xconfig
that will work ;o)
Patrick
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, you wrote:
I wonder if I can get help with recompiling my kernel in order to
support
ntfs file system. When I tried "make xconf" it failed saying there are
no
rules for target xconf.
--
Regards,
Periklis
Dan Brown wrote:
From: Periklis Christodoulou [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wonder if I can get help with recompiling my kernel in order to
support ntfs file system. When I tried "make xconf" it failed saying
there are
no rules to make target.
It's make xconfig. Make sure you're in
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