- Original Message -
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 2:46 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
Basically what Partition Magic does that fdisk doesn't, is resize
existing
partitions without requiring you to first destroy them (and
I know that one of those fields is for order of fsck checking at
bootup. Look into the man page for fstab for details.
The last one is the fsck order, and should be set in ascending order on
partitions on a common spindle, else fsck will be run in parallel on the
partitions, causing
- Original Message -
From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 10:28 PM
Subject: [newbie] mounting a floppy??
I downloaded some utilities on my win98 machine, and want to transfer them
over to my linux machine, but when I put the disk in the
I downloaded some utilities on my win98 machine, and want to transfer them
over to my linux machine, but when I put the disk in the drive and click
on
the icon, it says:
could not mount
error log:
mount you must specify the filesystem type
It's a DOS floppy, so:
mount -t fat /dev/fd0
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Bert translated thoughts to electrons:
Did anyone else just get 5 posts from 7-8-99?
yup... maybe its Billyvoodoo
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in console, type "statserial" for each port (cua0,cua1cua2cua3).
these are com 123and 4 in windows. using modemtool from consle will let
you set a link from whatever cua you choose to /dev/modem
so you can select it in Kppp or what ever ppp program you use
also use setserial for changing the i/o
This is from Windows experience. I see no reason for Netscape to be
different in Linux. I'd know better if I could *connect* to the
Internet in Linux, but... modem manufacturers seem to think that
Winmodems are popular.
They'll change their mind, when we stop buying them...
Jo
New to this group, and to linux. Have PartionMagic 4.0 and have tried to
install Boot Magic so that we can boot easily into Linux or Windows and
BootMagic will not install because of Error # 164. This error claims that
the drive is in Bios Standard format, but the Ontrack software (DiskGo!)
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Netscape 4.6 sometimes unexpectedly quits when I close one navigator window. Is
this a problem that is fixed in 4.61? Where can I download 4.61?
In the "cooker" pre-release. there's RPMs of Netscape 4.61 (regular
and Communicator. Alternatively, you can d/l it
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Basically what Partition Magic does that fdisk doesn't, is resize existing
partitions without requiring you to first destroy them (and everything on them)
and recreate them. I guess that's convenient but -I- wouldn't pay $70 for it.
:)
So it's a
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, you wrote:
check these sites.
http://www.linuxhardware.net/
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html
http://www.kc.net/%7Egromitkc/winmodem.html
- Original Message -
From: Mark Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July
While cruising through fdisk, I noticed there are four partition
types relating to Ontrack Disk Manager.It might be helpful to whoever
was using it to set their partition types to one of these.
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To my knowledge all internal LT modems are winmodems. Anyway my USR 33.6
worked sweet back in the 33.6 days, then I had it flash upgraded to a 56K
V.90 and it to works sweet. I get a speed of 49333 on Windows and 52666 on
Mandrake.never slower on both.or faster for that matter.
Mark
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
On 23-Jul-99 darkknight wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Ken Wilson wrote:
Try using fdisk, it's command line and a litte more terse. "Definitely"
read the man page before starting though as it is very powerful and you can
cause all sorts of
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, James Capone wrote:
For some reason When I start my Computer now I have no Lilo it just boots
into Win98... How can I get it back.
Thanks,
James J. Capone
at a lilo or syslinux prompt
linux 1 root=/dev/hdXX initrd=
and rerun lilo you should wind up on your
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote:
That's exactly the intention, because there sort of IS a file (or, more
accruately, a directory) called simply ".".
Oh yeah. I forgot.
If you type "ls -a" from any directory in Linux, the first two things you'll
see are "./" and "../". ./
This is probably boring all of you to death, but
here goes... I got the disk mounted, butnow I can't execute the executable
file I downloaded (pkunzip for linux) How do I do this??
THanks!
On 24-Jul-99 Axalon wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
On the subject of cfdisk and fdisk, does anyone know why cfdisk would give
me
this message:
FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 6:
Press any key to exit cfdisk
On 24-Jul-99 Jo wrote:
This is from Windows experience. I see no reason for Netscape to be
different in Linux. I'd know better if I could *connect* to the
Internet in Linux, but... modem manufacturers seem to think that
Winmodems are popular.
They'll change their mind, when we stop
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Joe Brault wrote:
This is probably boring all of you to death, but here goes... I got the disk
mounted, butnow I can't execute the executable file I downloaded (pkunzip for linux)
How do I do this?? THanks!
man unzip
rm pkunzip.exe
On 24-Jul-99 Joe Brault wrote:
This is probably boring all of you to death, but here goes... I got the disk
mounted, butnow I can't execute the executable file I downloaded (pkunzip for
linux) How do I do this?? THanks!
An .exe file? Are you SURE it's for Linux? .exe files are
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
On 24-Jul-99 Joe Brault wrote:
This is probably boring all of you to death, but here goes... I got the disk
mounted, butnow I can't execute the executable file I downloaded (pkunzip for
linux) How do I do this?? THanks!
An
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
On 24-Jul-99 Axalon wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
On the subject of cfdisk and fdisk, does anyone know why cfdisk would give
me
this message:
FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 6:
On 24-Jul-99 Axalon wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
On 24-Jul-99 Axalon wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
On the subject of cfdisk and fdisk, does anyone know why cfdisk would
give
me
this message:
FATAL
Standard "unzip" which comes with Linux will unzip DOS/Windows ZIP files
already. You don't need pkunzip for Linux.
- Original Message -
From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 11:12 AM
Subject: [newbie] executing an '.exe' file???
This is
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, James J. Capone wrote:
Ok,
Here it is. I had to recompile my kernel to add some support and
take out something I do not have nor plan on getting. Now when I boot It
goes to
finding module dependencies.
Never past that..
What could the
You get a syslinux prompt with the boot.img floppy or your bootable cd.
Obviously he has no lilo prompt, it was included for others, and for the
sake of the mailing list archive.
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
That seems to be the problem...they're not GETTING a prompt... just boots
The information provided to me below by Jason was very helpful in
understanding how to query and configure my serial ports in Linux and
X-Windows(Thanks, Jason), but I still haven't been able to get the isapnp
utility to assign a free I/0 port to my internal pnp modem. I need to free
up the
Hello, I use a US Robotics fax modem, pnp. I set the jumpers on the
modem itself, for com4 and irq7 (i think..I cant remember) and all is
well in either Linux or Win95.
Is anyone out there using an internal plug-and-play
ISA modem successfully
with Linux?
Thanks,
Joe Patton
-
I finally got it, but I had to wipe the entire hard drive, losing some
programs I wanted that were on another partition. No big deal, just
means I have to download them again. But get this - NT said my 8Gb
hard drive was too large of a partition to install to, so I ended up
having to cut it
I could boot form the CD, but I still got Lilo, then it would give me
NTDetect failed (not found? Something). Sux.
Ty
Original Message
On 7/23/99, 12:38:25 PM, Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
regarding Re: [newbie] How do I wipe the MBR?:
Can't you boot off the NT CD? If not,
Winmodems ARE popular, because they are cheap, and work just great for
the vast majority of the computer subliterate public.
Ty
Original Message
On 7/23/99, 11:32:02 PM, Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding
Re: [newbie] Netscape Misbehaves:
Netscape 4.6 sometimes unexpectedly
Not anymore. :-) Especially if you want long filename support.
John
- Original Message -
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] mounting a floppy??
It's a DOS floppy, so:
mount -t fat /dev/fd0
Ahh :-) Yes. I see your point. However, others may not have understood
you need a boot floppy/bootable CD. :-) Just clarifying. After all, this IS
a "newbie" list. :-)
John
- Original Message -
From: Axalon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 24,
On 25-Jul-99 Steve Winston wrote:
Run on down to Fry's and get the parts and roll your own computer. None
of the ones I have built fail me. AL the Famous Maker brand
computer fail me for shitty parts, winmodems, etc. I paid $1500 for a
FAMOUS MAKER brand computer (not Dell, but one
Have you tried disabling one of the com ports in BIOS? Sorry if you've
already tried this and it hasn't worked. :-) Seems to me that disabling
serial ports in BIOS should allow you to permanently remove it from Linux.
John
- Original Message -
From: Joe Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's a DOS floppy, so:
mount -t fat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
That should do it.
I thought that was -t msdos.
it could be msdos, or fat, or vfat.
vfat would be best, as it supports long file names.
none of it matters, though, if you still have problems with the command.
Thanks Friend,
James J. Capone
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-Original Message-
From: Axalon
Sent:
Well, he was right that fat is not an option. It would be either -t msdos or
-t vfat. :)
On 25-Jul-99 John Aldrich wrote:
Not anymore. :-) Especially if you want long filename support.
John
- Original Message -
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The affected package is squid, not apache. If you haven't installed squid
your fine, if you've installed squid and not configured it you should do
so. If you don't know what squid is you probably don't need it. The
program works as expected, it will return a server error upon timeout,
prints
Definate sign it's time for bed.
I'll correct my self before you all deside to hang me.
-t msdos
-t vfat
they are linked against fat.o =X
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Axalon wrote:
Have a second look at /lib/modules/`uname -r`/fs/f*
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
Well, he was
I posted this in a newsgroup, but since it solved a problem
I had earlier asked about here, I thought the solution
might be of interest to someone on the list:
- From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jul 24 21:44:48 1999
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999
"Thomas J. Hamman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 24-Jul-99 Don Whitman wrote:
It would only let me type that command as root. But it did mount the
floppy.
There has got to be a better way to work with a floppy.
Don
Well, it's not normal behavior (it only gave me that problem on one occasion
On 24 Jul 1999, Don Whitman wrote:
"Thomas J. Hamman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 24-Jul-99 Don Whitman wrote:
It would only let me type that command as root. But it did mount the
floppy.
There has got to be a better way to work with a floppy.
Don
Well, it's not normal
How can I compile programs I write in C or C++?
try goingto the website. They should have a archive there.
Http://www.linux-mandrake.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 1:02 AM
Subject: [newbie] how does one.
how does one find old posts to this mailing list? i
I installed a theme and now my background changes between the theme
background and another background at seemingly random times. Why?!?
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Joe Patton wrote:
The information provided to me below by Jason was very helpful in
understanding how to query and configure my serial ports in Linux and
X-Windows(Thanks, Jason), but I still haven't been able to get the isapnp
utility to assign a free I/0 port to my
Run on down to Fry's and get the parts and roll your own computer. None
of the ones I have built fail me. AL the Famous Maker brand
computer fail me for shitty parts, winmodems, etc. I paid $1500 for a
FAMOUS MAKER brand computer (not Dell, but one quite as well known) and
it sucked bad.
It's a DOS floppy, so:
mount -t fat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
That should do it.
I thought that was -t msdos.
it could be msdos, or fat, or vfat.
vfat would be best, as it supports long file names.
none of it matters, though, if you still have problems with the command.
If
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Trevor Wilson wrote:
I installed a theme and now my background changes between the theme
background and another background at seemingly random times. Why?!?
A little information would help.
What environment is it in - KDE, Gnome, ect. ?
What window manager are you using
FIPS, eh? Yeah, I read that it could resize partitions as well. Does
anyone have any success stories? Any reports of failures?
Fips basically performs one function: It takes a DOS partition, and splits it
into two smaller partitions. It cannot resize Linux partitions, and it cannot
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