Hi,
Managed to successfully loose the contents of all my HD's the other night,
and whilst i re-installed everything in the end i have a couple of
questions.
I have a 2x4x CDRW as my Secondry master (hdc) and a 5x32x DVD as my
secondry slave (hdd). Obviously i wanted to install usinmg the DVD
Alan Schussman wrote:
Ken and John-
Thanks for the feedback. You may be right, John; regardless of how I try
to set the mount, it won't let anybody but root write to it. I certainly
understand the logic of not corrupting the DOS file system, but such a
hard-and-fast prevention seems to
pete moss wrote:
is there a default prefs file for netscape? i have configured mine to
open to messenger, and to bring up a blank page in navigator. however,
everytime i open netscape, i get navigator opening to the mandrake help
page. anyone know how to get rid of this? i have looked
- Original Message -
From: Doug Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Newbie Group [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 6:12 PM
Subject: [newbie] Wine Documentation
Does anyone know where I can find documentation on Wine?
At the WINE web site.
At the Linux Documentation
- Original Message -
From: Jan Herbert
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 6:18 PM
Subject: [newbie] linux 6.0 instalation question
Hello,
I just picked up linux 6.0, and I want to know if I can install linux on a 4
gig partition that I already created on an 8.4 gig
Check this out. Kinda scarey.
Johnhttp://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/coverstory19990830.html
- Original Message -
From: Tom Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 4:05 PM
Subject: [newbie] Boot probs.
In the wee hours this morning I snuck Linux on my wife's Win 95 machine.
I
used System Commander to keep things safe, got Linux up and
Can anyone tell me how to mount my D drive (vfat) it is an extended
patition in Windows. My C is hda1 and can I mount it without problems.
Am not sure what to "name" D in fstab.
TIA!
John Connell
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, pete moss wrote:
is there a default prefs file for netscape? i have configured mine to
open to messenger, and to bring up a blank page in navigator. however,
everytime i open netscape, i get navigator opening to the mandrake help
page. anyone know how to get rid of
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, David P. Greenberg wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, pete moss wrote:
is there a default prefs file for netscape? i have configured mine to
open to messenger, and to bring up a blank page in navigator. however,
everytime i open netscape, i get navigator opening to the
I am having a hard time figuring out how to set up multiple modems on a linux
box. Does anyone know how I can install 2 modems on one linux box?
That is somewhat scary. It reminds me what Gates said few weeks ago. The
secret of MS success, is the stupidity of other company's, and that he would
destroy MS if he would take over another company very fast.
But to takeover Linux movement, it's a long shot at best, I think. Like linux
doesn't
After dealing with Linux problems for the last week on Mandrake 5.3 I made
the jump to Venus 6.0. I am starting to regret not reinstalling Mandrake
5.3. Now I am dealing with more problems. Everytime I shutdown hda6 does
not unmount (device busy). I know this is a bug. The Mandrake updates
Rick Murphy wrote:
Don't give up on netscape. If your using mandrake, click on the updates
icons and download all three parts of netscape 4.61 at the same time. It will
automatically install itself. I found that most of my problems with netscape
ended when I went to 4.61. I think you
- Original Message -
From: Rick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David P. Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] netscape defaults
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999,
This didnt work. I am using an X server that i got from
glide.xxedgexx.com for my voodoo3 card.. will this affect the TrueType
font support at all? Other than that nothing is really different from a
typical mandrake 6 installation
Justin Fisher: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Steve
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, you wrote:
Laurie wrote:
you can run windows programs under linux? I know I sound stupid but I miss
photoshop badly.
WINE is rather limited in what it can run and run successfully. A
better (though more expensive option) might be VMWare
(http://www.vmware.com).
The question I posted earlier in regards to mounting my ext vfat
partition in Win.nevermind, I figured it out. Just changed my hdax
to hda5 and mounted, no problem. Thanks anyway!
John Connell
I don't think I can help with the stray "0:", however, I can help you
with the slocate file. Clean it up and it may fix your "0:", seeing as
the two processes seem to run one behind the other.
The message "line 6: syntax error: unexpected end of file" is generated
by a stray eof character (0A
Hi,
I'm using the
linux-mandrake luinx 6.0 operating system, and installed it yesterday. I'm
new to linux and think that I installed the KDM gui interface. At my user
$prompt I entered startx and get this error message:
Fatal Server
Error: Cannot establish any listining sockets - Make
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote:
After dealing with Linux problems for the last week on Mandrake 5.3 I made
the jump to Venus 6.0. I am starting to regret not reinstalling Mandrake
5.3. Now I am dealing with more problems. Everytime I shutdown hda6 does
not unmount (device busy). I know
Steve Philp wrote:
Doug Reid wrote:
Does anyone know where I can find documentation on Wine?
www.winehq.com
If you have 6.0 installed and the mans also, just do man wine and will
get detailed info on what it is, how to install etc...
Steve Philp wrote:
Just caught this tidbit in the Linux Today press releases and thought it
should be brought to everyone's attention. Mandrake seems to have "won"
the quality award with their 6.0 release. LSL's upcoming "Linux Update"
CD contains all the released updates for the major
Steve Philp wrote:
That "gentleman" was me. In your original message, you had written that
you were trying to get a 6.0 SPARC system up and running. Does Mandrake
ship a SPARC version now?
As for my "useless comments", I'm pretty sure you just ended up on the
bad side of the average.
I'm using Mandrake 6.0 and have been having trouble updating Netscape 4.6 to
4.61. I've tried to update using the update icon in KDE and everytime the same
error message appears after it has downloaded approx. 5.12 megs. I selected
the 2 necessary files (common and communicator) and while
Hoyt wrote:
- Original Message -
From: TJ McConnell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Networkd Card Probs.
I have a Linksys16 nic much like your card with support for rj45 and bnc.
In
order to use coax I had to
Jeanette Russo wrote:
After dealing with Linux problems for the last week on Mandrake 5.3 I made
the jump to Venus 6.0. I am starting to regret not reinstalling Mandrake
5.3. Now I am dealing with more problems. Everytime I shutdown hda6 does
not unmount (device busy). I know this is a
Scott Miller wrote:
Jeanette Russo wrote:
After dealing with Linux problems for the last week on Mandrake 5.3 I made
the jump to Venus 6.0. I am starting to regret not reinstalling Mandrake
5.3. Now I am dealing with more problems. Everytime I shutdown hda6 does
not unmount
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, you wrote:
# mount -t umsdos /dev/[whatever-drive-and-partition-for-dos]
/mnt/[whatever-directory-you-want-the-dos-partition-mounted-at]
(all on one line).
Negative, umsdos requires utilitys and preperation beyond just a mount
command.
groupadd vfat
edit
---Reply to mail from Jeanette Russo about [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly
check forced
After dealing with Linux problems for the last week on Mandrake 5.3 I made
the jump to Venus 6.0. I am starting to regret not reinstalling Mandrake
5.3. Now I am dealing with more problems.
In some client/server relationships where they only run on one specific
machine the server opens a port internally for the client to connect to.
This does not necessarily mean these ports are accessible from outside I
don't think. One has to remember that the client/server relationship is
not
There is nothing called "realplay" anywhere in my system, nor anything
that looks close!
Murray
John Connell wrote:
Should be in /usr/bin/realplay
John
- Original Message -
From: Murray Strome [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LINUX Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999
Justin Fisher wrote:
This didnt work. I am using an X server that i got from
glide.xxedgexx.com for my voodoo3 card.. will this affect the TrueType
font support at all? Other than that nothing is really different from a
typical mandrake 6 installation
It's possible, I don't know how much
Westbrook wrote:
Hi All,
I just purchased a nice computer with a large HD. I also purchased
System Commander for the purpose of dual booting between Win 98 and
Linux. I have Caldera 2.2, RedHat 6.0, and Mandrake 6. I have not had
very good luck setting any of them up in a dual boot
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Pedro Timoteo wrote:
Rick Murphy wrote:
Don't give up on netscape. If your using mandrake, click on the updates
icons and download all three parts of netscape 4.61 at the same time. It will
automatically install itself. I found that most of my problems with
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote:
[clip]
I should be able to make it work with this information. I tried several
different variations on the mount command and not one of them worked, so I must
be specifying the wrong partition. Thanks, Ken
Try the following:
First, go to /mnt and create a
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote:
Hi All,
I just purchased a nice computer with a large HD. I also purchased
System Commander for the purpose of dual booting between Win 98 and
Linux. I have Caldera 2.2, RedHat 6.0, and Mandrake 6. I have not had
very good luck setting any of them up in a
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, you wrote:
There is nothing called "realplay" anywhere in my system, nor anything
that looks close!
Try finding a file called "rvplay" (I think the filename is.) This
would indicate that you've got version 5 of RealPlayer, NOT G2.
John
Hi,
I've got WinE to work and I'm experimanting with what will work and what wont. But is
it posible
to create a shortcut on the desktop to launch an application through WinE without
having to use a
console?
Also, when I open a window, the size isn;t right. When I resize it so I can see all
I use Caldera OpenLinux 2.2, and I think I might be able to help you out with
that. When you first look in the manual, the tell you all about booting from
the cd. This is the way I did it, and plus i didnt have to go into widows and
load my hd full of crap! Ok, when the cd runs and the install
Run the linux fdisk command on each of your harddrives, i.e. 'fdisk
/dev/hda', 'fdisk /dev/hdb', etc. Don't use a partition number with the
command. You will get a menu asking what you want to do next. Use the
'l' menu item to get a list of each partition and it's type on each of
the disks.
I gave it a try and it does seem to work now, thanks Alan,
Jeanette
- Original Message -
From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced
Scott Miller wrote:
I have RH 6 on my laptop. It does not have Kpackage anywhere. I tried
using Kpackage from Mandrake 6 but it wants libstdc++2.9mdk which I can't
get to install. I forced mandrakes Kpackage in but it doesn't work. I just
hate Gnome.rpm and miss kpackage. Has anyone have RH 6 with a working K
I got wine to run Free Agent fine, problem is thats all it did was run,
didn't go get any news. They told me to update to a newer version os WINE
but I never did, just gave it up.
Using SLRN in Linux, now its pretty good.
Jeanette
- Original Message -
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aaron deRozario wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Alan Shoemaker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 1 September 1999 5:26
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced
snip
Jeanettenot long ago a
How is this possible? I just installed Venus paid for the real edition. My
KPPP has problems. The Mandrake update doesn't work, my file system is
corrupting itself by not unmounting cleanly everytime I shutdown. There are
just the problems I found in the first few days.
Jeanette
-
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote:
I got wine to run Free Agent fine, problem is thats all it did was run,
didn't go get any news. They told me to update to a newer version os WINE
but I never did, just gave it up.
Using SLRN in Linux, now its pretty good.
Jeanette
Hmm..thanks for the input.
I can't believe I have to install a kernel in my brand new install to fix
this. I have no idea how to do this. I just Mandrake Soft should have
fixed this in the boxed versions. This problem has been out for a long time
and now I wasted $39 time and effort on Mandrake 6.0. How could this
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, you wrote:
Can someone please explain how to mount the fat partition from Linux so that I
can access all of those office files while running Linux. Or do I just need to
copy them to disk and open them in SO? Thanks
mount -t
Jeanette Russo wrote:
How is this possible? I just installed Venus paid for the real edition. My
KPPP has problems. The Mandrake update doesn't work, my file system is
corrupting itself by not unmounting cleanly everytime I shutdown. There are
just the problems I found in the first few
Jeanette Russo wrote:
I have RH 6 on my laptop. It does not have Kpackage anywhere. I tried
using Kpackage from Mandrake 6 but it wants libstdc++2.9mdk which I can't
get to install. I forced mandrakes Kpackage in but it doesn't work. I just
hate Gnome.rpm and miss kpackage. Has anyone
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Pedro Timoteo wrote:
Rick Murphy wrote:
Don't give up on netscape. If your using mandrake, click on the updates
icons and download all three parts of netscape 4.61 at the same time. It will
automatically install itself. I found that most of my problems with
I've got the same problem too. For a newbie like me, it is very
distressing. I have not switch on the system for a few days now as I
am too busy to look into it.
__ Reply Separator _
Subject: Re: [newbie] True quality!
Ken Wilson wrote:
Run the linux fdisk command on each of your harddrives, i.e. 'fdisk
/dev/hda', 'fdisk /dev/hdb', etc. Don't use a partition number with the
command. You will get a menu asking what you want to do next. Use the
'l' menu item to get a list of each partition and it's type
--Yes I agree that Navigator alone works better than Communicator. Any way I'm
in the process of following ricks advice (please exscuse me if I got the wrong
poster). I reinstalled Netscape (Nav. only+common files only) and am
downloading the upgrade now as we speak. We'll see.
i too want
Scenario:
When attempting to browse using netscape the following error window comes up:
Netscape: error
Netscape's network connection was refused by the server.
The server may not be accepting connections or may be busy.
Try connecting again later.
Ping, FTP and mail all work fine.
However if
Hey everyone! Im having some terrible modem problems! My modem
recently got fried by lightning... and the new one i got to replace it, turned
out to be a plug-n-play modem.
Well, i got the latest version (1.8) of ISAPNP. Linux sees my
modem (i think). IM using KPPP to dial up my ISP, but
Has anybody tried to make a boot image for dosemu? I'm running
Mandrake
6.0
and when I tried to create the image using 'mkdexe' (sorry I
don't
remember exactly the command right now, but it's in the README) the
process
failed. Also, the script setup-hdimage fails because
Quit bitchin, go to the mandrake site, download all the updates, and install
them all. After that, if you still have troubles post it to the list. By the way
the kppp and umount trouble are know issues that have been fixed (the updates),
I don't know about the update tool (a tool for the true
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote:
I can't believe I have to install a kernel in my brand new install to fix
this. I have no idea how to do this. I just Mandrake Soft should have
fixed this in the boxed versions. This problem has been out for a long time
I have had similar problems. For a whole day, every time I booted, I
got the Eth0 [FAILED] message. However, the next day, no problems at
all. I have no idea what is going on, other than something weird with
the Cable Company Server (I did call them, and they said that they had
not changed
OK I downloaded the Alpha G2. However, I have not yet uninstalled the
old rvplayer (as I really don't know the correct procedure to delete it
cleanly -- can you help?) Until I have deleted the old version, I will
hold off on installing G2.
Murray
pete moss wrote:
uninstall what you have and
Is it worth it? Do we really want to pay $35 for something we
already get for free? Do we want closed source when there's a big pile
of Netscape code sitting there for the taking? I just don't know...
Actually, I think it is worth it. And from my understanding, after reading
the posts on
use something like kpackage to uninstall it. or better yet, learn how
to do it from the command line.
'man rpm'
then install the new version.
:P
Murray Strome wrote:
OK I downloaded the Alpha G2. However, I have not yet uninstalled the
old rvplayer (as I really don't know the correct
Sounds like the IRQ is set incorrectly. I have no
experience with ISAPNP but i know ifI don't use setserial to change it to
look for my modem on IRQ 5 instead of 4 where it thinks the modem is,I get
the same problems you said. Check where setserial is looking and compare it to
whatever the
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