But where would it go? /usr/local? Should I make a special directory
to hold downloaded packages?
I suppose the proper place would be /usr/src, but I've usually just left
the source directories in /root (or, sometimes, in /home/danb/src).
If you're in /root, and you unpack the tarball,
On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Many people told me in various linux mailing list that
i have to upgrade the kernel initscripts
If you don't need NFS, etc, I'd disable them either at install or
immediately afterwards.
yes, i have. Then run /sbin/lilo , right ?
Right. And then reboot at
On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Setup the Print Options with "HTML Printing", "lpr", and "Postscript".
Works here (set it up 'special for you!)
Thanks...someone earlier tonight said to try lpr -Plp0 and it
worked I still have my choice of printers, but, as with KMail, it
won't print
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But where would it go? /usr/local? Should I make a special directory
to hold downloaded packages?
I suppose the proper place would be /usr/src, but I've usually just left
the source directories in /root (or, sometimes, in /home/danb/src). If
you're in
On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote:
200 VA?, is it enough for computer, printer, modem amplifier.
here, they only sell 500 VA and above.
maybe it cost about $150 (maybe)
don't you know the IMF is here.
don't you know the currency here is very low, everybody suffer.
Include the netter. The
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Greetings to all,
Machine = IBM Thinkpad 760CD P 90mhz 1Gbyte HD 40MB RAM CDROM/Floppy = Hotswappable
[argh!]
Perplexing issue with LM6.0 upon machine reboot that I suspect affects a miniscule %
of Pentiums
out here. I suspect that this is an issue with
As a newbie there are a lot of things about Linux and computers in general
that I do not yet understand - please bear with me.
I have a query about the pros and cons of running multiple processors. I
don't know about anywhere else in the world but in Australia the new Abit
dual-Celeron boards
On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote:
:
Richard is there anyway to tell if this binary is corrupted?
You could try 'file /usr/sbin/authconfig' and see what it returns,
here it returns.
/usr/sbin/authconfig: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote:
How should I install a package distributed in .tar.gz form? It's
called TinyFugue, and it's a MUD client for UNIX (source code form).
Untar it in a tmp dir first, then you can see what it does where its
final resting place is by reading the docs README and
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hello
I am running apache 1.1.3, on one of our web pages there is a
file for ftp. Users in our network can click on the link and get the
file, but whenever a user from the outside world tries it just times
out? The file can however be ftp'd via anonymous
From: Richard Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] LM6.0 post Install issue
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Greetings to all,
Machine = IBM Thinkpad 760CD P 90mhz 1Gbyte HD 40MB RAM CDROM/Floppy = Hotswappable
[argh!]
Perplexing issue with LM6.0 upon machine
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote:
But where would it go? /usr/local? Should I make a special directory
to hold downloaded packages?
I suppose the proper place would be /usr/src, but I've usually just left
the source directories in /root (or, sometimes, in /home/danb/src).
If you're
Hello,
I don't wanna talk about power failure anymore, there are
a lot of things that i want to ask beside that.
I'm using Kppp for dialer, i have connected to my ISP.
i try to receive email using netscape, there are 27 email,
but i it stuck until 5 email that have been downloaded.
it's
What lists of dispatch are devoted to a /fresh/ kernel?
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote:
As a newbie there are a lot of things about Linux and computers in general
that I do not yet understand - please bear with me.
I have a query about the pros and cons of running multiple processors. I
don't know about anywhere else in the world but in
Hello All,
Can someone give me an Idea what is the best way to set up my hard drive
partitions for linux. I have 6110 set aside for linux with a swap of 256mb
I have a asus board running duel pentium2 350's with 256mb ram. what i mean
is i set it up with it all in / should i have split the thing
It is on my screen. How do I turn it off ?
Even NT on it's own won't necessarily guarantee dual processor working, it
all depends on the software. Games would probably not use dual processors,
whereas graphics packages, the most common area for multiple CPU's, would.
Since you're on a Linux board, I would add that Linux or any Unix
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hello All,
Can someone give me an Idea what is the best way to set up my hard drive
partitions for linux. I have 6110 set aside for linux with a swap of 256mb
I have a asus board running duel pentium2 350's with 256mb ram. what i mean
is i set it up with it
On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote:
But where would it go? /usr/local? Should I make a special directory
to hold downloaded packages?
When you unpack it using the method I gave previously, it will
typically create a directory packagename. For example, I
downloaded seti@home as
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hello,
I don't wanna talk about power failure anymore, there are
a lot of things that i want to ask beside that.
I'm using Kppp for dialer, i have connected to my ISP.
i try to receive email using netscape, there are 27 email,
but i it stuck until 5
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hello All,
Can someone give me an Idea what is the best way to set up my hard drive
partitions for linux. I have 6110 set aside for linux with a swap of 256mb
I have a asus board running duel pentium2 350's with 256mb ram. what i mean
is i set it up with it
Andy Goth wrote:
I printed three pages of graphics (actually HTML), and it took
FOREVER!!! How can I tone down the print quality and (consequently)
save time and ink?
Run printtool as root and adjust the resolution for that printer.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging
Simon Norris wrote:
Please bear in mind that this is a Unix reply, but it should hold true for
Linux.
In some spots, yes. In others, you're letting filesystem issues cloud
your suggestions.
The only reason for splitting partitions into /usr /var /tmp etc, is to
position them on
MaxiM Basunov wrote:
What lists of dispatch are devoted to a /fresh/ kernel?
What do you mean?
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message -
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 3:01 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake installation fails on mount
New development: I attempted to use PartitionMagic to make the Linux
partitions after the installer
Richard Adams wrote:
On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote:
:
Richard is there anyway to tell if this binary is corrupted?
You could try 'file /usr/sbin/authconfig' and see what it returns,
here it returns.
/usr/sbin/authconfig: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
version 1,
Hi,
I have apache set with /home/httpd/html/ as my document root, and my local
hostname is britlinks.co.uk
What I want to do is to set up my local host so that www.britlinks.co.uk
is a reference to the same host, while mworks.britlinks.co.uk points to
another virtual server set up with
Hi Aaron. Win98 won't run dual processors, only Linux, BeOS and NT. You
might like to check out a machine Leo Laporte is building on The Screen
Savers (www.zdtv.com ). It's got a Abit board with dual 366 Celerons
overclocked to 550 each (1.1 GHz!), that's available in the U.S.
- Original
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Ralph |byte-runner | wrote:
Can someone give me an Idea what is the best way to set up my hard drive
partitions for linux. I have 6110 set aside for linux with a swap of 256mb
I have a asus board running duel pentium2 350's with 256mb ram. what i mean
is i set it up with
I have the KDE menu in GNOME,
but I don't have the GNOME menu in KDE which is what I
KDE as GNOME while beautiful doesn't seem stable
Jeanette
- Original Message -
From: alann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie]
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Westbrook wrote:
I was under the impression that the swap shouldn't be any bigger that
128 since Linux won't read anything bigger anyway. Am I wrong?
Was true before kernel 2.1.something.
By now you can create 2 Terabytes swap if you need them.
LLaP
bero
Westbrook wrote:
I was under the impression that the swap shouldn't be any bigger that
128 since Linux won't read anything bigger anyway. Am I wrong?
Thanks
Russ
- Original Message -
I have 6110 set aside for linux with a swap of 256mb
You can have multiple swap partitions. but
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I was under the impression that the swap shouldn't be any bigger that
128 since Linux won't read anything bigger anyway. Am I wrong?
Nope, you're not wrong.
Splitting that 256Mb swap partition into two would be better. It's just wasted
disk space otherwise
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I was under the impression that the swap shouldn't be any bigger that
128 since Linux won't read anything bigger anyway. Am I wrong?
It appears that the 2.2.x versions of the kernel have done away with
that limitation. Still, I have 192 megs of ram, and so far,
hi there,
i've seen various posts about screen resolution probs (with no answer to my
particulart situation).
unfortunately, the ctrl-alt-plus does nothing. in
fact, the resolution isn't even 640x480, its some
sort of default resolution (like 240x310). i've
tried to install on two different
Dear folks:
I recently had to reinstall Windows after it began seriously
misbehaving, but lost lilo in the process. Now I can't get Mandrake 5.2
to boot up. I tried using the rescue disk, got to the #bash prompt, but
have no idea what to do next. I tried reinstalling lilo from the CD
(using the
First of all - thanks to all of you who have replied to my original post.
It has at least given me something to think about.
Second - I should clarify a pint I made in my original post. When I said I
would "impress my friends running Win98 with a system that really rocks" I
meant my friends
From: Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
misbehaving, but lost lilo in the process. Now I can't get Mandrake 5.2
to boot up. I tried using the rescue disk, got to the #bash prompt, but
have no idea what to do next. I tried reinstalling lilo from the CD
...and you didn't have a boot
Hi
I e-mailed this list the other day when I was having some problems loading a
couple mp3 programs. At the time, I did not have the exact error message but I
have it now.
I just tried to load kWinttv to configure and use use my video camera and got
the same errors as the other day. Here goes:
Alan Lott wrote:
hi there,
i've seen various posts about screen resolution probs (with no answer to my
particulart situation).
unfortunately, the ctrl-alt-plus does nothing. in
fact, the resolution isn't even 640x480, its some
sort of default resolution (like 240x310). i've
tried to
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote:
hi there,
i've seen various posts about screen resolution probs (with no answer to my
particulart situation).
unfortunately, the ctrl-alt-plus does nothing. in
fact, the resolution isn't even 640x480, its some
sort of default resolution (like 240x310). i've
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
Dear folks:
I recently had to reinstall Windows after it began seriously
misbehaving, but lost lilo in the process. Now I can't get Mandrake 5.2
to boot up. I tried using the rescue disk, got to the #bash prompt, but
have no idea what to do next. I tried
I'm sorry in my previous post I mistakenly said to type in "startx" I meant
to say "/sbin/lilo" then type in "reboot." See if that does anything for
you.
John
- Original Message -
From: Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 9:20 PM
Subject: Re:
I printed three pages of graphics (actually HTML), and it took
FOREVER!!! How can I tone down the print quality and (consequently)
save time and ink?
Run printtool as root and adjust the resolution for that printer.
This brings up another problem. I thought this would work:
-Start
I'm off-base, but what is the point of a separate /root partition? It
seems that there should be no problem leaving /root as a part of /.
/root is the superuser's home directory. I make a /root partition for
the same reason I make a /home partition: If I have to reinstall or
something, I can
But where would it go? /usr/local? Should I make a special directory
to hold downloaded packages?
I suppose the proper place would be /usr/src, but I've usually just left
the source directories in /root (or, sometimes, in /home/danb/src).
If you're in /root, and you unpack
misbehaving, but lost lilo in the process. Now I can't get Mandrake 5.2
to boot up. I tried using the rescue disk, got to the #bash prompt, but
have no idea what to do next. I tried reinstalling lilo from the CD
...and you didn't have a boot disk made? Too bad, makes the process a
Sometimes in WindowMaker my mouse pointer disappears. I can get it
back by restarting WindowMaker.
My dad'll probably have some big trouble with this one, so how can I
solve this problem PERMANENTLY?
___
Andy Goth [EMAIL
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mkbootdisk {kernel-version} will make a boot disk for me? I made one,
but I can't seem to find it. Now I want another one...
Yes, it will. Rather a nice feature actually. Just be careful--if
you're running (for example) 2.2.9-19mdk, you need to
Matt Stegman wrote:
3 I tried to change the default system of LILO from somewhere inside
the linuxconf, but when I activated the changes, it generated an error.
I think I saw somewhere that LILO does not run so well with Windows NT.
Is this true? Even if it is true, is there a way to
same thing happens to me, in X or out.
:P
Andy Goth wrote:
I printed three pages of graphics (actually HTML), and it took
FOREVER!!! How can I tone down the print quality and (consequently)
save time and ink?
Run printtool as root and adjust the resolution for that printer.
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 09:03:13 +0800 , Aaron deRozario
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A few more questions.
Overclocking a Celeron - I know a lot has been written about this in a lot
of places but 1 quick question - I know overclocking voids the Intel
warranty (in fact I think running dual-Celerons
I have just installed Mandrake 6. Unfortunately my 3Com 3C515TX was not
recognized. How do I get this up? The logs just say "Delaying start of
eth0"
thanks.
Hi everyone,
Is possible to have Netscape opening the links from KMail, instead of KFM ?
Thanks,
George
John Aldrich wrote:
On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Howdy all. I am going to need to install BRU2000, the tape backup
software on a server. The software requires Tcl/Tk v7.6 and 4.2
respectively. How do I found out what version each currently is ?
try "rpm -qa | grep tcl" and "rpm
i was told to use "netconfig" to set up my ethernet card, but when i do this,
i get a "no command found". what is one to do? I thought i did this in
Caldera, and it worked. I probly forgot something
thanks
jerrud
(i learned that i didnt like caldera :)
Hello, Alan:
I'm a newbie just like you and I think what you need to do is to go to this
website:
http://www.xfree.org/cardlist.htm
print out this list of video cards and pick one and give it a try.
This has been my experience as I had a card, a SoundBlaster 3D Banshee,
ordinarily a good card
Too help narrow down the program that i want, i know its not ifconfig. It had
more of a graphical interface. it let me choose my card, put in the IP and
such, and then it made everything work. I want to use my DSL in linux!
thanks once more
jerrud
pete moss wrote:
same thing happens to me, in X or out.
:P
Andy Goth wrote:
I printed three pages of graphics (actually HTML), and it took
FOREVER!!! How can I tone down the print quality and (consequently)
save time and ink?
Run printtool as root and adjust the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i was told to use "netconfig" to set up my ethernet card, but when i do this,
i get a "no command found". what is one to do? I thought i did this in
Caldera, and it worked. I probly forgot something
thanks
jerrud
(i learned that i didnt like caldera :)
It's
Matt,
Thank you for your help. I looked at the XF86Config file, but I'm not sure
exactly how to fix it.
It seems that my system is using the accelerated X server, because the
regular one doesn't have such a high res. I remember checking off 3 choices
when I installed, and 3 appear under the
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Too help narrow down the program that i want, i know its not ifconfig. It
had
I think what you want isn't netconfig, but netcfg.
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