Thanks Steve
I have joined the extensive list of people you have generously shared your
knowledge with.
I was aware of the Mandrake 486 issue and am planning to use RH 5.2 or 6.0.
Another question - if I have a 486 machine with compatible soundcard, can a
programme running on the server feed
Hi Carl.
We are in almost the same scene. However, mine is an SiS6326/ATI Rage IIC
AGP video cards (8MBs each). I am using a generic SVGA monitor (PnP type).
I've tried everything with xf86config and i am about to pull everything
what's left of my hair. I posted my problem a week ago and I am
I'm not quite sure what you are asking?
[caymen@localhost]$ is what you would see after logging in correctly, and
your box is waiting for you to tell it what to do.
Try typing startx
If this answer is relevent to your question, then I STRONGLY suggest you
purchase a few linux howto books :)
I'd like to set things up so that when certain users login, the system
checks for the next available X server and then calls startx for them. How
would it be best to do this, and what would the script look like.
cheers. James.
--
James Stewart | Britlinks | The
Considering Superdisks don't use floppy connectors, they're in fact IDE
devices, this designation seems perfectly logical.
Now the problem I have is not being able to make a boot disk during install
through the superdisk, as you can't type any commands to mount the device
during install!!! I
File Xfer Program??? Or FTP to everyone else? The Igloo statement below sort
of gave it away!!
- Original Message -
From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 3:33 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] fxp
Ralph | byte-runner | wrote:
does anyone
I have downloaded the OAS 407 from Oracle for the Linux platform, and am now
having trouble getting it on to CD. My burner is on a Windows machine, so I
am using Winzip to uncompress and ungzip the files, and have hit a problem.
In the MAN3 directory, there are files that have '::' in the
Hello,
Can someone plz give me the line i need to put in my lilo conf to get my cdr to
work. I know it's append???
plz help.
thanks
Ralph --
***
Where Ever Your Head Goes Your Ass Will Follow
***
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, alann wrote:
I was wondering "WHAT" file in Mandrake ( or RH for that matter )
contains all the package descriptions
that you get upon install. In other words, when you install either you
have the choice of making broad package installs
or installing EVERY package
Thanks to Ken, Steve, Matt, and others for their assistance with that last
one. Amazing how stupid mistakes make everything harder. I kept editing
the wrong monitor section and couldn't understand why it wasn't working.
Later,
David
"Without the Law, there is no Liberty. Without Justice,
Thanks to my fruitless exploits in getting my unidentifiable NIC's to work,
I am now in the market to purchase some new NIC's. Can anyone recommend any
10baseT ISA NIC's that are reasonably easy to set up in Linux, IE not
Windows specific? Oh, and cheap must be the prime consideration. I'll be
Aaron deRozario wrote:
Thanks Steve
I have joined the extensive list of people you have generously shared your
knowledge with.
I was aware of the Mandrake 486 issue and am planning to use RH 5.2 or 6.0.
Another question - if I have a 486 machine with compatible soundcard, can a
Dan Brown wrote:
From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
telinit 3
What's the difference between this and "init 3"?
Not a darn thing! Heck, they even share a manpage! :)
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Simon Norris wrote:
File Xfer Program??? Or FTP to everyone else? The Igloo statement below sort
of gave it away!!
Actually, the Igloo statement confused the issue for me. I thought it
was some sort of new-fangled, script kiddie secure FTP transfer
protocol.
As for good FTP programs for
Hi,
I an newbie to Linux (2 out of 10 on the learning curve), although I have a
good technical background in MS operating systems.
I have been trying to install/upgrade a pc with Linux-Mandrake 6.0 and am
having a few problems. I would be greatful for any suggestions/insights on
the
3Com 3C509b or Intel Pro(100) which is a bit more. I have had no trouble with
either. If someone as dangerous at a keyboard as I has no trouble, noboby
should.
Bryan
"Simon Norris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/13/99 06:57:16 AM
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you are talking about SCSI emulation to burn some CDs check out my
web site. I wrote up what I did to get it to work. The URL is:
http://www.midkan.com/paulb/mycdr.htm
PBen
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 03:49:57 -0400, Ralph|byte-runner|
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
Can someone plz give me the
Anyone know how I can get kpp to close licq when I close kpp? I got
it to open, but not close automagically.
TIA,
--
Ty Mixon
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ:26147713
Can anyone tell me what files / directories are read ( and in what order
) when you boot and then log in? (understandably custom not included -
although when are they called) Just trying to understand the operating
system. It doesn't do me any good to use something I don't understand.
Joseph
I bought a LinkSys card cheaply(£20) from PC World. It was picked up by
RedHat 6.0 installer straight away. Although it may have been a PCI card,
can't remember.
I would think that any NE2000 compatible card would be OK, and should be
very cheap.
I have the same question about graphics - I
I was installing Linux on a second partition on a second harddrive. After
I built the Linux partition layout using Druid, it took and error trying to
write the new partition information and told me I needed to reboot in order
to continue the install.
Now I cannot get Linux to finish the
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From: Donny [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 2:04 AM
Subject: [newbie] Install freeze
Hey everyone! I've installed Linux a number of times on my computer,
fairly easily. But I recently picked up a P60, that i want to give
- Original Message -
From: alann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux RPM, how to open.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, cool. Make sure that the /etc/lilo.conf line looks
exactly like
this:
From: Ronald A. Yacketta
If I recall correctly fxp is similiar to ftp but different.
fxp is used in the warez community alot, it allows person A to connect to
person B and transfer to person C
why??
havent figured that one out as of yet, I am not into warez *evil grin*
Steve Philp [EMAIL
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I installed linux so that the X windows logon comes on automatically. How do
I bypass this and go directly to the shell logon?
At the LILO prompt, type "linux 3" minus quotes, of course.
If you want it to PERMANENTLY change to booting to console,
go in as root
on 22:00 12/09/1999 +, pete moss,wrote
i am running a s3 virge gx2 chipset with the svga x server.
:P
Are you bragging or complaining? ;-)
Kodak CDs are of much better quality than Maxells. You are probably
better of paying a little more for the Kodak CDs and avoiding a lot of
burn time on your CD-R.
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From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 10:40 PM
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From: Donny [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 11:12 PM
Subject: [newbie] Installation Freeze
I got it to boot and install mandrake 5.3, but whenever i try running
the 6.0 bootdisk, it locks up at "running installer". Why is
Hi Mark,
Not sure about your vid card problem. Is it listed as supported? As far
as the boot problem goes, when you deleted your partitions, you did not change
your boot record. Lilo is lookinf for your old kernel which of course, no
longer exists. Use your boot disk to get in, and as
This has happened to me twice using Disk Druid...Do you have Win98 on your
box.
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From: Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 8:49 AM
Subject: [newbie] Remove partial Linux Partition
I was installing Linux on a second
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi Carl.
We are in almost the same scene. However, mine is an SiS6326/ATI Rage IIC
AGP video cards (8MBs each). I am using a generic SVGA monitor (PnP type).
I've tried everything with xf86config and i am about to pull everything
what's left of my hair. I
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hallo
I installed Mandrake 6.0 and everything went fine to the point of
running KDE
My machine has:
diamond stealth 64 vram pci (S3 968) and is recognized with setup and
tested OK.
This sounds like a video problemor a resource conflict
with the sound
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Thanks to my fruitless exploits in getting my unidentifiable NIC's to work,
I am now in the market to purchase some new NIC's. Can anyone recommend any
10baseT ISA NIC's that are reasonably easy to set up in Linux, IE not
Windows specific? Oh, and cheap must be
Yes, I have Win98!!!
At 11:24 AM 9/13/99 -0400, you wrote:
This has happened to me twice using Disk Druid...Do you have Win98 on your
box.
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From: Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 8:49 AM
Subject: [newbie] Remove partial
The best bang for the buck, or pound in your case, would be the D-Link
10/100 Fast Ethernet model DFE-530TX pci. I paid $46 dollars Canadian
for mine at London Drugs, a drug store computer department - go
figure. It uses the via-rhine module driver, (and a Linux driver is
on the provided
remove mandrake 6.0 from your system and install new mandrake 6.1
thanks
William Joe Rochester
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Remove partial Linux
I would, but I still need to get rid of this half installed Linux partition
At 12:50 PM 9/13/99 -0400, you wrote:
remove mandrake 6.0 from your system and install new mandrake 6.1
thanks
William Joe Rochester
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Bob [EMAIL
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi Mark,
Not sure about your vid card problem. Is it listed as supported? As far
as the boot problem goes, when you deleted your partitions, you did not change
your boot record. Lilo is lookinf for your old kernel which of course, no
longer exists.
This seems to be related to Win98/95 and their possessive view of the
partition table [not really a disk-guru so I don't know the low level
particulars].
I had no luck using LILO in conjunction with Win98 and I eventually went to
using System Commander. The best installation order I know of is:
I have two machines with two physical hard disk drives but I'll just talk
about one of them here.
Windows ran into some sort of problem and I felt the need to reinstall
Windows which I did and I knew it would overwrite LILO which it did. I
used the Linux boot disk to boot up with and when it
I'm installing Red hat 6.0 and have come accrossed a question I don't
know the answer to. Under Authentication Configuration, should I or
should I not "Enable NIS" and is so what is the NIS Domain and then
should I use NIS Server - Request via broadcast or use ???
I have a statis IP number and
Hi,
Bash tells me it doesn´t recognize the "make" command. I assume that is so
because I neglected to install development packages at setup... Does anyone
know where to find the proper RPMs in the 6.0 dist. cd?
Thanks in advance,
/Gustavo Viola ß^»
Hidong Kim wrote:
Hi,
I tried rebooting my machine to see if that would solve the "mount
program not registered" issue. when the machine was shutting down, I
noticed an error message saying:
rpc.nfsd forgot to set AF_INET in udp sendmsg. Fix it!
Would this be causing the problems
when i reboot after incorrect shutdown...it says some
disks were not unmounted correcty and to
RUN fdck MANUALLY
and asks me for root passwd...
after i give it the passwd and type fdck it says one
line about parallelizing...
so i exit and it says...
you're nobody...go away...
and then after
hello,
Of course I'm a newbie,trying to access my "SuperDisk" or I think
the term is "mount" my SuperDisk drive and can't.I've read the other
requests for info for the same problem and tried them.They don't seem to
work,but then again I'm a newbie.
I tried (under root);
mount -t vfat
Even if I've already downloaded everything?!?
-Kyle "Orange" Spahn
Freespace 2 Lead
Descent Chronicles - http://descent.gamestats.com/
E-Mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ # - 22966915
- Original Message -
From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 12,
Do some guys of you out there know a good programm to sort my emails in
different folders, in my emailprogramm. I#m using PINE
Danke
It's whats know as a site to site transfer, it was refined back in the
days when you had to bounce crypto to get it out of the US. Theres only
one program it's linfXp it should be somewhere on linapps, and it doesn't
work that well. You could always do it manualy..
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Steve
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On 13 Sep 99, at 16:36, Alex Bailey wrote:
hello,
Of course I'm a newbie,trying to access my "SuperDisk" or I think
the term is "mount" my SuperDisk drive and can't.I've read the other
requests for info for the same problem and tried
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On 13 Sep 99, at 13:25, pol keem wrote:
when i reboot after incorrect shutdown...it says some
disks were not unmounted correcty and to
RUN fdck MANUALLY
and asks me for root passwd...
after i give it the passwd and type fdck it says one
On my computer at least the superdisk is found on /dev/hdc you will need to
check where yours found. You might find it in the start up screen as it
scrolls by.
You can then create a directory in /mnt called "ls120" or whatever your
fancy. You can then mount the superdisk to /mnt/ls120.
mount
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From: pol keem [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 4:25 PM
Subject: [newbie] reboot after incorrect shutdown
when i reboot after incorrect shutdown...it says some
disks were not unmounted correcty and to
RUN fdck MANUALLY
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Markus wrote:
Do some guys of you out there know a good programm to sort my emails in
different folders, in my emailprogramm. I#m using PINE
Danke
Procmail if you want to sort it as it comes in.
Or grepmail if you'd like to sort it later.
--
MandrakeSoft
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Hidong Kim wrote:
Hidong Kim wrote:
Hi,
I tried rebooting my machine to see if that would solve the "mount
program not registered" issue. when the machine was shutting down, I
noticed an error message saying:
rpc.nfsd forgot to set AF_INET in udp
--I now have both floppies up and working and am chompin' at the bit for my next
Linux challenge. My special thanks to John for pointing me in the right
direction. If it's OK with y'all I'd like to post the step by step in case
anybody out there needs a really simplistic explanation.
1. First
i'll get the updates...
but is there any way to recover my machine from this
error without having to reinstall?
--- Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: pol keem [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 4:25 PM
Subject:
Axalon,
I followed your advice and I successfully created a boot disk, logged in and
ran
the mini LInux installation.
During the boot, I gleaned the following info:
Hda Quantum Fireball (Hard drive 1)
Hdc Maxtor(Hard drive 2)
Hdd CD ROM(CD Rom drive)
I also
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Fxp is used to connect to 2 servers at the same time using thier sorces and
bandwith and not your own. Yep it's used by curry's to move files!!!
If I recall correctly fxp is similiar to ftp but different.
fxp is used in the warez community alot, it allows
Looks like he is looking for the same thing I am...how do you get
removed from this list.
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From: Michael Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] remove
what
- Original Message
Bob,
I have had this happen twice and found that I had to start the install
over
again and use fdisk or cfdisk to remove/delete the offending
partitions.
DOS/fdisk and PM will not be able to do so. It might be a good idea to
abort the
installation after deleting the partitions and boot up DOS
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] reboot after incorrect shutdown
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On 13 Sep 99, at 13:25, pol keem wrote:
when i reboot after incorrect
Alex Bailey wrote:
hello,
Of course I'm a newbie,trying to access my "SuperDisk" or I think
the term is "mount" my SuperDisk drive and can't.I've read the other
requests for info for the same problem and tried them.They don't seem to
work,but then again I'm a newbie.
I tried
#include std_disclaimer.h
Ok bust out that ezdrive disk, replicate E onto F and then D onto E
Now when you install it should accept /dev/hdc1 as a valid mount point for /
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Jerry wrote:
Axalon,
I followed your advice and I successfully created a boot disk, logged in
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1
VirtualHost mworks.britlinks.co.uk
ServerName mworks.britlinks.co.uk
DocumentRoot /home/httpd/marketingworks.co.uk
blah
blah
blah
/VirtualHost
use the name of the server, not the ip number.
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I'm trying to set up apache 1.3.6 to handle
Click on the home icon on desktop
select browser options from the options menu
you may have to enable proxy settings
enter your wingate ftp and http proxy setting
And you should have it
good luck
Steve
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From: James Mellema [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On 13 Sep 99, at 18:46, Manny Styles wrote:
I wonder if Joe has updated his kernel. Since doing so, I have not
had any crashes or lock-ups, but that could just be me. If you are
using Mandrake 6.0 "out-of-the-box" as it were, the unmounting
I can now connect to the internet with a Supra Express 56k external modem.
Finally;-)
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Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
I installed Mandrake 6.0 yesterday but have been unable to get my modem to
respond. And no, its not a win modem.
I tried many different jumper settings for the IRQ com port but when I try
to use KPPP all I got were:
"Sorry, the modem is not responding" or "The modem is busy" messages.
I tried
I have installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0 on a computer I intend to use as a web
server. Everything is going great except for one thing. I CAN'T TELNET INTO
THE SYSTEM I can't figure out how it happened. I did the update and ten
the problem started. Can anyone help me???
Thanks,
Shannon M.
Hi, Axalon,
I did 'rpcinfo -p' on the broken box. It returns:
program vers proto port
102 tcp111 rpcbind
102 udp111 rpcbind
151 udp635 mountd
152 udp635 mountd
151 tcp635 mountd
152
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] reboot after incorrect shutdown
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On 13 Sep 99, at 18:46, Manny Styles wrote:
I wonder if Joe has updated
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From: pol keem [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] reboot after incorrect shutdown
i'll get the updates...
but is there any way to recover my machine from this
error without having to reinstall?
A Enoch Meza wrote:
I installed Mandrake 6.0 yesterday but have been unable to get my modem to
respond. And no, its not a win modem.
I tried many different jumper settings for the IRQ com port but when I try
to use KPPP all I got were:
"Sorry, the modem is not responding" or "The modem is
Hi!
I'm wanting to know how I can telnet into my machine from school (got
the school end figured). So I need to know how to make my machine
accept telnets.
Also, can I use X-windows from telnet?
And the scripts part - I want to make a simple script that starts a
few programs and other
"D.Vaughn" wrote:
Looks like he is looking for the same thing I am...how do you get
removed from this list.
If you (and he) weren't too lazy to go to Mandrake.com, click on
lists,
and read a little instead of expecting someone else to do
your research, then you'd know how to get off
Jeremy Kersenbrock wrote:
I'm new to Linux (and this list) and am attempting to install Linux-Mandrake
6.0 on a system which currently has Win95 installed on its only hard drive
with the FAT32 file system.
I want to add Linux without destroying Windows or investing in a new hard
drive
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