Re: [newbie] LILO boot error code

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, you wrote: I somehow have managed to corrupt the descriptor table on my system. When I try to boot into my system all I get at the boot prompt is LIL- can anyone here on the list offer a suggestion as to what I need to do in order to correct this ? LIL- The

Re: [newbie] :-( (and a blip about the scrolling desktop)

Thanks Mark for understanding. I suppose my video problem is with my darn (generic) monitor. I do have the piece of paper with sketchy technical infos (v/h scan, dot resolution etc) and it could be possible it is the source of my woes. But I am not giving up yet. That is why I am here. Paul

Re: [newbie] Sound setup help needed

The time consumed and difficulty of just setting up the sound alone should scare away any chance of Linux spreading worldwide. Must it be this difficult? The average Joe doesn't have time to reinvent the wheel when all he wants to do is drive off in a new car. Sorry, I'm somewhat dishearten

Re: [newbie] Updating Kernel?

A mirror is a download site which contains a copy of files at some other site, so for example, the "Update" program asks you to select a 'mirror' of the main mandrake download site so that you can choose a site that may be closer (and therefore perhaps faster) to download from, as well as allow

Re: [newbie] Corel

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, you wrote: Just noticed a mention on a French magazine website regarding Corel Linux. To save me several hours with dictionary does anyone know any more about this? http://linux.corel.com/ John the Nadger http://www.nadger.freeserve.co.uk/goonpage.html -- Regards

Re: [newbie] 6.1 Download/Install

You americans are so lucky. Here in Brazil the normal connection speed is 2 or 3KB/sec. It will take "a little" more time than you. - Original Message - From: Caymen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 6.1 Download/Install

Re: [newbie] VM-Ware for Linux.

I had the same thing using mandrake60 also the only way i found around it was to redo the kernel and get rid of the mdk and if ya have it smp on the label Ralph IInstalling /usr/local/bin/vmnet-sniffer Installing /usr/local/bin/vmnet-bridge Installing /usr/local/lib/vmware/config Finding

Re: [newbie] Video Config in Linux *Help!*

OK, I'm lost. So, do I need to download an install the entire current version (3.3.5 -- the PCI Starfighter is supposedly supported in it) or can I just use the i740 server that came on my Mandrake 6.0 CD? It is in a subdirectory on the CD, but wasn't part of the installed package doesn't show

Re: [newbie] 6.1 Download/Install

I wish! Unfortunately, even some major cities in the States still don't have high speed access. I downloaded my copy with my 56k modem. While that isnt quite as slow as your connection, its pretty close.. I averaged about 4.8 KB/sec for my download of Helios. Darin - -- Cthulhu for President

[newbie] fsck

Installed Mandrake 6.0 but have file problems. The program advises using 'fsck' without the -a or -p switches. What the heck is fsck and how do I make it work?

[newbie] X and kde

I've installed Linux-Mandrake about 6 times now and every time I do X windows just comes up blank regardless of the resolution of screen. The mouse works ok, it boots up without problems. When I execute KDE I get error messages "can't find X server" What am I doing wrong...?

[newbie] X,,kde

I've installed Linux-Mandrake about 6 times now and every time I do X windows just comes up blank regardless of the resolution of screen. The mouse works ok, it boots up without problems. When I execute KDE I get error messages "can't find X server" What am I doing wrong...?

[newbie] KDE

I get and error message upon executing kde "can't connect to x server" i've installed linux about 6 times now and same or worse results. end TERRY my email is [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Sound setup help needed

Sevatio Octavio wrote: The time consumed and difficulty of just setting up the sound alone should scare away any chance of Linux spreading worldwide. Must it be this difficult? The average Joe doesn't have time to reinvent the wheel when all he wants to do is drive off in a new car.

Re: [newbie] HD-Install vs. FTP-Install?

Sean Pritchard wrote: OK STEVE: I now have all the files for 6.1 (Did I need to download the whole Mandrake/ directory? as /Mandrake/ /RMPS/ /base/ /instimage/ /lib/ /modules/ /usr/

Re: [newbie] fsck

At the command line type e2fsck /dev/partition. Replace partition with the drive and partition designation. Example the first hard drive would be hda and the first partition on hda would be hda1. the second hard drive would be hdb and the first partition on hdb would be hdb1. Do this for all your

[newbie] My logging has stopped!

What do I need to do to setup system logging again? (/var/log/secure, xferlog, etc) Can anyone tell me all of the steps I need to take to implement system logging as if I were implementing it for the first time. Thanks.

[newbie] Samba and Epson Stylus Pro Printer.

Has anyone used a shared injet printer with Samba? My windows client won't let me create the share because it says that the printer is off-line. I used SWAT to setup the printer and it does show up in the browsing list for the server. I'm using Red Hat 6.0 (Mandrake 6.0) and the printer is an

[newbie] Has anyone used a Win98 client to access a PostgresSQL server?

I wish to write some VB or C++ apps for windows clients that would access a PostgresSQL database. I have done this with Microsoft databases but I would like to get away from Microsoft servers in favor of Linux. Are there ODBC drives that will work on the clients? What needs to be done on the

Re: [newbie] My logging has stopped!

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Eric L. Damron wrote: What do I need to do to setup system logging again? (/var/log/secure, xferlog, etc) Can anyone tell me all of the steps I need to take to implement system logging as if I were implementing it for the first time. How did you get it to stop??? You

[newbie] Apache, PHP and mSQL

I've recently installed mSQL and purchased O'Reilly's _MySQL and mSQL_. I have the most recent release of apache to be made available through MandrakeUpdate. When I try to use any msql specific commands from within PHP, I am told that the command is unknown. I can't even open a connection. What

Re: [newbie] My logging has stopped!

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Eric L. Damron wrote: What do I need to do to setup system logging again? (/var/log/secure, xferlog, etc) Can anyone tell me all of the steps I need to take to implement system logging as if I were implementing it for the first

[newbie] Id mo

Every now and then I get this message in my console: INIT: "Id "mo" respawning too fast. Disabled for 5 minutes." What is this "mo"? Why is it respawing, and how can I make it stop? I couldn't find anything about it in the list archives. Any help appreciated, Thanks. /Gustavo.

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Re: [newbie] Apache, PHP and mSQL

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Brett Jones wrote: php was not built with support for msql. It should have mysql and postgresql from Mandrake. If you need to use msql and you don't want to use mysql, recompile php with support for msql. Do I just download the source and compile as if it were a new

[newbie] Aiee

A few times recently I've had the kernel crash on me. This generally happens when I have a PPP connection up and am switching between a non-X screen and the screen I have KDE open in. I'm running kernel 2.2.9-27mdk What happens is that a long stream of text/numbers flashes past and then stops

Re: [newbie] another mail sever problem?

Manny Styles wrote: Is anyone else getting messages over again (ie: a message that was sent 3 or so days ago that keeps returning). It could just be me, but I want to be sure before I report any problems about the mail server to my ISP. Manny Styles Yes, Manny, I thought it was just me

[newbie] Another remove request :o|

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[newbie] Re: []

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Re: [newbie] Aiee

On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, James Stewart wrote: A few times recently I've had the kernel crash on me. This generally happens when I have a PPP connection up and am switching between a non-X screen and the screen I have KDE open in. I'm running kernel 2.2.9-27mdk Can you try updating the kernel to

[newbie] video problems?

Installing Mandrake (Venus) 6.0 everything appears to go well although but I think my old Trident 1meg video card should display at 16 bit level 640x480. Anyway, on initial boot after install load I get this: INIT: Entering run level 5 INIT: can't execute "/etc/rc.d/rc" INIT: Id "1" respawning

[newbie] Network card install

Does anyone know how I can install the drivers for the NE2000 ethernet card??? I bought an ne2000 compatible ethernet card, installed it, but don't know where to go from here... Is there a setting to change in my linux system somewhere? does it work like Win95/98?? I have linux mandrake if that

[newbie] Re:

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Re: [newbie] :-( (and a blip about the scrolling desktop)

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, you wrote: Thanks Mark for understanding. I suppose my video problem is with my darn (generic) monitor. I do have the piece of paper with sketchy technical infos (v/h scan, dot resolution etc) and it could be possible it is the source of my woes. But I am not giving up

Re: [newbie] Video Config in Linux *Help!*

OK, now that I have installed the i740 xserver and rerun xf86config, what good is it? My system is still loading the generic VGA dirver at 640x480. I've managed to figure out how to comment out the annoying virtual desktop settings in the config file, but I need to know how I can force the

Re: [newbie] Re: []

Michael Scottaline wrote: Think this gentleman wants to get our attention? ;o) If he keeps this crap up, he's going to get a copy of /proc/kmem in his mailbox. "Joseph L. Czapiewski" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: newbie remove newbie remove newbie remove newbie remove newbie remove newbie

[newbie] Re:

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Re: [newbie] 6.1 Download/Install

Andrei wrote: You americans are so lucky. Here in Brazil the normal connection speed is 2 or 3KB/sec. It will take "a little" more time than you. Andei: I can't help your connection speed, but I can point you to something that will help with big downloads. Get a package called NetVampire.

Re: [newbie] X and kde

Blank as in how? Is it black? Or just like a backgroundcould it be you're in a virtual desktop area? If you're not sure try moving your cursor to the extreme edge of the screen, does scroll around and show you icons and such? Best of luck! Mark

Re: [newbie] X and kde

terry wrote: I've installed Linux-Mandrake about 6 times now and every time I do X windows just comes up blank regardless of the resolution of screen. The mouse works ok, it boots up without problems. When I execute KDE I get error messages "can't find X server" What am I doing

[newbie] Trouble w/ NIC, modem.

I'm installing Mandrake 6.0 on a Compaq Presario 4504, and I'm running into two problems which are rather distressing. In short, it won't communicate with the NIC or the modem. First the NIC problem. At system boot, it says it's bringing up eth0, and it gives a green "OK" indicating

Re: [Re: [newbie] Re: []]

Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Scottaline wrote: Think this gentleman wants to get our attention? ;o) If he keeps this crap up, he's going to get a copy of /proc/kmem in his mailbox. Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL

[newbie] How do I install php-3_0_9_tar.tar

I need to install PHP. I picked up PHP-3_0_9_tar.tar from http://www.downloadsafari.com How do I know that this file will work with Mandrake 6.0 (RedHat 6.0) How do I install it? Thanks

[newbie] Sympatico HSE

Hi all! I'm looking for a fellow Canadian who's also using Sympatico's HSE (that's my ISP for the rest of you), who can give me a hand with the new Access Manager software. I just burned and installed the new 61-1.iso image, and I see Sympatico's posted a R.H. 5.2 version; full source; and

Re: [newbie] Apache, PHP and mSQL

Use the php3 src.rpm from mandrake and then read the php docs about the ./configure switch needed. It's probably "--with-msql". Make the needed change to the spec file and then run "rpm -ba specfile.spec". On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, you wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Brett Jones wrote: php was not

Re: [newbie] X and kde

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, you wrote: terry wrote: I've installed Linux-Mandrake about 6 times now and every time I do X windows just comes up blank regardless 6 times, ouch. Try running Xconfigureator from now on. It's a lot less work. of the resolution of screen. The mouse works ok, it

[newbie] Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT card

Has anyone with this card installed 6.0? The list of supported Creative Logic cards has many graphics blaster variants, all with some (model?) number, but I can't find anywhere in the documentation that came with my card a number like any of the available choices. If anyone has any advice, I'd

Re: [newbie] How do I install php-3_0_9_tar.tar

Downloaded it with winblows? It should be php-3.0.9.tar.gz. You should go download the newest tar file "3.0.12" from php.net, and while your there RTFM. Note: It may be installed on your sys already. Run "rpm -q php" In the future go to a real software database site (freshmeat.net), that has

Re: [newbie] I'm Ready To Buy The OSS Driver... But, Where?

Try http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi for the download. The home page is http://www.opensound.com-- not http://www.4front-tech.com Murray Sevatio Octavio wrote: I went to http://www.4front-tech.com but I can't get on their "download" or "purchase" page. Does anyone know if there

Re: [Re: [newbie] Re: []]

Michael Scottaline wrote: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Scottaline wrote: Think this gentleman wants to get our attention? ;o) If he keeps this crap up, he's going to get a copy of /proc/kmem in his mailbox. Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance

Re: [newbie] video problems?

Bill Crouch wrote: Installing Mandrake (Venus) 6.0 everything appears to go well although but I think my old Trident 1meg video card should display at 16 bit level 640x480. Anyway, on initial boot after install load I get this: INIT: Entering run level 5 INIT: can't execute

Re: [newbie] Network card install

Joe Brault wrote: Does anyone know how I can install the drivers for the NE2000 ethernet card??? I bought an ne2000 compatible ethernet card, installed it, but don't know where to go from here... Is there a setting to change in my linux system somewhere? does it work like Win95/98?? I

Re: [newbie] How do I install php-3_0_9_tar.tar

Thanks for the info Brett. And BTW I am a newbie to Linux and I have been RTFM almost constantly and I'm getting F*king tired of RTFM so if I can get a little information without RTFM, I certainly will. So, If anyone out there can tell me how to install a "tar.gz" file so that I don't have to

Re: [newbie] Sound setup help needed

I will second this recommendation. You can try it out before you buy it to make sure it works. I have succeeded in getting most of the sound things to work (including KDE CD Player, RealPlayer G2 and playing .MID and .WAV files) , but not UMP with Netscape. If anyone can help with that I would

Re: [newbie] Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT card

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, you wrote: Has anyone with this card installed 6.0? The list of supported Creative Logic cards has many graphics blaster variants, all with some (model?) number, but I can't find anywhere in the documentation that came with my card a number like any of the available

[newbie] I'm Ready To Buy The OSS Driver... But, Where?

I went to http://www.4front-tech.com but I can't get on their "download" or "purchase" page. Does anyone know if there is another site that could supply this driver? Desperate Seve -Original Message- From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

Re: [newbie] another mail sever problem?

- Original Message - From: Brian Erikson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 7:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] another mail sever problem? Manny Styles wrote: Is anyone else getting messages over again (ie: a message that was sent 3 or so days

[newbie] Fonts

Does anybody have any tips on how to make the fonts in Netscape look better?

Re: [newbie] 6.1 Download/Install

"Bob" == Bob Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Bob I can't help your connection speed, but I can point you to Bob something that will help with big downloads. Get a package Bob called NetVampire. It only runs under W95, I don't know if Bob there's a Linux equivalent. It

Re: [newbie] How do I install php-3_0_9_tar.tar

"Eric L. Damron" wrote: So, If anyone out there can tell me how to install a "tar.gz" file so that I don't have to RTFM I would appreciate it! The problem is that there is no answer to "how to install a .tar.gz file", because such a file could contain just about anything. In the case

[newbie] Printing and KEdit or cat file | lpr

I asked this question before, but did not receive an answer When I print from KEdit, or if I do cat file | lpr nothing prints right away, and there is nothing in the queue. If I then print something else (even a blank page) from other applications (e.g. Netscape, Star Office, WordPerfect),

[newbie] shutdown

I am trying to get shutdown to send a warning message to other users... the command should be something like shutdown -k now mesg But it just sends shutdown canceled.. on red hat system, that works and I never have a problem... I tried it on 2 mandrake computers, and they both have the same

Re: [newbie] Video Config in Linux *Help!*

You are still at 640x480 8bpp because you are probably using the vga16 server, not the XBF_i740 server. To solve this, go to /usr/X11R6/bin and make a symbolic link to the XBF_i740 file as follows: cd /usr/X11R6/bin ln -s XBF_i740 XF86_SVGA Then run Xconfigurator and select unlisted card,

Re: [newbie] Id mo

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote: Every now and then I get this message in my console: INIT: "Id "mo" respawning too fast. Disabled for 5 minutes." What is this "mo"? Why is it respawing, and how can I make it stop? I couldn't find anything about it in the list archives.