[newbie] IP Aliasing

1999-10-02 Thread Eric Solberg
Mandrake 6.1 I've added an IP alias using linuxconf-Networking-Server Tasks-IP aliases for virtual hosts. I see that it has added the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 and this script contains the option ONBOOT=yes along with the ip address, netmask, etc. Also, I have made sure

[newbie] MVP3 chipset

1999-10-02 Thread Dennis Bloodnok (Major.Retd)
I'm using a new TMC Socket 7 board with the above chipset. I was trying to follow a string and saw a reference to BIOS problems with this chipset. Could someone please point me at site where I can find further info Thanks John the Nadger www.nadger.co.uk

Re: [newbie] I found a link to 4.7 for linux 2.0 (glibc) (upgradeatyour own risk)

1999-10-02 Thread Jeanette Russo
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Eosnet Team wrote:

Re: [newbie] IP Masquerading...?

1999-10-02 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Arcana wrote: OKAY, it works again. I typed in the command to "turn on IP forwarding" (like, echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarding or something) and everything runs like magic again. So, the million buck question is... ... how do I keep

Re: [newbie] Man I HATE this.

1999-10-02 Thread Phil Thornley
The Mandrake kernel is "optimized" to run on a pentium computer, but it isn't required. The install still took a bit of work since all the hardware is 5 to 10 years old. Maybe the only reason it worked is because of my ignorance of Linux. This was my first attempt at installing Linux on

Re: [newbie] Man I HATE this.

1999-10-02 Thread Phil Thornley
I'm running Mandrake 6.0 --Phil --- Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Fieschko wrote: Well, am I then mistaken in my understanding that Mandrake requires a 586 / Pentium or higher to run / install? Mandrake 5.3 doesn't... g -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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1999-10-02 Thread Eddie Head
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Re: [newbie] I found a link to 4.7 for linux 2.0 (glibc) (upgradeat your own risk)

1999-10-02 Thread David P. Greenberg
On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote: bay56 wrote: - Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 8:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] I found a link to 4.7 for linux 2.0 (glibc) (upgradeat your own risk)

Re: [newbie] I found a link to 4.7 for linux 2.0 (glibc) (upgradeatyour own risk)

1999-10-02 Thread David P. Greenberg
On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Eosnet Team wrote: http://www.netscape.com/download/selectlanguage_1_702_411.html

Re: [newbie] I found a link to 4.7 for linux 2.0 (glibc) (upgradeatyour own risk)

1999-10-02 Thread Rick Murphy
Alan where did you find the fortify for the Linux version of Netscape I only see the Windows and NT versions? Can you send me a link for the Linux one? Thanks Jeanette please post to our board Rick "Mulerider" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB

Re: [newbie] Stopping auto-boot to KDE?

1999-10-02 Thread David P. Greenberg
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, Valheru wrote: Hello all, I am getting a font error when booting into KDE which is set for auto-load. How can I stop this? All my monitor does is reset itself. Is there a command once I'm at the login: screen to stop the auto-load? I have about 3 seconds before KDE

RE: [newbie] Re:

1999-10-02 Thread Paul Hoy
David ... :) Cheers! On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, PaulHoy wrote: we are all "genious" in our own way :)... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David P. Greenberg Sent: October 1, 1999 6:55

Re: [newbie] Default lilo boot

1999-10-02 Thread Steve Philp
Eric Solberg wrote: Here's another dumb one.. ugh I've compiled a new kernel and want it to boot by default. I entered this as the first entry in /etc/lilo.conf (the name is linux2), but it still boots the one named 'linux' by default. I even went in through linuxconf and made sure

[newbie] Armed Linux

1999-10-02 Thread Joe Brault
Has anyone heard of this version of linux before? If anyone has used it... what do ya think? I'm interesed in trying it out on my laptop, but i'm not sure if I want to risk it or not... Joe :) [DEFAULT]

[newbie] Star Office

1999-10-02 Thread Sean King
I see many people writing the listserve about star office and I was wondering if any of you got it work for a user other than root. I am have problems doing so. If you could please tell me what you did to get this working. Sean

[newbie] diskdruid

1999-10-02 Thread Ida or Roly
I have 2 hard drive: one for window and a blank one for linux. The blank one is in slave mode and is empty. I want to load linux on this slave drive. I have made a bootable disquette and when i try to partition my disk i cannot do anything. It always try to create partition on my window

Re: [newbie] I found a link to 4.7 for linux 2.0 (glibc) (upgradeatyourown risk)

1999-10-02 Thread David P. Greenberg
Hi. Ax (love that name!) I believe so. It's the one that came with my Mandrake 6.0, hot off the press in may of this year. David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" **The falcon has heard the falconer** -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Ears don't work

1999-10-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, you wrote: Quit ragging on AMD/Cyrix, it this does happen on intel systems, the very first report as a matter of fact It's just most of those boards died in the initial mass of celeron overclockings. And the rest are mainly "screaming gamer rigs". The key point is the

RE: [newbie] Re:

1999-10-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, PaulHoy wrote: we are all "genious" in our own way :)... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David P. Greenberg Sent: October 1, 1999 6:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] UDMA don't work in 6.1 with Ali Chipset

1999-10-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, you wrote: Now feeling officially discouraged! Starting to wonder if I ought to come back later when it's all a bit more "machine that I can afford" friendly? I dunno - I really don't shrug OK, it's not linux flaw per se, but it's starting to stack it all up a bit!

Re: [newbie] diskdruid

1999-10-02 Thread Frederic PLE
I had the same problem ! Disk Druid absolutely want to install the / partition on the primary HD :( The only way to make the / partition is to use fdisk instead of disk druid during the installation processus. Le Sat, 02 Oct 1999, vous avez écrit : I have 2 hard drive: one for window and a

Re: [newbie] MVP3 chipset

1999-10-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: I'm using a new TMC Socket 7 board with the above chipset. I was trying to follow a string and saw a reference to BIOS problems with this chipset. Could someone please point me at site where I can find further info The problem is the Auto-shutdown script

Re: [newbie] VoodooII Banshee

1999-10-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: %_hello, i am new to Mandrake, and i was wondering if anyone knew where i could get drivers for the voodooII banshee. thanks, chris cook Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed"

Re: [newbie] Staroffice Install... again

1999-10-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: I know this topic was recently covered here, and I have read all of the posts, but I am still baffled by this instalation process... I have the Staroffice tar archive in my /home/joe directory (my user directory) and do not know how to untar it and continue

Re: [newbie] Default lilo boot

1999-10-02 Thread Eric Solberg
That did it. Thanks for all the tips. Hope to return the favor some day. Eric Solberg Here's another dumb one.. ugh I've compiled a new kernel and want it to boot by default. I entered this as the first entry in /etc/lilo.conf (the name is linux2), but it still boots the one

Re: [newbie] Ears don't work

1999-10-02 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, you wrote: Quit ragging on AMD/Cyrix, it this does happen on intel systems, the very first report as a matter of fact It's just most of those boards died in the initial mass of celeron overclockings. And the rest are

Re: [newbie] UDMA don't work in 6.1 with Ali Chipset

1999-10-02 Thread tommiy
To get UDMA working you need to patch the kernel. I've been running the patches on an ASUS board for over 6 months with no problems. The patches should be folded into 2.4 hopefully. Get them at your local kernel.org mirror under kernel/people/hedrick Grab those specific for your kernel that

[newbie] lilo.conf

1999-10-02 Thread Ken Wilson
What purpose does the command 'compact' serve in 'lilo.conf'? Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')

Re: [newbie] Star Office

1999-10-02 Thread Lindsay Steele
On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, you wrote: I see many people writing the listserve about star office and I was wondering if any of you got it work for a user other than root. I am have problems doing so. If you could please tell me what you did to get this working. Star office 5.1 works fine for

Re: [newbie] I found a link to 4.7 for linux 2.0 (glibc) (upgradeatyour own risk)

1999-10-02 Thread Jeanette Russo
A Alan where did you find the fortify for the Linux version of Netscape I only see the Windows and NT versions? Can you send me a link for the Linux one? Thanks Jeanette JeanetteI downloaded from this site: http://www.fortify.net/ the following version (I've not yet

Re: [newbie] Stopping auto-boot to KDE?

1999-10-02 Thread Alex V Flinsch
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hello all, I am getting a font error when booting into KDE which is set for auto-load. How can I stop this? All my monitor does is reset itself. Is there a command once I'm at the login: screen to stop the auto-load? I have

Re: [newbie] MVP3 chipset

1999-10-02 Thread Dennis Bloodnok (Major.Retd)
Thanks John. I've had a good read. As I'm running that board in an AT case it really isn't a problem at this time. - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 8:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] MVP3 chipset On Sat, 02 Oct

[newbie] Guil-config

1999-10-02 Thread Rheda Barretina
Hi... I have recently downloaded the gIDE tarball, and I can't get it to "./configure" correctly, because it cannot find guile-config to check out the guile version. I do have the Guile rpm installed (ver 1.3.??), but it doesn't detect it. I also tried to "find -name *guile-config*" in the

Re: [newbie] lilo.conf

1999-10-02 Thread Steve Philp
Ken Wilson wrote: What purpose does the command 'compact' serve in 'lilo.conf'? man lilo.conf gives: compact Tries to merge read requests for adjacent sectors into a single read request. This drastically reduces load time and keeps

Re: [newbie] UDMA don't work in 6.1 with Ali Chipset

1999-10-02 Thread Jens Smed
tommiy wrote: To get UDMA working you need to patch the kernel. I've been running the patches on an ASUS board for over 6 months with no problems. The patches should be folded into 2.4 hopefully. Get them at your local kernel.org mirror under kernel/people/hedrick Thank for the advice!

[newbie] fdisk

1999-10-02 Thread Ida or Roly
i have an empty disk drive that i want to partition so i can load unix. What are the fdisk command i should use to create the needed directory? Which directory (partition) should i create? Thanks for your time.

Re: [newbie] Guil-config

1999-10-02 Thread Steve Philp
Rheda Barretina wrote: Hi... I have recently downloaded the gIDE tarball, and I can't get it to "./configure" correctly, because it cannot find guile-config to check out the guile version. I do have the Guile rpm installed (ver 1.3.??), but it doesn't detect it. I also tried to

Re: [newbie] fdisk

1999-10-02 Thread Steve Philp
Ida or Roly wrote: i have an empty disk drive that i want to partition so i can load unix. What are the fdisk command i should use to create the needed directory? Which directory (partition) should i create? Thanks for your time. It sounds like you're wanting to create the partitions

Re: [newbie] Armed Linux

1999-10-02 Thread Richard Salts
Joe, This 'Armed Linux' seems to be similiar to WinLinux 2000 in that it installs in Microsoft Windows. I've read the website documents and I would give it a try myself but I don't have the disk space to do it. Why not give it a whirl yourself and tell us what happens. Have you read the

Re: [newbie] Guil-config

1999-10-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi... I have recently downloaded the gIDE tarball, and I can't get it to "./configure" correctly, because it cannot find guile-config to check out the guile version. I do have the Guile rpm installed (ver 1.3.??), but it doesn't detect it. I also tried

Re: [newbie] diskdruid

1999-10-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: I had the same problem ! Disk Druid absolutely want to install the / partition on the primary HD :( The only way to make the / partition is to use fdisk instead of disk druid during the installation processus. It also doesn't help that they're trying to

Re: [newbie] Stopping auto-boot to KDE?

1999-10-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: That works for a single time. For a more permanant fix edit the line in /etc/inittab from id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: Of course. :-) I was assuming (yeah... I know G) that they would fix the problem and then go back to their X-windows

Re: [newbie] newbie-remove

1999-10-02 Thread Bob Jackson
Thomas Peter wrote: Bob Jackson wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Larry Corrales wrote: newbie-remove Wrong address. Check the MandrakeSoft website for the correct address. Isn't it about time we put a footer on the bottom of list messages that includes removal

OT Re: [newbie] newbie-remove

1999-10-02 Thread Bob Jackson
Jaybird X wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, you wrote: Maybe they're just stupid. :-( Maybe they ,like myself, lost it from having to reinstall several times trying to make things work. Maybe you forget what it was like when you got started.

Re: [newbie] newbie-remove

1999-10-02 Thread Bob Jackson
Ripcrd6 wrote: -Original Message- From: Bob Jackson Steve Philp wrote: Larry Corrales wrote: newbie-remove Wrong address. Check the MandrakeSoft website for the correct address. Isn't it about time we put a footer on the bottom of list messages that includes