I'd like to refresh my Unix scripting knowledge, but I have no access to
pure Unix boxes now, so I need to practise on my own linux machine. Which
shell should I use to get the best response from Korn shell scripts?
I think the ksh shell should be available to you if you installed it.
And there is always the bash shell (Bourne Again) which seems to be the
defacto standard in Linux.
Ken Wilson
First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is
irrelevant
(Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++
Yup,
My old box does keep me waiting some, but not nearly as bad as in Win95. I
mostly wait for apps to load, once their loaded, things work pretty good. I am
using an AMD x5-133 with 80M RAM on a 486a-VIP MB wh. a PCI bus - it was a
pretty good board when I got it. A new board-CPU is on the
Personally, if my ISP would not provide me with the information I need to set
up any OS or configuration I want to connect with, I'd get me another ISP! I
use a local provider, and they have given me good service, with very little
"down time" and like that. When I told them I was mucking about
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Singer XJ Wang wrote:
| Does Mandrake actually work with an 486/
|
Yes it does! I installed both Mandrake 6.0 then 6.1 (both are Macmillan
releases) without any hitches. Of course, my CPU is an AMD x5-133 and this may
not exactly be a 486, but it is on a 486-style board,
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Foris Gabor wrote:
| HI!
|
| I just lately installed linux mandrake as my os and today a strange thing
| happaned.
| It loaded up itself, but when it should start the graphics display, it
| could not. and the login window did not appear, just a blank scree?
|
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote:
I ask about this a couple of days ago and I am still perplexed about the
problems I am having
with 6.1 . I have made 3 clean installs now and still have the same
exact problems. Are there
any known problems with 6.1 from macmillan?
These are the problems
I have the Macmillan release "Delux Linux Operating System 6.5" which is
Mandrake 6.1. It comes with the "Install" CD, a "Sources" CD, and an "Extras"
CD, plus three books, but they all contain nearly the same information.
A limited version of PartitionMagig is on the Extras CD, but I like the
Dunno, but this one got posted. Try turning off the HTML, as a lot of the list
users ust text-only email clients, and have lotsa trouble reading the HTML
postings. Many of them just ignor what they can not read.
Ernie
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Gregg Carrier wrote:
|
| ...to get a message posted
Please - no HTML, it's hard for us guys with text only email readers to read
it.
The support guy might right, it took over an hour for my system to get through
that screen. What is happening there is that the partitions are being
formatted, and the file system is being produced. It is different
The kernel packages are in the RPMS folder, not in the Updates one, so you have
to download the package(s) you need, then install/update with rpm or kpackage.
Ernie
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Dux Gregis wrote:
| I did this and updated a lot of things, but I didn't see a way to
| update the
Simon Norris wrote:
I'd like to refresh my Unix scripting knowledge, but I have no access to
pure Unix boxes now, so I need to practise on my own linux machine. Which
shell should I use to get the best response from Korn shell scripts?
I believe pdksh ships with Mandrake.
--
Steve Philp
Sounds like you got the headders package installed, but not the source package
which are required as well.
Ernie
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Earl Karch wrote:
| Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I can mount the CD-ROM, but the
| system has to autoprobe it, and this takes a couple of
Yup! Sounds like a known bug with kcmclock and kdelibs packages. If the
kcmclock package is installed, remove it, then install kdelibs. I will not
likely be reported as installed in kpackage. This is what has fixed ny problems.
Ernie
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,M. L. Cates wrote:
| I ask about this
I have recently installed mandrake 6.1 on my pc and am
having trouble with my sound card. It is a Sound
Blaster Live card and I keep getting a message saying
card not supported. How do I get the driver that I
need to make this work? Also my screen size seems to
If you are using 6.1, the
The numbers you are seeing is the progress of a ext2 type format, the
numbers reference the location on the disk of the superblock copies that are
made during an ext2 format, one for each cylinder group. If my maths seves
me right, it is saying that it has finished a 2 Gig partition format
- Original Message -
From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Playing Mp3's...
How fast of a machine do you have?
When I first started playing Mp3's on my machine, it was a Pentium 166 with
80 megs of RAM. Now
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote:
DO this when youstick the windows boot floppy in the machine (if you made one from
your previous install)
format \mbr
I believe this should be ' fdisk /mbr '.
Typing ' fdisk /? ' won't return the /mbr option tho, as it's
undocumented.
--
..
Yup, when you re-install Win98, it's gonna wipe the MBR, and LILO won't be
there any more. Make sure you have a boot dosk if you keep LILO in the MBR so
you can get back into Linux to fix it.
Ernie
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Seth Gibson wrote:
| Greetings all! Im about to wipe my Win32 partition
I don't remember it on the install, what would be the easiest way of adding
it as a post-install task? Is it RPM'ed for example?
I suppose the obvious thing for me to do would be to simply try and change
my shell to pdksh, and see if it works?
- Original Message -
From: Steve Philp
John Mario Osorio wrote:
i need some information:
i heve my linux to work on the internet, do i need some kind of patch to
protect the system of hackers attacks or things like that, i really
apreciate if you can help me
John M. Osorio
ColombiaNet tech support
some patch? to check you
Sorry about the HTML, I didn't know. My computer seems to accept both.
I think I have it set right now. I'm resubmiting my problem.
I'm relatively new to Linux. tried to install Redhat 5.2, failed,
installed Caldera 2.2, it worked. Boot magic inabled me to run several
partitions, Win98, win
From: Ronald A. Yacketta
Yes,
I am using thier software, but the problem appears to be with Linux.
I have been decoding tcpdump -i eth1 and notice that the winblows box is
sending a tone of
messages to linux and awaiting a response but gets none.
John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/27/99
From: Ronald A. Yacketta
sorry if I sound stupid here, but BP6???
Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/27/99 07:21:55 PM
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC)
Subject: Re: [newbie] SMP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's what I'm going to do. evesta.com won't give you the info or help you connect,
plus, their support techs have a canned response for every problem. If you have a
question outside their list they'll "get back in touch with you". I called
ifriendly.com because they have filtered access too.
Yes,
I insaalled it and here's wht I found. It has an older version of xfrre86, so it
couldn't
support my TNT cards. It does NOT include either KDE or Gnome for a desktop interface.
The
number of apps included are rather limited compared to Rad Hat, Mandrake and Caldera (
and I
got the
Yeesh, I can't believe all the spelling errors I let through the first
time.
I forgot to add that I was using TurboLinux 3.6, their latest release.
Yes,
I installed it and here's what I found. It has an older version of
xfree86, so it couldn't
support my TNT cards. It does NOT include either
For those wanting to repartiton a hard drive.
There is a freeware non-destructive repartitioning progrm called fips.
It might be in the dosutils directory on your CD. If not you can get it
at the Mandrake ftp site or
ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.1/dosutils
If that won't work, I downloaded
Hello all.
I have setup a linux server with Mandrake 6.1. Boy was that easy. Then I
connected my windows box and setup all the params to log onto my linux
box. It has logged on and everything seems fine except it asked for a
password. No matter what password I send it, it says that it is
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote:
I was messing with /etc/rc.d/init.d/network tonight trying to help out
another user to get aliased interfaces to work correctly. I had hacked
the file to bits without creating a backup (shame on me, I know).
I used 'rpm -e --nodeps' to remove the initscripts
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Greetings all! Im about to wipe my Win32 partition and reinstall everything. .
.is there anything i should be aware of, ie lilo issues or anything of that
nnature? Thanks all! --
Oh, yeah...make a boot floppy, 'cause Windows is going to
wipe the MBR clean.
That is a common problem in Windows 9x with Mp3 and Surfing even with my
box at home. Even with a Duel (I Know 95 can't duel) PIII-500 and 512MB of
RAM, it still doesn't clonk. WinNT works fine [I have 98 for games, NT for
damed ORacle8) and LINUX is amazing.
any way.
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Bill
As an addon: the following is from teh RedHat Web Page -
AMD K6-2 (3DNow): Some early K6-2 300mhz have problems with the system
chips. You will need to get replacement chips from AMD.
Mine is Turbo Linux Workstation 4.0 Lite
Jaguar
Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeesh, I can't believe all the spelling errors I let through the first
time.
I forgot to add that I was using TurboLinux 3.6, their latest release.
Yes,
I installed it and here's what I found. It has an older
What is the easiest way to bring my mandrake rpm installed version of
communicator 4.7 up to 128 bits? Fortify rpms? Fortify source?
Installing the 128 bit verion over the rpm version?
--
Gang Warily
Next question. I have a Calcomp Tablet III on my cad system. I want to
install Linux on it so I don't have to travel to the server to do little
things. However I can't find support for this. Under DOS it uses a
special serial driver. Does anyone have any ideas ?
Jeff
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
From: Ronald A. Yacketta
sorry if I sound stupid here, but BP6???
The ABit mobo that supports dual celerons. . .anybody else heard the rumor
that intel is going to start diasbling SMP capability in PPGA Celerons too? I
read that somewhere. . .Hopefully AMD
Thanks All for the help with this! Its a shame. . .and yet so totally expected
for an MS operating system. . . (:-D I really enjoyed it being termed a
"Windows Inferioritfy Complex". That was worth a few chuckles(: Ok im
rambling but Thanks Again!
--
Seth Gibson
www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710
--- Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For those wanting to repartiton a hard drive.
There is a freeware non-destructive repartitioning
progrm called fips.
It might be in the dosutils directory on your CD. If
not you can get it
at the Mandrake ftp site or
*** CREATIVE CD-ROM drive data ***
hdd: CREATIVE CD2423E, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM drive, 382kB Cache
Is there any way to get Linux to utilize the drive's "24X speed"?
*** QUANTUM harddrive data ***
hdh: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3200A, ATA DISK drive
hdh: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3200A,
Installing ALL the updates (available via any one of Mandrake's FTP *mirror*
sites) will update my system to Mandrake v6.1??
I had read (I cannot recall where, perhaps even on this mailing list,
perhaps a WWWeb page about Linux/SoundBlaster) that after upgrading to v6.1,
"sndconfig" installed
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Yup, when you re-install Win98, it's gonna wipe the MBR, and LILO won't be
there any more. Make sure you have a boot dosk if you keep LILO in the MBR so
you can get back into Linux to fix it.
Ernie
I was gonna stay out of this, but Oh Well. There's a
On that note, when updating the kernal and initscripts for instance,
how do I get the package to install?
John Aldrich just RPM a new kernel in and add it to your
/etc/lilo.conf, making it the default. Then re-run /sbin/lilo.
Then rpm the new initscripts and reboot.
To me, this is an
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
On 27 Oct 99, at 20:18, Sam wrotf:
that will build a "default" boot profile and wipe lilo out of the master boot
record
umm. . .actually i want to keep lilo around still. . .just wondering if reinstalling
Win is going to mess with linux any
Most
| The solution, then is to create the partitions using the DOS fdisk utility,
| including the ones you want for Linux. Then restart the 'puter, and run fdisk
| again, but this time remove the partitions you want for Linux. Install Win9x,
| then install Linux, recreating the
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
What are all the linux partitions I should setup for Mandrake ( min/max size)?
Also, everytime I
setup the partitions, it'll say that one or more of them are "too big", even if it's
only set to be 1MB! I
can't figure that out. The way I got past it the last
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
What are all the linux partitions I should setup for Mandrake ( min/max size)?
Also, everytime I
setup the partitions, it'll say that one or more of them are "too big", even if it's
only set to be 1MB! I
can't figure that out. The way I got past it the last
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
From: Ronald A. Yacketta
Yes,
I am using thier software, but the problem appears to be with Linux.
I have been decoding tcpdump -i eth1 and notice that the winblows box is
sending a tone of
messages to linux and awaiting a response but gets none.
Ok...I
Notice, also, that your ~/.bash_profile will run ~/.bashrc, so everytime
you start a new shell (like opening a Konsole window) anything in
~/.bashrc will also be run.
-Matt Stegman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote:
...you could put it
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
What is the easiest way to bring my mandrake rpm installed version of
communicator 4.7 up to 128 bits? Fortify rpms? Fortify source?
Installing the 128 bit verion over the rpm version?
Fortify provides a tar.gz file which has it's own
installer. I found that
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
That's what I'm going to do. evesta.com won't give you the info or help you connect,
plus, their support techs have a canned response for every problem. If you have a
question outside their list they'll "get back in touch with you". I called
ifriendly.com
I am beginning to get very frustrated. Steve has been trying his best to
help me, but so far we have not found a solution. I cannot get virtual
ethernet interfaces to come up at boot. It seems to be something with the
network script in inet.d that does not add the available virtual
interface
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
... what? This should definitely not happen! Windows ignores partition
ttypes that aren't FAT or FAT32. Windows can indeed see the partitions,
but fdisk for DOS is so limited that it doesn't display them correctly.
If Windows does not recognize the partition
1) When I shut down linux, I it says [FAILED] when closing Send Mail,
why is that?
2) I have looked for the answer for this in the archives, but couldn't
seem to find it, so, why does
X11amp play a couple seconds of a song then crash?
3) How would I got about installing LICQ? If I get the
Are there any good web links that explain the Linux Directory Tree
Structure?
I would like to know the purpose behind all the directories. For exapmle,
what is the difference beween the /BIN directory and the /SBIN directory.
Thanks.
Incedentally, where's this BP6 SMP article that started this thread?
My next computer's gonna be a BP6/300A setup.
-Original Message-
From: Seth Gibson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 11:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] SMP + OT DSL Question
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Notice, also, that your ~/.bash_profile will run ~/.bashrc, so everytime
you start a new shell (like opening a Konsole window) anything in
~/.bashrc will also be run.
Ahh...I didn't know that. :-) Never really paid that much
attention to it, although that
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
2) I have looked for the answer for this in the archives, but couldn't
seem to find it, so, why does
X11amp play a couple seconds of a song then crash?
Go to www.xmms.org and download xmms, the successor to
X11Amp. Same program, just renamed.
John
"PC" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*** CREATIVE CD-ROM drive data ***
hdd: CREATIVE CD2423E, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM drive, 382kB Cache
Is there any way to get Linux to utilize the drive's "24X speed"?
Is it a 24X _MAX_...if so that is a peak speed...the 20X is probably a
PC wrote:
*** CREATIVE CD-ROM drive data ***
hdd: CREATIVE CD2423E, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM drive, 382kB Cache
Is there any way to get Linux to utilize the drive's "24X speed"?
More than likely, it's a variable speed drive. Don't feel bad, my 40x
reports 14x. Either
jeff wrote:
Next question. I have a Calcomp Tablet III on my cad system. I want to
install Linux on it so I don't have to travel to the server to do little
things. However I can't find support for this. Under DOS it uses a
special serial driver. Does anyone have any ideas ?
Check the
John Aldrich wrote:
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote:
I was messing with /etc/rc.d/init.d/network tonight trying to help out
another user to get aliased interfaces to work correctly. I had hacked
the file to bits without creating a backup (shame on me, I know).
I used 'rpm -e
There are also some more things like that at the following:
linuxdot.org
jgo.local.net
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote:
%_ Linux mall has a newbies's online manual at:
http://linuxmall.com/nlm/
I haven't checked it out yet but it's there for us new guys
%_Return-path: [EMAIL
Simon Norris wrote:
I don't remember it on the install, what would be the easiest way of adding
it as a post-install task? Is it RPM'ed for example?
I suppose the obvious thing for me to do would be to simply try and change
my shell to pdksh, and see if it works?
Simon Norris wrote:
Is there a way to do the auto-update with 6.0?
--Drew Jackman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 20177604
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote:
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Bill Munden wrote:
Are you signing in as root from within a user account that you created? I
did and was having the same problem. I exited my
350mhz k6-2 overclocked to 400mhz
El mié, 27 oct 1999, escribiste:
How fast of a machine do you have?
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote:
%_I just had to make a post about this because Linux impressed me when it comes
to playing Mp3's on my computer. I used to listen to them in Win98 when
How can I block access to my web server to a particular IP address?
Thanks.
I would like to know where you got the LICQ RPM, if you can tell me. Everybody
else seems to have it, but I am also very new.
As far as I know, you don't have to modify anything that has to do with RPMs.
When I install a RPM, I click on a RPM thing on my desk top, hit the open
button, point it
where is xftp?
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote:
I use Netscape Composer for web page editing,
I use IglooFtp or Xftp for my ftp client
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Evening all
I'd like to try and edit one of my web sites using Linux. I've been using
PageMill and Dreamweaver
I would say that it is possible that windows assumes that you are using the
username that you log into windows with, since you did not mention anything
about the name. Make sure that you have a correct name in the computer name
box in networking or put the right name in when you start up, if
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Foris Gabor wrote:
| HI!
|
| I just lately installed linux mandrake as my os and today a strange thing
| happaned.
| It loaded up itself, but when it should start the graphics display, it
| could not. and the login window
Hello, just want to get some ideas, on a buy I want to make. I want to
get a cdrw, any clues which ones are good under linux (mandrake 6.0).
Thank you in advance
John K.
I have two machnes running on my network. one dual 200 192 megs of ram,
and a amd 450 with 64 megs of ram.
I log on to my amd machine, and I try to start up xprograms. I remember
my unix teacher showed us how to do it, a year ago. I forgot how to do
that now.
What do I need to do, to get
I purchased Patition Magic, a bit over a monthy ago, and it
cost $80 but does have a rebate to bring it to about $65.
I installed it to change my windows and linux partitions.
It doesn't recognize the partitions tables that I installed
with fips during original mandrake install in version 5.3.
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Matt Stegman wrote:
How do you mean, you set up Windows 98 to login to the Linux box? Are you
authenticating your Windows login through Linux? Or do you mean you're
telnet-ing into the Linux box?
He is setting up "Domain login" ...
Or is it something else entirely?
I use netscape quite a bit. I am wondering if I can open composer and netscape
seperatly, so I don't have to screw with one or the other a whole lot when I
hit the communicator button.
--
--Drew Jackman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 20177604
www.tripod.com/~ajackman
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Eric L. Damron wrote:
How can I block access to my web server to a particular IP address?
Thanks.
via apache,
edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, go down to the line
--
Directory /
--
This is line 369 in mine. insert below that (make a backup)
--
order deny,allow
deny
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Ronald A. Yacketta
Yes,
I am using thier software, but the problem appears to be with Linux.
I have been decoding tcpdump -i eth1 and notice that the winblows box is
sending a tone of
messages to linux and awaiting a response but
i'd say reinstall the linux untill you get it to load properlly without any
errors. if you already have your harddrive partitioned you can just
reinstall linux over the current version your running.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
You have to enter the settings. Select manual proxy configuration under
"advanced, proxies".
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sam
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 2:56 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet
if you have your harddrive setup with fat/fat32 and a linux partition you
can reinstall win98 without any problems because win98 can't read the linux
partition info so it won't be affected by the reinstallation of win98.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote:
John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you sure about that Steve? Com3 is ttyS4...
COM3 should be ttyS2. ttyS0 is COM1; ttyS1 is COM2, etc.
I don't know what I was
PC wrote:
Installing ALL the updates (available via any one of Mandrake's FTP *mirror*
sites) will update my system to Mandrake v6.1??
I had read (I cannot recall where, perhaps even on this mailing list,
perhaps a WWWeb page about Linux/SoundBlaster) that after upgrading to v6.1,
Well you can, but it might not be as stable but you can try adding
these parameters in your Netscape.kdelnk desktop files.
netscape -composer to just bring up composer
netscape -mail to just bring up mail
netscape -newsto just bring up news
John Aldrich wrote:
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote:
John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you sure about that Steve? Com3 is ttyS4...
COM3 should be ttyS2. ttyS0 is COM1; ttyS1 is COM2, etc.
I don't know what I was thinking I guess I
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Steve Philp wrote:
Gregg Carrier wrote:
It tells me a log of my install will be at .. and then a screen comes up
saying it's making my filesystem. Then, nothing. It seems to just hang up. I
can switch to the debugging screens with alt F5, alt F4, and alt F3. F4
I don't know if I'm remotely right here but is an AMD4864-133 a pentium
class CPU? I know MAndrake is compiled for pentium class machines and I
have read that 486 machines can have some difficulties running Mandrake. If
your CPU isn't pentium class maybe that's causing, or contributing towards
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
How can I block access to my web server to a particular IP address?
Thanks.
Type "man ipchains" at a console prompt. I *think* that'll do the
trick. :-)
John
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Ron Marriage wrote:
I purchased Patition Magic, a bit over a monthy ago, and it
cost $80 but does have a rebate to bring it to about $65.
I installed it to change my windows and linux partitions.
It doesn't recognize the partitions tables that I installed
with fips
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
I use netscape quite a bit. I am wondering if I can open composer and netscape
seperatly, so I don't have to screw with one or the other a whole lot when I
hit the communicator button.
Not, AFAIK.
John
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
i'd say reinstall the linux untill you get it to load properlly without any
errors. if you already have your harddrive partitioned you can just
reinstall linux over the current version your running.
Make sure in Disk Druid that you're specifying a mount point
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
John PCfirst off, the ls-120 is definately a bootable drive, both
with a standard 1.44 meg floppy as well as with the 120 meg ls-120
floppys. The command that points the output of mkbootdisk to the ls-120
is:
mkbootdisk --device /dev/hdc
I am using Partition Magic 4.0
My HD is only a 4 gig and I had it divided evenly between
Win95 and Linux. My Linux partitions are a large / and 127
meg swap.
hda1 windows
had2 is divided into hda5 linux ext2 and hda6 linux swap.
At first Patition magic gave a check failed message because
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
John PCfirst off, the ls-120 is definately a bootable drive, both
with a standard 1.44 meg floppy as well as with the 120 meg ls-120
floppys. The command that points the output of mkbootdisk to the ls-120
is:
mkbootdisk --device /dev/hdc
It might be the monitor you need to play around with. I know that when I
had a dual booting machine whenever I changed from Windows to Linux, or
vice-versa I had to play around with the monitors horizontal and vertical
positioning and stretch settings. Try playing around with those settings if
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Hello, just want to get some ideas, on a buy I want to make. I want to
get a cdrw, any clues which ones are good under linux (mandrake 6.0).
This has been discussed ad-nauseum the last week or so. Basically any
of 'em today will work fine, from what I gather.
I have recently installed linux 6.5 and am having
problems with the sound card. I get a message that
says card not supported but linux recognizes it as a
sound blaster live card. Is this a driver issue or a
configuration issue? Any solutions would be
appreciated. BW
I am using Version 4 and it is supposed to do a
non-destructive partition changes in windows and linux.
DiskDrake looks nice but does a destructive resize and I
have my linux tweeked and tuned the way I want it. While I
could reinstall, I wanted to avoid that, thus the purchase
of Partition
Use your monitor's image controls to center and then expand the screen
size using the horizontal and vertical controls until it looks good.
Richard
cssb wrote:
I have just installed Mandrake 6.5 and for some reason my xwindows
session is only using about 3/4 of the screen it's like
I am sorry you guys, but I have to bring this up again. I am wishing to
install LICQ. I am getting tired of my stripped down client. The only thing
is that when I go to run the program, it says the command is missing. I am
thinking I am typing something wrong perhaps. How is everyone else
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