so the second CD will be bootable as well? what's on the second CD? I'm assuming
I will have to insert it at some point during the installation... and if u don't
mind I have other questions about Mandrake (I should start another topic, but
eh...)
1.) Mandrake will be installed on a another
Hi,
Has anyone managed to get a Linksys NC100 Fast ethernet adaptor working in
Mandrake 7.1. The documentation says the Tulip module should work but I get
'Device or resource busy errors'.
Thanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
exactly the same happened to me. I don't know much about that but, have you
checked your port, irq and interrupt settings? You can set that with
setserial. I am not very sure, but I think that's how I made my modem show
in HardDrake. Here are some links about modem installation:
Hi, some of you probably got some bounced mails from me. Well, they're
reconfiguring the network over here, modifying the dns-maps etc... and I
realized a bit late that I had to change both my machinename _and_ the forward
address on my mail-forwarder in order to keep receiving mails.
So to
A V Flinsch escribió:
su works for this also
su user-you-want-to-be ent
password
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Thanks. That's exactly what i wanted to know! ;-)
--
Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Joan.Tur.pagina.de
Paul escribió:
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Joan Tur wrote:
Hallo!
Now i know how to open a program as root having logged in as user... but
how do i open a program as a different user? 8-)
Running a program should be the same, user or root. Perhaps if you are a
bit more specific on what
"Donnie R. Shelton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have just installed mandrake 7.0 and when I hit ctrl-Alt F1 to look at
what Mandrake thinks that I have it says that I have 1 600 mhz celeron
processor, when I am sctually running a BP-6 with two celerons 533 on
it. I have the board clocked and I
Paaul,
Wwill give it a shot. I appreciate your help.
Harry
Paul wrote:
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote:
Still getting the error message 'can't fetch list of servers'. The program
doesn't even appear to go out across the net. I've tried it from the
terminal, and from
Has anyone managed to get any distro to work with an AMD
Athlon Thunderbird an Abit KA7-100 motherboard ? machine runs windows NT
fine, installs Redhat, but it fails with a kernel panic when trying to start for
the first time, Gentus Linux ( rebadged Redhat supplied with the motherboard)
Anyone got any distro to work with an AMD Athlon Thunderbird
an ABIT
KA7-100 ?
"Scott Adamson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone managed to get any distro to work with an AMD Athlon Thunderbird
an Abit KA7-100 motherboard ? machine runs windows NT fine, installs Redhat,
but it fails with a kernel panic when trying to start for the first time,
Gentus Linux ( rebadged
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone managed to get a Linksys NC100 Fast ethernet adaptor working in
Mandrake 7.1. The documentation says the Tulip module should work but I get
Do you have plug and play turned on in your bios? If so then that is probably
why. I had the same
A Mandrake spokesman on the desktop standard debate ...
http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/09/02/967953599.html
Phil
--
What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that
there's nothing to compare it with.
Well,
After a lot of fuss, I finally got BootMagic to recognize Linux. Linux must
be installed in a separate primary partition. Do not surround it with an
extended partition.
Thanks for all your help.
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
Hi,
I think I asked this some time ago but I wiped my drive and it got lost.
What is a recommended brand of CD burner from Plextor supported by MDK7.1?
Thanks,
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Juvenal Flores wrote:
hello, just got Linux up on my new comp after some problems, but as
eager to test out my new monitor, I decided to try out 1024x768 but
found out that, that is too small for me and would like to change it to
800x600
Go into Xconfigurator and change it
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Paul wrote:
so the second CD will be bootable as well? what's on the second CD? I'm
assuming
No, the second CD is not bootable. It does not need to be. There is
additional software on it.
I will have to insert it at some point during the installation... and if
The
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Chris Rivera wrote:
Clear Daytoo many messages
Chris Rivera
Nice try. Why the image? Why the HTML? ANd why don't you read how to
unsub? It is at the bottom of each and every message...
Paul
--
Why is it that when we talk to God
we're said to be praying,
but when God
Roman,
I have a Plexwriter- 8x4x32.
It's an IDE drive.
It works great. In Mdk 7.0, I had to recompile the kernel for it to
work,
but with 7.1, it worked right out the box.
I think that they were recommending SCSi drives.
Romanator wrote:
Hi,
I think I asked this some time ago but I wiped
Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
To be honest with you - I haven't had ANY luck running Q3. Dacia on this
list has had better luck using the voodoo cards, but I'm using a Matrox G400
max (which was supposed to work with this game - out of the box) which has
not worked at all. I've tried xf3.3.x,
Hi, when i'm surfing on the net all the fonts on web page's are tiny and a
horrible font type, i can put up with it but if anybody knows how to change
them, i would be grateful, there kinda hard to read on certain pages. Thanks
in advance...
Robert.
Robert -- If you are using Netscape (or as some affectionately call it
"Nutscrape" giggle) go to edit --- preferences appearance fonts.
You can then change the font face and/or the font size to what you would like.
I also check the "Use my default fonts, overriding"
Hope this
Robert Griffiths escribió:
Hi, when i'm surfing on the net all the fonts on web page's are tiny and a
horrible font type, i can put up with it but if anybody knows how to change
them, i would be grateful, there kinda hard to read on certain pages. Thanks
in advance...
Robert.
Romanator escribió:
Well,
After a lot of fuss, I finally got BootMagic to recognize Linux. Linux must
be installed in a separate primary partition. Do not surround it with an
extended partition.
I've got "/" and "/boot" into an extended partition working without any
problem with
Netscape | Edit | Preferences | Appearance | Fonts:
Variable Width Fonts...Size 16.0
Fixed Width Fonts... Size 14.0
Hi, when i'm surfing on the net all the fonts on web page's are tiny and a
horrible font type, i can put up with it but if anybody knows how to
change
them, i would
I'm back again, it's question day to day, anybody point me in the right
direction for a good firewall or ways to secure my linux box, any help would
be great. Thanks in advance...
Robert.
_
Get Your Private, Free
don't forget once you've selected what font you want to be presented on
the page you've also got to tell the browser that you want this font
displayed in lieu of any other fonts that may be embeded on the page.
--
Mark
**
Hi everybody,
I am looking for penguin images of all sorts and sizes, including desktop
themes for my Linux MDK7.1 OS.
And, I would like to add them to my Windose NT4 OS desktop and email. I
checked Tucows but was unsuccessful.
Any help would be appreciated.
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eunice Thompson
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 10:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Plextor Model Recommendation for CD Burning
Roman,
I have a Plexwriter- 8x4x32.
It's an IDE drive.
It
Combine the following, or use gfcc to configure ipchains yourself:
pmfirewall -- an ipchains rules script that's very easy to install:
www.pointman.org
portsentry -- port scan detector that is very sensitive and effective:
www.psionic.com
logchek -- checks your /var/log/messages file at
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Joan Tur
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 11:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] BootMagic and MDK7.1
Romanator escribió:
Well,
After a lot of fuss, I finally got BootMagic to recognize
pmfirewall, http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall
you can look for gfcc, it's pretty cool for editing your firewall script
after you've created it. btw, pmfirewall can be found by searching at
freshmeat.net
Adam
- Original Message -
From: "Robert Griffiths" [EMAIL
Thanks
Rick Up
I built an Athlon system about 3-4 months ago and started out with the Abit
motherboard which would NOT work even after trying 2 different boards. I
switched to Asus K7V and it works great! I haven't really heard anything
good about the onboard ATA100 nor abit for Athlon. My system is as
Ok, I have a Winmodem and I guess sometime down
the
road I will have to get a new one but... I heard
that PCTEL
(my modem) will work with Linux through a driver
they re-
leased. I looked all over for the driver and can
not find it.
I was at the linmodem.org site were they have a
link to
- Original Message -
From:
Kandace
Little
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 12:26
PM
Subject: [newbie] Modem Problems
Ok, I have a Winmodem and I guess sometime down
the
road I will have to get a new one but... I heard
that PCTEL
I was looking at some of my windows 98 mpeg files
under L. Mandrake 7.1 yesterday and when I rebooted the computer into windows,
The partition of windows that contains all of my personal files was gone!
Confused, I went back into Mandrake and the partition was still present with all
From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 11:42:15 -0700
I've got U.S. Robotics external, it works great, most externals work, but
most internals don't
Thanks for the info.I found what I was looking for I think
For others that may want to try this the drivers are at
http://www.808hi.com/56k/badchips.htm and the driver
file is at http://www.netaxs.com/~bj/pctel.zip the ream me
files can be found at - http://www.netaxs.com/~bj/readme.txt
Thanks
Thanks Roman.
yes I have a Plexwriter 8x4x32.
It's sweet. I wish I had the 12x.
I was finally able to stop booting into Windows just to burn CD's
It's a relief.
Eunice
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Hey Eunice,
put the installation disk in and do an expert install,
when you get to the
Ok...first question. Is this "partition" we're talking about on a seperate
drive from the one that contains your windows installation? I'm assuming,
of course, that this is the case. At any rate, if you can see the files
and the partition for that matter while running Mandrake then they're
still
Mike,
He is trying to install Mandrake on a seperate partition apart from
Windows. He was attempting to start the install either from inside
Windows, or from a CDROM setup disk. Not sure which one, but at any rate
Windows ME was kickin up a fuss. I'm really not at all surprised really.
All he's
It sounds like you've got yourself a hardware problem. While I can't be
100% certain what exactly it is. At first glance though I see you have a
HUGE amount of RAM. Just a thought though. Try taking one of those 128MB
chips out and then try the install again and see what happens. I'm not
sure I
if you burnt the CD yourself it may be that the burn was not completely
successful. If you bought the CD somewhere then you may want to think
about taking it back cause it sounds like it's damaged in some way.
--
Mark
**
re-seating the ram is worth a shot but this problem shouldn't have anything to
do with the amount of ram in the system. I've got a machine with 256M that
installed 7.1 just fine. My other box has 384M and it also installed just
fine.
What kind of ram is it? pc-100? pc-133? How new/old is
what I forgot to mention is that when I built the computer 3 months ago, a friend
of my, a linux guru unstalled a copy of Mandrake for me and it was working fine,
since then he got rid of it and I installed win2k and win98 on a clean "run..."
RAM is PC100, brand new, major brand... no problems
Thanks, I'm fairly certain that that should do it for me.
Thanks again,
\
John R. Mariotti a.k.a \
Vercingitorix a.k.a \
[ChaOz]-Enigma \
I am trying to install Lnx4Win onto my C drive from files stored on a seperate partion
(D) because my CD drive won't read CD-Rs (ancient, eh?).
Anyway. The install works fine until it gets to the second stage installation where it
spews out the following error:
in second stage install
long
I kind of figured that was the case. I'm in the process of installing
7.2beta and just before rebooting the system, I got a message that it
couldn't be installed on this version of Windows (2000), so that makes
sense. Not knowing the level of experience that the writer has had, I just
wanted to
Were can you find changes in beta 7.2? Also, is it been out awile, cause I
don't want to order 7.1 on CD when 7.2 might come out quickly..
thanks,
markOpoleO
that cdr/w could be your culprit. Do you have a vanilla cdrom drive you could
pop in and try booting from? CDR/W drives are treated weird by linux.
emulate SCSI in order to work.
Did you try reseating the RAM and cleaning the pins on the sticks?
Abe
= Original Message From Paul
Paul,
Thanks, the clean install of maandrake update worked for me.
--
___
Harry Flaxman | Reg Linux User 182484
http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman
ICQ # 22086907 | Reg Linux System 80769
I have 2 hard drives. One has Mandrake installed on it. The other has 2
windows partitions (C and D). Windows is installed onto the C: Drive and
D: has all of my personal windows files.
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Mark Weaver
wrote:
Ok...first question. Is this "partition" we're talking about on a
Hello, I am currently running Mnadrake 7.1 and I'm thinking about trying a
network install. I've never done a network install but I have an ftp server on
my Windows machine already and thought I should actually use it for something.
I cant find it documented anywhere that this is possible
Um...that CD-RW was a BIG thing to forget to mention. :) Try booting the
CD with a regular CDROM and I think you'll find that Mandrake will install
just fine.
The thing I was thinking about that RAM though was sometimes Mandrake
won't recognize RAM above 64MB. I was wondering maybe the install
I tried to install Mandrake and my system is not able detect my Device where
I had tried Red Hat and they are able to detect my devices.
is there any thing i can do.
you may just want to get a new modem and save
yourself time and grief...which I did with a lucent winmodem with the driver
they released lot of time and grief...now works with a new sporster
modem
- Original Message -
From:
Kandace
Little
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, you wrote:
I tried to install Mandrake and my system is not able detect my Device
where I had tried Red Hat and they are able to detect my devices.
is there any thing i can do.
a first step would be to state some specifics...what version of mandrake are
you installing on
I have just installed portsentry; the doc tells of various ways to run it,
portsentry -tcp (basic port-bound TCP mode)
portsentry -udp (basic port-bound UDP mode)
portsentry -stcp (Stealth TCP scan detection)
portsentry -atcp (Advanced TCP stealth scan detection)
portsentry -sudp ("Stealth" UDP
Anyway, CD-RW's are not the same kind of CD hardware in that they 'read'
somewhat differently. In some instances they won't read regular data CD's
because of the formatting. An example of this is a re-writable CD is a
data CD that can only be read by the CD-RW that wrote the CD. A regular
-Original Message-
From: frank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 10:28 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Why i have problem in installing Linux Mandrake :(
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, you wrote:
I tried to install Mandrake and my system is not able
I must, yet again, beg for assistance, before I lose every hair on my head.
I just spent the last five hours trying to get X Window installed. Now,
during the installation, it says that it is working correctly and will run X
upon reboot. All well and good, however, when it reboots it enters Run
nope, just tried it, made my DVD drive the bootable one, same problem: 'Error creating
second stage RAMDISK' when it is creating it, the progress bar reaches the end but at
the end it spits out the error message... it's not the RAM, I cleaned it as well...
(sigh)
no linux for me (I could try
i wanted to share my mandrake experience i have just had. for the last
couple of day my computer has been down. i came home from work
twice and my computer was down. i couldnt believe it. linux had
finally crashed and my computer would not restart. i dont have much
knowledge about installing
shame shame shame on him for saying that :)
even though i must admit that earlier today i was
thinking the same thing. it wasnt mandrake it was
me.
Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
Alright - just don't let it happen again! as I type from my win2k box
Mike =)
Hi, forgive me for recommending anyone
Abe wrote:
I'm running mandrake 7.1 on a Duron 600 with ASUS A7V motherboard. I did the
install myself. 7.1 installed perfectly on my system. Perhaps it is the Abit
board that is causing the problems? The other possible issue is power supply
and RAM. The Athlon series want a high
first things first. put down your computer stuff and go find
your roommate. make sure he is ok, second if he isnt hellp
him to be. second if u are gonna get this crazy installing
computer os's. stop.
please respond
I must, yet again, beg for assistance, before I lose every hair on my
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Chua Leap Kee put to word:
I tried to install Mandrake and my system is not able detect my Device
where I had tried Red Hat and they are able to detect my devices.
is there any thing i can do.
I'm Using Mandrake7.1
Spec
P233MMX
Teac X32 CD ROM
32MB Ram
S3 Virge
"Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes in part:
Anyway, CD-RW's are not the same kind of CD hardware in that they 'read'
somewhat differently. In some instances they won't read regular data CD's
because of the formatting. An example of this is a re-writable CD is a
data CD that can only be
Abe wrote:
I'm running mandrake 7.1 on a Duron 600 with ASUS A7V motherboard. I did the
install myself. 7.1 installed perfectly on my system. Perhaps it is the Abit
board that is causing the problems? The other possible issue is power supply
and RAM. The Athlon series want a high
Is this CD from the Maximum Linux magazine??? If so I sent then an email along
time ago asking if they had problems with a batch of CD's? As yet I have NOT
heard anything.
BTW I have the exact same problem...error on a Trident video card...strange
thing is...it's a supported AT24/3DFX video
Some of the sites I have seen/read suggest that an Athlon runs happier with
RDRam
Another $0.02 worth...:)
Jaguar
"Ronald J. Hall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Abe wrote:
I'm running mandrake 7.1 on a Duron 600 with ASUS A7V motherboard. I did
the
install myself. 7.1 installed perfectly on
Greetings,
I have a Umax Scanner Astra 1200S that is attached to a Adaptec 2906 SCSI
card. The scanner is recognized at boot and works perfectly in Red-hat 6.1
which I also have running on my machine. I am unable to get it to work
with Mandrake 7.1 though. When I try to scan, the scanner makes
I had the same problem with drake 7.1 and a tnt2 plus. Installed great the
first time with no issues. When I had to reinstall because of a botched
xfree86 upgrade, I'd get errors, particularly when at the X setup portion.
I would have to pass up X setup and try to set it up from console. Never
Hi ;
I'm newbie in Unix /Linux and very intesting to
learn more how to manipulate Linux . Therefore , I
need some advise from Linux guru .
Q1) I recently installed Linux running in my laptop
(Model : AcerMate 520T), and intend to install X
window . But my problem is I can't see X windows
Here is my preference for my browser fonts;
I use my default encoding: Western (iso-8859)
Variable Width Font: Helvetica (Adobe) Size 14.0
Fixed Width Font: Courier (Adobe) Size 14.0 allow scaling box selected
and I set
"Use my default fonts, overriding document-specified fonts"
This has
well if you have windows which i do i recomend chucking linux4win because it
hogs too much space and operation just sucks, i reinstalled my mandrake 7.1
using the automatic install and it runs great except for the window sizing,
not sure why though
hmm i think you will need better support from mandrake are you booting from
windose or are you starting the system cold onto the cd?
no one can be if you set it up right using linuxconf you set who can do what.
as far as x goes what you explained doesnt sound right you installed linux
and now your going to install x?? i maybe new but x was installed with linux
during the installation program?
i had problems with it at
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