[newbie] LM8.0 crash recovery

Dear all, I have a linux Mandrake 8.0 box which crashed yesterday when I tried to mount the iso image of for cd1 LM9.0 to a dir in / as root. An initial hardware reboot seemed to work ok, however at some stage it failed and the screen went black. Since then I cannot boot without using the

[newbie] block error and e2fsck

Dear all, My system is using following setup: PC with Intel P4 OS: Mandrake Linux 8.0 10Gb HDD for OS 2x 78GB HDD IBM Deskstar for RAID 3ware Escalade 6200 IDE Raid controller (lives in a PCI slot) I have a problem: on bootup I got this message with regards to one HDD connected to the RAID1

[newbie] user X resolution

Hi there, I have got a Mandrake 8.0 PowerPack installation and would need some admin help please. How can I set up the screen resolution for a specific user. The PC Monitor where Mandrake is installed uses 1024x768 and all users so far use the same. Now one new user who accesses the Linux box

Re: [newbie] Still LM8.0 Box crash/hang up ?

Civileme and Paul, Many, many thanks to you for your replies on my post yesterday. Thankfully I do not have the Southbridge686B problem chip and my BIOS settings were also not the reason for my crashes. Yes, my Etherexpress pro 100 is built into the motherboard (Intel D850GB). I was able to

[newbie] XFree 4.1 from Cooker Installation

Dear all, I have downloaded the XFree86 4.1.0 RPMs from Mandrake Cooker and installed them using the Software Manager. When looking in the Mandrake Control Centre after I restarted X there is no option to choose 4.1 instead of 4.03. How can I select and configure Linux to use XFree86 4.1

Re: [newbie] LM8.0 Freezes

Civileme, Thanks for your help. I have disabled Aurora and use Xtart to start the X window manager KDE. My question now is, where do I go from here? Will this be a permanent condition, because I would like to access my Linux box using Exceed as well, which it does not seem to allow me

[newbie] LM8.0 Freezes

Hi all, I am slowly getting desperate here.my LM8 box freeces completely now and then for no apparent reason. Sometimes it happens when I highlight a window or something in KDE or Gnome. After that: no keyboard or mouse response, and no pinging from another computer is possible. I have to

Re: [newbie] LM8.0 and Promise FastTrack RAID 1

for your help. Norman civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/21/01 12:24am On Wednesday 20 June 2001 11:45, Norman Teferle wrote: I have posted a message with respect to my Mandrake 8.0 box with a Promise FastTrack Ultra ATA-100 RAID 0 - 1 controller a couple of days ago with no response. Scrolling

RE: [newbie] printing to Laserjet 4000 Series PS

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Norman Teferle Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] printing to Laserjet 4000 Series PS Hi all, I really need advice here. I have installed LM8 and want to set up

[newbie] printing to Laserjet 4000 Series PS

Hi all, I really need advice here. I have installed LM8 and want to set up a printer. We have a LaserJet 4000 Series PS on a network and use Netware (ipx,spx protocol) for the Windows pc's to print on it. I have set up the HP JetDirect print server on the printer and can talk to it via its ip

[newbie] Promise Fasttrack100 Raid Card and LM8

Dear all, can somebody help me to get my Fasttrack100 Ultra ATA/100 Raid Card working under Mandrake 8? I have installed LM8 but cannot see my Raid drives at all. Harddrake says unknown device. The Promise Technology, Inc website describes how to do it under Red Hat 6.2 but I am stuck. Any

[newbie] LM8-command not found

Dear all, Thanks Sridhar and Serafim for your responses and help. However, I was only partly able to solve my problems. using ./myscript.ksh still gave the message : command not found however using sh myscript.ksh worked fine. using: perl myperlscript.pl enabled me to run the perl script,

[newbie] LM8-comand not found

Dear all, I have installed LM8 in a new PC and everything seems fine. However when trying to run perl or any other sh-scripts in my user environment in a terminal I get the message comand not found although chmod +x was set. Can someone help please. Thanks in advance. Norman

[newbie] Re: [newbe] Linux for Windows Installation Help

ic program that came in the package. It can do the job without causing problems with your Windows partition. Mike - Original Message - From: "Hazel Norman Teferle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 6:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux for

Re: [newbie] Linux for Windows Installation Help

Thanks to Paul and Alan. I have managed to create a boot disk with rawrite. I can now also boot from the cdrom and get into the DrakX installation program were I encounter my next dilemma. What to do in the Setup Filesystems menu? Do I say OK when DrakX needs to resize my Windows partition? or

[newbie] Linux for Windows Installation Help

Hi there, I would really appreciate if someone could help me installing Linux for Windows of the latest PCPLUS CD-rom. I have a Dell Dimension, 450 MHz, 256Mb Ram, Toshiba DVD-ROM, 1 year old. I got to the point where after running install.bat and setup.bat I have to reboot my pc to start