[newbie-it] Aiuto per wine.

2000-12-21 Per discussione Alberto Zanoni
Ciao, ho scaricato wine, ma non riesco a configurare il file wine.conf: in particolare, non capisco cosa debba mettere nelle directory. Io ho una partizione con Linux mandrake da una parte e Windows dall'altra: vedo lettere come c:, d:, ecc., ma io vado dovunque con /... (/mnt/, in

Re: [newbie-it] Blocco PC con winmodem

2000-12-21 Per discussione peppesan
ciao dove hai recuperato il drive per linux? io ho recuperato sempre lucent il Linux586.zip che con la versione 7.1 di mdk mi riconosceva il modem del portatile, ma dopo che fa il sumero sembra onnettersi , e alla fine si killa e vuole essere riavviato sistema.. - Original Message -

Re: [newbie-it] Blocco PC con winmodem

2000-12-21 Per discussione gabriele
L'ultimo Driver (5.78c.tar.gz) meglio dire modulo, per utilizzare il modem Lucent 56 K v 90 DFI di norma presente nei notebook compaq presario serie 1200 e' scaricabile presso il seguente sito : http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html#drivers Consiglio di NON installarlo usando le istruzioni

[newbie-it] DRIVER WIN MODEM LUCENT

2000-12-21 Per discussione Carlo Ardito
QUALCUNO SA DIRMI COME TRASFORMARE IL MIO WIN MODEM LUCENT ATLANTIS INTERNO PCI IN UN MODEM PER LINUX? GRAZIE CARLO

Re: [newbie-it] DRIVER WIN MODEM LUCENT

2000-12-21 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Carlo Ardito wrote: QUALCUNO SA DIRMI COME TRASFORMARE IL MIO WIN MODEM LUCENT ATLANTIS INTERNO PCI IN UN MODEM PER LINUX? GRAZIE CARLO Per favore: - NON URLARE - evita di mandare messaggi in HTML Detto questo, il programma per gestire i linmodems lo trovi su www.linmodems.org.

[newbie-it] scusale le urla

2000-12-21 Per discussione Carlo Ardito
scusate le urla. ma ora che ho il file per il licent win modem? devvo scompattare il tutto da una finestra? Scusate, ma ora per avere il sistema ok ho bisogno solo di settare il modem e la mia SB Live!!! Ciao a tutti e buon natale. Carlo

Re: [newbie] Modem Question

2000-12-21 Per discussione s
I have a pci 3Com/USRobotics 56K FaxModem model 5610 on one computer and I got it to work with setserial. I looked in the KDE System Control Communications Control to get the port and irq. All the traditional places like /proc/pci didn't help much, it was listed there but very vague

[newbie] installation on alphastation 500

2000-12-21 Per discussione Pieter De Troyer
Hi, i tried to install mdk 7.1 on an AlphaStation 500a. instalation went very smooth, but at the end when I rebooted the system to get working I'v got a kernel panic. I performed the autmatic installation, including aboot, i also left 2048 sectors free before starting the first ( / ) prtition

RE: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (again)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Kelly, Christopher
i am at work right now. I can send you one when I get home. The only thing is, Linux creates a custom boot disk for each system. I'm not sure if it will work. I will send it anyway, just in case it does get you in. Another thing you could do is boot from the CD and perform the upgrade function

Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (again)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Sousa
hey! that upgrade idea can be a good one! thx [] my mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll try to upgrade it if I manage 2 do it I will send a mail, else you know what happened... lol thx

Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (again)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 21 December 2000 09:53 am, Sousa wrote: but cant you send me a generic boot disk? just to boot? that's bad... cause I saved the C: things to the linux part. and now I cant go there to pick them up... :\\ there must be a way to create a bootdisk! with some images or something like

RE: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (again)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Kelly, Christopher
ok no problem. I'll send the disk if I don't see a post from you later. -Original Message- From: Sousa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 11:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (again) hey! that upgrade idea can

Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (again)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Dan LaBine
Try www.bootdisk.com . They should have what you're looking for. Dan - Original Message - From: "Sousa" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 10:53 AM Subject: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (again) but cant you send me a generic boot

[newbie] hard disk partitioning

2000-12-21 Per discussione jiten
i have a 20 GB hard disk with LM7.2 and windoze 98 installed. first 5gb of hd is for c: drive of windows. then i have made two partions for linux 256 MB swap 3.5gb linux native (mount /) the rest is dos extended with two logical partitons hda5-2.5Gb(d:) and hda6-rest(e:\). My system is

Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (again)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Stefaans Mostert
Sousa wrote: hey! that upgrade idea can be a good one! thx [] my mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll try to upgrade it if I manage 2 do it I will send a mail, else you know what happened... lol thx Don't do anything rash!!! Just wait I have posted to some buddys we might have a solution for

[newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (and again...)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Sousa
well, I already tried to upgrade but when comes the part of choosing the packets he sais that there isnt enought space to upgrade those packets and I dont know where can I choose the packets I want (or DONT want). He scans for the packets and asks if I want to install the second CD in the 3 modes

[newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (the saga continues)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Sousa
well, the site was o good. it had everything but the mdk boot disk. but thx anyway, i can think of some downloads of that page. Well, thank u Stefaans Mostert for your psicologic support ill be waiting for any solutions. Thax the guys who are helping me, I'm really apreciating. [[]]

Re: [newbie] memory Size

2000-12-21 Per discussione Joseph Red
Hmm, in LILO I think you can pass it MEM=256, but I don't think 7.2 uses LILO. I would look into the boot loader options, though. Joseph Red [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Michael (Nozy) Falzon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000

Re: [newbie] how to write scripts

2000-12-21 Per discussione Joseph Red
I can't give you detailed instructions, mainly because I don't know them off the top of my head. I'd have to pore through the cryptic man pages myself. I think what you want to do is setup a cron job. Do a search for "how do I set up a cron job" you should get some helpful info. Joseph Red

RE: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (the saga continues)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Kelly, Christopher
I'll send the disk tonight Cheers, Chris Kelly Linux user #185775 -Original Message- From: Sousa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (the saga continues) well, the site was o

Re: [newbie] how to write scripts

2000-12-21 Per discussione Neville Cobb
Have you read the beginners guide to linux that came with md7.2, a file called rute.pdf. I also believe cron the scheduler is what you need. Have a look at a program called 'task scheduler' in the menu configuration/other Nev Melanie Vida wrote: Can someone please give me clear detailed

[newbie] Linux docs

2000-12-21 Per discussione Mark Johnson
Not that i'm trying to endorse ibooks or anything, i just happen to get thier news letter. This was in todays: ibooks.com + redhat.com = more free content for you! Check out our newest affiliate site at redhat.com! By partnering with Red Hat, Inc., ibooks.com offers you even more free

[newbie] BIOS

2000-12-21 Per discussione msoltys
Does anyone know how to turn off plug and play on a HP Pavillion computer? I press F1 after turning on the computer and get a set-up screen. From there it is not obvious to me exactly what parameter(s) I should disable. Thanks for any help, Mickey Soltys

Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (the saga continue s)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Kelly, Christopher wrote: I'll send the disk tonight Cheers, Chris Kelly Linux user #185775 -Original Message- From: Sousa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (the saga

Re: [newbie] memory Size

2000-12-21 Per discussione Chris Slater-Walker
Edit the grub command line. At the end add: mem=256M This seems to be a common problem - it's a fault in the BIOS and the way it reports memory to the operating system, rather than a problem with Linux. Chris - Original Message - From: "Michael (Nozy) Falzon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (Alan)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Sousa
well, thx Alan but my problem is that I have the mbr in the windows partition cause I had to format (...) and now i cant access the linux partition. Any ideas?

Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (Alan)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Mr. Smith
Install linux and then Windows and create a boot floppy next time...but besides that nope. Sorry...I had the same problem at one point in time...back with Redhat 5.2 I accidentally did the same thing you did...but I didn't have an internet connection or anyone to ask so I just formatted it and

[newbie] Mounting windows 2000 on Linux

2000-12-21 Per discussione Dr. Trevor J. Stocki
Hi, I have a windows 2000 partition (20Gb) and 3 linux paritions (20 Gb total) and I have installed mandrake linux 7.1 and I am un able to see the windows 2000 parition. I tried: mkdir /mnt/windows mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows and I got the error message: mount: wrong fs type,

Re: [newbie] Mounting windows 2000 on Linux

2000-12-21 Per discussione Mr. Smith
Dr. Stocki Umm...I don't know much about Win2k but I do know that it is a continuation of NT and NT doesn't use FAT (well it can) but it uses NTFS by default. That could be your problem. I don't know if Win2k uses NTFS or another file structure but just to give you some kind of insight I

Re: [newbie] memory Size

2000-12-21 Per discussione Paul
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Joseph Red wrote: Hmm, in LILO I think you can pass it MEM=256, but I don't think 7.2 uses LILO. I would look into the boot loader options, though. Hi All How do i fix the memory size on a mandrak 7.2 ( i have 256mg of ram ) and she showing up as 64 The gory

Re: [newbie] how to write scripts

2000-12-21 Per discussione Paul
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Joseph Red wrote: I think what you want to do is setup a cron job. Do a search for "how do I set up a cron job" you should get some helpful info. Can someone please give me clear detailed instructions (other than cryptic man page references) on how to write a script

RE: [newbie] Mounting windows 2000 on Linux

2000-12-21 Per discussione Tuggle, Fred
I have Mandrake 7.2 on a laptop that started out with W2K and now dual boots. 7.2 sees the mnt/windows just fine. The -t type is vfat just like you specified. Check to see if there is an update available for linux to mount W2K filesystems. Or this maybe a kernel update. I am not sure. Fred

Re: [newbie] hard disk partitioning

2000-12-21 Per discussione Paul
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, jiten wrote: Hi Jiten, I'd do this: windowze somewhere swap as much as you have RAM / (root) 500megs /usr 3Gb /home 4Gb /sparethe rest You won't need a separate /boot, you can leave that in the root partition. Better not put any of the linux partitions in

[newbie] Linksys LNE100tx v4.0

2000-12-21 Per discussione Jerold Von Hemel
Does anyone know how to get Mandrake 7.2 to recognize this card. I have tried to compile a new tulip.o module, but have been unsuccessful. I have gone to the Linksys website and downloaded the most current drivers and was unsuccessful. Linux-mandrake.com has yet to post a fix on their web

Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (Alan)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Sousa wrote: well, thx Alan but my problem is that I have the mbr in the windows partition cause I had to format (...) and now i cant access the linux partition. Any ideas? Sousathe instructions I gave you were how to utilize the boot floppy that Mark sent you. If it doesn't boot your

RE: [newbie] Linksys LNE100tx v4.0

2000-12-21 Per discussione Helsby, James
Need a little more information to be helpful. Are you sure that it uses the tulip driver? Have you tried running kudzu? Do you know that your network card is not bad? Have you tried using a different network card? Does the driver load? Is the driver built correctly? Cheers, James

RE: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (Alan)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Kelly, Christopher
Just for the record, my name is Chris not Mark. No offense to the Marks of the world... -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (Alan) Sousa

[newbie] Mounting Win 2K partition

2000-12-21 Per discussione johnc
I am not sure if the default kernel in in 7.2 has ntfs support or not. I recompiled one of my own and added ntfs support for this reason of mounting a Win 2K part. I went to Linuxconf and selected "access local drive" then created a mount point, in my case /min/win_C and then manually

RE: [newbie] Linksys LNE100tx v4.0

2000-12-21 Per discussione Jerold Von Hemel
Per the website, it uses the tulip driver. The card works as it should it Win98. I have followed the instructions I have found at Deja.com regarding this issue. Apparently versions earlier than 4 work ok, but 4.0 4.1 do not. I do not have a different card to use, but I am considering just

RE: [newbie] Locked out at the LOGIN :

2000-12-21 Per discussione Helsby, James
Do you have access to the system? Or did you loose your passwords? From the way you worded it, it sounds like you lost your passwords, but what I think you are looking for is how to bring the gui back online. Go to init 5. That starts the gui in a separate NOHUP process. Cheers,

Re: [newbie] Locked out at the LOGIN :

2000-12-21 Per discussione Dennis Myers
Paul, during install u would have been asked for at least one user name and password or as a minimum a password for root (the administrator), so at the login type the user name and hit return it will ask for password give it the password you entered during install, or type root and hit return

RE: [newbie] Linksys LNE100tx v4.0

2000-12-21 Per discussione Steve Hagerman
I have been in the same fix :: Here is what I did .. First of all go to linuxconf then once there go to host and device setup then put in all your info then go to the part where it says kernel module enter tulip make sure that you have the device setup as eth0 as well then after you exit bear

Re: [newbie] Linksys LNE100tx v4.0

2000-12-21 Per discussione Kevin Tambascio
I have the same card at home, and I was able to use it with the driver from the website. I don't remember what version that I used though. The driver on the installation disk didn't work at all, but the one I downloaded does. Mine built fine, and then installing it was simple, using the

Re: [newbie] uninstalling Xfree 3.x

2000-12-21 Per discussione Jamie Kerwick
Thanks for the info. i'll try that tommorrow, along with setting up my new sb live platinum card. (out celebrating xmas tonite!!) Jamie From: John Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] uninstalling Xfree 3.x Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000

RE: [newbie] Linksys LNE100tx v4.0

2000-12-21 Per discussione Jerold Von Hemel
Here is the last method I tried. I ran into problems with the gcc command line. Basically I could not create a new tulip.o module. The downside is I am feeling sick now. I am thinking flu. Maybe I better try this again when I am sick Thanks so far though, Jerold Article # : 116 How to

Re: [newbie] how to write scripts

2000-12-21 Per discussione Stefaans Mostert
Paul wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Joseph Red wrote: I think what you want to do is setup a cron job. Do a search for "how do I set up a cron job" you should get some helpful info. Can someone please give me clear detailed instructions (other than cryptic man page references) on how

Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (the saga continue s)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Stefaans Mostert
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Kelly, Christopher wrote: I'll send the disk tonight Cheers, Chris Kelly Linux user #185775 -Original Message- From: Sousa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] --- mbr

[newbie] Recognising a partition?

2000-12-21 Per discussione Revenant
I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 and selected "Supermount" during install. I have since added a Windows HDD partition that I want Linux to be able to access. How do I do that please? Thank you. Society Design Mailing List

Re: [newbie] Linksys LNE100tx v4.0

2000-12-21 Per discussione John Murphy
On Thursday 21 December 2000 14:54, you wrote: Per the website, it uses the tulip driver. The card works as it should it Win98. I have followed the instructions I have found at Deja.com regarding this issue. Apparently versions earlier than 4 work ok, but 4.0 4.1 do not. I do not have a

Re: [newbie] Mounting windows 2000 on Linux

2000-12-21 Per discussione Stefaans Mostert
"Dr. Trevor J. Stocki" wrote: Hi, I have a windows 2000 partition (20Gb) and 3 linux paritions (20 Gb total) and I have installed mandrake linux 7.1 and I am un able to see the windows 2000 parition. I tried: mkdir /mnt/windows mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows and I got the

Re: [newbie] Locked out at the LOGIN :

2000-12-21 Per discussione Stefaans Mostert
Type your user name and password. When it gives you a bash prompt type "startx" without inverted commas And whallah!! bob's your uncle! This will bring up your xwindows. Now how to get it back every time!!! open a shell prompt (that funny screen icon in your task bar) now type "su" now give it

[newbie] Mounting windows 2000 on Linux

2000-12-21 Per discussione Dr. Trevor J. Stocki
Hi, I have a windows 2000 partition (20Gb) and 3 linux paritions (20 Gb total) and I have installed mandrake linux 7.1 and I am un able to see the windows 2000 parition. I tried: mkdir /mnt/windows mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows and I got the error message: mount: wrong fs type,

Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (Alan)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Kelly, Christopher wrote: Just for the record, my name is Chris not Mark. No offense to the Marks of the world... -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the

Re: [newbie] Recognising a partition?

2000-12-21 Per discussione johnc
On Thursday 21 December 2000 13:43, you wrote: I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 and selected "Supermount" during install. I have since added a Windows HDD partition that I want Linux to be able to access. How do I do that please? Thank you. Enter Linuxconf as root and choose filesystems then

Re: [newbie] how to write scripts

2000-12-21 Per discussione Paul
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Stefaans Mostert wrote: Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31 Remember netscape is in fact /usr/bin/netscape/ Give you a clue :-) Thanks. But the note from Cron was that netscape could not connect to the display... So netscape was run. Of course, you are free to try

Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (Alan)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Revenant
IIRC, Debian used to have a DOS/Windows tool that could create a LILO MBR. Perhaps you could find something like that? "Mr. Smith" wrote: Install linux and then Windows and create a boot floppy next time...but besides that nope. Sorry...I had the same problem at one point in time...back

[newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-21 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Hi list. Something strange happened to me today here at work. I had received an attachment from someone. It was an MS Powerpoint file. On a lark I decided to attempt and open the file with Star Office. I was curious, so sue me! Anyway, things didn't go well. X crashed and "something"

Re: [newbie] Recognising a partition?

2000-12-21 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 21 December 2000 02:43 pm, Revenant wrote: I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 and selected "Supermount" during install. I have since added a Windows HDD partition that I want Linux to be able to access. How do I do that please? As root, run 'fdisk -l'. You'll see a listing of the

Re: [newbie] how to write scripts

2000-12-21 Per discussione A V Flinsch
On Thursday 21 December 2000 16:00, you wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Stefaans Mostert wrote: Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31 Remember netscape is in fact /usr/bin/netscape/ Give you a clue :-) Thanks. But the note from Cron was that netscape could not connect to the

[newbie] Reinstallation necessary after mobo change?

2000-12-21 Per discussione Christian Reidys
I hope you find the time answering this one: I have installed mandrake 7.2 via an Abit KT7 Raid board and have to change motherboards to an Asus A7V. Can I just use the existing mandrake installation or do I have to install mandrake completely, again? Thank you for your help, duck

Re: [newbie] Reinstallation necessary after mobo change?

2000-12-21 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 20 December 2000 12:32 pm, Christian Reidys wrote: I hope you find the time answering this one: I have installed mandrake 7.2 via an Abit KT7 Raid board and have to change motherboards to an Asus A7V. Can I just use the existing mandrake installation or do I have to install

[newbie] compile error

2000-12-21 Per discussione bascule
i keep getting 'can't find X includes' eror when trying to configure things, as it happens to different sources i guess it's something i don't have installed, if i knew what 'X includes' was though i could check, cold someone tell what it means please? bascule

[newbie] mandrake login manager

2000-12-21 Per discussione a r
Hi! Does anyone know which file contains the details of the screen you see when the login manager loads? I want to change the background and there seems to be a bug in the kcontrol that stops you from saving changes to the background, (you can enter them but it resets once you leave the login

Re: [newbie] Mounting windows 2000 on Linux

2000-12-21 Per discussione Andrew
If you are running boot magic you may have to go into the config section of that through windows and make sure that your windows partition is not hidden from anything else. I am running 98 and that worked for me. good luck, Andrew - Original Message - From: Dr. Trevor J. Stocki [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] BIOS

2000-12-21 Per discussione Mr. Smith
Mr. Sherman I would help you but I don't have a compaq...Mine just says plug in play [on/off] but mine is gateway...sorry Mr. Smith I was just going to ask the same question, but about a Compaq...I pressed F10 (thats what the tech support guy said it was), but couldnt find Plug n

Re: [newbie] BIOS setting: Plug 'n play OS

2000-12-21 Per discussione Robert Wyatt
On December 20, 2000 08:04 pm, you wrote: I can't even get my sound card to work and my PnP Bios has always been "off." I exited X and "su"ed to root and typed sndconfig and it still doesn't play sound in the test screen...Stupid Sound Blaster Live! Value Hello. I have a the same sound card

Re: [newbie] memory Size

2000-12-21 Per discussione tweeter
On install, you should have specified how much mem you had, but if you didn't, go into drakconf and go into tools for booting, and from there go to configure LILO/GRUB then click the kernel you load on a normal bootup. And in the append box type mem=256M and make sure its the first one in the

Re: [newbie] cdrecord

2000-12-21 Per discussione Roger Sherman
Its an IDE CD-RW. I don't think it runs off a controller card, but I'm not 100% on that. I did go into the BIOS to check to see if PNP was enabled, but there wasn't anything that said anything about it...cheesy Compaq... But I did find a list of IRQ stuff: PCI Devices Compaq VGA Controller -

Re: [newbie] CD-RW will nolonger write. Help

2000-12-21 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Thursday 21 December 2000 05:33 pm, you wrote: Ok, I am soo tired of trying to figure it out myslef its not even funny. So I'll ask all the experts on this list. My CD-RW worked just fine in LM 7.1 now in 7.2 it won't work. I went to the mandrake site and did the link fix thing but it will

Re: [newbie] Next Question

2000-12-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
By default, Mandrake sets /dev/fd0 (your floppy drive, mounted as /mnt/floppy) to be the vfat filesystem. This means that for the disc to be read by supermount it must be a FAT filesystem. You can change this by looking in /etc/fstab and changing the bit that says "vfat" in the line that

Re: [newbie] RAMDISK ERROR ON MANDRAKE 7.2 INSTALL

2000-12-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Sounds like your drive may be faulty. Any recent drive should be able to read this CD with no trouble. Some DVD drives have problems when accessing CD-ROMs, this is another possibility for your drive. You could try using some sort of bootdisc (I believe the Mandrake site has instructions to do

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Not a bad idea, but most mice out there still have only one or two buttons. While three-button mice are cheap nowadays, many people will not switch to Linux if they have to buy a new piece of hardware, no matter how cheap it is (it's psychological). Also, new users of Linux can become easily

Re: [newbie] cdrecord

2000-12-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Try giving each device its own IRQ. Presently, you have a number of devices sharing the same IRQ, an open invitation for conflicts. After this, try burning again. Also, have you looked at the CD-Writing HOWTO, available at http://www.linuxdoc.org? On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:04, Roger Sherman

Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (the saga continues)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
What about booting from the Mandrake CD? I know that the Mandrake 7.2 CD can be used as a rescue disc when you type "rescue" at the LILO prompt. This loads Linux with the CD as /. Then you mount your / partition at a suitable spot with a command like "mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1". Then

Re: [newbie] CD-RW will nolonger write. Help

2000-12-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
First check your /etc/fstab to see if your CD-RW is mounted at boot. Also, have you tried burning as root? By default, you can only burn in root mode. On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:33, Jon Doe wrote: Ok, I am soo tired of trying to figure it out myslef its not even funny. So I'll ask all the experts

Re: [newbie] Mounting Win 2K partition

2000-12-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
I tried mounting my Win2K NTFS partition in Mandrake 7.2 with the line "mount -t ntfs /dev/hdc2 /mnt/disc". It worked, but only in read-only mode. Write support for NTFS is only experimental at present and is not in the default Mandrake 7.2 kernel. On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 06:39, johnc wrote: I

Re: [newbie] RAMDISK ERROR ON MANDRAKE 7.2 INSTALL

2000-12-21 Per discussione Michael Johnston
I have the exact same problem...using the pocketbooks CD... My CDRom is a pioneer drive which works perfectly in win2000. This is not very reassuring. Michael - Original Message - From: "Paul Williamson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000

Re: [newbie] BIOS setting: Plug 'n play OS

2000-12-21 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
On Wednesday 20 December 2000 11:34 pm, you wrote: I can't even get my soundcard to work and my PnP Bios has always been "off." I exited X and "su"ed to root and typed sndconfig and it still doesn't play sound in the test screen...Stupid Sound Blaster Live! Value cards...grrr... Dear

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Look for a file named "core" or one that begins with "core". These are core dumps, left for debugging purposes but are of little use to us. They are most often left in your user directory. They can be safely deleted. On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:25, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi list. Something strange

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-21 Per discussione Anthony
I know there is a better command than this, but I can't seem to find it at the moment. Anyways, type "ls -SalR | more" and it'll list all the files sorted by size in each directory. So you can look and see which files are taking up the most space. It's seperated by directory however, so if you

[newbie] PATH variable mess

2000-12-21 Per discussione Henryk M. Kowalski
Does anyone know all the different locations in which the PATH variable is set in Linux Mandrake? I'm running 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2 on different machines. The same problem shows up on all. Here's an example: The PATH variable on this 7.0 machine seems to be a run-on circular definition:

Re: [newbie] CD-RW will nolonger write. Help

2000-12-21 Per discussione Jon Doe
On Thursday 21 December 2000 11:50 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 21 December 2000 09:33 pm, you wrote: First check your /etc/fstab to see if your CD-RW is mounted at boot. Also, have you tried burning as root? By default, you can only burn in root mode. Yes I have tried burning as root. The

[newbie] Where did D: go?

2000-12-21 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
I'm in the process of undergoing a major rebuild/reinstall. I've replaced the old m/b with an Abit KT7 and Athlon 800. Neat. After I god the system up and running, I said to decided to just kill all of the old software and start over. That turned out to be not so neat. After removing all of the

Re: [newbie] Realtek RTL-8139 module

2000-12-21 Per discussione Joseph Red
Nuno Ricardo Loureiro Ferreira wrote: Hi tux fans I´ve just installed Mandrake 7.2 on my machine (Compaq ArmadaE500 PIII, 64 RAM ...). When the installation program asked me how I wanted to connect to the internet, I choosed a LAN connection (I just bought a 10/100Base-T 32 BIT Cardbus

[newbie] pppd. Complicated Complications.

2000-12-21 Per discussione var1x
Today, after my cable failed for the 1000 time today (honest) I thought I should prepare for the worst and configure ppp on my laptop (Toshiba Tecra 8100) So in the process, I check and make sure my modem is reconized, and it is, everything was working swimmingly until I actually connected, at,

Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (Alan)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Daniel Velzi
Well, I wasn´t followed all post. But I believe the real problem was Sousa have some files in linux he need. And is difficult to access to ext2 partition. And what´s about to access ext2 partition from windows to rescue files ? I believe (but don´t know) exist any soft that can access to ext2

[newbie] Mapping Linux in Windows 2000

2000-12-21 Per discussione Wong Wai Yeng
Hi, Does anyone knows how to configure Windows 2000 PCs to map to a Linux server ? In win 98, we need to make some changes in the registry, but in Windows 2000, I'm completely lost, can someone please help ! Thanks ! Regards, Jolyn

[newbie] Best way to get identd going in 7.2

2000-12-21 Per discussione ChrisK
Which file do I need to configure for identd? ...and what exactly do I need to put there? ChrisK

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
I never said that Windos users didn't have bad habits. The issue here is that my idea of "bad habits" differs slightly from yours. In my opinion, a "bad habit" is something that locks you into something, whether you like it or not. I like the configurabliity of Linux, and it is getting better

Re: [newbie] RAMDISK ERROR ON MANDRAKE 7.2 INSTALL

2000-12-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Mandrake doesn't like some particular combinations of motherboard and other components. There's a hardware compatibility list at www.linux-mandrake.com, try looking your hardware up there. On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 19:35, Paul Williamson wrote: Thanks for replying!, I am booting from the CD on a

Re: [newbie] RAMDISK ERROR ON MANDRAKE 7.2 INSTALL

2000-12-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Hmmm.. And I've always held the pocketbooks in high regard. I started using Linux after getting one last year when they had Red Hat 6.0 and Caldera 2.2. The CD could be faulty, your CD reader could be faulty (or just "difficult " :-) , particularly if it's a DVD drive), or you could have

Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (Alan)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Mr. Smith
Yes it is possible to access a ext2 file structure from windows. I know there is software at www.hotfiles.com or at least there was a year ago. I couldn't get it to work but my friend liked it and it worked well for him. Sorry I can't remember the name but there is software. Mr. Smith Well,

[newbie] still sound...

2000-12-21 Per discussione Mr. Smith
Group, Does anyone know anything I can do or anyone I can ask that can get my Sound Blaster Live Value working in 7.2. I have tried pretty much everything the group has recommended so far...I also tried a bunch of stuff on deja as well. I tried to update the drivers but it said there was a

RE: [newbie] Best way to get identd going in 7.2

2000-12-21 Per discussione Bob Currey
install pidentd rpm from the cd. you will need to run identd afterwards. i used a -n parameter. some of the irc nets still won't work and give the identd message, anyway. maybe someone else has soolved that part. my solution will get you on undernet, but i don't thionk it woill work for

RE: [newbie] Best way to get identd going in 7.2

2000-12-21 Per discussione Bob Currey
btw, if you look in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S35identd it looks like thats what's controlling it, in conjunction with /etc/identd.conf but I'm just a newbie, and basically clueless, so take it with a grain of salt... BobC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

[newbie] Freezes when playing MPEGs?

2000-12-21 Per discussione Revenant
When I play MPEGs my computer freezes _hard_. I can't switch to other shells and the only way I've found to escape it is to reboot. Can anyone tell me please how to isolate and identify the cause of this problem? Thank you. P.S. Thanks to the people who provided advice on detecting my new

Re: [newbie] --- mbr in the windows partition (Alan)

2000-12-21 Per discussione Revenant
My understanding was that his master boot record had been overwritten with the standard Windows one, meaning he could not boot into Linux. ie. What he wants to do is install a new GRUB MBR. The tool I was thinking of was "rawrite". This is available on the Mandrake CD, along with