Hey guys, don't mean to beat a dead horse, but UDMA XXX dosent mean
anything. no one's hard drive is fast enough to utilize all that
throughput. so don't worry about what kernel supports who, It doesn't
matter. you will see no performance boost.
if you want the most performance from a hard
I'm always discovering holes in my linux education, and the thread on fsck
made me think of defragmenting hard drives. is there a linux eq? what are
the issues with data optimization/disk defragging under linux?
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to
sweet. I put all of my partitions on ReiserFS after last month's discussion
on filesystems. I'm glad to hear that there is no worry for me.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
how do i get off this list?
uhhh- check www.linux-mandrake.com
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
make sure you are typing ./ibmgr or make sure that it's directory is in you
path.
non-bash commands must be executed ./command. only commands in your path
(/usr/bin, etc) can be executed w/o ./
I find this to be an interesting discussion. The media tends to label Red
Hat as a serious and corporate linux; while mandrake is dubbed the
baby linux. I guess I should know better than to trust what I hear on TV
and the like, but since trying both myself, I know this is a bit exagerated.
I
My K-6 based laptop is haveing some power management problems. The ACPI
daemon fails on boot (Not found). I tried reinstalling it and it says
that it's already there. tried uninstalling it (in GUI) and it says
it's not there :P
is there some variation on an rpm command with a --force switch
check the following
www.beowulf.org
www.beowulf-underground.org
dig around and you should be able to find a point by point cookbook for
a cluster.
also, mail.beowulf on google unsenet (discussion groups) should be a
good place to direct questions. I gather if most people on this list
know
wait, that cant be right. linux runs big honkin servers that use a
MINIMUM of 4 GB of memory. I'm researching this, but I wanted to chime
in for the meantime.
first, thanks to those who have replied to my post. each of you has
supplied a lot of valuable and thoughtful info.
second, it appears as though i did not word my original post correctly. i
was not trying to ask the list to tell me how I could make millions because
i could install mandrake 8
this is just one of a laundry list of concerns about this particular
product. I'm actually hoping that they go through with everything they
promise (no java, anti-piracy, bloted code). perhaps this will provide some
momentum to our beloved linux and others.
check out some benchmarks
MACK , if this was a cover version from news vendor , the disk was corrupt!
Do you live in UK or USA? If UK could send a working copy. Let me know
*Ouch* well, I guess they tried...
anyway, looking at your system specs you may want to be cautious. I
installed 8.0 on a system very similar to
I had this problem on my laptop and felt like a dork when I figured it out.
go into your desktop (KDE or gnome, whatever) configuration tool (where you
change the colors and all) and select fonts on the right hand side. you
should be able to choose what fonts and sizes you want where.
if you
The latest thing that I have done is to dig up an old P100 system and
stick
the harddrive into it along with two network cards. (Used DFE-530TX+
instead of eepro100.) After changing modules.conf to load the right
modules, everything came up happy. I then tried ripping out the hard
drive
and
However:
I can't get the logic of adding all the extra programs that came with
it. E.G. I know somewhere in there is IBM's ViaVoice program.
snip
yes yes, I had the same trouble finding kDelvelop and the like. try, when
you're in your software manager, toggling between the catagorized
The A7M266 uses DDR RAM and has the VIA chipset. It supports up to 2GB of
RAM (the A7V supports 1.5GB, and the A7A 3GB, though I have never
personally heard of a 1GB stick of RAM, but maybe they exist).
I thought the A7M266 had an AMD northbridge and a VIA south bridge.
Here are a couple
I know that no one on this list has any problems sharing opinions...
So I wanted to know if anyone had an opinion on a good A+ cert book,
hopefully leading to *nix networking (ie not MCSE).
Or maybe a website that's not looking to suck down a month's worth of my
meager rural texas teacher
, July 01, 2001 5:25 PM
To: Jason Guidry
Subject: Re: [newbie] Gettin' certified
On Sunday 01 July 2001 15:35, you wrote:
I know that no one on this list has any problems sharing opinions...
So I wanted to know if anyone had an opinion on a good A+ cert book,
hopefully leading to *nix networking
For starters I am really exited to see MandrakeSoft forging ahead with a
router/firwall only version of its distribution.
My test system goes something as follows:
1. Older ASUS A7V m/b with BIOS version 1007 and vt82c686a south
bridge. (Reflashed BIOS a while back.)
2. Hitachi DVD ROM GD-7500
help
Regards,
Jason
As per recent discussion, I thought I'd drop these by. No, I don't work for
anandtech.com (as should be obvious from my posts) but here are some reviews
that should be of interest... Note, there are for the people who love
plowing through pages of benchmarks, but if it makes your head hurt, you
Should be able to resize your windows partition and then install on the
remaining space. Make sure the windows partition is defragd and healthy or
it will give you problems.
If that doesn't work, then try partition magic and resize.
Or, what I really recommend is backing everything up and wipe
I just installed a ricoh MP9060 CDRW/DVD drive on my P667 system. Both bios
and Linux detect the drive by name on boot. I have poured over the CD
Burning HowTo at LDP and I'm either too uninitiated or too stooped to make
the commands work.
So, there are basically 2 questions...
I have the Iso
Hmmm
.I
just asked basically the same question and I spent the last few hours banging
my head against the monitor trying to figure it out. What you need is a boot disk
the installer will allow you to
install from an ISO on your HDD only on 8.0 (I tried on 7.0). Im hesitant (wisely, I
Of course, one could always check thinkgeek.com and linuxmall. I know
thinkgeek has some classics.
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To: Ed Tharp
Cc: Dan LaBine; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Penguin
there in the KDE control panel including the matrix. I wonder what happened?
Jason
user's) mail account?
Thank You
Regards,
Jason Chan
Server B, and if so, modify host.deny and restart xinetd
for everything to work again. Any clue?
I am running Mandrake 8 on both servers, and the newest updated xinetd from Mandrake
Update site.
Regards,
Jason Chan
Hi -
I want to change the order of the operating systems in GRUB. I want to make
another operating system the default when the system starts up.
Any ideas? Can it be done from anywhere else outside of Linux too? (can I
edit it somehow from dos, etc.) I have LM7.2.
Thanks!
Jason
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Hi,
I have a Linksys USB Ethernet adapter, I believe I read somewhere that is was
supported, but I have no clue how to get it installed. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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If I understand correctly the following is the most optimal way to copy
a directory structure with its files and then verify that those
directories and files copied ok without being corrupted:
cp -a sourcedir destinationdir
diff -arq sourcedir destinationdir
Please enlighten me if there is a
Has anybody got a joystick to work in Linux Mandrake 8.0?
Just an analog stick. In previous versions I got my joystick to work by
inserting joystick in /etc/modules. That doesn't work with lm8.
I can't even find the joystick testing utilities, like jstest, etc ...
It is in some joystick rpm
To get a selection of an OS to boot:
The easiest way that I know of is to use klilo, which will create a lilo.conf file for
you, and reinstall lilo, which will give you your startup options. However, I have
had a
good number of problems with this approach. The way I do it is to look at
OK. I got the .profile to be executed when using su - user, but the
.profile still does not get executed when opening an xterm.
Any ideas...
Thanks
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to me that something in bash is not compatible with ksh.
Do you have the same problem? ksh users??
I submitted this as a bug to Mandrake but have not gotten a response yet.
Can anybody help? I need ksh.
Thanks
Jason
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for multiple IP addresses!!!
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Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 2:01 PM
To: newbie
Subject: Re: [newbie] Apache/virtual hosts
Put the following in your httpd.conf file. (of course replacing what you
need to to make it fit your
online that will help me set this up
OR can someone help me out?
Thanks.
Regards,
Jason
Hi,
Can someone tell me what this does:
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp ports=261,42,10,4,2,20
I know its to do with masquerading ftp, but I can't
find any docs on the parameters etc.
Thanks in advance,
Jason.
Bill,
No I'm using the same IP for all three sites... Isn't that what virtual
hosting is all about?
I have an additional IP but I want to run all three sites from the same
machine and one IP, so I can have an IP for my workstation.
Where do I get Webmin?
Jason
-Original Message
pm... I'll let you know how it goes tonight...
Thanx for the help!!!!
Jason
I put mine in /usr/src
???
Jason
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From: asmiller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:38 PM
To: newbie
Cc: asmiller
Subject: [newbie] Where to place tarballs
Seems like a very basic question, but it is also one I've never seen
addressed
offer any suggestions as to what is going on?
Jason.
-v -y partition might help ***
Regards,
Jason G
How does
rpm --rebuilddb
affect the process you describe?
Civileme
I did that as you suggested, as well as installing that latest glibc rpms.
Not sure which of those two things solved the problem but now rpm works
like a dream.
Many thanks,
Jason.
How do I set up multi-processor support in Mandrake?
Regards,
Jason
off
Jason
-Original Message-
From: gskela [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 9:06 AM
To: newbie
Cc: gskela
Subject: [newbie] Problem with installing. Help please.
Hello,
I am trying to install Mandrake 7.2 on my PC. My installation gets
stuck
at Initializing CDROM
so I can install Linux on the hdd controlled by the controller
card.
Thanks
Jason
Does anybody know if the CD Writer problem in Linux Mandrake 7.2 is fixed in
Linux Mandrake 8?
The problem is having to re-create the cdrom link to /dev/scd0.
Thanks
laptop thing. And beside I usually get better responses in the Newbie
mailing list (go figure).
thank you every one,
-jason
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I an inclined to agree with your suggestion of corrupt CD (s),
I installed 7.2 on my Vaio PCG - F250 with no problems at all, it was
(before
type of installation I choose, one of the above three
things will occur.
Any help will greatly be appreciated,
-jason
I'm trying to install 7.2 on a Dell Latitude C800 laptop. I'm currently running RH7,
but I don't like it and want to use Mandrake. When I installed RH, the first time I
rebooted I got a kernel panic because of the pcmcia module. I had to boot
interactively and not load the pcmcia module,
Is there an e-mail client for linux that will allow me to migrate all of my e-mail
from Microsoft Outlook. I am currently leaving the Win32 platform in favor of Linux,
but I have to dual-boot until I figure out how to migrate my mail.
To answer your questionRTFM!!
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of linux over the years so I do broadly know
what I am doing but have never really had any lilo problems so am stumped.
What should I
do. The drive will mount after using lilo+kernel on a floppy so is
definitely visible to linux kernel.
Please help.
Regards,
Jason.
Sometimes Windows will erroneously mark sectors as bad especially if it has
been more than a few months since the last time that you re-installed Windows
or if you use (or have used) an old version of Norton Utilities, like 3.0.
Normally I say that once a disk (floppy or hard) starts to go bad,
On Wednesday 07 February 2001 23:42, you wrote:
Knowing that this list belongs to Mandrake users. I want to know the
bunch of reasons why you picked up mandrakes distribution.
I am about to make my decision about wich distribution, that is why I
joined the list.
I am newbie not only to
On Wednesday 31 January 2001 05:10, you wrote:
just checking to see what my name is
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me a few good ideas of what I should do?
As well, if there are any other things that I should do to secure my
machine, please let me know.
Thank you,
Jason D. Williard
lsmod.list' and
send me lsmod.list). I need to know as well, if creative has seperate
modules (drivers) for the different sblive! cards.
-jason
if an rpm install doesn't work it is for a good reason (usually).
-jason
. Hopefully your does too.
-jason
On Monday 22 January 2001 01:39, you wrote:
i recently bought a zoom 56k fax/modem. i added it to my computer and
configured it properly.
How did you configure it? What command did you issue?
-jason
How do you know that the speed is increased? I have been having problems where
when I use the -d1 option by itself, the next disk access locks things up. I
get around this by explicitly setting the x-fer rate (-X66 for Ultra33, -X68
for Ultra66, and -X69 for Ultra100.)
"Blomquist, Niklas"
are looking into building a packet filtering
masq box (look for the x's and substitute):
#!/bin/bash
# This script is by Jason Snyder
# This is meant to be a semi generic Packet Filtering and IP Masquerading
script.
# This is designed to run under Linux on a 2.2.x kernel.
# Tested under RedHat 6.0
get my personal assistance via email
to configure your computer to the next release.
Civileme
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#!/bin/bash
# By: Jason Snyder
# Name: hdbuild
# Purpose: Build a master / slave set of device nodes.
# Tested Environments: mdk 7.2.
# Usage: hdbuild [arg1:(root device name
I am running an Athlon based system in a In-Win Q500 (300W P/S) case and
an ASUS K7V m/b w/ latest patches as of mid November. I started off
running the system with a 10 GB 7200 RPM IBM drive (Ultra33) as the boot
on ide2 and a 45 GB 7200 RPM IBM drive (Ultra100 capable, but running at
Ultra66)
Hi i have just installed Linux madrake version 7.1 on my
system pII 400, 196mbram, voodoo3 video 16mb, ensoniq audio. Everything
works except the modem. I have tried every possible combination of
settings in the kpp program. My modem is a Diamond SupraExpress modem, which is
not a
Go to Drakeconf / startup services if you haven't already and make sure that
CUPS is started when you machine boots. I hope this helps.
I have Mandrake 7.2 installed. After installing my HP Deskjet 815C on lp1
with Printerdrake everything works fine, but after reboot I can't print or
get a
Under Samba 2.0.7 in mdk 7.2 I could connect using Windows ME, but I had
a similar problem with Windows 98. What I did was to de-install Samba
2.0.7 and install Samba 2.0.6 which came with mdk 7.1. Now things work
much better with Windows 98 and it still works with Windows ME.
yes in windows
When I looked at the smb.conf file I noticed that the printer command
specified the printer with the print option -P %p. I just figured that
seeing that they had a variable there that Samba was somehow smart enough
to select a printer, any printer. The concept seemed kind of fuzzy in my
head,
I recently hooked a HP 672C to my Linux box. When the printer is hooked
directly to my Linux box it prints ok. When the printer is hooked
directly into my Windows ME box, it prints good. When I hook the
printer into my Linux box and then try to print over the network from my
Windows ME box,
Does anybody know when the next Mandrake release is and what version number
it will be?
Thanks
I tried doing I network install for Mandrake 7.2 and had all kinds of
problems.
When I installed 7.1 over the net I had no problems at all. Has anybody
experienced this?
Thanks
Jason
Do you have the kernel-src installed??? rpm -qa| grep kernel
If so you can find it by using: rpm -ql pkg> where pkg is
the name of the package.
JK
Arlindo Fragoso wrote:
Hi!
I've searched in /usr/src for the kernel file but I d'ont see it!!!
I've tried to compile a new kernel doing "make
What you want to do should be quite possible. Back when I switched from
Slackware to RedHat 5.0 (long time ago especially seeing that I have
been using Mandrake exclusively for a year and a half now) I also got my
hands on a 850 MB drive in stuck it in a (now long gone) 486 that had
the same
When Xwindows starts everything is fine until I move my mouse. The screen
goes black. What can I do?
it gateway they refuse to give the specs on the display that will
work. "UnSatisfied Customer" But I got it Cheap. Any help would be
appreciated with how drakex could be configuring it .
Thanks Jason
I ordered it from CheapBytes, via www. Shipped to me no problem. Not for sale in
stores in canada, AFAIK. Mandrake lists only on-line resellers on the Mandrake www
site. You of course can download the distro from any number of mirrors.
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Does anybody knows
When I installed Linux for the first time I wiped out
my Windows
Partition. How do I re-install it under
Linux. I am using ver 6.1.
I want to be able to use both Windows Linux. My
Windows OS
was 95.
Thanks,
Jason
I am trying to install Mandrake 7.2 from a network install. I installed 7.1
before with no problem through my cable modem.
I get to the installing packages and it goes on to install, but sometime
later I get a error window popup saying "An error occurred. Died".
What can I do? I tried several
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Hi:
I am having a problem installing 7.2 from the network. It starts to install
packages but I get an error after some time saying: "An error occurred.
Died."
I installed 7.1 this way with no problem. I tried this several times and I
get the same thing error.
Can anybody help?
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Does anyone know if it is posible to install the
korn shell in Linux Mandrake? If so where can I find a download and how can I
install it.I appreciate any any helpyou can provide.
Thank-you.
hi there...
type gcc -o run prog1.c
run is your executable file and prog1.c is your source file
you can use the option -c to compile for object file
hope it's help
jason
"Jacobo Espino" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I try to do 3 diferents programs in gcc, the which most t
a boot disk for installation process.
?? I am I right here? Is there any documentation on how to do this?
Thanks
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Here is an interesting one. Whenever I try to change the colour scheme of my
windows in KDE, I run into an unusual problem. The Window titlebar changes
colour, but the font always remains black. The panel changes, but the taskbar
doesn't. The file manager background changes, but in every
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, you wrote:
As a fairly competent Windows user, what is the best method of learning
Linux? Is it to just learn about performing tasks as they occur, (ie
unzipping and installing programs etc) or to go through a book like
"Linux for Dummies" for example chapter by chapter?
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote:
I'm running a dual boot system, Win 98SE, and Mandrake 7.1 with grub as
my boot loader. Now I need to reinstall windows, and I know that it will
overwrite the MBR which will kill grub. What do I need to do to be able
to reinstall grub afterwords?
Mike
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On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Im having problems getting my Microsoft Intellimouse 3 button wheel mouse to
work with Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe. The 3rd button will not work at all.
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On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote:
I just checked on my install of 7.0 to double boot with Win98 and found
that the installation detected my 128M of ram. Why would it work on my
machine when I read that so many others must do the append mem= thing to
get their RAM recognized? Not complaining,
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you wrote:
look i apologize now can we drop this bs
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I second that notion, this got way out of hand. Let it go.
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"Every man dies, not every man really lives."
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On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, you wrote:
someone was acting clueless about something i asked, i was sarcastic he got
pissed insulted me and well it went down hill from there
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I have the same sarcasm problem, but in the future, you need to note the
sarcasm for people in the message, remember it is
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Jason Ashman wrote:
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, you wrote:
my laptop says designed foe windows 98, well i run linux on it too i just
have a couple bugs no drivers for modem (its not a win modem windows had no
clue what it was till i got drivers
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, you wrote:
In a message dated 07-Sep-00 00:41:35 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
my laptop says designed foe windows 98, well i run linux on it too i
just
have a couple bugs no drivers for modem (its not a win modem windows had
no
clue
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Is there a way to run ".exe" files in linux?
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On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Can somebody explain the difference in .i386 and .i586 designation in rpms
Sometimes you have a choice and I'm not sure but I think that this is
referring to processor class. I have a AMD K-6 II 400 and I think the .i586
is ok for that processor? Somebody
: Jason Ashman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Video Card
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Anybody have any suggestions for a good Video card. I am running 7.1.
Thanks,
Chris Kelly
Registered Linux user
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Another very simple request! In windoze, there is an option
"Start-Programs-MSDos prompt". What's the equivalent in Linux if I boot
up with the KDE Desktop?
Thanks
Gordon
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There is a little screen on the panel called Terminal, that is the "command
Hello, How can you rmdir a directory that isn't empty? Or is there
another command to do this? I have a directory with _many_ subdirectories,
and need to delete it. Going through and manually emptying and rmdiring
each would take ages.
Thanks in advance, Jason Pierce
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