[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
take me of the lsit
Sure thing, man.
andy wrote:
How come when you are in Linux, you can see your Windows partition, but not
the other way around??
Andy
I'm sure other people have answered this by now, but I can't resist:
That is because Microsoft supports only its *own* filesystems, whereas
Linux supports many filesystems
Bob Schmidt wrote:
Hi All,
I hope you can help me out. i just installed mandrake 7.0 on my Dell inspirion
3700. Everything works fine, I really like this os. Except I have one
problem, when ever I shut down the computer. When it comes to unmounting the
drives, I get this error
Emanuele La Rosa wrote:
Maybe you are right but it crashes too many times and it has some bugs.
I decided to write my thesis with Staroffice and sill I'm doing it, but now I'm
quite sure that I've made a big mistake
*chuckles*
Hmn.
I haven't had this problem, at least not yet - still, I'm
"Pittman, Merle" wrote:
YOU ARROGANT P---k!!
So a few math and physics courses (probably from mail order, or your nearest
community college) make you all that. I have 2 advanced degrees in
engineering (electronics and computers) yet I think myself no better or
smarter than anyone on
Valjean wrote:
This is really frustrating meall I want to do is telnet into my
machine running Mandrake 7.0..when I installed it the first time, I
could do it. Every install since then I have not not been able to. I
have installed the telnet server package from the second cd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This sounds like a pcanywhere type interface threw telnet
between Linux and windows98. Is that right?
Sort of.
A quick review of the X standard. We often think of X as the "gui" for
Unix, and while that's certainly part of what it does, X is essentially
a terminal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I have a Us Robotics modem and and have installed Mandrake 7 successfully.
But the new hardware detector does find the modem but when I get into the
KDE and try kppp or linuxconfig I get nothing . I have 4 serial ports 1 of
which has a mouse attached one of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've asked about this before, and haven't heard anything - How do you
access/map/mount NT lan drives when you're running Linux on an NT lan?
You need to learn how to use Samba.
There is a good how-to at
www.linuxdoc.org
You can also find man pages and
Valjean wrote:
Ok, when I try to telnet to my computer from another machine, even in
the same domain, I get
Trying x.x.x.x...(my ip address)
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
Can you telnet from the local host? It has to work from the local host
first.
the
n over to the expert list.
My $0.02 worth.
Jaguar
"Stephen F. Bosch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Chaikelson wrote:
If I'm interpreting what you said correctly ...
First set up the linux gateway to receive its Internet connection
(from
campus) on
Vic wrote:
AHHH CRAP sorry about that wrong damn button again!!!
Still, the result was quite entertaining *lol*
-Stephen-
Deborah Massey wrote:
Please take me off the newbie list at this time
Right away, ma'am.
-Stephen-
Mohamed Saad wrote:
Hello everyone...
I think i have messed up my Linux installation!! :) I
have pressed reset about 3 times while linux was
running!!! :) (btw, how dangerous is it to press
"reset" while linux is running??)
About twenty times more dangerous than it is in Windows.
Thomas Cattigan wrote:
Hello,
I have been trying to set up my telnet connection. I can ping my
hostname and localhost. However, when I try to telnet, using telnet
localhost, I get the following message:
connection closed by foreign host
1. Is telnetd installed?
2. Is the line
Thomas Cattigan wrote:
Hello,
Thank you very much for your mail. The problem that I am having is that there
does not seem to be any good information on setting up your network on
mandrake. I am thinking of going back to RedHat.
You were right I did not have the telnet server
Dreja Julag wrote:
For a newbie: What is the most correct way to shutdown and restart
linux?
I often use a hammer.
-Stephen-
Dreja Julag wrote:
For a newbie: What is the most correct way to shutdown and restart
linux?
Linux must NEVER be shut down!
ALWAYS UP! ALWAYS UP!
-Stephen-
Dreja Julag wrote:
I plan on networking two computers, one Win95 and the other Linux.
What is the easiest way to network these two and share the internet
connection?
No way is particularly easy.
Try having a look at this page
http://www.nic.com/~cannon/Linux/index
I am going to
Rich wrote:
I also downloaded and installed mozilla 15 today... Is there any way to
start it without typing the command in the console? It keeps the console
open that way...
Fork you.
Sorry.
Fork IT.
$ mozilla
Now you can safely close the console.
The more sensible approach is to
Mark Chaikelson wrote:
If I'm interpreting what you said correctly ...
First set up the linux gateway to receive its Internet connection (from campus) on
eth0. Once you've tested that and ensured that your Internet connection is working
on the Linux gateway, then set up eth1 to be some
philomena wrote:
I've been following some of the firewall posts and have read some How-tos,
but there is something I'm not clear on. I don't have a network at home,
just a single PC, but its connected via DSL, so its always on and has a
static IP. Is this setup open to attack ?
There is a
Mohamed Saad wrote:
I heard things about Linux like "Rock Solid" and
so...
It is -- when properly configured.
What i noted is that Mandrake 7.0 crashes just like
Windows!!! Yes... Its crashes are much less than
Windows! but.. It crashes!!! It crashed about 4 times
this week!! (windows
andy barnes wrote:
Mohamed Saad wrote:
Hello everyone...
I have installed Mandrake 7.0 a week ago...
I just have a small question..
I heard things about Linux like "Rock Solid" and
so...
What i noted is that Mandrake 7.0 crashes just like
Windows!!! Yes... Its crashes are
Leanne Leith wrote:
Okay, I successfully gunzipped some tar.gz files, now I can't access the sub-folders
in them. I tried to use tar -zvf without luck, and tar -z all sorts of other
combinations. what am I doing wront?
I thought you couldn't boot.
?
-Stephen-
Never mind -- I found the original e-mail
Would the person who asked for my help with the DOS filesystems please
send me another e-mail? I've had a look at your "query" file and I have
some answers for you.
-Stephen-
Muhammad Hanif Bay wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'd like to know, if there are any, ways to convert my
linux-partitioned hdd(ext2) into fat32 ???
Please, help medanke sehr.
Why in heaven's name would you want to do this?
(If you'll pardon my incredulity)
-Stephen-
andy wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Stephen F. Bosch Savage, indeed.
When it does this, can you see glimpses of the above text between
flashes?
No , just a completely black, blank screen. What did all that stuff tell
you, Stephen?
It *looks* like X is starting normally
evan light wrote:
Hi there...having a bit of a problem with shutting down 7.0. When I
issue the "shutdown now" command, everything seems fine and dandy until
it switches into "single-user" mode.
That doesn't at all fine and dandy to me. It shouldn't be going into
single user mode, it
Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Stephen F. Bosch wrote:
Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
before. Any ideas? Also, from console, what the hell is the shutdown
command??
"reboot" or "halt"
reboot will reboot the machine =)
really?? :-)
paul haine wrote:
Just go to the place that you 'suscribed' from and repeat what you did to
'suscribe' except this time click the 'unsuscribe' button instead. Good
grief, it's not exactly hard-core physics.
Nor rocket surgery.
-Stephen-
andy barnes wrote:
Stephen Bosch..Thank you VERY MUCH :-)))
Well, congrats =)
As I'm posting this from a Linux session, I am one step closer!! The
mistake I was making was where I was putting the DNS settings (DOH!!!).
I'll get onto the X problem soon...
But while I'm here..
There
Jim Adams wrote:
I followefd the instructions from the Mandrake Users web page for setting up an
rc.masq script that is triggered from rc.local at boot time.
The rc.masq looks like this:
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.masq ]; then
/etc/rc.d/rc.masq
fi
This is what was added to the rc.local
"Matt G. Ellis" wrote:
No. OS/2 is not a Linux clone, infact it was co-developed by micrsoft (for
a short while) as the Windows/DOS killer.
In fact (gasp) a significant portion of Windows 95 code came out of OS/2
-- something made possible by Microsoft and IBMs parting agreement when
the
KOH SK wrote:
Dear sir,
Sorry to trouble you,
I have install Linux Mandrake 7.0 and i found the
mouse point display as a square 2cm x 2cm at 1024 X
786
can you pls tell me how to make the point to arrow
pointer.
Are you using an S3 video card?
-Stephen-
Hi, Emmette:
Emmette Hutchison wrote:
I have been attempting to run services such as ftpd and sshd on my
system and have had no luck with it at all. The daemons are enabled,
running and the correct ports are open, but whenever I attempt to connect
to them I recieve "Connection closed by
Emmette Hutchison wrote:
I only have telnet commented in /etc/inetd. ftpd is fine as far as
/etc/inetd.conf. Is sshd supposed to have an entry in this file as well?
I'm not sure, as I've never implemented ssh.
What does your /etc/inetd.conf look like, and what ftp client are you
using?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a generic video card, called '3D Excel - VC962-3D' with an S3 Virge
chipset - the documentation says it uses the S3d 64-bit engine - It has 2MB
VRAM, and in Windo$e it is capable of 1024x768 w/16-bit color - When I try to
config X, the only resolution that
David Walters wrote:
Hi,
I'm building my first Linux webserver and I'm having terrible
trouble with ftp. When I ftp to the machine, I log in as a valid user and it
seems to hang for about a minute, and then I get "connection closed by
remote host". If I log in as an invalid user, I
"Pittman, Merle" wrote:
This may be a little off topic, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
I have been given an AMD K62 333MHz and MB by a friend. Has anyone had any
problems with these CPU's.
I have heard rumors about them overheating and having problems (especially
with win98). can
Jon wrote:
at lilo do
linux vga=ask
Does this let you change the screen resolution in the console? I'd like
to try some of the funkier character console resolutions =)
-Stephen-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
subscribe newbie
Finally -- somebody who is trying to SUBSCRIBE to the list =)
-Stephen-
andy wrote:
OK..
I'm not at the PC with Linux on right now, but this is my hardware list as I
can remember it.
Processor-AMD K6 2 450mhz
Ram- 128 meg PC100
Graphics Card-S3 Savage 8mb (Under the name 'Sparkle')
This could be important.
Linux will recognise all of these components,
David Walters wrote:
Stephen,
I have no problems accessing the partitions locally, as for vfat, all I did
was throw in the Mandrake cd and let it install (the disk was previously
unpartitioned). The reverse DNS seems to be OK (tried to do an nslookup back
to my machine which worked and I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello.
A friend of mine told me that it possible to set up a linux machine as
file server for DOS / Win98 / WinNT using a network Card.
Will it be easy to setup or will it need intense study of manual(s) ?
Permissions or Access control not be required, just a
Hendrik Martin wrote:
What should the default gateway be? (with kppp)
And the other settings?
That depends on your ISP -- your ISP normally gives you default gateway
information.
-Stephen-
"Arciniega, Ezio" wrote:
Who has the link to remove me from this mailing list?
This is really starting to get on my nerves... every link I found to remove
me has not worked.
I know what will work - if I start acting up and cursing... such horror.
So, if someone would like to spare me
David C Colvin wrote:
Some questions, maybe you folks can help:
1. The crossover question I asked earlier...any idea?
I asked earlier if you could repeat the question =)
-Stephen-
Mike Perry wrote:
I in fact tried this, and it was quiet amuseing, I connected with one modem,
dialed the other, started to logon with the other and it connected and threw
the 1st one out which tried to reconnect, connected and threw the 2nd one
out
and so forth and so on :-)...
Also I
Jaguar wrote:
After having "script-kiddies" try to "DNS Malformed", Trojan Scanning, and
many other attcks on my static IP, I captured the attempts with trace-route,
and the BlackICE Defender log files, and sent them to @Home Abuse. They
replied that they are __NOT__, I repeat _NOT_
andy wrote:
I
connected to Freeserve no problem, but when I opened Netscape, All I get is
an 'Unable to connect to server' message..
Any ideas what I've done wrong? I couldn't work out how to put in a DNS
address, as the box was just greyed out..don't know if that would make a
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, paul haine mewed:
OK..I didn't expect an easy ride..but I thought I'd have enough
PC savvy to
get through this..
Linux is driving me crazy!!
snip
I want to make it work..but it is becoming a pain in the ass!!
Sorry, I just had to shout at
Valjean wrote:
Some questions, maybe you folks can help:
1. The crossover question I asked earlier...any idea?
Can you repeat the question?
-Stephen-
Jon wrote:
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote:
*laughs*
What motherboard do you have again? You're running an AMD K6/2 -- I'm
already suspicious (speaking from experience).
Something is *definitely* wrong with your hardware if Linux is wobbly
and Win98 is stable.
-Stephen-
"Andrew Doe (Web master)" wrote:
linuxfaqs has been redesigned due to complaints and errors you should
now find this site offers everything you could ever want just go to
www.linuxfaqs.org.uk
I want a better paying job.
-Stephen-
Hi, Ed:
Ed Tharp wrote:
ok now after this latest install, my sound, network and video all are
connected and working, but now when I dial out with Kppp, I get this
message.
Apr 5 13:33:48 etharp pppd[1187]: The remote system is required to
authenticate itself but I
Apr 5 13:33:48
"Austwick, Mark" wrote:
Installed Mandrake 7.0, no problems, sound, network, etc works fine. The
only problem I have is that my modem is not recognised, Lothar cannot see
it, neither can the PCMCIA set up in KDE, which can see the network card.
Can anyone suggest how to get it working ?
Roger Bird wrote:
I tried to do an "at" command but the only response I get is "Garbled time".
I think trying to delete an "at" job, I screwed something up.
*chuckles*
That's what at says when you don't enter the time correctly =) (or
forget to enter the time)
Check the man pages for
"Pittman, Merle" wrote:
yeah it does, I'd say you have a problem not being able to play the avi
That url don't work
No, the domain name wouldn't resolve, but it's working now.
-Stephen-
"Pittman, Merle" wrote:
Send everyone on this list $10.
Exactly -- you can find the mailing list rules which require this at
ftp.fremjam.fr/pub/liztz/rulez.txt.
Read the rulez!
-Stephen-
Dean Gentry wrote:
I went from susie to mandrake and it was hell. I lost everything and
started over. Once i started over everything went fine, but all of may data
was lost. Upgrading was impossible for me. Personally, I don't think you
will find much of a solution here.
And it's all
Dean Gentry wrote:
I went from susie to mandrake and it was hell. I lost everything and
started over. Once i started over everything went fine, but all of may data
was lost. Upgrading was impossible for me. Personally, I don't think you
will find much of a solution here.
I should note
Here is a general message for the newbies out there who are lost and
confused.
Linux is NOT Windows. Linux is Unix. Unix is relies heavily on command
line instruction. Remember DOS? It's time to get used to that again.
Let me suggest a *VERY* good book which will:
Tell you what Unix is
Tell
Marco Antonio Silva Picanco wrote:
I can't get portuguese accents when I use the us-international keyboard and the
staroffice.
At the console and other KDE applications is ok, but with staroffice i can not
get the ccedilla and the tilde.
Could some one help me ??
I had the same
Vic wrote:
I wonder what purpose it serves?
Well, as I mentioned in a previous post, I think it is so that
applications relying on reverse lookup will work properly.
-Stephen-
Vic wrote:
I need serious help here, I tried to install ProFtp because I
thought it was "sooo neat" and NOW--
I can't even do ftp at all!!
Can you be more specific?
Please -- post error output, so that people can actually help you.
-Stephen-
Vic wrote:
Curse ProFtp and all it stands for it just screws up youtr
system and now I can't do ftp at all it keeps saying
connection refused
I hate ftp I wish I never heard of it
I quit stupid ftp dammit ftp can roll over and die
I see you read the Cursing How-To. My experience,
Gabriel NotListed wrote:
I just signed up for the list (never used Linux before...), but I had a
similar problem with my US Robotics 56k. The problem was I had the modem
configured for PnP under Win98 - I reset the jumpers from PnP to Com2 IRQ3
and I got it working.
Perhaps it's similar
wolfen999 wrote:
looking to get icq but not sure which is the best out there Kicq Klicq or
Kxicq any suggestions?
I am using Licq:
www.licq.org
-Stephen-
Manolis Tzanidakis wrote:
append = "mem128M"
The kernel looks at this and says "huh?"
You want to use:
append = "mem=128M"
then lilo -v and you're off to the races.
Good luck,
Stephen
Vic wrote:
The error was made of uninstalling "wu-ftpd"
to replace it with "ProFTPd" and as a result
I have no functional ftp server, the response
was "connection refused".
I hesitate to blame Proftpd. This is a config issue.
Then Proftpd was uninstalled and
an attempt was made to
Dan Ferris wrote:
Try Igloo FTP, it works GREAT. But is not free, you have to pay
like 15 bucks. Well worth it.
http://www.littleigloo.com
That URL is dead (at least to me).
Dan
Or gftp, or ftp, or nftp, or dpsftp, and on and on and on :-)
Proftpd and wuftpd are ftp servers -- the
Vic wrote:
Name: inetd.conf
inetd.confType: Plain Text (text/plain)
Encoding: base64
That wasn't your inetd.conf -- unless your inetd.conf has only one line, in
which case it won't be just your ftp that's
Vic wrote:
A buddie of mine help me fix
ftp server.
Is fully functional now.
So -- tell us what you did...
-Stephen-
Hi, Some Guy:
What devices do you have connected to the port?
-Stephen-
Some Guy With a Computer wrote:
How come Mandrake won't detect my parallel ports? I've already turned
off my BIOS function "Is PnP OS installed", but I don't know what to do
next.
kerroppa kerokero wrote:
It went fine until it asked
for creating a boot disk. I tied to create a boot
disk but got an error message everytime I attempt to
create one.
ARGH again --
I'll just guess, okay? It's because of the position of the planetary
alignment, that's why it doesn't work.
KompuKit wrote:
already helped him fix it...thanks anyways
It would be nice to know what you did to fix it...
-Stephen-
Okay, my turn to ask questions:
I am setting up a machine for someone else who will only have dialup
access to the internet. I have managed to configure the modem without
any trouble; kppp can dial in, connect, and authenticate, and I can even
surf and ping and all that good stuff.
Here's the
Altern8 wrote:
Hi folks,
I have install MDK7.0 using linux4win and everything works just perfect. My
box has 192mb of memory, but mdk only tells me that I have 64mb. I went
into /etc/lilo.conf (which I made as there was no file) and edited it with
-- append="mem192m" But it did not, still
Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
Do I have the wrong settings? Here they are:
Recorder device: /dev/sr0
SCSI ID: 0,0
Taking a look into /var/log/messages you can see:
Apr 4 08:38:22 thor kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3,
lun 0
Apr 4 08:38:22 thor
Jaguar wrote:
If Windows sucks @$$! so badly...why would you WANT to put is back
on
You and quite a few others are hypocrites...saying Windoze sucks, ad nauseum,
yet wanting to dual boot. Make up your minds..either it sucks and you want
NOTHING to do with it...or quit
Michael Holt wrote:
So start up your own company - call it 'Stephenscape' - develop your
own graphic browser to work under all the different protocols out
there, and we'll all switch over to that!;-D
Mike
The code is on my whiteboards.
-Stephen-
Vic wrote:
Anyone here know of a Linux client for Napster?
There's Jnap, a pure Java Napster client. You need to have the JDK 1.2.2
installed first, though.
Relevant URLs:
Jnap:
http://www.perham.net/mike/jnap/
JDK 1.2.2
http://www.blackdown.org/
Voilà. I have this running, and it works
Vic wrote:
I hear you brother, the ps viewer in here just stinks and
does not work thats all.
Not true. It works fine -- the reason you can't read those PDFs is that they
are made with a more recent version of Acrobat Distiller and are not 100%
true PostScript.
For PostScript files PS Viewer
Marriott Man wrote:
Hello again to all,
I've managed to install Acrobat4 from a tar file (installing from RPMs
are much simpler for the novice like me) but, alas, its giving a couple
of problems.
The program opens OK but on opening the reader.pdf file, which is
preinstalled,
A)the
andy wrote:
My modem is a hardware pci internal modem ( I believe it has a Rockwell
chipset). It runs NT4/Win2k whereas the old winmodem I had wouldn't. The
place I bought it from said it was ok with Linux (Hence me buying it), but
it isn't being recognised...All my other stuff has
Marriott Man wrote:
Greetings again,
Ive installed Star Office in MDK7 and I notice that everything seems to
go much slower in Linux than in Windoze. Slower opening up Star Office,
slower opening files, slower printing etc.Can I do anything to
speed things up?
I think there are some
mark willenbring wrote:
Stephen,
Thanks for all your input. All of us Newbies
appreciate it. People have to understand that Linux
is still very new and in its infancy but look how far
You're welcome -- I should note also that Acrobat is NOT open source =)
and this means that someone
"Arciniega, Ezio" wrote:
after typing 'startx' at the prompt I get these error messages:
execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2)
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process
Lawrence Koga wrote:
Hello, This is what happened. I installed Mandrake 7.0, running dual boot
with Win95. After the install of Mandrake 7.0, I boot with KDE. I can
boot and run KDE as XWindow. I can sign up as root, everything seems to
work. My cd-rom cannot be opened.
When I click
Mark Afforde wrote:
Hi,
I have repeatedly installed Mandrake 6.1 onto my
system with general success... choosing "customize,
server". I found that the "server" class install was
very limited in what it loaded. So I changed my
installation approach to "expert, normal" with much
greater
bryan pryor wrote:
does anybody know where i can find good info on WINE? i've read the Man
page and Info page, but i still can't figure out how to get it to work.
Have you been to www.winehq.com yet?
-Stephen-
Jon wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i couldnt get my mouse to work eithwer
/etc/vga/libvga.config
Exactly what has to be done with libvga.config to make the mouse work
properly?
My mouse mapping is totally screwed up in Quake2... I can only move
forward, to the left, and down, which
David Hester wrote:
Stephen,
I don't think the person who listed /etc/vga/libvga.config... read my
first post .. which stated. I had tried editing the libvga.config to
no avail.
Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
David
Okay... have you looked at the man pages for gpm?
"Arciniega, Ezio" wrote:
Physical box has two HDD
1st one is for Windows
2nd for Linux
This doesn't really help us.
I've attempted several installs and upgrades to get X to start after logging
in. I can ping and telnet so I'm working, but only at the command prompt.
So... if I forget
KompuKit wrote:
I can't do this...because I don't have a image called linux 3...
someone else suggested this kind of thing...but using linux 2 instead...
but when I tried to login using lnux 2...it said no such image...
also tried linux 3...with same replywhat else can be done?
I'm
"Congdon, Christopher" wrote:
I have an Intergraph TD-4 dual CPU Pentium 90 I've installed Mandrake 7.0
on.
The BIOS reports that the system has 96MB of RAM, however Mandrake only
reports 65MB... Help
This is still a memory addressing issue -- someone has posted a solution to
this
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 03/30/2000 9:42:46 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I detect my Window's drivers under Mandrake?
'A Slave To The Drive To Obsession-
A Spirit With A Vision, Is A Dream With
"Congdon, Christopher" wrote:
Try VNC (Virtual Network Computing)
It has several ports, including NT, 95/98, and Linux...
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
Wow! This thing is cool! Thanks for the tip =)
-Stephen-
"Congdon, Christopher" wrote:
I vaguely remember having seen this option in BIOS before, so I looked for
it.
This particular system does not have this option...
Where do I find lilo.conf and what do I put in it?
Okay, lilo.conf is in /etc
$ emacs /etc/lilo.conf
Give me a second to
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