I have Mandrake 7.0 installed and have to use a boot disk. Lilo stops with
"LI". I ran fdisk and it shows /dev/hda3 to be the bootable partition, but
/boot is on /dev/hda1. Can someone tell me how to flag hda1 as bootable
without messing up my installation?
--
Kenneth Archer + San Antonio,
basculeI suppose you could start it up from a konsole
window (I think that's what you meant by an xterm window) but
I don't (it doesn't seem like a ver clean way to do it)do it
that way. Myself, I do a ctl-alt f2 from my original desktop,
login at the console and then execute startx -- :1
Mage Grimau wrote:
The version I got from the XMMS home page only has CD Audio Player 0.9 and
the configure option is just a place to select CD drive point and which sound
driver to use. Where would I get the right version of the plugin?
Download the version from cooker .
--- Larry
I don't know how to fix your problem, but I do know that it ISN'T the
bootable flag. My bootable partition is hda3, which is Win98 (was, actually -
Win98 corrupted itself and I haven't bothered to fix it). My /boot is hda5,
which is NOT flagged bootable.
The one time I had your problem, I just
It must be connected to the Newbie list - I'm only on expert and cooker and I
don't see it.
--- Glenn Crouch - ESB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oops - I do see the problem now the repeated msgs are often a dozen or so
msgs apart and I was scanning rather than reading closely - my apologies -
and
Juhis,
Presume your printer is connected to the printer port, use DrakX to
configure the printer. BUT, is your printer supported in linux ? Check it
out in http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO-21.html and
ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/aladdin.
Good luck.
At 06-05-2000 02:27 PM, you
Curious - I'm subscribed to both but am only getting single copies...
Glenn Crouch mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:36017076
ESB Consultancy, http://www.esbconsult.com.au
Home of ESBPCS, ESBStats, ESBPDF Analysis ESBCalc
Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia
(TeamND, TeamOE, Addict Support,
Oops - I do see the problem now the repeated msgs are often a dozen or so
msgs apart and I was scanning rather than reading closely - my apologies -
and yes this is a pain :(
-Original Message-
From: Glenn Crouch - ESB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, 7 May 2000 2:43 pm
To:
Whilst having used computers and developed software for almost 25 year, LM7
is my first serious "play" with Linux.
We use a Microsoft Back Office Small Business Server (which we are very
happy with) - and I am will mainly be using Linux for development. I can
ping 10.0.0.2 (SBS Server)
At 06:39 AM 5/7/00 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 22:36 -0400, Steve Philp wrote:
ATTENTION MANDRAKE STAFF:
It's been expressed on these lists a couple times now, but noone from
Mandrake has deemed it necessary to respond or fix the problem.
It would appear that
Kenthe asterisk in the boot column of the p option of
fdisk really has no importance in Linux. The first line of
the /etc/lilo.conf file controls where lilo gets installed
(the below example shows lilo installed on the mbr):
boot=/dev/hda
if a number follows the a, like below:
Billwow, thanks! I was totally unaware of any support for
it because mine's a usb and there's been no Linux USB support
(unless you want to mess around with a development kernal)
till very recently and nothing yet for anything other than
mice and keyboards. So I never really looked.
Alan
Kenthe asterisk in the boot column of the p option of
fdisk really has no importance in Linux. The first line of
the /etc/lilo.conf file controls where lilo gets installed
(the below example shows lilo installed on the mbr):
boot=/dev/hda
if a number follows the a, like below:
Piero wrote:
See my mail "Coordinating address books2, where I ask the same question and
give a (ugly) solution.
Or use Netscape's solution at:
http://help.netscape.com/kb/consumer/19990926-7.html
May you live long and spamless,
Andreas Bergstrøm
--
HTTP://www.thespambuster.net/
Fight
Wayne Petherick wrote:
Howdy all,
I have read all of the mutt and pine how to's and man pages that exist and
still cannot get either to work. I appear to have my fetchmail set up properly
in that it downloads my mail fine, but I do not know where to!!! I am guessing
that where it
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Wayne Petherick wrote:
Howdy all,
I have read all of the mutt and pine how to's and man pages that exist and
still cannot get either to work. I appear to have my fetchmail set up properly
in that it downloads my mail fine, but I do not know where to!!! I am guessing
Thank you, Ron, this is a clear answer and a clean solution.
On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote:
Piero wrote:
All the files in the Windows partition belong to root and have mode: rwxr--r--.
When I work under Linux I work under username piero.
No, all the files in mounted FAT partitions
On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote:
Piero wrote:
See my mail "Coordinating address books2, where I ask the same question and
give a (ugly) solution.
Or use Netscape's solution at:
http://help.netscape.com/kb/consumer/19990926-7.html
Yes, Andreas, thank you.But then, when you consult your
I don't have the "initrd=/boot/initrd.img" line in lilo.conf that was written
on the original install. I also can't find a initrd.img file with locate.
On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote:
Also there are a series of lines indicating where files
necessary to the boot process may be founnd in the
I have installed and uninstalled and removed directories for festival
(after removing what files/
directories it didn't remove), then reinstalled festival with the 8bit
rabl instead of the 16bit rabl.
And I still get the same problem...it suggests relinking several objects
it says are wrong size!
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 10:17:25PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:
- I've written a perl program to handle my tape backups and it isn't quite
- working the way I want it to. I tried a program called flexbackup and
- that didn't work the way I wanted it to either.
-
- Can anyone suggest a good tape
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 04:20:45PM -0700, AG wrote:
- Just select +DIR from the playlist buttons and select the mount point of your
- CD as the directory.
That didn't work for me. I tried mounting the CD, but it didn't like the
default file system. How do I specify the file system at mount time?
On Sun, 07 May 2000, Ken Archer wrote:
| I don't have the "initrd=/boot/initrd.img" line in lilo.conf that was written
| on the original install. I also can't find a initrd.img file with locate.
|
Not everyone has/needs an initrd. Generally, it is used to load modules that
the kernel needs
Maybe I am late to this mail thread but if your purpose is to have the same
Netscape address book file available for use in both OS,s, why not just copy the
file from one system to another? The file, "pab.na2" can be copied very easily each
time you update it. But, as I said, I may be missing
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote:
Okay I finally got things functional, I got the latest
sndconfig from Mandrake and it recognized the PCI512
card as a SB Live! card and had a bunch of errors. I
didn't think it worked but all the little click pops
and bangs are now working. It will play MP3's
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote:
No, you don't. You onlu need a sound card to play audio CD's via your
computer - and that, only if you don't have a headphones jack on the
drive.
Matt: The question that Sridhar had was not about PLAYING
CDs, rather about BURNING audio cds. :-)
John
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote:
i have read that it is possible to have more than one X session open (on
different consoles) but when i switch to ctrl-alt-2 for example, and
login and then run startx i get an error message
FAQ. Please go read the archives.
Thanks...
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote:
Sorry to ask such a silly question, but how can I get XMMS to play CDs?
In Windows, you drag-n-drop E:\Track05.cda to the window, and it starts
playing, but there's no Linux/UNIX equivalent.
I right-clicked everwhere, but I must have something wrong.
On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote:
I don't know how to fix your problem, but I do know that it ISN'T the
bootable flag. My bootable partition is hda3, which is Win98 (was, actually -
Win98 corrupted itself and I haven't bothered to fix it). My /boot is hda5,
which is NOT flagged bootable.
The
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote:
I have Mandrake 7.0 installed and have to use a boot disk. Lilo stops with
"LI". I ran fdisk and it shows /dev/hda3 to be the bootable partition, but
/boot is on /dev/hda1. Can someone tell me how to flag hda1 as bootable
without messing up my installation?
On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote:
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 04:20:45PM -0700, AG wrote:
- Just select +DIR from the playlist buttons and select the mount point of your
- CD as the directory.
That didn't work for me. I tried mounting the CD, but it didn't like the
default file system. How do I
You can't mount an audio CD, so that's not a problem. Here's the
series of steps I take to use XMMS with CDs. Hope it's easy to follow:
Open Playlist, and say "New List" to clear out anything that might be
in the way.
Choose Dir + (add Directory), then move to the /mnt/cdrom and hit OK.
Up
How can I erase postfix without damaging fetchmail and procmail?
I want to switch to sendmail, and when I tried rpm -e postfix, I got a
dependence error saying procmail and fetchmail needs it.
--
Best Regards, Bruce
Hi Bruce!
On Sun, 07 May 2000, Bruce E. Harris wrote:
| How can I erase postfix without damaging fetchmail and procmail?
|
| I want to switch to sendmail, and when I tried rpm -e postfix, I got a
| dependence error saying procmail and fetchmail needs it.
|
They don't actually need postfix,
ams wrote:
Prueba ecribiendo esto cuando arranca:
boot: linux cdrom
Ok, I've figured out what this says, now I'm just wondering who it's to?
Mike
--
==
Michael Holt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kirkland, WA
==
The Penguins are coming!!!
I've heard there's a download of Quake available for Linux and I would
like to try it out - could someone point me to where to find it
(hopefully RPMS) and let me know what to copy? I've never played it
before but it looks cool.
--
==
Michael Holt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
p.s. Will someone please answer my question about Star
Office corrupting X
windows? I really want to know if I stand a chance of
succeeding this time
before investing several more hours on this.
I installed Star Office from LM7 Powerpack without any problems...
Glenn Crouch
"Jonathan S." wrote:
Hello,
I have 164megs of memory, I have read alot of the post regarding the
append line to put in lilo and I have done this. However Mandrake 7.0
still only sees 64megs of my memory, According to the memory information
diags in linux. Can Someone Please show
You've probably overwritten the drive parameter block on your hard drive.
You'll need a disk utility which will fix it... such as OnTrack Disk
Manager.
The BIOS reads the DPB at boot to grab configuration information from the
new "Biosless" drives...
-JMS
-Original Message-
From:
Gustavo Halperin wrote:
Hello
I have several internet user-name accounts. When I use one of which
to connect
as root or as a normal user every thing is OK, in another account ,when
I try connectting
to the Internet as root every thing is OK, but if I try logging in as a
normal
Jonathanyou can only have one append line per boot image.
The line is placed where it should be by default and if there
is nothing to append than it looks like this:
append = ""
you can then add, in between the ""'s, any appends needed for
your setup, multiple appends are seperated by a
DOH! I feel like a total JAckass.
Found my problem.
Interface between the keyboard and the mouse.
ie: ME!
nuff said...
Thanks anyway
-Aaron
John Aldrich wrote:
On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote:
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 04:20:45PM -0700, AG wrote:
- Just select +DIR from the playlist buttons and select the mount point of your
- CD as the directory.
That didn't work for me. I tried mounting the CD, but it didn't like the
In XMMS go to preferences, Audio I/O, and enable Audio CD Player. Then press OK
and go to the open file dialog (or the playlist dialog if you prefer), and look
into /mnt/cdrom, where you'll see the audio tracks.
Asheesh Laroia, escribió:
Sorry to ask such a silly question, but how can I get
I have a TEAC CDRW. I tried burning an audioi CD with xcdroast on a CDRW
disk. The copy works fine on my computer cdrom drive, but when I try to play
it thro' an audi system the CD is not recognized. Is there any parametrs to
set while recording. Or should I use a plain CDR disk to copy the CD?
You could do this by choosing the expert:server options during install,
and go into the 'Install Packages screen', deselect all the things you
don't want / need, then go into the 'Select Individual pacakges ' screen
and clean out some more, but make sure to select the dns server (bind)
packages
Check out Nedit, the Nirvanha Editor. It is supposed to be designed to
be familiar to Windows/Mac users, and is far more powerful than KWrite
(but so is Xemacs, and gvim, if you have the time to invest in learning
them) Alternatives include gEdit, GXedit, etc.
Monte
bascule wrote:
what is
Due to differences in the basic composition of CD-R and CD-RW disks, a
CD-RW will not register in a standard CD player, nor in many CD-ROM
drives. You'll need to burn it to a CD-R to use it outside your
computer.
BTW, when I first do something different with CD burning, I always burn
a CDRW to
Fernando Camacho Olmos wrote:
alguien tiene una idea de porque se atora netscape con las paginas que
contienen algo de java.
Which version of Netscape are you using? I haven't noticed much trouble
with java. I'm not that experienced with it, but I'm using some java on
my own web page and
Drake X wrote:
When I click on the floppy drive icon on the desktop, Mandrake mounts the
floppy ok, but then when I put in a different floppy disk I can't find any
way to update it's contents in Mandrake. I tried everything in the menus
that looked like "refresh" (as in the Windows
Yuri K wrote:
Steven Mileham wrote:
go to http://www.linuxdocs.org
I'm unable to get to that address, are you sure that's the one?
Thanks, Mike
use singular: linuxdoc.org
best, Yuri
Vancouver, WA
That did it! Thanks, Mike
--
Thanks to all who replied, and the direct correspondence I recieved by way of
help. All comments/corrections were appreciated.
I have a 20gb hard drive to set up to dual-boot with Windows 98SE and Linux.
Currently only Windows 98 is on it.
People sent me many different opinions as to how to
yes, i have used text editor but as my post described, this doesn't show
all the info. my example was my datebook.pdb file created after a
hotsync from my pilot, in win98 i could see that all two years stuff was
in there but in kde the same file only displayed a tiny proportion of
the same info
perhaps you are confusing advice (often seen in this list) to have a
/boot partition which need only be very small -20mb i think but an
expert will have a better idea of ideal size,
a seperate /usr partion will keep / down, but unless on a seperate drive
total space used remains the same,
newbie
bascule wrote:
perhaps you are confusing advice (often seen in this list) to have a
/boot partition which need only be very small -20mb i think but an
expert will have a better idea of ideal size,
a seperate /usr partion will keep / down, but unless on a seperate drive
total space used
I thought Quake III had a seperate Linux port done by Loki. I was under
the impression the Windows and Linux versions were sold seperatly. Check
www.lokigames.com. Unreal Tournament has downloadable Linux binaries.
Richard
On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote:
I would be very interested in running
Steven Mileham wrote:
go to http://www.linuxdocs.org
they have a Quake how-to that I followed and everything went great, it tells
you where to download everything from and how to set it up.
I'm unable to get to that address, are you sure that's the one?
Thanks, Mike
--
Heh, my dual PIII 450 does a block in 8 hours...
-JMS
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Message-
From: John Grace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 2:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] A Dual CPU Computer
I'm currently using a dual setup running Mandrake
I know the guru's already know the "Love Bug" copycat has been ported to
Linux, so this isn't for you.
The new versions are called "Jokes" and "Mother's Day Order
Confirmation." The bad news for Linux users is if you read your mail in
/root and NOT as /user - you are vunerable. Nuff said.
Pj
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