Re: [expert] Mandrake in an ISP environment

2002-07-03 Thread Scott
Thanks to everyone who made great comments on the list and also to me directly. The BSD boxes are being retired, they are well past their prime and are struggling to keep up, so the new boxes will be running Linux. It does come down to what you are comfortable with in the long run. They all

Re: [expert] NVidia GeForce MX200 w/K7S5A Mdk8.2

2002-07-03 Thread kwan
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, civileme wrote: My box boots without framebuffer (different video card) and the setting I use in lilo.conf is vga=normal rather than vga=none. could help? James Thanks -- just checked this and I had vga=normal in the system (must have had some other setting in

Re: [expert] NFS Permissions on Mandrake 8.2

2002-07-03 Thread Kayne McGladrey
Hello, Didn't know about /var/lib/nfs/xtab, so it isn't what I expected. Only familliar with fstab. This xtab must have been automatically generated by something. $ cat /var/lib/nfs/xtab /home/kmcgladr/images

Re: [expert] Does mandrak support the FireWire technology to add storage units on the fly

2002-07-03 Thread Kevin
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 04:48 am, Roberto Armenteros wrote: Hi all... I was passed by ciruit city yesterday and saw a little kit using FireWire technology that would allow the addition of harddrives and cd roms on the fly. I know Mac and windows have support fot this. Does linux have

[expert] FooBar install, can't mount root from CDROM

2002-07-03 Thread Ken Thompson
Hi All, I'm trying to get 8.2 b4 to install on an Amptron *all in 1* board and it keeps getting a kernel panic mesage something to the effect of: Kernel panic, can't mount root fs at 1:03. The system locks at this point and needs a hard reset. Never seems to make it to the stage of locating the

Re: [expert] FooBar install, can't mount root from CDROM

2002-07-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 10:18:38 -0600 Ken Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to get 8.2 b4 to install on an Amptron *all in 1* board and it keeps getting a kernel panic mesage something to the effect of: Kernel panic, can't mount root fs at 1:03. The system locks at this point

Re: [expert] FooBar install, can't mount root from CDROM

2002-07-03 Thread et
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 12:21 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 10:18:38 -0600 Ken Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to get 8.2 b4 to install on an Amptron *all in 1* board and it keeps getting a kernel panic mesage something to the effect of: Kernel panic, can't

Re: [expert] Does mandrak support the FireWire technology to add storage units on the fly

2002-07-03 Thread Roberto Armenteros
Thansk kevin!!! --- Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 July 2002 04:48 am, Roberto Armenteros wrote: Hi all... I was passed by ciruit city yesterday and saw a little kit using FireWire technology that would allow the addition of harddrives and cd roms on the fly. I know

Re: [expert] GDM doesn't remember default/last desktop

2002-07-03 Thread K Montgomery
Well, shucks. :) - Kathy On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 22:35, J. Craig Woods wrote: Kathy you are the woman! And another satisfied customer returns to his keyboard. drjung Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Does mandrak support the FireWire technology to add storage units on the fly

2002-07-03 Thread Roberto Armenteros
Hi all... I was passed by ciruit city yesterday and saw a little kit using FireWire technology that would allow the addition of harddrives and cd roms on the fly. I know Mac and windows have support fot this. Does linux have support for this technology? In case it does, what procedure should I

[expert] Does mandrak support the FireWire technology to add storage units on the fly

2002-07-03 Thread Roberto Armenteros
Hi all... I was passed by ciruit city yesterday and saw a little kit using FireWire technology that would allow the addition of harddrives and cd roms on the fly. I know Mac and windows have support fot this. Does linux have support for this technology? In case it does, what procedure should I

Re: [expert] FooBar install, can't mount root from CDROM

2002-07-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 12:32:04 -0400 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: F1 at the splash screen and at the boot prompt enter linux mem=(total ram-video ram) If your vid is say 16mb then you need to enter linux mem=240M why would this be different between 8.1 and 8.2? MDK 8.1 installs

[expert] Miscellaneous 8.2 Terminal Hangs

2002-07-03 Thread Rob Gillen
I've tried to query all of you gurus before regarding various hangs on my system, but as far as I can tell, nobody has replied to my question. So, I'll give it a go again. I've read everything on the mailing list that was written in the last three months about system hangs and freezes with

Re: [expert] FooBar install, can't mount root from CDROM

2002-07-03 Thread et
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 01:27 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 12:32:04 -0400 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: F1 at the splash screen and at the boot prompt enter linux mem=(total ram-video ram) If your vid is say 16mb then you need to enter linux mem=240M why would this be

[expert] Configuring Mandrake for a multiheaded Sun (Ultra2) configuration

2002-07-03 Thread Roland Gabriel
I have just recently installed and configured my Sun Ultra2 with Mandrake 7.1 (great, easy install). The only thing left is to configure X such that it uses both screens/monitors. I have a Creator3D for display 0 and a regular cg6 for display 1. Can anyone help me with this? I am very familiar

Re: [expert] Miscellaneous 8.2 Terminal Hangs

2002-07-03 Thread et
what shell are you using? (bash? korn?) what Msec level are you at? On Wednesday 03 July 2002 01:35 pm, you wrote: I've tried to query all of you gurus before regarding various hangs on my system, but as far as I can tell, nobody has replied to my question. So, I'll give it a go again.

[expert] openssh Update Broken!!

2002-07-03 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Sorry for posting a second time but the e-mail subject was week. The Update openssh-server-3.4p1-1.1mdk.i586.rpm is broken. After the update, I can connect to the server but I cannot transfer files!! Any one else having this problem? Ralph Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Miscellaneous 8.2 Terminal Hangs

2002-07-03 Thread Rob Gillen
bash and msec level = 3 If I remember, I'll try using a different shell to see if that makes a difference. Rob et wrote: what shell are you using? (bash? korn?) what Msec level are you at? On Wednesday 03 July 2002 01:35 pm, you wrote: I've tried to query all of you gurus before

Re: [expert] openssh Update Broken!!

2002-07-03 Thread kwan
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Sorry for posting a second time but the e-mail subject was week. The Update openssh-server-3.4p1-1.1mdk.i586.rpm is broken. After the update, I can connect to the server but I cannot transfer files!! Any one else having this problem? Working

Re: [expert] FooBar install, can't mount root from CDROM

2002-07-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 12:32:04 -0400 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: F1 at the splash screen and at the boot prompt enter linux mem=(total ram-video ram) If your vid is say 16mb then you need to enter linux mem=240M why would this be different between 8.1 and 8.2? MDK 8.1 installs

[expert] pybliographic broken?!

2002-07-03 Thread Praedor Tempus
I absolutely NEED pybliographic. I have been using it for years to handle my references for scientific writing. I just installed the 8.2 version of pybliographic (pybligrapher-1.0.11) and find it appears broken. It will open up reference databases OK but it will not permit editing or adding

[expert] Does mandrak support the FireWire technology to add storage units on the fly

2002-07-03 Thread Roberto Armenteros
Hi all... I was passed by ciruit city yesterday and saw a little kit using FireWire technology that would allow the addition of harddrives and cd roms on the fly. I know Mac and windows have support fot this. Does linux have support for this technology? In case it does, what procedure should I

Re: [expert] pybliographic broken?!

2002-07-03 Thread Praedor Tempus
I had to download the source rpm, fix a braindead inability to find librecode (I installed the mandrake rpms for recode and recode-devel but it installs the devel libs in /usr/local/lib! What other Mandrake-native rpm does this? None. Why does recode-devel and only recode-devel want to

Re: [expert] Miscellaneous 8.2 Terminal Hangs

2002-07-03 Thread J. Craig Woods
et wrote: what shell are you using? (bash? korn?) what Msec level are you at? And just as importantly: what shell have you set up for the users that you are trying to su to? Make sure all user that ssh in, and users you might su to, are setup with a default shell... On Wednesday 03 July

Re: [expert] Miscellaneous 8.2 Terminal Hangs

2002-07-03 Thread Rob Gillen
I believe that all the users on my system (there are only a handful) use the default shell (bash) that would be set by using the useradd command. And as far as restricting the users that can login via ssh, well, I haven't used the AllowUsers keyword in sshd_config, if that is what you mean.

Re: [expert] FooBar install, can't mount root from CDROM

2002-07-03 Thread Ken Thompson
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 10:32 am, et wrote: On Wednesday 03 July 2002 12:21 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 10:18:38 -0600 Ken Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to get 8.2 b4 to install on an Amptron *all in 1* board and it keeps getting a kernel panic

Re: [expert] Miscellaneous 8.2 Terminal Hangs

2002-07-03 Thread Bryan Whitehead
What services are running? Are you running NIS? If so are you a client of a server? Also, are you running a firewall of any kind? Does the IP address on your machine match the name on your machine? (Do you call your machine monkey.foorbar.com but cannot do a dns lookup?) Also, how large is

[expert] Using an XP dialup session from Mandrake

2002-07-03 Thread Matthew O. Persico
My XP Pro and Mandrake 8.2 boxes are on the same network. I usually telnet into MD from XP, I have samba set up - theytalk to each other. And my DSL connection is shared by both. Due to the security setup used at my job, I have to connectto my via modem and it has to live on XP. I cannot

[expert] Fwd: Using an XP dialup session from Mandrake

2002-07-03 Thread Matthew O. Persico
My XP Pro and Mandrake 8.2 boxes are on the same network. I usually telnet into MD from XP, I have samba set up - they talk to each other. And my DSL connection is shared by both. Due to the security setup used at my job, I have to connect to my via modem and it has to live on XP.  I cannot

[expert] Trek 64MB thumbdrive

2002-07-03 Thread Michael Holt
Hello experts! I just acquired a thumb-drive (one of those USB gadgets that doesn't require any drivers), and tried it out on my mdk 8.2 laptop, but *oops* it doesn't get recognized. The light is on on the unit itself and I did some snooping around the web but didn't come across

Re: [expert] Trek 64MB thumbdrive

2002-07-03 Thread D. Olson
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 11:36 pm, you wrote: Hello experts! I just acquired a thumb-drive (one of those USB gadgets that doesn't require any drivers), and tried it out on my mdk 8.2 laptop, but *oops* it doesn't get recognized. The light is on on the unit itself and I did some

Re: [expert] Using an XP dialup session from Mandrake

2002-07-03 Thread Brian Parish
On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 10:01, Matthew O. Persico wrote: My XP Pro and Mandrake 8.2 boxes are on the same network. I usually telnet into MD from XP, I have samba set up - theytalk to each other. And my DSL connection is shared by both. Due to the security setup used at my job, I have to

Re: [expert] Using an XP dialup session from Mandrake

2002-07-03 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On 04 Jul 2002 14:58:27 +1000, Brian Parish wrote: On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 10:01, Matthew O. Persico wrote: My XP Pro and Mandrake 8.2 boxes are on the same network. I usually telnet into MD from XP, I have samba set up - theytalk to each other. And my DSL connection is shared by both. Due to the