Re: [expert] XFree 4.0 wheel mouse issue

2000-07-24 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
John Aldrich wrote: Umm...I *think* you HAVE to run the imwheel util. If you don't run it, it's not going to help. John Sorry, John, that's not true. I have been using a wheel mouse (with _two_ wheels at that !!!) since a long time, and never used imwheel at all. You only have to

Re: [expert] reiser question

2000-07-24 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 09:43:26PM -0500, Vic wrote: Just wondering, how does everyone who is trying out the reiser fs like it? Any pros cons? I love it. Bringing up the machines is ultra fast now (especially considering the rash of lightning storms we've been having which result in power

Re: [expert] laptop frozen.. urgent!

2000-07-24 Thread Gavin Clark
on 7/23/00 10:56 PM, Sarang Lakare wrote: Hi guys, I installed LM7.1 on a laptop and it was ran fine for a day.. when i was shutting down today, it gave KERNEL PANIC on supermount.. and then did fsck on the next boot (the laptop has a DVD player and had a data CD inside when this

Re: [expert] Asf files

2000-07-24 Thread Civileme
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote: Anyone know where I can find something in linux to play those dangbusted asf files? Not no but "hell, No!" Microshaft PATENTED the *.asf format ignoring the preexisting mpeg formats on which it is based. If there is ever a way to read the (decidedly second

[expert] Resource efficiency--Reply to Seve

2000-07-24 Thread Civileme
Your reply-to causes my replies to go to limbo and bounce. On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote: That gets to my next question... While shopping, I ran across a lot of boxes with motherboards that have onboard sound video. What's your take on those? Do they tend to require funky device

[expert] Corrupted BeroFTPD rpm

2000-07-24 Thread Marco Fioretti
Hello, yesterday I connected my two computers, both running Mandrake 6.1, in order to ftp some big files from one to the other. Networking itself is OK: each machine can ping itself and the other, both with hostname and IP address. I also installed the telnet-server and BeroFTPD rpms. I could

Re: [expert] laptop frozen.. urgent!

2000-07-24 Thread Ellick Chan
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Sarang Lakare wrote: Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 01:56:50 -0400 From: Sarang Lakare [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] laptop frozen.. urgent! Hi guys, I installed LM7.1 on a laptop and it was ran

Re: [expert] new reiser question

2000-07-24 Thread Gavin Clark
on 7/23/00 11:00 PM, Vincent Danen wrote: On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 09:43:26PM -0500, Vic wrote: Just wondering, how does everyone who is trying out the reiser fs like it? Any pros cons? does anyone see it replacing EXT2 as the default anytime soon?

Re: [expert] Asf files

2000-07-24 Thread Ellick Chan
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Civileme wrote: Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:11:01 -0800 From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Asf files On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote: Anyone know where I can find something in linux to play those

[expert] Backup and restore systems

2000-07-24 Thread Leopold Palomo
Hi list, I have a trouble in the job, and I need to design a way to restore a complete system. I want to say that I have a computer working, and I would like to make complete backup and a way to restore it by a person without any knowledge, or an automatic way. Any ideas? Best

Re: [expert] Laplink

2000-07-24 Thread Ron Stodden
Darryl Gibson wrote: I have considered using Partition Magic on the drive, but that raises other issues such as: 1. My PM disk is on loan to a friend, and he has taken a unplanned holiday out of town. 2. When I installed Linux on this drive, I forget where I installed Lilo. From what

Re: [expert] Asf files

2000-07-24 Thread Vic
Same here Civil, same here I HATE that. Damn Microsoft, damn them to hell, I hope the govt does split them up and they fall like a shot down plane in WWII and crash and burn even harder. On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote: Anyone know where I can find something

Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

2000-07-24 Thread Gavin Clark
check out BRU on 7/23/00 11:55 PM, Leopold Palomo wrote: Hi list, I have a trouble in the job, and I need to design a way to restore a complete system. I want to say that I have a computer working, and I would like to make complete backup and a way to restore it by a person without any

Re: [expert] laptop frozen.. urgent!

2000-07-24 Thread Civileme
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi guys, I installed LM7.1 on a laptop and it was ran fine for a day.. when i was shutting down today, it gave KERNEL PANIC on supermount.. and then did fsck on the next boot (the laptop has a DVD player and had a data CD inside when this happened).. this is

Re: [expert] new reiser question

2000-07-24 Thread Civileme
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote: on 7/23/00 11:00 PM, Vincent Danen wrote: On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 09:43:26PM -0500, Vic wrote: Just wondering, how does everyone who is trying out the reiser fs like it? Any pros cons? does anyone see it replacing EXT2 as the default anytime

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-24 Thread Nightwriter
God now I do feel old, Does anyone remember the old floppy disk drives that looked like a stack of 45 rpm records Held about 1 meg of data, and sounded like a scram jet taking off when the spun up. (god help you if the case it was in wasn't bolted down when it started to do a seek ... it

Re: [expert] laptop frozen.. urgent!

2000-07-24 Thread Fox
Supermount does that on my Compaq Armada M700 if I don't have the floppy connected, unless I umount /mnt/floppy before I shut down. Alternately, disable supermount (/etc/fstab) which was my solution. Jerry - Original Message - From: "Ellick Chan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

2000-07-24 Thread Christopher Cox
Just do not use cpio with versions greater than or equal to 7. It would appear Mandrake broke it. I have yet for anyone to respond as to why. Regards Christopher Cox

[expert] sound AC'97 on mother board Abit VT6X4

2000-07-24 Thread Rasmus Z.
Hi list ! I've been trying to listen to my (mute) speakers for a too long time !! Neither Lothar, nor soundconfig is able to configure the AC'97 (Sound Blaster compliant)sound included in VT6X4 board. And I don't want to install Abit Gentus Linux ;-). I've not found any Howto, or doc on the net.

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-24 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Pj wrote: From: Using MS-DOS 6.2 (QUE book) 1993 Pg. 140; pgph 5: "Hard disks have changed the most. A number of technology have come and gone as hard disks have steadily gotten larger and faster. Drives capable of storing more than two gygabytes(two billion bytes) now cost less than

[expert] XFree 4.01 fails for geforce2

2000-07-24 Thread stephen boulet
I did a fresh install of mandrake 7.1, upgraded to XFree 4.01 from cooker, downloaded NVidia's tarballs from nvidia.com and installed. This is the error message I get, and the screen section from the XF86Config-4 file follows after: (II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA128, RIVATNT,

[expert] MKNOD

2000-07-24 Thread Don
In mknod how would one create a device that is linked to another device? I would like to make video to link to video0. I have already found the video0 and have tried: mknod c video 81 0 but I don't see the way for linking this to video0. By the way I am tring to get kwintv to

Re: [expert] netscape 474

2000-07-24 Thread Ken Thompson
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote: Considering this browser's sad history the past 3 years I do not know why anyone would expect anything better. Personally, I still like version 3.04 best. I run it with Java disabled; use its old emailer and scripting turned off. Since I rarely accept

Re: [expert] MKNOD

2000-07-24 Thread joakim viktorsson
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Don wrote: In mknod how would one create a device that is linked to another device? I would like to make video to link to video0. I have already found the video0 and have tried: mknod c video 81 0 but I don't see the way for linking this to video0.

Re: [expert] new reiser question

2000-07-24 Thread Ellick Chan
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Gavin Clark wrote: Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:22:01 -0700 From: Gavin Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] new reiser question on 7/23/00 11:00 PM, Vincent Danen wrote: On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 09:43:26PM

[expert] segmentation fault doing a text install

2000-07-24 Thread Mike Rambo
We have an existing server (Compaq Proliant 2500) that we want to move from RedHat 6.2 to Mandrake 7.1. It has been running RedHat 6.2 since last spring when it was first installed but we've never done any optimizing for the Pentium class cpu. I had decided it would be easier to just put a

Re: [expert] laptop frozen.. urgent!

2000-07-24 Thread Gary
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 05:59:24AM -0400 or thereabouts, Fox wrote: Supermount does that on my Compaq Armada M700 if I don't have the floppy connected, unless I umount /mnt/floppy before I shut down. Alternately, disable supermount (/etc/fstab) which was my solution. Jerry Jerry,

Re: [expert] sound AC'97 on mother board Abit VT6X4

2000-07-24 Thread Sarang Lakare
I have got AC'97 working successfully on my machine.. mine is a Via motherboard though. Firstly look into your bios if you can set u're on-board sound card to SB.. if not, then go to www.alsa-project.org and download the sound drivers and install them.. Read the README and INSTALL files

Re: [expert] Asf files

2000-07-24 Thread Ellick Chan
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Vic wrote: Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 01:56:15 -0500 From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Asf files Same here Civil, same here I HATE that. Damn Microsoft, damn them to hell, I hope the govt does split

Re: [expert] Asf files - convert it

2000-07-24 Thread Sarang Lakare
use vorbis file format.. its the first open source audio format which also supports streaming (final 1.0 will be released by the end of the month) http://www.vorbis.org -sarang

Re: [expert] MKNOD

2000-07-24 Thread Ellick Chan
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Don wrote: Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 06:57:07 -0700 From: Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] MKNOD In mknod how would one create a device that is linked to another device? I

Re: [expert] MKNOD

2000-07-24 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Don wrote: In mknod how would one create a device that is linked to another device? I would like to make video to link to video0. I have already found the video0 and have tried: mknod c video 81 0 but I don't see the way for linking this to video0. By the way I am tring to get kwintv

[expert] test

2000-07-24 Thread Vincent Danen
Just testing something... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org Current Linux uptime: 3 days 10 hours 58 minutes.

Re: [expert] netscape 474

2000-07-24 Thread Rob Benson
I use Staroffice, but the install says that I don't have JAVA installed. What package would I install that works well with SO? I've done some searching of Linux sites, but haven't yet found what it wants. Got a package name and a download URL? Thanks, Rob Benson Ken Thompson wrote: On Sun,

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 04:20:52PM -0700, Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 23-Jul-00 by Pj: From: Using MS-DOS 6.2 (QUE book) 1993 Pg. 140; pgph 5: "Hard disks have changed the most. A number of technology have come and gone as hard disks have steadily gotten larger and faster.

Re: [expert] new reiser question

2000-07-24 Thread Sarang Lakare
there is a sort of flame war going on. Let's just say that Reiser and Cox don't want to get along too well. I personally believe we need Reiserfs to get a real edge against others, and it is annoying to apply the kernel patch each time hoping it works... I would much rather have built-in

[expert] Mandrake 7.1 USB Webcams

2000-07-24 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Have any of you gurus been able to get a USB webcam to work with Mandrake 7.1? I have a USB Creative Webcam II that's been idle since I stopped using windows. Seve

Re: [expert] MKNOD

2000-07-24 Thread Don
Thanks, I was linking in the wrong direction. Don On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Don wrote: In mknod how would one create a device that is linked to another device? I would like to make video to link to video0. I have already found the video0 and have

Re: [expert] sound AC'97 on mother board Abit VT6X4

2000-07-24 Thread Guillermo Belli
You can use the ALSA drivers for AC97. I think the URL is www.alsa.org. Rasmus Z., escribió: Hi list ! I've been trying to listen to my (mute) speakers for a too long time !! Neither Lothar, nor soundconfig is able to configure the AC'97 (Sound Blaster compliant)sound included in VT6X4

[expert] ALSA drivers

2000-07-24 Thread Guillermo Belli
I bought a soundcard with the Trident 4DWave-DX chipset and the only way to get this card to work in linux was to get the ALSA drivers, and so I did. I followed the steps described in the INSTALL and README file, but i still had no sound, until I read the ALSA sound mini-howto. After compiling,

[expert] samba

2000-07-24 Thread Sarang Lakare
Hi, I am trying to connect to otehr windows machines using kruiser and it says "unable to mount". I have started the smb service under initd.. is there anything else i have to do? -sarang

RE: [expert] AMD Chips and Mandrake (correction)

2000-07-24 Thread Doug McGarrett
Of course, that's what I meant. Thanx for catching me! At 10:18 PM 07/23/2000 -0400, you wrote: On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote: Civileme recommends this board, but it has no ide sockets and only 5 PCI. I goatta have at least one ide. Let's try again, wouldja? Thanx, all. Err... do you

RE: [expert] netscape 474

2000-07-24 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
If you find out let me know, During the install, I pointed it to my IBM Java, and it wont see it! Oh well -Original Message- From: Rob Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] netscape 474 I use Staroffice, but

Re: [expert] new reiser question

2000-07-24 Thread Vic
I think I will wait until reiser is as good as ext2--- I can't afford to experiment with the very core of the system, but I hope it turns out to be a good filesystem On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Gavin Clark wrote: Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:22:01 -0700 From: Gavin

Re: [expert] Asf files

2000-07-24 Thread Vic
Hm, sounds like some reverse engineering is in order. Now if I could only find a reverse compiler I could make myself a copy for linux, of course I would share the wealth, but only by e mail request, don't wanna post it to a web site. On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Mon, 24 Jul 2000,

Re: [expert] new reiser question

2000-07-24 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: "Civileme" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 3:49 AM Subject: Re: [expert] new reiser question On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote: on 7/23/00 11:00 PM, Vincent Danen wrote: On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 09:43:26PM -0500, Vic

Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

2000-07-24 Thread Jeff Groves
Check out Mondo-Rescue http://freshmeat.net/appindex/2000/03/20/953566206.html At 08:55 AM 7/24/00 +0200, you wrote: I have a trouble in the job, and I need to design a way to restore a complete system. I want to say that I have a computer working, and I would like to make complete backup and a

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-24 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Charles Curley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] I remember when the first manufacturer of a microcomputer offered a hard drive. It was Ohio Scientific, which made a 6502-based multi-user computer which did everything in BASIC. The hard drive was an OEMed 74 MB 14" rack mounted hard

Re: [expert] netscape 474

2000-07-24 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 24-Jul-00 by Rob Benson: I use Staroffice, but the install says that I don't have JAVA installed. What package would I install that works well with SO? I've done some searching of Linux sites, but haven't yet found what it wants. Got a package name and a download URL? Thanks,

Re: [expert] netscape 474

2000-07-24 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Rob Benson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use Staroffice, but the install says that I don't have JAVA installed. What package would I install that works well with SO? I've done some searching of Linux sites, but haven't yet found what it wants. Got a package

[expert] Mandrake 7.1 Fails to add megaraid module to initrd.img

2000-07-24 Thread Adam Hope
Hi Mandrake Experts, I am trying to run Mandrake 7.1 on a Dell 2400 server with an AMI megaraid controller. I have installed LM 7.1 successfully however when the machine reboots it does not load the megaraid.o module and fails to mount any partitions. Thus the kernel panics etc. etc. I have

Re: [expert] netscape 474

2000-07-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: I use Staroffice, but the install says that I don't have JAVA installed. What package would I install that works well with SO? I've done some searching of Linux sites, but haven't yet found what it wants. Got a package name and a download URL? The JRE from

Re: [expert] sound AC'97 on mother board Abit VT6X4

2000-07-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: You can use the ALSA drivers for AC97. I think the URL is www.alsa.org. Close, but no cigar -- www.alsa-project.org. John

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-24 Thread Pj
I recently saw a memory chip on the wall of a computer store. It is a full 12-inches square and 2-inches thick. The funny thing is--the size of the memory is actually quite small. Thanks for the blast from the past! I was sure we had some old 'heads' on this list that were contributing answers

Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

2000-07-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 08:55:35AM +0200, Leopold Palomo wrote: Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 21:05:49 +0200 From: Leopold Palomo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backup and restore systems X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7C-CCK-MCD [ca] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14-15mdk i686) Date:

Re: [expert] sound AC'97 on mother board Abit VT6X4

2000-07-24 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 24-Jul-00 by Guillermo Belli: You can use the ALSA drivers for AC97. I think the URL is www.alsa.org. http://www.alsa-project.org -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!

RE: [expert] AMD Chips and Mandrake (correction)

2000-07-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: Of course, that's what I meant. Thanx for catching me! No sweat. :-) I've mis-typed more than enough for both of us. :-) John

Re: [expert] netscape 474

2000-07-24 Thread Sarang Lakare
go to www.sun.com and download JAVA SDK1.2.2.. thast the latest they have for linux. -sarang

Re: [expert] new reiser question

2000-07-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: I think I will wait until reiser is as good as ext2--- I can't afford to experiment with the very core of the system, but I hope it turns out to be a good filesystem Spamcop.net runs on ReiserFS, IIRC.

Re: [expert] Asf files

2000-07-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hm, sounds like some reverse engineering is in order. Now if I could only find a reverse compiler I could make myself a copy for linux, of course I would share the wealth, but only by e mail request, don't wanna post it to a web site. I heard on NPR

Re: [expert] netscape 474

2000-07-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 07:15:46PM -0500, Ellick Chan wrote: I found a quick cheap way to avoid Netscape, try using lynx, or "links", an improved lynx. If you do the file associations in links, you can even view the jpegs and gifs on web pages. Try out w3m. It really kicks lynx! Alexander

Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

2000-07-24 Thread Norvell Spearman
Mondo-Rescue (below) seems to be only for CDRs. Which is a good procedure/application for disaster recovery when backing up with tape using tar/gz, taper, or kdat? Thanks. ---Norvell Spearman Jeff Groves wrote: Check out Mondo-Rescue

[expert] The capital letter of Expert

2000-07-24 Thread Leopold Palomo
Dear people, during some days I have had a lot of problems to send mails to the list. I sent the mails, but I never received my mails from the list. Desesperately I decided to ask directly to Civileme for my problem, and once again Civileme helped me. Best regards Leo Dear Civileme, I'm

Re: [expert] new reiser question

2000-07-24 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 01:23:15PM -0400, Hoyt wrote: The MaxOS (www.maxos.com ) distro appears to use reiserfs as a default. I have a copy on the way for a magazine review. There may be a few things in it that Mandrake would want to take a look at. It also offers DVD support and free ISP

Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

2000-07-24 Thread Mark Weaver
What I wouldn't mind knowing is, is there a list of commands that one would use to utilize dump? From reading the man files for this utility I've been able to create some backup files, but have no idea of how to restore the bcked up files to their original place. Christopher Cox wrote: Just

Re: [expert] MKNOD

2000-07-24 Thread Don
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: Submitted 24-Jul-00 by Don: --snip-- this is the error I am getting: Fatal: v4lx: Error opening v4lx device /dev/video: No such device in ::v4lxif mknod is not what you'r looking for. Try "ln -s video0 video"

Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

2000-07-24 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: "Charles Curley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems You need the article I have sent to Linux Journal for publication, entitled "Bare Metal Backup and Restore". It will

Re: [expert] ALSA drivers

2000-07-24 Thread Vic
Hey thanks for the info!! Cool! On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: I bought a soundcard with the Trident 4DWave-DX chipset and the only way to get this card to work in linux was to get the ALSA drivers, and so I did. I followed the steps described in the INSTALL and README file, but i still

Re: [expert] new reiser question

2000-07-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: That is why ReiserFS is not an available option during install unless you choose an expert install. It is expected that people who select expert are exactly that: expert. If you don't know enough to make an informed decision (read: you have read all of

Re: [expert] laptop frozen.. urgent!

2000-07-24 Thread Jerry Mulvaney
Yep, I just #'ed supermount out set it up like a plain fstab. I didn't mess w/ mtab. Luck! Weird, my toshiba tecra 8000 didn't have any probs w/ or w/o floppy connected. Compaq hw is pretty anal though. - Original Message - From: Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-24 Thread Pierre Fortin
Greg Stewart wrote: I remember when a 10MB hard drive was the size of pizza, fit into a refridgerator-sized beast ofa cabinet, and PCs had 8 1/2 inch floppy diskettes! No one remembers the Diablo drives, 5M fixed 5M removable (soft sectored cartridges made for some fun when mounted on a

Re: [expert] segmentation fault doing a text install

2000-07-24 Thread Ellick Chan
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Mike Rambo wrote: Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:36:51 -0400 From: Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] segmentation fault doing a text install We have an existing server (Compaq Proliant 2500)

[expert] iput: inode count wrapped error on shutdown

2000-07-24 Thread Sundeep Mediratta
I recently installed mandrake 7.1 on a separate partition. I initially used reiserfs. However the machine would crash on shutdown with an inode error. Thinking this might be a problem with reiserfs I reinstalled using ext2 on the same partition. Whenever I shut down the machine it goes through

Re: [expert] new reiser question

2000-07-24 Thread Ellick Chan
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Sarang Lakare wrote: Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:57:37 -0400 From: Sarang Lakare [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] new reiser question there is a sort of flame war going on. Let's just say that Reiser and Cox

Re: [expert] netscape 474

2000-07-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 08:16:22PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: Did they fix the java problem in 4.74, or does it still runaway with the CPU now and then like 4.73 does? What about Netscape 4.74? Will it be included in the standard distribution, or will the users have to download it from the

Re: [expert] laptop frozen.. urgent!

2000-07-24 Thread Alan N.
Sarang Lakare wrote: Hi guys, I installed LM7.1 on a laptop and it was ran fine for a day.. when i was shutting down today, it gave KERNEL PANIC on supermount.. and then did fsck on the next boot (the laptop has a DVD player and had a data CD inside when this happened).. this is the 2nmd

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-24 Thread Mark Weaver
Please! you have my undivided attention. Tell me more about the "good ole days". I'm a mainframe student at a local college and I never tire of hearing about the early days of the BIG mainframes and early PCs. -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Mon, 24 Jul

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-24 Thread Mark Weaver
Amen Pj...Amen! -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Pj wrote: I recently saw a memory chip on the wall of a computer store. It is a full 12-inches square and 2-inches thick. The funny thing is--the size of the memory is actually quite

Re: [expert] netscape 474

2000-07-24 Thread Greg Stewart
Try the SUN website, although I think it's a development package and is not free. Check freshmeat.net to see if there are any free Java engines (i have no idea--i don't use it). --Greg I use Staroffice, but the install says that I don't have JAVA installed. What package would I install

Re: [expert] samba

2000-07-24 Thread Greg Stewart
The smb.conf file is long and extensive, fairly well commented, but you may want to see the man pageand How-To's @ www.linux.org, go to www.samba.org and check out their resources. O'Reilly has a good book on the utility, but it's about $40. I haven't had the opportunity to spend much time

[expert] Test

2000-07-24 Thread Brian Schroeder
I haven't seen anything on this list for a few days. It's usually high volume. Am I getting through? Brian. -- -- Brian Schroeder | ,-_|\ Origin Energy Resources Ltd | Only 2 things are infinite,

Re: [expert] The capital letter of Expert

2000-07-24 Thread Bob
I dunno if this will go thru but it seems i can send to linuxmandrake.com but linux-mandrake.com refuses the email. At 08:13 PM 7/24/2000 +0200, you wrote: Dear people, during some days I have had a lot of problems to send mails to the list. I sent the mails, but I never received my mails from

Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

2000-07-24 Thread Steve Browne
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:59:23 +0100, you wrote: Mondo-Rescue (below) seems to be only for CDRs. Which is a good procedure/application for disaster recovery when backing up with tape using tar/gz, taper, or kdat? Thanks. ---Norvell Spearman I back up from hard disk to hard disk with Ghost. It

Re: [expert] Asf files

2000-07-24 Thread Vic
YESSS!! I was wondering when this was gonna happen On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hm, sounds like some reverse engineering is in order. Now if I could only find a reverse compiler I could make myself a copy for linux, of course I would share the

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-24 Thread Vic
I never had too much trouble with the Mandrake, thats why I guess I stuck around. Sure everyone pulls their hair and whacks the keyboard and swears a little bit. I hear alot about troubles with this ver and that one, funny thing, I was able to hack my way around the funky installer on ver 7.0

Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

2000-07-24 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 24-Jul-00 by Mark Weaver: What I wouldn't mind knowing is, is there a list of commands that one would use to utilize dump? From reading the man files for this utility I've been able to create some backup files, but have no idea of how to restore the bcked up files to their original

Re: [expert] XFree 4.01 fails for geforce2

2000-07-24 Thread Tony Jones
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: I did a fresh install of mandrake 7.1, upgraded to XFree 4.01 from cooker, downloaded NVidia's tarballs from nvidia.com and installed. This is the error message I get, and the screen section from the XF86Config-4 file follows after: I have a TNT2 Vanta, but my

Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

2000-07-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: Mondo-Rescue (below) seems to be only for CDRs. Which is a good procedure/application for disaster recovery when backing up with tape using tar/gz, taper, or kdat? I would be inclined to go with the console app, because you may not always be ABLE to start the

Re: [expert] netscape 474

2000-07-24 Thread Fran Parker
It is free for the registering at the sun site...version 5.2 not in Beta anymore. Bambi On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Greg Stewart wrote: Try the SUN website, although I think it's a development package and is not free. Check freshmeat.net to see if there are any free Java engines (i have no idea--i

[expert] testing123

2000-07-24 Thread Sevatio Octavio
testing123

Re: [expert] laptop frozen.. urgent!

2000-07-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jerry/Gary'supermount disable' is a command that will change your fstab entries to normal ones and 'supermount enable' will change them back to supermount entries. Check 'man supermount' for this info (reinventing the wheel is usually harder than reading docs). :-) Alan Jerry Mulvaney

Re: [expert] laptop frozen.. urgent!

2000-07-24 Thread Gary
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 07:01:27PM -0700 or thereabouts, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Jerry/Gary'supermount disable' is a command that will change your fstab entries to normal ones and 'supermount enable' will change them back to supermount entries. Check 'man supermount' for this info

Re: [expert] laptop frozen.. urgent!

2000-07-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Gary wrote: [snip] Upon rebooting Mandrake 7.1 later, I received errors saying that my CDRom2 was not recognized. It is a good thing I made a backup of fstab. I went back to the original, and am just going to leave it alone. I did change to disable in my laptop though. Weird problem with

Re: [expert] Test

2000-07-24 Thread Fran Parker
Yes you are getting through on the list...hope you got this one. :) Bambi On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: I haven't seen anything on this list for a few days. It's usually high volume. Am I getting through? Brian. --

Re: [expert] The capital letter of Expert

2000-07-24 Thread Fran Parker
This one came through to the list with the hyphen in the email. Bambi On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Bob wrote: I dunno if this will go thru but it seems i can send to linuxmandrake.com but linux-mandrake.com refuses the email. At 08:13 PM 7/24/2000 +0200, you wrote: Dear people, during some

Re: [expert] testing123

2000-07-24 Thread Fran Parker
reply ... testing 456 :) Bambi On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: testing123

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-24 Thread Greg Stewart
Nope, hadn't that particular thrill...but I do remeber the card readers and tape.. And, only heard about the plug boards when I was first learning programming. I remember my first internet experience was playing Star Trek on a DEC terminal through a telephone coupler as a modem link. I *did*

Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

2000-07-24 Thread Mark Weaver
well...sort of. Are there any others? and are there other arguments that you might use with the restore command? Like /path/to/backup_file /path/to/filesystem/to-be/restored and such things like that. The man files for dump and restore leave a lot to my imagination. -- Mark **

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-24 Thread Mark Weaver
holy hanna! that sounds great! Some of that stuff had to be terribly frustrating though. -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Pierre Fortin wrote: Greg Stewart wrote: I remember when a 10MB hard drive was the size of pizza, fit into a

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-24 Thread Pj
Well, ya all make me ashamed to admit to learning keypunch-- compliments of IBM-- for Caterpillar. The mainframe, I believe, was in its infancy at then. Pj At 03:01 AM 7/25/00 -, you wrote: Nope, hadn't that particular thrill...but I do remeber the card readers and tape.. And, only

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