Hello list,
This message is lengthy - which is why it is OFF TOPIC. It pertains to
hardware conflicts - which I'll get to in a minute - and why the plea for
help. I'm looking for a hardware engineer to help me verify BIOS and to help
me compose a letter to my reseller's engineer where I am
Submitted 07-Sep-00 by Ellick Chan:
32-bit OS's typically have a 2 gb file size limit(2^31 why is it missing
1 bit?), ext2 has that as well as Reiserfs currently.
Because it's a signed long. Setting the 32nd bit would make it a negative
number.
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Anton Graham
Hi everyone, I'm about ready to explode because I can't get this problem
figured out. I just recently switched to Mandrake 7.1 from Redhat 6.2 and
I'm
trying to dial through KPPP and I keep getting "modem is busy". I also try
to go dial out through other things (minicom, and so on) and I get
Do you have other serial ports in the machine and might another of them be
/dev/ttyS0? What does "dmesg | grep ttyS" show?
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Yes, if I do a dmesg, it shows /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1. I had the modem
working great under RH 6.2 on /dev/ttyS0 port 0xdc00 irq 5, but now "modem
busy". It's got me baffled, I've tried what seems like everything.
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Salut,
le parc informatique dont je m'occupe est homogène je veux donc me
faciliter la tache pour la future installation de Mandrake. J'ai suivi
les explications du manuel de la 7.0 mais j'utilise la 7.1 . J'ai
installé une machine comme je le désire et je voulais récupérer le
fichier
Ellick Chan wrote:
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, iain wrote:
Is there a maximum file size with a samba share. When I back up a Win 2000
server to a samba box it halts at just over 2 Gig.
Any suggestions ??
32-bit OS's typically have a 2 gb file size limit(2^31 why is it missing
1 bit?), ext2
Submitted 08-Sep-00 by Riley, Patrick (Patrick)** CTR **:
Yes, if I do a dmesg, it shows /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1. I had the modem
working great under RH 6.2 on /dev/ttyS0 port 0xdc00 irq 5, but now "modem
busy". It's got me baffled, I've tried what seems like everything.
Okay. Took a
"Riley, Patrick (Patrick)** CTR **" wrote:
Hi everyone, I'm about ready to explode because I can't get this problem
figured out. I just recently switched to Mandrake 7.1 from Redhat 6.2 and
I'm
trying to dial through KPPP and I keep getting "modem is busy". I also try
to go dial out
Am I correct in assuming that POP, SMTP, Qmail, and Postfix run on top of
sendmail??
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The box said,
"Requires Windows 3.x or better",
so I got Linux.
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Hello everybody
Yesterday i mailed you about how to boot from a floppy
changed my password in linux thanks to you guys i was able to do that .
I was gettig a bit bored with this NT gui user manager so
now i am really getting to like linux.
It only a matter of time before i remove NT installed
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From: "Jeff Groves" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:47 PM
Subject: [expert] Corporate Server 1.0 question
Does anyone know which kernel version they use?
Is it 2.2.15 (which requires an update to 2.2.16)? Or did
Mark Weaver a écrit :
Nicolas Justin wrote:
Hi!
I installed the mdk7.1, and at the first boot I have a kernel panic:
cannot mount root fs, just before init.
I have this error message:
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,65)): ext2_check_descriptor: Block bitmap
for group X not in
I have just moved over to mandrake 7.1 from red-hat 6.2
the machine that I have built does not clear out the /etc/mtab file
when it reboots thus when the machine comes back up I get dropped into
a shell prompt and I have to clear it out myself.
Can any one suggest anything ?
thanks
Peter Church
At 04:39 PM 9/7/00 -0400, you wrote:
Can i now install Windows NT4 wkstation on my existing windows
partition?
Yes. You'll have problems though as NT4 insists on putting its boot loader on
the primary partition, which must be either FAT16 or NTFS. If the spare
partition is the first one,
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote:
Am I correct in assuming that POP, SMTP, Qmail, and Postfix run on top of
sendmail??
Nope.
postfix or Qmail replaces sendmail.
SMTP is the protocol used by postfix, Qmail or sendmail.
POP is a separate protocol, which allows transfer of mail
There are numerous books in the stores about Red Hat and almost none about
Mandrake. Even though Mandrake is derived from RH, I understand there are
significant differences including where files are kept. As a newbie, this
strikes terror in that if I try to use a RH rpm, etc., I moght
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On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote:
any preferences between postfix, QMail or sendmail?
Yes. I've used postfix and qmail. I prefer postfix. This is because
1. postfix is easier to set up prevent an open relay "out of the box".
2. Is quite easy to
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote:
:~Finally got my gateway/router/firewall setup running with one of those
:~single floppy packages (sorry Mandrake) and am looking to start on the
:~web/email server and am looking for a place to start.
:~
"Good place to start" is IMHO called
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Jeff Malka wrote:
:~Therefore my question is: what are the differences between RH and Mandrake
:~that a user needs to be aware of to avoid causing problems. To include:
:~
:~file locations, config, etc.(I obviously do not know what else or I would
:~not be asking the
As far as "file locations" go, there is very little difference between LM
and RH. However, both RH and LM are going to change file positions a lot
in the future, in order to be Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy compliant.
Therefore, most of the the info about file-locations in these books will
be
On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, you wrote:
As far as "file locations" go, there is very little difference between LM
and RH. However, both RH and LM are going to change file positions a lot
^
in the future, in order to
Denis Havlik wrote:
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote:
:~Finally got my gateway/router/firewall setup running with one of those
:~single floppy packages (sorry Mandrake) and am looking to start on the
:~web/email server and am looking for a place to start.
:~
"Good place to
POSTFIX is to slow when remotly checking mail. I use sendmail with a package
called antispam which allows POP befor SMTP auth so my users can RELAY mail
through the server. Sendmail is used by 75 % of server owners.
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From: "Joseph S. Gardner" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Is anyone else running Mandrake 7.1 with ATT@HOME cable modem service?
Jason Smith
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I am running Mandrake 7.1 on a PC with several other OSs. I use Power
Quest's "BootMagic" to boot into the various OSs.
There is one annoying problem. If a boot into Mandrake (through Boot magic)
after a hard reset (PC off/on), there is no problem. But if I try to boot
into Linux after a soft
That is scary, particularly for a newbie who would upgrade to the next
version, but good in the long run. Where can one find a description of the
new organizational system?
What other differences are there between RH and Mke 7.1 that a novice user
should be aware of to avoid disaster?
Thank
Having used RedHat for a couple of years, and having recently (about half a
year ago) switched to Mandrake, I don't think you can expect much
problems running RH RPM's on your machine, or finding RH-specific text
books invalid in the Mandrake environment. I haven't experienced any
problems.
The
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:50:31PM +0100, peterc wrote:
I have just moved over to mandrake 7.1 from red-hat 6.2
the machine that I have built does not clear out the /etc/mtab file
when it reboots thus when the machine comes back up I get dropped into
a shell prompt and I have to clear it out
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Jason Smith wrote:
POSTFIX is to slow when remotly checking mail. I use sendmail with a package
called antispam which allows POP befor SMTP auth so my users can RELAY mail
through the server.
What do you mean "when remotely checking mail"? I'm not clear what you're
trying
Nicolas Justin wrote:
Mark Weaver a écrit :
Nicolas Justin wrote:
Hi!
I installed the mdk7.1, and at the first boot I have a kernel panic:
cannot mount root fs, just before init.
I have this error message:
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,65)): ext2_check_descriptor:
Hi,
I recall some problems with /tmp were already discussed on the list
but I've got some new issues.
I'm on a Mandarke 7.0.2 (Air) and I'm faced to something really
weird - my /tmp drectory grows up to 100MB and I can't write
to file start a X session, etc. Yesterday I had to wipe it out
Dont know man i find both with there ups down
- Original Message -
From: "Ron Johnson, Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
As far as "file locations" go, there is
I am a user of linux and I sympatise with you concerning the modem
problem you are now having, However I may be of some assistance to you,
that is if you are willing to invest in another modem, I have found that
you can installed only jumper modems into linux and set it up on either
com2 or com4
yes there is a key combination you can try, press ctrl,alt and F1 this
should do the trick
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Out of the box Mandrake is optimized for Pentium class CPUs. If Redhat is
cake, Mandrake is cake and ice cream. Mandrake ROCKS!
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From: "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "expert mandrake" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 7:53 AM
Subject: [expert]
I tried installing the latest redhat and the Xwindows installed in
interlaced mode (jigjigjigglejigj). For some reason Mandrake 7.1
wouldn't install from the CD but it did install from the hard disk without
problems. Mandrake also does a much better job sticking on the various
programs that
When a system starts up, it goes through the boot sequence encoded in
ROM. At the end of this sequence it reads off of the first specified
boot device that it finds for further instructions. If it hits a drive
with LILO or GRUB on it, then you get the Linux prompt. If you select
Linux or have
Please wrap your lines to 72 characters...
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Stefan Srdic wrote:
I've recently attempted to write my own IP routing script (IPchains and
IPmasquerading). I have some minor problems with my initial script and need some help
from an
experienced Linux user.
First off, I
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:26:06PM +0200, Karsten Roemling (me) wrote:
Hi all!
I would like to synchronize all my email, which is received and split up and
sorted on computer A with the help of procmail, onto computer B. This should
Is something like this possible?
Is this too simple or
Hello,
Does anybody know how can I re-install the X11/fonts library (or the
whole X11 library) in the path /X11R6/lib/X11?
I have the rpms (Xfree...).
Thank you in advance.
FG
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A while back, I reported here that telnet server wasn't working. I got a
couple of good suggestions, but they didn't work. Now I really need to have
a telnet server working. I am running LM 6.0 and inetd. inetd.conf looks
right and it appears to try to load in.telnetd when I try to connect
One quick hint:
When I used Mandrake 6.1, I had to install a 15K RPM file called
"telnet-server" from the distribution CD in order to get telnet working.
Check to see if it's installed via "rpm -qa | grep telnet-server".
-- Asheesh.
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On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote:
snip
I have used PMFirewall as well, only it does not configure an outgoing
DHCP server correctly, I intend to build my own firewall.
snip
I think that I'm going to read the entire IPChains HOW-TO and
IPMasquerading HOW-TO this week-end :-D
The IP Chains and
One thing I forgot to mention about ISC's DHCP client ... There exists a
rather large security hole in the 3.0b1pl17 which I think is included in
the Mandrake distro. Make sure if you do use the client get the one from
the Mandrake update site and do not use the one on the CD. The server is
not
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Any suggestions to figure out what is loaded that would grab tcp port 23?
as root:
lsof | grep 1024
will tell you what has bound to port 1024 (as well as some other stuff)
as will
netstat -nlp --inet
to give you the list of open ports listening
If Redhat is cake, Mandrake is cake and ice cream. Mandrake ROCKS!
You need to take a look at the RedHat 6.9.5 Pinstripe Beta. :-)
--Greg
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Thank you.
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- Original Message -
From: Jesper Holmberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
Having used RedHat for
Here's the line from netstat:
tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:23 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
419/inetd
I don't have lsof as a command. Was that a typo or an addon?
The netstat printout makes sense as I know that inetd can see incoming
packets and thinks they are for telnet,
I downloaded Pinstripe beta one night. It was two disks. The first one was
numbered Redhat 6.8 and would not install at all. The second disk was a copy
of Mandrake 7.02 ?!?!?!?
I don't have a lot of respect for redhat.
Abe
= Original Message From "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
I just compiled Kernel 2.2.17 and found that xconfig had some features grayed
out (like some network cards). Also, despite selecting "automount", it still
won't handle supermount. Am I missing a step somewhere or is this kernel have
those problems?
Brent
I found the answer and it was very obviousNOT!
Change this line inetd.conf from/to:
telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd -L
/bin/login
Now that's an obvious answer isn't it? A good learning
pablito wrote:
[snip]
problems. Mandrake also does a much better job sticking on the various
programs that make Linux easier to use.
[snip]
Plz clarify this.
Thanks,
Ron
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- Original Message -
From: Greg Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1
If Redhat is
Stefan Srdic wrote:
[snip]
I have used PMFirewall as well, only it does not configure an outgoing DHCP server
correctly, I intend to build my own firewall. I dont want to end up being a Windows
Linux user.
This OS is open sourced for a reason, so that you can learn and improve your
computer
Hope that helps.
Thanks... Dan.
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Dan, you are a genious :-D I used the tips that you gave me to rewrite my rc.firewall
You might want to try (argh, another distro!) e-smith at www.e-smith.org .
peace of cake to det up, and just about perfect the first time.
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote:
snip
I have used PMFirewall as well, only it does not configure an outgoing
DHCP server correctly, I intend to build my own
On Fri Sep 08, 2000 at 02:34:37PM +0100, Tony Smith wrote:
Tony, please let me know how it goes. If there is a problem with
16mdk, we need to know and get it fixed ASAP. I'm going to be testing
it here as well, so I'll see if I can reproduce your error.
FYI... I just tried 16mdk
Calvert S Robertson wrote:
I am a user of linux and I sympatise with you concerning the modem
problem you are now having, However I may be of some assistance to you,
that is if you are willing to invest in another modem, I have found that
you can installed only jumper modems into linux
The current RHBeta is 6.9.5, and yes it is 2 CDs... but I don't think the
2nd is a "copy" of MDK7.02. There are still many apps that RedHat just
doesn't bother with, that Mandrake chooses to install whether you need them,
want them, or would rather never see. Pinstripe is still a smaller full
How can i check which ports on my computer are open
i will be sitting on my server ?
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faisal wrote:
Hello everybody
Yesterday i mailed you about how to boot from a floppy
changed my password in linux thanks to you guys i was able to do that .
I was gettig a bit bored with this NT gui user manager so
now i am really getting to like linux.
It only a matter of time before
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 07:19:49PM -0700, Brent Hawkins wrote:
I just compiled Kernel 2.2.17 and found that xconfig had some features grayed
out (like some network cards). Also, despite selecting "automount", it still
won't handle supermount. Am I missing a step somewhere or is this kernel
At 19:18 -0600 2000/09/06, D. R. Evans wrote:
Does anyone have a conf.modules file correctly configured to use ALSA with
either a Sound Blaster AudioPCI 128 or an Ensoniq 1371 card??
Just a note: i only had to start using ALSA drivers because esd seemed to
require them. Before I worked with
José Antonio Jiménez Berni wrote:
There is a nice aplication for that ungly work. It's calles 'gfcc', it
think it's installed by default (at least in my Mandrake 7.1).
It's very simple to edit the rules and you can export directly to a sh
script.
Besides I know that there is file for the
There is a nice aplication for that ungly work. It's calles 'gfcc', it
think it's installed by default (at least in my Mandrake 7.1).
It's very simple to edit the rules and you can export directly to a sh
script.
Besides I know that there is file for the rules '/etc/sysconfig/ipchains'
which is
Daniel Bodanske wrote:
I am installing Mandrake 7.1 (single disk version) for a friend, and am
having trouble with the X config. He has a Sony GDM-1960 fixed frequency
.
Daniel,
I have an almost equal set up at home (Sony GDM 1962 B with SUN label).
I made it work with a Matrox G200
While you read this, download mtv (or mtvp) from
http://rpmfind.com/
freshmeat.com
or other places on the net.
GTV crashed, the new one I just upgraded to. The old one that comes
stock in MDK7.1 used to work a little bit, and on some files, as long as
you turned audio off. I got SDL 1.1
While you read this, download mtv (or mtvp) from
http://rpmfind.com/
freshmeat.com
or other places on the net.
GTV crashed, the new one I just upgraded to. The old one that comes
stock in MDK7.1 used to work a little bit, and on some files, as long as
you turned audio off. I got SDL 1.1
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