Linux-Hardware Digest #990, Volume #12 Mon, 5 Jun 00 22:13:08 EDT
Contents:
oops! I erased the file /dev/st0... (Robert Anderson)
Re: Linksys ProConnect PCMCIA Card Reader/Writer? (Doug Toppin)
Re: oops! I erased the file /dev/st0... (David C.)
Re: Yeah!!Trio 3D/2D works but...mouse needs new pointer (Doc Shipley)
Compaq Powerstorm 600 (Kouros Owzar)
Re: setting up modem with redhat ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Defective memory? ("Matthew Martens")
Re: Production SMP Linux? Worth the risk? (Pierre Moret)
BRU and Sony TSL-9000 Autoloader ("Mike Sanders")
Re: URGENT: Massive problems with network (adapter) (Florian E.J. Fruth)
Re: oops! I erased the file /dev/st0... (Bob Martin)
Web Page Load Times ("Dean Fetterolf")
Re: Web Page Load Times ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Analog input via soundblaster (Van Snyder)
Re: Removed cover due to heat. OK? (Maarten)
Re: Hardware recommends for ipchains, postfix, squid and bind (Maarten)
Sv: looking for the right motherboard... ("Thomas Holby")
Re: Troubles reading Real Time Clock (Akira Yamanita)
Re: Analog input via soundblaster ("101011")
Re: HP-5M with duplex capability. (Mark Bratcher)
Disabling part of combo card in Pavilion ("Unclaimed Mysteries")
Re: CD-RW HP 9100i (Mark Bratcher)
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From: Robert Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: oops! I erased the file /dev/st0...
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 14:17:48 -0800
Oops! I inadvertantly erased the file /dev/st0 Any ideas on how I might
reinstall that? Is there an RPM that contains all the devices or
something? I'm usind RedHat 6.1 Thanks in advance.
--
Robert Anderson
Systems Administrator
The Ant Farm
323-850-0700
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From: Doug Toppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linksys ProConnect PCMCIA Card Reader/Writer?
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 21:24:13 GMT
Problem was fixed by reinstalling Red Hat 6.2 and booting
the linux-up kernel (non-smp).
The smp (default) kernel tried to load PCMCIA drivers but
there weren't any in /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0smp/.
Device works perfectly now.
Doug
In article <8h3vj0$q4p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Doug Toppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently bought a Linksys ProConnect PCMCIA Card Reader/Writer
> (model PCMRDWR) and can't get my RH 6.2 system to recognize it.
> Has anyone successfully used this before?
> The Linksys site has Linux configuration info for all their
> networking PCMCIA cards but nothing on this card.
> I have a SanDisk CompactFlash PC Card Adapter (PCMCIA card
> with a slot for flash memory cards).
> I have a SanDisk CompactFlash Memory Card that I want to
> read and write in the adapter.
> thanks
> Doug
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: oops! I erased the file /dev/st0...
Date: 05 Jun 2000 17:33:21 -0400
Robert Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Oops! I inadvertantly erased the file /dev/st0 Any ideas on how I
> might reinstall that? Is there an RPM that contains all the devices or
> something? I'm usind RedHat 6.1 Thanks in advance.
The mknod program will create special files.
My RH6.1 box uses device 9,0 for /dev/st0. If yours does too, this
command should work:
mknod -m660 /dev/st0 c 9 0
This, however, is a very low-level call. You may prefer to use the
MAKEDEV script that your system should have installed already:
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV st0
-- David
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From: Doc Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yeah!!Trio 3D/2D works but...mouse needs new pointer
Date: 5 Jun 2000 16:41:49 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> All is good, but mouse pointer is the shape of a square & I don't know
> what is wrong or how to change it. Can anyone shed some light?
In the "Device" section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, add a line
Option sw_cursor
That should get your mouse right.
--
Doc Shipley
Network Support
TARL Labs, UT
Austin, Texas
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From: Kouros Owzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compaq Powerstorm 600
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:44:02 -0400
Hello:
Is the Compaq Powerstorm 600 graphics card supported
under Linux?
I am thinking about buying a used system which is
equipped with this graphics card.
If you have any info on this matter, please send an e-mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Take care,
Kouros
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setting up modem with redhat
Date: 5 Jun 2000 21:45:16 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: when i try to set up my modem with linux redhat 6 i recieve a message that
: says modem is bussy
That's nice.
Who sent you this message? Your uncle james? And how did you try to set
up your modem? By crossing your fingers, whistling three times through
your teeth, and kicking a stray dog?
I suggest you read the Modem-HOWTO. It's sitting waiting for you on
your hard disk ....
Peter
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From: "Matthew Martens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Defective memory?
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:10:09 -0500
Daniel Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have the following problem:
> Occasionally, I experience weird crashes of XWindows or other large
> applications on my computer (486DX4/100) with 72M of EDO RAM. When I boot
> DOS, himem.sys claims to find defective memory. I had to disable the
> bootup mem check because it found problems, too. All this smells a lot
> like bad RAM.
In my experience if either himem.sys or the bootup mem checker report
problems then your memory is defective. A program that I have found is good
at testing memory is called Memtest-86. It can be found at:
http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/
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From: Pierre Moret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Production SMP Linux? Worth the risk?
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 23:35:06 +0200
Nicola Pedrozzi wrote:
> [...]
> We are now planning an HW and OS upgrade of our Linux box.
> I'd like to get a SMP system, our main concern is RELIABILITY; it MUST
> NOT
> be a weak OS installation because it's a production machine.
> [...]
> Questions:
> 1. Will Linux be reliable enough in this HW/OS configuration?
> 2. How good/bad will the OS benefit of the dual processors?
> I know multi-thread works with MySQL, it will with Apache 2.x...
I've been running 2.2.14 (RH 6.1) on a dual PIII-450 (2x 9.1GB UW-SCSI
disks, 256MB RAM, etc) since Oct '99 with no problem at all. This box
serves as a DB-server (MySQL) for a busy website (4M page-views/months,
most of them making several queries to the DB), and I'm pretty happy
with its performance. I'm no SMP-guru, but it looks like the load gets
equally balanced between both cpus. I'd do it again the same way.
Hope it helps.
--Pierre
--
Pierre Moret, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Mike Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: BRU and Sony TSL-9000 Autoloader
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:30:41 -0700
Does anyone know if Red Hat supports this backup device: Sony TSL-9000
Autoloader ?
If so, where do I get the driver?
Here's sony's product page:
http://www.sony-cp.com/_E/Products/Storage/DDS/TSL-9000_Specifications.html
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From: Florian E.J. Fruth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: URGENT: Massive problems with network (adapter)
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:27:36 +0200
Matthias Path
wrote in <8hgpap$30cvp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hallo alle zusammen!
>
> Wir haben SuSE 6.4. Unser Netzwerk ist ein 100 MBit Ethernet und im
> Linux-Problem-Rechner ist eingebaut eine RealTek 8139 als eth0.
>
> Wenn ich mit der Boot-Diskette boote, funktioniert alles normal. Boote ist
> allerdings das System ohne Bootdiskette (verwendet wird der mit SuSE 6.4
> ausgelieferte Kernel 2.2.14 in der "Pentium-optimiert"-Fassung),
> funktioniert die Netzwerkkarte �berhaupt nicht mehr.
>
> Der Rechner l��t sich von au�en nicht anpingen, wie er auch von innen an
> keinen Rechner keine Pings schicken.
>
> Oh, Moment, ich sehe gerade:
> 64 Bytes from ?.?.?.?, icmp_seq=341 ttl=255 time=157678.221 ms (DUP!)
>
> Au�erdem erhalte ich im /var/log/messages-Protokoll ununterbrochen etwas
> wie:
>
> eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0d 0004 media 00.
> eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0.
> eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 8008a062
> eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 8008a062
> eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 8008a062
> eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 8008a062
> eth0: MII #32 registers are: 1000 782d 0000 0000 01e1 40a1 0001 0000.
>
> Immer mal wieder etwas wie:
>
> eth0: RTL8139 Interrupt line blocked, status 5.
> oder status 4, wie's beliebt.
>
> Wie gesagt: Das Interessante ist, beim Booten von der Diskette klappt alles
> prima.
>
> Was kann da das Problem sein???
>
> Matthias Path
>
> P.S.: Die Netzwerkkarte kann's nicht sein, denn das ist jetzt schon die
> zweite, mit der das Problem auftritt!
bootest du von diskette evtl. einen anderen kernel als von der
festplatte? dass der kernel auf dem die diskette zugreift vielleicht i.o.
ist der mit der festplatte vielleicht nicht 100% richtig erstellt wurde ?
fejf
p.s. dies ist eigentlich ne englische newsgroup !
de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: oops! I erased the file /dev/st0...
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 18:04:26 -0500
Robert Anderson wrote:
>
> Oops! I inadvertantly erased the file /dev/st0 Any ideas on how I might
> reinstall that? Is there an RPM that contains all the devices or
> something? I'm usind RedHat 6.1 Thanks in advance.
>
Device files are created with the mknod command. The device information
can be found in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt
--
Bob Martin
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From: "Dean Fetterolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Web Page Load Times
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 19:41:56 -0400
On my two identical AMD K6-2 500 boxes side by side a web page loads faster
on Win98SE With Netscape than on Linux.Mandrake with Netscape. Why?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Web Page Load Times
Date: 5 Jun 2000 23:51:30 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Dean Fetterolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On my two identical AMD K6-2 500 boxes side by side a web page loads faster
> on Win98SE With Netscape than on Linux.Mandrake with Netscape. Why?
Netscape on Linux is quite unstable and slow. In general, versions of
one program on different OSs can behave very differently for many reasons.
Often it is not the same source code compiled on different systems, but the
program also uses standard libraries / functions (eg. for showing bitmap
images), specific to each system. Those can make a great difference.
And often the case with Windows based programs is that the Linux
port is more or less a quick & dirty hack and not well optimized.
--
Risto A. Paju
http://www.iki.fi/teknohog/
The book; the presence which enabled he paused furrowed his: lungs for
a few miles, away from a shrug which is many months but actually is it!
Yelled.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Van Snyder)
Subject: Analog input via soundblaster
Date: 5 Jun 2000 23:03:43 GMT
Is it possible/reasonable to use a soundblaster for low-speed analog
input, i.e. for instrument sampling? I'm looking at signals in the
100-200 Hz range, max.
I thought of maybe just putting my inputs into the microphone/line input.
What sort of software should I use to capture the signal in a file? And
what is the file format?
Thanks in advance.
My news reader seems not to get more than about 1/3 of the articles posted,
as judged by what I can see in xrn and at dejanews, so an e-mail reply
would be appreciated.
--
What fraction of Americans believe | Van Snyder
Wrestling is real and NASA is fake? | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any alleged opinions are my own and have not been approved or disapproved
by JPL, CalTech, NASA, Dan Goldin, Bill Clinton, the Pope, or anybody else.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Maarten)
Subject: Re: Removed cover due to heat. OK?
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 23:35:45 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>On 08 May 2000 11:21:17 +0200, George Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown) writes:
>>
>>How does one go about getting this data? My own dual processor, dual HD
>>system with lots of other extras is about to experience its first summer.
>>The building is not air-conditioned and we have nice big windows on the
>>south side.
>
>As long as you don't overclock the CPU's, you'll be fine as long as the
>cover is kept on, the fans run, and the air intake(s) aren't blocked.
>
>You're place would have to get as hot as a sauna before you run into
>problems.
Well, forgive me all over the place, but that's ****shit. It's an
all-too-well-known fact that in hot summers, computer failure rises
very steeply indeed. In hot summers, you DO have to take special
precautions. Why do you think they try and keep the temperature well
below 20 degrees celcius in serverrooms, that has a reason you know...
And if your computer is directly IN hot sunlight, well... there is no
amount of cooling gonna be able to save that baby...
If there were errors made while either designing the case (what do you
expect with cheap taiwanese cases anyway?) and/or cooling of harddisks
& CPU's, things are even worse. If you have one of those 7200 or
10.000 rpm disks, you had better have coolingfans blowing *directly*
on them, or else... same goes for omitting the heat-conductive
compound between the heatsinks and the cpus.
Well, you get the picture.
Maarten
--
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Maarten)
Subject: Re: Hardware recommends for ipchains, postfix, squid and bind
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 23:58:32 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter) wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Tropi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>does anyone have experience in running a LINUX firewall on 486
>>hardware?
>
>I was doing this until a few months ago with a 5x86-120.
>
>>Is it realistic to use e.g. a 486/66 for securing a network from
>>20 to 120 clients with ipchains, running a mail relay
>>with postfix, Bind and Squid.
>
>This sounds reasonable enough. An ISA-only 486 might be kinda slow, but a
>VLB or (better yet) PCI 486 should work fairly well with a modem and a NIC
>or with two NICs to provide Internet access to an entire LAN.
I concur, exept for squid. Squid really wants memory and disk i/o, and
lots of it. Consider a machine with at least 64 MB and *fast* disks.
Bind also uses much memory... keep that in mind
Also, if your max estimate [of 120 clients] has a chance to become
reality, I'd really go for something more than a 486, say a pentium
200 (at least), with 128 MB or more.
Maarten
--
Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
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From: "Thomas Holby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sv: looking for the right motherboard...
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 00:58:14 GMT
Can anyone give me a url to a place where bye and see this board!
Thanks
T.Holby
Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i en
nyhedsmeddelelse:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I am using an Amtron 599LMR. micro-ATX (8"x7") with upto 8M AGP video
(Sis530),
> sound (cmi8738), 10T/100T lan (dvm9102) and modem (pct0211). The board
works
> with a Cyrix M II and K6-2. I have no problem with Linux so far. The
only thing
> I dislike is the two additional PCBs., one for ethernet module and one for
modem
> DAA. Since I am trying to fit this in a custom box of 4" high, the modem
DAA
> module is too tall. The ethernet module can be mounted sideway but the
modem
> module cannot. I probably fried my modem module while trying to rewire
the
> connectors. Other than that, this is not a bad board for US$85.
>
> By the way, this is great for mp3. The manual said that you can connect 4
> channels sound, but I haven't tried it.
>
> James Scott Olsson wrote:
>
> > Hi, I'm looking for a motherboard with onboard sound, video and
(preferably)
> > networking. I'd like it to have as small a form factor as possible,
> > including the thickness of the entire package- this means I wouldn't
want to
> > use a slot 1 style processor- and processor performance isn't too much
of
> > an issue really. Can anyone recommend a board that would fit these
> > qualifications? I just want to be confident the linux support of the
> > onboard hardware is as good as possible before I buy the board... :) I
> > don't care about how fast the networking is or how good the video is,
but
> > sound should be as nice as possible...
> >
> > thanks in advance for the help!
> >
> > scott olsson
> >
> > ---
> > "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the
> > shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton
> >
> > "If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing
on my
> > shoulders." - Hal Abelson
> >
> > "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have been
surrounded by
> > midgets." - Murray Gell-Mann
>
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Troubles reading Real Time Clock
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 01:13:03 GMT
David Efflandt wrote:
>
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:35:11 +0200, Cristiano Marini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >My Linux 6.0 read incorrectly the real time clock when during startup calls
> >hwclock
>
> The CMOS clock calendar has nothing to do with the real time clock. The
> real time clock (rtc) is a precise timer.
>
> >In my system is arc=false and uts=false and I tried both hwclock &
> >hwclock --directisa
>
> --directisa is only for Alpha cpu and not for Intel like yours.
>
> Instead you want to set your system 'date' properly and then run
> 'hwclock --systohc' (or 'setclock' in RedHat).
>
> The easiest way to set your system time accurately before doing that is
> with 'ntpdate -b timeserver' from the 'xntp' package.
I use rdate.
rdate -s timeserver
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From: "101011" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Analog input via soundblaster
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:20:40 +1000
Saw this on Simtel before and not sure whether you can adopt it
for your own use.....
http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/sound/sat32_22.zip
sat32_22.zip 19991219 815K FFT based spectrum analyzer, acquire soundcard
At least you can see how the sound card acquisition stuff is done.
Van Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8hhbkf$sm1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Is it possible/reasonable to use a soundblaster for low-speed analog
> input, i.e. for instrument sampling? I'm looking at signals in the
> 100-200 Hz range, max.
>
> I thought of maybe just putting my inputs into the microphone/line input.
>
> What sort of software should I use to capture the signal in a file? And
> what is the file format?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> My news reader seems not to get more than about 1/3 of the articles posted,
> as judged by what I can see in xrn and at dejanews, so an e-mail reply
> would be appreciated.
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP-5M with duplex capability.
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 21:48:32 -0400
Sven Bovin wrote:
>
> Antonio Vald�s Morales wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I would like to know if there is any way to control the duplex option of
> > a remote HP-5M printer from Red Hat Linux 6.2.
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Antonio
>
> I know it is possible (since we do it in our lab here), but
> I don't know how it is done. We have two separate printer
> queues to the same printer, one for duplex and one for
> simplex.
>
The filters for each printer queue are different. One of them probably
jams in a duplexing command (in PJL perhaps).
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: "Unclaimed Mysteries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.hp.hardware
Subject: Disabling part of combo card in Pavilion
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:51:28 -0500
I have nearly completed the penguinification of a Pavilion 8652. I'll not be
needing the modem under Linux, but I will continue to use sound and modem in
Windows. I do need sound under Linux, so I installed a Linux-compliant PCI
sound card for that purpose. (Who's on first?)
1) My first idea was to simply disable the new sound card in Windows and
keep the combo card function intact. No IRQ conflicts appeared. Everything
was cool.
2) Then I thought, why not just use the new sound card in both Windows and
Linux, and use the evil combo card as Winmodem only?
I cannot do this. Disabling the Rockwell Riptide sound part in Device
Manager renders the modem useless. Are they THAT tied together? Am I
overlooking something?
Ultimately, it's my fault for getting an HP Pavlovion. I was SEDOOOOCED by a
sale, and further enticed by the fact that at least the 8562 has a separate
video card.
--
It came from C. L. Smith's Unclaimed Mysteries.
http://www.unclaimedmysteries.net/
Public school all the way, bay-bee. So much for "socialization."
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-RW HP 9100i
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 21:54:04 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi all!
> I am a rather new commer to linux world.
> Nevertheless I have been exploring all fstab doc, cdrom-howto's and
> moste of available messages in the group.
>
> But still a total failure to use this CD-RW HP 9100i with Linux Mandrak.
>
> fs type is told to be wrong, or too much file sytem mounted...
> I installed Linux from the cd drive. Then it is fully functional.
> (Wrong?)
>
> I don't know if problems are due to fstab or something else. Help!
What command are you trying to enter that gives you an error?
What does your /etc/fstab look like?
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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