Linux-Setup Digest #490, Volume #19 Sun, 27 Aug 00 16:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Taking the plunge... ("Edward")
MDK 7.1 Installation help - Newbie ("Gerardo")
Re: install a mng plug in netscape? (cyborg)
Re: install a mng plug in netscape? (iks)
Re: httpd hangs at boot (Wayne Pollock)
Re: IBM T20/A20 ThkPd: mini-PCI Ethernet 100/10Mbps... supported? (John Hovell)
Re: install a mng plug in netscape? (iks)
Re: Delay when connecting via telnet/ftp to linux (David Efflandt)
Re: Lilo error (The Contact)
autoconvert Windoze CR-LF to Unix newline? (Mandrake 7.1) (Kirby Urner)
Re: RH 6.2 cdrom install lost interrupt` (The Contact)
Re: PLS HLP! Windows X Problems! (The Contact)
Re: MDK 7.1 - 650MB HD enough? (Eric Laffoon)
Re: Dialer dials, sends UID & password, starts ppp, hangs. (David Efflandt)
Re: Newbie : setting up a HP Laserjet 4L on Mandrake (Kirby Urner)
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From: "Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Taking the plunge...
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:17:40 GMT
> Win2K is great. Stable, reasonably fast (faster than 98 and X on the same
> machine, at least, 95 is still somewhat faster).
> Installation and configuration like a cross between 95 and 98 (iow, mostly
> automatic but you can override if you need to).
> Haven't tried Win2K server, but if it is as good as the WS, it is has the
> potential to kill almost everything else on corporate networks (unless
those
> run custom software for a different OS, of course).
VERY stable, the OS itself has never crashed on me, with enough RAM it's
really fast. But I'm trying to install linux on a slower 64 mb/266 computer,
just to play around a little.
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From: "Gerardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: MDK 7.1 Installation help - Newbie
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 13:25:41 -0400
I have a Compaq laptop LTE 5280 with a 1.2 GIG HD that I would like to
install the Maximum Linux MDK 7.1 as the ONLY OS. Here is the problem and
some information:
1. Right now it has Windows 98 SE.
2. The laptop cannot boot from CD only (the BIOS won't accept it).
3. The laptop only has one bay, therefore, I can only have inside the
floppy drive OR the CD drive. But NOT both at the same time.
Since I cannot boot from the CD, and my Linux is in a CD, I have to boot the
computer from Windows with the CD drive in the bay. QUESTION: How do I
install LINUX to totally reformat the entire HD after being launched from
Windows, so LINUX ends up being the only OS.
Thank you,
Gerardo
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From: cyborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: install a mng plug in netscape?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:21:05 GMT
NOT, this newbie and hundreds of others have learned more from Friedman =
and the many other selfless volunteers than you think. You could have=20
easily pointed out the "other RedHat box" misunderstanding, but instead =
you took the easy way out, inline with switching the distro approach.=20
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 8/27/00, 5:59:26 AM, iks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regard=
ing=20
Re: install a mng plug in netscape?:
> You know friedman, I hate flames but you richly deserve it. The messag=
e=20
says
> *MY OTHER REDHAT BOX*. I run caldera. Besides, you did not even answe=
r=20
my
> question.
> As far as trolls go in a newsgroup, your about the worst I ever seen. =
Your
> self-imposed brilliance has made this newsgroup no longer bearable for=
=20
me.
> Assholes like you give Caldera a bad name. If I ever have a problem=20
strictly
> related to caldera, I rather switch distros than give such a jerk the
> satisfaction of insulting someone without being useful. This is pretty=
=20
common
> opinion from what I seen of other postings.
> Simply put, the purpose of newsgroup is not to insult people, but to=20
share
> information. To help people with their problems. Your postings more of=
ten
> than not serve more harm than help, asshole.
> He's a real nowhere man, livin' in his nowhere land, making all his=20
nowhere
> plans for nobody.
> -John Lennon
> "L. Friedman" wrote:
> > Well, your largest problem at the moment is that you're posting to a=
> > Caldera NG while using RH. Perhaps you need to figure out which dis=
tro
> > you want to use, and then ask for assistance in the appropriate foru=
m.
> > This isn't it for RedHat.
> >
> > iks wrote:
> > >
> > > The instructions everyone seems to be giving to me is not working,=
> > > because I do not have the menu option in preferences.
> > >
> > > for instance...
> > >
> > > Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Applications->
> > >
> > > I do not have Applications-> in the navigator menu, using 4.73. Th=
at
> > > menu just sets up a home page. Same thing on my other redhat box.
> > >
> > > Pardon me for being stupid, but I must be missing something simple=
here.
> > > I installed the file in
> > > /opt/netscape/plugins and in ~/.netscape/plugins, but I can't figu=
re out
> > > how to see it in help->about plugins.
> > >
> > > if anyone is interested in mng, chech out
> > >
> > > http://trolls.troll.no/warwick/mng/
> >
> > --
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~=
~
> > L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]=
m
> >
> > The alt.os.linux.caldera FAQ:
> > http://netllama.ipfox.com/COL_FAQ.html
> > Step-by-step help for COL problems:
> > http://netllama.ipfox.com/stepbystep.htm
> >
> > 11:55pm up 14 min, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.15, 0.14
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From: iks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: install a mng plug in netscape?
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 04:43:24 -0600
What a waste of energy. My apologies to everyone. Can someone please answer my
question now?
cyborg wrote:
> NOT, this newbie and hundreds of others have learned more from Friedman
> and the many other selfless volunteers than you think. You could have
> easily pointed out the "other RedHat box" misunderstanding, but instead
> you took the easy way out, inline with switching the distro approach.
>
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From: Wayne Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: httpd hangs at boot
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 13:29:28 -0400
It is trying to resolve the servername. You system isn't really
hung, but it does take several minutes for the DNS query to time-out.
A simple fix is to edit the httpd.conf file and add the correct
ServerName directive. (Make sure that name appears in your /etc/hosts
file with your real IP address or just use "127.0.0.1" until you move
it back.) (If you changed the default settings in /etc/host.conf and
/etc/nsswitch.conf, the resolver libraries may not bother to
check /etc/hosts at all, and you will still have to wait.)
Note that sendmail (and other servers) may also appear to hang on
input for the same reason.
I seem to remember the DNS algorithm is to not give up for about
four and a half minutes. You may have to wait that long for each
DNS query made during bootup, if your system isn't configured to
use /etc/hosts and if you don't tell the servers what their hostname
is.
-Wayne Pollock
ortius wrote:
>
> Anyone?
>
> Moved one of our servers out of a co-lo. Wanted to check out the files on
> the system before putting it back in service. It worked a-ok while at the
> co-lo. It's here on a router/T1, cat5. Powered it up, LILO loads & inits the
> following...
>
> it starts mount local filesystems, turning on user and group quotas for
> local filesystems,
> enabling swap space, INIT: entering runlevel3, Entering non-interactive
> startup, check for new hardware,
> setting network parameters, bringing up interface lo, bringing up interface
> eth0, initializing random number generator,
> sys logger, kernel logger, cron daemon, INET svcs, proftpd, antirelayd, ssl
> service, starting exim, ALL OK, then
> starting httpd
>
> ... hangs...
>
> tried control c,... tried control-d
>
> How do I gain access , get around the httpd hang ( i know the IP is
> invalid... can't access to change, anyway ).
>
> --
> The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese .
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From: John Hovell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: IBM T20/A20 ThkPd: mini-PCI Ethernet 100/10Mbps... supported?
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:54:05 GMT
Valentin --
Valentin Guillen wrote:
> I am using Intel EtherEx Pro/100B PCI LAN adapters in a couple of boxes
> on my home network and they come up automatically in any version of
> Linux I've tried on those boxes, and I've had several distros over the
> last 5 years on some of these network cards.
>
> These cards are now out of production. They contain the INTEL S82557
> chip as the main controller on the card.
Hmm... I wonder if we are talking about the same chipset. This machine is
brand new and I thought it was the current Intel EtherExpress PRO 10/100.
Maybe I'm wrong.
> I've had my laptop for 2 1/2 years now and have been quite pleased with
> it. It's a Hitachi VisionBook Pro. Here's why.
<snip>
Hmm... sounds a bit like a sales pitch to me :-). Well, the 25% employee
discount with IBM really makes a bit of difference for me; not to mention I
think I'm fairly close to victory considering they sell the same machine
with Caldera and the same NIC as an option... All I need to do is confirm it
actually works :-).
> Good Luck with your upcomming purchase!
Thanks... apparently, I'll need it :->.
Thanks for the response...
Cheers,
John
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From: iks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: install a mng plug in netscape?
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 05:40:22 -0600
Ah, navigator is a drop down menu. I really screwed up in so many ways. Ouch!
iks wrote:
> What a waste of energy. My apologies to everyone. Can someone please answer my
> question now?
>
> cyborg wrote:
>
> > NOT, this newbie and hundreds of others have learned more from Friedman
> > and the many other selfless volunteers than you think. You could have
> > easily pointed out the "other RedHat box" misunderstanding, but instead
> > you took the easy way out, inline with switching the distro approach.
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Delay when connecting via telnet/ftp to linux
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:53:29 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have installed RedHat 6.1 on my AMD 450 (256MB/10GB with 10/100
>ethernet) and it runs great; excellent performance of GNOME and all
>server based tasks.
>
>However, when I contact the server from my Windows boxes (either NT,
>2000, or 98) I have to wait about 2-3 minutes before I get a login
>prompt. This occurs for telnet, ftp, and SWAT.
>
>The really wierd thing is that when I telnet from my NeXT box (old
>black slab running NeXTSTEP 3.3) connections are instantaneous. When I
>connect to this box from the wintel boxen, I get an immediate
>connection, so I know it has to be something in Linux.
>
>I've read all the man pages on telnetd, ftpd, and inetd and can't
>figure out what is going on. I'm pretty sure that Microsoft is doing
>something funky that inetd doesn't understand, but beyond that, I'm
>confused.
This question has been asked before, like several times per day. The
answer is that Linux is having trouble finding a name for the boxes
connecting to it (DNS lookup timeout). You can usually solve this by
putting names for your local IPs in /etc/hosts.
The names do not need to be real, in fact it is best not to use any names
that might be confused with internet names, unless you have internet IPs.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo error
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:54:43 GMT
liveinhope wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am new in linux.
> I found problem when I started my computer
> after installed Red Hat 6.2.
> I have win98se in my system, so I installed lilo in MBR.
> When it started...
> Only show "LI", then my computer hold...
> And I tried to use boot disk...
> It prompted "Error 0x10".
> My system has two IDE hd and one scsi hd.
> I installed win98se and rh to one ide hd.
> How to solve it? And what're the causes?
> Thank you.
Have you altered your lilo.conf file? If so, did you forget to rerun
lilo?
--
The Contact
"Ones and zeros represent more than just the binary count.
They represent the mass knowledge we know as Internet."
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From: Kirby Urner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: autoconvert Windoze CR-LF to Unix newline? (Mandrake 7.1)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 12:11:48 -0700
Greetings --
I'm moving this thread from comp.lang.python as it turns
out to be more about the Linux-Windows relationship.
Basically, a Linux user intimated there'd maybe be a way
to use the same source code text files (Python modules
with .py extension) across platforms (my Windoze
partitions are mounted and accessible in my Linux partition),
such that I'm not plagued by the different way of doing
line feeds in the two OSs.
Is this possible. Can the sharing be bidirectional (e.g.
changes in Linux will not end usability of file in Windoze
and vice versa?).
Kirby
Background:
==============================================================
I just installed Linux-Mandrake in a partition on
my mostly Windows box. So far so good.[1]
Very gratified to find Python already part of
the distro (1.5.2), including IDLE and Tk.
Bunderbar!
Now, Mandrake automounts all my Windows drives
by default, so I've got access to my Python
1.6b or whatever, plus all the little modules
I've written in support of my 'math through
programming' curriculum writing.[2]
So naturally it occurs to me to do something
like this in Linux:
>>> import /mnt/win_f/python16/ocn/coords
But here's the problem: coords.py is tokenized
with all these /r thingys at the end of every
line. I think I understand the reason: DOS-based
Windows has always used ASCII CR-LF for end of
line, while UNIX just uses /n (newline) -- so
I'm looking at all those ASCII LF characters,
yes? Or are these CRs? (with kids we're going
to have to bring a physical typewriter into
the classroom -- which some have never seen --
to make sense of the "carriage return"
terminology).
Now here's the question: yes, I can write a
program to strip the '/r's out of my Windoze
modules, but then they're going to be out of
whack when I reboot into that version of
Python no? So is it the case that I need to
clone all my modules and write routines to
convert back and forth? Or is there some more
universal text format that'll let me store the
module once and only once and share it between
both OSs?
Kirby
PS: actually, having written this, I'm now rather
confused. OF COURSE all kinds of module files out
there on the net, some of which I've downloaded
and used in Windows, were orginally written in
Linux/Unix. CLEARLY its very possible to share
the same text source between OSs. So my new question
is: why haven't I encountered this problem before.
I think I'm missing something obvious here. Please
be kind. :-DDD (<- ingratiating grin plus double chin).
[1] installation of Mandrake-Linux was pretty smooth,
as advertised, but I think my finger slipped at 2:30 AM
or something and I found myself looking at a 20 gig
hard drive with only the new Linux partition usable,
all the FAT32 stuff inaccessible (gulp! -- not backed
up). I swallowed hard, found some utility from Russia
or someplace, and managed to change a byte code in the
partition table that'd been misset to 85. All back to
normal. Whew!
[2] my "math through programming" (using a way better
teaching language than Basic or C) is on-line at
http://www.inetarena.com/~pdx4d/ocn/numeracy0.html
-- a four part essay, with Python mods downloadable
(so will Linux people see /r at the ends of all my
lines?)
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Kirby Urner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[...]
> Now here's the question: yes, I can write a program to strip the '/r's
> out of my Windoze modules, but then they're going to be out of whack
> when I reboot into that version of Python no? So is it the case that I
> need to clone all my modules and write routines to convert back and
> forth? Or is there some more universal text format that'll let me store
> the module once and only once and share it between both OSs?
there's a hack you can use to make the kernel (the fat filesystem module)
convert the line-endings for you on the fly; give mount the "conv=auto"
option.
in practice, you would: (1) su to root, (2) open an editor on your /etc/fstab
file, (3) look for the line(s) that automount the DOS FAT filesystems in
question, (4) insert the "conv=auto" in the options section of these. those
lines would end up looking analogous to this, more or less:
/dev/hdXY /mnt/dos vfat nosuid,nodev,conv=auto 0 0
notice the "conv=auto" and how the options are comma-separated. that's the
only part you want to change, don't touch anything else in these lines
unless you *really, really* know what you're doing. don't touch any of the
other lines, either. trust me on this, i had to learn the hard way lo those
many years ago.
one possible stumbling block: i'm unsure how your particular version of
Mandrake Linux does the automounting of vfat partitions. i'm assuming it
uses mount and fstab like any other filesystem, because that's the sensible
way. but if it uses some sort of automounting daemon, i'm out of my depth.
another one: this option will automagically convert line endings on *text*
files. well, how does the kernel know what's a text file? it guesses that a
file is text if it doesn't have a "well-known binary" extension. that sort
of guesswork is what kernel developers call a "godawfully ugly hack". you
might want to read the man page for mount(8) to find out what these "well
known" extensions are, so you won't get bitten.
> PS: actually, having written this, I'm now rather confused. OF COURSE
> all kinds of module files out there on the net, some of which I've
> downloaded and used in Windows, were orginally written in Linux/Unix.
> CLEARLY its very possible to share the same text source between OSs.
> So my new question is: why haven't I encountered this problem before.
probably you've been downloading them to windows in text format. then, either
your ftp program will convert them for you, or you've downloaded them in .zip
files and their authors have done the conversion for you. that's just my guess,
though.
==============================
Thanks for the quick reply.
>one possible stumbling block: i'm unsure how your particular version of
>Mandrake Linux does the automounting of vfat partitions. i'm assuming it
>uses mount and fstab like any other filesystem, because that's the sensible
>way. but if it uses some sort of automounting daemon, i'm out of my depth.
Yeah, it appears to use /etc/fstab, which looks like this:
$ cat fstab.txt
/dev/hdc2 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
/mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdc5 /mnt/win_c2 vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/win_f vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc3 swap swap defaults 0 0
I modified line 7 to look like this:
/dev/hdc5 /mnt/win_c2 vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0,conv=auto 0 0
but Linux choked on that, said line 7 was bad. Maybe I should
go umask=auto 0 0 (pure guesswork at work -- could be dangerous
I realize, time to do some homework).
I think you've definitely pointed me in a promising direction,
and I see this is more a Linux thread than a comp.lang.python
thread -- so I'll move to a Linux ns and follow-up, reporting
back if I get a fix.
Kirby
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 6.2 cdrom install lost interrupt`
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 19:10:43 GMT
Jonathan Friedman wrote:
> 486 dx/2 50
> 40MB RAM
> 850 MB HD (currently has W95 - but I don't care if that goes poof < good
> ridence)
> 2MB ATI VLB Video card
> IDE CDROM drive (Creative - but actually a Goldstar - 580?)
>
> The HD is primary master, CDROM is secondary master.
>
> I want to install RH 6.2 . I downloaded and burned the iso distribution for
> i386 architecture to CD. I got the latest Boot image and updates image disk
> from the redhat ftp site. When I go to install, however, It always gets
> through the first few screens about keyboard, language, etc... then it
> accesses the CDROM (at which point I can switch over to the bash window and
> ls the cdrom correctly) then after accessing the cdrom the debug window
> (cntrl-alt-f4) shows "<4>hdc: lost interrupt" and will redisplay this
> message every second until it fills the screen. At this point the
> installation is frozen and does not copy any files or do anything even
> though I can still switch around screens. If I go to bash at this point ls
> just hangs. I have looked on the internet for a fix. I'm sure other people
> have had this problem, but I can not seem to find any documentation. Please
> help. Thanks.
Well, first of all, I have the same problem with my pc. I could install
RH6.2 without problems (directly from CD, no bootdisks), but when I
(now) want to mount the cdrom (which is at /dev/hdc) I get the same
errors. Maybe you could try to place it in another config (maybe primary
slave or so), I couldn't do it (laptop) so I don't know if that's the
problem.
My CD-ROM is a Teac CD-316E (different from yours) so it possibly
doesn't ly on the driver. The rest of my config is as follows (try to
find some similarities with yours):
Core Logic Chips: Intel 430MX
System BIOS: Phoenix
All the other data is irrelevant, because it doesn't applie to the
cd-rom.
I am also unable to install SuSE (the boot from CD fails, and I can only
choose OR CD, OR floppy), maybe you should try that.
Please let me know what you find out.
Oh, it isn't due to apmd, and it is possibly due to the ide1-connector,
because when I change my CDdrive to a floppystation, I don't get into
trouble.
--
The Contact
"Ones and zeros represent more than just the binary count.
They represent the mass knowledge we know as Internet."
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PLS HLP! Windows X Problems!
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 19:12:29 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have recently installed Red Hat Linux release 6.9.5 (Pinstripe) Kernal
> 2.2.16-17 on an i586.
> My video card is an S3 Virge/DX on board Q5E4BB.
> My monitor is a KTX 14" with Vertical Frequency: 50Hz to 90Hz and
> Horizontal Frequency: 30 Khz to 50 Khz.
> When I run Xconfigurator it does a PCI probe and finds:
> PCI Entry: S3 Inc|ViRGE/DX
> X Server: XF86_SVGA
> XFree4 driver: s3virge (not used by default)
> So I click ok and then I am at the next screen; monitor setup.
> I click on custom because my monitor is not in the list, then I put in the
> Horizontal Sync (30-50) and Vertical Sync (50-90).
> Next screen is video memory. I select 1mb and the next screen 'clock chip
> configuration' I select 'no clock chip setting'.
> Next screen is 'select video modes' and I select 640x480 and 800x400 and
> 1024x768 in the 8 bit column.
> It then says it will test my config so I click ok.
> Then it says that there is a problem with my configuration and tells me to
> go back and modify my configuration or exit.
> Can someone please help
have you tried filling in the 16-bit, 24-bit and 32-bit-entries?
--
The Contact
"Ones and zeros represent more than just the binary count.
They represent the mass knowledge we know as Internet."
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From: Eric Laffoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: MDK 7.1 - 650MB HD enough?
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 12:02:32 -0700
Gerardo wrote:
> I have a laptop with Win98 SE (1.2 Gig HD) that has about 650 to 700 MB
> left
> in the harddrive. Is that enough for a decent MDK 7.1 installation?
>
> I plan to use the Partition Magic that comes with the Macmillan Mandrake
> 6.5 to partition the HD and install the Maximum Linux magazine Mandrake
> 7.1.
>
> Thank you,
> Gerardo
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
650 MB enough for what? Remember it is a good idea to have more than one
partition for a Linux install and I'm not even sure if the default Mandrake
install offers less than swap, root and home. The default install is
something like 1.3-1.8 GB. Linux will install on less. You can get it to
run off a floppy.. but it's not quite the same as booting Mandrake. I have
installed Mandrake 7.1 on an 850 MB dirve with room to spare in expert mode
but it was stripped to work as a firewall.
My recomendation is that this is possible but painful... probably more pain
that it's worth... get more disk space and enjoy it. ;-)
--
Eric Laffoon - chief conjurer of all things web...
http://virtualartisans.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A member of the Quanta+ Web Development Team
http://quanta.sourceforge.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Dialer dials, sends UID & password, starts ppp, hangs.
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 19:21:02 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 08:39:37 -0700, Jack Kessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When Redhat 6.1 starts, among the endless lines that rush up the screen are
>"ttyS0 is a 16550", followed by "ttyS1 is a 16550". I associate the number
>16550 with a UART, which has something to do with the modem. When I run
>wvdial, it reports finding a modem at ttyS3. The system dials, sends UID
>and password, starts ppp and then stalls.
>
>What is going wrong? Does the system think there is more than one modem.
>How do I persuade the system that there is only one modem (if that is what
>it thinks) and that it is in only one place?
wvdial in RH 6.1 is a joke. It is an alpha (as in pre-beta) version of a
program that just gets in the way. If it sees a login prompt it assumes
that you need to log into the shell first, but that is often a bad
assumption, since many people do not have direct dialin shell access.
The best thing you could do is edit the connection in the Gnome Dialer
Configuration Tool and check the box to let pppd handle authentication (or
set 'Stupid mode = 1' (w/o quotes) in /etc/wvdial.conf for that connection
and then use linuxconf (or netcfg in X) to configure the connection using
PAP authentication. Then hopefully wvdial will allow pppd to immediately
go into ppp mode and handle the authentication using PAP.
If for some reason it does not add your username and password to
/etc/pap-secrets, just edit that as root and add something like:
username ppp0 password
Also make sure you have nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf (see 'man
resolver').
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From: Kirby Urner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie : setting up a HP Laserjet 4L on Mandrake
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 12:28:30 -0700
"Luc Van Bogaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've just installed Mandrake 7.1 and all is working well, except for
>sound and my printer. I suppose setting up the printer should be the
>easiest of the two...
>
>I have a HP Laserjet 4L whih should be supported.
>
>The tools provided with Mandrake don't seem to work to set up the
>printer.
>
>Can anyone here spare some advice, directions or sources of information
>to get this printer set up?
>
>Any help is appreciated
>
>Thanks
>
>
>Luc Van Bogaert
>
I have an HP LJ 4L using Mandrake 7.1
I used the Drake configuration tool, which has lots of icons/bottons
leading to various other configuration tools.
One of them is for the printer. Did you get that far?
I accepted the default settings and when it listed all the
printer types, I selected something like HP4-HP5 Nonpostscript
Printers (the 4L isn't postscript). Then I printed both test
pages (including postscript) and they worked.
Kirby
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