Linux-Setup Digest #103, Volume #21 Tue, 24 Apr 01 13:13:12 EDT
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why after configuring smb.conf and started the smbd..its saying network is busy..
("v.naga srinivas")
Re: fetchmail sender domain must resolve error??? ("Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III")
Re: Redhat 7.0 (Dave Berntson)
Re: missing some apps with RH 7.1 (Brian Langenberger)
Re: I'm Impressed! (Rand Simberg)
Re: Interesting failure rebooting LINUX (Dougie Richardson)
Re: I'm Impressed! (Rand Simberg)
Re: RH 7.0 unable to boot from hard disk ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Dell Inspiron 5000 (Myriam Abramson)
Re: dependency cycle in RPMs?? How to fix this.
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat??? ("Peter Scully")
Re: Kernel 2.4.3 questions... (Paul Lew)
Re: RH 7.0 unable to boot from hard disk (Jeffrey Tsang)
NNTP server ("Jeff")
Re: LINUX on Compaq Deskpro XL (DTi4565459)
Re: dependency cycle in RPMs?? How to fix this. (David Pye)
Any fix for Thinkpad mouse problems with Mandrake 8? (Ronald Hall)
route table ("ja")
Re: Any way to set up Linux so that changing the IDE channel of the HD doesn't
require surgery? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Help -- Made ext2 into free space accidentially ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: installing icons on desktop ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Best way to upgrade to RH 7.1 with CDs ? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Any fix for Thinkpad mouse problems with Mandrake 8? (Brian Langenberger)
Re: NNTP server (Lew Pitcher)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("v.naga srinivas")
Subject: why after configuring smb.conf and started the smbd..its saying network is
busy..
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:41:48 +0000 (UTC)
Hi
I configured smb.conf and started the samba..
its saying network is busy when i click on network neighbour
hood..but the computer ( linux )icon is coming in the network neighbour
hood..
#======================= Global Settings =====================================
[global]
# NORTHLASER:
workgroup = WorkGroup
interfaces = eth0 127.0.0.1/24
# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field
server string = Samba Server
# The next option is important for security. It allows you to restrict
# connections to machines which are on your local network.
# NORTHLASER: This is where you will have to know and insert appropriate
# ip address ranges as found on your network.
hosts allow = 192.168.0. .255
# if you want to automatically load your printer list rather
# than setting them up individually then you'll need this
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
# Uncomment this if you want a guest account,
# NORTHLASER:
# this tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine
# that connects
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
# NORTHLASER:
lock directory = /var/lock/samba
share modes = yes
# Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb).
max log size = 50
# Security mode
# NORTHLASER:
security = share
# NORTHLASER: next 5 lines. Strict locking will slow your system
# a little but enhances data integrity. Set to no if you wish.
prediction = yes
strict locking = yes
local master = no
debug level = 3
null passwords = yes
wins support = Yes
guest account = smbuser
# Most people will find that this option gives better performance.
# See speed.txt and the manual pages for details
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
#============================ Share Definitions ==============================
# NORTHLASER
[looksamba]
comment = shared linux folder
path = /looksamba
public = yes
browseable = yes
writable = yes
force create mode = 000
# NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to
# specifically define each individual printer
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
guest ok = yes
writable = no
public = yes
printable = yes
# This is useful for people to share files
[tmp]
comment = Temporary file space
path = /tmp
read only = no
public = yes
=========================================================
is it sufficient ..............
Could any one help me out......................
thanks,
srinivas.
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From: "Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fetchmail sender domain must resolve error???
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:47:19 -0400
Reply-To: mvjap3 at work <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, David Efflandt wrote:
> Since fetchmail hands it off to your local mail system, that is what is
> complaining about the invalid from addresses. So you need to configure
> your local smtp server to not reject mail with a bogus From.
>
> I think my system tries to bounce it, but cannot with an invalid address,
> so it sends a MAILER-DAEMON msg to root, which is aliased to me anyway.
> Although, I don't get the whole message, it is usually enought to confirm
> that it is spam. Even if you got it, you would not be able to reply to it
> anyway with a bogus address.
Yeah but sometimes people who are sick of auto spamers include something
like "username" REMOVE [at] GARBAGE "domain" [dot] "com" TO REPLY in their
.sigfile, And then routeinely use spambot ducking methods of sending mail.
And these ones could have been replied to...
And even if I don't want the offending message, about half of
them prevent fetchmail from getting the rest of my mail
unless I use something else to flush the offender, useualy
taking the additional mail with it...
But I had posted this elsewhere a while ago... Gave up and
posted it here. when no sooner had I posted to this group
than I got new mail with a possible fix...
<given that I'm using dial-up ppp>
> > The simplest way to deal with this problem is to comment out the
> > "check_mail", "check_rcpt", and "check_compat" rulesets in
> > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. (Remember to restart the sendmail daemon
> > after modifying sendmail.cf.)
> > It is also possible to build a new
> > sendmail.cf from the m4 configuration files, but unless you want to
> > become an e-mail administrator that is a lot of effort for something
> > to be done only once.
But in anycase, thanks for replying...
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<O> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
^
\___/ < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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From: Dave Berntson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.0
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:57:29 -0500
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:55:12 -0700, "Nicolas Giannini"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi. I recently installed RH 7 on my machine in addition to Win98, and
>rather than asking me to install and configure LILO, it told me the install
>was complete and ended the install. I can boot into Linux with the boot
>floppy, but I would rather have LILO. Is there any way to configure this,
>or will I have to reinstall?
>
I had this same thing. All I had to do was boot linux with the boot disk
and type
cfdisk
at the command prompt. Then you can change the boot flag from the windows
partition to the linux partition (in my case, it was the /boot partition,
but you may not have that, so you might have to activate the / partition).
Let me know if you want to know more about this.
Dave
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From: Brian Langenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: missing some apps with RH 7.1
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:52:51 +0000 (UTC)
<snip, again>
: xanim and curl also don't appear to be present, but you should
: be able to track down RPMs or install from source with little
: effort (the curl homepage seems to have a few).
Sorry for the double reply. Both xanim and curl appear to be on the
Powertools disc, which you'll likely need to either pick up
seperately, or download the individual packages from rpmfind.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: I'm Impressed!
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:56:22 GMT
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:01:09 GMT, in a place far, far away, James
Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the phosphor on
my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>I didn't know they made an 8 MHz 486. ;-)
Neither did I, come to think of it. :-)
Actually, I think it's a 33...
>My firewall is built on a 66 MHz 486DX2 & 24 MB of RAM and a pair of SMC
>8013 NICs, running Slackware 7.1. Works fine.
>
>I did the compile on this system, and while it took a while, it didn't
>have any problems.
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From: Dougie Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Interesting failure rebooting LINUX
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:59:31 +0100
Salim Douba wrote:
> To the MBR
Have a look at the NT OS Loader + Linux Mini Howto - it says that you are
best to use the root partition as the boot partition. I can't say as I know
whether NT re-writes the MBR but I know that Win98 will overwrite it during
installation so try using /dev/hda1 as your target partition.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: I'm Impressed!
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:02:08 GMT
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:02:16 +0200, in a place far, far away, "Dancin'
Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>But a question (well, hundreds, actually - I'm a total newcomer to Linux):
>You say your 486 "accidentally" booted from the Linux HD. Did you do
>anything to stop it booting from floppy?
Yes, I put its ribbon cable on backwards. ;-)
Changing the boot sequence in the BIOS is probably a better way,
though.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.0 unable to boot from hard disk
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:09:32 GMT
Jeffrey Tsang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've upgraded from Redhat 6.1 to 7.0. If I boot from a floppy disk, the
> system runs ok. However, the system prints "INIT: Entering runlevel 7"
> and stops whenever it is booted from the hard disk's LILO. This message
> is printed after the "swap -a" is run in the rc.sysinit. Not sure what
> is going on. Any help ?
Boot in a runlevel that actually exists! "s" for starters.
Peter
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From: Myriam Abramson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 5000
Date: 24 Apr 2001 10:59:49 -0400
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz) scribbled furiously:
> Myriam Abramson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> >I would like to know if this laptop is hardware compatible with Redhat
> >7.1.
>
> I just installed RH 7.1 on an Inspiron 8000. At first glance everything
> looks really good; graphics, ethernet, audio were autodetected and work,
> even my PCMCIA ISDN card seems to be detected (though I haven't tried it).
> What probably won't work is the 3COM Winmodem.
Thanks. Can a winmodem be replaced by another for this laptop?
> --
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 177 2437545
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: dependency cycle in RPMs?? How to fix this.
Date: 24 Apr 2001 11:11:43 -0400
Thanks for the suggestion, but this did not work. I received the same
error messages as before.
michael
Brian Langenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> <snip!>
>
> : But now I am confused. glibc-common needs glibc, but glibc needs
> : glibc-common.
>
> : Any recommendations here? I am hesitant to force rpm to install as it
> : seems to me that I should fix this problem rather than ram through a
> : solution.
>
> You can install multiple RPMs at a time, so try installing both at
> once. That way, RPM will see that both are being upgraded at once
> at shouldn't have cause to complain.
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From: "Peter Scully" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat???
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:37:54 +0800
Hmmm, I'm about to buy Suse myself, but I like to get my hands dirty...
As for the rest, I'm getting a little annoyed with certain distributions
playing "Microsoft" (sorry about the language) - trying to force people into
buying upgrades by making old-fashioned methods near impossible.
"mfh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> what distribution you are using then ?
>
> Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 23:14:00 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >Keep your hands clean. Go for Debian!
> > >
> >
> > No thanks. Not to start a flame war, but I would never consider changing
> > to Debian. Why? Certainly not for technical reasons. I am sure it is a
> > great distro. Certainly has some great people involved, and some great
> > ideas behind it. But it also has the 'my shit doesn't stink and yours
> > does' crowd too. And a number of FUD artists as well, who spend oh so
> > much time knocking someone else down, just to make themselves look
> > taller.
> >
> > --
> > Hal B
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > --
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.3 questions...
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:52:23 GMT
Probably the "old" modutil problem....2.4.x changed the way and where the
modules are located from the 2.2.x versions. Look at the Changes doc then
go to the ftp.kernel.org to get the newer modutils.
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Helmut Steinwender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am not sure, but would modprobe know where your vfat is? Shouldn't you
> give the full path?
>
> "Adam Balgach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> so i just made the jump from the 2.2.16 kernel to the 2.4.3 and honestly
>> im having a ton of problems with it. First and most importantly for
>> some reason it will not load anything i build as a module... for example
>> i have the vfat.o module built seperatly... i do:
>>
>> make menuconfig - and setup how i want everything
>> make dep
>> make bzImage
>> make modules
>> make modules-install
>>
>> this will install all of my modules in the /lib/modules/2.4.3/...
>> directories... example vfat.o is in
>>
>> /lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/fs/vfat/vfat.o
>>
>> and then in my /etc/rc.d/rc.modules file i put in the line:
>>
>> /sbin/modprobe vfat
>>
>> and at boot up (or any other time, it gives me this error:
>>
>> bash-2.04# modprobe vfat
>> modprobe: Can't locate module vfat
>>
>> so i basically cant load any modules at all! which is terrible.. WHY ?
>> anyone have any thoughts? email me. thanks.
>>
>> adam balgach.
>>
>
>
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From: Jeffrey Tsang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.0 unable to boot from hard disk
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:30:33 +0800
My default runlevel is 3 in the initab. Why the system runs into runlevel 7
?
And, how could this be fixed ?
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Jeffrey Tsang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've upgraded from Redhat 6.1 to 7.0. If I boot from a floppy disk, the
> > system runs ok. However, the system prints "INIT: Entering runlevel 7"
> > and stops whenever it is booted from the hard disk's LILO. This message
> > is printed after the "swap -a" is run in the rc.sysinit. Not sure what
> > is going on. Any help ?
>
> Boot in a runlevel that actually exists! "s" for starters.
>
> Peter
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From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NNTP server
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:02:34 -0400
My ISP is telling me that I must set up a newsgroup server locally and they
will feed me whatever newsgroups I decide to take. My question is do I have
to use a 3rd party app like Typhoon or Cyclone or does linux have the
ability to receive news feeds and host natively (RH7.1)?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DTi4565459)
Date: 24 Apr 2001 16:07:03 GMT
Subject: Re: LINUX on Compaq Deskpro XL
Did anyone install Linux (SUSE 6.x for instance) on a Compaq Deskpro XL?
This PC has a QVision graphic card, and it is officially not supported.
I wonder if it still works.
Not sure, but I've installed Caldera 2.4 and Debian Potato on a Compaq Deskpro
EN. Not sure if it has same card. Hope this helps, dave
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From: David Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dependency cycle in RPMs?? How to fix this.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:09:21 -0400
Brian Langenberger wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> <snip!>
>
> : But now I am confused. glibc-common needs glibc, but glibc needs
> : glibc-common.
>
> : Any recommendations here? I am hesitant to force rpm to install as it
> : seems to me that I should fix this problem rather than ram through a
> : solution.
>
> You can install multiple RPMs at a time, so try installing both at
> once. That way, RPM will see that both are being upgraded at once
> at shouldn't have cause to complain.
>
>
Try RPM -U glibc*.rpm
If you try upgrading, it should avoid the conflict message...
David
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From: Ronald Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any fix for Thinkpad mouse problems with Mandrake 8?
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:26:22 GMT
I, like many others it seems, cannot get my mouse to work with a Thinkpad
under Mandrake 8.. no matter what setting I try, PS2/COM/BUS etc.. it
doesn't work... Seems like a lot of people are having this problem, has
anyone come up with a fix yet?
--
Ronald Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "ja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: route table
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:11:21 +0800
HI
I use the below instruction to add a route.
#route add ddm17 gw wwm17 metric 1
This route data will be save in /proc/net/route file.
After I reboot the system, this route date disappear.
Can I add this route data for good?
How should I do?
Thank you!
Ja
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any way to set up Linux so that changing the IDE channel of the HD
doesn't require surgery?
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:08:44 +0200
Lucius Chiaraviglio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Lucius Chiaraviglio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Would you mind telling me how the psychic medium is going to work?
> Well, if I knew exactly how it was going to work, I'd do it myself.
OK
> But here's what I'm trying to obtain (which is I think related to, although
> not exactly the same, as the way Windows NT/2000 does it if you pick Option
> B in #1 below, or the way MessDOS does it if you pick Option A, but I could
> be wrong):
> 1. (Option A) Whatever part of the boot process that assigns drive
> letters assigns the first hard disk found to be /dev/hda (searching
This is fine, but it's the bios, not linux, that you are talking about.
By the time linux runs the bios has finished and has booted linux
(ahem). So linux can't influence which disk is booted.
> in order of IDE controller, then in position of disk on IDE
> controller -- something similar should be possible with SCSI drives).
> 1. (Option B, even better) The drive that the boot loader ran on gets
Unfortunately, the boot loader is run (i.e. chosen) by the bios.
> gets assigned to be /dev/hda, no matter whether other drives came
Oh, I see, you are only talking about fstab entries. Linux currently only
looks at the controller ordering. You are suggesting that it should
rename according to the bios ordering? That would be very confusing -
most people hate it when the naming changes without the physical system
changing. They hate it to such an extent that they wrote devfs, which
provides namespace related ONLY to physical dispositions, not to naming
conventions.
> before it. Then use option A above (or something similar) to figure
> out what to do with the rest of the drives.
What to do where? You already booted. That's all you need.
> 2. If #1 above worked, /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab could be left
lilo.conf is irrelevant. It's only used to compile a NEW boot sector,
and you want to use your old one.
> pointing at /dev/hda even if the hard disk was moved to the secondary
You ccould actually recalculate fstab at bootup, if that's all you're
worried about. The kernel only mounts the / partition - whatever it is,
and from then on it's all scripts. The scripts in rcS.d that do the
rest of the mounts can easily edit fstab before using it.
> IDE channel (although in the case of Option A, if another hard
> disk was present on the primary IDE channel, it would hose the
> scheme -- Option B gets around this).
> 3. After finishing with all of the hard drives, do the removable media
> drives (unless one of them is the boot drive), including CD-ROM's.
What about scsi :-).
> Now that I've laid out the above, I have a nasty sneaking suspicion
> that Linux just doesn't do this (and if I had to hazard a guess, none of the
> other Unixes do either). It sure would make my testing job nicer, though.
> I work with machines (CompactPCI CPU boards) that (depending upon the model)
> have quirks such as primary IDE only on the board and (for mechanical reasons)
> being a real pain in the behind to exchange, and secondary IDE only out the
> rear panel I/O card and being relatively easy to exchange, but not available
> at all in some cases; some have no space for a hard drive on the board, and
> the only media on the board must be a CompactFlash module, if anything. It
> isn't too hard to figure out, but gets quite laborious, especially when I have
> to do surgery on /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab whenever I have to move a test
> drive (and often the drive has been taken off and put on a shelf before I know
> what configuration of system it will be in next, meaning that I have to fix it
> after the fact with the rather, um, mediocre rescue mode of the Red Hat 6.2
> installation CD).
Sounds like using sed on fstab at bootup is what you want to do.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help -- Made ext2 into free space accidentially
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:13:33 +0200
Jess Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It "appears" that everything is still in hda2. When I boot, I get the normal
> check on hda7 where the "/" for Redhat 7.1 resides, but it stops with an
> error on hda2 reporting 32/6024 files and 7656/24097 blocks, I gather
> because Partition Magic has marked that as "free space."
You gather wrong. Put the correct type label back on the partition with
fdisk, and try again.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing icons on desktop
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:15:27 +0200
kg4bia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am a Linux newbie trying to work through some problems. This one has me
> beat. How do you install icons on the desktop such as, an icon that
> represents my hard drive so that I can "click" on it to display the contents
> of the hard drive? Thanks in advance.
Rather depends which desktop it is, no?
On my kde, I choose "new" from the menu that appears when I click.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best way to upgrade to RH 7.1 with CDs ?
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:11:58 +0200
Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The reason is that kernel 2.4 requires more swap space than previous
> versions of the kernel. The installer will offer you to put a swap file
No it doesn't! Kernels don't require any swap space in themselves.
64MB or 128MB should be more than enough for most peoples _usage
patterns_.
Peter
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From: Brian Langenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any fix for Thinkpad mouse problems with Mandrake 8?
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:52:22 +0000 (UTC)
Ronald Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I, like many others it seems, cannot get my mouse to work with a Thinkpad
: under Mandrake 8.. no matter what setting I try, PS2/COM/BUS etc.. it
: doesn't work... Seems like a lot of people are having this problem, has
: anyone come up with a fix yet?
Odd. I simply selected PS/2 3-button mouse under RH5.*/6.*/7.*
for my 390E and it worked with no trouble. What sort of Thinkpad is
it?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: NNTP server
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:52:45 GMT
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:02:34 -0400, "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My ISP is telling me that I must set up a newsgroup server locally and they
>will feed me whatever newsgroups I decide to take. My question is do I have
>to use a 3rd party app like Typhoon or Cyclone or does linux have the
>ability to receive news feeds and host natively (RH7.1)?
'Linux' is an OS kernel; it doesn't do apps 'natively' ;-)
Likely Redhat came with at least one newsgroup server; take a look for
'INN' or 'Leafnode'. If they aren't there, then you can download one
or more of them (free, of course).
Lew Pitcher, Information Technology Consultant, Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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