Re: LILO hassles
Hello, I just changed from suse-linux to debian. My installation is simmilar to the yours, only that my first hd has 1233 cylinders. If i start linux i get an : LILO UNCOMPRESSING KERNELOK LOADING LINUX and than it hangs. THats probably the kernel, since according to this LILO works fine, and kernel gets uncompressed. ANdrew
Re: dual boot?
Just those disks you have are scsi disks, more generalized form of lilo.conf would be with IDE ones. sd? should just be replaced with hd? It works fine. I use the lilo bootloader to launch linux and NT. My /etc/lilo.conf looks like this: boot=/dev/sda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 vga=ask image=/vmlinuz label=debian root=/dev/sdb1 read-only other=/dev/sda1 label=winnt table=/dev/sda For more information on lilo, see http://www.linuxhq.com/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html. morgan -- VVV M o r g a n F l e t c h e rhttp://www.hahaha.org/morgan Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Mouse again!
I posted something about my mouse not working after installing a new ViRGE card on my Linux box, but none of the suggested solutions have been succesful. Therefore, I will explain the problem again. Basically, the mouse is only marginally recognized: sometimes, if I move it, the cursor appears for a while, but it doesn't move. Some other times, it moves far too fast, rendering it useless. Ok, this does not sound at all like an irq conflict, but just to make sure do cat /proc/pci to get the data on S3 card of yours. More specifically, it will tell you hte irq it has, which can not be obtained from cat /proc/interrupts You sure that the mouse is set to irq 4? Try setserial -g /dev/ttyS0 to get the data on mouse, or where it should be. Since with my old VGA card, the mouse works great, and it works fine under Windows with the new card, I am at a loss here. My BIOS settings have a com1 at 0x3f8, irq 4, and a non-PnP OS, automatic IRQ assignation and resetting enabled. It's one of this Award PnP BIOS's you seem to get everywhere these days. Try changing it to pnp OS? It should stil boot fine. Yesterday, I got hold of a matrox millenium gfx card, and swapped my S3 ViRGE for it. The problem stays with the new card, and the card doesn't work properly. What is the problem with new card? I'd be *REALLY* grateful if anyonce could send me some information (or to the list), as I can't use either gpm or X, and I need to get to X to finish some work The only thing I could blame it on is bad hardwarebut which one, though. But lets see what htose cat's turn out. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Help!! Getting LILO working?
Ok, here is hwo you should do it: boot = /dev/hda #Disk to boot (Master on primary IDE) root = /dev/hdb2 #Where root partition is install = /boot/boot.b map = /boot/map vga = normal delay = 50 prompt ramdisk = 0 read-only default = linux image = /vmlinuz#Linux kernel label = Debian alias = linux image = /boot/vmlinbackup #This is a backup kernel. If you don't have label = backup #One, comment those lines out other = /dev/hda1 #This is a Windows partition label = MS table = /dev/hda just put that into /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo It should give no warnings. Then reboot, and linux will load on default. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: 2 Q's about dial-up stats
1) Is there a command that will let me see when I connected via dial-up? My university-come-ISP has a 3-hour limit on dial-up, and if I don't pay attention to when I dialed up, a couple of hours later I wonder how much time I have left before I get disconnected. You can do a plog. I have a 2 hour limit, so it helps. I also wrote a small shell script for myself, it keeps the system online all the time, and tells you how much time left. So you are welcome to get the source. Although, the version I use is customized for my machine, and version I want to put out is in the testing right now. But if you are interested, email me. 2) I'm using the apt-method with dselect to download packages. In the bottom right corner of my screen is a number like 3109 b/s. With a 28.8 modem, shouldn't there be another 0 on the ned of that number, or am I misunderstanding what that number means? Dont know about apt-method. But if it's a 28.8 modem, then 3.1Kb/s is not a bad speed for a download ( if it is a speed of download, in which case there shoudl not be any extra zeros there). HTH, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: [Fwd: Installation questions from a newcomer]
Ok, basicly you go to the www.debian.org and follow a link to installation guide. There you will be given hte instructions on how to install, and have links to the files you need. HTH, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Modem Troubles
Hi Deb-Users, I have a problem with a modem called 'SupraExpress 56i pro' a PCI-56K-Modem. How can I get access to it with debian. I can't access it via ttySx TIA One thing to try would be to use isapnp tool, if that modem of yours is, in fact, pnp. Does seem that way. The package is availible at debian site. If you need more help on it, email me. I've installed my SupraExpress 336si the hard way too. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Help!! Getting LILO working?
Basicly, the line prompt should ask you which OS to boot. Take it out, and all you will be getting at boot will be: LILO, then pause, during which you can hit Alt/Ctrl/Tab and select OS to which to boot ( Just type in the label name), or can just wait 5 seconds and linux will boot automaticly. And no, when in Linux you run lilo, it does not reboot your machine right away. It doesnt reboot it at all, reallly. All LILO does is make a new MBR for your boot disk. So there was no need for that salute *smile*. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Help!! Getting LILO working?
Any ideas on how to get LILO to work with this configuration? Thanks in advance. Tim Boot into debian with boot disk, and make a lilo.conf file to run with lilo. Or just send the cfdisk information (partitions for all disks), and I can write it for you. And LILO will work with second drive. At least it works for me. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Help!! Getting LILO working?
Andrew Ivanov wrote: Any ideas on how to get LILO to work with this configuration? Thanks in advance. Tim And LILO will work with second drive. At least it works for me. Andrew Maybe a part of the puzzle is I have an old BIOS (choises of A: and C: ?) I got an old bios as well. I didnt initiate LILO when I was installing Deb., did it afterwards. My / is located on the Primary IDE slave drive, and boots with no problem. Just do fdisk/cfdisk for both drives and email the partition table to me, I'll write a lilo.conf that you can use to boot. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Help!! Getting LILO working?
Hi Andrew, I have my c drive as dev/hda1,2,3 and my d drive is dev/hdb1 -that is my windows drive but I also cannot get lilo to work. I would appreciate a lilo.conf which works posted to the list if possible. So we can review where we have gone wrong. cheers, Mike Ok, here is a sample /etc/lilo.conf: boot = /dev/hda root = /dev/hda1 #Here I am acting under assumption that install = /boot/boot.b # hda1 is where th root partition is. map = /boot/map vga = normal prompt delay = 50 ramdisk = 0 read-only default = linux# Set it to default. image = /vmlinuz # This one is a current booting kernel label = Debian alias = linux image = /boot/vmlinbackup # This is a backup kernel label = backup other = /dev/hdb1 #This is a windows partition. label = MS table = /dev/hdb HTH, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Formatting drive
Hi all. I have a hard drive with ext2 fs on it, and I need to reformat it to put windows on it. How can I accomplish it? (Its invisible to dos, so I can not format it from there) Is there a command like that in linux? TIA, Andrew
Re: Modem freezup
Try looking up and finding out what process has pid 829 (top or ps) Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
HD partitioning.
Ok, I'm completely lostI know how to make a Linux drive out of Windows drive, basicly speaking...but I need to make a drive for Win from what I currently have as a drive where partitions are set to Dos 16 type, but the filesystem is ext2. I can not do anything about it in windows.it plain can not see the drive. Please give an advice on how to make my drive visible to windows? TIA, Andrew
Sound card driver.
I got an AcerMagic FX-3D sound card (PnP, unfortunately), and currenly am trying to set it up so that it works. Has anyone been able to get it to work? I've tried including SB16 driver in the kernel, but it doesnt work still. Readme.cards suggests that I use Crystal-based cards driver instead, but the IO base is different for those cards. TIA, Andrew
Re: New Install
I expect all to go smoothly except possibly my 56K Winmodem and my Turtle Beach Montego Audio Card. Can anyone give me any information that may help me in that area? Not sure about the sound card ( I'm going through the sound setup right now, and it seems like your card is supported by the kernel, to make sure look in /usr/src/kernel-source/drivers/sound/Readme.cards), but you need to buy a non-Winmodem. Or you will not be able to connect. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Mouse not working--could it be an S3Virge incompatibility issue?
So it is obviously a conflict between the S3 and my serial port. The card is a S3 Virge with a 86C325 chip. Does anyone know what might be causing this? My old card is an extremely old VGA. Which com port is your mouse on? It's on /dev/ttyS0 (COM1), all other details are set to standard settings. Hmmm. Don't know then, unless some how your video card is being allocated IRQ 4. Have a look in the IRQ listing usually given at the start of booting by your BIOS. AFAIR his mouse behaviour under S3 is different from irq conflict... With IRQ conflict cursor just freezes there, and it seems his cursor is gone conpletely, and only when mouse is moved, it appeares. Probably something with the hardware? I have an S3 Virge/DX with 4M, works beautifully. ALso, just to make sure, try switching irqs with setserial for the Com1. If it's IRQ conflict, it will help. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Activating swap
Evening all. I am trying to setup a secondary swap partition on a different IDE controller in my system. I partitioned the drive, inserted /dev/hdc5 noneswap sw pri=0 0 0 into the fstab ( I may be putting the pri=0 option in the wrong place, but it works with the first swap partition) But when I boot, I get Unable to find swap-space signature for the /dev/hdc5 and swapon produces Invalid argument message, when trying to either swapon -a or swapon /dev/hdc5 How do I activate that swap? TIA, Andrew
Afterstep configuration.
I got a 14 monitor, and even with 1024x764 Wharf buttons in AfterStep do look kinda big. WHich file holds the size of buttons in AS? I realize that .xpm's will neen to be replaced as well to indicate new size or button, but it will not be a problem. TIA, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Trouble Starting XF86
Hi I'm having trouble Starting X I installed the version that came on 2.0 cdrom uder hamm I have used X setup and I'm running a S3 Virge DX and have it configured and a Monitor running at 800x600 What seems to be the problem? Does it not start, does it start and die, what error messages you get when it dies? I have the same card, and getting it to work with SVGA server( S3 xserver doesnt seem to work for me) was painless. Andrew
Re: Afterstep configuration.
Hallo my name is Ingo. Hi. I have installed the GNU/Debian version 2.0. Now i have a problem with the X-windows system. Which card and monitor do you have? 640x480 seems like either a pretty old ISA card, or a very old monitor, or both. Make sure you have the right settingsif you don't, get hte right ones, it might get the resolution up. I have running the x-server but X didn´t start. There is only an error message on the textmode that call : no valid mode 480x640 installed But I have config the XF86Setup and Ihave select two modes (480x640) and (600x800) and 8bpp. Rerun xf86config and when you get to hte mode screen, change the order of modes to be from highest to lowest. This iwll ensure that the first valid mode will be selected and it will give you the highest resolution possible. Alsoinclude 600x400 at the end, just to see at what resolution you can run it, if everything else fails. You can cycle through the valid modes once you start X.and it's Ctrl +, or something like that. It says at the mode screen. HTH, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: converting numbers
Howdy, Where's the FM that tells how to convert numbers, like 0x11A to a decimal? 0x11A is in hex, and to convert it to dec is 1*16^2 + 1*16^1 +10*16^0 (A=10,B=11, C=12, D=13, E=14, F=15) I may be wrong, but I think octal is in x0# format, so that 0x0300 would be an octal number. To convert that to dec is just 3*8^2+0*8^1+0*8^0, and ignore the leading 0 after x, which is used to idenbtify the radix. Binary...well, is binary. HTH, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: converting numbers
Thanks for the correction: 0x is hex, 0 is octal. OK, hex numbers are radix 16, octal radix 8, decimal radix 1. No, decimal is radix 10 (base 10). Binary is base 2. I guess I'll have to determine when to use each based on context. In written language the base is used as a subsript to the number, so that you know what number system you work in. Thanks! Now, where is that coffee? :-) Mcoffee. Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Modem Init strings
You can try wvdial package, it uses init string different from ATZ. Basicly it looks up the init string for your modem. Also, look into irqtune. Didnt help me, but might help you. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: debian newbie seeks help
Ok. Basicly, in order to run a program all you need to do is type the program name. Like, in order to run netscape in Xwindows, you type netscape and hit enter. Many commands can include arguments with them, like xterm -bg black -fg white geometry 80x35 will produce an xterm window with black background, white font color and size of 80x35. To find out more about the commands and arguements do man name of command. Thats when you have manual pages installed. A good book could be Linux in a Nutshell, which is a big command reference. HTH, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Help (again~!!) and then some...
Now, under 2.0.34, I have good sound... but I can't mount my fat16 partition or my cdrom... I get the 'you must specify partition type'... I try vfat for the /dev/hda1 , and it tells me it is not supported... Help You may have excluded the vfat support from the kernel when you compiled it. Just run configuration again and see if vfat support is included in the kernel. If it's not, include it and compile again. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Is SupraExpress 288i PnP Modem a WinModem?
It could be just a pnp. most likely it is. Try to get it with isapnp. Just get the port where modem is installed in Windows, and see if you can get the response out of modem by using isapnp Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Problems installing Linux.
Try installing xbase, appropriate xserver for you card, xfonts and other packages needed to run X. Then run the xf86config. Andrew I need some help installing Linux. After I have installed and booted it from a floppy, I start de Dselect program to install the packages. During the installation, I am asked to select my graphics card, I select it, and then I am asked if I want to create the X configuration file. I answer 'yes' but then an error message appear, saying that I don't have the X config file installed, so I can't install X, so I can't run it. Who can help me? I have Debian Linux 2.0 Hamm Nuno Donato ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
1 swap vs. 2 swap partitions
Hi. I recently added a new HD to my system, and I have a chance to put an additional swap on it. The question is: is there any gain in speed of accessing swap memory if instead of one big swap on one disk I have 2/more small ones on separate disks? TIA, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
1 vs 2 swaps: more specific
Ok, to be more specific about partitions and controllers: Right now swap is on /dev/hdb5 and drive is a slave on IDE1 That drive also contains / mounted on /dev/hdb2 The new drive that I put in is /dev/hdc and right now contains a /usr partition, on /hdc1 Drive itself is a master on IDE2 If I make my swap on /dev/hdb smaller and add another swap partition to /dev/hdc, would it be of any good? TIA, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: lilo config
As far as I noticed I didn t see any to to config lilo with a windows partition. I done it by hand few month ago but I needed and initrd file If I am right. On my actual installation which is lighter I don t get it any more. What can i do !! Thomas Say again? It's kind of hard to understand what you tried to say here. You don't have to do anything with initrd, just write lilo.conf and run lilo. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: xdm
1. If I decide I'd rather get rid of xdm, and use startx instead, what file to I need to modify to get to a console login on startup rather than the graphical xdm login? /etc/X11/config file has one/more lines, depending on the version you use, that mention xdm. For example, start-xdm If you want to get rid of xdm, comment that line out. 2. If I do decide to keep xdm, what file do I modify to change my default windows manager (similar to the .xinitrc file when using startx). /etc/X11/windows-managers holds a path to window manager that gets started at the startup. I also modified the Xsession file in there, at the very end, where it executed twm in some cases. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: lilo.conf~ syntax question??
olleh i am trying to configure Lilo to give me a choice between booting NT,win98, and Linux...first, how do i determine what partition the MS O.S.'s (i.e. hda2,3, etc...) reside on...once i have determined where they dwell, should i use the following syntax in lilo.conf to give me the choice between O.S.'s? If you want to make a choice between WinNT/98, why do you boot into dos in the example below? But yes, the syntax is correct. Just make sure you include all the boot=/dev/hdXX root=/dev/hdXX messages that come right in the beginning of lilo.conf And to see where your partitions are, either break out the windows startup disk and do fdisk c: or fdisk d: or whatever Or do it in linux fdisk /dev/hda fdisk /dev/hdb etc. or cfdisk /dev/hda And so on. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation
Hello, please help Hi, ok My computer has been setup with Windows 95 for a couple of years now and I am very familiar with it. It has one 1.7GB IDE hard drive, all as one partition. I wanted to setup Debian Linux on my machine without having to repartition my harddrive and go through all that stuff again, so I added a 814MB harddrive to my system as the slave. I downloaded the Debian Linux install files to my Win95 drive and put them in a directory called C:\Linux. I ran the install.bat and went through the first few steps of the install, Keyboard setup,etc. Then partitioned the second(814MB) physical drive in my harddrive like this: /dev/hdb1 type 83 Linux Swap 96MB Logical /dev/hdb5 type 82 Linux 718MB Primary boot my first question is: is this correct? Overall yes. But you might want to split that /hdb5 into 2-3 partitions, like 100M / and rest for /usr When I get to the step Install Kernel and Modules, I can't find the original Win95 harddrive with the Linux files on it to continue. Do I need to make a DOS partition on the 814MB harddrive and copy the C:\Linux directory to that? or do I need to make the 814MB hard the master disk? Its all in accessing the partitions. The original disk you have your files on, Windows disk, is /dev/hda And all your files are on some partition there, my guess is /dev/hda1 You have to tell the installation script where to look for those files, and I think it asks you. I guess the overall question I have is, Is it possible to add a drive to an existing Win95 system and install Linux on the new drive without erasing the Win95 drive? I would like to setup a dual boot - LILO right? I've read all the other messages on that as well, and it doesn't seem too hard, once i get the rest set up. Adding another HD works perfectlyWindows is not that screwed up. You don't have to do anything to Win95 partition at all, either. Lilo is easy to set up, it's in the documents, or just email here to the list with your cfdisk data for both drives ( partitions and what is mounted on them) and we can help you out. But try to do it yourself first. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Accessing CD Rom or Floppy
How can I access with Xwindows, my CD Rom or my floppy, for accessing some files, or installing a programme? I would CD: there is a CD-HOWTO on the sunsite.mdw.edu/HOWTO page Dewcribes how to get CD working with Linux. Floppy: Get mtools and fdutils. Netscape: download the installer from Debian site, and the actual file from netscape ftp page. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Win98 and Debian
Well, then during the installation, you can enable LILO which will makeyour system dual-booted, and you will be able to select at the prompt which OS to boot. You should have no problem in Win-Linux interactivity...they will not interact at all, but you can mount and read/write to the windows partition (basicly, access the files on your C drive, just not execute them). However, thats not possible when working in Windows ( to access Linux files) Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Emergency use of boot-rescue disk.
Ok, you can do the following: 1. boot the computer. When it asks you for boot: type in linux init=/bin/sh That will drop you into shell without asking for any passwords. Then umount / (reason for this is / is only mounted as read ) And remount the / partition as read-write. then edit the passowrd file to blank out the second field in the root line (field being anything between : ) THen save the file and sync The just login as root, and it should let you in without problem, then just reset the password. There may be 2 password files, /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow Make sure if that happens, that you change both. HTH, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Help! X screw up
Well, first of, you shoudl only play around with /etc/X11/XF86Config file Then...to get rid of xdm at startup what you need to do is boot into the shell and edit /etc/X11/config file to comment out the xdm-start line, and uncomment lines that say no-xdm-start or something. If you have no means to boot into the system, check out the previous message on how to get in there...it was sent less than 30 minutes ago. Commenting out xdm should stop the loading at boot. HTH, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Help! X screw up
Try just mount /dev/hdX / -rw Where /dev/hdX is your root partition. Andrew ___ Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: help to make something work
Hello I started using linux, and I am enthusiasmed. I installed a Debian distribution in a very standard PC (Pentium 200, 32 mb, SVGA, 200 Mb on linux partition). I installed also xfree86 and KDE. KDE and packaged applications (man etc) work. But I can´t make anything else work! I downloaded Netscape 4.5, installed it successfully, and when I run it, it says: Segmentation Fault. I downloaded Wordperfect 8 and, after many tries, I installed it successfully; but xwp says: Floating point fault. I installed also a CAD called SISCAD-P, and it says also: Floating point fault. I tried with other softwares (downloaded from the net) with similar results. Ok, this is a very wild guess, but maybe you have a Pentuim processor with one of those early Floating Point units, that produce an error. TO go around it recompile the kernel to include the work-around for that FPU bug. Andrew
Re: only allow user to login from a specific IP
How can I only allow user to login from a specific IP (telnet/ftp/etc)? Modify the files /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny THe format for them is in the man(5), I think Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
RE: only allow user to login from a specific IP
I think that is only for denying/allowing specific hosts - I want to permit a user to login from only a specific host. WHen you try to connect from a not-allowed host, your connection will drop. ANd you will not be able to login. I think that does the trick. Andrew -Paul How can I only allow user to login from a specific IP (telnet/ftp/etc)? Modify the files /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny THe format for them is in the man(5), I think Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. | -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Help I am unable to get my xwindows as user to run.
What does it say when you try to run X as a user? Also, do you use xdm, or start it from shell with startx? Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
X problems
This just started happening tonight: I was running X, and needed to restart the Afterstep, so I did. Instead of restarting Afterstep Xdm restarted. And would not let me login as a user anymore ( I can login as root and run everything fine). So I took xdm out of startup. Now I can login into shell as a user, but startx just attempts to start the X, I get the default screen, but before anything else happens, X just shutdowns without any error messages. Just Waiting for X server to shutdown. But root can run anything perfectly. Any help? Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
X problem solved
Wasnt anything serious, just the changes I made to afterstep, or tried to make, caused it to fail at startup when in user mode. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: how to format a flpooy with debian??????
First of all, can you read the files on that floppy? mdir a: and so on (mtools package) And to format it you need to use superformat It's in the package with fdutils Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: substitute strings in text files (links in html files)
Hello! How could I substitute a string (links) in html files with standard Linux (debian) tools? i.e. I want to change every http://one.domain.com in http://two.domain.com in some files and files in subdirs. sed -e s/one.domain.com/two.domain.com/ originalfile newfile Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: shell scripts.
Hi, Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any good documentation to read?? There is some online documentation, like manual pages, which cover, in a bit of detail, all the built-in functions of hte shell. I'm currently going through a book called Unix shell programming, by Lowell Jay Arthur and Ted Burns. 4th edition. published by Wiley Computer Publishing It pretty much helps you to get to the understanding how to write scripts, and provides with examples of code. Covers several shells too, like Bourne, C-shell, etc. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Problem starting X-Windows !!!
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have configured Xfree with XF86Setup ans all seems to be all right. After configuration, the X-Server starts, and i am able to save my configuration. Graphic card: Matrox Mystique 1064SG rev. 3 2 MB Video Ram. The only things is that SVGA X-Server is used, because there is no Matrox based x-Server to select. Now i try to start X-windows and get the error message that there is no valid video mode selected. (Error 111 cannot not connect to x-Server) When you are configuring your xserver, at the end you get the list of modes ( resolutions ) at the given bpp. 8bpp modes are chosen as defaults. What you need to do is: Depending upon the monitor and card values you will get the list of all the modes that your computer can support. Choose them in the decreasing order: For example, if it looks like 640x480 800x600 1024x764 8bpp Hit 1 and change the order into 1024x764 800x600 640x480 Or something like that. What will happen is xserver will look for the first valid mode and use it. If it doesnt work, try small resolutions. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: How to mail a file?
Or mail email_address file That works with mailx installed. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, CJ wrote: -After I ran lilo, I reboot the system it gives me a boot prompt, I enter in Linux and it loads Linux(it works fine). But when I enter MS for dos/win95, it doesn't load. Is MS a label for loading your Windows? In lilo.conf you can specify what type of label to use. -I went into the /etc/fstab file and try to mount /dos like this: Lilo has nothing to do with fstab. Fstab mounts partitions specified in the file after linux boots. /dev/hda1 /dos vfat rw,unauto,user,unhide but Linux says it can't find the filesystem, I tried fat and fat16 in place of vfat but that doesn't work either Try msdos first. Then it is possible that your kernel doesnt support the vfat yet. In that case you need to recompile it. To see what filesystems your kernel does support at this point to cat /proc/filesystems -I then use the window95 startup disk to boot the system. At the prompt A:\ I tried to change to drive C:\(which is /dev/hda), but it says can't drive C. So I check the dos/win95 partition using dos's fdisk and I notice that the partition type for the dos/win95 partition (which is hda1) is now changed to type NON-DOS. I remmeber it was type vfat or fat before. -I don't what I did to changed it(Could it be that I when mount /dev/hda1 as /dos, I change the partition type?) -Can Anyone show me how to change the dos/win95 partition type back to normal? Or how to fix this problem so I can boot dos/win95 again without using the win95 startup disk? I think you need to get the startup disk for Win, and fdisk /mbr to restore the original MBR on windows disk. Then rerun lilo. Also, send me your lilo.conf file with partition table for both disks, I'll see if there's anything incorrect there. Thanks Alot, You are welcome. Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: pppconfig
Try running pppconfig and when it asks you for a providor name, changing it to mpool, and entering all the date for that phone number. That will create a mpool file in the /ppp/peers, and then all you need to do is pon mpool Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...
It sounds to me like the original DOS/Win disk may have had a drive overlay on it. You know, that software that allowed older BIOSes to see hard drives larger than 540MB. If so, then LILO clobbered the overlay. If this is the case, you should have an Overlay Boot/Install floppy that can recover your drive. Also, if this is the case, I think you'll have a lot of trouble trying to get Linux and the overlay to work together. It'd be better if you could live without the overlay (which probably means updating your BIOS and saving/wiping/restoring the DOS/Win drive). If it's not an overlay problem, I don't have a clue. Wouldnt it be the problem only when he was trying to boot to an OS that is located beyong 1024th cylinder? He's got 2 drives, on primary and secondary IDE's. And drive 1, /dev/hda, holds Windows, and /dev/hdb, drive 2, holds Linux... Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: pppconfig
I tried using pon mpool and nothing happened. So I thought I would try and move /etc/ppp/peers/provider to my home directory to see what would happen and I got the following message: /usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/provider no such file or directory exists. What you mean , nothing happened? pon Config_file executes on the background, and does not echo any messages. TO see that you are actually having a connection do plog after about 30 seconds or so. If you did connect, it will tell you. Andrew
Re: XF86 Config
xf86config Andrew How do I get to the XF86 config from the command prompt? When I installed the package it automatically led me to this configuration screen. Tom Persons Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: installation help please!
How far in the installation did you go? Andrew
Re: Can see CD but...
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, ktb wrote: Ok I have been working on this forever but I can finally see what is on my Extras disk but I can't read the files included. For example: $ mount /cdrom $ ls /cdrom ASK.EXE TheDebianUsersGuide.html kde ASKSRCboot ls-lR.txt README.1STdebianrr_moved START.BAT disks tools TRANS.TBL install upgrade I think you need to cd there cd /cdrom Then cat $ cat README.1ST cat: README.1ST: No such file or directory Andrew
Re: Why Netscape is so slow?
I've a Pentium 120 16MB Ram (I know it's not a lot) Could be the problem because of low memory. ALso, check top to see how much resources your system uses without netscape running. 48M of Ram is not that much.. that's how much my system uses with Netscape and Xemacs20 running at the same time. What about other programs? Any problems in speed there? Make sure you don't run any resource-consuming processes while trying to startup/run Netscape. HTH, Andrew
hosts.deny problem.
Hi. I've been trying to limit the incoming connection into my machine by trying to setup hosts.allow and hosts.deny, but I believe I've run into problem. hosts.allow ALL: localhost,128.206.x.x : ALL hosts.deny ALL: ALL Basicly, what I'm trying to do is not allow any connections from the outside, except from localhost and IP 128.206.x.x What am I doing wrong? Andrew
more on hosts.deny
Ok, this is how I wrote the files: hosts.deny ALL: ALL hosts.allow ALL: localhost or hosts.allow ALL: localhost :ALL If I'm right, this should block any attempts to telnet/ftp/finger etc. from the outside of 127.0.0.1 But I still can login from a different IP, and my syslog contains this: Jan 11 14:25:36 Scorpio in.telnetd[20731]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 0: missing newline or line too long Jan 11 14:25:36 Scorpio in.telnetd[20731]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 0: missing newline or line too long when I telnet to my machine. What am I doing wrong this time? TIA, Andrew
Exim
Hi. I'm trying to setup a mail agent on my computer, so I can mail using exim to remote domains. The question is : how do I specify my smtp server? Thank you, Andrew
Re: Slow system: problem isolated, need help with solution
Basicly, if I try to open any application, I will have a 30 second delay between typing it in and actual execution. During all that time CPU is mostly idle, at least 85%+. Top shows no programs using extra resources. Even xterm takes 30+ seconds to open. Telnet/ftp the same. All this happens only when I am dialed up into my ISP. As soon as I poff, things go back to normal. I recompiled a kernel a couple of times, that didnt do any good. What else can I do? Andrew
Re: Windows 98 and Debian Dual Boot
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Danny R. Gray wrote: Hello all, I'm sure this has been answered a hundred times. I have a Win98 machine that was up and running. I added a new drive to run Debian hamm on. The installaion went great but I am still booting from the floppy. I noticed that Win98 has an operating systems loading message before the Windows 98 message. How do I set up dual boot using Win 98? Or should I use lilo even if it is not the normal boot drive? I want to keep the user choice simple like NT BootLoader since my wife uses the machine and is not very technical. A pointer to a Mini-HowTo would be great. You can use LILO, just set up Windows98 as a default OS to boot. The HOWTO on LILO is located at sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO or just look in /usr/doc/lilo/ Andrew -- Danny R. Gray Research Technician Department of Pathology UNC-CH School of Medicine -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: XDM
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Frederic Breitwieser wrote: Greetings, My last question/issue/problem is I didn't answer yes to making XDM the default logon prompt, therefore one must sign onto the box in text mode, then type XDM then sign on again. The first signon must be root. Is there anyway of changing this as to make the box ALWAYS come up with XDM as the default logon ? I kinda like single sign on :) Go to /etc/X11/config and uncomment the last line that says #start-xdm This will automaticly start xdm on the login. Also, make sure that there is a symbolic link to execute xdm in /etc/rcX.d , where X is a runlevel number. (link should be present in all of them and look like this lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 1 17:25 S99xdm - ../init.d/xdm) Andrew
System very slow.
I replaced a processor in my computer yesterday, from P120 to P166, and it worked fine all day yesterday. But when I cam e back from work today, I got this problem: Some applications seem to be working very slow. For example, telnet/ftp now take about 20 seconds to start. But when it starts, speed of connection is almost as fast as always. xterm takes forever, between 30 seconds and a minute ( Not the initial one with the X startup, but ones after that.) If I use just a plain xterm command from another console, it starts fine. But using a button in my window manager slows it down. Netscape starts up just as fast, but it takes forever now to look up the sites. X itself is delayed to start. ANy suggestions? Andrew
More on the slow system
On the other hand, Windows does not seem to be affected at all. All applications run as fast as before, and there is a very small 1-2 second delay only when using telnet/ftp/netscape to connect to sites. In linux top doesnt reveal any problems. Are there any tools that can let me diagnose the system? Thank you, Andrew
Slow system: problem isolated, need help with solution
Ok, it turns out that pppd is somehow affecting my computer. Everything works just fine and fast without pppd running, but as soon as I attempt to dial out, things slow down. How do I go about it? Andrew
Re: configuring serial port
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, CUNO wrote: Brandon Mitchell wrote: Multi part answer: 1) ttyS2 == COM 3 in dos/win 2) edit /etc/rc.boot/0setserial, disable autoprobing and set it manually 3) add serial to /etc/modules.conf so the modules and your changes aren't unloaded when not in use. Hi Brandon, It works, thanx. When I boot my system I get: /dev/ttyS2 at 0x3e8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 16450 is correct for an internal modem, isn't it Not sure. You would want to put an UART of 16550A, do it in /etc/rc.boot/0setserial and just change the uart argument. When I run pppconfig and filled in everything and I give pon my modem still doesn't work ??? Can you help me on this one Ok, Q1: Is it a PnP modem? If it is, you will need to download and run isapnptools Q2: It seems that it's not a Winmodem, but just in case recheck. ALso, try downloading wvdial package, it helps to configure the modem. But I think that if the port is configured properly, and pon still can't do anything ( When you run pon, do you hear a click when modem initializes? Technicly, pon will not display anything. The only way you know htat it worked is because you have the connection to the net, or just check through plog, it will tell you why pon can not connect.) Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Graphical File Manager
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Re: lilo
What exactly you enter and what exactly you get? The command to run lilo is lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf considering that you have /etc/lilo.conf Andrew Hi ! I created 'lilo.conf' but when I enter command 'lilo' I get message something with LOADER and BIOS ??? Thanx ! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: System won't boot, lilo.conf problem
Ok, this is from the manual on lilo: LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. Not sure how to help you, but maybe this explains a little bit what the problem could be. Could send the whole file if you need it. In the mean time, use a Windows start disk to fdisk /mbr (Hope your BIOS does a A: C: boot procedure and searches for A: on a boot, if not, set it up like that) WHich will restore the original master boot record on the C drive so you can boot Windows. Use Linux rescue floppy which you should have to get in and perhaps rerun lilo, just make sure that all your compinents are in place, like boot=/boot/. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Winmodem?
Unfortunately, you are. Andrew I've just installed the base Debian system, and haven't been able to get my modem to respond so I can install the rest. I found a description of the problem with Winmodems (my new gateway has a US Robotics 56K WinModem) in the Debian installation instructions, and am just wondering if anything has changed since that description was written. Am I really hosed? Brent -- Brent Michael Hueth Assistant Professor Department of Economics Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50011 (515) 294-1085 (515) 294-6644 fax http://www.public.iastate.edu/~bhueth -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: modem cua1
/dev/modem is just a link to the actual device, which is /dev/ttyS* so just find out which COM the modem is on, and make a link to it named /dev/modem Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: LILO
To configure LILO one needs to know the parameters of the machine. If you specify the parameters of your computer, I could help you. For example: how many OS's you have, what disks are they on, partition table. Andrew Hi ! Could someone tell me how do I install LILO and where, in what files, do I configure it, and of course how ? Thanx ! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Where are the configuration files for Afterstep?
I think they are in /usr/share/afterstep/ Andrew On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Anthony Campbell wrote: Does anyone know where the config files for Afterstep (the version contained in hamm) are found? In particular I want to modify the options presented by Start/Debian (Apps, Screen etc.). The docs seem to say they are in ~GNUstep or /usr/share/GNUstep but they don't seem to be. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on... - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Loosing communicator file
Ok. Here is what you need to do: 1. Download the installer and dependancy packages for Netscape. 2. Download Netscape communicator 4.,5 from Netscape website. 3. Place the actual netscape source code (13M or so) into /tmp 4. WITHOUT rebooting (reboot cleasn your /tmp directory) run dselect and install the installer package. During installation of installer, it will attempt to install Netscape itself. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re:Thanks re: Loosing communicator file
I am an idiot when it comes to computers. I wish I would have grown up with a computer in my hip pocket like so many out there have today. Nahh, don't worry, it's a matter of practice. I wish I grew up with a computer in my hit pocket toobut unfortunately, I didnt. And my computer I have at home right now I had to put together from old spare parts. You'll learn. I've learned not to put anything into /tmp the hard way. And it was during Communicator installation as well, actually. Whats a problem with the email? Why doesnt your modem work? Whats a problem? ANdrew
Re: pon
What you mean up? You mean, keep connection up 24/7? In this case, it's a limitation of the ISP, which might have a preset time limit, and not a pon fault that you get kicked off. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Communicator Installation
Ok. The installer from Debian site will look for the communicator file to be located in /tmp So, what you do is this: download Netscape commmunicator from Netscape site, and put it into /tmp with mv communicator* /tmp or whatever the name is. Then run dselect and install the netscape4.04 ( or whatever it's called, the installer itself). Installer will install the Netscape Comm. for you. HTH, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: ICQ
Well, it depends what features you want. If you want to stay in touch with friendsI'd suggest zicq. It's a nice small program, that does not take up almost any memory and CPU. Or, if you are a fan of 'Point and Click' get a Qt-based icq clone (cicq or gtkicq). ICQ-Jave from Mirabilis is not worth downloading. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: X help
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I install X I configure it right and then it goes into X and the resolution is way to big for my monitor What you mean?Do you mean that when you move a mouse to the edge of a screen (left/bottom), you shift to another screen? It's called 'virtual desktop', it's perfectly normal Is there a way I can change the resolution so X can fit my screen To answer this: If you know at what resolution you are right now, run xf86config and , after you choose all the parameters of video/monitor, you will be given a choice of modes. Just look up the mode you are in, say, you use 1028x764 at 8dpp , but you want to use 800x600 at 8dpp. Then hit 1 ( change modes for the 8dpp). There you can make up your own orde of modes. SO you put 800x600 first. For example: You have 640x480, 800x600, 1024x764 at 8dpp ANd 1024x764 is too bad for you. Hit 1, and choose 800x600, and then 640x480. When you come back, you will have 800x640, 640x480 at 8dpp Therefor, when xserver searches for the first valid mode, your 1024x764 will not be used, since it's not in the list. And 800x640 will be used instead. Thanks No problem. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: XConfig
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Tey, Chui CG wrote: Hi, I am relative new to Debian, (1+ weeks). I tried to locate an XConfig package from the ftp server at ftp.debian.org. Unfortunately there wasn't. There was XSetup that came with XServer_VGA16 pacakge, but I believe you require X running already (please correct me if I am wrong!). Please suggest how I could configure my XServer. Ok, just download the x-base and xserver packages that fit your video card, and other dependencies. Then, login as root ( still in consile mode, you can not run X without configuring it first) and type xf86config THis will run a config program that will let you configure video card/monitor/keyboard/mouse for X. HTH, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
RE: XConfig
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, J.T. Wenting wrote: You need (or at least I needed) to manually set the server to use (I think it is in the xserverrc file, or something like that), it took me quite a while before I had figured out why X would not start in a high-res mode :) What you mean by high-res mode? I am running 800x600 on 8dpp, decided not to run 1024x764, it was putting too much strain on monitor and my eyes. But the only trick was to setup the order of modes in xf86config. Andrew
Re: Why?!
Windows --- *) Complete ease of use - a GUI even an utter luser can understand. True. However, Linux was NEVER meant to be an utter luser toy. *) Plenty of support for developers at MSDN - with plenty of free downloads of SDKs. Tell me you arent getting support here? I've installed my Deb. from scratch, not knowing much about how to do it. And I've gotten an answer to my every question here. *) Piss easy installations. Again, read part a. It's not a toy for an idiot. *) GAMES - is there a single good game on linux apart from ports of Quake? Hrm, no arguement there. Lucky you to have a lot of time to play games. *) Oh look, is that *another* cover cd with free demos and software? Guess I won't be spending ages downloading like I would with linux then... There are free cd's with shareware programs for *nix. Just have to be at the right place at the right time. Linux - *) Astronomical phone bills after downloading new software. I guess I am one of the few lucky people not to have a minute-by-minute ISP bill. *) CDs from CheapBytes may be cheap - but they're not free and they get out of date very quickly. Cheaper than a CD from Microsoft? *) Basic installation is easy - but from then on installing new software is not what I'd call easy. Once againnot a toy for an idiot. *) Great community of people ready to help - but should I need help? Unless you know Linux in and out, yes. *) Not a single good game in sight :( That is arguable. Define 'good game'. I enjoy playing Mahjong, when I have time. Call me an idiot. I like Doom. WHich is perfectly playable on Linux. Please help, I really don't want to give up something that is apparently so good - but I can't see why it is good for a home user... The answer to this is another question: What do you want to do with your computer? If you want to play games and check your email..hell, stick with Windows. Personally, I switched to Linux for few reasons: 1. I got tired of looking at blue screen with words: Fatal exception occured at module xxx etc etc etc. Please restart your computer. Ever since I installed Deb. I've havent had any trouble like that. 2. I use 486DX4, 16M Ram, which means that MSWord or any other peogram of that type will slow my computer down so much that I will not be able to use anything. Yes, Netscape in Linux is one bloated piece of software. But my computer is working faster with it, than in Windows. And Xemacs pretty much replaces me MSWord without eating away all memory and CPU. 3. I wanted to learn. I'm a CS student, so I will deal with this all my life. And the better I know *nix now, then easier it will be for me later. Hope this helps... Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: installing onto second hard drive
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Andrew Catton wrote: include newbie qualification here, but I am not sure if the instructions for installing Debian from a DOS partition apply if I would like to install it (exclusively) on a second hard drive from the download I have stored on my first drive (which contains Win95). If not, what might the such a task entail? Is there any risk to the data on my Win95 drive? You are perfectly safe, if you are worried about your Win files. This is how I installed, I have 2 drives. C is Win, D is Linux. Since you accumulated packages on the C drive, move them into a single directory and, whenever you are promped for files during installation, point to /dev/hda1/DirectoryWithDebianFiles I'm guessing that /dev/hda1 is your Win partition, though. It should be. And there is no danger to Win95 filesUNLESS you decide to get funky and cfdisk your C drive. But you shouldnt, if you know what you are doing. So proceed with installation with no fear, nothing will get hurt. HTH, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Xdm
I'm wondering if a wrong configuration on video card and/or monitor, when used with xdm (not startx), could lock up the machine. Here is what happened: couple of month ago when I installed X for the first time, I configured xdm to start at the boot. My machine worked fine with startx before. However, as soon as I rebooted, and I got prompted for boot...not even with xdm...my screen started to blink from blank to non-blank, and keyboard was locked up during blank screen. Non-blank meaning it showed me boot-up messages. Nothing I wasnt able to fix with cfdisk and reformatting of primary partition...was my 3rd day of using Deb. so.. But I want to give xdm another chance, and was wondering if something like that could have happened because of wrong configuration of X? TIA, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Xdm
I suspect that your X is configured not quite right. Blinking screen is likely to be misconfiguration of VIDEO CARD. Make sure you are using right xserver for your card. It's not a good idea to start xdm at boot, till you made sure that everything is working in X. BTW you can start xdm from console just typing xdm as root. Yeah, but what about the keyboard lockup? Every time screen was going blank, nothing I typed appeared on the screen later. Yes, wrong configuration of X is very likely. Check you /etc/X11/XServer file. What video card are you using? Someone can just send you his XF86Config and you can extract relevant part. No need for it. My X is configured pretty good right now. It may have been that back then I had no idea what I was doing. Quite possible. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Double boot help needed, LILO/loadlin confusion
You should use LILO. boot = /dev/hda root = /dev/hda7 install = /boot/boot.b map = /boot/map vga = normal prompt delay = 50 ramdisk = 0 read-only default = linux image = /vmlinuz label = Debian alias = linux image = /boot/vmlinbackup label = backup other = /dev/hda1 label = MS table = /dev/hda This above is a lilo.conf file that you could use for your situation. Just check the partitions. I think hda7 is Linux bootable, and hda1 is Windows partition. Anyway, just copy above into /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo lilo.conf Then reboot. This will make your computer load Debian as a default, but you will get a prompt asking what OS you want to load. (label for windows is MS ). If you want to restore your MBR (master boot record) of drive C, then just go into Dos and run fdisk /mbr HTH, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: ICQ
One thing is for sure: ICQJava that Mirabilis offers as a 'Limited time free beta version' is a POS, pardon my language. Very minimum of basic features. Bugged (very interesting bug with keyboardthe faster you type, the more chances there are that your words will be messed up.) And it makes my computer slow down a lot, which is not surprising, cause I'm using 486DX4 with 16M ram, but not even Netscape does that to me. HTH, Andrew __ Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Xemacs19
Speaking of whichI was trying to install it, and I get an error at the end of setup that says: cp: Can not write regular file in /etc/xemacs19/site-start.d And configuration fails. Any ideas? TIA, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Netscape Communicator 4.x undocumented feature?
I've noticed something interesting in COmmunicator 4.x for Linux: Whenever I do download in Netscape, and my ppp link dies in the middle of it, the download does not break. It just sits there, stalled. Resuming connection to my ISP resumes the download. No need for any special tools to put files together from pieces, nothing. Doesnt happen in Windows, though. Undocumented feature? Just programmer being nice to us, Linux folks? Boneheaded mistake? Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Cyrillic and Communicator 4.5
To be more specific regarding my previous mail: Here is a problem.. I can view russian pages. I can not read the title on top of the browser for russian page, but I can read it in the bookmarks just fine. form handling is not working. But I can type in URL's without any problem. In message composer, I can type in russian in To: and Subject: fields. But in message body it's not working. I think the fact that I can type in russian at least in some places says that keyboard support is setup correct. I have xruskb installed as a switcher, cronyx 2.2 fonts. ANy input welcome. TIA, Andrew
Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: Hi, thanks to all the people who have offered advice with configuring X-windows. I have not been successful and am brain dead at this point. I also tried hooking up to the internet with the same result. I've looked through the postsdidnt see anything. What is the problem? I've been through the worst that could have happened: PnP (Plug and Play) modem and Linux. If you can not get modem to work, there can be a lot of reasons. So, ask away. Althoughyou have to know how the computer works. At least a little bit. Open your machine up. Look up the boards. See whats up. Gather all the info you can...just don't pull any boards out. About the modem: look if it's a Winmodem. Usually USRobotics modems are ones. If it's Winmodemyou are out of luck and even RedHat will fail to work with it, no matter how easy it shoudl be to install. As for X: You don't get to learn much by sitting and letting an automated script autodetect/install everything for you. X can be a pain to install...yeah. Noone said Linux was easy (lets say, as easy as Windows, to install). Installing X has 4 parts, really: 1.Find out what card you have and select the closest library to support it. 2. Find out the specs on your monitor...Use the net. I had no idea what the specs were on my AcerView 34T. Looked around, found them, and was able to run at 800x640, instead of 640x480, much faster too. 3. Set up the mouse. 4. Set up the windows manager. All those steps are pretty easy. Just take time. So, cheer up. Easier does not mean better. Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: Cyrillics and FORM handling
Tried that as wellit changes the font nicely in my buttons and menus in Netscape, but doesnt do for form Also, I played around with Netscape.ad , saved in my ~/ Still no go. Any alternative ways to 'cyrillize' Netscape? Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: How download linux install kernal?
No special instructions, just Shift+Left button to save it on disk. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Cyrillics and FORM handling
Has anyone been able to successfully set up cyrillic support for form handling? I seem to be doing everything there is to do, I can read pages, but my Comm. 4.5 can not handle the input in russian. Any help appreciated. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: [MrG0D@aol.com] CDrom
What do you mean, from m's and down? Do an ls | more in the /dev to view the content page by page. Andrew
Re: ??? XF86Setup while running X ???
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Rich Hartman wrote: xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server couldn't connect to display :0.0 I also tried running as su root same thing. Login as a root, and then run setup. Su won't do ANdrew _ Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: About X
Yeah. My mistake. /etc/X11/window-managers Hi! }- On Sun, 6 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: }- }- Well I got X too work but how do I load a different window manager? }- }- Download window manager you want , install it, and }- edit /etc/windows-manager so that at the start up of X it will run what its /etc/X11/window-managers, isn´t it?? }- you want. }- HTH, }- Andrew -- until next mail ;) . ___ ---___ .--. ./ - /\ ___ ( DEBIAN `-|O O | | |; --.|| |___|: GNU/Linux _- |_) \. | __ eter| -/ | || | `. www.debian.org / ' .\. ||__| ` --- . ___ .. ' | ..| | | artosch | ...\. |___| / . ..| /,\ .__\ ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | o| | | |O(| / student of technical computer science \.. \\ / university of applied sciences krefeld (germany) \__/ \_/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: First attempt
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: followed the instructions in the book. I select [New] and [Primary] then I can't change the size of the partion, it lets me make a 6149.89 MB partion but then can't go on to make a swap partion. The 6149.89 MB is my whole HD so maybe that is why I can't make another. At any rate I Anyway, you can choose [Delete] and delete your current partition, so you have extra space. Just make sure you don't Delete any files on HD that you might need later. #2. While I'm at it. I have a blank 6.4 gigabyte 2nd IDE HD that I am trying to install Debian on. Most of the literature I have read talks about partioning in limited space. I was thinking I could make the 1st partion (root) 1000 MB and the swap 100 MB, I have 64 MB Ram. Does this sound reasonable? Will that make the rest of the HD dead space? Thanks, Kent No. What HOWTOs talk about is having the boot sector within first 504Mb of the drive. That has nothing to do with you. What you want to do is make 200Mb / (root) partition. 64Mb Swap Allocate the rest as you wish. You can make it /usr For the reason of that vast majority of packages gets installed into /usr partition. So make it as big as you want. HTH, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
