Re: [expert] Tulip NIC problem

I compiled on 2.2.13-7. - Original Message - From: "John Helmuth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 10:59 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Tulip NIC problem > What version of the kernel were you running? When I try to compile th

Re: [expert] Tulip NIC problem

John, Did u follow the instructions at the end of the tulip.c file to compile the file. Sridhar - Original Message - From: "John Helmuth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 10:59 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Tulip NIC problem

Re: [expert] Sound Problms witn 7.0_2

All that is in there, but even in sndconfig I get the modprobe error, or rather it doesn't work. Any ideas? - Original Message - From: "Larry Sword" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 10:15 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Sound Problms witn 7.0_2 > Eo

Re: [expert] deb packages

Alien will convert .deb's to .rpm's, have a look in the Mandrake-devel/contrib directory of your favorite mirror, or @ freshmeat.net, if nobody's done it for MDK (I'm sure I saw it for MDK on a personal ftp site somewhere...) IIRC there are some dependancies, you might want to do a google linux s

Re: [expert] Tulip NIC problem

What version of the kernel were you running? When I try to compile the stuff I downloaded from the site referenced in the readme on the diskette, I get a ton of linking errors. Here's the top of the output from the gcc command: In file included from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:270,

Re: [expert] Follow-up - Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

Mike Corbeil wrote: > Actually, I guess that the boot directory doesn't need to be named /boot, as > long as the correct path is specified in the boot configuration. This may be > incorrect; however, the reason I say this is because linuxconf lilo boot > configuration requires the name of the ker

Re: [expert] Tulip NIC problem

Careful with the Linksys 10/100 under Linux, or any 10/100 NIC with a "PNIC" Chip. I've been to the website of the writer about two months ago, and discovered this little note: "Due to the lack? of documentation on the PNIC chip, autosensing the network" is/was not a feature of the driver the

Re: [expert] Sound Problms witn 7.0_2

Eosnet Team wrote: > I am of course using SBlive! value edition, and I had spent about 3 hours > getting it to work on mandrake 6.0 and 6.1. I got pretty good at doing it, but > now, in 7.0 I can't get it to work no matter what I do. Any suggestions? > > It seems to have automatically detected th

Re: [expert] Unzipping a file

Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > In the vain hope of forestalling a number of "you moron" followups, I > will point out that I saw the recent posting explaining that there's a > "y" option that does exactly this. In my defense, it's not in the "man" > page. man or documentation page bug. y opt

Re: [expert] Sound Problms witn 7.0_2

did you use the program sndconfig to configure? (just type "sndconfig" as root) if that didn't work, try installing the driver from www.opensource.com (they have half-decent instructions) you probably tried these already, but i have a SBlive, and 7.0 and both methods seem to work, although the l

[expert] deb packages

Hello all: I wanted to install a program in .deb format, and every time I click on the file kpackage opens and closes instalntly (it crashes, I guess). Is it possible to install .deb packages in Mandrake? I would also like to know if it's possible to extract the files from a .rpm package without

[expert] How to make hd.img installation see second hdd?

Does anyone know if there's a way to make installing Mandrake from the second hdd, hdb, work? I'm using a boot floppy created with or from the cdrom hd.img file, but when booting with this diskette, the installation program only sees hda. The cdrom I have came with a planete linux magazine, apri

Re: [expert] Sound Problms witn 7.0_2

Run sndconfig. When it says it's already installed, tell it to install anyway. --- Eosnet Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am of course using SBlive! value edition, and I had spent about 3 hours > getting it to work on mandrake 6.0 and 6.1. I got pretty good at doing it, > but > now, in 7.0 I

Re: [expert] Follow-up - Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

Actually, I guess that the boot directory doesn't need to be named /boot, as long as the correct path is specified in the boot configuration. This may be incorrect; however, the reason I say this is because linuxconf lilo boot configuration requires the name of the kernel image file as well as th

Re: [expert] Follow-up - Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

Alan Shoemaker wrote: > Kirkyour designations of boot1, boot2etc. Do partitions > exist with those namesnot!? Ok, do me a favor. You say > Caldera is running, so go into a console in Caldera and type > fdisk /dev/hda then do a p command and capture the results and > post them. Ok?

Re: [expert] OT: Perfect operating system

> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Deryk Barker mewed: > > Thus spake Brian T. Schellenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > > > > AmigaDOS was the perfect operating system, but Unix/Linux is a close > > > second . . . > > > > Sorry folks, but Multics was the perfect OS. All others are > > imitations. >From

Re: [expert] OT: Perfect operating system

I remember when Caterpillar got their first main-frame in the early 60's. I don't remember if it was fed *key punch* cards or not, but a friend programed it to play chess. I have no idea about the OS.. maybe some form of UNIX. I guess I'm masochistic. I'd still like to play chess with Big Blue one

Re: [expert] Unzipping a file

On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 13:48 -0400, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > Yeah, I'm more a Unix person than a Linux person, so I checked "man" > rather than "info." But I checked "info" just now and it's even worse: > It claims that the "I" option does bzip rather than the "y" option. You're right

Re: [expert] OT: Perfect operating system

Could the AmigaDos have as many characters in the filename like linux? Could you have sound and stability like unix? On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger mewed: > AmigaDOS was the perfect operating system, but Unix/Linux is a close > second . . . > > Pj wrote: > > > > For years I luste

[expert] useful/missing softlinks

Hi, Just to let you mandrake guys know that you are missing some useful softlinks that really should be there: librpmbuild.so.0 -> librpmbuild.so librpm.so.0 -> librpm.so and in /etc/X11R6/lib/ libglut.so -> libglut.so.3.7.0* libMesaGL.so -> libGL.so.1.2.0* libMesaGLU.so -> libGL

[expert] Sound Problms witn 7.0_2

I am of course using SBlive! value edition, and I had spent about 3 hours getting it to work on mandrake 6.0 and 6.1. I got pretty good at doing it, but now, in 7.0 I can't get it to work no matter what I do. Any suggestions? It seems to have automatically detected the card and "installed' the d

Re: [expert] OT: Perfect operating system

i dont remember seeing multics in operation, but i have heard well of it. I remember unix when I was growing up in the 70's. On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Deryk Barker mewed: > Thus spake Brian T. Schellenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > AmigaDOS was the perfect operating system, but Unix/Linux is

Re: [expert] IP Masq problems

Brianhave you checked your settings in Win98 networking? Like the gateway ip address, is it still there? When a change in the network environment occurs Windows is famous for losing settings and losing links to drivers. A good idea might be to remove the tcp/ip bindings to your network card

Re: [expert] My floppy went away!

If you do "supermount disable", it should re-write the /etc/fstab file to get rid of the supermount. Indeed, that's the only thing that supermount really does, so if it doesn't do this, there's not much point to the exercise. Are you running supermount as root? I'd try changing fstab by hand;

Re: [expert] IP Masq problems

Johnhuh?! I think you're mixing apples and oranges with that idea!! Alan John Aldrich wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > I have my Mandrake 6.1 set up to IP Masq. My Win 98 box > sees the linux box fine, samba is great by IE will not > surf. I have used this same configuration

Re: [expert] My floppy went away!

vern wrote: > > Okay here goes, I don't see any difference! > I issued the command supermount disable, > do I have to go into /etc/fstab and edit out > supermount?? In the command line I tried > all the mount/umount /dev/fd0, /mnt/floppy > still can't read the floppy. I did get an I/O > error

Re: [expert] Follow-up - Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

Kirkyour designations of boot1, boot2etc. Do partitions exist with those namesnot!? Ok, do me a favor. You say Caldera is running, so go into a console in Caldera and type fdisk /dev/hda then do a p command and capture the results and post them. Ok? Alan Kirk McElhearn wrote: >

Re: [expert] More space for Linux

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Fabio wrote: > Is this possible to do it without reinstalling Linux > I mean keeping all the things running and at the end the space > available for Linux will be 6 Gbyte. > I know that winNT (via disk administrator) can do it, what's about Linux > ?? > How can I add t

Re: [expert] OT: Perfect operating system

Thus spake Brian T. Schellenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > AmigaDOS was the perfect operating system, but Unix/Linux is a close > second . . . Sorry folks, but Multics was the perfect OS. All others are imitations. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be underst

Re: [expert] Re: Here is one for ya...

Thus spake James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Eosnet Team wrote: > :Yes, a stupid question. But, I can't imagine a linux distro without a > :telnet server. Thats just sacrelige. > > I'm not sure, but is that dependent on what security level you chose when > installing? I noticed mine was missing too,

Re: [expert] A rescue CD

On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Hoyt wrote: > Tomsrtbt would be a good bootable image to use for a rescue disk - you could fill >the CD with teh specific utilities you would need if tomsrtbt did not have them. er... IIRC, floppy images to make a boot cd should be 1440 or 2880, and tom's root/boot

Re: [expert] IP Masq problems

you don't need to set it up as a proxy server take a look at my earlier post. John Aldrich wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > Yes. Port 80 and then 8080, however, I never had any setting in IE to make it work >before. The IP of the linux box is 192.168.1.100, and the Win box is 192.

[expert] FTP install doesn't work

Hi ! That's hardly related with MDK but linux. It's a SuSE distro. I got the job to install it to 12 machines which haven't got CD-ROMs. But there's no real server available just a winNT box. So NFS isn't player here. I had the "great" idea to put an FTP server program to the NT "server". I d

RE: [expert] IP Masq problems

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Yes. Port 80 and then 8080, however, I never had any setting in IE to make it work >before. The IP of the linux box is 192.168.1.100, and the Win box is 192.168.1.110. > > As they have always been. > Ok. I'm baffled. 'Course I've never used Linux to set up a pr

[expert] Re: g++ libraries

Tom Berkley wrote: > > Alen > > You need to install the -devel- library rpms if you are going to compile > and run your own programs. I have surmised that the non devel libraries > are only runtime libraries for precompiled binaries. The specific lib > rpm you need for iostream.h is > > libstdc

Re: [expert] IP Masq problems

John Aldrich wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > I have my Mandrake 6.1 set up to IP Masq. My Win 98 box > sees the linux box fine, samba is great by IE will not > surf. I have used this same configuration for a while now, > but recently had to reinstall Linux. Networking is on, IP > f

[expert] More space for Linux

Dear All, my PC has 2 HD; one 9 Gbyte is divided in two partion with win98 on it , the other one is 2Gbyte with Linux Mandrake 7.0 on it. Since I'm using win98 ONLY for few games and the MSMoney program I would like to resize this disk and use the new space available for my Linux. Is this possible

[expert] Re: Here is one for ya...

Eosnet Team wrote: :Yes, a stupid question. But, I can't imagine a linux distro without a :telnet server. Thats just sacrelige. I'm not sure, but is that dependent on what security level you chose when installing? I noticed mine was missing too, and had to install it after I installed 7.02. I h

Re: [expert] IP Masq problems

You need to put dns settings into your tcip settings on your windows box. It doesn't matter what dns server you use as long as you have it pointing to some dns server somewhere. It's amazing that it actually worked without setting the dns settings manually. But than windows just almost works somet

[expert] OT: Perfect operating system

AmigaDOS was the perfect operating system, but Unix/Linux is a close second . . . Pj wrote: > > For years I lusted for a *perfect* operating system. So I bought > Winblows, only to discover that 90% of the "PC compatable software" > caused my machine to crash, lock up and puke blue screens. >

Re: [expert] My floppy went away!

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Sean Armstrong wrote: > Sounds like the floppie went bad or for some reason your system is > recognizing the format of the floppy. I had a similar experience with my > boot floppy, all I did was umount the floppy and then remount it with no > tags. The mount command auto

Re: [expert] Can't install KNEWS, and an opinion

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Vic wrote: > I can't beleive they actually did have a version > of aol for linux a long time ago They did? -Stephen-

Re: [expert] G++ not working...

Hmmm. Well, did you have a /usr/include/g++ or not? Alen Salamun wrote: > > "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > > First guess for a fix: > > > > ls -l /usr/include/g++ > > > > If this fails, then: > > > > ln -s /usr/include/g++-2 /usr/include/g++ > Hi! > > I tried all of this even before I rep

Re: [expert] Here is one for ya...

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: > I just installed mandrake 7.0_2 and I had 6.0 power pack in before. My > question is this, what happened to my telnet server? It seems to have > dissapeared. > As of 6.1 they did not install the telnet server by default. It is now a separate RPM. John

RE: [expert] IP Masq problems

Yes. Port 80 and then 8080, however, I never had any setting in IE to make it work before. The IP of the linux box is 192.168.1.100, and the Win box is 192.168.1.110. As they have always been. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) -Original Message- From: Jo

Re: [expert] G++ not working...

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: > "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > > First guess for a fix: > > > > ls -l /usr/include/g++ > > > > If this fails, then: > > > > ln -s /usr/include/g++-2 /usr/include/g++ > Hi! > > I tried all of this even before I reported a missconfiguration :) > It doesn't h

Re: [expert] IP Masq problems

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: > I have my Mandrake 6.1 set up to IP Masq. My Win 98 box sees the linux box fine, samba is great by IE will not surf. I have used this same configuration for a while now, but recently had to reinstall Linux. Networking is on, IP forwarding is on. Win has Linux ip a

[expert] Here is one for ya...

I just installed mandrake 7.0_2 and I had 6.0 power pack in before. My question is this, what happened to my telnet server? It seems to have dissapeared. Yes, a stupid question. But, I can't imagine a linux distro without a telnet server. Thats just sacrelige. Thanks, Jason Turner

Re: [expert] Unzipping a file

In the vain hope of forestalling a number of "you moron" followups, I will point out that I saw the recent posting explaining that there's a "y" option that does exactly this. In my defense, it's not in the "man" page. Yeah, I'm more a Unix person than a Linux person, so I checked "man" rather

Re: [expert] Unzipping a file

> > $ bzcat file.tar.bz2 | tar x > > No. This will not work: > ... > The correct command is: > > $ bzcat file.tar.bz2 | tar xf - They both work on my (Mdk 7.0) system. Perhaps Mandrake compiled tar to default to standard in, instead of the tape device? -Matt Stegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [expert] My floppy went away!

Sounds like the floppie went bad or for some reason your system is recognizing the format of the floppy. I had a similar experience with my boot floppy, all I did was umount the floppy and then remount it with no tags. The mount command automatically mounts it as if it were an ext2 file system

Re: [expert] Can't install KNEWS, and an opinion

I can't beleive they actually did have a version of aol for linux a long time ago On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Aldrich mewed: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > > > And is it no fairly common in the W-nn world to find that a new > > product has just installed an incompatible version of one of th

Re: [expert] Mandrake Floppy Install???

I understand how painful it can be for some OS (no name mentioned, Win95 30+ floppies), but I can install the minimal Debian with nine floppies that takes less than 30 Minutes and Slackware takes even fewer floppies and about the same time. I know all of this, but Debian doesn't work with 2.2.+

Re: [expert] lost interrupt - can't boot

On 13/04/00 13:41, Mike Fieschko [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: >I am troubleshooting this message on one of my machines, and suspect >that it is either a failing hard drive (less likely) or bad cable >(more likely). > >Have you (Kirk or John) tried substituting a different cable to

RE: [expert] Black widows scanner

Is the ISA scsi card itself recognized??? 9 out of 10 times the generic scsi cards that come with the scanner are not very good (and that is an understatement) Regards   Fred de Klein   tel: 01908 656106 (w)   0780 8254445(mob) http://www.bigfoot.com/~klein_it

Re: [expert] What is going on with BUG tracking??

For years I lusted for a *perfect* operating system. So I bought Winblows, only to discover that 90% of the "PC compatable software" caused my machine to crash, lock up and puke blue screens. Then I started hearing whispers about a new OS called Linux. " It's stable," they said. "It'll run for y

Re: [expert] You people just don't get it

Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: > Or at least RTFM sufficiently. I was a newbie once and got to where I > am mostly by reading all avaliable documentation first. (usually :) ) Hi! I think this is one of two things that seperates a newbie to a "expert". The other are experiences :) Bye, Alen -- *

[expert] G++ not working...

"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > First guess for a fix: > > ls -l /usr/include/g++ > > If this fails, then: > > ln -s /usr/include/g++-2 /usr/include/g++ Hi! I tried all of this even before I reported a missconfiguration :) It doesn't help! Bye, Alen -- *---

Re: [expert] You people just don't get it

"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > I don't mind "stupid questions" from people who are trying to get things > to work but these "holier than thou" "experts only" "we don't want the > damned distribution fixed because then the unwashed masses might start > using Mandrake" attitudes really piss me o

Re: [expert] just don't get it

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: > You guys need to get > your support in order, or others (like me) are going to bail. RH6.2 is far > more stable than L-M 7.0. It's a simple matter of what works, and how easy > it is to fix what's not. > First off, I agree that the list is WAY too sluggis

[expert] IP Masq problems

I have my Mandrake 6.1 set up to IP Masq. My Win 98 box sees the linux box fine, samba is great by IE will not surf. I have used this same configuration for a while now, but recently had to reinstall Linux. Networking is on, IP forwarding is on. Win has Linux ip as gateway. They ping from one t

RE: [expert] 7.0 and *$&^#$ PCMCIA BIOS probe

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: > I appreciate the comment - but as I said - I cannot even INSTALL to get to a > point where I can turn off PCMCIA anything. Also - this is a kludge - > simply recompile the PCMCIA driver (on a working system, obviously) and turn > OFF the BIOS probe during the con

Re: [expert] What is going on with BUG tracking??

"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > That's preposterous. What do we have distributions *for* if not to get > things like file permissions right? Why bother with things like RPM > files at all? Hi! Exactly my point. The main advantage of RPM-s is that I don't bother with all this stuff, but just

Re: [expert] Mandrake Floppy Install???

Yes, but without the external CD-ROM being available, either? I mean, I've *done* a Linux floppy install (5+ years ago), and that is *painful*. A great deal more painful than plugging in the external CD-ROM, and Linux has gotten a lot bigger since then. "Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: > > "Brian T

Re: [expert] Unzipping a file

I find .tar.gzip and .tgz files much more convenient becuase of the integrated support for the gzip: tar xvzf foo.tgz does the whole thing. This makes .tar.bz2 file, in my opinion, a lot less pleasent thatn .tar.gzip files, even if they are slightly smaller. Is there a version of tar with

Re: [expert] lost interrupt - can't boot

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: > >>> "Kirk" == Kirk McElhearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kirk> On 29/03/00 4:43, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] is > Kirk> reported to have said: > > [snip] > > >>> hdc: lost interrupt > >>> > >>> What does this mean, and how can I reme

Re: [expert] Mandrake Floppy Install???

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > And you really have a notebook with a Pentium but no CD-ROM? Sort of > unusual, no? > Not really. I've got a P133 notebook with floppy, but no CDROM. I *can* have a CD if I want to take out the floppy drive. :-) John

Re: [expert] Two Modems

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Hi, > > Can I configure my PPP to use 2 modems and combine the connections to get a > better bandwidth. > If your ISP supports this option, yes. We don't, support this as such here at the ISP where I work. However, we *do* support "shotgun" modems. I'm not QUITE

Re: [expert] Having USR56K answer in V.90 with mgetty

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > > > Of course, if you have a digital line, and you're just trying to get it > > to answer in v.90, sorry. > > If you have a digital line you can't use a v.90 device on it -- you'd be > on ISDN or DSL. > Unless you've got one of these "hybrid" devices, such as

Re: [expert] What is going on with BUG tracking??

"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: > > "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > > > "Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: > > > > > > It's just that I have a different conception of "bug" than you do. > > > > > > To me, a bug is bum code. Code with errors in it. Most of what you're > > > complaining about are plain-jane c

Re: [expert] USB SCanner

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Any advances on how to get my Canon 630U usb scanner to work with linux? WHat > are the names of the USB ports on a machine under linux? > USB support is barely in it's infancy in Linux. You would do well to wait before trying anything other than a USB keyboard

Re: [expert] Mandrake Version

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, you wrote: > How do I check which version of Mandrake (not Kernel, not KDE etc) is running? > Which version did you install? John

Re: [expert] My floppy went away!

Okay here goes, I don't see any difference! I issued the command supermount disable, do I have to go into /etc/fstab and edit out supermount?? In the command line I tried all the mount/umount /dev/fd0, /mnt/floppy still can't read the floppy. I did get an I/O error trying to enter the /mnt/flo

Re: [expert] Can't install KNEWS, and an opinion

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > And is it no fairly common in the W-nn world to find that a new > product has just installed an incompatible version of one of the > standard DLLs? VBRUN300.DLL appears with virtually every package you > install. > > And, according to an article about this ver

RE: [expert] My network connection is messed up.

I had a similar problem, except mine was with smbmount, not smbclient. I found that it was related to the version of Samba. Version 2.0.6 changed the flags on smbmount from '-u username' to '-username=username'. Even using the correct flags, I couldn't connect to an NT4 server on the network. Wha

[expert] just don't get it

201 messages in 24 hours. This list IS the newbie list - (almost) nothing but idle chatter, bickering, "thank you" and ME TOO posts. Folks at Linux-Mandrake - 7.0 is either REALLY REALLY broken (which the PCMCIA STILL is), or you need to set and ENFORCE some ground rules for participatio

RE: [expert] 7.0 and *$&^#$ PCMCIA BIOS probe

I appreciate the comment - but as I said - I cannot even INSTALL to get to a point where I can turn off PCMCIA anything. Also - this is a kludge - simply recompile the PCMCIA driver (on a working system, obviously) and turn OFF the BIOS probe during the config - problem (that's been around since

Re: [expert] FAT Bread anyone?

FAT is File Allocation Table. Bread is Block read (?) It sounds like you have a DOS or ISO9660 drive mounted and are failing on the read of the data. Try cleaning your cdrom carefully, or unmounting your DOS drive before installing the RPM. On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Stuart Nixon wrote:

Re: [expert] My network connection is messed up.

Sorry, I ran smbclient -L win2kcomputerIP and got the following response: added interface ip= bcast= nmask= session request to failed 9Called name not present) session request to(first three digits of IP) failed (Called name not present) Password: (here I entered my password and hit enter) Broke

Re: [expert] Can't install KNEWS, and an opinion

At 11:17 PM 04/12/2000 -0400, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: [A reasoned reply to my comments, unlike some others, PLUS help for my problem] MANY THANKS Brian, I will try that tonight. I guess I didn't express myself fully, I think that a minimal and a maximum install should both be provided. Th

[expert] Fwd: Dupe Messages Duped

Confirmation that there IS a dupe-loop. Can someone PLEASE look into the problem??? Thanks... John -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Dupe Messages Duped Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 23:40:01 -0700 From: Tom Berkley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes, I did get your message.

[expert] Black widows scanner

Hi, I hope you can help me to get my scanner working. I have a Black widow 9636PRO with their generic SCSI ISA card. I have tried getting it working when using other distributions - Suse 6.1, Red Hat 6.2 etc but to no effect. Just as an aside, this install of Mandrake 7 from PC Plus has been the

[expert] WACOM DIGITIZER II ULTRAPAD A5

Hi all, My Ultrapad is connected to my serial port, com1 and works well under the dreaded windows. I also use a ps2 mouse but would like to have my pen working as well. Can anybody help please. This is a great list, full of useful and interesting comments -- Have a nice day!

RE: [expert] Can't install KNEWS, and an opinion

At 11:33 AM 04/12/2000 -0400, you wrote: >Sorry, but yet another opinion > >I find that a good operating system has a reason for everything and when I >finally understand the O/S, I agree with the reasons. This has been true of >AOS/VS (ok, anybody remember that one?), O/S-9, CPM, RSTS, VM, MV

Re: [expert] lost interrupt - can't boot

>>> "Kirk" == Kirk McElhearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kirk> On 29/03/00 4:43, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] is Kirk> reported to have said: [snip] >>> hdc: lost interrupt >>> >>> What does this mean, and how can I remedy it? Kirk> I have exactly the same problem.

Re: [expert] Unzipping a file

Matt Stegman wrote: > Quickly, you can do it one of two ways. > > $ bzcat file.tar.bz2 | tar x No. This will not work: you must tell tar that it is given a file through standard input (tar's default input is the tape device, /dev/st0) The correct command is: $ bzcat file.tar.bz2 | tar xf -

Re: [expert] What is the thing not installing GCC AND EVEN MAKE in anything else than developer?

Alen Salamun wrote: > Charles Curley wrote: > > Yes, they are the most common utils in the Unix world. Which is EXACTLY > > why you don't want them on a server. If a cracker were to gain access, > > would you want the cracker to be able to compile for your computer? > > > > For proper security, d

Re: [expert] Micosoft misinformation

Charles Curley wrote: > I have come across what I believe to be a misstatement of information in > an Microsoft publication about Linux. In an unsigned article article > entitled Linux Myths posted October 4, 1999 and last updated Monday, > November 01, 1999, Microsoft says, "Linux performance an

Re: [expert] Unzipping a file

Wayne Petherick wrote: > How do I unpack a file with a .tar.bz2 extension? > Quickly, you can do it one of two ways. $ bzcat file.tar.bz2 | tar x or $ tar yxf file.tar.bz2 The first way uses "bzcat" to print out the uncompressed contents of the .tar.bz2 file. Meaning that it's printing a

Re: [expert] Follow-up - Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

> Caldera was the only one I could fully install. It started up, but > there was no option during the install to create a boot disk ... Hmmm... that sounds suspiciously like a bug. They really didn't give you the option to create a boot floppy? > Then I tried Corel Linux. This was an instant

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

Mike Fieschko wrote: > [snip] > > That is (was) WABI. Caldera were distributing WABI v2.2, and maybe > still are. I believe MS Windows 3.11 apps (some) were the last ones > supported. > Yes, you're right. WABI now rings a historical bell. MS Win3.x apps were all I needed the emulator for, an

Re: [expert] You people just don't get it

Alen Salamun wrote: > Mike Corbeil wrote: > > Hello. My name's Mike, aka Frank, as you may discover. > Hi Mike! :) > > You written us a really good "whole look" on the distribution. And yes, > the only thing I was upset was, > that even when "bugs" are reported some people have xxx excuses not t

Re: [expert] You people just don't get it

Alen Salamun wrote: > Burkhard Zombronner wrote: > > Could you please stop shouting on us !!! > Hi! > > Ich bin nicht "schouting" an euch...heheh > (I am not shouting on you all) > > Only on people, that have a kind of funny approach like "...don't use > it, don't care...". > I have no intetions

Re: [expert] Unzipping a file

Wayne Petherick wrote: > How do I unpack a file with a .tar.bz2 extension? > Read the documentation. There are man pages for bzip2 and tar. That's the general recommendation for what to do, [first]. However, I'll give you a little rap session on tar. I haven't used bzip2 and bunzip2, yet, be

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

On 10/04/00 21:10, Bill Beauchemin [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: >Who cares if WINE is an emulator or not. I run Linux to get away from >those crappy Winblows apps that MicroSnot shoves at ya with all there >bugs. Why would I want to go backwards. Sometimes there are apps that on

Re: [expert] Mandrake Version

On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 15:27 -0700, John N wrote: > How do I check which version of Mandrake (not Kernel, not KDE etc) is running? Go to a konsole (punch Ctrl-Alt-F2 if you are in a graphical environment like KDE or GNOME). On the login screen just below the Tux you may read: Linux Mandrake rel

Re: [expert] You people just don't get it

I try to use boath distros depending upon what my topic is. some times i've emailed the wrong distro dave On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, you wrote: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > > > What I meant is that novice users use the distro too, and they are not > > so smart in figuring out, > > what i

Re: [expert] Mandrake Floppy Install???

"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: > > "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > > > > If you want to do a floppy install, use Slackware. > > > > I would not expect or hope that Mandrake would waste time creating a > > floppy install; it's a rather specialized/unusual requirement, it would > > be hard work, and

[expert] Follow-up - Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

Thanks to all of you who helped me out be explaining how to handle this. I got the HD and installed it, so I thought I would send you a report. Installing the HD was easy. It came with partitioning software, and I set it up as follows: boot1 boot2 boot3 boot4 boot5 swap backup data1 data2 d

Re: [expert] lost interrupt - can't boot

On 29/03/00 4:43, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: >> Every time I try to boot with Mandrake 7, the init hangs when trying to >> get the partition table of my zip drive at hdc. It keeps displaying: >> >> hdc: lost interrupt >> >> What does this mean, and how can I rem

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