[expert] LM7.2 Install Problem

The LM7.2 installation software fails to access the floppy when making the bootfloppy. Also it fails to install Lilo/Grub due to some "Hash" error. Have any of you the solution to these problems? Thanks, Seve Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

[expert] Apache restart problem

I have kppp configured execute a startup script upon connection, this script first registers a name with dydns.org, then restarts my webserver (there is a sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart' in the script to do this, and yes, the user executing the scripd has the correct entry in the

[expert] Question about IPChains

Hi Folks, I'm installing my firewall once again. Since this is the second time (or so) I want to understand a bit more of it too and I want to get it right. So I'm looking at the /etc/rc3.d directory, where I see an entry S08ipchains. It is set up before S10network. But say I want to modify the

Re: [expert] ALCATEL ADSL-modem and linux do not work (probably a french product, that explains it!!)

I found that the rp-pppoe package with Mandrake is buggy. I have installed this software (i386 rpm) at least 10 time and never had a problem with it until I used Mandrake's version. Looks promising, but didn't work for me. First try not bringing the interface up on boot. Let adsl-start do

[expert] IP MASQ - Time out

Hello I have just installed strong rules for ipchains on my linux box (7.2). The internal network (NT) seems to be working fine but for some external address I've got an error message: request time out. I have also noticed that pinging the linux server from the linux seever itself

[expert] kdgb wont run on Mandrake 7.2

Hello, I installed kdgb on my fresh install of Mandrake 7.2, and when I run kdgb I only get a "segmentation fault". Could this be due to the fact that it has a dependency of qt1? I installed qt1 also but maybe it doesn't know where to look? Thanks, Brian

[expert] Down

Hello, Is the Expert mailing list down? I haven't received anything since yesterday. -- / Gary de Montigny / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / TeleSoft Systems / http://telesoft.ca Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Question about IPChains

On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 14:12:40 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, I'm installing my firewall once again. Since this is the second time (or so) I want to understand a bit more of it too and I want to get it right. So I'm looking at the /etc/rc3.d directory, where I see an entry S08ipchains.

Re: [expert] linux equivalent of Partition Magic?

It is extremely dangerous to try and use hard disks bigger than your PC BIOS supports - partitions will wrap around and overwrite themselves with no warning. Even though linux can see beyond? My motherboard bios can only see upto 8.4 GB. My HD is not larger, but linux can apparently see

[expert] Garbage in video programs

Hi! About two weeks ago I installed Mandrake 7.2 and everything ran fine but when I connected my robocam web cam and used xawtv to see if it worked, the image was full of garbage (lots of small black point all around). At the first time I thought that the problem were the USB drivers but then I

Re: [expert] Bad File Descriptor

This sounds similar to the problems I had, look at the mails with these headers: [expert] serious boot problem with 7.2 [expert] I fixed it!- was: serious boot problem with 7.2 The problem for me (NB: I'm not the only one who's had this problem) was in the /etc/fstab file : instead of

[expert] edit PATH environment

Hi, I just came back to using Mandrake. I used several other distributions that had /usr/local/bin as a part of the path environment. I have some programs I would like to keep there. My question is What file is it that I can edit this in or what command is it that I can use to add this to it?

Re: [expert] Start X-Server

Ron Stodden wrote: For a second X, KDE, you must use display 1, 'startx -- :1' from a terminal - C-A-F8 to switch to it fom another X. Two points: 1) I find that 'startx -- :1 ' is better: you then have access to the text console if wanted; this can be useful. 2) Depending on system

Re: [expert] edit PATH environment

phil wrote: Hi, I just came back to using Mandrake. I used several other distributions that had /usr/local/bin as a part of the path environment. I have some programs I would like to keep there. My question is What file is it that I can edit this in or what command is it that I can

[expert] Grub vs lilo

Is it sufficient to edit /etc/lilo.conf and the changes are directly reflected in the boot menu? What about /boot/grub/menu.xxx It seems that lilo is non-functional. Why is it still installed? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] NTFS support

I'm about to install Windows 2000 on my computer, I know that linux could read Windows NT NTFS partitions just fine, but can it read Windows 2000 NTFS? Thanks Tom Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Grub vs lilo

Is it sufficient to edit /etc/lilo.conf and the changes are directly reflected in the boot menu? What about /boot/grub/menu.xxx It seems that lilo is non-functional. Why is it still installed? With grub you just edit the list. With lilo you run lilo after you make the lilo.conf changes. As

Re: [expert] Grub vs lilo

Unless you told it to uninstall lilo why wouldn't it be installed? Linux is usually better about actually waiting for you to tell it what you want before it does it. Also a lot of times programs leave modified config files when uninstalled so if you need them later you have them. I still run LILO

Re: [expert] Networking problems(solved)

Lars Nordin writes: 1) Check the rc script for syslog. /etc/rc3.d/S**syslog linked to /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog Thanks, fixed in ntsysv. The syslog daemon was not started at boot. 2) autologin? (Do you mean the graphical login? login as root start X-Windows and in the DrakeTools is an

[expert] Broken upgrade 7.1 to 7.2

Boot logs show that char-major-4 and char-major-180 are missing. These corresponds to tty and usb (right?). The device files are there. Which module files correspond to these devices? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] Re: Sysquery Error Messages

The following entry errors repeatedly occur in /var/log/messages. There hasn't been a time when these messages occurred, until now. No recent changes were made to DNS BIND. Where is the problem? Is it someone else's server? named[475]: No root nameservers for class IN named[475]: sysquery:

Re: [expert] Grub vs lilo

My question is more oriented how lilo and grub work together (or don't). Last time I tried lilo was in 7.1, where the lilo.conf file was edited and updated (I thought) by a lilo run. But what happened was not as expected, lilo did not upgrade according to the conf file. On the other hand, at the

[expert] Lilo install on MBR

Hi! I've been trying to get lilo to install on MBR (LM 7.2) but it won't, telling me: --- Added mandrake Added linux-nonfb Added failsafe Added suse Added floppy Added windows Fatal: No images have been defined. --- which i really don't understand. I've written

Re: [expert] Lilo install on MBR

On Sunday 03 December 2000 23:58, EagleIce wrote: default = linux set a default that exists ;) the label linux doesn't exist in any of your entries :) -- \ Christian A Strømmen / \ Number1/NumeroUno @ Undernet - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Web: www.realityx.net - Cell: +47 911 43 948 /

Re: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97

On Friday 01 December 2000 08:20 pm, you wrote: I had a similar motherboard and hte sound worked perfectly on LM 7.1 out of the box! I don't know of sound quality compared to others coz I use it mainly for playing CDs to my head-phones.. but ac97 did work out of the box on VIA chipset in

Re: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97

A quick reply to myself... I did manage to get sound working about 5 minutes after posting about my problem. The sound quality is pretty good and, so far, there is none of the cricket-like static I was experiencing with my AudioPCI. I do still wonder why a Mandrake-specific tool (sounddrake)

Re: [expert] XFree 4.0.1 not cooperating

Okay, Does Mandrake 7.2 come with 4.0.1 or not? I'm confused by Mandrake install. (it's buggy and ill-designed, but that's a different discussion) First of all, it detects my video card incorrectly. It detects it as a RIVA128 when it should be RIVATNT (It's a Diamond Viper 550). Then it

Re: [expert] edit PATH environment

You can do this by issuing this command: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/prog-dir -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so they can be kicked over the side and drowned! * * REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496

Re: [expert] Log files?

I would be seriously interested in finding out the answer to this myself, since I've recently downloaded the ISO's for Mandrake 7.2 and "had" planned on installing them as soon as I get the CD's burned. I'm not so sure if there are weird things like that going on. I've come to really rely on

Re: [expert] Netscape error message -- Bookmarks have changed...

it sounds like what they're telling you is that you've got a run-on process and the tech has supplied you with an easy way to quickly kill that process that you wouldn't normally be able to detect and kill unless you were to open a program called kpm (KDE Process Manager). Another way to detect

Re: [expert] Pine

Wait...I'm confused here. How is it that linuxconf has changed anything? Let alone the permissions on an entire directory so that it doesn't have the proper read/write/exec permissions. All Linuxconf does/is, is an interface with which to configure the system. It's something that people need to

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Re: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97

praedor wrote: A quick reply to myself... I did manage to get sound working about 5 minutes after posting about my problem. The sound quality is pretty good and, so far, there is none of the cricket-like static I was experiencing with my AudioPCI. I do still wonder why a Mandrake-specific

Re: [expert] Second stage install hangs

I would say definately a hardware issue here. what kind of hardware are we talking about in this compaq? I don't have a lot of experience other than bad experiences with compaqs. -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so

Re: [expert] Second stage install hangs

You know...if I didn't know better I'd say you both were trying to install Mandrake on Celeron processor machine with Western Digital hard drives. It's a hardware issue. You may want to look at the drives, or the chipsets on the mobo's themselves. Celerons and mandrake aren't known to get along

Re: [expert] Slow system

have you tried specifying the amount of RAM in the lilo.conf file, or passing the correct amount to the kernel via command line at the LILO prompt. There is a way to do that if you're using grub too, but I don't know what that is since I don't use grub. sounds too much like a worm. -- Mark / *

Re: [expert] Slow system

they were the "most common" not the most likely. -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so they can be kicked over the side and drowned! * * REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496 */ *REPLY SEPERATOR* On Thu, 30 Nov

Re: [expert] Slow system

dude! that much RAM us severely obscene! You gotta love it though. -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so they can be kicked over the side and drowned! * * REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496 */ *REPLY

Re: [expert] Second stage install hangs

You know...if I didn't know better I'd say you both were trying to install Mandrake on Celeron processor machine with Western Digital hard drives. It's a hardware issue. You may want to look at the drives, or the chipsets on the mobo's themselves. Celerons and mandrake aren't known to Gee

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What processor and motherboard do you run? I'm asking because I'm considering adding a 256MB DIMM to my AMD K6-2 300 (on the VIA MP3 chipset), and I was wondering if it was compatible. Thanks in advance. -- Asheesh. On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, EagleIce wrote: This sounds similar to the problems I

Re: [expert] linux equivalent of Partition Magic?

gnu parted is supposed to do the same as pm but i haven't used it yet so i can't yet say first hand. suspect its time to mess with it next time i get ready to try yet another distro 8-) tom berkley Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Garbage in video programs

I think its a problem with some of the linux usb drivers. I have the same kind of a problem with my hp deskjet printer. Works great on a parallel port (or usb in win98) but with the usb port in linux, I get a lot of artifacts printed. With graphics printing the frequency of disturbance in the

Re: [expert] Postfix or Sendmail

actually Larry I'm not so sure about that. Not 100% positive that you're correct and I'm wrong about this either. But I thought about this when I first setup Sendmail and the account with dyndns.org. So, I sent myself a test message from work one day knowing full well that I wouldn't be home

Re: [expert] NTFS support

with win2k you get to choose whether to use ntfs or fat32. linux can work with either. tom berkley Tom Eastman wrote: I'm about to install Windows 2000 on my computer, I know that linux could read Windows NT NTFS partitions just fine, but can it read Windows 2000 NTFS? Thanks

Re: [expert] Second stage install hangs

I'm running dual celerons with mandrake just fine and know a few other who are too. So your statement about mandrake not liking celerons is not very accurate. tom berkley Mark Weaver wrote: You know...if I didn't know better I'd say you both were trying to install Mandrake on Celeron

Re: [expert] Postfix or Sendmail

I don't know, postfix tends to have fewer security issues. I use postfix and I also set it up with webmin. After running nessus against sendmail vs postfix, I'll take postfix. I still don't trust the security of sendmail. praedor On Sunday 03 December 2000 07:40 pm, you wrote: Postfix is

Re: [expert] NTFS support

Tom Eastman wrote: I'm about to install Windows 2000 on my computer, I know that linux could read Windows NT NTFS partitions just fine, but can it read Windows 2000 NTFS? with win2k you get to choose whether to use ntfs or fat32. linux can work with either. tom berkley As far as I

Re: [expert] Finding files based on date

Bob, Thanks for the reply, but that doesn't work. At least in the form: find /etc/* -amin 8 Try this... # touch -t 12010001 /zhacked # find . -newer /zhacked | tee /zfiles This will create/modify file /zhacked to have a timestamp as indicated MMDDhhmm and then search for all

[expert] No selection on disk formating?

I installed Mandrake 7.2 at my friends computer, but whatever options I choose (expert and so on) in the beginning, I never get asked how to partition his disk. And it always goes into text/low graphics mode when installing (aurora and other fb stuff works perfectly though). Anybody that

Re: Re: [expert] Garbage in video programs

Hi, Thank you for your quick response to my request, unfortunately I think that the USB drivers are not my problem. To verify the possibility that you describe I wrote a small program that reads the video device and generates a JPEG file using libjpeg. Since the resulting images are quite nice,

Re: [expert] Log files?

The syslog daemon was not started at boot time. Solved by running eg. ntsysv. Mark Weaver writes: I would be seriously interested in finding out the answer to this myself, since I've recently downloaded the ISO's for Mandrake 7.2 and "had" planned on installing them as soon as I get the

[expert] Getting 3D to work?

I need advice how to get XFree86-4.0.x to work in 3D with my Banshee graphics card. Several alternatives are possible!? 1. Stay with Glide_V3 Device3Dfx as with 3.3.x. Does this still work? 2. Download Glide_V3-DRI, tdfx_dri tdfx_drm from linux.3dfx.com and following instructions there. 3.