[expert] Mountain Filesafe SideCar

2001-07-21 Thread Oscar
Hi, I have found an old parallel port tape backup, the Mountain Filesafe SideCar (305MB). My question is: How can I configure my LM8.0 to use it? Thanks. óscar.

RE: [expert] Mountain Filesafe SideCar

2001-07-21 Thread Franki
Actually, I have a seagate parallel port stt63200 3.2 gig (uncompressed) double that compressed tape drive, and I'd love to get that working in Mandrake too... It is supported in win98 and 95, but not 2000 or XP,, (seagate emailed to tell me they don't plan too add it either.) so if I could use

Re: [expert] Mountain Filesafe SideCar

2001-07-21 Thread Oscar
Civileme, I plug in the tape on the parallel port. I saw dmesg. Nothing. Harddrake don't detect it. I rebooted the computer with the tape driver switched on. It is not detected either. Maybe I must create something in /dev/? Thanks, oscar. civileme escribió: On Saturday 21 July 2001 07:52,

[expert] Hard drive configuration help please.

2001-07-21 Thread DStevenson
Hi All, Basically I need to know which is the best way to partition/format a hard drive which is going to be shared by Linux/WinMe. The hard drive had some read errors (in WinME), so I went into Harddrake and deleted the partition (i have tape backup) and rebuilt using FAT32 LBA on primary.

RE: [expert] Scsi Iomega Zip Drive external

2001-07-21 Thread Michael Scottaline
Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to put my zip drive from my Mac onto my Linux box. So far I've had it reconized by the system, but I'm unable to mount it. === Have you made an entry for the device in /etc/fstab? What's the mount point? Sorry if I'm asking the

[expert] cdrom mount/umount as user

2001-07-21 Thread Robert
Ok, im back to mandrake after a 4 day play with slackware...lesson...boredom isnt always a bad thing...it beats stay up till1am trying to get a printer configured. Anyway, got manfreq, its running fine. Cdrom drive will alllow user to access drive after a fresh boot, but once a disk ejcet

RE: [expert] Scsi Iomega Zip Drive external

2001-07-21 Thread Steve
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Michael Scottaline wrote: Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to put my zip drive from my Mac onto my Linux box. So far I've had it reconized by the system, but I'm unable to mount it. === Have you made an entry for the device in

[expert] upgrading via rpm

2001-07-21 Thread Abraham Mandac
Is it always necessary to uninstall an rpm before installing its newer version? Or is it just a good habit to do so? I vaguely remember reading about this somewhere. Couldn't remember quite where.

[expert] kernel-2.4.6 and supermount

2001-07-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am having video-related problems with 2.4.3 and my Radeon so I am wanting to build a newer kernel. I know that 2.4.7 was just released but it will be a while before we are likely to see it in cooker, I presume. Thus, at the moment I am left with 2.4.6. What I need/want to know before I go

Re: [expert] CD-Rom problems, after hardware change

2001-07-21 Thread Larry Sword
Erik Kaffehr wrote: Hi! I just upgraded my computer, and moved over two harddisks and CD-writer from the old computer. Everything works fine, if the CD-Writer is not connected. If the CD-writer is connected it just hangs after I got printout: Finding module dependencies [OK] If I

Re: [expert] GAH!!! Damn kernel-2.4.3 build problems

2001-07-21 Thread Oscar
Try this: -Uninstall the kernel source. -Reinstall the kernel source. - Go to the source dir. - do make mrproper. - And then try to compile it with usual commands (make xconfig, make dep... and so on.) Salu2, óscar. El Vie 20 Jul 2001 19:17, escribiste: I don't understand why i am suddenly

Re: [expert] GAH!!! Damn kernel-2.4.3 build problems

2001-07-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
Thank you, that APPEARS to have done it - at least I am presently compiling and it looks like it has gotten past the usual problem spots. What is the difference between make mrproper and make clean? On Saturday 21 July 2001 12:17 pm, Oscar wrote: Try this: -Uninstall the kernel source.

[expert] Backspace sends ^? in xterm

2001-07-21 Thread cb
I've probably got a good half dozen MDK 8.0 boxes, but there's this one machine that's got an annoying quirk. When I'm in X, I run xterm and life is great -- until I edit a file and try to backspace. At that point, it sends ^? chars and yes, keytable's getting run at boot time. When I'm not

Re: [expert] cdrom mount/umount as user

2001-07-21 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2001-07-21 07:12 * Incoming subspace signal from Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Ok, im back to mandrake after a 4 day play with slackware...lesson...boredom isnt always a bad thing...it beats stay up till1am trying to get a printer configured. Anyway, got manfreq, its running fine.

Re: [expert] upgrading via rpm

2001-07-21 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2001-07-21 23:54 * Incoming subspace signal from Abraham Mandac [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Is it always necessary to uninstall an rpm before installing its newer version? Or is it just a good habit to do so? I vaguely remember reading about this somewhere. Couldn't remember quite

Re: [expert] GAH!!! Damn kernel-2.4.3 build problems

2001-07-21 Thread Oscar
El Vie 20 Jul 2001 20:59, escribiste: Thank you, that APPEARS to have done it - at least I am presently compiling and it looks like it has gotten past the usual problem spots. What is the difference between make mrproper and make clean? = I believe make clean deletes only the

Re: [expert] GAH!!! Damn kernel-2.4.3 build problems

2001-07-21 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2001-07-21 22:51 * Incoming subspace signal from Oscar [EMAIL PROTECTED] : El Vie 20 Jul 2001 20:59, escribiste: Thank you, that APPEARS to have done it - at least I am presently compiling and it looks like it has gotten past the usual problem spots. What is the difference

[expert] Removing GRUB

2001-07-21 Thread Mike Davis
Minor result of not reading instructions properly follows... I installed Mandrake (probably 7.2 although I can't quite remember now) a few months ago for Uni work on a secondary hard drive, running Win98 on the other. All was fine and dandy until I realised I a) never got it running properly

RE: RE: [expert] Scsi Iomega Zip Drive external

2001-07-21 Thread Steve
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Michael Scottaline wrote: `/mnt/zip100.0 /mnt/zip100.0 supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/sda4 0 0' I've also created a directory in mnt called `zip100.0'. When I try to mount it manually - the system tells me it's already mounted, which is good.

Re: [expert] Lack of standards

2001-07-21 Thread mike
On Friday 20 July 2001 23:12, Expert wrote: O sorry, I meant, it crashes by itself, where Linux has far less problems (at least on my end) like win95 gave me. To each their own I say, I just choose to use Linux. On Friday 20 July 2001 12:48 pm, so spoke Michael Leone: I prefer linux

[expert] Failed to contact identity server at 192.168.1.2: timeout

2001-07-21 Thread Franki
Hi experts, Does anyone have any ideas about the below?? I have looked all though sysconfig and every other possibly related file I can think off, but can find no reference to 192.168.1.2 Exactly what files does the drake conf net configurator change?? apart from the usual stuff... Hi, does

[expert] Some kde glitches

2001-07-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have a few glitches I am trying to fix. First three come out of kdm: 1. I have gnome and blackbox installed besides kde. The only things that show up in the login menu for selection are default, kde, and failsafe. This now brings me to number 2. Selecting default causes the screen to go

Re: [expert] Some kde glitches

2001-07-21 Thread Dr C. G. Jung
Praedor Tempus wrote: I have a few glitches I am trying to fix. First three come out of kdm: 1. I have gnome and blackbox installed besides kde. The only things that show up in the login menu for selection are default, kde, and failsafe. This now brings me to number 2. Selecting

RE: [expert] Failed to contact identity server at ... Some clues,, xineted???

2001-07-21 Thread Franki
Hi all, As a test, I changed the client box's IP address, and the Identity connect failed message in /var/log/messages on the server changed to reflect the new IP address.. The client is a windows 2000 box, and it has a firewall enabled. When I disabled the firewall, (which was setup to allow

RE: RE: [expert] Scsi Iomega Zip Drive external

2001-07-21 Thread Kevin Krieser
Do you have a second disk to try? Have you seen if any other tools can see it, like fdisk? Have you tried it without Supermount? I've seen reports of problems with Supermount on LM 8. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Sent:

Re: [expert] cdrom mount/umount as user

2001-07-21 Thread civileme
On Saturday 21 July 2001 07:20, Robert wrote: Ok, im back to mandrake after a 4 day play with slackware...lesson...boredom isnt always a bad thing...it beats stay up till1am trying to get a printer configured. Anyway, got manfreq, its running fine. Cdrom drive will alllow user to access

Re: [expert] upgrading via rpm

2001-07-21 Thread Bruce E. Harris
Not necessary, you can update it with: rpm -Uvh file.rpm On Saturday 21 July 2001 11:54 am, Abraham Mandac wrote: Is it always necessary to uninstall an rpm before installing its newer version? Or is it just a good habit to do so? I vaguely remember reading about this somewhere. Couldn't

RE: RE: [expert] Scsi Iomega Zip Drive external

2001-07-21 Thread Michael Scottaline
Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Michael Scottaline wrote: Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to put my zip drive from my Mac onto my Linux box. So far I've had it reconized by the system, but I'm unable to mount it. === Have

[expert] GAH!!! Damn kernel-2.4.3 build problems

2001-07-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
I don't understand why i am suddenly unable to build kernel-2.4.3-20mdk. Every time I try to build it, the kernel builds but the modules crap out on me. If not one module (invariably zatm.o) than another when I deactivate any and all ATM support in xconfig, in this case I am now unable to

Re: [expert] CD-Rom problems, after hardware change

2001-07-21 Thread civileme
On Saturday 21 July 2001 17:57, Larry Sword wrote: Erik Kaffehr wrote: Hi! I just upgraded my computer, and moved over two harddisks and CD-writer from the old computer. Everything works fine, if the CD-Writer is not connected. If the CD-writer is connected it just hangs after I got

Re: [expert] GAH!!! Damn kernel-2.4.3 build problems

2001-07-21 Thread civileme
On Friday 20 July 2001 18:59, Praedor Tempus wrote: Thank you, that APPEARS to have done it - at least I am presently compiling and it looks like it has gotten past the usual problem spots. What is the difference between make mrproper and make clean? On Saturday 21 July 2001 12:17 pm, Oscar

Re: [expert] segmentation fault

2001-07-21 Thread civileme
On Saturday 21 July 2001 04:02, Abraham Mandac wrote: I don't know if this is a stupid question: What exactly is a segmentation fault? The 8086 when first introduced had 16-bit registers and a whopping 1-Megabyte Address space. Since the registers contained only 16 bits, their maximum

Re: [expert] vmware and virtual samba

2001-07-21 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 08:02 +0200, Philipp Hellmich wrote: Hallo! When you say Allow Acces to the hostfile systeme (in the vmware-config prog) , vmware configure samba automaticly, but be sure taht the normal samba service is disabeld! Normal samba is not installed But from my own

Re: [expert] Mountain Filesafe SideCar

2001-07-21 Thread civileme
On Saturday 21 July 2001 07:52, Oscar wrote: Hi, I have found an old parallel port tape backup, the Mountain Filesafe SideCar (305MB). My question is: How can I configure my LM8.0 to use it? Thanks. óscar. The driver is already there if it is standard. Plug it in and see. Check dmesg

Re: [expert] Mountain Filesafe SideCar

2001-07-21 Thread civileme
On Saturday 21 July 2001 08:30, Oscar wrote: Civileme, I plug in the tape on the parallel port. I saw dmesg. Nothing. Harddrake don't detect it. I rebooted the computer with the tape driver switched on. It is not detected either. Maybe I must create something in /dev/? Thanks, oscar.