Re: reading FAT32

2000-08-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi John, > I installed RH6.1 on what used to be the C: drive, after I wiped the MBR > with 'fdisk /mbr'. I'd like to get at the data on my D:, E:, and F: drives, > that should have been left intact. I've tried using 'auto' for the fstype in > fstab with no luck. I've tried... > > mount -t vfat /d

Re: rp3-config 'crashed' -> solved

2000-08-07 Thread Johan Lim
I found that I downloaded the wrong package, not rp3-1.0.7-4.src.rpm, but rp3-1.0.7-4.i386.rpm. I have rebuilt & upgraded it and now there is no problem when I run Dial up Configuration Tool. Thanks for all the helps. Johan >As root: > > rpm --rebuild rp3-1.0.7-4.src.rpm > >After it's fin

Re: Help keep a Linux user in the fold!

2000-08-07 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On 07 Aug 2000 22:09 "Merell L. Matlock, Jr." wrote: >1. What should my hostname be set to? Anything you like. >2. There are some email issues. > > 1. Most of my family uses (uck) Netscape mail. Their local > usernames are *not* the same as the usernames on the bellsouth >

Re: Floppy icon missing!!!!

2000-08-07 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On 07 Aug 2000 18:11 Benoit Cordoba wrote: >Alright, >I tried the command but an error came up: >"mount: mount point /floppy does not exist" > >When I was messing around trying to format the floppy in Linux format I right clicked on the desktop icon and selected delete. Insteat of the expected r

Re: networking problems

2000-08-07 Thread Robert Soros
Okay, how are the cables hooked up ? Are the two machines connected directly to each other ? If so, is the cable crossed over ? If your going through a hub, are the cables in the right order (ie. if your on a cable mode, run the cable->hub connection through the uplink connection.. if so, some

Re: Why is list reply set to user? (Vidiot)

2000-08-07 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On 07 Aug 2000 03:13 Gustav Schaffter wrote: >Chuck, > >With all due respect... > >Some of us, me included, are forced to use Win-NT in our proffesional >time. As such, procmail is not an option during daytime. As such, >"brain-dead" email clients such as NetScape and others do become >something o

networking problems

2000-08-07 Thread Jack Bowling
Having nothing but problems trying to network 2 linux boxes together. The gateway box has a 3Com 3c509 which loads up perfectly using the 3c509 driver. The problem box has a Linksys Lite-On chipset card which loads up with the tulip driver. However as the following paste from ifconfig shows, there

Re: MySQL, SQL and ORACLE server choice

2000-08-07 Thread Almond Wong
Try interbase www.interbase.com. It become open source last month. Support on Linux, Solary and Win NT at this moment. Very easy to install, with a small system requirement. At 11:16 AM 00/08/08 +0800, you wrote: >Hi all people, > >(If this posting is OT please accept my apology first) > >MySQL,

Re: Send mails problem

2000-08-07 Thread Robert Soros
Okay, your best bet would be to subscribe to a free email service such as Yahoo or Hotmail... With your "Free" ISP you probably wont be able to recieve mail very often (unless the free isp allows you to stay connected 24 hours/day )... Imagine someone is trying to send you an email, that email i

Re: reset an internal modem

2000-08-07 Thread Stephen Liu
If your goal to install an internal modem is solely for absorbing know-how for its installation, browse Linmodem and Lucent technology websites, download the relevant driver and try to install it according to its manual. Finally you will get it installed but lot of time may be spent. Otherwise ge

Send mails problem

2000-08-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all people, (If this posting is OT please accept my apology first) How to send and receive emails from PC directly using the free ISP service which does not provide an email address. Instead of going through some other websites which provide free email service including free email box. Any s

MySQL, SQL and ORACLE server choice

2000-08-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all people, (If this posting is OT please accept my apology first) MySQL, SQL and ORACLE are new to me except having an idea that they are database server for Web I have following questions expected to be enlightened. 1) Which one will be the best choice suitable for Web application 2) Whic

Re: [RHL] Re: [RHL] Re: lilo crc error

2000-08-07 Thread Kirk
For the VIA chipset see: ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick Kirk >On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Eric Clover wrote: > amazing what a new mb and cpu will do for a box. > only bad thing is that the chipset is a via chipset. > /me looks around for patches for the via > thank you > eric > > Dua

Re: rp3-config 'crashed'

2000-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Johan Lim wrote: > > Actually I'm newbie in linux. > I used the command: rpm -ivh rp3-1.0.7-4.src.rpm > If it's not rebuilt it, how to rebuild? > > Thanks, > Johan > rpm --rebuild rp3-1.0.7-4.src.rpm rpm -uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/rp3-1.0.7-4.rpm What you did was to ins

Re: [RHL] Re: lilo crc error

2000-08-07 Thread Eric Clover
amazing what a new mb and cpu will do for a box. only bad thing is that the chipset is a via chipset. /me looks around for patches for the via thank you eric Duane Clark wrote: > > "eric clover" wrote: > > > > morning, > > i was having sig11 errors when i was compiling the new 2.4.0 kernel, and

Re: rp3-config 'crashed'

2000-08-07 Thread bob
Uncle Meat wrote: > On 08-Aug-2000 Johan Lim opined: > >>It's Red Hat's PPP dialer, config and monitoring software. > >> > >>Bob > > > > Yes, it's RH's PPP dialer. Someone told me that RH 6.1 came out with an > > unstable rp3-config software. Now I experienced it on my linux (RH 6.1) > > which

Re: mapping a drive from NT to Linux (using SAMBA)

2000-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, John Blackmore wrote: > I tried to set up SAMBA this past weekend, with some success. Basically, I > wanted to be able to share files between my laptop (NT 4.0) and my home > computer, which thanks to the Win2K upgrade is a RH 6.1 box. I (loosely) > followed the HOWTO on home-

Re: Help keep a Linux user in the fold!

2000-08-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Merell L. Matlock, Jr. wrote: > Hi folks, > > Hair pulling situation. > > My current ISP has started sucking big-time, and I need to change. > > Unfortunately, not too many choices here in backwoods, bum-fu*k GA, so > I am forced to go with bellsouth.net *NOT* the dsl ver

Re: rp3-config 'crashed'

2000-08-07 Thread Johan Lim
> >>It's Red Hat's PPP dialer, config and monitoring software. > >> > >>Bob > > > > Yes, it's RH's PPP dialer. Someone told me that RH 6.1 came out > with >an unstable rp3-config software. Now I experienced it on my > linux (RH > > >6.1) which crashed. > > I can only find the file 'rp3-1.0.7-4.

Help keep a Linux user in the fold!

2000-08-07 Thread Merell L. Matlock, Jr.
Hi folks, Hair pulling situation. My current ISP has started sucking big-time, and I need to change. Unfortunately, not too many choices here in backwoods, bum-fu*k GA, so I am forced to go with bellsouth.net *NOT* the dsl version, either. :(( I can get the ppp link running, but have some qu

Re: rp3-config 'crashed'

2000-08-07 Thread Johan Lim
>It's Red Hat's PPP dialer, config and monitoring software. > >Bob Yes, it's RH's PPP dialer. Someone told me that RH 6.1 came out with an unstable rp3-config software. Now I experienced it on my linux (RH 6.1) which crashed. I can only find the file 'rp3-1.0.7-4.src.rpm' from RH 6.2 archieves

6.2 install

2000-08-07 Thread Jake McHenry
I'm working on setting up my linux box the right way, and have a question. There are supposed to be different architectures of the install, right? ex. 386,586,686, etc.. Everytime I install RHL it automatically goes to 386, I think. How do I make it 686, or other than default? Thanks, Jake McHe

kernel upgrade

2000-08-07 Thread lee johnson
this is from kernel upgrade howto from redhat site... okay..never done upgradejust installed 6.2 and getting upgrade fix blah blah.. i issued this command from terminal and it showed the kernel, pcmcia and source that i need... but at the redhat site there is only the ker

Re: pppd daemon died unexpectedly....

2000-08-07 Thread Steve Borho
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 09:12:32AM +0800, Cheah Ling wrote: > Hi! > > I'm running on RH6.2, I'm having problem with my kppp dial up, > before hand I don't have any problem with it until recently it always > gave me the same error messages saying that my pppd daemon died > unexpectedly. Alth

Re: [RHL] Survey Please Read

2000-08-07 Thread Steve Frampton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Uncle Meat wrote: > >If you want the [RHL] send an e-mail to: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >If you do not want to see the [RHL] send an e-mail to: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Which one if you could care less? Try abstaining? - -

pppd daemon died unexpectedly....

2000-08-07 Thread Cheah Ling
Hi! I'm running on RH6.2, I'm having problem with my kppp dial up, before hand I don't have any problem with it until recently it always gave me the same error messages saying that my pppd daemon died unexpectedly. Although the permission for ttyS0(666) and /usr/sbin/pppd(set to 4755), it s

rpm problem

2000-08-07 Thread Nick Hudson
hey guys and gals, when i try to install a rpm from the redhat ftp site it gives me this message : "only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM" what does this mean??? it only does this on the rpm packages from the RH ftp no other rpm does this .. Thx

ISDN modem and firewalling rec

2000-08-07 Thread Yuri
Hello redhaters and redhatesses :), I need an ISDN modem recommendation - never dealt with this before. I have implemented several cable firewalls without any significant difficulties. the small company i am employed with is required to have ISDN access per a Government contract they h

mapping a drive from NT to Linux (using SAMBA)

2000-08-07 Thread John Blackmore
I tried to set up SAMBA this past weekend, with some success. Basically, I wanted to be able to share files between my laptop (NT 4.0) and my home computer, which thanks to the Win2K upgrade is a RH 6.1 box. I (loosely) followed the HOWTO on home-networking, but without the "outside" setup. For

Re: Install problems!

2000-08-07 Thread Danny
You should have a look for a RPM called mtools. It does evertying for your automatically unlike typing in mount -t vfat /mnt/floppy or whatever At 04:29 PM 8/7/00 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, >Make sure the directory /mnt/floppy exists >then unless you have set it up differently >you have to be roo

Re: Install problems! [Reading floppy under Linux]

2000-08-07 Thread vik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >So how do I exchange files between Win and Linux on floppies??!! Put in the floppy in and use mcopy a:filename /tmp/wherever You might need to be root, depending on the setup. Vik :v) ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: Install problems!

2000-08-07 Thread Steve Borho
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 04:39:55PM -0600, Chuck Mead wrote: > Format the floppy on Windoze. > Copy the file to the floppy. > Boot Linux. > In your home directory type the following: > > mcopy a:* . > > Then type: ls > > Voila! It's magic... :-) Two stipulations: 1) mtools is installed 2) You p

Re: Floppy icon missing!!!!

2000-08-07 Thread Steve Borho
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 04:11:12PM -0600, Benoit Cordoba wrote: > Alright, > I tried the command but an error came up: > "mount: mount point /floppy does not exist" > > When I was messing around trying to format the floppy in Linux > format I right clicked on the desktop icon and selected delete

Re: Install problems!

2000-08-07 Thread Chuck Mead
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Benoit Cordoba spewed into the bitstream: BC>Hi everyone. BC> BC>I am brand new to RH and Linux. I just did an install of RH 6.1 on a new BC>Dell. I have problems with the sound card. I went to the mail server BC>archives and got some answers. The Montego cards needs the n

RE: Install problems!

2000-08-07 Thread John Blackmore
You're not alone. :) I just installed RH6.1 after a dismal failure on Win2K upgrade. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Benoit CordobaSent: Monday, August 07, 2000 6:00 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Install problems!

Re: [RHL] Returned mail: User unknown

2000-08-07 Thread eric clover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] see the - ??? not a _ eric - Original Message - From: "Jack Bowling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 5:01 PM Subject: [RHL] Returned mail: User unknown > The original message was received at Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:51:03 -0400 > f

Floppy icon missing!!!!

2000-08-07 Thread Benoit Cordoba
Alright, I tried the command but an error came up: "mount: mount point /floppy does not exist"   When I was messing around trying to format the floppy in Linux format I right clicked on the desktop icon and selected delete.  Insteat of the expected result the icon dissappeared.  This was w

Re: [RHL] Survey Please Read

2000-08-07 Thread Uncle Meat
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, you opined: >Ok we have been getting a lot of messages from those who like the [RHL] >and those who don't like the [RHL] in front of the subject. So I'm doing >a survey, the majority of people who respond by Friday Aug 11th win. > >If you want the [RHL] send an e-mail to: >

Re: Install problems!

2000-08-07 Thread Benoit Cordoba
Thanks for the help, I'll try it now...  I have much to learn on this new OS.   Thanks. Benoit - Original Message - From: John Blackmore To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 2:54 PM Subject: RE: Install problems! format floppy in win 98, then

Returned mail: User unknown

2000-08-07 Thread Jack Bowling
The original message was received at Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:51:03 -0400 from gouda.direct.ca [199.60.229.9] - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to

Re: Install problems!

2000-08-07 Thread Benoit Cordoba
Thank you very much for the info. Sincerely, Benoit - Original Message - From: linda hanigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 3:29 PM Subject: Re: Install problems! > Hi, > Make sure the directory /mnt/floppy exists > then unless you have set i

Re: adaptec scsi card 29160

2000-08-07 Thread Av Aumick
Thanks. Then with your recommendation I will use it. Avram On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Kevin Wood wrote: > They work great. We use them on a daily basis around here. They are > supported by all current kernels, unlike the Symbios U160 cards which > you have to go through some gyrations to get working

Re: triple-boot manager?

2000-08-07 Thread rpjday
ok, let's get down and dirty here, and consider the layout of a system with at least two different linux installations on it. as we've already discussed, there are a couple of ways to do it, both of which involve configuring /etc/lilo.conf and running lilo when you're in one of the installs

Re: Install problems!

2000-08-07 Thread linda hanigan
Hi, Make sure the directory /mnt/floppy exists then unless you have set it up differently you have to be root to mount it. Here is the command I use to mount windows floppies mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy I actually have it in a x file called WinFloppy that reads as follows mount -t vfat /d

Re: rp3-config 'crashed'

2000-08-07 Thread Bob Taylor
In message <00080710092506.00785@front>, John Aldrich writes: > On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, you wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have RH 6.1 in my computer & X windows running well. > > When I tried to open Dial up configuration tool, there was a message: > > rp3-config crashed. > > > > I have downloade

Re: reset an internal modem

2000-08-07 Thread sohogurus
There is no answer except for a hardware reset (machine boot! boo!) External modems are your friend. Peace, Mike Wafkowski - Original Message - From: "jack wallen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 4:20 PM Subject: Re: reset an inte

Re: the mechanics of LILO

2000-08-07 Thread Steve Borho
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 05:17:52PM -0400, rpjday wrote: > > a simple question about LILO. in the recent book > "Linux System Security," there is a short section on > LILO which contains the sentence: > > "LILO reads the /etc/lilo.conf configuration file > at boot time." > > to the best o

the mechanics of LILO

2000-08-07 Thread rpjday
a simple question about LILO. in the recent book "Linux System Security," there is a short section on LILO which contains the sentence: "LILO reads the /etc/lilo.conf configuration file at boot time." to the best of my knowledge, this isn't true. the information in /etc/lilo.conf is pla

RE: Install problems!

2000-08-07 Thread John Blackmore
format floppy in win 98, then   mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 (?) /floppy   Sorry, can't remember the device for the floppy drive. I think you can DOS format a floppy in Linux too.   -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Benoit CordobaS

Re: Redirection of URL

2000-08-07 Thread Bill Carlson
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, kapil sharma wrote: > Hi, > I am using apache 1.3.12 with Redhat 6.2. I want to redirect one url to > other url. For example if some request comes for > http://foo.com > then the url should redirect to > http://www.foo.com > > What should i do for that? Assuming foo.com is

Re: lilo crc error

2000-08-07 Thread Duane Clark
"eric clover" wrote: > > morning, > i was having sig11 errors when i was compiling the new 2.4.0 kernel, and i > was told to run a test on my ram. i got and ran memtest86. now my puter > locks up and when i reset it it gets to lilo then says it is decompressing > the vmlinux and returns a crc err

Install problems!

2000-08-07 Thread Benoit Cordoba
Hi everyone.   I am brand new to RH and Linux.  I just did an install of RH 6.1 on a new Dell.  I have problems with the sound card.  I went to the mail server archives and got some answers.  The Montego cards needs the new drivers from aureal.  So I downloaded them using win98.  I copied th

Re: adaptec scsi card 29160

2000-08-07 Thread Kevin Wood
They work great. We use them on a daily basis around here. They are supported by all current kernels, unlike the Symbios U160 cards which you have to go through some gyrations to get working. Solid running card and will actually give you some room to upgrade. Hope this helps Kevin Av Aumick

adaptec scsi card 29160

2000-08-07 Thread Av Aumick
My adaptec 2940UW card has gone bad. It seems that they have been replaced by the 29160. Has any one used this card, Adaptec 29160? If so what driver is used? Have you had any problems installing it? Thanks, Avram ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL

RE: reset an internal modem

2000-08-07 Thread John Blackmore
Is it a plug-and-pray modem? I have one that wasn't recognized at all by the system. I started to look into getting the latest version of isapnptools, but didn't completely follow up. I forget where it was exactly, but if you follow linux.org/Applications, you'll find it. I don't know if that will

Re: reset an internal modem

2000-08-07 Thread jack wallen
i had this same problem and, after about a year of frustration (and constant prowling for a solution) i switched to an external (since then have gone to cable modem) and didn't have th problem. as much as i'd like to say i had an answer for this - i don't. all i can say is that it infuriated me

Re: lilo crc error

2000-08-07 Thread Kit Cosper
To really give your system a workover give Cerberus a shot. It can be found at http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=5317 Follow the instructions and use with care. It does have modes that you can activate that will wipe your disk. If you have a real memory problem this ought to find it fo

Re: reading FAT32

2000-08-07 Thread Roadrunner
Hi, This is only a small suggestion, but can't you boot up your computer with a MS-DOS bootdisk to, at least, see if there is any data to be saved? I don't know if you can see partitions beyond C:\, but I think it worth the shot. I know I keep on dragging about Microsoft, but that's something i

reading FAT32

2000-08-07 Thread John Blackmore
Hi all, This is my first post, please bare with me! I tried to upgrade Win98 to Win2K this weekend and the end result was 'Missing Operating System' error at bootup. Nice, eh? Then the install disk couldn't even recognize my drives. I tried installing NT and recognized the drives, but couldn't r

RE: reading FAT32

2000-08-07 Thread John Blackmore
I'm not going to put much more effort into it, I just hoped i was missing something. One follow-up, is it possible that because the mount failed at boot-up that I can't mount it afterwards? Would it make a difference if I removed those lines from fstab, rebooted and tried the mount manually? Right

problems restoring with dump/restore

2000-08-07 Thread Mark Dzmura
Hey, folks: We have brought some simple backup scripts over from our Solaris boxes to our the Redhat world and changed a few parameters in order to get some weekly full/daily incremental backups going on important data. I dump as follows: /sbin/dump 0bdfsu 32 327000 /dev/nrst0 4 /dev/sd

Re: triple-boot manager?

2000-08-07 Thread Roadrunner
Tom, You gave me new hope. Rebuilding the kernel I something I don't really like to do at the moment. The way you explained it is understandable even for me. I'll try it. Thank you, Remon -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Tom Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTE

re: serious problem--help

2000-08-07 Thread Edward Schernau
A) So what if he runs as root, its not what he asked. B) if your system locks, Ctrl-Alt-F2 won't save you. C) neither will telnet Why not concentrate on telling him how to interpret the fsck info, or how to recreate his X setup files, instead of climbing onto a pile of soap crates?

Re: triple-boot manager?

2000-08-07 Thread Tom Davis
On Tue, 08 Aug 2000, Roadrunner wrote: > Hi, > > I think that the idea of running 3 operating systems on one computer is a > little bit too difficult for me. > > I thought that the problem would lie in the bootmanager, but when people > start talking about rebuilding the kernel, that's where I s

RE: reading FAT32

2000-08-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, you wrote: > No can do, all drives are on the same physical device. Probably should have > tried that before installing RH. Dang. > Man, this is a REAL puzzler... I'll be interested to know if you can salvage the windows partitions! John __

RE: reading FAT32

2000-08-07 Thread John Blackmore
No can do, all drives are on the same physical device. Probably should have tried that before installing RH. Dang. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roadrunner > Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 5:06 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject

Re[2]: triple-boot manager?

2000-08-07 Thread Yuri
Hello Bernhard, Monday, August 07, 2000, 17:49:00 zulu time, you wrote: BR> Writing this from a machine that can boot into Red Hat Linux 6.2, Red BR> Hat Linux 7.0 beta with kernel 2.2.16, Red Hat Linux 7.0 beta with kernel BR> 2.4.0, Debian 2.2, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and DR-DOS, all using lilo.

RE: reading FAT32

2000-08-07 Thread John Blackmore
Did that, they're reported as "Win 95 FAT32", aka type "b". I don't think it whacked the partition table, the partitions showed up as expected during Linux install. Thanks. -John PS - the quote in your sig is just soo appropriate in my case. :) > -Original Message- > From: Vidiot [

Re: reading FAT32

2000-08-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, you wrote: > Hi all, > > This is my first post, please bare with me! I tried to upgrade Win98 to > Win2K this weekend and the end result was 'Missing Operating System' error > at bootup. Nice, eh? Then the install disk couldn't even recognize my > drives. I tried installing

Re: reading FAT32

2000-08-07 Thread Vidiot
John: Use the Linux fdisk on the drives to see what it is reporting for a partition type, or if you had more than one partition, for all of them. Maybe W2K screwed with the partition type. Maybe even worse, it removed the partition table. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bart: Hey, why is i

Re: reading FAT32

2000-08-07 Thread Roadrunner
Hi, Why don't you place your harddrive in another computer as a second harddisk? Then you could burn your data on a CD-R (if the computer has a CDwriter in it). Just make sure the Bios does see the new harddrive on boot*. (*Automatic search for new harddrives or someting) Remon -Oorspr

reset an internal modem

2000-08-07 Thread Michael George
I have a USR internal modem which works fine. However, every once in a blue moon it will open the line and freeze. It doesn't respond to the ppp daemon or mincom. If it were external, I'd just power it down. Being internal, the only think I knew of to do was shutdown the machine, power it off

Re: triple-boot manager?

2000-08-07 Thread rpjday
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Chad Rismiller wrote: > > > > > > it's worth emphasizing what's really happening in this lilo.conf file. > > > the kernel you refer to in the "image" directive must be accessible > > > (that is, mounted) when you run the "lilo" command. > > > > > > thus, if you're in the red

reading FAT32

2000-08-07 Thread John Blackmore
Hi all, This is my first post, please bare with me! I tried to upgrade Win98 to Win2K this weekend and the end result was 'Missing Operating System' error at bootup. Nice, eh? Then the install disk couldn't even recognize my drives. I tried installing NT and recognized the drives, but couldn't r

Re: triple-boot manager?

2000-08-07 Thread Roadrunner
Hi, I think that the idea of running 3 operating systems on one computer is a little bit too difficult for me. I thought that the problem would lie in the bootmanager, but when people start talking about rebuilding the kernel, that's where I stop. I'm a real newbee and I don't know much about L

Re: triple-boot manager?

2000-08-07 Thread Chad Rismiller
> > > > it's worth emphasizing what's really happening in this lilo.conf file. > > the kernel you refer to in the "image" directive must be accessible > > (that is, mounted) when you run the "lilo" command. > > > > thus, if you're in the red hat partition, one option is to create > > a mount poi

Re: [RHL] Re: lilo crc error

2000-08-07 Thread eric clover
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, eric clover wrote: > > > i was having sig11 errors when i was compiling the new 2.4.0 kernel, and i > > was told to run a test on my ram. i got and ran memtest86. > > What did memtest tell you? How many times did you let it pass through its > tests? got no errors from mem

Re: triple-boot manager?

2000-08-07 Thread rpjday
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, you wrote: > > > > it's worth emphasizing what's really happening in this lilo.conf file. > > the kernel you refer to in the "image" directive must be accessible > > (that is, mounted) when you run the "lilo" command. > > > > thus,

Re: triple-boot manager?

2000-08-07 Thread Roadrunner
Hi, >I'm not sure how you'd keep SuSE from overwriting the RedHat kernel with it's own, >assuming they have the same filename (which I do NOT know to be the case...) Does anybody know the answer? And would he or she please explain it to me? I hate to install Redhat all over again. Remon

Re: triple-boot manager?

2000-08-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, you wrote: > > it's worth emphasizing what's really happening in this lilo.conf file. > the kernel you refer to in the "image" directive must be accessible > (that is, mounted) when you run the "lilo" command. > > thus, if you're in the red hat partition, one option is to cr

Re: triple-boot manager?

2000-08-07 Thread rpjday
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Roadrunner wrote: > > > > > My question is: Can I install Suse on my computer next to Windows and > > > Redhat? > > > > > > Sure! > > > > > Do i have to purchase a sp

Information regarding redhat-list and the move to Mailman...

2000-08-07 Thread Kambiz Aghaiepour
Folks, As you know we've been moving all Red Hat lists that were on our old server running qmail and smartlist over to a new box running postfix and Mailman. I won't go into the details of migration, but I wanted to give you some information about the new list (sorry, this should have gone out

Re: triple-boot manager?

2000-08-07 Thread Charles Galpin
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Roadrunner wrote: > > > My question is: Can I install Suse on my computer next to Windows and > > Redhat? > > > Sure! > > > Do i have to purchase a special bootmanager(www.bootmanager.com) or can Lilo > > handle 3 opera

/etc/mail/deny.db

2000-08-07 Thread Martin Sieben
Hi, some users are getting spam mail so I would like to put some filter or blacklist up. Doing that i made /etc/mail/deny(.db). The problem is I don't know how to make sendmail checking (useing) it. All ideas welcome! Martin ___ Redhat-list maili

RE: serious problem--help

2000-08-07 Thread Poletti, Don
It sounds like you run as root all the time. That is you first and biggest mistake. It caused some of the problems your having. I suspect there is no fix for your current situation as files have been deleted by your actions. If the worst you got was losing your preferences you got off easy. To p

Re: triple-boot manager?

2000-08-07 Thread Matt Housh
> My question is: Can I install Suse on my computer next to Windows and > Redhat? Yes. > Do i have to purchase a special bootmanager(www.bootmanager.com) or can Lilo > handle 3 operatingsystems? No, and yes, lilo can. > And if Lilo can handle 3 operatingsystems, how do i change

Re: lilo crc error

2000-08-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, eric clover wrote: > i was having sig11 errors when i was compiling the new 2.4.0 kernel, and i > was told to run a test on my ram. i got and ran memtest86. What did memtest tell you? How many times did you let it pass through its tests? > now my puter > locks up and when i

Re: triple-boot manager?

2000-08-07 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Roadrunner wrote: > My question is: Can I install Suse on my computer next to Windows and > Redhat? Sure! > Do i have to purchase a special bootmanager(www.bootmanager.com) or can Lilo > handle 3 operatingsystems? Lilo can handle more than just 3 OSes... Writing this from

Re: RHL digest

2000-08-07 Thread Doug McGarrett
The problem I mentioned with the crazy colored background must have been some kind of corruption in the mail system. However, would it really be too difficult to put the subject of a message LAST in the headers again, (as you did in the first one or two issues) instead of somewhere in the middle

Re: triple-boot manager?

2000-08-07 Thread Adam Sleight
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:05:08 -1200 "Roadrunner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: check out Smart Boot Manager GPL http://freshmeat.net/appindex/2000/04/01/954584973.html #Do i have to purchase a special bootmanager(www.bootmanager.com) or #can Lilo #handle 3 operatingsystems? # #And if Lilo can handle

triple-boot manager?

2000-08-07 Thread Roadrunner
Hi, to all who reads this, I'm not sure, if this is the right group to ask, but I haven't come across the answer, yet. I have Windows 98 and Linux redhat 6.1 on my computer. But I also got Suse 6.4 (1cd full-version)(got it with a magazine) lying around on my shelves. My question is: Can I ins

[RHL] Survey Please Read

2000-08-07 Thread Nate Golnik
Ok we have been getting a lot of messages from those who like the [RHL] and those who don't like the [RHL] in front of the subject. So I'm doing a survey, the majority of people who respond by Friday Aug 11th win. If you want the [RHL] send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do not want

Applescripting against RH 6.2 servers

2000-08-07 Thread Pat Cookson
Just wondering since, I'm about to put up two RH 6.2 servers that will be used this way. Has anyone used applescripting against mounted Linux servers, and if you have, any pitfalls encountered? My servers are used for heavy graphic, text and page transfers based on script activity. Should I be awa

lilo crc error

2000-08-07 Thread eric clover
morning, i was having sig11 errors when i was compiling the new 2.4.0 kernel, and i was told to run a test on my ram. i got and ran memtest86. now my puter locks up and when i reset it it gets to lilo then says it is decompressing the vmlinux and returns a crc error and i can not get past that to

Re: /etc/mail/deny.db

2000-08-07 Thread jack wallen
you can also do this with procmail. careat a file called black.list (with the e-mail addyes - one per line) and put it in your default mail directory and then add a procmail recipe that looks like: :0 * ? formail -x"From" -x"From:" -x"Sender:" \ -x"Reply-To:" -x"Return-Path:" -x"To:" \ |

Re: Why is list reply set to user? (Vidiot)

2000-08-07 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:13:47AM +0200, Gustav Schaffter wrote: : Some of us, me included, are forced to use Win-NT in our proffesional : time. As such, procmail is not an option during daytime. As such, : "brain-dead" email clients such as NetScape and others do become : something one has to li

Re: web-based password change

2000-08-07 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 04:15:12PM +0530, UK Jaiswal wrote: : Use php: How is that a password change script (as the subject requests)? If you really want to do web based password changes, make sure you're doing it over https. I do this using a combination of poppassd, and a php script I wrote t

Re: Dark Blue Man Pages

2000-08-07 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 06:58:59PM -0400, Allen, Michael B (RSCH) wrote: : How do I kill the dark blue in man pages. With the magic BlueDestroyer gun. Care to elaborate on your problem? -- Jason Costomiris <>< | Technologist, geek, human. jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org | http://www

Re: rp3-config 'crashed'

2000-08-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, you wrote: > Hello all, > > I have RH 6.1 in my computer & X windows running well. > When I tried to open Dial up configuration tool, there was a message: > rp3-config crashed. > > I have downloaded rp3-1.0.7-4.src.rpm from RH 6.2 & installed it but the > problem is still s

Re: modem problems

2000-08-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 06 Aug 2000, you wrote: > > If you want to avoid headaches, get rid of it and get a > > REAL modem (most ISA modems and all serial-based externals > > will work.) > > Avoid however, external USB modems, because: > a) USB support in Linux is limited to say the least > and > b) A lot of USB

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