On 20-Jun-98 Scott Kindley wrote:
> Maxwell Smart wrote:
>
>> Get the glint replacement from errata. That fixes it,
>
> No it doesnt!!
Sorry. It seemed to fix it for just about everyone else.
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On 19-Jun-98 Russell Foster wrote:
> I've got a weird problem with my RedHat installation. I've just moved
> form 5.0 to 5.1 and it all went fine. However I saw the applications CD and
> couldn't resist having a look. Put it my cdrom and mounted it. When to the
> Control Panel/Package Managme
On 17-Jun-98 Darque wrote:
> I am needing to reinstall RH5.0, but would like to retain the /home
> and /usr/local directories. I created each as seperate partions as
> recomended in my initial install, but didn't write details anywhere.
> When I start to reinstall and it asks for all the partiti
On 18-Jun-98 wward wrote:
> Hello,
> Is there program that will convert HTML to text?
> TIA.
One called html-strip is located someplace in the contrib directories.
I have html-strip-0d1-1.i386.rpm if you can't locate it.
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On 16-Jun-98 Jason Belich wrote:
> after getting assorted uncompression errors with SO4sp3 both using the
> wrapper and manually using tar -xvzf, I attempted to just gzip -d the
> tarball and I get consistantly the error
>
> invalid compressed data--crc error
>
> I've dnlded from several diffe
On 16-Jun-98 Michael Jinks wrote:
> I've been trying to get sound to work on my 5.1 box using a soundblaster 16
> (as per the post right before this one).
>
> Retracing my steps, I just re-compiled my kernel with sound support as a
> module. But when I did make install_modules, I got this:
Jus
On 15-Jun-98 Doug Smoak wrote:
> Here's /etc/fstab:
>
> [root@localhost /root]# cat /etc/fstab
>#
># /etc/fstab
>#
># You should be using fstool (control-panel) to edit this! (Yeah, right!)
>#
>#
>
> /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/cd
Robert Hillier wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> When I originally installed RH version 5.0 I couldn't get my
> soundblaster to play CD's. I ran sndconfig and after selecting an IRQ
> and DMA it worked. Last week I went to load some code from a CD and I
> couldn't mount the cdrom. I couldn't mount it fr
David Pellegrino wrote:
>
> I have read almost everything I can get my hands on trying to get ppp working,
> HOWTOs, the pppd manual, etc. I've configured my options, pap-secrets, etc.
> I dial in to my ISP using minicom, log in and it starts ppp at the server
> end. I exit out of minicom witho
On 12-Jun-98 Dan Cyr wrote:
>
> I am asking this for a friend, who has tried many ways to burn a RedHat
> 5.1
> cd.
> He is using a mirrored copy straight from RedHat's ftp site.
>
> Is there some trick to doing this?
> He has set the cd root to be redhat-5.1/i386
> I have looked it over in det
On 11-Jun-98 Richard Watts wrote:
>
> I'm somewhat of a newbie to linux, I'm loving it and haven't been to my
> windows parition in a long time :) I downloaded ezppp and set it up in
> root, and when I'm in root it works fine, great connection and
> everything.
> But when I log on as a non-root
On 10-Jun-98 Leston Buell wrote:
> I have a similar question. I want to use ezppp as a non-root user, but i
> get a message saying:
>
> must be root to run pppd, since it is not setuid-root
>
> I went to the man pppd page but still couldn't figure out what to do.
Just type
chm
On 09-Jun-98 Alfonso Barreto Lopez wrote:
> I give up, I just can't include the sound options on the kernel this is
> what I get:
Just out of curiosity, which kernel are you trying to compile? The one I
have stock with 5.0 has sound already builtin. I assume 5.1 also has it
that way.
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On 09-Jun-98 Eric Cifreo wrote:
> Thanks to all. Cdrom is mounted fine. Now to do a harddrive install of
> 5.1.
> Maxwell, what was that you said earlier about capitalization of dirs and
> files?
Since I don't recall the specific context, I assume you're downloading it
and writing it to CD
On 10-Jun-98 Graham Knopp wrote:
>
> One of my machines is behaving strangely (it's running RH5.0).
> Everything was fine until I rebooted today (with minor changes that
> shouldn't matter). Now, when it reaches the fsck, it claims that the
> partitions (/usr /usr/local /var and /scr) are not c
On 09-Jun-98 Eric Cifreo wrote:
> Thanks for your questions Zoki(they made me think, and figure some stuff
> out
> on my own!) Newbies need to figure things out, the lesson sticks better
> that way. (you helped too Maxwell)
>
> I still don't have the cdrom working, but I can tell that I'm s
On 09-Jun-98 Richard Scott Gray wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Redhat 5.1 with all updates applied. Sometimes when I try
> to use the backspace key with Netscape 4.5, I get error messages such
> as:
>
> -
> Warning:
> Name:
On 09-Jun-98 Mike A. Lewis, CNE wrote:
>
> Yeah, you're right, MUCH more manipulation.
>
> Seems like I may be better off buying a new hd, doing a level 0 dump to
> the new hd, then start over on the original drive. Wouldn't that work ?
Yep.
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> I'm probably wrong, but I don't believe your suggestion will work as
> hda5, 6 & 7 are on the same logical partition. Correct ?
Shoulda paid closer attention. It could still be done with MUCH more
manipulation.
An alternative that I've used before goes like this:
1) create a temporary dir
On 09-Jun-98 Mike A. Lewis, CNE wrote:
>
> I have a system which has the fs setup as follows:
>
> FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 99M 72M22M 77% /
> /dev/hda7 4.2G 2.3M 4.0G 0% /home
> /dev/hda6
On 08-Jun-98 Phil Garrett wrote:
> What do I have to do to stop X Windows from blanking out on me? (RH 5.1,
> running dm and afterstep.)
>
> This is a display machine so I need the screen up whether displaying the
> xdm signon screen or the afterstep window manager. I have the command
> 'xset
On 08-Jun-98 George Toft wrote:
> Does anyone know where 4.04 is? I'm trying to isolate the cause
> of a repeatable crash, and I need the previous version (in rpm format)
> to check.
I don't recall seeing 4.04 in rpm. I got it in the tarball from Netscape.
It was easy to install using the suppl
On 07-Jun-98 Eric Cifreo wrote:
> The CDs an IDE Atapi, Panasonic CR581, (I think), so judging from the
> howtos, a generic atapi driver should do the trick. However I still
> can't
> mount it. (YET) Oh, and per your question, it's not listed in fstab.
A line in fstab would help. You'll need
On 06-Jun-98 Eric Cifreo wrote:
> Hell, I'll trade ideas: how do I get my cdrom recognized? it's detected
> during install, but I can't mount it when up and running.
> (Much blushing and gnashing of teeth, YES, I just recently left the
> Microsoft fold.)
> You can hack the registry all you wan
On 07-Jun-98 Paul Kersting wrote:
> I recently had to reinstall RH50 on my Dell XPS 300 PII system. After
> the
> reinstallation, I found that the backspace key no longer works in
> netscape
> 4.05. It works everywhere else. I am a newbie and need some help
> figuring out
> what I did wrong.
On 07-Jun-98 Leston Buell wrote:
> When i log in as root i can open Netscape. When i login as another user,
> i
> can't. If i try to open netscape from the shell using
>
> /usr/bin/netscape
>
> i get error messages saying that i don't have Netscape installed. When i
> asked about this pr
On 30-May-98 Peter Lavender wrote:
>> >I'm trying to get my modem 'seen' in linux, I have an external modem
>> >connected to com2.
>
>> >Could someone give me an idea where to look to sort this out?
>>
>> I sent a nice script to the list that I found and I don't want to go and
>> send it again
On 25-May-98 Goran Brostrom wrote:
> I have installed RedHat 5.0 on a Pentium II, and on two other machines
> I have RedHat 4.2 (i86 and Sparc). My problem occurs only in Version 5.0:
>
> In emacs (X11), the cursor hides completely the character it is
> positioned
> at. It is quite irritating
On 25-May-98 Thomas B. Underhill wrote:
Ditto, in part, to the following. I recently acquired a tower with this
board. In my case, Xconfigurator would find the wrong chipset. I managed to
work around that problem and set it manually. But, I can't get the res I
want. I can manage 16bpp but, only w
On 25-May-98 Leston Buell wrote:
> I'm having a related problem. I can get into X as a non-root user, but i
> can't open crucial applications such as the file manager and Netscape.
> ¿Could someone tell me how to fix this?
Make sure:
1. The path(s) is/are in the user's path. It can be set in /
On 25-May-98 Adam Neat wrote:
> Hello
>
> A few months back we posted a message regarding (I think this is the
> right
> model number) an Adaptec 1502/1515 Non-Bios based SCSI controller.
>
> A few people responded saying that had them working under Linux 2.0.x
> with no
> problems as the Ada
On 25-May-98 David L Taylor wrote:
> Hi, me again...
>
> Does anyone know of a good ftp site for retrieving netscape communicator
> for linux? Is there an rpm version for redhat? Is there a small
> version?
ftp.redhat.com/updates (or /pub/updates, not sure)
"Small" is large. Even Navigator-o
On 24-May-98 Jim Gentry wrote:
> On Sun, 24 May 1998 00:39:59 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:
>
>>Didn't see the earlier mail but, I installed it from the rpm earlier
>>today
>>(from one of the contrib directories). It works fine. This is version
>>1.0b5
>>I think.
>>
>>Sounds like you've been trying t
On 24-May-98 David L Taylor wrote:
> Has anyone had any success installing tkdesk 1.0 with RedHat 5.0?
>
> I posed the problems I've been having in an earlier e-mail but no-one
> seems to know/care... ;-)
>
> I would just like to know if anyone had been successful, and if so, could
> you please
On 23-May-98 Michael wrote:
> Hi all !
> I have asked this question a coupple of times before, but got
> no reply, so I'll just try one more time !
>
> I have begon using communicator 405 messagecenter for my E-Mail
> Prior I have used kmail. Now I would like to import the messages
> that I have
> O.K. I inspected all suggested files. And the console when logging in as
> root
> will see /usr/sbin and /sbin. Whenn logging in as a user it does not see
> /sbin
> and /usr/sbin. And there is NO mention of /sbin in /etc/profile and
> ~/.profile
> deos not even exist. There are no setting concer
On 22-May-98 Ryan Smith wrote:
> Has anyone gotten RH5 installed on a Hewlett Packard VL Series 7 machine?
> Specifically, can anyone get X to run?
No.
> I have chosen the Cirrus Logic 5464 chip (for the on-board Laguna3D
> chipset), and the system hangs within seconds to launching X. SuperPro
On 21-May-98 Steve Ki-Won Lee wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> Can you please help me get my printer to work properly?
>
> I'm trying to configure my printer right now. What I can do so far is,
> when I run the RHS Linux Print System Manager in the control-panel, I
> choose the "Print ASCII directly to
On 20-May-98 Larsen wrote:
> Howdy. I'm the guy that's been bitching about my fonts getting messed
> up when I launch Communicator. I was running Afterstep with some
> generic hardware at high virtual and physical resolutions. I played
> with Communicator running under the other two "offered"
On 20-May-98 Dahnke, Eric wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I driving myself nuts. I've searched the corners of the web, and every
> linux pub I have.
>
> How do I determine the drive space remaining on my system?
>
> RH 4.1
> one IDE HD
df
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On 19-May-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am new to Linux so please be easy on me. :)
> I have a pcmcia card reader in my desktop and during the install I am
> asked to place a disk in for pcmcia support. I have read the manual and
> can't find any reference as to how to make this disk? Or is i
> total used free sharedbuffers
> cached
> Mem: 30844 30492352 26236192
> 11032
> -/+ buffers/cache: 19268 11576
> Swap:0 0 0
> [root@slacker /]# exit
>
> "Holey FreeHolies!" I scream to my
On 19-May-98 Doug Smoak wrote:
> Hi, when I first tried to subscribe to this list, I got no confirmation.
> I then mailed to "listmaster" and was informed that my mail had a
> "Sender:" field of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and that I needed to
> fix my mail client. I'm using NetScape and nowhere in its
On 19-May-98 Brian Kirkland/CADC Designer wrote:
> I have been doing some reading about modules
> trying to understand how they are loaded. I have
> read the kerneld mini-howto, the depmod,modprobe,
> and insmod man pages but I am still confused.
>
> I have a SCSI cdrom and an Adaptec 1510 contr
On 19-May-98 DGM wrote:
> I am trying to install Red hat 5.0 from the Boot diskette. When I press
> enter (or type expert and press enter) my system does the following:
>
> Boot: expert
> Loading initrd.img..
> Loading vmlinuz...
> Uncompressing linux
On 18-May-98 David Spencer wrote:
> Every morning, about 1am, my disk goes bananas and top shows that nobody
> is doing a find and a sort, presumably find ... | sort > ... Anyone got
> any ideas what nobody is looking for, and how I can tell him to get
> stuffed or do it when I'm not using the m
On 18-May-98 Steve Curry wrote:
> I just installed RedHat 5.0 which came with Applix. So I didn't get a
> manual with it. I need to know where I can find Netscape(shouldn't it be
> on
> the RedHat 5.0 CD-ROM?) anywhere and *NEED* to install it. Also i'm a
> old-school command line person, and rea
On 18-May-98 Marco Shaw wrote:
> Unless I'm mistaken :), I'm using Lesstif right now...but how come I
> can't
> do an 'rpm -q lesstif-mwm' and get any result. After looking around, it
> looks like window managers are a little bit different then 'other' rpms.
> Somewhere in my menu I can chose be
On 21-May-98 Mike Butler wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> 1. Create a Redhat directory on my dos partition
> 2. Copy the "base" directory to the Redhat directory
> 3. Copy the RPM directory to the Redhat directory
> 4. Boot off the boot disk
On 11-May-98 William boulineau wrote:
> Can someone recommend a reference on setting up ppp under X for Redhat
> 5.0
> for a newbie? I have tried all the How-To's and faq's on the CD, but I
> still can't get it right. Thanks.
I have used, and highly recommend, both EZPPP and XISP. EZPPP is eas
On 06-May-98 Zoki wrote:
> I heard a lot of complaints about M'soft not being the issue of this
> list, but I
> think the next link should be checked anyway because it affects
> indirectly any
> computer user and especially those trying to get some work done instead
> of
> trying to make it run.
On 06-May-98 Enrico Ballarin Dolfin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> any experience with installing the removable SCSI Iomega JAZ 2GB drive on
> RedHat 5.0?
>
> I would like to install it on my running RedHat 5.0 and use it mainly for
> backup purposes. What I have to do? (e.g. run Disk Druid, relink the
> ker
On 02-May-98 Dave Watts wrote:
> I have 80M of RAM and would like Linux to see and use it. I have been
> following the mails regarding adding a line to the lilo.conf file, but I
> would like to know exactly where to put it in the file. The following is
> my lilo.conf file. If it makes a differenc
> So the IDE ZIP works directly with RH Linux? Without any
> kernel-reconfigure? Great. But what happens if you hardware-eject the ZIP
> when it is mounted?
If it's mounted, you can't eject it in hardware or software, unless it's
paritioned. Then one partition can be mounted and it can still be
On 26-Apr-98 Dan Hughes wrote:
> Hi,
> I have been trying to install redhat 5.0 on a p233mmx machine. It has
> a
> 4.0 gb Western Digital hard drive, that supports UltraDMA. It also has a
> Teac 24X cdrom, 33.6 modem that I know works with Redhat because I am
> using it on another machine tha
On 25-Apr-98 Jil Tardiff wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I could really use a hand. I've been sucessfully running RH 5.0 om my
> laptop at work.networked, PCMCIA Zip support and all. It's been
> great.
>
> I tried to install it on my desktop machine today and got *nowhere*.
>
> Hardware:
>
> PII-
On 24-Apr-98 Larry Lade wrote:
> At 09:42 p 04/23/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>Well, I'd say this is _really_ ironic...
>>
>>I'm watching the windows 98 crash (http://www.msnbc.com/news/159626.asp)
>>with Microsoft Netshow -- a Linux port of which is available at
>>http://www.microsoft.com/netshow/unix
On 23-Apr-98 ryo wrote:
> I am despairatly trying to install glibc-2.0.7, I have updated all the
> rpm
> mentionned on the redhat's general errata page.
>
> I have managed to install the glibc-devel-2.0.7-7 package but the other
> one tells me:
>
> [root@pcpl55 rpm]# rpm -Uvh glibc-2.0.7-7.i386
On 22-Apr-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have read this thread with some dismay. I am a home user, retired on a
> fixed income and have just bought the RH5.0 cd. My main OS is OS/2 which
> I
> have been using since v2.0. I need a non windross alternative OS since
> IBM
> are not interested in S
On 22-Apr-98 Craig Maloney wrote:
> I currently have a RedHat 4.2 system. I just bought the 5.0 commercial
> version from Borders. I'd like to keep my system functioning as well as
> it
> is now.
>
> Would it be best for me to trash what I have now (with ample backups) or
> will the upgrade work
On 22-Apr-98 kLicK wrote:
> How would I go about changing my / partition size? I want to take about
> 300MB off my msdos partition and add it to me / partition.
I did a similar thing when I dumped dos. I simply reformatted the partition
as ext2, moved a directory to it, added it to fstab and le
What about setting it higher?
I have an external Zoom 33.6 and it works fine set at 115,200 even though
it doesn't really work at that speed.
On 21-Apr-98 Matthew Smith wrote:
> Neither ppp nor minicom seem to support 28800. It is an internal ZOOM
> fax/modem.
> If I tell either program 19200 i
On 20-Apr-98 Alfonso Barreto Lopez wrote:
> For some reason my passwd file is empty and I cant login as root, how can
> I resolve this problem?
Have you tried just hitting <-Enter at the password prompt?
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On 20-Apr-98 Mccorkle Joe wrote:
> when i run ns-install on redhat 5.0 with (tcsh) as my shell, it says
> ns-install no such file!
> I've tried renaming the file, and the permissions are correct, and I am
> root
> when I run it! any suggestions?
Perchance, it should be
./nsinstall
It
On 20-Apr-98 David Reed wrote:
>
> When booting up (running 4.2 with kernel 2.0.32-1.2)
> I get a message about some mount count being exceeded, and needing to run
> e2fsck. Now if I remember correctly, it used run auto-majically at that
> point in the boot sequence...
>
> So, how do I get ti
On 19-Apr-98 Gudbjorn Hreinsson wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> If anyone can point me to a MIME capable mail processor, that
> will let me extract info from a mail message and put in a file.
>
> I've tried metamail from Bell lab's (the original UNIX MIME package
> it seems) but it's outdated and seems
On 19-Apr-98 Marco Shaw wrote:
> Here's a scenario:
>
> Disk structure:
> 95/NT 75% and RedHat 25%.
>
> Running out of space for RH so I could use some of the NT partition. I
> would use Partition Magic to shrink the 95/NT partition, and create an
> empty
> partition. Boot RedHat, and use it
On 19-Apr-98 Felix wrote:
> Paul Breedlove wrote:
>
>> I am running Red Hat version 5, and all I had to do is edit the file
>> named:
>> system.fvwm2rc
>> It is located in the /etc/X11/fvwm2 directory, on my system. You may
>> want to
>> use the find command to find in on yours.
>>
>> You can j
On 18-Apr-98 Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD wrote:
> Wow, thanks so much for the quick reply. I did the re-install three times
> to make sure I did it right...
>
> I have knowledge of Unix, but forgot how to get into my root once I boot
> from floppy in recovery mode. Would you mind outlining the ste
On 18-Apr-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> > HELP ME, PLEASE !!!
>> >
>> >I can not log in as an user.
>> >In the prompt mode always
>> >appears the message:
>> >Not directory "/home/!"
>> >And in X, whenever I log as any
>> >user, the password is evaluated
>> >but
On 18-Apr-98 Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD wrote:
> Well, I just tackled the install and got to the very end when it asked me
> for boot instructions.. Told it to use the master boot record and gave it
> a password and it told me that an error occurred during creation of the
> boot record or something
On 18-Apr-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> HELP ME, PLEASE !!!
>
>I can not log in as an user.
>In the prompt mode always
>appears the message:
>Not directory "/home/!"
>And in X, whenever I log as any
>user, the password is evaluated
>but imediately the X is resta
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