Grub question

2003-10-22 Thread Felipe Leon
Group, I decided to eliminate grub from the mba of the hardrive where windows resides, so I could just boot to linux using a floppy. Obviously I wanted grub on a floppy so what I did was (read it somewhere) to dd the files stage1 and stage2 from /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat/ to the floppy like

networking question

2003-10-20 Thread Felipe Leon
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shuting down

2003-07-06 Thread felipe leon
Hello group, There is something a bit strange going on lately with my system, I wonder if somebody has seen something similar. When I shut down the computer it does all it needs to do to safely shutdown the system: kill signals, services and so on but it will not completely turn off the power!

Re: printing just stop working!

2003-06-21 Thread felipe leon
Let me suggest that you not start posts with whining. It makes people not want to help you. It's understandable that you are frustrated but please try to contain it when posting questions. You are right! Im sorry, Im ill as hell -kind of flu or smthing- and last night my head was killing me, h

printing just stop working!

2003-06-20 Thread felipe leon
This is one of the typical things of linux: things break without an apparent reason. Lately I decide to migrate my struggle to redhat 9. I bought a new printer (hp deskjet 3820) and it was detected right and configured right with the appropriate driver and so on. I was happily printing for seve

Re: fstab question

2003-06-11 Thread felipe leon
It looks like this is due to kudzu and updfstab. Here is one reference. You may want to search google's newsgroups by yourself. Thanks a lot for the hint, the problem is solved! I just had to edit /etc/fstab with entries without the kudzu option and they remain forever. By the way thanks a lo

Re: fstab question

2003-06-10 Thread felipe leon
>Utterly strange! > >Some ideas: > >1. Do you _really_ use the correct file? >2. Do you have the /etc mounted as a ram disk? > > >Try e.g.: > >a. Edit another file in /etc save it and reboot. >b. Open a terminal window and do 'cp /etc/fstab $HOME/fstab.out1' > Do the changes to /etc/fstab, save

re: routing table

2003-06-09 Thread Felipe Leon
In RedHat 9 the 169.254.0.0/16 gets added to the routing table on boot. Probably to play nicely with windows boxen. In Windows 2000+, if there is no DHCP server available, an APIPA address (169.254.x.x) is assigned. Yep. RedHat 9 introduces zeroconf, which you need to disable if you don't wa

routing table

2003-06-08 Thread felipe leon
I have a small house network: two boxes, connecting to dsl isp provider with the help of a d-link broadband router connected to a dsl modem. The router acts as a dhcp server and has a built in firewall. I want to be able to share files internally between these two boxes. I wanted to use NFS so

fstab question

2003-06-08 Thread felipe leon
Hello group, I want to have some mount points for a flash and another harddrive so I can easily in gnome on the desktop mouse-right click go to disks and have my mount points there. What I do is that as root I modify the /etc/fstab file including the mount points and so on. After I save the f

What does exactly make a version a version

2003-06-02 Thread Carlos Felipe Leon
Hello, Due to the amount of configuration problems I had with rh8 and hearing something about the stability of older versions of rh, I decided to downgrade to rh7.3. I have to say Im quite happy at the moment since I haven't got any of the problems I had while using rh8, well maybe the manual co

Re: unsubscribe me, please

2003-04-04 Thread Carlos Felipe Leon
=== At 2003-04-04, 12:56:00 you wrote: === >Sorry to send this message to the list, but I have been trying to >unsubscribe from this redhat-list with no success up to now. Could >anyone capable of unsubscbing me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) do so, please? > >Thanks so much, >Fatima > > > >-- >red

Re: Major Sound Problems

2003-04-04 Thread Carlos Felipe Leon
=== At 2003-04-02, 18:29:00 you wrote: === >Hi, > >I have been trying to get sound and sound recorder working on my system >for almost a month now. However there has been very little luck in it. The >sound card is detected by the system and I am able to hear mp3 using XMMS. >I am also abl

Re: Running common applications without X windows system

2003-03-12 Thread Carlos Felipe Leon
=== At 2003-03-12, 14:14:00 you wrote: === >On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:38:58PM +0100, Carlos Felipe Leon wrote: >> >> I hope Im not asking something too stupid out of my ignorance but >> I would like to know how can I run programs normally distributed by redhat &g

Running common applications without X windows system

2003-03-12 Thread Carlos Felipe Leon
Hello all, I hope Im not asking something too stupid out of my ignorance but I would like to know how can I run programs normally distributed by redhat (OpenOffice, mozilla, etc) in a system without the X window system. I decided not to install X because it is a small old computer which becomes

Re: MPlayer!

2003-02-27 Thread Felipe Leon
Edward Dekkers wrote: Thanks a lot for the hint, I heard about ogle but have never tried. I tried xine but similar problems. I'll try ogle, to see what happens! Muchas gracias compadre! I've been following this thread, but did you take another poster's suggestion of enabling DMA? I don't reca

Re: MPlayer!

2003-02-26 Thread Felipe Leon
McDougall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribio lo siguiente: //Try changing you -vo parameter to SDL or something else. Otherwise, post //to the mplayer mailing list. // // //On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 15:06, Felipe Leon wrote: //> Dear group, //> //> I don't know if it has happened to somebody

missing hard drive! no boot?

2003-02-25 Thread Felipe Leon
Group: I have a removable harddrive which I move from work to home in a daily basis. Generally I do not have any reason to boot any of the computers (at home or office) without the harddrive, however the few times I have done it in windows (at work) there is a preventive message telling you th

MPlayer!

2003-02-25 Thread Felipe Leon
Dear group, I don't know if it has happened to somebody this problem I have trying to play dvd's with mplayer. I installed everything what it is required for the program to play encrypted dvds, even re-compile the program and so on. The program plays perfectly video cds, super video cds but wh

Re: Difference between gcc and gcc3?

2003-02-15 Thread Felipe Leon
Gordon Messmer wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 09:32, Felipe Leon wrote: Dear list, I want to rebuild a package in order to make it more appropriate for my system. I have installed RH 8. When I intended to do so with rpmbuild --rebuild src.rpm I got some error messages related with some

Difference between gcc and gcc3?

2003-02-14 Thread Felipe Leon
Dear list, I want to rebuild a package in order to make it more appropriate for my system. I have installed RH 8. When I intended to do so with rpmbuild --rebuild src.rpm I got some error messages related with some missing dependencies. I tried to satisfy these various dependencies (most of th

Re: Package Manager won't proceed in Redhat 8.0 fixed!!!

2003-02-09 Thread Felipe Leon
Michael Schwendt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 17:48:46 +0100, Felipe Leon wrote: I had no idea what xterm was, now I understand, thank you very much! So in which circumstances is xterm used? because before this I always had used the gnome

Re: Package Manager won't proceed in Redhat 8.0 and xterm

2003-02-09 Thread Felipe Leon
Michael Schwendt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 00:06:15 +0100, Felipe Leon wrote: Thanks a lot for following my problem with the RPM package manager. Im getting some output when I run the script (xterm -e redhat-config-packages) in command line

Re: Package Manager won't proceed in Redhat 8.0

2003-02-09 Thread Felipe Leon
Michael Schwendt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 00:06:15 +0100, Felipe Leon wrote: Thanks a lot for following my problem with the RPM package manager. Im getting some output when I run the script (xterm -e redhat-config-packages) in command line

Re: Package Manager won't proceed in Redhat 8.0

2003-02-08 Thread Felipe Leon
Johnathan Bailes wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 12:10, Michael Schwendt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 17:53:1 +0100, Carlos Felipe Leon wrote: Im really sorry about the inconveniences I could cause, Im at work with windows and using a new emailer

Re: Re: Package Manager won't proceed in Redhat 8.0

2003-02-07 Thread Carlos Felipe Leon
Thanks a lot for the help. Felipe. = At 2003-02-07, 16:23:00 you wrote: === >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 15:34:17 +0100, Felipe Leon wrote: > >> >> When I run it in a terminal program it just does the same,

Re: Re: Package Manager won't proceed in Redhat 8.0

2003-02-07 Thread Felipe Leon
=== At 2003-02-06, 20:53:00 you wrote: === >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 00:00:28 +0100, Felipe Leon wrote: > >> >What error output do you get when you start it in a terminal >> >program, e.g. via >>

Re: Package Manager won't proceed in Redhat 8.0

2003-02-05 Thread Felipe Leon
Michael Schwendt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:39:07 -0800 (PST), Miguelito Quijano wrote: When I tried to install rpm using the graphical package manager in Redhat 8.0 System Tools, it will look for dependencies but after checking, it won't proc

Re: Package Manager won't proceed in Redhat 8.0

2003-02-04 Thread Felipe Leon
Miguelito Quijano wrote: Hi, When I tried to install rpm using the graphical package manager in Redhat 8.0 System Tools, it will look for dependencies but after checking, it won't proceed and the mini-screen will disappear. How can I make this work? Thank you for your anticipated support. K