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It won't work. One iso is one disk image, including the boot sector, so you can only burn one at a time, after which the disk will be closed. The method for burning iso's is usually DAO, which does not allow additional sessions. By the way, I also tried the script and it failed. I will try again when I get a chance.

I seem to have a lot of trouble with my VIA ehci controller on my ECS K7S5APro mobo. The mouse used to lock up all the time, until I got fed up and hooked it up to one of the USB 1.1 ports. Did you try to get the printer working on one of the 1.1 ports? Adding an entry to modules conf tells the system to load another driver at startup. I don't think you need to do that, all three USB drivers (uhci, ohci and ehci) should be already loaded (you can try to modprobe them). Is the printer detected in the Hardware section of the MCC?

Did you try x11vnc? SourceForge is, by the way, one of my favourites!

More Google-ing and the fact that I wanted to be a true Linux user, made me revise the process: rsh -l root shutdown -g0 -y did the trick, after adding the machine to /etc/hosts and creating /.rhosts with the machine name and user name in it. *IX rocks!

Sweet, Dude. And thanks for letting us know.

I think you're right saying you can't reach outside of your box. If it's a new setup, you may have a bad cable, you may need a crossover cable if at the other end is another Ethernet card, or the other device may not work or respond. So what is the gateway, anyway?

First, you must be sure that your network card is working OK. As root, do an ifconfig eth0 an you should get a few lines of messages, including one with an IP number. You can try to run adsl-setup from the console and then do adsl-start or adsl-stop to fire it up or kill it. Once it's set up, ping www.google.com to test your connection. The rp-pppoe package also has a gui that you can use.

You may also get some info if you launch xmms from a console instaed of double clicking the icon.

Is there anything in /var/log/XFree.0.log that doesn't look right?

Have you noticed how M$ didn't bother to come up with a new version of IE after they won the browser war? All they did was to release SP1, as it was too messed up...

I think you want to do something like pcAnywhere, right? I believe you must specify screen 0 when you VNC into your Linux box. I can't remember how it's done, but try the VNC docs or google it with screen 0 in the search criteria. Sorry I can't be more helpful - it's been a while.

Try to manually select the driver - emu10k1. I believe you can either do it in the Control Center or by typing drakesound at the command prompt.

You could try to format a USB key as bootable and use it as a floppy, if the BIOS can recognize it. This way you could attempt a hard drive install.

Good stuff. Now, if I could get mine to work... I actually compiled the module from source (the GPL'd version 1.00.0.10). I can insmod the driver, but it takes for ever to do anything with the drives. I keep getting timeout errors, something to do with 'cam'. Could this be because I only have PATA drives and the SATA ports are being scanned?

Well, I know I need closure, so I figured you may want to know what's goin' on, even tho' you may not like the solution. I don't, but I was out of ideas. I wrote a VB program that uses 'SendKey' to tell telnet what to do, including login info and the shutdown command. It is triggered by a battery event on the windoze server and shuts down SCO. I hate it, but it's extremely simple and it's consistent with M$'s crappy way to do things....

Something I noticed: hda, hdb and hdd are in pio mode - are these your hard drives? Is DMA enabled in the BIOS for the IDE controller? What are your hard drives' models? The 30 s delay, it's between which steps?

Normally, no. The installer should detect serial, ps/2 and usb mice.

This may help.

Jean, It may not be the OS, necessarily. If it's a dual boot machine and it works in the other OS, then you may have a bad setup. Examining the logs may give you some clue. Also, try launching mozilla from a terminal window and see if there are any messages that can help debug it.

A quick, dirty and very un-elegant way is to rename the logs that are too big and add a date stamp to the file name, so that you can identify them later. logrotate must be added to cron, which is a scheduler daemon. man cron or googleing 'cron' will give you some tips on how to use it.

Thanks. I don't think it's the distro, though. Ithink it's the freakin' hardware and the fact that support is lacking. Or, better yet, it's my inability to get it to work correctly. In my defense, there's not enough documentation. ;)

Latest news: Just for the heck of it, after installing Mandrake on my drive while it was plugged into the built in controller, I connected the drive to the Promise controller and tried to boot. To my surprise, the boot process starts and several kernel messages flash on the screen. It does, however stop with a kernel panic message, init not found. I use Lilo. Would it be possible to fix it? I think it does boot because the BIOS sees the drive. It stops, however, since no filesystems are available. Oh, by the way, the diver I compiled from source for 2.4 is either messed up or I did something wrong -> it takes about 60 seconds to mount my partitions or to view their contents. I did that by insmod'ing the driver after loading Mandrake from another IDE drive connected to the built in IDE.

Rob, Welcome to the forum. You can also shut down with: shutdown -h now For the shutdown option, I think you must log off X and then the shutdown option will be available.

DON"T! :) Hey, I appreciate the simple fact that you took the time to reply. Thank you for that. And thaks for the advice. I know ssh is the most secure and elegant solution, but I dread having to install more stuff on both servers. I tried rexec to no avail, even after adding the win machine in hosts.allow (which, by the way I had to create in /etc - not sure if it's because of sco 5). rlogin also needs an explicit password, so... :( Thanks again.

@Gowator, That would have been too easy... My problem is that I can't connect the UPS to the server as it requires USB.