Re: [expert] supermount and usb-storage

2002-06-21 Thread Damon Lynch
Civilme, is it the kernel or supermount that causes a lock-up when a CD cannot be read after a certain time-period? Who should I submit a bug to for that? Thanks, Damon -- Damon Lynch Dev-Zone Program Officer http://www.dev-zone.org Jabber Messaging: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +64 4 496

Re: [expert] supermount and usb-storage

2002-06-21 Thread Doug McClendon
civileme wrote: Doug McClendon wrote: I just had an interesting experience with supermount and usb-storage. Perhaps someone can give me some help. I have a MS-Natural-Pro keyboard with integrated usb hub. I also have a universal smart drive keychain 32M flash usb drive. I decided

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-21 Thread civileme
Damian G wrote: um...whats defrag? Mark .. ya know.. it's for taking off the frag. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Quit joking around. Someone in

Re: [expert] Installing MDK From the HDD

2002-06-21 Thread civileme
daRcmaTTeR wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: dear all, I asked this on newbie list some time ago, no answer. so i'll re-post here: Is it possible to install Mandrake after copying the right files to a FAT32 partition? Femme, Yes, I believe it is as long as you're not using the same

Re: [expert] Installing MDK From the HDD

2002-06-21 Thread FemmeFatale
civileme wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: dear all, I asked this on newbie list some time ago, no answer. so i'll re-post here: Is it possible to install Mandrake after copying the right files to a FAT32 partition? Femme, Yes, I believe it is as long as you're not

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-21 Thread et
On Friday 21 June 2002 12:01 am, you wrote: um...whats defrag? Mark .. ya know.. it's for taking off the frag. Damian heck I wish I coulda figgured out how to take off the frag I was accused of durring Veit Nam, coulda saved a lotta time for me the first day of the Court Marshal

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-21 Thread J. Craig Woods
et wrote: heck I wish I coulda figgured out how to take off the frag I was accused of durring Veit Nam, coulda saved a lotta time for me the first day of the Court Marshal opening statements; first you frag the a$$hole officer in his sleep, then run defrag durring the trial, everything

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-21 Thread daRcmaTTeR
civileme wrote: Damian G wrote: um...whats defrag? Mark .. ya know.. it's for taking off the frag. Damian Quit joking around. Someone in Alaska has managed to achive MORE than 50% frag on ext2. I am investigating as are several UNIX old-timers Civileme O yeah...now it's

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-21 Thread daRcmaTTeR
et wrote: On Friday 21 June 2002 12:01 am, you wrote: um...whats defrag? Mark .. ya know.. it's for taking off the frag. Damian heck I wish I coulda figgured out how to take off the frag I was accused of durring Veit Nam, coulda saved a lotta time for me the first day of the

Re: [expert] Installing MDK From the HDD

2002-06-21 Thread daRcmaTTeR
FemmeFatale wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: dear all, I asked this on newbie list some time ago, no answer. so i'll re-post here: Is it possible to install Mandrake after copying the right files to a FAT32 partition? Femme, Yes, I believe it is as long as you're not using

Re: [expert] Installing MDK From the HDD

2002-06-21 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Jason Guidry wrote: On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 22:33, daRcmaTTeR wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: Is it possible to install Mandrake after copying the right files to a FAT32 partition? Yes, I believe it is as long as you're not using the same physical disk. Nope, this is possible. I think I

[expert] Boot on OSX

2002-06-21 Thread Fabien Goy
Hi I have installed Mandrake 8.2 on my imac. The installation is ok but i can't boot on linux: the mac boots on OSX. I can't choose. I don't see the YABOOT menu at the startup. What should I do? If a boot with the ALT key, i can't see the Linux partition. thks Want to buy your Pack or

[expert] switchboard app?

2002-06-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
Recently, I've been seeing a commercial on TV about an Emmerson Switchboard. It plugs into your phone line prior to your telephone, answering machine, and computer modem. It permits you to use your modem to be connected but also alerts you to any incoming calls so you can pick up and talk

[expert] Wireless lan...getting there

2002-06-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
I recently rebuilt my desktop after a catastrophic failure. In the rebuild I picked up a linksys usb wlan device (WUSB11). I have only gotten windoze reinstalled on it at this point (linux comes soon) and decided to test the usb wlan device since I had nothing but problems when I tried using

[expert] Qtcups? KUPS? Where?!

2002-06-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
Ghastly, simply ghastly. In trying to add a samba printer to my laptop what do I find...No qtcups, no kups for Mandrake 8.2. How is one expected to setup such printers, add printers without these excellent configurations tools? There is nothing in the kmenu and if I do something silly like

Re: [expert] Qtcups? KUPS? Where?!

2002-06-21 Thread kwan
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote: Ghastly, simply ghastly. In trying to add a samba printer to my laptop what do I find...No qtcups, no kups for Mandrake 8.2. How is one expected to setup such printers, add printers without these excellent configurations tools? There is

Re: [expert] Boot on OSX

2002-06-21 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Fabien Goy wrote: Hi I have installed Mandrake 8.2 on my imac. The installation is ok but i can't boot on linux: the mac boots on OSX. I can't choose. I don't see the YABOOT menu at the startup. What should I do? If a boot with the ALT key, i can't see the Linux

RE: [expert] Qtcups? KUPS? Where?!

2002-06-21 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
You can also set up printers using the KDE control center. I think it's in the system-printers section. This configuration tool is the next generation of kups HTH David -Original Message- From: Praedor Tempus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:35 AM To:

[expert] Replacing a MS SQL Server

2002-06-21 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I've got a client who has a Windows app that runs ODBC connections to a file server. The software company wants the client to set up a MS SQL server to supposedly fix the problems we are having. I'm a little familiar with MySQL, but is it a direct drop-in replacement for MS' product?

Re: [expert] Wireless lan...getting there

2002-06-21 Thread Ray Warren
On 21 Jun 2002 at 8:48, Praedor Tempus wrote: In windoze I set the desktop to be Overlord and set it to share files and printers. On the linux laptop, I then tried to do a smbclient -L 10.0.0.5 to get a list of shares from the desktop. Nothing. No shares found. I also tried smbclient

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-21 Thread James
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 22:41:02 -0800 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority Damian G wrote: um...whats defrag? Mark .. ya know.. it's for taking off the frag. Damian Want to buy your

[expert] Wireless lan and modem problems

2002-06-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
Here's another little problem I'm running into. As long as I do not connect to the internet (via linmodem) on my laptop, my wlan card works just fine as an AP and I get a happy connection to a windoze box with a wlan box attached. As soon as I connect to my ISP via my linmodem however, the

[expert] Running scripts on network start

2002-06-21 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a script that i use to setup information about networks, which is basically just a list of ssh tunnels. I use kppp to dial the internet and it runs the script happily on connection which is fine. However at universtiy i connect using a

Re: [expert] Running scripts on network start

2002-06-21 Thread Sridhar Govindarajulu
To run scripts on startup of eth0 u can create the script in /sbin/ifup-local. In the script u can detect if it's eth0 and run the appropriate script. Cheers Sridhar - Original Message - From: Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 12:46 AM

Re: [expert] Replacing a MS SQL Server

2002-06-21 Thread Jerry Kreps
On Friday 21 June 2002 01:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a client who has a Windows app that runs ODBC connections to a file server. The software company wants the client to set up a MS SQL server to supposedly fix the problems we are having. I'm a little familiar with

Re: [expert] OpenOffice Peculiarity

2002-06-21 Thread Larry Sword
I can confirm your findings. You are not alone. Now to find out why? Larry Rick Friedman wrote: I was just wondering if anyone can confirm this for me? Using OpenOffice 1.0, I cannot read in a file (doc, txt, whatever). OpenOffice starts to access the CD and then it just stops. I have two

Re: [expert] Replacing a MS SQL Server

2002-06-21 Thread J. Craig Woods
Jerry Kreps wrote: On Friday 21 June 2002 01:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a client who has a Windows app that runs ODBC connections to a file server. The software company wants the client to set up a MS SQL server to supposedly fix the problems we are having. I'm

[expert] kdm remote login

2002-06-21 Thread bascule
is it possible to run kdm on two machines and have a local X console on one AND login remotely from the other machine and run X? i can get one or the other but cannot for the life of me get both to work bascule -- This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That's why everything is exactly the

Re: [expert] OpenOffice Peculiarity

2002-06-21 Thread kwan
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Larry Sword wrote: I can confirm your findings. You are not alone. Now to find out why? Larry Rick Friedman wrote: I was just wondering if anyone can confirm this for me? Using OpenOffice 1.0, I cannot read in a file (doc, txt, whatever). OpenOffice starts to

Re: [expert] Replacing a MS SQL Server

2002-06-21 Thread Jerry Kreps
On Friday 21 June 2002 04:16 pm, J. Craig Woods wrote: Jerry Kreps wrote: On Friday 21 June 2002 01:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a client who has a Windows app that runs ODBC connections to a file server. The software company wants the client to set up a MS SQL

Re: [expert] Replacing a MS SQL Server

2002-06-21 Thread Michael Viron
Oracle 8i for linux is available from http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/oracle8i/htdocs/linuxsoft.html Oracle 9i is also available for linux at http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/oracle9i/htdocs/linuxsoft.html . Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager

[expert] note to anyone update apache to 1.3.23-4 with update robot

2002-06-21 Thread Robin
I just updated apache to 1.3.23-4 with update robot. The update went fine, however, when httpd restarted, apache wasn't accepting any request. If anyone run into the same problem, stop your httpd and run ps -ax | grep httpd, if you see httpd -DHAVE_PHP4 -DHAVE_PROXY -DHAVE_ACCESS -DHAVE_A, just

[expert] Shell script not performing an export

2002-06-21 Thread Jesus Arocho
Hello: I am running Mandrake 8.2. Yesterday I noticed that my scripts were not running properly. They fail to set env variables to new values using the export command. I do get results from echo statements. Any ideas? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Shell script not performing an export

2002-06-21 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 Jun 2002 11:28 pm, Jesus Arocho wrote: Hello: I am running Mandrake 8.2. Yesterday I noticed that my scripts were not running properly. They fail to set env variables to new values using the export command. I do get results from

Re: [expert] Replacing a MS SQL Server

2002-06-21 Thread PlugHead
snip You can, however, look at Oracle 8i. There is a free version for Linux. I forget where I downloaded the bin from but a search on google should reveal something. drjung It's getting harder and harder to find. A couple of years ago I was able to download it and some assciated

Re: [expert] Shell script not performing an export

2002-06-21 Thread civileme
Jesus Arocho wrote: Hello: I am running Mandrake 8.2. Yesterday I noticed that my scripts were not running properly. They fail to set env variables to new values using the export command. I do get results from echo statements. Any ideas?

[expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3

2002-06-21 Thread Hoyt
I believe I am having instability problems with X (the system just hums along in runlevel 3 without X running). I have a Tyan S4266 MPX mobo (most recent BIOS version) with two Athlon XP1600+ cpu's and a Matrox G450 dual-head video card. I have updated the video BIOS to the most recent version

Re: [expert] Replacing a MS SQL Server

2002-06-21 Thread Damian G
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 20:33:41 -0400 PlugHead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip You can, however, look at Oracle 8i. There is a free version for Linux. I forget where I downloaded the bin from but a search on google should reveal something. drjung It's getting harder and harder to

Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3

2002-06-21 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 Jun 2002 6:23 am, Hoyt wrote: Will a newer version of XFree86 help? Is the version in cooker (4.2.0-20-mdk) useable in 8.2? Dont know if it would help, but cooker packages have been recompiled with gcc 3.1 so you will get lots of

Re: [expert] Replacing a MS SQL Server

2002-06-21 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 Jun 2002 6:29 am, Damian G wrote: however, i don't find anywhere ( not in the OpenOffice frontend nor in Webmin interface to databases ) any info about setting foreign keys? i'm beginning to wonder do these exist in MySQL? Foreign

Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3

2002-06-21 Thread KevinO
This sounds like it could have been a real nice system. I built a dual very similar to this about a month ago using Mandrake 8.2, 512MB ram, Tyan S2460 and a Matrox G200. You probably should have used Athlon MPs instead of XPs. They are made for SMP. Using the XPs is a gamble at best. That is

Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3

2002-06-21 Thread Hoyt
On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:46, KevinO wrote: You probably should have used Athlon MPs instead of XPs. They are made for SMP. Using the XPs is a gamble at best. That is why the MPs cost more. The XPs are supposedly MP's with a trace laser cut; some silver paint causes the IOS to recognize

Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3

2002-06-21 Thread Hoyt
On Friday 21 June 2002 13:30, Tom Badran wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 Jun 2002 6:23 am, Hoyt wrote: Will a newer version of XFree86 help? Is the version in cooker (4.2.0-20-mdk) useable in 8.2? Dont know if it would help, but cooker packages have

Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3

2002-06-21 Thread James
Hoyt, The problem isn't really unique to your HW. I've been following various threads on unstable X installs with 8.2 for about well however long 8.2 has been out. I too experience similar problems but I'm running a single 950Mhz Celeron on an ASUS TUSL-2 mobo. (and yes this is a