Re: [newbie] D4X Compile

2003-06-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:03:13 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it looks to me as though my version of the gtk libraries is going to have to be updated somehow ? John I am running the same versions as you on my 9.1 system. It is more apt that 1

Re: [newbie] D4X Compile

2003-06-12 Thread John Richard Smith
JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:03:13 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: So it looks to me as though my version of the gtk libraries is going to have to be updated somehow ? Nah, could be that the D4X package is looking in the wrong place for your GTK libs

Re: [newbie] Still No SCSI Emulation ??

2003-06-12 Thread John Richard Smith
? On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 04:18, John Richard Smith wrote: Two things, add to the append line in/etc/lilo.conf like this append= hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi then run in terminal. /sbin/lilo to check new lilo script is OK this will scsi-em's both dvd and writer. As I mentioned above I'm using

Re: [newbie] D4X Compile

2003-06-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:07:25 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what should I do then, a urpmi , or better still where can I download pucka version with my d4x on M9.0 Have you tried rebuilding d4x Since you did the --force install of gtk? Hell

Re: [newbie] D4X Compile

2003-06-11 Thread John Richard Smith
to solve the gtk dependency ? It's some other gtk package ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: The SCO UNIX Lawsuit (from Windows .NET Magazine)

2003-06-11 Thread John Richard Smith
. -- /\ Dark Lord Any legal action takes a minimum of 18 months to prepare, at least another 12 months before the courts are ready to proceed, so this case began 2 to 3 years ago. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] D4X Compile

2003-06-11 Thread John Richard Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 10:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] D4X Compile FemmeFatale wrote: At 02:37 PM 6/10/2003 -0400, you wrote: You

Re: [newbie] D4X Compile

2003-06-11 Thread John Richard Smith
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:51:15 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: which still leaves me scratching my head, how to solve the gtk dependency ? It's some other gtk package ? Actually the problem is that you have too much installed. When you try

Re: [newbie] SCSI Emulation ??

2003-06-10 Thread John Richard Smith
to properties, and point the device at the appropriet /dev/scd0, or /dev/scd1 All should work, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] How do I UPDATE my urpmi database ?

2003-06-10 Thread John Richard Smith
-4mdk.i586.rpm Installation failed, some files are missing: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/wxGTK-2.4.0-4mdk.i586.rpm You may want to update your urpmi database So does that mean going back to main on easy to go through that long list of rebuilding ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want

Re: [newbie] How do I UPDATE my urpmi database ?

2003-06-10 Thread John Richard Smith
JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:21:59 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: So does that mean going back to main on easy to go through that long list of rebuilding ? Hi John, I thought this looked familiar, sorry your prev post didn't get an answer, I had it checked

Re: [newbie] How do I UPDATE my urpmi database ?

2003-06-10 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 10 Jun 2003 10:31 am, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:21:59 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: So does that mean going back to main on easy to go through that long list of rebuilding ? Hi John, I thought this looked familiar

Re: [newbie] How do I UPDATE my urpmi database ?

2003-06-10 Thread John Richard Smith
JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:21:59 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: So does that mean going back to main on easy to go through that long list of rebuilding ? Hi John, I thought this looked familiar, sorry your prev post didn't get an answer, I had it checked

Re: [newbie] How do I UPDATE my urpmi database ?

2003-06-10 Thread John Richard Smith
JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:01:49 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: It doesn't seem to like the way I do it, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi.addmedia texstar ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.1/RPMS `with' missing for ftp

[newbie] D4X Compile

2003-06-10 Thread John Richard Smith
perl-GT K-Glade perl-GTK-GdkPixbuf perl-GTK2-devel wxPythonGTK AiksaurusGTK perl-GTK-Gno me perl-GTK-GLArea wxGTK perl-GTK perl-GTK2 so which packages do I need to complete the compile satisfactorilly. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] How do I undate my urpmi database ?

2003-06-09 Thread John Richard Smith
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Re: [newbie] M9.1 D4X resume problem

2003-06-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday June 6 2003 09:50 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I have Mandrake's own prefered D4X downloader version 2.4.0 which I downloaded vis the M9.1 add new software programme. It installed fine and comes up to use in the normal way. Trouble is I cannot get the programme

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Jun 2003 3:01 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: but I've been shocked at the fact that over the past 2 weeks I must have had about 10 coming onto this box. Anne How do you know you have had viruses ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy

Re: [newbie] The way to go

2003-06-05 Thread John Richard Smith
laws that do justice to punishing spin , without inflicting silence on on the need to justifyably expose wrongdoing. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie]

2003-06-05 Thread John Richard Smith
a big 'M' in the corner - is there something wrong with the computer, or have you installed a new version of Internet Explorer? Sir Robin I must be the only person here who actually likes KDE Not the only one. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] System hangs - makes me cry

2003-06-05 Thread John Richard Smith
mencoder for the encoding. I have had some problems with the more recent cvs versions and have had to go back to an earlier mplayer install. I kept having stalls during the rip/encoding which I do as one operation. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] System hangs - makes me cry

2003-06-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Azrael wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 15:17, John Richard Smith wrote: Azrael wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:58, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 23:44, Azrael wrote: My system hung and required rebooting 3 times so far today.. and I believe the cause

Re: [newbie] System hangs - makes me cry

2003-06-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Azrael wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 17:34, John Richard Smith wrote: bear in mind that it may all be due to running your system, ie, cpu, memory, close to maximum overclocking , that there is no room for No overclocking going on at all over here.. As I said in another post, got a lot

Re: [newbie] Spell Check for Mozilla Messenger

2003-06-03 Thread John Richard Smith
%. Seems a shame, but there you are,it was going to be a 40MB+ download anyway. pitty there just isn't some nice Mozilla spellchecker rpm one can download in the usual way and it just install it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] OT: Letter from Novell to SCO

2003-05-30 Thread John Richard Smith
of the single oil major. It also rings true of the breakup of the telephone monopolies. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
, then doing the job. That's how i program messages... Well I cannot be certain, because I'm not the programmer but it certainly feels like it's searching for ,or having trouble recinciling a hardware issue, but it always completes, eventually. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want

Re: [newbie] Help!!!!!

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
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Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Joeb wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 12:22:12 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone else find that the bootup of M9.1 spends a long time checking for new hardware every time. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you sure it's spending a long time checking

Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:53 am, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 6:22 AM To: NEWBIE 1 Subject: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware Does anyone

Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
and efficiency of FSB etc in Linux, and why ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:33, John Richard Smith wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just FYI. Not in mine it would seem ? John Hmmm

Re: [newbie] OT sorry

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
. The spreading of knowledge is invited and welcomed. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
working and for sure detection is necessary to that process. If I turn harddrake boottime detection permanently off what will be the disadvantages ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
, then time goes by, you get an ok and then the next prompt. Having watched closely now, I'm sure checking new hardware begins with the script and finishes when the next item appears. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Do you Yahoo!? Free online calendar http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/tag/*http://calendar.yahoo.com with sync to Outlook(TM). -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 29 May 2003 9:53 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:33, John Richard Smith wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-28 Thread John Richard Smith
. Not in mine it would seem ? John John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-28 Thread John Richard Smith
tracks tab, add your image-file, click on Accept track layout and finally a click at Write tracks will write that image perfectly to your CD-R/RW. Suerte. Yep, that works. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] unknown bridge resource?

2003-05-28 Thread John Richard Smith
is a Unknown bridge resource and how do I fix it? And what's all the other stuff its complaining about? Tom Your problem isn't that it's saying it but why is it repeating itself. What processor do you have, and maybe the mobo ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1--- 2nd attempt

2003-05-28 Thread John Richard Smith
tracks tab, add your image-file, click on Accept track layout and finally a click at Write tracks will write that image perfectly to your CD-R/RW. Suerte. Yep, that works. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1--- 2nd attempt

2003-05-28 Thread John Richard Smith
tracks tab, add your image-file, click on Accept track layout and finally a click at Write tracks will write that image perfectly to your CD-R/RW. Suerte. Yep, that works. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just FYI. Not in mine it would

[newbie] Checking for new Hardware

2003-05-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Does anyone else find that the bootup of M9.1 spends a long time checking for new hardware every time. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How2 use enhanced CDs?

2003-05-27 Thread John Richard Smith
the video file, which is usually the last one on the disc, but I have successfull copied the .wav file in the normal way, you just need to be able to select the individual audio files(as against the programmes that automatically select the lot)and rip them. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:25:51AM +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: ajx wrote: Graham Banks wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Anybody got a boot setup allowing different combinations of disks/partitions to be accessible in windows linux? I've

Re: [newbie] [OT sorta] Does this explain the SCO/MS stress levels?

2003-05-27 Thread John Richard Smith
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Re: [newbie] Advanced Chipset Features/bios settings

2003-04-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Ryan Moe wrote: On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 03:39, John Richard Smith wrote: Thanks Ryan , I have a MSI K7T266 Pro2 Mobo, capable of up to 3.0gigs of memory. I cannot find a reference to the memory controller in the mobo manual. It does say you can install PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM modules

[newbie] M9.1 downloads

2003-04-05 Thread John Richard Smith
/Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.1-rc3-CD3.i586.iso which I also take to be a complete set. Are they all one and the same set of final M9.1's John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Advanced Chipset Features/bios settings

2003-04-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Ryan Moe wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 06:46, John Richard Smith wrote: I don't think so, never heard of anyone having problems with it.The KT266a nomenclature is something of a Mobo nomenclaute I think, the chip that works with memory is VIA, VT8366A (552BGA), which the manual stipulate

Re: [newbie] Advanced Chipset Features/bios settings

2003-04-04 Thread John Richard Smith
hangs, indeed the whole computer hangs, I cannot even shutdown, I have to crash it. John Ryan On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 14:50, John Richard Smith wrote: My AMI bios has a section Advance Chipset Features In there is a section BURST LENGTH with the options 4QW and 8QW According to handbook

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Guy Rouillier wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Well I have plenty of ntfs partitions after the linux partitions and neither W98 nor W2K have any trouble recognising them. Maybe you cannot have a windblows OS after a linux partition, never tried that one but I would expect it to work. John

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1

2003-04-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 07:37, John Richard Smith wrote: So if I'm to compile a purpose made nvidia driver is this going to be from tar balls or src rpms ? John By compiling from source, it's going to be FOR your system - for your everything. That's why I almost always

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-03 Thread John Richard Smith
, provided they are either fat32 or ntfs. The only partition windows does not see is any of the linux flavour file system partitions. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Burning a bootable cd

2003-04-03 Thread John Richard Smith
part of the preparation, in master tracks , I think it does more than the obvious. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 10:58 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 4:42 am, M X wrote: Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the first non Windows partition. So if you want your 4)Partition

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1 (ATT: Lanman)

2003-04-03 Thread John Richard Smith
has nothing like it. Or is this a Mandrake version ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 9.1 installation a real mess

2003-04-03 Thread John Richard Smith
a dogs breakfast of my ext2 /root base partition, the only one it had to format, everything else was a reuse of existing usage. Mind I'm talking here of every M9.1 up to rc2 , not yet got a final release available to install to know if it continues. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday April 3 2003 03:58 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the first non Windows partition I've seen this suggested before, I want to just corrct that, Windows

Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?

2003-04-03 Thread John Richard Smith
. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Advanced Chipset Features/bios settings

2003-04-03 Thread John Richard Smith
and found everything boots fine in W2K, but that Xwindows hangs on Mandrake 9.0. It seems a pity to have to choose the slower setting just because of mandrake. Is there any way of getting Mandrake to work with the higher setting ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Lost bash Shutdown command

2003-04-02 Thread John Richard Smith
? Or what is the best way to shutdown and reboot my computer now? ( Formerly, I used shutdown -r now ) Regards, Kenneth Rhodes Probably the alias is not set, try, /sbin/shutdown -r now , or, /sbin/shutdown -h John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1

2003-04-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday April 2 2003 04:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Thankyou all. I must say you learn something new every day. I did not know you could call XFdrake from the system terminal like that. However:- Francisco Alcaraz wrote: Richard, For me the rpms from textar

[newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1

2003-04-01 Thread John Richard Smith
reported above they might not be reason for server aborting. total error server aborted. now I tried the usual alteration of /etc/x11/xffree86-4 file from nv to nvidia but it made not difference, seems like I need something more by way of configuration , but what ? John -- John Richard

Re: [newbie] Nvidia driver from texstar install / M9.1

2003-04-01 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 02:13, John Richard Smith wrote: Ok, so I installed, NVIDIA_kernel-1.0tex-4191.i586.rpm NVIDIA_GLX-1.0tex-4191.i586.rpm from texstar website. Now I always got on boot-up, probing for new hardware (0,00,00,00) processing sda, scd0, scd1, adding devfsd

Re: [newbie] 9.1 Flakey installs??

2003-03-31 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 07:02, John Richard Smith wrote: rather an expensive sort of install don't you think ? Still one of these days. John Don't ya reckon it'd be rather amusing to see a yank eating jellied eels and doing an installation for ya? (g) I can even

Re: [newbie] 9.1 Flakey installs??

2003-03-30 Thread John Richard Smith
... So that's MY happy story...I'm now a Mandrakian instead of a RedHatter...and that's after 10 years... Sadly, I cannot say the same. M9.1 's in general have been a nightmare to install, and even M9.1rc2 has so many problems I've given up. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want

Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems

2003-03-28 Thread John Richard Smith
chose cdrom,and cdrom2 , but it doesn't matter which you choose, so long as you have these names set up as /mnt directories. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] looking for a tv card for Linux

2003-03-28 Thread John Richard Smith
the FreeView channels. Hope this helps you out :) Does anyone know of a digital decoder tv card ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems

2003-03-27 Thread John Richard Smith
is mounted as scd1 on /mnt/cdrom and my CDRW is mounted as scd0 on /mnt/cdrom2. Oh, that happens, don't know why, I change the /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrom2 around in /etc/fstab entries and then they come out the proper way round, ie, cdrom= DVD, cdrom2=writer. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems

2003-03-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Tsur, Oren wrote: That's brilliant John. Any chance of 'walking' me through this? Thanks, Oren ~~ Confusion shouldn't be nature's way of telling you that you are thick! -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto

Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems

2003-03-27 Thread John Richard Smith
~~ Confusion shouldn't be nature's way of telling you that you are thick! -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2003 13:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems Tsur, Oren wrote: Dear community

Re: [newbie] Creating CD's from ISO images.

2003-03-26 Thread John Richard Smith
/ ]# md5sum /dev/scd0 long wait md5sum: /dev/scd0: Input/output error ]# So why did it fail ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Creating CD's from ISO images.

2003-03-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday March 26 2003 04:30 am, John Richard Smith wrote: ]# mount /mnt/cdrom ]# ls /mnt/cdrom Boot/ Mandrake/ ]# md5sum /dev/scd0 long wait md5sum: /dev/scd0: Input/output error ]# So why did it fail ? John I'm sort'a puzzeled by what you wrote. You seem

Re: [newbie] Creating CD's from ISO images.

2003-03-26 Thread John Richard Smith
, if you still get IO errors, it could be a difficulty with the drive reading the CD. In that case, try copying the whole CD to an ISO image on the HDD. Then run the md5 sum on that ISO to verify it instead. I have had to do this in the past. John Richard Smith wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote

Re: [newbie] Creating CD's from ISO images.

2003-03-26 Thread John Richard Smith
. == Cheers Jason -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast

2003-03-24 Thread John Richard Smith
the changes to /etc/lilo.conf adopted ? I changed my booting agent to grub. PRESTO Everything is working tralala!!! Oren -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] MandrakeLinux9.1rc2

2003-03-23 Thread John Richard Smith
in the life of this release I cannot but wonder what will be the use of it . John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] MandrakeLinux9.1rc2

2003-03-23 Thread John Richard Smith
Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 23 March 2003 09:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote: First attempt. Complete failure to install . a) Very very long wait between install catagories . Everytime you click next you wait an eon betfore the next install window appears. b) The install eventually

Re: [newbie] help needed with deleted files on fat32 partition :/

2003-03-18 Thread John Richard Smith
. Haven't used it in years. But it's installed on a windblows fat32 OS and runs very simply to an undelete programme that is very quick and simple. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] mounting my cd-writer

2003-03-17 Thread John Richard Smith
-scanbus and report the result. this will list where the writer is listed on the bus. your writer has tobe listed in /etc/fstab to be mounted correctly, it would be a good idea to report what you have there. You also need to report the append line in /etc/lilo.conf John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files

2003-03-14 Thread John Richard Smith
not say anywhere how you do it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files

2003-03-14 Thread John Richard Smith
on it. you then get , Undelfs:loading deleted files info- It then checks through all the inodes on the patition looking for the deleted files and makes a copy to a new directory /#undel , only it takes so long I could not wait for it to finish. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-10 Thread John Richard Smith
Len Lawrence wrote: On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:59:46 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you working with M9.0 No, 8.2, but 9.0 has the broken Fontmap link. The msfonts directory is one I created to store downloaded MS TrueType fonts. I think that my Fontmap

Re: [newbie] Lexmarrk X75 Printer Driver

2003-03-10 Thread John Richard Smith
are to new for drivers to be out yet, but I guess they will be added in due course. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot

2003-03-10 Thread John Richard Smith
FS? Of course I would prefer something that is a little more secure, but I can probably deal with FAT32 if need be. Thanks for the help, Brian John Richard Smith wrote, Yes , you can only read and transfer over to linux from ntfs partitions. I have heard suggestions that they are working

[newbie] Mandrake9.0beta3Updated / Scanner Problem

2003-03-08 Thread John Richard Smith
, but no. Seems to me there is a problem. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] System is rebooting on its own

2003-03-08 Thread John Richard Smith
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Re: [newbie] Mandrake9.0beta3Updated / Scanner Problem

2003-03-08 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 08:13 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Is anyone else having problems with their scanner with the new Mandrake OS. I had hoped urpmi updating would cure it. My hp4300 works fine on latest cooker. Did you run scannerdrake? I did, It found

Re: [newbie] System is rebooting on its own

2003-03-08 Thread John Richard Smith
Chris wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 08:52 am, John Richard Smith decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: anyones eye. I came home from work at 5:15 and my system had apparently rebooted itself about 15 minutes ago. I can't find any reason for this at all. I've checked

Re: [newbie] Mandrake9.0beta3Updated / Scanner Problem

2003-03-08 Thread John Richard Smith
civileme wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 04:13 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Your onboard USB is a full hardware implementation (Usb-ohci) and your add-on is software-driven (usb-uhci). I fear that the modules dribving these two may not mix. Civileme Civileme, What would you

Re: [newbie] Xine encryption plugins (sorry long post)

2003-03-07 Thread John Richard Smith
more complicated than just the one package. I attatch a file of the install process that worked for me. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] XINE INSTALL

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: Thanks for your comments John. I agree that printing is a complex issue which probably explains why LX Format has not replied. If in two years research I have

Re: [newbie] Boot problems

2003-03-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Ian Kelly wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Ian Kelly wrote: At 05:03 AM 3/3/03, you wrote: Ian Kelly wrote: Hi, I just did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.0 and my computer freezes up when I try to boot from the hard drive. It gets as far as the message INIT: Loading

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-05 Thread John Richard Smith
this is Foomatic , which I have never yet come across an explanation of. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Boot problems

2003-03-05 Thread John Richard Smith
? Did you change anything, maybe a bios setting , a piece of hardware, or something between M7.1 and M9.0 ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Boot problems

2003-03-03 Thread John Richard Smith
the , ensuring there is a space between each seperate command. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] xinerama program on RPMS

2003-03-02 Thread John Richard Smith
://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22788release_id=90641 Is this any help John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] worried

2003-03-01 Thread John Richard Smith
your Mommy Mrs Gates to reboot the XP. Yeah that s a real great system. Sorry, there is no comparison. My W2K OS's take twice as long as M9.0 to boot, but are just as stable. No significant differences otherwise. I've always disliked Outlook Express. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW

2003-03-01 Thread John Richard Smith
or not fully tested) and really have fun! It is however, very fast, and everything I've installed works beautifully. Terry Smith How long did ittake you to learn to get a fair working OS up and running? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW

2003-02-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 6:05 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: OK , I attatch the file for everone John John, I'm really confused by this. First, I don't understand where Gentoo comes into the equation? You give the Gentoo url, then say download the iso from

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