Re: [newbie] Uninstall fonts
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 10:49, EE wrote: Dears, How can I unisntall fonts? Go to Mandrake Control Center - System - Fonts, select a font and press Uninstall. Cheers, Marco -- Registered Linux user #268279 -- * This message is composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * * Running Mandrake 10.0 * -- Tell me, Brother Baldrick, what exactly did God do to the Sodomites? I dunno, but I can't imagine it was worse than what they used to do to each other. - EB Baldrick, Blackadder's Christmas Carol Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall fonts
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 20:19, Marco Verheul wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 10:49, EE wrote: Dears, How can I unisntall fonts? Go to Mandrake Control Center - System - Fonts, select a font and press Uninstall. Cheers, Marco Marco, I can't get Mandrake Control CEnter to run. I get the following error Unable to run the command specified. The file or folder file:/usr/share/applnk-mdk/System/Configuration/Configure your computer.desktop does not exist. What should I do? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall fonts
On Friday 16 July 2004 21:09, EE wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 20:19, Marco Verheul wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 10:49, EE wrote: Dears, How can I unisntall fonts? Go to Mandrake Control Center - System - Fonts, select a font and press Uninstall. Cheers, Marco Marco, I can't get Mandrake Control CEnter to run. I get the following error Unable to run the command specified. The file or folder file:/usr/share/applnk-mdk/System/Configuration/Configure your computer.desktop does not exist. What should I do? Do you have drakconf installed ? - If not : urpmi drakconf (as root). HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* *http://haulrich.net* *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.0) - kernel 2.6.7* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
OOzy wrote: How to un-install a program using rpm or urpmi? man urpme Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Uninstall
If u'are using kde, the use Kpackage manager -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of OOzy Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 10:53 PM To: Mandrake Subject: [newbie] Uninstall How to un-install a program using rpm or urpmi? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
OOzy wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 18:57, mike wrote: OOzy wrote: How to un-install a program using rpm or urpmi? man urpme Mike I did read the man pages. I also did urpmi --help; however, I could not find an option that says remove package. Install package. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi efax ftp://ftp.banjo1.org/Mandrake/release/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/efax-0.9a-2mdk.i586.rpm installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/efax-0.9a-2mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ## 1:efax ## Uninstall package. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpme efax removing efax-0.9a-2mdk.i586 I probably confused you by pointing to a man page, but its a short one worth looking at. Only a couple options (which most of us will not use). Just basic urpme then package name to remove. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:55, OOzy wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 18:57, mike wrote: OOzy wrote: How to un-install a program using rpm or urpmi? man urpme Mike __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I did read the man pages. I also did urpmi --help; however, I could not find an option that says remove package. Mike said *urpme* -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
Dnia nie 20. czerwca 2004 21:56, Hoyt Bailey napisa: On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:55, OOzy wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 18:57, mike wrote: OOzy wrote: How to un-install a program using rpm or urpmi? btw. have you tried using rpmdrake? If you have this very useful program try : rpmdrake-remove --root or as a root simply rpmdrake-remove it should be in /usr/sbin/ It's a graphical frontend for package managing on a Mandrake Linux. I believe you should have it on your distribution cd (in MDK 10.0 it is for sure). -- Cezary Morga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) GG# 169903 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 06:52:59PM +0300, OOzy wrote: How to un-install a program using rpm or urpmi? http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=ISO-8859-1q=uninstall+program+rpm http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=ie=ISO-8859-1q=uninstall+program+urpmi Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall KDE
You need some KDE libraries in order to be able to run some applications writtten for KDE. Check the box in Remove Software and see what messages come up - it will give you a list of programs which will also be reomved because of dependencies. Do give it a try - I am sure you will see something that you would miss. I tried it once, and ended up having to reinstall everything when I realised how cool KDE is! Even if there is nothing there now, you may find that there is an app that you want to install, and that relies on a KDE app, which will (may) entail you reinstalling everything again. I know it increases the complexity of the system, but if you can spare the 30-100meg I would leave it. Cheers Anton -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall KDE
Job Evers wrote: When I installed Mandrake 9.2 I decided to install both KDE and GNOME. I have been happy with GNOME so far and so I would like to take KDE off my computer. Is there any advantage to keeping KDE even if I never use it? Also can I just go to the Remove Software manager and check the KDE box? You need some KDE libraries in order to be able to run some applications writtten for KDE. Check the box in Remove Software and see what messages come up - it will give you a list of programs which will also be reomved because of dependencies. Sir Robin -- The Pseudo Politically Correct term that I would use to describe the mind set of postmodernism is 'epistemologically challenged'. - Chip Morningstar Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall KDE
- Original Message - From: robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 11:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall KDE Job Evers wrote: When I installed Mandrake 9.2 I decided to install both KDE and GNOME. I have been happy with GNOME so far and so I would like to take KDE off my computer. Is there any advantage to keeping KDE even if I never use it? Also can I just go to the Remove Software manager and check the KDE box? You need some KDE libraries in order to be able to run some applications writtten for KDE. Check the box in Remove Software and see what messages come up - it will give you a list of programs which will also be reomved because of dependencies. Sir Robin -- The Pseudo Politically Correct term that I would use to describe the mind set of postmodernism is 'epistemologically challenged'. - Chip Morningstar Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin I'm against uninstalling KDE. Though you use Gnome, as I did at one point, KDE has many programs that are quite useful. For instance, I prefer Konqueror over Galeon and Mozilla, and I don't think it's possible to use Konqueror without KDE installed. I'd advise against it, but do as you wish --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
philip wrote: I have a seperate 20 gb hdd with 9.1 installed. Just taken delivery of a new machine with a 80gb hdd i am going to install 9.2 on this disk and intend to sell the other disk. How do I format this disk with linux on it so it can be sold as a clean disk. Thanks Philip There are any number of ways, With the old HD still in place, 1) Shove an old windblows boot disk in the A drive and run to an A: prompt and use fdisck to remove all the old partitions and format the whole drive. 2) Use Partition Magic . With the HD inserted in IDE as slave on new computer, 3) If you have a spare IDE connection on your new machine, plug the old HD in as slave, let the computer's bios detect it , run the CD1 istallation disc to the partition/formating programme and remove everything. 4) If you already have something like W2K /XP , or Mandrake on your new machine, put up a consol and remove and reformat everything as administrator with the second HD plugged in the IDE line as slave. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
If you really want keep all the info on the HD only to yourself i.e. the info is very confidential: Compress all the files on the HD first and encrypt that, then reformat the drive. That way it'll be fairly hard (I won't say impossible)to recover. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org -Please do NOT reply to this message in HTML-format as it will be deleted as spam- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall
On Tuesday 02 Dec 2003 11:45 am, philip wrote: I think I have not been clear. the 20 gb hard drive i have is still in my old computer, before I can remove it i need to format it. My question is how do you format a hdd in Linux so is is empty. Thanks Philip, I missed the beginning of this thread. I'm assuming that you have installed linux on your new drive? If so, go into MCC Mount Points. Remove the partition(s) on the old drive. Create one fat32 partition for the whole drive. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall
philip wrote: I think I have not been clear. the 20 gb hard drive i have is still in my old computer, before I can remove it i need to format it. My question is how do you format a hdd in Linux so is is empty. Thanks Run CD1 installation disc to partition and format programmes and whipe the drive clean. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 02 December 2003 4:45 am, philip wrote: I think I have not been clear. the 20 gb hard drive i have is still in my old computer, before I can remove it i need to format it. My question is how do you format a hdd in Linux so is is empty. Thanks Do what I did on the weekend, boot from pclinuxos live cd and after mounting the drive use the shred facility in the super user file manager to wipe everything, then reboot run hard drake from Mandrake disk 1 (any recent version) and turn the entire drive into one large FAT 32 or ext2 partition, then shut down and remove it or whatever you want. Trust me; everything is gone enough for most people. A scanning tunnelling electron microscope might find enough fragments to do a partial reconstruction but you haven't pissed anyone _that_ powerful off enough for them to bother. Have you? g Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 10:31:32 up 18:22, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.05 If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing. -- Bertrand Russell -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zM3ZZqvqlrLPr5YRAl7jAJ92N2yM7hdjwz4xifr30KL92FZBSgCfYfIG kAfiailW7dnF6PlHVo5NC2U= =KSiN -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 02 December 2003 10:37 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: Tuesday 02 December 2003 4:45 am, philip wrote: I think I have not been clear. the 20 gb hard drive i have is still in my old computer, before I can remove it i need to format it. My question is how do you format a hdd in Linux so is is empty. Thanks Do what I did on the weekend, boot from pclinuxos live cd and after mounting the drive use the shred facility in the super user file manager to wipe everything, then reboot run hard drake from Mandrake disk 1 (any recent version) and turn the entire drive into one large FAT 32 or ext2 partition, then shut down and remove it or whatever you want. Damn! That should have said diskdrake, not hard drake. Sorry about that. ther rest is accurate though. Trust me; everything is gone enough for most people. A scanning tunnelling electron microscope might find enough fragments to do a partial reconstruction but you haven't pissed anyone _that_ powerful off enough for them to bother. Have you? g Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 11:02:19 up 18:53, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.11, 0.08 fortune: not found -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zNPVZqvqlrLPr5YRAox+AJ9NwWAsZnr4PT/j9e0ZOly/1m5TFgCeIsyA T+km6t2RYCzcR4e6MBrY+uw= =5E6f -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall
On Tuesday 02 Dec 2003 6:03 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: Tuesday 02 December 2003 10:37 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: Tuesday 02 December 2003 4:45 am, philip wrote: I think I have not been clear. the 20 gb hard drive i have is still in my old computer, before I can remove it i need to format it. My question is how do you format a hdd in Linux so is is empty. Thanks Do what I did on the weekend, boot from pclinuxos live cd and after mounting the drive use the shred facility in the super user file manager to wipe everything, then reboot run hard drake from Mandrake disk 1 (any recent version) and turn the entire drive into one large FAT 32 or ext2 partition, then shut down and remove it or whatever you want. Damn! That should have said diskdrake, not hard drake. Sorry about that. ther rest is accurate though. Trust me; everything is gone enough for most people. A scanning tunnelling electron microscope might find enough fragments to do a partial reconstruction but you haven't pissed anyone _that_ powerful off enough for them to bother. Have you? g Regards; Charlie OK folks. I talked him through off-list, and he's happy enough now. He's off-list until his new box is ready. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 02 December 2003 11:51 am, Anne Wilson wrote: whack OK folks. I talked him through off-list, and he's happy enough now. He's off-list until his new box is ready. Anne Thanks for the status report Anne. C. - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 12:36:30 up 1:13, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.11, 0.31 Just close your eyes, tap your heels together three times, and think to yourself, `There's no place like home.' -- Glynda the Good -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zOnuZqvqlrLPr5YRAn37AKCt7a9ggXaVFO6vawgKKm+e7DOu8QCfaSsb YYBv26I95yEUe9PRjjQ9nxQ= =LhNU -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
Charlie Mahan wrote: Wy to cold up there. ;=0 Anton -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 27 November 2003 2:42 pm, mike wrote: snip Actually it was suggested to Adam. snip On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:42:01 -0330 Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And today, I stick in a music CD, wait awhile, and nothing happens. Red Hat played the CD. OMFG! I would *immediately* uninstall Mandrake, there's obviously something wrong when your OS doesn't read your mind! snip Judgeing from the begining of the CD Player thread I thought Adam asked reasonable questions. I didn't say the question was unreasonable Mike, far from it. I actually answered the question. [OT]: It was posted by others; then restated by myself, that auto run is an option that needs to be turned on in the default KDE CD player (KsCD) in Mandrake whereas apparently Red Hat does this by default. I'd rather choose whether or not to allow the behaviour, but it's a matter of personal choice. Sorry about my confusion as to which thread I was responding to. But since this is listed in the archives as a new thread, even though Adam made reference to another thread, and since the subject of *this* thread is Uninstall I directed my comments to that subject. I did think JoeHill's post might have been construed as a bit 'off-putting.' Possibly. I really didn't think it was meant as a flame though. In fact I had a chuckle over it. The rest of the posts I made in this overly long and seemingly pointless thread were direct responses to Adam's comments and questions. If he or anyone found my remarks offencive; I apologize. BTW if anyone is becoming so sensitive they can't stand to read posts that were never meant as personal attacks let me know. I'll happily walk away from the newbie list again. Not a threat, not even a warning, a statement that I don't need this crap. Since I refuse to be other than myself, the P.C Police can kiss my a$$ets. g Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 15:47:27 up 18 min, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.12, 0.13 All most men really want in life is a wife, a house, two kids and a car, a cat, no maybe a dog. Ummm, scratch one of the kids and add a dog. Definitely a dog. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/xobdG11CaRuZZSIRAktQAJ9sJKJR1x5sxRBt9rjZX7hpwXqVngCdEL7y aWNDA+H1SiCp5CRKgmK+ASE= =15UB -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 16:20:53 -0700 Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I refuse to be other than myself, the P.C Police can kiss my a$$ets. Big huge ditto. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.-- Timothy Leary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
On Friday 28 November 2003 00:20, Charlie Mahan wrote: BTW if anyone is becoming so sensitive they can't stand to read posts that were never meant as personal attacks let me know. I'll happily walk away from the newbie list again. Wot, walk out on us lovely fella's? You really are a hard bastard;) Like taking candy from a kid. Bears on your path, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 08:53 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 26 November 2003 11:21 pm, robin wrote: whack the contentious stuff Actually, some motherboards will let you play a CD without booting an OS. I noticed this feature in the BIOS of my new mobo, but never bothered to try it out. Most CD Drives will allow that, but not through the soundcard of the computer, only through the sound jack on the CD drive. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday 26 November 2003 10:51 pm, anton wrote: hey guys, go easy, eh! Not everyone on this list has extensive experience... In the words of the great Tree Now, now, young Hobbits, don't be so hasty 8^-2 Anton I'm aware of the wide gap in experience among newbies, and that of some others that read and respond to those posts on this and other lists. I'm also aware that the first thing most persons of extensive experience learn is that most people won't learn anything from experience. Not even their own. It is a conundrum, isn't it? I didn't think I was belittling anyone Anton, just trying to point out a few facts to refute some ill-conceived and incorrect statements. Then pointing out another fact; that just because someone isn't aware of a thing, doesn't mean that thing doesn't exist. This all started because someone wanted to wipe Mandrake Linux from their hard drive and then didn't believe they could *use* Mandrake to *remove* Mandrake, remember? Actually it was suggested to Adam. snip On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:42:01 -0330 Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And today, I stick in a music CD, wait awhile, and nothing happens. Red Hat played the CD. OMFG! I would *immediately* uninstall Mandrake, there's obviously something wrong when your OS doesn't read your mind! snip Except for the smart ass crack about the horse I tried very hard to show no disrespect to the individual that asserted that what I was explaining was impossible. g Regards; Charlie Judgeing from the begining of the CD Player thread I thought Adam asked reasonable questions. -- Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 27 November 2003 2:42 pm, mike wrote: snip Actually it was suggested to Adam. snip On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:42:01 -0330 Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And today, I stick in a music CD, wait awhile, and nothing happens. Red Hat played the CD. OMFG! I would *immediately* uninstall Mandrake, there's obviously something wrong when your OS doesn't read your mind! snip Judgeing from the begining of the CD Player thread I thought Adam asked reasonable questions. I didn't say the question was unreasonable Mike, far from it. I actually answered the question. [OT]: It was posted by others; then restated by myself, that auto run is an option that needs to be turned on in the default KDE CD player (KsCD) in Mandrake whereas apparently Red Hat does this by default. I'd rather choose whether or not to allow the behaviour, but it's a matter of personal choice. Sorry about my confusion as to which thread I was responding to. But since this is listed in the archives as a new thread, even though Adam made reference to another thread, and since the subject of *this* thread is Uninstall I directed my comments to that subject. I did think JoeHill's post might have been construed as a bit 'off-putting.' Possibly. I really didn't think it was meant as a flame though. In fact I had a chuckle over it. The rest of the posts I made in this overly long and seemingly pointless thread were direct responses to Adam's comments and questions. If he or anyone found my remarks offencive; I apologize. BTW if anyone is becoming so sensitive they can't stand to read posts that were never meant as personal attacks let me know. I'll happily walk away from the newbie list again. Not a threat, not even a warning, a statement that I don't need this crap. Since I refuse to be other than myself, the P.C Police can kiss my a$$ets. g Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 15:47:27 up 18 min, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.12, 0.13 All most men really want in life is a wife, a house, two kids and a car, a cat, no maybe a dog. Ummm, scratch one of the kids and add a dog. Definitely a dog. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/xobdG11CaRuZZSIRAktQAJ9sJKJR1x5sxRBt9rjZX7hpwXqVngCdEL7y aWNDA+H1SiCp5CRKgmK+ASE= =15UB -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday 26 November 2003 12:50 pm, Adam wrote: Tuesday, November 25, 2003, 6:06:33 PM, JoeHill wrote: And today, I stick in a music CD, wait awhile, and nothing happens. Red Hat played the CD. OMFG! I would *immediately* uninstall Mandrake, there's obviously something wrong when your OS doesn't read your mind! ;-) I didn't know a computer with a CD player shouldn't play music. But, now that you press me there, uninstall Mandrake you say. The point is that the CD isn't affected by an auto run script as it would be in Windows. If you want that function it's an option in the default KDE CD player. Nobody said you couldn't or shouldn't play a music CD or anything else you want, just that you have to _decide_ what you want and learn how to do it. OK? That's why people ask questions on these lists, and why so many people display a link to the community Wiki. http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org This is all open/free software after all. A bit of user interaction is expected and required for almost everything. Point and click and plug'n'pray are those other guys. (-; I look in the manual, and find a section How to uninstall Linux. It describes uninstallation process, going like, Delete all partitions related to Mandrake Linux on your hard drive... replace them by a single FAT partition using DiskDrake. How is it you run a Mandrake program, to wipe Mandrake off the system entirely? Can you explain? When running from the first CD you can access the same tools to remove the distribution as you would use to install it in the first place. It saves you having to buy proprietary software (Partition Magic etc) to do something that can be done with Free (as in beer) Open Source tools. Those tools will run from the disks and are loaded in memory to accomplish the tasks required, just as any other operating system's installer does it. I don't think you thought that question through or the answer would have been blatantly obvious. (Joe: Surely it doesn't bug you that much 'Does Mandrake have a CD player?' Maybe your computer predates CD drives.) Attempted cheap shots against other list members; whether because they disagree with you, or those that have displayed a tongue in cheek satirical analysis type of response to someone's post, are probably not what one would term good manners. I've been guilty of that behaviour myself in the past, on both sides, but I've always apologized for it. The apologies were sincere. Do you have any other questions or issues with Mandrake Linux or GNU/Open Source operating systems and software in general that you'd like to air? Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 12:56:55 up 6 days, 3:36, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.12, 0.09 The other line moves faster. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/xQm5G11CaRuZZSIRAot7AJ9vd27L3F2lJv2MZ7VucEw9tTHmvwCff+h7 wgc/W9VUXUja5fN0A8MEZ0w= =3gSQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 4:44:48 PM, Charlie Mahan wrote: How is it you run a Mandrake program, to wipe Mandrake off the system entirely? Can you explain? When running from the first CD you can access the same tools to remove the distribution as you would use to install it in the first place. It saves you having to buy proprietary software (Partition Magic etc) to do something that can be done with Free (as in beer) Open Source tools. Those tools will run from the disks and are loaded in memory to accomplish the tasks required, just as any other operating system's installer does it. Sorry, I have never heard of any application that runs when the hard drive contains no data at all. Sounds a mystery. I have not heard of another operating system that does this either. I don't think you thought that question through or the answer would have been blatantly obvious. Pardon? Discussions would dry up if everything was obvious. Not only that, but I think I read that the documentation was written by a number of different people. -- Best regards, Adam Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
On Wednesday 26 Nov 2003 9:44 pm, Adam wrote: Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 4:44:48 PM, Charlie Mahan wrote: How is it you run a Mandrake program, to wipe Mandrake off the system entirely? Can you explain? When running from the first CD you can access the same tools to remove the distribution as you would use to install it in the first place. It saves you having to buy proprietary software (Partition Magic etc) to do something that can be done with Free (as in beer) Open Source tools. Those tools will run from the disks and are loaded in memory to accomplish the tasks required, just as any other operating system's installer does it. Sorry, I have never heard of any application that runs when the hard drive contains no data at all. Sounds a mystery. So you never ran a Windows boot disk prior to setup? How do you think an operating system gets onto the hard drive? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday 26 November 2003 2:44 pm, Adam wrote: whack When running from the first CD you can access the same tools to remove the distribution as you would use to install it in the first place. It saves you having to buy proprietary software (Partition Magic etc) to do something that can be done with Free (as in beer) Open Source tools. Those tools will run from the disks and are loaded in memory to accomplish the tasks required, just as any other operating system's installer does it. Sorry, I have never heard of any application that runs when the hard drive contains no data at all. Sounds a mystery. Really? You've never seen a new system at the point at which the processor is mounted, the motherboard is connected to the power supply, CD-ROM and/or floppy or flash drive is connected but no hard drive at all and the point of the exercise is to load the BIOS onto a blank new CMOS? Not much experience with freshly assembled systems? You say you've never heard of any application that runs when the hard drive contains no data at all, but just because you haven't doesn't mean it isn't a fact. It just means you've never seen such. I've not seen everything there is to see regarding personal computers either, but I've never said something doesn't exist because of my lack of knowledge. I have not heard of another operating system that does this either. I can name a few; Knoppix or PCLinuxOS for starters. You don't even need a hard drive, they'll run from the CD and memory. BTW on a newly assembled system destined to be a Windows machine the first thing that happens is exactly what I was trying to tell you, the installer utilities mount an initial ram disk into memory, locate and identify all hardware available that the developers decided they could deal with at install, then you get to partition and format the hard drive(s). It's the exact same thing that you can do with CD-1 of a Mandrake Linux install, or really any operating system, except Mandrake is capable of setting many more types of file systems than the Windows installer can. Remember, loaded into memory. You don't need to touch the hard drives until you know what you want written to them, and in what form. I don't think you thought that question through or the answer would have been blatantly obvious. Pardon? Discussions would dry up if everything was obvious. Read the above Adam. It _is_ obvious that a hard drive doesn't require an operating system to be formatted and partitioned or you wouldn't be able to add a hard drive to an existing system when the original dies. It's also obvious that an operating system doesn't require a hard drive or there would never have been any of the original game consoles. Not everything is an X-Box; the Play Station had no hard drive, the Nintendo 64 had no hard drive but they most definitely had an operating system. Not only that, but I think I read that the documentation was written by a number of different people. This has exactly what to do with the issue? Or are you trying to say something else? So tell me; am I kicking a seriously abused equine here or are you actually trying to learn something? If the latter; there are a lot more intelligent people reading this list than I, so ask your questions. You may be surprised. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 15:09:18 up 6 days, 5:49, 1 user, load average: 0.36, 0.30, 0.22 Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies. -- Charles D'Hericault -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/xSvTG11CaRuZZSIRAgudAJwMuHfAFjurrQJUFrPO/vNWhbZX7QCgqkqT IrE60usZpjgRPMollRpQClQ= =eUrx -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
Adam wrote: Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 4:44:48 PM, Charlie Mahan wrote: How is it you run a Mandrake program, to wipe Mandrake off the system entirely? Can you explain? When running from the first CD you can access the same tools to remove the distribution as you would use to install it in the first place. It saves you having to buy proprietary software (Partition Magic etc) to do something that can be done with Free (as in beer) Open Source tools. Those tools will run from the disks and are loaded in memory to accomplish the tasks required, just as any other operating system's installer does it. Sorry, I have never heard of any application that runs when the hard drive contains no data at all. Sounds a mystery. I have not heard of another operating system that does this either. Actually, some motherboards will let you play a CD without booting an OS. I noticed this feature in the BIOS of my new mobo, but never bothered to try it out. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 11:21 pm, robin wrote: whack the contentious stuff Actually, some motherboards will let you play a CD without booting an OS. I noticed this feature in the BIOS of my new mobo, but never bothered to try it out. Sir Robin Sounds of flushing toilets heard from various parts of the world. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
hey guys, go easy, eh! Not everyone on this list has extensive experience... In the words of the great Tree Now, now, young Hobbits, don't be so hasty 8^-2 Anton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall
On Saturday 02 March 2002 04:57, you wrote: hello , i asked this about a half year ago , but the answers were deleted and i hadnt time to deal with it . A keyword search of the list e-mail archives is sometimes quicker than typing a question, in my opinion. ok , i need to know how to unistall linux mandrake 8 . i have two hard disks : * one 20 gb what is divided(partitioned) into two : C:/ - it has windows on it (10gb) E:/ - it has linux and it's in linux file format (10gb) * one 20 gb it's in fat32 and its a archive . I have windows xp . so , i want to unistall linux to get more space for windows (i have only 200mb left :/) . Nothing should happen to my windows and archive drive . when i installed windows xp it deleted lilo , my computer boots automaticly to windows . i can run linux only with my boot disk . i have the win 98 bootdisk if its needed . is there a safe way to unistall linux so that my windows and acrive drive are not ruined,formated ? i also want to know how to convert the linux drive to fat32 . yes, and in my opinion, Partition magic may be the best for you. you might have to buy the software, but you should feel safer. but back up everything anyway, and often if it is mission critical data please help me , i really need the space . thank you . _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] uninstall
Hi, use fdisk from windows. and remove the partition and reformat the drive and recreate the drive. This helped me. Just formating will not help. Regards, Hari Yellina. On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 03:11, you wrote: On Saturday 02 March 2002 04:57, you wrote: hello , i asked this about a half year ago , but the answers were deleted and i hadnt time to deal with it . A keyword search of the list e-mail archives is sometimes quicker than typing a question, in my opinion. ok , i need to know how to unistall linux mandrake 8 . i have two hard disks : * one 20 gb what is divided(partitioned) into two : C:/ - it has windows on it (10gb) E:/ - it has linux and it's in linux file format (10gb) * one 20 gb it's in fat32 and its a archive . I have windows xp . so , i want to unistall linux to get more space for windows (i have only 200mb left :/) . Nothing should happen to my windows and archive drive . when i installed windows xp it deleted lilo , my computer boots automaticly to windows . i can run linux only with my boot disk . i have the win 98 bootdisk if its needed . is there a safe way to unistall linux so that my windows and acrive drive are not ruined,formated ? i also want to know how to convert the linux drive to fat32 . yes, and in my opinion, Partition magic may be the best for you. you might have to buy the software, but you should feel safer. but back up everything anyway, and often if it is mission critical data please help me , i really need the space . thank you . _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] uninstall
With XP, W2K or NT, you can just use the disk manager to do this. Log in to W$ as an administrator, run the disk manager, delete the non-windoze partitions and recreate them as FAT32 or whatever. My memory of XP's menu structures is hazy as I run it as rarely as possible, but I think you'll find what you need under Control Panel | Administrative ... | Disk Manager. Something like that anyway. HTH Brian On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 20:57, strab dogg wrote: hello , i asked this about a half year ago , but the answers were deleted and i hadnt time to deal with it . ok , i need to know how to unistall linux mandrake 8 . i have two hard disks : * one 20 gb what is divided(partitioned) into two : C:/ - it has windows on it (10gb) E:/ - it has linux and it's in linux file format (10gb) * one 20 gb it's in fat32 and its a archive . I have windows xp . so , i want to unistall linux to get more space for windows (i have only 200mb left :/) . Nothing should happen to my windows and archive drive . when i installed windows xp it deleted lilo , my computer boots automaticly to windows . i can run linux only with my boot disk . i have the win 98 bootdisk if its needed . is there a safe way to unistall linux so that my windows and acrive drive are not ruined,formated ? i also want to know how to convert the linux drive to fat32 . please help me , i really need the space . thank you . _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] uninstall .tar.gz
RK Hi, RK Is it possible to somehow uninstall something I compiled and installed RK from a tarball? RK TIA RK Roman Does not guarantee to 100% work, but mostly does. Go to the source directory of that app and do make uninstall. If you have deleted it already, untar it again, do ./configure (with the options you used during installation) and then do the make uninstall. If there is no uninstall rule for make, you will need to trace the files tru Makefile. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall .tar.gz
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 17:12:55 +0100 Roman wrote: Hi, Is it possible to somehow uninstall something I compiled and installed from a tarball? This depends on the make script. If it supports uninstalling, you can do make uninstall Good luck Paul -- The key to change . . . is to let go of fear. -Rosanne Cash http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.7.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall .tar.gz
On Friday 15 February 2002 10:12, you wrote: Hi, Is it possible to somehow uninstall something I compiled and installed from a tarball? TIA Roman For next time: I think that the best way to handle the installation of tarballs is through checkinstall. Use it to create an rpm based on the tarball, then you can uninstall the program with rpm if you want to. No need to mess around with 'make uninstall' anymore, which may or may not work. I highly recommend this program! Narfi. ps. The project's home page is http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ From the checkinstall page: A lot of people has asked me how can they remove from their boxes a program they compiled and installed from source. Some times -very few- the program's author adds an uninstall rule to their Makefile, but that's not usually the case. This is my primary reason to write CheckInstall. After you ./configure; make your program, CheckInstall will run make install (or whatever you tell it to run) and keep track of every file modified by this installation, using the excelent installwatch utility written by Pancrazio 'Ezio' de Mauro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). When make install is done, CheckInstall will create a Slackware, RPM or Debian compatible package and install it with Slackware's installpkg, rpm -i or Debian's dpkg -i as appropriate, so you can view it's contents with pkgtool (rpm -ql for RPM users or dpkg -l for Debian) or remove it with removepkg (rpm -e|dpkg -r). Aditionally, this script will leave you a copy of the installed package in the source directory so you can install it wherever you want, which is my second motivation: I don't have to compile the same software again and again every time I need to install it on another box :-). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall/re-install KDE Kmail (8.1)?
I am not sure at all either, but i recently used rpmdrake to delete another program. Note that the actual emails are in ~/Mail and you may wish to keep those. Walter On Monday 11 February 2002 08:07 pm, you wrote: I have gotten the KDE Kmail setup all fouled up ... how do I uninstall and reinstall it ... I can't find the program in the control area ... just delete your ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc file to try and reconfigure it. But as far as uninstalling kmail and reinstalling it... I don't know if one can without doing the whole of kde. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall/re-install KDE Kmail (8.1)?
On Monday 11 February 2002 08:07 pm, you wrote: I have gotten the KDE Kmail setup all fouled up ... how do I uninstall and reinstall it ... I can't find the program in the control area ... just delete your ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc file to try and reconfigure it. But as far as uninstalling kmail and reinstalling it... I don't know if one can without doing the whole of kde. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Netscape?
In reply to Tom's words, written Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:01:42 -0300 How can i remove Netscape from the hard disk. I installed it with a .tar.gz file in /usr/local/netscape but I can't find a uninstall file. Sometimes make uninstall works. No garantuee though -- This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for higher security. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall Staroffice
Many thanks, Paul, yes it works. Dech Paul Rodríguez wrote: I really shouldn't try to answer a question for a program I've never used, but here goes. I don't know about StarOffice, but OpenOffice (the open source code version of StarOffice) let's you uninstall it by re-running the installation program, from with the directory. So running the program setup from with the StarOffice directory should give you the option to uninstall. If, for whatever reason, these instructions don't apply, my apologies... -Paul Rodríguez On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 17:24, dwang wrote: Can you advice me how to uninstall StarOffice5.2? =_1003335981-1734-990 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?
d wrote: LURKER here, I am NOT for using RH or any other flavor of LINUX, but; when there have been questions in the past looking for webpages the http;//xxx.x.xx.xx or what ever, is posted and this one time instructions say, Go to the Red Hat home page, . Did that touch a soar spot? I for one do not know where the homepage is from just RH or Red Hat. Maybe do a search on Google for Red Hat would produce more direct info. My $0.03, At 07:34 AM 9/9/01, you wrote: Michael Spivak wrote: Can you please be more specific about the RH list ? Where can we join it ? clip Go to the Red Hat home page; click on mail list archives, or somesuch, at the bottom of the page, and you'll get be directed to the RH mailing lists, along with subscription directions. There are about 18 or more of them. Do yourself a favor, and read up on the term RTFM before subscribing. It may come in handy. Carroll TIA, 'd' [EMAIL PROTECTED] San Antonio, Texas www.redhat.com Carroll Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?
Thank You for being a little more informative and direct. www.redhat.com LURKER, At 07:13 PM 9/10/01, you wrote: d wrote: LURKER here, I am NOT for using RH or any other flavor of LINUX, but; when there have been questions in the past looking for webpages the http;//xxx.x.xx.xx or what ever, is posted and this one time instructions say, Go to the Red Hat home page, . Did that touch a soar spot? I for one do not know where the homepage is from just RH or Red Hat. Maybe do a search on Google for Red Hat would produce more direct info. My $0.03, SNIPITY,SNIP www.redhat.com Carroll Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?
LURKER here, I am NOT for using RH or any other flavor of LINUX, but; when there have been questions in the past looking for webpages the http;//xxx.x.xx.xx or what ever, is posted and this one time instructions say, Go to the Red Hat home page, . Did that touch a soar spot? I for one do not know where the homepage is from just RH or Red Hat. Maybe do a search on Google for Red Hat would produce more direct info. My $0.03, At 07:34 AM 9/9/01, you wrote: Michael Spivak wrote: Can you please be more specific about the RH list ? Where can we join it ? -Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 6:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ? On Sunday 09 September 2001 05:18, Michel Clasquin wrote: On another note, I think the members of this list ought to give themselves a little pat on the back - somebody decides to return to windows, asks how to do it, and apart from a few wry ironic remarks, he does not get flamed, just the instruction he asked for. Good work. Well, if someone chooses what he really wants, we are not here to make him change his choices. We are here to assure he _HAS_ a choice. We also help out people with RH questions (and if you are curious, join a RH list for a couple of days and you will easily reach the correct answer as a logical conclusion). Other OSes may be about proselyting. Mandrake is about choice. Civileme Go to the Red Hat home page; click on mail list archives, or somesuch, at the bottom of the page, and you'll get be directed to the RH mailing lists, along with subscription directions. There are about 18 or more of them. Do yourself a favor, and read up on the term RTFM before subscribing. It may come in handy. Carroll Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com TIA, 'd' [EMAIL PROTECTED] San Antonio, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?
Actually, to remove the lilo, you should boot from ordinary DOS diskete, and type 'fdisk /mbr' - this will remove from MBR record of the LILO (clean it) . About the partitions - i think you should use the Linux's fdisk to remove the ext2 partitions, and then use the DOS fdisk to recreate the regular fat16/32. Hope i helped -Original Message- From: strab dogg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 9:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ? Hello , I got a problem , my 2 hdd's are full and i need the space from the linux hdd . How can i uninstall Linux and LILO ? And how can i turn my hdd from linux filesystem to fat32 . I thought on part. magic . But i dont know how to do it neither how to uninstall lilo . Ok thank you Please help . _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?
On Sun, 2001-09-09 at 02:22, strab dogg wrote: Hello , I got a problem , my 2 hdd's are full and i need the space from the linux hdd . How can i uninstall Linux and LILO ? And how can i turn my hdd from linux filesystem to fat32 . I thought on part. magic . But i dont know how to do it neither how to uninstall lilo . Ok thank you Please help . There is no uninstall method, except to fdisk format the drive. 'fdisk /mbr' (from a DOS prompt -- boot from a Win98 boot diskette) will get rid of LILO, and 'fdisk' will allow you to delete your non-DOS partition(s) and create one or more DOS partitions. You then need to format each partition (again in DOS, using a Win98 boot diskette) to make them usable. If your boot diskette's version of 'format' will not support fat32, then you can always convert to fat32 after Windows is installed. Dave PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?
If you just need disk space, why not do some housekeeping first and use the Windows tools to clean out the recycle bin, temporary files, old Windows uninstall info, down-loaded files, etc.? Also remove old programs you aren't using any more. You will be shocked how much space can be recovered and you may be able to keep Linux. I keep my disk cleaned up and I just checked and I can recover 140MB from less than a week. Run Disk Cleanup in System Tools. Also in in your browser, reduce the time for hanging on to history. I use ten days and if I haven't returned to a site within 10 days, I probably never will. Of course if you really want to throw Linux away, follow the instructions Civileme sent. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?
There is no uninstall method, except to fdisk format the drive. 'fdisk /mbr' (from a DOS prompt -- boot from a Win98 boot diskette) will get rid of LILO, and 'fdisk' will allow you to delete your non-DOS partition(s) and create one or more DOS partitions. You then need to format each partition (again in DOS, using a Win98 boot diskette) to make them usable. If your boot diskette's version of 'format' will not support fat32, then you can always convert to fat32 after Windows is installed. Dave Dave, Michael S, and original poster, Actually, you won't be able to remove the ext2 partitions with windows fdisk--what you've done if you clear the mbr first is no way to get into linux (other than via a boot disk) to remove the ext2 partition information. What needs to happen is boot using something similar to tom's root / boot disk (link should be off the distribution page of linux.org) or into your linux install, run linux fdisk as root, remove all ext2 partitions. Boot into windows, run 'fdisk /mbr' (note, this is windows fdisk), reboot using the floppy, and repartition the drive using windows fdiskm, setting up partitions for a FAT16 or FAT32 partition - if it is a large drive, choose FAT32 (FAT16 has a limit of 2 GB per partition), then format. This is, of course, the same set of instructions that civilme sent to the list. In the next few days, I'll have finished a FAQ relating to questions (using my answers) that have been posted to this list and the expert list--if nothing else, civilme, myself, and the other experts on the list can post the url for the person to look at instead of sending the same instructions to the list every time -- I've seen at least 3 or 4 posts concerning uninstalls, for example. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?
On Sunday 09 September 2001 10:30, Michael D. Viron wrote: In the next few days, I'll have finished a FAQ relating to questions (using my answers) that have been posted to this list and the expert list--if nothing else, civilme, myself, and the other experts on the list can post the url for the person to look at instead of sending the same instructions to the list every time -- I've seen at least 3 or 4 posts concerning uninstalls, for example. A great idea and thank for putting in the time for us. On another note, I think the members of this list ought to give themselves a little pat on the back - somebody decides to return to windows, asks how to do it, and apart from a few wry ironic remarks, he does not get flamed, just the instruction he asked for. Good work. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC An intellectual is someone who has discovered something more interesting than sex - Aldous Huxley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?
Can you please be more specific about the RH list ? Where can we join it ? -Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 6:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ? On Sunday 09 September 2001 05:18, Michel Clasquin wrote: On another note, I think the members of this list ought to give themselves a little pat on the back - somebody decides to return to windows, asks how to do it, and apart from a few wry ironic remarks, he does not get flamed, just the instruction he asked for. Good work. Well, if someone chooses what he really wants, we are not here to make him change his choices. We are here to assure he _HAS_ a choice. We also help out people with RH questions (and if you are curious, join a RH list for a couple of days and you will easily reach the correct answer as a logical conclusion). Other OSes may be about proselyting. Mandrake is about choice. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?
Michael Spivak wrote: Can you please be more specific about the RH list ? Where can we join it ? -Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 6:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ? On Sunday 09 September 2001 05:18, Michel Clasquin wrote: On another note, I think the members of this list ought to give themselves a little pat on the back - somebody decides to return to windows, asks how to do it, and apart from a few wry ironic remarks, he does not get flamed, just the instruction he asked for. Good work. Well, if someone chooses what he really wants, we are not here to make him change his choices. We are here to assure he _HAS_ a choice. We also help out people with RH questions (and if you are curious, join a RH list for a couple of days and you will easily reach the correct answer as a logical conclusion). Other OSes may be about proselyting. Mandrake is about choice. Civileme Go to the Red Hat home page; click on mail list archives, or somesuch, at the bottom of the page, and you'll get be directed to the RH mailing lists, along with subscription directions. There are about 18 or more of them. Do yourself a favor, and read up on the term RTFM before subscribing. It may come in handy. Carroll Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?OT
On Sunday 09 September 2001 14:30 pm, civileme wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2001 03:22, strab dogg wrote: Hello , I got a problem , my 2 hdd's are full and i need the space from the linux hdd . How can i uninstall Linux and LILO ? And how can i turn my hdd from linux filesystem to fat32 . I thought on part. magic . But i dont know how to do it neither how to uninstall lilo . Ok thank you Please help . Well, I am assuming you are using a dos-based windows. 1. Make a DOS boot floppy if you don't already have one 2. Boot into linux and login as root. 3. If you are in console mode, stay there. If you are in some desktop, open up a terminal. 4. from the command line # fdisk /dev/hdb or hdc or hdd, whichever is the linux disk pprints the artition table on the screen d deletes a numbered partition keep on with p and d until all linux partitions and any extended partition enclosing them are gone. wwrites out the partition table to disk Then put your DOS boot floppy into the machine and # reboot When you get the A: prompt from DOS A: fdisk /mbr And yes the forward slash is correct. Remove the floppy and reset, Now you can use windows fdisk to partition the space where linux was, and FORMAT E: ,etc to format the partitions you make. Then no part of your computer will belong to you any longer, but If that is what you choose, so be it. Civileme Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: I read these lists with great interest and learn a lot, but as I'm already 57 yrs old I don't think I'll make it onto the experts list. This one puzzles me however, how can you use a linux utility to remove the partitions that linux resides on. This sounds like the computing equivalent of sawing off the branch that you are sitting on. Any explanations gratefully received. -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?
On Sunday 09 September 2001 03:22, strab dogg wrote: Hello , I got a problem , my 2 hdd's are full and i need the space from the linux hdd . How can i uninstall Linux and LILO ? And how can i turn my hdd from linux filesystem to fat32 . I thought on part. magic . But i dont know how to do it neither how to uninstall lilo . Ok thank you Please help . Well, I am assuming you are using a dos-based windows. 1. Make a DOS boot floppy if you don't already have one 2. Boot into linux and login as root. 3. If you are in console mode, stay there. If you are in some desktop, open up a terminal. 4. from the command line # fdisk /dev/hdb or hdc or hdd, whichever is the linux disk pprints the artition table on the screen d deletes a numbered partition keep on with p and d until all linux partitions and any extended partition enclosing them are gone. wwrites out the partition table to disk Then put your DOS boot floppy into the machine and # reboot When you get the A: prompt from DOS A: fdisk /mbr And yes the forward slash is correct. Remove the floppy and reset, Now you can use windows fdisk to partition the space where linux was, and FORMAT E: ,etc to format the partitions you make. Then no part of your computer will belong to you any longer, but If that is what you choose, so be it. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?OT
On Sunday 09 September 2001 10:50 am, Peter Watson wrote: This one puzzles me however, how can you use a linux utility to remove the partitions that linux resides on. This sounds like the computing equivalent of sawing off the branch that you are sitting on. Any explanations gratefully received. To do this you need to boot of your rescue disk (or the install cd, and select rescue). This way, you are not cutting off the branch you are sitting on, but rather cutting off the branch you were sitting on (before rebooting) -- Alex Steve Balmer, CEO of Microsoft, recently referred to LINUX as a cancer. Unsurprisingly, that's incorrect; LINUX was released on August 25th, 1991 and is therefore a Virgo. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?OT
I read on one of these lists that because there is so much to learn, linux helps prevent oldtimers dease, and if you remember it in the morning, it helps prove you don't have it yet. On Sunday 09 September 2001 17:26, you had thoughts to the concept of: Hey, what about us 65 year old Linux fans? Art - Original Message - From: Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I read these lists with great interest and learn a lot, but as I'm already 57 yrs old I don't think I'll make it onto the experts list. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?OT
At 14:26 9/09/01 -0700, you wrote: Hey, what about us 65 year old Linux fans? Art Hey, what about us 76 year old Linux fans? Ivor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?
Siavash Sefidvash wrote: Whats RH??? RedHat, a competitor to Mandrake. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?
Whats RH??? Siavash -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: 09 September 2001 17:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ? On Sunday 09 September 2001 05:18, Michel Clasquin wrote: On another note, I think the members of this list ought to give themselves a little pat on the back - somebody decides to return to windows, asks how to do it, and apart from a few wry ironic remarks, he does not get flamed, just the instruction he asked for. Good work. Well, if someone chooses what he really wants, we are not here to make him change his choices. We are here to assure he _HAS_ a choice. We also help out people with RH questions (and if you are curious, join a RH list for a couple of days and you will easily reach the correct answer as a logical conclusion). Other OSes may be about proselyting. Mandrake is about choice. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall nautilus
Hmmm, seems to me that you don't _NEED_ to uninstall Nautilus, just select a different file mangler, or a different window mangler. On Wednesday 08 August 2001 07:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! Somebody knows how to uninstall Nautilus from Gnome desktop? It seems merged into Gnome!?!? I want a lighter file manager. TIA kalimank --- ¿Te desesperan las chapuzas caseras? No lo dudes y entra en Bricoespacio.com Aprenderás todo tipo de trucos, para hacerte la vida más fácil. ¡Pincha aquí! http://www.bricoespacio.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall nautilus
Place Nautilus into expert mode (click the black diamond) and then enter the preferences. There should be an option to disable Nautilus from managing the desktop. You can then use GMC to manage your desktop if you wish, or have no manager at all (and use another file manager). On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 20:58, etharp wrote: Hmmm, seems to me that you don't _NEED_ to uninstall Nautilus, just select a different file mangler, or a different window mangler. On Wednesday 08 August 2001 07:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! Somebody knows how to uninstall Nautilus from Gnome desktop? It seems merged into Gnome!?!? I want a lighter file manager. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 8
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 22:19, John Rigby wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 04:51, you manipulated electrons to produce: On Monday 30 July 2001 19:59, Caruso Aldo wrote: 1. Boot from windows boot floppy (make one at a friend's PC if you don't have one) 2. at DOS prompt, type FDISK /mbr Really folks , this one comes up so often we should put it in the URL or something :-) *** DONE! It's in the Escape Book :-) This doesn't uninstall Mandrake at all. All it does is cut off access to the GNU/Linux partition. To properly uninstall GNU/Linux (any flavour), you should delete the GNU/Linux partitions (including swap partitions) and create new ones using Windos filesystems. Otherwise, GNU/Linux will still be there, and you won't be able to access those partitions from Windows. That's just space wasted. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 8
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 04:51, you manipulated electrons to produce: On Monday 30 July 2001 19:59, Caruso Aldo wrote: 1. Boot from windows boot floppy (make one at a friend's PC if you don't have one) 2. at DOS prompt, type FDISK /mbr Really folks , this one comes up so often we should put it in the URL or something :-) *** DONE! It's in the Escape Book :-) -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 8
On Monday 30 July 2001 19:59, Caruso Aldo wrote: Hi, I've just installed Mandrake 8 in my PC which had Windows 98, partitioning previously my hard disk. To my surprise I noticed that Mandrake automatically puts LILO in the Master Boot Record, and did not give me a chance to select boot from floppy method (as SuSE 7.1 did). As I have to check other Linux Distributions, I need to uninstall Mandrake, and left the things as they where before (Windows 98 alone, and booting as it normally boots, without LILO). How can I accomplish that ? 1. Boot from windows boot floppy (make one at a friend's PC if you don't have one) 2. at DOS prompt, type FDISK /mbr Really folks , this one comes up so often we should put it in the URL or something :-) -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC Free Dimitry Sklyarov!
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 8
On Monday 30 July 2001 12:59 pm, Caruso Aldo wrote: I've just installed Mandrake 8 in my PC which had Windows 98, partitioning previously my hard disk. To my surprise I noticed that Mandrake automatically puts LILO in the Master Boot Record, and did not give me a chance to select boot from floppy method (as SuSE 7.1 did). As I have to check other Linux Distributions, I need to uninstall Mandrake, and left the things as they where before (Windows 98 alone, and booting as it normally boots, without LILO). How can I accomplish that ? Not sure what you're saying Aldo, ie, As I have to check other Linux Distributions. If you don't want LILO installed in MBR, you should just boot your W98 start floppy and run 'fdisk /mbr' from a DOS prompt. That puts your mbr back like it was without uninstalling LM. Then you can still use your Mandrake 8 boot floppy (you did make one, right?) to boot Mandrake Linux. There's also ways to use LILO to boot multiple distros, tho I haven't. Search MandrakeForum. I believe there's a good article there in the archives by Civileme for doing this. Also, LILO doesn't have to be installed in mbr, see 'man lilo'. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 8
If I'm reading this right you want to uninstall Mandrake 8.0 and you want your mbr back the way it was. If your going to install other Linux Distro's then all you need to do is what several people have told you and that will reset your mbr. As far as uninstalling Mandrake 8.0 you don't really need to do this if you are going to install another Distro. That distro should use the same partations that you have set already. I hope that this answer's your question. Don --- Caruso Aldo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just installed Mandrake 8 in my PC which had Windows 98, partitioning previously my hard disk. To my surprise I noticed that Mandrake automatically puts LILO in the Master Boot Record, and did not give me a chance to select boot from floppy method (as SuSE 7.1 did). As I have to check other Linux Distributions, I need to uninstall Mandrake, and left the things as they where before (Windows 98 alone, and booting as it normally boots, without LILO). How can I accomplish that ? Thanks in advance, Aldo __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
Lucas, I did not see any reply's to your question so i will. If you had a dual boot machine and used lilo the first thing you need to do is go to the Dos prompt and do fdisk /mbr that will elimate lilo on the boot sector and reset your machine to boot automatically to the windoz. Then do a format D: assuming this is the drive that Mandrake is on and that will reformat the Linux drive back to either FAT16 or FAT32 whichever you want. Hope that what you want to do. Don --- Lucas Aguilera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 2 Hard drive, in the primary drive I have windows 98/2000 and the secundary Mandrake 8.0. I want to uninstall the mandrake, how can I do? Please Thanks Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
At 08:46 AM 07/07/2001 -0700, D. Hoyem wrote: Lucas, I did not see any reply's to your question so i will. If you had a dual boot machine and used lilo the first thing you need to do is go to the Dos prompt and do fdisk /mbr that will elimate lilo on the boot sector and reset your machine to boot automatically to the windoz. Then do a format D: assuming this is the drive that Mandrake is on and that will reformat the Linux drive back to either FAT16 or FAT32 whichever you want. Actually, you still won't be able to simply format the second hard drive, as even after having removed lilo the second drive will still be ext2 formatted / partitioned. What needs to happen is boot using something similar to tom's root / boot disk (link should be off the distribution page of linux.org), run fdisk, remove all ext2 partitions. Boot into windows, run windows fdisk, setting up partitions for a FAT16 or FAT32 partition - if it is a large drive, choose FAT32 (FAT16 has a limit of 2 GB per partition), then format. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
Lucas, you can remove Linux from your computer right from within Linux. It's easy. I did it last weekend on a computer that is going to my young grandchildren. First, make sure you have a boot disk for Windows and test it before you do anything. Then load Linus and launch DiskDrake (you can do this from a console as root or super user). On the graphic that comes up, you click on the partitions you want to get rid of, then tell it to remove or delete them. (I'm going from memory.) It'll give you warnings and warn of dire consequences. Be absolutely sure that you're not deleting your Windows partition. Then let DiskDrake do its thing. Put your Windows boot disk in drive A and exit to reboot. After the computer boots from Drive A, at a DOS prompt run FDISK /MBR if you use LILO or GRUB. That will get rid of the Linux boot manager. Remove the floppy and reboot. You will have to FDISK and FORMAT your now-empty second drive. Note that I don't know how this works with Windows 2000. I *think* FDISK /MBR will work for anything, but I could be wrong and it might disable the boot manager for W2K/Win 98. So you should look into that before you do this. FDISK /MBR gets rid of LILO and GRUB, if that's what you use. If you use something else, you can continue using it. I assume you have boot disks that can get you into your operating systems in case anything goes wrong. FDISK will not delete a non-DOS partition. --Judy Miner
Re: [newbie] Uninstall RPMs
Try rpm -e freeciv Miark - Original Message - From: Juan Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:49 PM Subject: [newbie] Uninstall RPMs First I install Freeciv: rpm -i freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm Now I want to uninstall it: rpm -e freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm error: package freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm is not installed The system says it is not intalled, but It is really installed: rpm -qa | grep freeciv freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk What should I do? -- Linux Registered User: 219425 __ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails (pop)-paginas web (espacio illimitado)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-foros
Re: [newbie] Uninstall RPMs
Thanks. It works pefertly. On Thu 28 Jun 2001 17:45, you wrote: Try rpm -e freeciv Miark - Original Message - From: Juan Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:49 PM Subject: [newbie] Uninstall RPMs First I install Freeciv: rpm -i freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm Now I want to uninstall it: rpm -e freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm error: package freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm is not installed The system says it is not intalled, but It is really installed: rpm -qa | grep freeciv freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk What should I do? -- Linux Registered User: 219425 _ _ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails (pop)-paginas web (espacio illimitado)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-foros -- Linux Registered User: 219425 __ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails (pop)-paginas web (espacio illimitado)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-foros
Re: [newbie] Uninstall RPMs
Now I want to uninstall it: rpm -e freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm error: package freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm is not installed A common mistake - the -e requires the rpm name, not its filename. What's stored in the RPM database is the name 'freeciv-1.11.4-1mdk' which is the rpm. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
Re: [newbie] uninstall XFree86-server
I am using linux mandrake 7.1 and i want to upgrade to version 4.0.2 but the way that u told me doesn't work i think cause of the rpm version i guess so do u have any idea about this ? thanks for ur info --- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 22 December 2000 07:41 pm, Adrian Gunawan wrote: how can i uninstall XFree86-server ? no need to uninstall because i want to upgrade to the new one but it can't upgrade it said the file conflicts with the new package if anyone can help me From what to what? What version are you using now? Assuming 7.2, and tryin to upgrade to XFree 4.02 (?) you'll need: ftp://mandragon.org/pub/mandrake/ XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-Xnest-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-Xvfb-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-devel-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-doc-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-glide-module-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-libs-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-server-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-static-libs-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-xfs-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm and from any cooker mirror: freetype2-2.0.2-0.20001211.1mdk.i586.rpm freetype2-devel-2.0.2-0.20001211.1mdk.i586.rpm put 'em all in a directory by themselves, and in a terminal as root, type rpm -Uvh * -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] uninstall XFree86-server
On Saturday 23 December 2000 03:08 am, Adrian Gunawan wrote: I am using linux mandrake 7.1 and i want to upgrade to version 4.0.2 but the way that u told me doesn't work i think cause of the rpm version i guess so do u have any idea about this ? These are packages built to be compatible with 7.2 and i686. I don't know of anyone who's said they sucessfully installed them with 7.1 http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001221005311 has a comment on how to rebuild them for i586, if that's also an issue. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay --- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 22 December 2000 07:41 pm, Adrian Gunawan wrote: how can i uninstall XFree86-server ? no need to uninstall because i want to upgrade to the new one but it can't upgrade it said the file conflicts with the new package if anyone can help me From what to what? What version are you using now? Assuming 7.2, and tryin to upgrade to XFree 4.02 (?) you'll need: ftp://mandragon.org/pub/mandrake/ XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-Xnest-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-Xvfb-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-devel-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-doc-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-glide-module-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-libs-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-server-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-static-libs-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-xfs-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm and from any cooker mirror: freetype2-2.0.2-0.20001211.1mdk.i586.rpm freetype2-devel-2.0.2-0.20001211.1mdk.i586.rpm put 'em all in a directory by themselves, and in a terminal as root, type rpm -Uvh * --
Re: [newbie] uninstall XFree86-server
Adrian Gunawan wrote: how can i uninstall XFree86-server ? because i want to upgrade to the new one but it can't upgrade it said the file conflicts with the new package if anyone can help me Hi Adrian. Do a "man RPM" from a shell. Lots of options there including: --nodeps (will install despite dependency problems) --force (will install over top of existing) and don't forget: rpm -q name of package (to see what version you currently have) rpm -e name of package (to uninstall a current version) Read the man results carefully, it will help a lot! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] uninstall XFree86-server
Adrian Gunawan wrote: how can i uninstall XFree86-server ? because i want to upgrade to the new one but it can't upgrade it said the file conflicts with the new package if anyone can help me __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ Are you trying to upgrade while in X? If so, you must drop to level 3 and then do your install. e.
Re: [newbie] uninstall XFree86-server
On Friday 22 December 2000 07:41 pm, Adrian Gunawan wrote: how can i uninstall XFree86-server ? no need to uninstall because i want to upgrade to the new one but it can't upgrade it said the file conflicts with the new package if anyone can help me From what to what? What version are you using now? Assuming 7.2, and tryin to upgrade to XFree 4.02 (?) you'll need: ftp://mandragon.org/pub/mandrake/ XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-Xnest-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-Xvfb-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-devel-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-doc-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-glide-module-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-libs-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-server-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-static-libs-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm XFree86-xfs-4.0.2-1mdk.i686.rpm and from any cooker mirror: freetype2-2.0.2-0.20001211.1mdk.i586.rpm freetype2-devel-2.0.2-0.20001211.1mdk.i586.rpm put 'em all in a directory by themselves, and in a terminal as root, type rpm -Uvh * -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 14:01, you wrote: Hey all, I have a question. I need to know how to perform a clean uninstall of Linux. Now, before you guys jump all over me, listen to my reason. This is not my choice. I have 7.1 installed at work and the Network admin. found out and he, being the wonderful person that he is, told me to remove it. He gave me till the end of the week. Nice, huh? Anyway, I need your help. Thanks in advance, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 OK boot your 7.1 run fdisk from a console as root delete the linux partitions, leaving the windows partitions alone. save ctrl-alt-del boot into windows make a windows boot disk boot into DOS prompt from the windows boot disk a:\fdisk /mbr linux is gone and windows is intact. You may now recoup unused disk space with DOS fdisk or PM or whatever. Civileme
RE: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK
At 12-12-2000 -0500, you wrote: What is Fips? O'Reilly Running Linux, Page 53, "... several programs that resize partitions nondestructively. One of these is known as FIPS and can be found on many Linux FTP sites."
RE: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK
Now that's an answer I like. He's a real... I'll restrain myself due to the fact that there are ladies on this list. -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 8:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK Maybe he oughta just bonk the butt-head with a ball-bat and ship him to Redmond, Washington for some mental readjustment. Mark On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:58:52 -0700, Adrian Smith said: maybe you just need a new job? =) i had an friend who was in IT with the same problem. he spent all night setting up a linux box at work. his supervisor came in the next day and said (and i quote) "nice linux machine. get rid of it." i assume you have to go back to windows? why not just boot with the win CD and do an fdisk start over? or do you have a duel boot? i would think you could use a linux boot disk linux fdisk to simply change all the ext2 partitions to fat32, then format them. would that work? then of course a win/dos boot disk to run fdisk /mbr Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6:01:35 AM 12/12/00 Hey all, I have a question. I need to know how to perform a clean uninstall of Linux. Now, before you guys jump all over me, listen to my reason. This is not my choice. I have 7.1 installed at work and the Network admin. found out and he, being the wonderful person that he is, told me to remove it. He gave me till the end of the week. Nice, huh? Anyway, I need your help. Thanks in advance, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK
it just doesn't seem fair, does it? -- Mark ### ## ...it's not a bug, it's a feature ## Registered Linux User # 182496 ## !-- Pine 4.31 -- # On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 Paul spake passionately saying! On 12 Dec 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Maybe he oughta just bonk the butt-head with a ball-bat and ship him to Redmond, Washington for some mental readjustment. Mark i had an friend who was in IT with the same problem. he spent all night setting up a linux box at work. his supervisor came in the next day and said (and i quote) "nice linux machine. get rid of it." Don't forget there's something like company policy. That keeps me from removing windows and putting Linux on the pc too... Paul
RE: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK
besides, what am I really hurting by have Linux on my machine??? He is just a Microsoft freak. Doesn't think that any other product can measure up! HA! Chris Kelly --- "One World, One Web, One Program." - Microsoft Promotional Ad. "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 7:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK it just doesn't seem fair, does it? -- Mark ### ## ...it's not a bug, it's a feature ## Registered Linux User # 182496 ## !-- Pine 4.31 -- # On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 Paul spake passionately saying! On 12 Dec 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Maybe he oughta just bonk the butt-head with a ball-bat and ship him to Redmond, Washington for some mental readjustment. Mark i had an friend who was in IT with the same problem. he spent all night setting up a linux box at work. his supervisor came in the next day and said (and i quote) "nice linux machine. get rid of it." Don't forget there's something like company policy. That keeps me from removing windows and putting Linux on the pc too... Paul
Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, L. H. LOO wrote: When you installed Linux, did you partition the hard disk ? You can delete the linux partition by using DOS (pure, no Win) to delete the non-DOS partition, or use the Linux installation proceed untill where you can use fips to delete the Linux partition, write to disk, STOP here, and reboot with ctrl-alt-del. I done this part before, but to return the 'empty' space to Win ? HTH, Good Luck. To get the space back to windows, just run fdisk, partition the available space, format it, and you have a new drive. Paul -- To do is to be - Sartre To be is to do - Spinoza Do be do be do - Sinatra http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
RE: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Kelly, Christopher wrote: What is Fips? Fips is a program on the mandrake cd, which enables you to change the sizes of partitions. It is freeware, and comes with no warranty. It is a substitute for Partition Magic, without a graphical interface. Paul -- To do is to be - Sartre To be is to do - Spinoza Do be do be do - Sinatra http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK
maybe you just need a new job? =) i had an friend who was in IT with the same problem. he spent all night setting up a linux box at work. his supervisor came in the next day and said (and i quote) "nice linux machine. get rid of it." i assume you have to go back to windows? why not just boot with the win CD and do an fdisk start over? or do you have a duel boot? i would think you could use a linux boot disk linux fdisk to simply change all the ext2 partitions to fat32, then format them. would that work? then of course a win/dos boot disk to run fdisk /mbr Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6:01:35 AM 12/12/00 Hey all, I have a question. I need to know how to perform a clean uninstall of Linux. Now, before you guys jump all over me, listen to my reason. This is not my choice. I have 7.1 installed at work and the Network admin. found out and he, being the wonderful person that he is, told me to remove it. He gave me till the end of the week. Nice, huh? Anyway, I need your help. Thanks in advance, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK
Maybe he oughta just bonk the butt-head with a ball-bat and ship him to Redmond, Washington for some mental readjustment. Mark On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:58:52 -0700, Adrian Smith said: maybe you just need a new job? =) i had an friend who was in IT with the same problem. he spent all night setting up a linux box at work. his supervisor came in the next day and said (and i quote) "nice linux machine. get rid of it." i assume you have to go back to windows? why not just boot with the win CD and do an fdisk start over? or do you have a duel boot? i would think you could use a linux boot disk linux fdisk to simply change all the ext2 partitions to fat32, then format them. would that work? then of course a win/dos boot disk to run fdisk /mbr Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6:01:35 AM 12/12/00 Hey all, I have a question. I need to know how to perform a clean uninstall of Linux. Now, before you guys jump all over me, listen to my reason. This is not my choice. I have 7.1 installed at work and the Network admin. found out and he, being the wonderful person that he is, told me to remove it. He gave me till the end of the week. Nice, huh? Anyway, I need your help. Thanks in advance, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK
On 12 Dec 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Maybe he oughta just bonk the butt-head with a ball-bat and ship him to Redmond, Washington for some mental readjustment. Mark i had an friend who was in IT with the same problem. he spent all night setting up a linux box at work. his supervisor came in the next day and said (and i quote) "nice linux machine. get rid of it." Don't forget there's something like company policy. That keeps me from removing windows and putting Linux on the pc too... Paul -- Cowboy Coffee: A brew strong enough to float a horseshoe in. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0
Thanks, All went well except my 4 gig hard drive is now at 20 mb. Any ideas on what I did wrong, and how to correct. I want to use the drive on my sons machine, he has a bad disc and he needs to load windows. I need windows on this machine for work. BrianT - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0 Brian Taylor wrote: Hi folks, I really am new to this and I can't seem to get Mandrake 6.0 uninstalled. I have it installed on a 4 gig drive. I have windows installed on another hard drive. What can I do? Thanks for any help. Brian T Brian, There is no uninstall. You will have to either overwrite the existing partition with an upgrade or completely reformat the the drive. First of all, is there any data that you want to save or back up? Other than removing Mandrake 6.0, do you want to upgrade, and/or reformat? If you want to just remove Mandrake 6.0, you should correct your partition table. Insert a DOS boot disk in your floppy drive. Reboot your computer. At the A:\ prompt, type in: fdisk /MBR Run fdisk again and reformat your partition. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
RE: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0
Are you looking to create a 4 Gig. partition on a 20 MB. drive? Roman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Taylor Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 3:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0 Thanks, All went well except my 4 gig hard drive is now at 20 mb. Any ideas on what I did wrong, and how to correct. I want to use the drive on my sons machine, he has a bad disc and he needs to load windows. I need windows on this machine for work. BrianT - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0 Brian Taylor wrote: Hi folks, I really am new to this and I can't seem to get Mandrake 6.0 uninstalled. I have it installed on a 4 gig drive. I have windows installed on another hard drive. What can I do? Thanks for any help. Brian T Brian, There is no uninstall. You will have to either overwrite the existing partition with an upgrade or completely reformat the the drive. First of all, is there any data that you want to save or back up? Other than removing Mandrake 6.0, do you want to upgrade, and/or reformat? If you want to just remove Mandrake 6.0, you should correct your partition table. Insert a DOS boot disk in your floppy drive. Reboot your computer. At the A:\ prompt, type in: fdisk /MBR Run fdisk again and reformat your partition. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0
Brian Taylor wrote: Hi folks, I really am new to this and I can't seem to get Mandrake 6.0 uninstalled. I have it installed on a 4 gig drive. I have windows installed on another hard drive. What can I do? Thanks for any help. Brian T Brianuse fdisk as root to delete all partitions on that drive. Alan
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0
Thanks Alan, I'm really green, how do I do that ? I don't know where the root is. Brian T - Original Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0 Brian Taylor wrote: Hi folks, I really am new to this and I can't seem to get Mandrake 6.0 uninstalled. I have it installed on a 4 gig drive. I have windows installed on another hard drive. What can I do? Thanks for any help. Brian T Brianuse fdisk as root to delete all partitions on that drive. Alan
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0
What is it that you're trying to do to uninstall Mandrake 6.0? There really isn't anything to do persay except the format the partitions that 6.0 is already occupying and then do what ever you want to do with that space. If you intend to install a newer version of Mandrake in that space, then as I said all you have to do is during the install process just instruct the installer at the proper time to format that space and that's all there is to it. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496 On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Brian Taylor wrote: Hi folks, I really am new to this and I can't seem to get Mandrake 6.0 uninstalled. I have it installed on a 4 gig drive. I have windows installed on another hard drive. What can I do? Thanks for any help. Brian T
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0
Brian Taylor wrote: [root] I'm really green, how do I do that ? I don't know where the root is. [snip] Brianthen before we go on let me ask why you want to uninstall/remove Mandrake 6.0? Otherwise, what is it you want to do with that 4 gig of hd space? Alan
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0
Brian Taylor wrote: Hi folks, I really am new to this and I can't seem to get Mandrake 6.0 uninstalled. I have it installed on a 4 gig drive. I have windows installed on another hard drive. What can I do? Thanks for any help. Brian T Brian, There is no uninstall. You will have to either overwrite the existing partition with an upgrade or completely reformat the the drive. First of all, is there any data that you want to save or back up? Other than removing Mandrake 6.0, do you want to upgrade, and/or reformat? If you want to just remove Mandrake 6.0, you should correct your partition table. Insert a DOS boot disk in your floppy drive. Reboot your computer. At the A:\ prompt, type in: fdisk /MBR Run fdisk again and reformat your partition. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, you wrote: Hi folks, I really am new to this and I can't seem to get Mandrake 6.0 uninstalled. I have it installed on a 4 gig drive. I have windows installed on another hard drive. What can I do? Thanks for any help. Brian T Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- Just delete the partition that contains 6.0 and viola! Jay "May the sound of happy music, And the lilt of Irish laughter, fill your heart with gladness, that stays forever after." "May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend." http://www.mrsnooky.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux
:~I've checked the books that came with Linux 7.1 and find :~instructions for uninstalling Partition Magic and Boot :~Magic, but nothing on how to take Linux OFF the computer. :~ :~Can someone help me??? I wonder why am I writing these "tips" on forum http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=2907023359 Yes, there is a search function, you just have to use it: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/search.php3 :-( Deno -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, you wrote: Hi! I've recently bought Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and installed it on my computer. I used the partition magic (included with the 3- cdrom set) and because I can't get the peripherals to work, I want to take Linux OFF the computer that I installed it on and get rid of the 3 gig partition that I made and restore Windows on that machine. I've checked the books that came with Linux 7.1 and find instructions for uninstalling Partition Magic and Boot Magic, but nothing on how to take Linux OFF the computer. Can someone help me??? Thanks!! Lynn Johnson Iowa -- "To HELL with empire, WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK!!" Patrick J. Buchanan Reform Party presidential nominee August 12, 2000 Long Beach, Cal. -- Poor bastard, you can't uninstall Linux, just delete the partition. Windows-fied you are. Jay "Every man dies, but not every man really lives." http://www.mrsnooky.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT d-- s++:++ a- C++$ P+ L+++$ E-- W++ N w--- O? PS+++ PE Y+ PGP+ !t !5 X+ R tv+ b+++ DI+ D+ G++ e+$ h--- r+++ y+++ UF+++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
RE: [newbie] Uninstall Linux
Use partition magic and delete the Linux partition and put it back to a Windows Partition. Then Linux will have been deleted straight away -Original Message- From: Lynn Johnson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 8/29/2000 9:51 PM Subject: [newbie] Uninstall Linux Hi! I've recently bought Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and installed it on my computer. I used the partition magic (included with the 3- cdrom set) and because I can't get the peripherals to work, I want to take Linux OFF the computer that I installed it on and get rid of the 3 gig partition that I made and restore Windows on that machine. I've checked the books that came with Linux 7.1 and find instructions for uninstalling Partition Magic and Boot Magic, but nothing on how to take Linux OFF the computer. Can someone help me??? Thanks!! Lynn Johnson Iowa -- "To HELL with empire, WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK!!" Patrick J. Buchanan Reform Party presidential nominee August 12, 2000 Long Beach, Cal.
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, you wrote: Well, he tried to put down his bottle, seems that ole' Bill has a tight grasp on it though. -- Poor bastard, you can't uninstall Linux, just delete the partition. Windows-fied you are. Jay "Every man dies, but not every man really lives." http://www.mrsnooky.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT d-- s++:++ a- C++$ P+ L+++$ E-- W++ N w--- O? PS+++ PE Y+ PGP+ !t !5 X+ R tv+ b+++ DI+ D+ G++ e+$ h--- r+++ y+++ UF+++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
