Re: [newbie] where to download MDK 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread S. Wieland
if your a club member you can download it on their website... but its not organized like 9.1 so i couldn't figure out how -boardrider Eko Budiharto wrote: hi list, I have been using MDK 9.1. I know there is MDK 9.2, where I can download it? ***

[newbie] where to download MDK 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread Eko Budiharto
hi list, I have been using MDK 9.1. I know there is MDK 9.2, where I can download it? * # NOTICE # Email sent by MERATUS user is strictly confidential. If it is not intended to you, please delete it i

Re: [newbie] multivolume tar

2003-10-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:57:02 -0700 (PDT) Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Raffaele Belardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes you can :-) > > No, you still can't, because it is not tar doing the job anymore, it > is either you or some script. The original discussion was about the >

[newbie] mozilla mail: cannot use profile "default" it is in use

2003-10-22 Thread Joe
What gives? I remember this one happening occasionally in 9.1. Can't remember what I did to get around it. I was sort of excited about the junk mail filter in mozilla but now... Any ideas why this is happening when I do not have mozilla or mozilla messenger running? TIA for suggestions? Want to b

Re: [newbie] 9.2 KDE Kmenu link drag n drop

2003-10-22 Thread Joe
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 10:53, Jason Greenwood wrote: > How the heck do you drag and drop app links to the desktop now?? U used > to be able to left click and drag,now it's x'd out??? > > Cheers > > Jason Ummm, works just like always for me. Sorry I can't be more helpful. Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] Pine and subfolders

2003-10-22 Thread cervixcouch
I'm hoping someone here can quickly answer this question. I'm trying to configure pine as an mail client. I have an IMAP account here at fastmail and am able to access my inbox, but none of my other folders, such as the folders are visible. My inbox path is set as: {fastmail.fm/user=cervixco

Re: [newbie] BitTorrent

2003-10-22 Thread Glenn
I've started mine back up. On Wed October 22 2003 20:50, Dennis Myers wrote: > > It appears that the number of folks remaining online as servers is > decreasing. I have left mine going for about a week now and think that > others should get back on to help the rest right up until 9.2 hits the

[newbie] video/audio from browser

2003-10-22 Thread Mike Adolf
I am looking at a language web site that has video and auto links. When activated from Windows/IE, real player one comes up and does its thing. When I use Konqueror or Modzilla, a save/open dialog appears. What video/audio app do I use to open the files. If I try to 'save' I get 135 B and it

Re: [newbie] BitTorrent

2003-10-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 04:46 pm, Dick Gevers wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I am sorry to have to report it, but for me the BitTorrent download of 9.2 > has been a bit of a disappointment: > > For 2 days I tried several versions via Mozilla without succes

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > I had never even heard of LG Electronics before this came up. I haven't been following this all that closely, but it seems that Compaq (for one) _has_ heard of LG, and shipped a whole bunch of them. Until I hear otherwise, God bless Mit

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:09 pm, robin wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > >>On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:48 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: > >>>On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 > >>> > >>>Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >De

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread Paul M. Bucalo
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 10:30 am, Sharrea Day graced me with: > Recently I used a friend's optical mouse while fixing their PC. As > I'd never used an optical mouse before, I was not impressed with it > in either Windows or Linux. In both OS there was a noticeable > delay before the cursor a

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 06:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:48 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 > > > > Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Dennis: > > > > > > > > > Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will w

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread Jerry Barton
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:30:50 +1300 Sharrea Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So can anyone tell me if your optical mouse causes a delay before the cursor > moves? TIA. My logitech optical mouse (usb with ps/2 adapter) works great Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:36, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > > But, I took some precautions. First I d/l'd a 1 GB ram > > > capable kernel (2.4.22-18mdk-i686-up-4GB) an installed it. > > > > I'll check on my Mdk cds. Would I be able to urpmi it? > > You don't mention versions. 9.2 should hav

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread robin
Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:48 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dennis: Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will work and not get f

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:48 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 > > > > Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Dennis: > > > > > > > > > Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will w

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread lduvall
As a former tech support person for the "evil empire" I find this thread somewhat interesting. We used to say that software does not break hardware - then we had video card settings breaking monitors. Now we have Linux taking it to a new level LeRoy Duvall Linux user #258988 > On Wednesday

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:48 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 > > Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dennis: > > > > > Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will work and > > not get fried. Thanks for the info. Makes me feel not so > > stup

Re: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 06:44 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > How 'bout booting the 1st CD and choosing 'upgrade'? Not > > sure I under stand your problem. Is the system unbootable? If > > it's bootable you can 'urpmi diskdrake' or use rpmdrake to > > install it. I

Re: [newbie] BitTorrent

2003-10-22 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi LeRoy, On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:15:23 - (UTC), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: [newbie] BitTorrent: >Are you a member of "Mandrake Club" and trying to downlaod through the >"Special download mirror list exclusively for Club members"? That`s

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Heather/Femme
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Dennis: > Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will work and not > get fried. Thanks for the info. Makes me feel not so stupid. > -- > Dennis M. linux user #180842 > > > Plextor rocks. So does Tea

Re: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-22 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: How 'bout booting the 1st CD and choosing 'upgrade'? Not sure I under stand your problem. Is the system unbootable? If it's bootable you can 'urpmi diskdrake' or use rpmdrake to install it. If it not, then you'll probly have to choose 'install' and fix your partitions.

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread RichardA
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 05:51:00 -0400, HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The directory is about 630MB, and I left it going for 4.5 hours > creating a tar.bz2, still wasn't done when I got up this AM. It's been mentioned before, but is there a link somewhere to a higher directory, making a loop?

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:15 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:54, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > > Barefoot on a tile floor is my method ;) If your not > > familiar with bios ram timing options, set the ram to auto or > > bios defaults. Cas 3, precharge 3, banking

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:23 pm, S. Wieland wrote: > Thanks a bunch. > Everything worked out fine. > Well except d/l from mandrake club (i signed up for silver) but how do i > d/l stuff i searched for flash and such but theres no "download link" You can either browse the commercial area of t

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread Heather/Femme
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:30:50 +1300 Sharrea Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently I used a friend's optical mouse while fixing their PC. As > I'd never used an optical mouse before, I was not impressed with it in > either Windows or Linux. In both OS there was a noticeable delay > before the

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:23:30 -0700, S. Wieland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks a bunch. Everything worked out fine. Well except d/l from mandrake club (i signed up for silver) but how do i d/l stuff i searched for flash and such but theres no "download link" Secondly when i come across a .run

Re: [newbie] BitTorrent

2003-10-22 Thread lduvall
I am curious. Are you a member of "Mandrake Club" and trying to downlaod through the "Special download mirror list exclusively for Club members"? I ask as a non-member who has been thinking of making the commitment. However, I am quite pleased with 9.1, so . LeRoy Duvall Registered Linux user

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:54, Tom Brinkman wrote: > Barefoot on a tile floor is my method ;) If your not familiar > with bios ram timing options, set the ram to auto or bios defaults. > Cas 3, precharge 3, banking disabled are the safest (but slowest) > settings. > > > Memtest gave me erro

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-22 Thread S. Wieland
Thanks a bunch. Everything worked out fine. Well except d/l from mandrake club (i signed up for silver) but how do i d/l stuff i searched for flash and such but theres no "download link" Secondly when i come across a .run file do i want to click on it and let it load in the browser then after it

[newbie] BitTorrent

2003-10-22 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am sorry to have to report it, but for me the BitTorrent download of 9.2 has been a bit of a disappointment: For 2 days I tried several versions via Mozilla without success. My own fault, I should have tested it earlier when I had a chance. The

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:05:37 -0500 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > It's kernel issue, not just Mandrake's. Any distro usin 2.4.22 > could mess up junk hardware. Go to kernel.org and look for the > various hardware blacklists. Or don't buy junk to run Linux on. So all the peop

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:50:59PM -0400, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 11:53 am, HaywireMac wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:46:46 -0400 > > > > "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > "Superglide" > > > > Isn't that...? Never mind. > > Yeah... :-) Or Astro...

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 08:46, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 10:30 am, Sharrea Day wrote: > > Recently I used a friend's optical mouse while fixing their PC. As I'd > > never used an optical mouse before, I was not impressed with it in either > > Windows or Linux. In both OS

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:05:37 -0500 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > It's kernel issue, not just Mandrake's. Any distro usin 2.4.22 > could mess up junk hardware. Go to kernel.org and look for the > various hardware blacklists. Or don't buy junk to run Linux on. No probs with 9

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:37 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > Will Mandrake be issuing a new edition for download that has been > tested *not* to hose people's hardware? It's kernel issue, not just Mandrake's. Any distro usin 2.4.22 could mess up junk hardware. Go to kernel.org and look for the

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 10:06 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: > Tom/List, > > I bought the memory according to a newer post to you sent (I > can't find it :( ). Got the Two 512 MB sticks in the mail and > stuck them both in (using proper static aviodance procedure) and > tested. Barefoot o

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Dennis: > > There have been some reports on the club Forums about 9.2 killing LG > > drives and there is also some discussion at cooker. Take a look at > > the second posting here: > > http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modu

Re: [newbie] How do I install an updated driver?

2003-10-22 Thread S. Wieland
Im just guessing but I believe you have to extract the file onto the floppy then it should work from there (maybe) :-/ tar.gz is = to a rar or zip file Marco Hoefman wrote: Hello everybody, I recently installed Linux Mandrake 9.1 on a second partition and the dual boot programm LILO works great

Re: [newbie] How do I install an updated driver?

2003-10-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 21:49, Marco Hoefman wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I recently installed Linux Mandrake 9.1 on a second partition and the dual > boot programm LILO works great! The only thing is that I have a USB ADSL > modem from speedtouch, I've downloaded the Linux drivers for it but

[newbie] How do I install an updated driver?

2003-10-22 Thread Marco Hoefman
Hello everybody, I recently installed Linux Mandrake 9.1 on a second partition and the dual boot programm LILO works great! The only thing is that I have a USB ADSL modem from speedtouch, I've downloaded the Linux drivers for it but I am not sure how to install the driver. The downloaded file "Spe

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread Sharrea Day
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 04:06, HaywireMac wrote: > I use a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical, and I would never go back to > balls (insert crude joke here). Me neither... besides its not so bad being a chick ;) > No sign of any delay, very responsive > and smoooth as...well, something very smooth.

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 02:16 pm, S. Wieland wrote: > I first installed mandrake 9.1 on monday 10-20-03 and everything went > smoothly. I figured out how to use irc and mozilla and konquer.And so > yesterday after reading the mandrake starter pdf (on my win2k box) i got > the bright idea to re

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Dennis: > > There have been some reports on the club Forums about 9.2 killing LG > > drives and there is also some discussion at cooker. Take a look at > > the second posting here: > > http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modu

[newbie] pppd dies

2003-10-22 Thread Warren Post
Most, but not every, time that I try to connect to the net, pppd dies within 5 seconds with an exit code #10. /var/log/daemons/errors says: Oct 20 15:03:40 gerencia pppd[2104]: Could not determine local IP address What could cause pppd to be unable to determine a local IP address, and what can I

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:14 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Tuesday 21 October 2003 08:29 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > Wondering if anyone has run into this, I put a brand new (cheap $19.95 > > US) LG CDROM in the computer, a Gigabyte MB with Athlon 2000 cpu and DDR > > ram, and as soon as Ma

Re: [newbie] screensavers

2003-10-22 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
> > mkdir /usr/share/applnk-mdk.hidden > ln -s /usr/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers /usr/share/applnk-mdk.hidden/ > Sorted - cheers. Just when I was getting used to gnome :-) -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: vicaro

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:40:53 -0700 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > YMMV, but i have heard people profess loudly not to use compression > on backups. The tar isn't as small, but way less chance of > corruption... I tested 'em all afore I burned 'em, but thanks for the concern! -- Haywi

Re: [newbie] Welcome to Newbie

2003-10-22 Thread Eric Huff
> > If this one makes it, it means that simpa just doesn't > > like seeing it's name in print. > > > This is the second version I've seen... coming through fine here. > Thanks for taking the time and trouble to do this Eric. I sent about twenty of them! The first one you saw was ultra truncatated

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:46:46 -0400 "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > "Superglide" Isn't that...? Never mind. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twi

Re: [newbie] Welcome to Newbie

2003-10-22 Thread Eric Huff
> > This is an automated weekly message mainly intended for > > people new to Mandrake's Newbie List. > > > > Welcome to Mandrake! > > I like it as it is, Eric. Nice job on this and the Etiquette TWiki > page. If you ever find a need to move onto something new in your > career-life, try being a l

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 10:30 am, Sharrea Day wrote: > Recently I used a friend's optical mouse while fixing their PC. As I'd > never used an optical mouse before, I was not impressed with it in either > Windows or Linux. In both OS there was a noticeable delay before the > cursor actually m

Re: [newbie] screensavers

2003-10-22 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 22, 2003 04:01 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: > Where are the kscreensaver modules? I installed 9.2 from the download CDs > and they're not visible in the control center. > TIA > Paul A workaround taken from bugzilla: Do: mkdir /usr/share/applnk-

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread Eric Huff
> I want back up a directory to an archive for my upcoming big wipe > for 9.2. > > The directory is about 630MB, and I left it going for 4.5 hours > creating a tar.bz2, still wasn't done when I got up this AM. > > Is it faster (but less compression) just to do tar.gz? YMMV, but i have heard peop

Re: [newbie] How 2 Install ESS Modem...

2003-10-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 1:37 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, I'm a little new at Linux Mandrake 9.1 and I'm having trouble > installing my ESS 2838/2839 PCI 56k modem. Can anyone help me? I also > have another computer with a USRobotics/3Com PCI 56k modem with Linux > Mandrake 9.1 and

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:30:50 +1300 Sharrea Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Recently I used a friend's optical mouse while fixing their PC. As > I'd never used an optical mouse before, I was not impressed with it in > either Windows or Linux. In both OS there was a noticeable delay > before th

Re: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-22 Thread John Richard Smith
Sharrea Day wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:24, John Richard Smith wrote: What package installs diskdrake ? [root]default# which diskdrake /usr/sbin/diskdrake [root]default# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/sbin/diskdrake drakxtools-newt-9.2-16mdk Sharrea Hey that's a useful little command ,

Re: [newbie] cd burning fails

2003-10-22 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:36 am, qhwang wrote: > Many thanks for your response. The problem is, the burning process was very > smooth. There was no error taking place, I think. > > > Did you finalize the CD? If you created a multisession CD and did not > > finalize the volume, you will NOT b

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread John Richard Smith
Sharrea Day wrote: Recently I used a friend's optical mouse while fixing their PC. As I'd never used an optical mouse before, I was not impressed with it in either Windows or Linux. In both OS there was a noticeable delay before the cursor actually moved (and it was not a slow system). Just

Re: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:24 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > What package installs diskdrake ? > > John drakxtools-newt -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Mine does not, it is a Kingston one, can't remember which model. It works fine I just have a problem with the placement with the side buttons as sometimes unintentionally I press on while trying to move the mouse (killer in some games). Tony. -Original Message- From: Sharrea Day [mailto:[

Re: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-22 Thread Sharrea Day
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:24, John Richard Smith wrote: > What package installs diskdrake ? [root]default# which diskdrake /usr/sbin/diskdrake [root]default# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/sbin/diskdrake drakxtools-newt-9.2-16mdk Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today

[newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread Sharrea Day
Recently I used a friend's optical mouse while fixing their PC. As I'd never used an optical mouse before, I was not impressed with it in either Windows or Linux. In both OS there was a noticeable delay before the cursor actually moved (and it was not a slow system). Just curious as to whethe

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 08:29 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > Wondering if anyone has run into this, I put a brand new (cheap $19.95 US) > LG CDROM in the computer, a Gigabyte MB with Athlon 2000 cpu and DDR ram, > and as soon as Mandrake harddrake detects it the drive light goes steady on > and the

[newbie] Samba3 upgrade from Samba 2.2.7a

2003-10-22 Thread Tony S. Sykes
All, Has anybody gone through this yet on 9.1? Samba3 is installed as Samba3 so it does not just do it automatically. Any hints/tips/links would be well appreciated. Thanks, Tony. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attach

Re: [newbie] how do I kill teh firewall in Mandrake 9.0?

2003-10-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 10:57 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm back here, after a prolonged absence. > > I just did a fresh install of the powerpack edition of Mandrake 9.0. > My previous installation on the same machine was the download edition > of Mandrake 8.1, upgraded by "upgrade packages

[newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-22 Thread John Richard Smith
What package installs diskdrake ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread John Richard Smith
HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:59:57 +0200 Raffaele Belardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: $ tar cvzf archive_file.tgz archive_directory/ will tar and compress the contents of archive_directory/ into a file named archive_file.tgz. v is not mandatory, but gives you the idea of the prog

Re: [newbie] Shortcuts

2003-10-22 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:42:31AM +0100, Sendak, John wrote: > I have just installed Mandrake 9.2. > > I tried to copy and paste - using the shortcut "ctr+V" into Xterm (which > seems to be the only terminal available > although I thought I had more with Mandrake 9.1). > The paste did not work.

[newbie] How 2 Install ESS Modem...

2003-10-22 Thread Adamglazener71
Hello all, I'm a little new at Linux Mandrake 9.1 and I'm having trouble installing my ESS 2838/2839 PCI 56k modem.  Can anyone help me?  I also have another computer with a USRobotics/3Com PCI 56k modem with Linux Mandrake 9.1 and I can't figure that one out either.  On my PC with the ESS it rea

Re: [newbie] 9.2, no menus on install

2003-10-22 Thread Sharrea Day
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 06:01, Derek Jennings wrote: > I also lost my menus after performing an online upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2 > > If you run > update-menus -d > > You should get verbose messages and it will highlight any malformations > in the menu files. > > In my case it pointed out to me that /etc/

Re: [newbie] cd burning fails

2003-10-22 Thread qhwang
Many thanks for your response. The problem is, the burning process was very smooth. There was no error taking place, I think. > Did you finalize the CD? If you created a multisession CD and did not > finalize the volume, you will NOT be able to mount the CD since the Lead In > and Lead Out as we

Re: [newbie] Download Mandrake ISO images

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:06:35 +0100 "Dum Dum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Where do i download the ISO images of the linux Mandrake 9.2.. ??? > > Downloaded two CD images from the Mandrake FTP listing, but the FTP > sites have removed the ISO images for 9.2 for some reason. didn't we

[newbie] Download Mandrake ISO images

2003-10-22 Thread Dum Dum
Where do i download the ISO images of the linux Mandrake 9.2.. ??? Downloaded two CD images from the Mandrake FTP listing, but the FTP sites have removed the ISO images for 9.2 for some reason. Can anyone help me out there Please __

Re: [newbie] Download of Linux 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:29 am, Dum Dum wrote: > Hey Guys anyone knows what happened to the Mandrake Distribution... > I downloaded the two ISO images but cant any of the ISO images on the all > of the FTP servers listed on the Mandrake site. > It is only available to Club members until end

Re: [newbie] Download of Linux 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:29:13 +0100 "Dum Dum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Hey Guys anyone knows what happened to the Mandrake Distribution... > I downloaded the two ISO images but cant any of the ISO images on the > all of the FTP servers listed on the Mandrake site. If you mean the free downlo

Re: [newbie] cd burning fails

2003-10-22 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:22 am, QingHua Wang wrote: > Hi, there > > Yesterday I tried to burn some photos to a cd. I seemed that everything's > OK, but after the burning I couldn't access the cd. I used K3B 0.8.1 to > create a data CD. The CD writer is a Toshiba one. (I have used it to burn

[newbie] Download of Linux 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread Dum Dum
Hey Guys anyone knows what happened to the Mandrake Distribution... I downloaded the two ISO images but cant any of the ISO images on the all of the FTP servers listed on the Mandrake site. _ Tired of 56k? Get a FREE BT Broadband con

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:59:57 +0200 Raffaele Belardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > $ tar cvzf archive_file.tgz archive_directory/ > > will tar and compress the contents of archive_directory/ into a file > named archive_file.tgz. > v is not mandatory, but gives you the idea of the progress it's >

[newbie] cd burning fails

2003-10-22 Thread QingHua Wang
Hi, there Yesterday I tried to burn some photos to a cd. I seemed that everything's OK, but after the burning I couldn't access the cd. I used K3B 0.8.1 to create a data CD. The CD writer is a Toshiba one. (I have used it to burn MDK 9.1 into CDs with Window$ before but now I shift to MDK.) Wh

Re: [newbie] screensavers

2003-10-22 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
> Where are the kscreensaver modules? I installed 9.2 from the download CDs and > they're not visible in the control center. > > Phew! So I am not the only one then! There is a screensaver of sorts that works automatically - the mandrake slideshow thing (not to my taste TBH!). I migrated to

Re: [newbie] Shortcuts

2003-10-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 10:42 am, Sendak, John wrote: > I have just installed Mandrake 9.2. > > I tried to copy and paste - using the shortcut "ctr+V" into Xterm (which > seems to be the only terminal available > although I thought I had more with Mandrake 9.1). > The paste did not work. > > I che

Re: [newbie] Welcome to Newbie

2003-10-22 Thread Paul M. Bucalo
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 01:25 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] graced me with: > This is an automated weekly message mainly intended for > people new to Mandrake's Newbie List. > > Welcome to Mandrake! I like it as it is, Eric. Nice job on this and the Etiquette TWiki page. If you ever find a need to

[newbie] Shortcuts

2003-10-22 Thread Sendak, John
I have just installed Mandrake 9.2. I tried to copy and paste - using the shortcut "ctr+V" into Xterm (which seems to be the only terminal available although I thought I had more with Mandrake 9.1). The paste did not work. I checked the shortcut options and they seemed to be set. The "ctr+V" shor

Re: [newbie] Scanner (SCSI) question

2003-10-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 3:52 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Tuesday 21 October 2003 04:52 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I'd see it as HardwareIssues, because it's a configuration > > problem, not a compatibility report, so how about > > http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SCSI ? > > > > Anne > >

Re: [newbie] Kernel Compiling in 9.2 -Update - 9.2 bug?

2003-10-22 Thread Sharrea Day
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:09, Sharrea Day wrote: > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/arch/i386/mm' > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/include > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common > -pipe > -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=ath

[newbie] screensavers

2003-10-22 Thread Paul Kaplan
Where are the kscreensaver modules? I installed 9.2 from the download CDs and they're not visible in the control center. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread Tony S. Sykes
You have to tell it what to tar and where to tar it to. tar -cfz test.tar /home/test/. Tony. -Original Message- From: HaywireMac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 10:51 AM To: Mandrake Newbs Subject: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz I want back up a

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread Raffaele Belardi
$ tar cvzf archive_file.tgz archive_directory/ will tar and compress the contents of archive_directory/ into a file named archive_file.tgz. v is not mandatory, but gives you the idea of the progress it's making. On my PIII/733 it takes less than 15minutes to tar and gzip more than 600Mbyte of d