Re: [expert] Re: MDK 9.2 ISOs Released (was:Public downloadable 9.2 ISO's for non club members)
Alle 07:41, venerdì 14 novembre 2003, Thomas Backlund ha scritto: But now that's changed too... Last night the 9.2 ISO's appeared on the master mirrors, so they should start showing up on the mirrors around the world... But it's not clear if these are the updated ISOs that overcome the LG bug. I've checked a mirror and the 9.2 ISOs come with a Readme LG text file suggesting to upgrade the drives' firmware anyway... -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.3 - KDE 3.1.3 - Mandrake Linux 9.2 To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine
On Friday 13 June 2003 21:18, Jack Coates wrote: If it makes you feel better I installed the Transgaming WineX the other day (Reader Rabbit for my son if you must know) and it went in/on without a hitch. They just recently introduced the fix for 9.1 and RH 9 excuse me, but, what version of WineX did you actually successfully install and got working? thesubscription one or the free cvs one? tia, -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.2 - KDE 3.1.2 - Mandrake Linux 9.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine
On Friday 13 June 2003 22:41, James Sparenberg wrote: Subscription version... Ah! The wrong answer... :-) Do you know if the cvs works fine as well? -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.2 - KDE 3.1.2 - Mandrake Linux 9.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert]
On Friday 08 November 2002 00:06, HoytDuff wrote: The answer was no farther away than the README.Linux file found in your installation of UT2003. These things (forgetting to check the documentation) happen when you mess with your pc late at night! :-) Thanks for telling me! Q: I get the following text on my console when I run the game: Xlib: extension XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD missing on display :0.0. Is this a problem? A: No. This means you aren't using an X server from Xi Graphics. That message means we're looking for the X11 extension they use to change screen resolutions, and having a non-XiG X server, you don't have it. THIS IS NOT A UT2003 BUG. It's not a bug at all. Xlib prints that error, but we handle it gracefully. Mmmm... the only graceful thing that happens is that I get sent back to the command line prompt without the UT2003 gore I was expecting... But it may be that your video card is not supported, since it must supply S3TC support. All nVIDIA, no Radeon (unless you have an XiG X server), and no others. I have a Elsa Erazor III LT (TNT2 M64 32Mb) + latest nVidia drivers. I guess what's wrong! -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert]
On Friday 08 November 2002 00:06, HoytDuff wrote: All nVIDIA, no Radeon (unless you have an XiG X server), and no others. I checked the ReadMe and it seems that I cannot play UT2003 at all 'cos my TNT2 is not supported: Q: I have a TNT2 card...can I play the game? A: No. There is no S3TC hardware on the TNT2. THIS IS NOT A UT2003 BUG. Please upgrade if you want to play. Time to buy a GeForce 4 MX 440... -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Hi, I'm having troubles running Unreal Tournament 2003 demo on my MDK 9.0 box fitted with working latest nvidia drivers. Here is the msg I get when launching ut2003_demo. Any clue? Anybody experienced and solved the same problem? Thanks! Xlib: extension XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD missing on display :0.0. OpenGL renderer relies on DXTC/S3TC support. History: Exiting due to error -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] cdrecord mitsumi drives
Does anybody know if it is possible to burn a cd-r in DAO mode with cdrecord and a mitsumi cr-4804 te burner (and how)? I know that the drive actually supports DAO 'cos I have burned hundred of DAO cds with this burner under Windows... Every time I try to burn in DAO mode this is what I get told by cdrecord: scsidev: '0,2,0' scsibus: 0 target: 2 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'MITSUMI ' Identifikation : 'CR-4804TE ' Revision : '3.0D' Device seems to be: Philips CDD-522. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET RAW/R16 RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1343488 = 1312 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB /usr/bin/cdrecord: Drive does not support SAO recording. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Try -raw option. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Illegal write mode for this drive. Any help? Thanks -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(
On Sunday 13 October 2002 03:53, Igor Izyumin wrote: What do you do that you need to install, remove, and update packages all at the same time? Typically, you need to either install, remove, or update the programs, not do all 3 at the same time. The old interface was incredibly confusing and slow; the new one is much better in my opinion. Typically I used rpmdrake to gather informations about a certain package or file and to make decisions based on rpmdrake's output. Before, I could query the system about a certain package or specific file by name, description or file name. In a second I knew wether that package (or file) was installed or not; if it was installed then I could remove it, on the other hand if it wasn't installed I knew on what cd or other repository it was and then eventually decide to install it or not. This was very helpful while compiling software from source and discovering that I needed some obscure file to complete the compiling succesfully. Now I have to know these kind of information about packages beforehand, because I need to know beforehand what part of rpmdrake I have to call. It's frustrating to call something labelled Remove Software only to check if a package is installed on my system. If you want to keep rpmdrake this sliced way, fine. But please add a new section (the fifth one!), a query packages database, one from where a user can get informations about a certain package or file such as if a package is installed (or not) and if not where he can find it. Then it would have much more sense to call the Install packages or Remove packages windows. Also putting small buttons or icons to switch between the different parts of rpmdrake would be very handy. This way it won't be necessary to got back to mcc or the K menu to call another part of the package manager (what a waste of clicks)... With this little improvements rpmdrake would stay pretty much as it is now (i.e. sliced), but with some of the old style commodities that used to make the 8.2 vesion very easy to use. PS: if there is someone here that's also subscribed to the cooker list (I'm not) that thinks that this or other mails about this topic could be interesting for developers working on 9.1, maybe he/her can forward these mails there. Take care, -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.0 and SCSI scanner
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 18:33, Greg Hockenberry wrote: I just did an upgrade from 8.2 to 90. All is well accept my Cannon 600 scanner. In 8.2 it worked well. When I loaded 8.2 it just came up. 9.0 refuses to see it. I had a similar problem with my Agfa Snapscan e25 (it's a USB, not a SCSI scanner, though). Just like you've experienced, my scanner worked fine in 8.2 but it wasn't recognized at all in 9.0. I solved the problem this way: I removed all the sane/xsane related packages that were provided with MDK 9.0 and downloaded the sane (both backend and frontend) sources from ftp.mostang.com (I also d/loaded the xsane sources to replace those MDK-specific removed earlier). I also downloaded the specific snapscan files from the snapscan sourceforge project site and recompiled the sane backend sources patched with these scanner specific files. Needless to say now it works just fine. Probably there are similar files for Canon scanners too, you should search Google or Sourceforge for Canon Scanners and SANE. BTW, it's a mistery why one device was previously supported by 8.2 and now isn't supported anymore by 9.0. Maybe the MDK developers forgot something rushing to release MDK 9.0 a few days earlier than R**H** 8.0! ;-) -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(
I have just joined this mailinglist and I've noticed that one of the hottest topics is the new look rpmdrake. My two cents about this topic... I've been using MDK 8.2 since last June and I was so enthusiast about it that I have switched all my daily tasks from Windows to Linux. What made MDK 8.2 so special were its distro-specific tools, the best of which was no doubt rpmdrake. It was so user-friendly it was almost addictive! So I was looking forward to update to 9.0 and I was expecting it to feature all the good things from 8.2 plus enhancements as long as new stuff. As far as I can see the new release is very good (stable as rock, I must say - though I have been using it for a few days only), but my first impression was definitely spoiled when I found out that rpmdrake had been sliced into three different pieces! Now it is very uncomfortable to use (at opposite of its predecessor which was 100% user-friendly). You say that you had to re-work it in order to optimize coding (I'm no programmer so I don't know much about coding issues). Fine, but useability (one thing that made Mandrake stand up among other distros) has gone. I wonder why - even with coding optimization being the main worry - wasn't it possible to gather the three parts of the new style rpmdrake in one single window, separating them with tabs? That way rpmdrake would be at least useable... one could call rpmdrake and see wether one package is installed or not without having to call two separate apps... maybe in MDK 9.1 (hopefully)? Take care, regards -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(
I wonder if the four icons should've been removed from Configuration | Packaging? Having two access points, which work differently, for the same function(s) is probably not a good idea. Yeah, those 4 different icons in the KDE menu for something you could previously do from within one single window is somewhat upsetting. Calling rpmdrake from the panel MMC icon makes the new look one a little more bearable. Still miss the old one, though. Ok, I will stop complaining about rpmdrake now, enough is enough... :-) -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(
(The 8.2 version, by contrast, was a wreck, with controls all over the place). That was what made it superb. That you had ALL the possible controls for installing/removing/quering packages in ONE place. The new rpmdrake is so upsetting that I went back to Kpackage (even if all its limitations...). -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 20:50, Todd Lyons wrote: Sounds possible, but will it run in the same amount of RAM or will it require 3 times the RAM? This program runs fairly fast on an Athlon 1 Gig CPU with 384 Megs of RAM. Have you tried it on a P2 333 with 128I wanted to say that there is absolutely no intention to be harsh or to diminish the work of MDK developers in what I'm saying - Megs of RAM? Now make it require even more RAM and watch it crawl. I used to run the old rpmdrake on a 128 Mb Ram Celeron 700 (which is not a lightning) and it worked just fine. I understand your concerns about writing software that can be used by the widest spectrum of platforms and users, but a 333 P2 is a five year old machine. A bit too old, innit? Wishing to have MDK 9.0 + KDE 3 (or Gnome 2) and maybe even OpenOffice run smoothly on a five years old PC is a bit like trying to run Windows 98 and MS Office 97 on a 8 Megs 486 DX... maybe not impossible, but... is it worth? Every design comes with advantages and disadvantages. There's no way to meet every single need with optimum settings. Right and agreeable. But I still keep my opinion on obsolete hardware - how reasonable is to try to have a 2002 OS running smoothly on a 1995-1996 PC at all costs, i.e. giving up useability for EVERYONE only to try not to cut off a few users with very old machines? If you don't like it, you are welcome to take the old rpmdrake and maintain it yourself. I really wish I could contribute with code, but I have no coding skills and I have no time to learn how to write software from scratch. Right now, all that I can do is to report bugs I come across or give my feedback about apps (and, yeah, buy a Power Pack, of course!). With Linux, you have that choice. That's what I like about Linux :-) I know I come a bit late to complain about new features in MDK 9.0 but I have decided to completely switch to Linux only a few months ago and I wasn't aware about the discussion going on on the Cooker list about the new features implemented in MDK 9.0. Should join it soon to voice out my thoughts at the right stage of development and influence the shaping-up of MDK 10.0! :-) Before quitting, I wanted to say that there is absolutely no intention to diminish the work of MDK developers in what I've said - I really appreciate what you guys/ladies do and there are no enough words to thank the people that bring us such a great OS for free. It's just that Mandrake is brilliant and I simply would like it to be better and better - I felt that the new rpmdrake (and a few other things) didn't go in this direction, that's it, but I understand your points/concerns even if I don't always agree with them. Take care, keep up the great job, -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.0 and SCSI scanner
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 23:00, john wrote: I did this as well to get my snapscan e26 usb working and then a week later this was posted to newbie by Colin Rose, The problem is that somehow a typo is introduced in the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf. If you get the error 'no devices found' then edit the above file and change the word 'SnapScan' to 'snapscan' and it should work. Argh! If only I knew this before wasting a whole evening to get the scanner working! But now I'm too lazy to nuke the custom made sane rpm packages and revert MDK 9.0 to its original state, correct the conf file and see what happens... :-) -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Pc as dumb X-Terminal
Ric Tibbetts wrote: nds wrote: pesarif wrote: Hello again! Is it possible to login to a remote system (console login only because it doesn't have X), without having to login locally (as with telnet and ssh)? Because with X terminals, you are actually logging in to the remote system; While with telnet/ssh, you have to login to the system you're sitting in front of first, before you can actually telnet into the remote system and then log into that. Thanks, pesarif Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Where did you hear that?! Not true unless I'm poorly mistaken but I only had to have access to an account from the computer I'm trying to access. Is that what you mean? You are trying to access a computer without an account? RSVP Altoine Yeah, this is possible. He's talking about a dumb terminal, (or an X-Term as they're called). Not the xterm (terminal window) within X. I suppose it would be possible to set up a cheap PC, as a dumb X-Term, and use it that way without actually loggin in to the PC. I'd be interested in knowing whether is it possible to use a PC as a dumb X-Terminal (is it the same as a Light Terminal?), and how. With real dumb terminals, like the ones made by Wise, a special software is needed for that, at least so it is under Windows NT and Unix (in the last case such software is very expensive). If anybody knows, thank you. Piero. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Rpm: packages with major numbers =3
The problem I'm submitting to the competent and kind mandrake community seems to have been fairly common fof late. May be somedy who solved it can help me. I have Mandrake 7.0 and Rpm 3.03-43mdk. A few days ago I attempted to install a new package using Rpm -i, and got the answer: "Only packages witn major numbers =3 are supported by this version of Rpm". I then tried to install a more recent version of Rpm (version 4.02) and which has been my surprise when I got the same answer. How did you solve this problem? Richard -Gilligan- Uschold seems to have found a solution, but may-be He could give me a more detailed explanation. Did he upgrade first from 3.03 to 3.04, then 3.05, and so on, until version 4? And what he mens whe he says he rebuilded the database at every step? Is'nt there a quicker and more human way to do it? Thank you very much, anyway. By the way, do you know what a major number is in the Rpm context?
Re: [expert] troubles with star office
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: I haven't gotten a copy of this letter in about an hour so I am resending I apologize if you are receiving this twice. Sometimes it takes days... Sorry that I'm not able to help you with your problem; just don't get worried about the list. Sooner or later somebdy will help you. -- Piero
Re: [expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, you wrote: I picked up an old Zenith monitor (model ZCM1492BA1). It does not list in Xconfigurator and so I am having a hard time getting it right. I used an 8514 monitor at 640x480, but I still can't see part of the top and bottom of the X-windows. Even though an 800x640 test passes, it gets reset to 640x480. The on-board video card is a Sis620 8MB (I set to 2 or 4 for testing). Anyone know the scan frequencies for this monitor or which monitor setting will best fit it ? Is there a monitor listing database on the internet ? I found an answer at http://www.monitorworld.com/Monitors/zenith_data_systems/ZCM1490.html Model: ZCM1490 Max Resolution: Not Available Sync Type: Not Available H Freq/ V Freq: 31.5 khz/70 hz Tube Manufacturer: Not Available Monitor Type: Not Available Tube Model: Not Available Tube Size: 14" Connector: Not Available Although I still can't see the top and bottom portion in X-windows. I've tried the suggestions made so far. The zenith is only VGA and so I tried VGA16 server with 640x480 and the problem remains there. When I tried using 800x600 to fake it, it requires 35.15 khz and therefore hung. Maybe I should just get another monitor :( I was not expecting to use X on this server when I bought it. And the extra costs...yada-yada...the wife... Thanks... Dan. Doesn't it have anyhing to do with the cohoice for a virtual monitor when you confugure X? If you havn't tried that, try it! You just say "no" when you are asked if you want a virtual monitor, larger then your screen. -- Piero
Re: [expert] Backing everything up
I have istalled imwheel under Mk 7.0 and it works fine. Would anybody know what should I do in order to launch it automatically everytime I launch X? I presume I should put a line like imwheel somewhere. But where? In .xinitrc? In .Xclients-$HOSTNAME.$DISPLAy ? In /usr/bin/starkde ? (I use kde) Thank you for helping. -- Piero -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...
Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote: Dear all: Could any body know there is any utility like Defrag under Windows for optimization of Hard disk in Mandrake 6.0 or RPM in higher version? Thanks in advance, Wei Quan Tian Idoes not exist. You just don't need it. Under Unix, file management doesn't create fragmentation. Nice, is'nt it? :-) -- Piero -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...
Re: [expert] files larger than 2 GB
Then, what? This is a Linux Kernel problem and not a mandrake problem. On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Berta Fernandez Rodriguez wrote: I would appreciate information about the possibility of creating files larger than 2 GB. With the defoult installation of mandrake 7.0 there is this limit. Is it possible to overcome it? Thanks in advance Berta Fernandez -- Eugene GrimsdellSystem Administrator OSRAM South Africa www.osram.co.za Tell: +27 11 805-1711 Cell: +27 83 491-0955 Fax:+27 11 405-0955 -- Piero -- Dr Piero Caracciolo Ecole Normale Superieure ...humani nihil ...
[expert] Boot disk on LS-120
I am uneasy not having a boot disk. The problem is taht, instead of a normal floppy disk I have an LS-120. All the scheems for making boot disk that I have seen request to format the diskette doomed to be used as boot disk. So, I'd need to know 1 is it really necessary to fomat the diskette? 2 In case it is: how to have formatted trhough the LS-120 device? I tried to ask Mandrake (I have a package giving you the right to 100 days assistance), but they weren't unable to tell anything useful. (This is actually the main difference with Suse, thatI tried before trying Mandrake: at Suse's, the assisitance team was really competent and helpful)
Re: [expert]Thank you, Ron (Address Books)
Thank you, Ron, this is a clear answer and a clean solution. On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote: Piero wrote: All the files in the Windows partition belong to root and have mode: rwxr--r--. When I work under Linux I work under username piero. No, all the files in mounted FAT partitions belong to the user that mounted the partition, all can read, but only he/she can write to them. Find the mount line in /etc/fstab for the FAT partition, and add "noauto" to the options. Reboot, log in as piero, then mount the partition using the icon, the command line, or, better, KDiskFree. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] Writing to Windows Partition as Linux user
On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote: Piero wrote: See my mail "Coordinating address books2, where I ask the same question and give a (ugly) solution. Or use Netscape's solution at: http://help.netscape.com/kb/consumer/19990926-7.html Yes, Andreas, thank you.But then, when you consult your mail under Linux, and decide to enter a new address, you have to write in the file that is still in the Windows partition. Here comes the problem, and the answer given by netscape does not solve it.
[expert] A spare console
Could anybody help me with the following? I have two computers, a desktop (with Linux) and a notebook (without Linux). Is it possible to connect the notebook to the desktop (via a serial port, for instance) and use it as console to the desktop?
[expert] Coordinating Address Books
In order to coordinate the Netscape address books in the Windows partition and those on the Linux partition, I erased the files corresponding to the last ones and substituted them with symlinks to the files existing in the Windows partition. It wasn't so smooth, but it finally worked. Now, in the process of doing this napoleonic manoevre, I stumbled over something that made me perplexed, and for which somebody has perhaps an explanation. All the files in the Windows partition belong to root and have mode: rwxr--r--. When I work under Linux I work under username piero. Since the changes in the addressbooks, that piero makes under Linux, have to be reflected on the Windows partition files, I logged in as root, and tried to change the permissions of these files (chmod o+w filename). Impossible. I tried the to change their ownership: impossible. I finally modified /etc/fstab, in such a way that piero has the ownership of all the files in the Windows partition (uid=piero's user number). This made the think work, but I do not find it satisfactory. Does anybody know what prevents root form changing permission or ownership of the files belonging to the Windows partition?
Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] Writing to Windows Partition as Linux user
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote: Michael(as root) add the below option to the options in the line listing your dos partition in your /etc/fstab file. umask=0 Alan "Michael A. Kellogg" wrote: Hi Folks! Gotta a question . . . I really enjoy Mandrake 7.0 a great deal. Because some of my apps are still Windows based, I still have a dos partition on my drive. I can bring it up in LInux but am unable to write to it. Anyone know how I could enable the partition to write? Thanks! Mike The entire partition (every file in it) belongs to root; permissions are rwxr--r-- for data files, and rw-r--r-- for (recognised) program files. Even root cannot give you the right to write into it (if root tries to change permissions, nothing complains, but nothing is cahnged either), nor make you ownre of the files. See my mail "Coordinating address books2, where I ask the same question and give a (ugly) solution.
[expert] Re: [newbie] CD-player kscd versus Kfind
"man find" giveves you the answer... Mogens Jæger wrote: Hello Does anyone know how to tell Kfind, to searche all partitions, but not my CD-rom drive - it's pretty anoying to have your musik cut-off, just because you have to find a file Regards Mogens Jæger
Re: [expert] Proper Partitioning and Mount Points
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: I have a 20gb drive, and am already running Micro$oft Windows 98. Although a newbie to Linux, I know PCs very well, and have worked in the industry for several years. My question is this, I have about 6-8GB to give over to Linux, and I would like to know what the best way to bust it up for partitioning and mounting; IE I would like a list of partition sizes and mount points that you fairly efficient for a utilitarian machine. In learning Linux, I want to dabble in everything, and tinker with it all, including a web server at some point. Nothing large-scale or fancy, just a setup that will give me enough room to play around. Thanks, Steve Olson/bold You need a little partition /boot; a little /root; also a little /swap. On the opposit, /usr, /usr/local, /var, /opt and /home need to be fairly big, /tmp needn't be enormous. You best have them each on separated partitions, so that, when you upgrade or reinstall you can preserve what you have formerly installed. (when you upgrade, you change essentially /usr and may be /usr/var My configuration, after several insttallations, is: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 251M 53M 184M 22% / /dev/hda1 3.0G 816M 2.2G 27% /mnt/win /dev/hda5 15M 931k 13M 6% /boot /dev/hda71004M 47M 905M 5% /var /dev/hda8 3.0G 1.4G 1.4G 49% /usr /dev/hda91011M 156M 804M 16% /opt /dev/hda10509M 104M 380M 21% /home /dev/hda11525M 72M 426M 14% /tmp I do not think it is perfect, but, as the we all know, so nobody is.
[expert] Re: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations?
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: I am looking for a good video card with video-out jacks (don't really need PC TV). I have been longing for a Diamond Viper 550 card for a long time, now, but since I have been toiling with Linux, I have heard some disparaging comments about S3 cards in general not being "Linux Friendly" - Does anyone know if this is true for the Viper 550? If so, what card would you recommend? I need speed - good gaming and 3D performance - I don't have an AGP bus, so it would have to come in PCI flavor - I've been hearing good things about ATI's "All-in-Wonder"... any opinions? Why don't you give a look here? It's (possibly) helpful: http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html
[expert] Re: Repost: [newbie] Problems with boot disk.
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: No one answered my original query. Thought I would try again. - Original Message - From: Michael E. Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 11:20 AM Subject: [newbie] Problems with boot disk. I have Linux Mandrake 7.0 Complete installed on the following system Athlon 500 MHZ 64M ram. 20G byte IBM hard disk. I have as a first partition an 8G fat32 partition with Windows 98. DrakeX setup a swap partition, a /boot partition (hda5) and a root partition (hda7). Boot loader is lilo. I need to reinstall Windows 98. I understand that if a do this Windows 98 setup will remove lilo from the boot sector in favor of its own boot loader. For this reason I am trying to make a boot floppy so I can mount the root filesystem and reinstall lilo after I reload 98. I have tried created boot and rescue disks using both dos (writeraw) and linux following the instructions from the documentation. The boot disk works but whenever I select "rescue" from the "boot:" prompt and put in the rescue diskette I get an error. I am not sure but I think the error message is the same as below. I have also tried to use mkbootdisk to make a boot floppy. When I boot off it says it is trying to load the root filesystem off of hda7, I then get an "Error: 0x10" message. Any suggestions. May-be somebody will give you a real bit of advice: let me just express my sympathy. Boot and rescue disks seem to work only in a plathonic space of ideal computers and virtuous users. If you installed Linux from a cd, you can just allow Windows to destroy your boot sector, then make a fake upgrading of Linux from your cd, during which you'll tell it "Oh, yes, I'd love to install a loader! Lilo 'd suit me perfecly well" Nevertheless, If I were you, I would backup everything I 'd think valuable. But I must say that I 'd do that only if I were you: beeing myself, I wouldn't probably be so patient, and I 'd take the risk of loosing everything. Then I would be desperate, and I would have to drink it away.
[expert] Netscape window's fonts
I just installed a directory of true type fonts, that I made availeble to X (i.e. the fonts already present in the window partition). Everything works agreably fine, except for a bizarre side effect: the menu bar, bookmarks, location and navigation toolbar fonts of Netscape Navigator, as well as the similar fonts of Messenger and Composer changed in an unwanted and apparently uncontrollable way, Daoe anybody have a clue to it? I spent several hours trying to fix it.
[expert] [newbie] Ugly StarOffice Fonts!
Does anybody have an idea on how to make the look better on the screen?
