[expert] INstalling 7.1
I have downloaded all of the files for 7.1 and now want to install it. Can I install it off the hard drive, or do Ihave to install from CD? Cheers, Wayne
[expert] eth0 failing on install
After putting my burner back into my linux box, I couldn't get my SCSI card and burner working so I thought the easiest way would be to reinstall MDK7. I did so, and everything went smooth until I rebooted and couldn't get my eth0 to initialise. I used a dhcp option before, though if I try to use it this time, I cannot access the network. If I manually put in my IP addy, I get an OK when MDK initialises my eth0, but still cannot access the network. I have searched high and low for answers, and if anyone here can help me, I am at wits end and would appreciate it immensely. Thanks, Wayne
[expert] Kernel won't recognise burner
I am trying to install my burner back into my linux box and am using drakconf to do it. I would like to mount it as "burner" in my /mnt directory and have made the appropriate /burner there. When I try to add it under drakconf, I get the message that the kernel doesn't recognise this as a valid block device (I am trying to use /dev/scd0 for the burner). All of the manuals I have says this is a valid device, but for some reason it won't work. Can anyone give me a suggestion? Thanks, Wayne
[expert] Moving /home
I want to move my /home directory to another drive. Someone mentioned and article from a linux mag that had this exact procedure in it. Would someone be able to point me in the right direction, or help me out with this? I have tried to do it based on what I know, but I obviously don't know enough!!! Wayne ** ** Wayne Petherick Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University ** **
[expert] Changing home drive
I have my home directory on a 6 gig drive that I would like to put in another machine. Does anyone know a good source of information or could anyone tell me how to change my home drive under linux, and move all of my existing programs a directories to the new drive? I would appreciate any help. Wayne
[expert] SO 5.3
I have gone to Suns web site and tried to download Staroffice 5.2. I click all of the right buttons, and select English Linux (x86) but when I get to the end and the software can be dl'd the only file that comes up is a .bin file. Is this the right one for MDK7? If so, how do I install it? I was under the impression this was a Solaris binary file but I may be wrong. Thanks, Wayne
Re: [expert] Mandrake rpm's
Joe, go to www.rpmfind.net. They have all of the i586 files you need. Wayne On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Joe Heafner wrote: Hello. Why is it so difficult to find rpm's compiled for i586? I know that using software compiled for i386 on my Pentium will work just fine, but if possible I'd really like to use the former. However, all the software archives that I know of only stockpile i386 packages. Are there other archives that I don't yet know about? Thanks,
[expert] Terminal window for programs
I have a mail checker that will execute programs for you when mail arrives on a pop server but cannot get it to automatically run pine when mail arrives. I assume that it is because Pine uses a terminal to run. Is there a command line argument that will fire up Pine in a term when mail arrives, something perhaps like: pine -terminal or terminal -pine ??? If anyone knows of a tip, I would appreciate it. Wayne
Re: [expert] Where to get Helix Gnome
Martin, I went to the www.helixcode.com webpage, went and had a look at the Packages page and that told me everything I needed to UG to version 1.2 (I printed this page out). Then I went to www.rpmfind.net and went to their RPM database, and just downloaded each of the files I needed. Some need to be installed before others but it will tell you this when you install them (dependencies etc). I am now using V1.2 and it is sweet. A whole lot faster, and a lot more stable (and a little better looking). Wayne
[expert] Helix Gnome
Just wondering whether anyone has heard of Helix Gnome and whether this is the same as stock standard Gnome that comes with most distro's. Does it upgrade or change anything that it shouldn't and is it still usable with other Gnome software? Cheers, Wayne ** ** Wayne Petherick Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University ** **
Re: [expert] Helix Gnome
Allen, is it relatively easy to install? I am using MDK 7 and was wondering does it just start now from your log on screen instead of the old gnome? I like the looks of it and have to admit the current version is a little buggy so I look forward to using 1.2 Thanks, Wayne On Tue, 30 May 2000, Allen Bolderoff wrote: I am using helix here, and it is great - Very smooth, clean and just all round brilliant. I couldn't go back to kde if I wanted to - The new Gnome is just so-unclunky. Allen -- * * Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Bond University * *
[expert] Palm pilot
I would appreciate some help from anyone who has managed to get their palm pilot up and running on MDK. I have kpilot running but for some reason, it is not working. Thanks, Wayne
[expert] Downloadable fonts
I have a program asking me for the path for downloadable fonts and printer commands. I am desparate to print from this program, but cannot locate the directory. If anyone could tell me where these are usually stored I would appreciate it. Wayne
Re: [expert] SHIT
I must say, the criticism here would appear to be about Netscape and not MDK. The crashing of netscape is fairly well documented across Linux distro's and is not unique to MDK. My two cents worth. Wayne - Original Message - From: Keymer Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 4:50 PM Subject: Re: [expert] SHIT As they say " A bad workman always balmes his tools!" - Stan On Thu, 11 May 2000, Mahmuth Mathumbha The III wrote: I think MDK is shit Netscape craches all time and there are no any other good browser that works better!
Re: [expert] Kmail-SMTP
Tom, I had the same problem as you. Unfortunately I couldn't fix mine either, except by doing exactly what you did and setting it to sendmail. My IT department couldn't help me because they don't support linux. WHat did I do? Switeched to Pine, and haven't looked back. Took a while to set up, but what an e-mail prog! You should check it out. Wayne On Wed, 10 May 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: Last Saturday I when I tried to send email using Kmail with File|Settings|Network set to SMTP, localhost, port 25, I got an error message "Cannot open SMTP connection to host localhost for sending". For quite some time (years) I've been using Kmail/SMTP. I changed Kmail's option from 'SMTP' to 'Sendmail' and was immediately able to send mail. I have no idea what caused SMTP to suddenly stop working, or even where to look to fix it. I have read the 'mail' howto, and searched the Mdk mailing list archives to no avail. Can somebody point me in the right direction for getting SMTP working again. I have a problem with using the 'sendmail' option in Kmail because it instantly puts mail in the 'sent mail' box, even if I don't have a connection to my ISP. IOW's there's no indication that the mail is being sent, or queued for later as there is with Kmail's SMTP option. Besides, it's bothering me what I might've done to break SMTP. FWIW, I use Staroffice for reading news groups. It's set to SMTP for mail, and it hasn't had any problems. TIA, -- * ***** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Bond University * *
Re: [expert] Kmail-SMTP
Aaron, thanks for the tip. I have printed that e-mail and have kept it on file for next time. I have to say though, apart from a few problems with the set up, I am now using Pine and can strongly recommend it for anyone looking for a solid email app. Wayne At 08:05 PM 5/10/00 -0500, you wrote: Wayne, try telnetting to port 25 your IP address It would be like this telnet 205.287.45.3 25 If you get no response, your sendmail SMTP server is not responding. (Assuming you are firing it up at start-up) Also try /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart (or status) See what happens and check your logs.. Good Luck -Aaron Wayne Petherick wrote: Tom, I had the same problem as you. Unfortunately I couldn't fix mine either, except by doing exactly what you did and setting it to sendmail. My IT department couldn't help me because they don't support linux. WHat did I do? Switeched to Pine, and haven't looked back. Took a while to set up, but what an e-mail prog! You should check it out. Wayne On Wed, 10 May 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: Last Saturday I when I tried to send email using Kmail with File|Settings|Network set to SMTP, localhost, port 25, I got an error message Cannot open SMTP connection to host localhost for sending. For quite some time (years) I've been using Kmail/SMTP. I changed Kmail's option from 'SMTP' to 'Sendmail' and was immediately able to send mail. I have no idea what caused SMTP to suddenly stop working, or even where to look to fix it. I have read the 'mail' howto, and searched the Mdk mailing list archives to no avail. Can somebody point me in the right direction for getting SMTP working again. I have a problem with using the 'sendmail' option in Kmail because it instantly puts mail in the 'sent mail' box, even if I don't have a connection to my ISP. IOW's there's no indication that the mail is being sent, or queued for later as there is with Kmail's SMTP option. Besides, it's bothering me what I might've done to break SMTP. FWIW, I use Staroffice for reading news groups. It's set to SMTP for mail, and it hasn't had any problems. TIA, -- * * Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Bond University * *
[expert] [newbie] Mutt or Pine
Howdy all, I have read all of the mutt and pine how to's and man pages that exist and still cannot get either to work. I appear to have my fetchmail set up properly in that it downloads my mail fine, but I do not know where to!!! I am guessing that where it downloads it to is where I have to point my Pine MUA to, but I cannot find in any how to's where this is and how to set it up. I would appreciate if anyone would avoid the temptation to point me to another how to (unless of course it is written for a complete spoon!) and give me some straightforward settings so I can get (preferably Pine) my mail up and running. I am gettting frustrated with underdeveloped GUI's. TIA, Wayne
[expert] Re: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations?
Joe, you could always try the various TNT cards that are out there. Most of them will come in PCI and AGP so you should shop around. Wayne At 02:47 PM 5/3/00 -0400, you wrote: The only decent PCI video cards on the market are the 3DFX VooDoo cards but even with those I don't think you can get video out on anything but there AGP cards not on their PCI cards. The Viper 550 and all the ATI cards are AGP. Sorry Charles - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 10:58 AM Subject: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations? 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?
Re: [newbie] Re: [expert] VCD Player
Sorry. next question! I have tried this but can't locate the actual movie files. This has to be done from the command line and I don't know what they are called. Any help would be appreciated Wayne On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: You can use "mtvp" instead of "mtv". It comes with mtv, but it's the command-line version, and doesn't cut the audio. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Wayne Petherick wrote: Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 09:38:00 +1000 From: Wayne Petherick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] VCD Player Anyone know of a good FREE vcd player for linux? I am trying to use an unregistered MTV at the moment but the audio cuts out until it is registered. THanks, Wayne -- *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Bond University *** ***
Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux
I have linux installed on the primary partition of my HD, with windows installed on the second. The disk was originally split using dos fdisk, though the first partition was formatted using diskdrake. I want to run a Nortons utils speed disk on my C drive, but now I am not so sure!!! Will nortons effect it or is it only wind'ohs defrag that will f*k it up? Wayne
Re: [expert] USB SCanner
Thanks Chris, I think it may be a matter of waiting for some generic third party drivers to come along. Damn, one more thing I have to use windows for... Wayne On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, you wrote: Wayne, I have a Canon 620U USB, and I looked for SANE drivers but could not find any (although I believe some other brands of USB scanners are supported). I emailed Canon asking about their policy wrt Linux and their hardware, and the response I got was that they had no immediate plans to support Linux. Chris Original Message On 4/12/00, 3:33:51 PM, Wayne Petherick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [expert] USB SCanner: Any advances on how to get my Canon 630U usb scanner to work with linux? WHat are the names of the USB ports on a machine under linux? Wayne -- *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Bond University *** ***
[expert] USB SCanner
Any advances on how to get my Canon 630U usb scanner to work with linux? WHat are the names of the USB ports on a machine under linux? Wayne
[expert] Unzipping a file
How do I unpack a file with a .tar.bz2 extension? Thanks, Wayne
[expert] Growing file sizes
OT but I may be able to explain why your file sizes grow using M$ word... If you are working on a document and click on SAVE instead of SAVE AS, this will only add the changes to the existing document. If you clikc on SAVE AS it will replace the existing document with the one on the screen. This seems to be an artifact of all MS programs. I once reduced a publisher document from 15MB to 900k! Wayne
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
As far as applixware goes. I would give it a wide berth. I tried the demo the other day and am not suitably impressed. The word program was ghastly, and the less said about the e-mail client the better. Despite its flaws, Staroffice is still your best bet as far as office apps go. Wayne ==
[expert] Network
Quick question to ask if anyone knows of any utilities that will watch your network activity. I have a full time connection through my Universities internet server and am obviously open to some problems. What I am looking for is a package that will let me know if anyone tries to get access to my stuff. Thanks, Wayne
Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
Have you tried typing lilo to effect your changes? On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:48:45 +0100 To: Mandrake Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut This is an old question but for me its a new machine. It's an AMd K6 450 with 32 mb RAM (soon to be increased!) On firing up Mandrake 7 (with kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk), it tells me I have 23MB ram. I've added append = "mem=32m" to lilo.conf with no effect. Can anyone tell me what is going on here? Is Linux not detecting the RAM? Is it discounting space used by the kernel? I've trawled the docs but couldn't find any clues. TIA Glyn M. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
[expert] PRINTING
I have my BJC-2000 set up on my Linux box and am having a few troubles getting it to print i ncertain apps. It will print documents from Staroffice no probs at all but will not print from anything else. I can't get it to print from netscape, gedit or any other program. I am using Spruce for my email, and it won't print from there either. In the settings dialog box it will come up with 'lpr' as the place to print but still won't. I am not sure what to do next, I have tried setting up my printer several different ways. Any info anyone has would be appreciated. Wayne
Re: [expert] PRINTING
Francois,
below is a copy of my printcap file.
Thanks for any info you may be able to provide. It would seem that I can only
print from programs that come with their own printer driver (such as
wordperfect and staroffice) though a test print works fine.
#
# Please don't edit this file directly unless you know what you are doing!
# Look at the printcap(5) man page for more info.
# Be warned that the control-panel printtool requires a very strict format!
# Look at the printcap(5) man page for more info.
#
# This file can be edited with the printtool in the control-panel.
#
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL bjc600 360x360 a4 {} BJC600 24
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
Thanks,
Wayne
Re: [expert] PRINTING
It worked fine before my latest reinstall though. I have had no problems at all up until now, and forgive my ignorance, but I have never used GS, so... Wayne
Re: [expert] OT - Spruce
FYI - I downloaded spruce 0.6.2 this afternoon and installed it. It installed without a hitch (though I would have preferred a binary file) and the setup was a piece of cake. The client runs like a dream and handles all aspects of my mail that I could ask for. Not to mention, the GUI is easy on the eyes, and easy to use. If you are after a GUI client, then you should check out Spruce. Wayne
[expert] Mail clients
Thanks for all the excellent responses to my question about good mail clients. Ih ave checked out the others suggested, and am looking into these. I think the problem I am having is that the ones I really like are still in development and as such have bugs, and lots of em. Wayne *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University *** ***
[expert] OT - Spruce
To those using Spruce, I was wondering whether you could answer a question for me. When I go to COMPOSE or REPLY or FORWARD the compose window that comes up locks Spruce and I have to Nuke the window to get it to close. Do you know why this would be happening? It is a good mail client and I would really like to use it but can't if it keeps locking up. Any help would be appreciated. Wayne
[expert] Error message
After installing the glib version 1.2.7 I am still getting the wollowing error message while trying to run the config on spruce 0.6.2. Could anyone tell me what it means and how I get around it? *** Could not run GTK test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK was incorrectly installed *** or that you have moved GTK since it was installed. In the latter case, you *** may want to edit the gtk-config script: /usr/bin/gtk-config configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path? *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University *** ***
[expert] Mail programs
I am slowly getting used to Linux and am currently looking for a good GUI mail client. At the mo I am using kmail under Gnome and am looking for something a little more !)attractive, 2)functional. I have tried Mahogany, Eucalyptus, XFMail, XCMail, postilion, tkrat, and just about every other one out there. I either cannot get it to work or it is confusing and cumbersome and was wondering who is using what and what they think of it. I would love to get a good GUI client for my machine but most are either in development still or have other problems. Does Corel WP2000 come with a mail client? Or what would others suggest is a good stable way to send, receive and catalog emails? Wayne *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University *** ***
