Re: [newbie-it] Cerco programmi per...
Arwan wrote: 1) cerco un programma che faccia quello che realizza Photoshop [...] Gimp il miglior programma di grafica fornito con il sistema operativo linux e migliore di tanti programmi di grafica sotto windows ma, se non ti soddisfa e preferisci usare photoshop (un programma dal costo non indifferente e probabilmente il migliore del settore) non ha senso rinunciarci . 2) cerco un programma simile a FileMaker, per gestire il mio archivio di libri. Ho bisogno di qualcosa di semplice ... Non so se possono soddisfarti KArchiver o ark ? Per il momento non ne ho in mente altri. Sembrano molto semplici e funzionali. Saluti da Giuseppe. ___ L'uso di Linux pu dare tre grattacapi all'utente assuefatto da Windows. 1 C' sempre qualcosa che non va 2 C' sempre qualcosa da mettere a posto 3 C' sempre qualcosa che manca Non tutti sono disposti ad accettarli serenamente o sono preparati per darsi subito da fare. Linuxnon beneficia di nessun privilegio per flessibile e aperto e si dona completamante nelle tue mani. Se sei un'utente attivo, paziente, perspicace, tenace ma disponibile a cambiare punti di vista, ad assimilare, a sacrificarti nell'impegno... inoltre se sei anticonformista, autocritico e sempre pronto ad assumere atteggiamenti riflessivi e soprattuto se trovi il tempo... allora Linux ti dar tante soddisfazioni ma, se invece non ti identifichi in tutto questo e se sei stressato allora meglio continuare passivamente ad utilizzare Windows. Linux non una moda che passa, ma un modo di pensare sentire e volere di persone umili che amano apprendere e non disdegnano di insegnare agli altri quello che hanno imparato. Linux vuole essere per tutti e di tutti dall'inizio che ama la collettivit, ma i baciawindows gli sono ostili e gli creano intorno terra bruciata. Tuttavia Linux imperturbabile, sufficiente in se, ha la saggezza delle sue origini antiche, figlio dell'archetipo dei sistemi operativi eppure ancora non stato superato perch ha il pi grande dei privilegi, cresce nelle menti libere del mondo.
Re: [newbie-it] Cerco programmi per...
On 19:42, venerdì 31 maggio 2002, Arwan wrote: Ritorno con alcune domande che feci secoli fa, cui nessuno (o pochi) rispose. Posso rispondere alla seconda, ossia: 2) cerco un programma simile a FileMaker, per gestire il mio archivio di libri. Ho bisogno di qualcosa di semplice, ad interfaccia grafica, dove personalizzare le schede ed inserire i dati senza dover programmare o creare un data-base ex-novo. Avevo provato MySQL e qualcos'altro, anchce se dire provato e' una parola grossa: l'ho installato e non sono riuscita a farlo partire... Suggerisco pyblio. E' un ottimo programma che di dà in uscita vari tipi di archivio standard (BiBTeX, Refer, Medline, Ovid, e un formato specifico di Gnome). Per la Mandrake devi utilizzare non la versione data con la distribuzione, che è bacata, ma pybliographer-1.0.11-3mdk che è un rmp patchato apposta per la mandrake. vedi anche di controllare che recode sia nella versione recode-3.5-9mdk e non nella 3.6. E' il miglior programma che io conosca. Interagisce anche con LyX, se lo usi, mandando i dati direttamente al word processor. saluti, g. -- Guido Milanese --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ars Antiqua Vocal Ensemble, Genoa, Italy http://www.arsantiqua.org + + + + GAUDETE IN DOMINO SEMPER + + + +
[newbie-it] Ordinamento icone desktop
Non riesco più ad ordinare le icone sul desktop. Ad ogni riavvio si dispongono tutte in verticale od orizzontale a secondo della selezione fatta sul centro di controllo. Ho la mdk 8.2 Ciao Elio
Re: [newbie-it] pc che si pianta quando accedo al floppy
Ciao a tutti, scusate se rompo ancora ma non riesco a trovare un modo di risolvere questo problema (Il pc mi si pianta quando cerco di scrivere sul floppy) Ho provato a togliere il supermount (modificando lilo.conf) ma non sembra essere la soluzione al mio problema, se non è il supermount quale potrebbe essere altra soluzione??? ciao Luca
Re: [newbie] Re: LM 8.2 Configuration
Hi Paul I've already tried that, but halfway it tells me I/O device error? Cheers mate! From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: LM 8.2 Configuration Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:59:29 +0200 In reply to 's mail, d.d. Sat, 01 Jun 2002 16:44:32 +: I got Windows XP Pro/Mandrake 8.2 installed on a workstation, the windows died meaning it goes doom by showing illegal operations. I decided to re-install Windows again. Is there any faster way of restoring back the LM 8.2 boot-up screen without re-installing the whole software. Boot from MDK cd 1, hit F1, type rescue, hit enter and when all that has come to rest: run lilo -v :) Paul -- To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. -John Henry Newman http://nlpagan.net-Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.7.5 Help Microsoft combat software piracy: give Linux to a friend today! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs
One last thought! Where i come from they use them for visual toys for special needs kids. Any kids like that near you? Regards [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Derek Byram [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 3:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs On Saturday 01 June 2002 22:44, you wrote: On Saturday 01 June 2002 10:53 pm, shane wrote: On Saturday 01 June 2002 01:27 pm, Miark did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Over the course of two years, I've been tossing old CDs in a pile. I'm guessing there are about 100 now. Any interesting ideas as to what I could do with them? SNIP everyone always says coasters but the whole in the middle kinda makes that pointless. SELLOTAPE anyone? -- Derek 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] What to do with old CDs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 June 2002 3:37 am, Derek Byram wrote: Pardon me BUT!, Isn't this off topic, off Linux, and off Mandrake??? It's not off-topic because I destroyed about 100 _Windows_ CDs (with old backups and similar) by putting them in the microwave ;) I never knew there were uses for such things - toys for children with special needs? reflectors for life jackets? I'll tell my local council; it operates a 'green box' scheme and, if shoes and tinfoil can go in there for recycling, CDs can as well. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8+dv5Cv59vFiSU4YRAmYZAJ9IMQ8h0xIvzYRBQ/xMTw80HlMakACgwLfA 3Cw7NvJXsg2Rm6PcGN5eJnA= =AFxR -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hibernation support for Linux?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 June 2002 10:59 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: I was curious .. Does linux support hibernation on a laptop computer like window$ does? It's all there - if you're running KDE look at the Control Center then under PowerControl. Not sure about other window managers as I don't use them. It tends to be a bit capricious. I've installed M8.2 on three (desktop) machines; on one it works perfectly (including suspend and standby), on the second it works partially (can have trouble getting the system back after suspend or standby) and on the third it barely worked. (The 'perfect' machine was a year old, the 'partial' machine brand new and the 'barely' machine three years old and, apparently, with a motherboard which said it supported power management but didn't really and had other quirks :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8+d1UCv59vFiSU4YRAokaAJ9/rf7sBOuJb/aaLtOwtGXzPUg1aACgy0vy x/bPDQa2XrTDuz515IqrKFc= =qHUC -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A cheap home network to play with.
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 14:20:28 +1200 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the P3 500 box running 8.2 at present. I have been given two P1 100 machines. I want to have a go at setting up a network with them. Ideally a hub is the way to go and it allows expansion. But i have Scottish ancestors and this is more of the nature of an experiment than anything else. So could i put two NICs in the P3, each one connected to a NIC in a P1 box? I will get one P1 running 8.2 working for my flatmate to use the printer on the P3 and perhaps load W95 or W98SE on the other to learn about SaMBa. -- Michael I have read all the advice, thanks everyone. Will have to save the pennies and go for a hub it seems. The idea of using one of the P1's as a server had hit me also. But the modem and the printer are working on the P3 and i can give one machine to my partner when it is running, while i experiment with the P3 and the other P1 as my test network toys. Tried loading 8.2 on the first P1. It has 48Megs of RAM and a Seagate 4Gig drive (that i until recently had running 7.1 on the P3). It installed in expert text mode. I even logged into KDE as a user. Will run IceWM when it is up for good. No mouse or sound though so i tried to run various control tools from keyboard on tty1. No luck. Top priority is the mouse. Loaded Windows95 to see the settings (used W95 rather than W98SE for a 1996 toy). I can't tell where to find the mouse driver info. The only info i can find is when i enter: Control Panel Add new Hardware. During the detect phase of the wizard it senses both a Logitech Serial Mouse AND a Standard PS/2 Port Mouse. The mouse is a Genius 3 Button model in a serial (9 pin D) port labelled COM1. There is no PS2 mouse port and the keyboard is on a DIN type plug. So during Mandrake install i had told it Serial 3 Button. Perhaps i should select the Logitech option. Any advice welcome When i get the mouse working i will have more chance of fixing the sound problem and getting a better resolution from the SiS6205. And if i get no joy from IceWM i may try MDK7.1 instead for lower memory usage. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hylafax from OpenOffice
Sirs, Has anyone any ideas on how to fax from OpenOffice. I have HylaFax set up, which can be used from the command line within my Mandrake 8.2 . But using the ./spadmin tool to add a printer within OpenOffice and 'Connect a Fax device', I am required to select a driver. Ihave tried the 'Generic' driver and the 'apple laserwriter 16/600 PS fax'. Following the print command the computer rumbles and a request for fax no appears. Then having supplied the no, clicked OK, there follows a very small rumble and nothing else happens.I tried Star Office without faxing success; at least OpenOffice has an input file. Any ideas please? Malcolm Candlish Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A cheap home network to play with.
On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 20:00, Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 14:20:28 +1200 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the P3 500 box running 8.2 at present. I have been given two P1 100 machines. I want to have a go at setting up a network with them. Ideally a hub is the way to go and it allows expansion. But i have Scottish ancestors and this is more of the nature of an experiment than anything else. So could i put two NICs in the P3, each one connected to a NIC in a P1 box? I will get one P1 running 8.2 working for my flatmate to use the printer on the P3 and perhaps load W95 or W98SE on the other to learn about SaMBa. -- Michael I have read all the advice, thanks everyone. Will have to save the pennies and go for a hub it seems. The idea of using one of the P1's as a server had hit me also. But the modem and the printer are working on the P3 and i can give one machine to my partner when it is running, while i experiment with the P3 and the other P1 as my test network toys. Tried loading 8.2 on the first P1. It has 48Megs of RAM and a Seagate 4Gig drive (that i until recently had running 7.1 on the P3). It installed in expert text mode. I even logged into KDE as a user. Will run IceWM when it is up for good. No mouse or sound though so i tried to run various control tools from keyboard on tty1. No luck. Top priority is the mouse. Loaded Windows95 to see the settings (used W95 rather than W98SE for a 1996 toy). I can't tell where to find the mouse driver info. The only info i can find is when i enter: Control Panel Add new Hardware. During the detect phase of the wizard it senses both a Logitech Serial Mouse AND a Standard PS/2 Port Mouse. The mouse is a Genius 3 Button model in a serial (9 pin D) port labelled COM1. There is no PS2 mouse port and the keyboard is on a DIN type plug. So during Mandrake install i had told it Serial 3 Button. Perhaps i should select the Logitech option. Any advice welcome When i get the mouse working i will have more chance of fixing the sound problem and getting a better resolution from the SiS6205. And if i get no joy from IceWM i may try MDK7.1 instead for lower memory usage. -- Michael Michael, Become root and run mousedrake. That will allow you to get it going if anything will. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs
On Saturday 01 June 2002 04:27 pm, you wrote: Over the course of two years, I've been tossing old CDs in a pile. I'm guessing there are about 100 now. Any interesting ideas as to what I could do with them? Miark Hey. If they are old versions of Mandrake, why not do what I did? Every time I get a new release of Mandrake (and I always buy the Powerpacks), then I give the old one to our local Library, where the computer guy there gives them to whoever wants them, first come first serve. (and he always tells them who I am and how to get in touch with me if they need any help). Proliferation, we love Proliferation, Proliferation, a game we love to play... Procreate, Procreate, Procreate - give Mandrake Linux to a friend today! Er sorry there...got carried away cheerleader mode off Heh - blame it on 12 hour night shifts... :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Ximian Gnome errors
Hallo! Have any of you installed Ximian Gnome? If so are you able to start Gnome control center to change settings?? 8-? Thanks! -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Balears AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 8.2 install gone awry
I am reduced to using windows now since trying to install 8.2 and I'm trying to make a floppy with a patch on it like it tells you on the Mandrake errata page.Can anyone tell me how to make a DOS file system on a floppy with windows 98? My patch isn't working and I'm thinking its because the filesystem is FAT rather than DOS. Thanks, SW
Re: [newbie] A cheap home network to play with.
On June 2, 2002 03:27, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 June 2002 07:55 pm, Brian Parish did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I will get one P1 running 8.2 working for my flatmate to use the printer on the P3 and perhaps load W95 or W98SE on the other to learn about SaMBa. You sure could, but you can buy a hub for about the price of two NICs. Tell the P3 it's a router though and your proposal with two crossover cables will do the job. a bigger worry (just in case) is the RAM on those P1s. have you got enough to run 8.2? - -- remember the original 'jimminey cricket'??? no? he got smashed for telling the truth, remember that the next time someone says honestly now, tell me what you think shane MD 8.2 will work on a P200 with only 32mb ram, but it is sooo painfully slow. I decided that it was not a nice place for a great OS like MD to live and installed it on another system. Win 3.1 workgroup is now living on the 32mb system. john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 install gone awry
On June 2, 2002 12:50, Scott Wagner wrote: I am reduced to using windows now since trying to install 8.2 and I'm trying to make a floppy with a patch on it like it tells you on the Mandrake errata page. Can anyone tell me how to make a DOS file system on a floppy with windows 98? My patch isn't working and I'm thinking its because the filesystem is FAT rather than DOS. Thanks, SW Been awhile but, you can pop out to a dos window and type sys a:\ or format a:\ /s or right click on the floppy icon and there should be a setting there to make a bootable floppy. I don't have win98 up but i just did it on win 3.1. john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome-Desktop Problems
On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 23:46:38 +1000, Fordy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im having some trouble putting icons on my desktop. My desktop has no icons whatsoever on it, and it doesn't have a pop-up menu when i right click on it. In fact there seems to be nothing I can do to change the desktop, or add any icons to it. Advice i've tried - - Adding shortcuts to ~/.gnome-desktop folder. Nothing Happened - Deleting /tmp/orbit-(username), and then adding stuff to my desktop folder. Nothinghappened - Dragging shortcuts from the panel to the desktop. Failure. - Poking around in nautilus menus and gnome configurations, I couldn't find anything that related specifically to the icons on a desktop. In short, 90% of my normal start up screen is inert, and i can only run programs via the panel. Does anyone know of a possible solution I have not tried yet? There should be an option in Nautilus telling it to manage your desktop. You may need to be in 'Advanced' mode to have it visible. Otherwise, you can load gmc and use that instead. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan ... if you're a basic PC user thinking about buying XP, don't. It's basically malware. It harangues you with nagging, fake-friendly reminders to obtain a Passport and submit to product activation, and treats you like a child when you try to do anything heretical, like install a device driver of which it disapproves. -- Thomas C. Greene, Win-XP vs Red Hat 7.2, The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk), 2001-10-30. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 install gone awry
On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 22:50, Scott Wagner wrote: I am reduced to using windows now since trying to install 8.2 and I'm trying to make a floppy with a patch on it like it tells you on the Mandrake errata page. Can anyone tell me how to make a DOS file system on a floppy with windows 98? My patch isn't working and I'm thinking its because the filesystem is FAT rather than DOS. Thanks, SW Scott, A DOS filesystem is FAT. One and the same. If you have downloaded the patch via Windows and copied it successfully to the floppy, that's all there is to it. The only reasons I can think of for it not working are: - faulty floppy disk - bad download Try with another floppy or download it again. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 install gone awry
On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 23:51, Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 22:50, Scott Wagner wrote: I am reduced to using windows now since trying to install 8.2 and I'm trying to make a floppy with a patch on it like it tells you on the Mandrake errata page. Can anyone tell me how to make a DOS file system on a floppy with windows 98? My patch isn't working and I'm thinking its because the filesystem is FAT rather than DOS. Thanks, SW Scott, A DOS filesystem is FAT. One and the same. If you have downloaded the patch via Windows and copied it successfully to the floppy, that's all there is to it. The only reasons I can think of for it not working are: - faulty floppy disk - bad download Try with another floppy or download it again. Oh, and one other thing that might be helpful, you could try formatting the floppy before copying the file. To do this in W98, open My Computer, right click on the floppy drive icon, and select Format. No need to check the transfer DOS files option, but also don't choose the Quick format option. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Whats up with gcc?
Guys, I can't even compile one single program?! Whats up with that? I get the following error everytime I do a ./configure: Your gcc does not support even i386 for '-march' and '-mcpu'. Any ideas? Geez, you have to be able to compile... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome errors
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 14:33:52 +0200, Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo! Have any of you installed Ximian Gnome? If so are you able to start Gnome control center to change settings?? 8-? It works fine for me. What seems to be the problem? Try loading it from a terminal (the command is 'gnomecc') so that you can get a readout of errors. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan After you install Windows XP, you have the option to create user accounts. If you create user accounts, by default, they will have an account type of Administrator with no password. -- Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q293834 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Lilo Lost!!
OK - MS got their own back for my last post. I had one BSOD too many, W2K scrambled, and did nasty things to my bootup. How can I get Lilo back without having to reinstall Mandrake? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lilo Lost!!
On Sunday 02 June 2002 10:21 am, you wrote: OK - MS got their own back for my last post. I had one BSOD too many, W2K scrambled, and did nasty things to my bootup. How can I get Lilo back without having to reinstall Mandrake? Anne Anne, if you can use your boot floppy, you did make one?, boot back into Mandrake and do a console surootpassworddrakconf then select boot and Boot config then click on the Configure button and make sure lilo is set as you want it, then click ok and I think you should be ok, but you can do a cd /sbin/lilo first to be sure that it takes. Ya'll on the list here correct any errors in this help, HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lilo Lost!!
Anne Wilson said onto me: -- |OK - MS got their own back for my last post. I had one BSOD too many, |W2K scrambled, and did nasty things to my bootup. How can I get Lilo |back without having to reinstall Mandrake? | |Anne -- boot from CD1 press F1 at splash screen type rescue enter choose the _restore boot loader_ option reboot HTH °°° David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Mandrake 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Sylpheed 0.7.5claws Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: www.davidlsteiner.com °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lilo Lost!!
Anne Wilson wrote: OK - MS got their own back for my last post. I had one BSOD too many, W2K scrambled, and did nasty things to my bootup. How can I get Lilo back without having to reinstall Mandrake? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Boot into linux w/ your floppy. Then log into your console as SuperUser and type lilo. That action should rewrite LILO into your boot sector. Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome errors
Es Diumenge 02 Juny 2002 16:05, en Sridhar Dhanapalan va escriure: On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 14:33:52 +0200, Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo! Have any of you installed Ximian Gnome? If so are you able to start Gnome control center to change settings?? 8-? It works fine for me. What seems to be the problem? Try loading it from a terminal (the command is 'gnomecc') so that you can get a readout of errors. Now it's working... after having installed gnome-control-center from Mandrake -no gnomecc executable was in my system-... but I don't know why 8-? Thanks! ;) -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Balears AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] floppy mount problem
Hi, I 've installed mandrake 8.2 everything works fine so far, but I cannot mount a floppy. Any suggestion?? cheers /giannis
Re: [newbie] Lilo Lost!!
Anne Wilson wrote: OK - MS got their own back for my last post. I had one BSOD too many, W2K scrambled, and did nasty things to my bootup. How can I get Lilo back without having to reinstall Mandrake? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com If you can boot from cd, insert cd 1 and when it boots press f1 and follow the instructions. HTH Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hylafax from OpenOffice
On Sunday 02 Jun 2002 11:16 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Sirs, Has anyone any ideas on how to fax from OpenOffice. I have HylaFax set up, which can be used from the command line within my Mandrake 8.2 . But using the ./spadmin tool to add a printer within OpenOffice and 'Connect a Fax device', I am required to select a driver. Ihave tried the 'Generic' driver and the 'apple laserwriter 16/600 PS fax'. Following the print command the computer rumbles and a request for fax no appears. Then having supplied the no, clicked OK, there follows a very small rumble and nothing else happens.I tried Star Office without faxing success; at least OpenOffice has an input file. Any ideas please? Malcolm Candlish The way I fax from OO was to use ./spadmin to add a new printer and set the print command to qtcups --stdin Then when I print to that printer I get a window offering all the printers known to cups including the fax pseudo printer. The setup of that printer offers a choice between hylafax and efax as a back end. I use efax, but I dont suppose hylafax is too much different. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] floppy mount problem
On Sunday 02 June 2002 10:57 am, you wrote: Hi, I 've installed mandrake 8.2 everything works fine so far, but I cannot mount a floppy. Any suggestion?? cheers /giannis Giannis-- I had a similar problem and found the the solution on the Frankenlinux page about fstab: www.frankenlinux.com/intor/fstab.html and used the suggested fstab setting listed there: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto rw,noauto,users,nosuid,nodev,sync,noexec 0 0 I think the important entry is the rw in the Mount Options (field three) list which means, of course, read/write. The Frankenlinux site is a *very* well written, useful resource--I recommend it. Not as much fun as this list, though ;-) Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] floppy mount problem
On Sunday 02 June 2002 11:57 am, you wrote: Hi, I 've installed mandrake 8.2 everything works fine so far, but I cannot mount a floppy. Any suggestion?? cheers /giannis You may not have permission as user. Go to a console and type in su and then enter your root password. Then at the command prompt type userdrake all without the quotes. A small gui will come up and you will see your user(s) . Highlight your user with a click of the mouse and then click on edit. At this point you will see a new box, click on the group tab and then add floppy and probably cdrom cdrwriter users and any others you want, don't add root. This is done one at a time by highlighting the group with a mouse click and then clicking on the - arrow to put it on the left side. when done selecting click save and you will have access to floppy and others we hope. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cable Modem and SNF
Now have the cable modem running with SNF on a stand alone and filtering all of my LAN. YEEEH! The previous problem with the SMTP error appears to have occured after downloading security updates. I do not know which one could have affected the SMTP connection but it made the server think I was relaying. A clean install and no updates and all works as before. Anyone have an idea which package could mess with mail sending on the smtp connection? I will try doing the security upgrades one at a time and see which might be the culprit. Cheers, -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mixing scsi and ide cds with xcdroast
Op Sunday 02 June 2002 00:42, schreef u: I have the same problems with my DVD reader under Xcdroast , there are some previous mailings about this subject that say you should let this reader work a a scsi emulated drive , i couldn 't get it to work . So i can 't realy help you , it might give you an ide if your not as newbie as i am. Bart. is there something i need to do to have xcdroast use an ide cdreader, the scsi writer shows up as a device, but the cdrom which is ide isn't an option as a reader, on my main box my newer ide writer uses ide-scsi in order to write, do i have to do that for a cdreader if xcdroast is to see it? the scenario is that i have put my old writer in a different box to use over the network and to force me to get the hang of X forwarding and stuff, is there perhaps a better cd authoring package to use like this? bascule Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mixing scsi and ide cds with xcdroast
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:40:41 +0200 Bart Salien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op Sunday 02 June 2002 00:42, schreef u: I have the same problems with my DVD reader under Xcdroast , there are some previous mailings about this subject that say you should let this reader work a a scsi emulated drive , i couldn 't get it to work . So i can 't realy help you , it might give you an ide if your not as newbie as i am. For either a cdrom or a dvd You must add hdx=ide-scsi for that drive to lilo append. Xcdroast or any other burning program will then be able to 'see ' the drive. Adding the scsi emulation Will change the mt point for that drive and any other removals which follow it on the chain. Example: cdrom/dvd-master-hdc-/mnt/cdrom will become /mnt/scd0 cdrw -slave -hdd-/mnt/scd0 will become /mnt/scd1 Additionally with a dvd linkage will need to be changed in order to access thru any dvd player. From example above the following would need to be entered # ln -s scd0 /dev/dvd Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 install gone awry
On Sunday 02 June 2002 02:50 pm, Scott Wagner wrote: I am reduced to using windows now since trying to install 8.2 and I'm trying to make a floppy with a patch on it like it tells you on the Mandrake errata page. Can anyone tell me how to make a DOS file system on a floppy with windows 98? My patch isn't working and I'm thinking its because the filesystem is FAT rather than DOS. Thanks, SW Scott, try this : 1. download the patch once more (it's very small) and save it on your c-drive 2. insert a floppy, open a ms-dos prompt and type : format a: 3. when done, change directory cd to the one with the patch 4. type : copy patch.pl a: 5. the screen will tell you that 1 file was copied. 6. remove the floppy, insert your mdk 8.2 CD 7. reboot 8. the CD starts whirring, now re-insert the floppy 9. that's all. If still in trouble, repost to the list. HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mixing scsi and ide cds with xcdroast
Op Sunday 02 June 2002 21:01, schreef u: this is my lilo.conf file and hdc is my DVD drive , i already put the ide-scsi relation but still in my /dev directory there is only the scd0 link from my cd-rw , even after a reboot . I understand correct that this second scdx link should be created automaticaly ?? Bart boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b default=linux keytable=/boot/be2-latin1.klt lba32 prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi nobiospnp quiet vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi nobiospnp read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi failsafe read-only other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:40:41 +0200 Bart Salien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op Sunday 02 June 2002 00:42, schreef u: I have the same problems with my DVD reader under Xcdroast , there are some previous mailings about this subject that say you should let this reader work a a scsi emulated drive , i couldn 't get it to work . So i can 't realy help you , it might give you an ide if your not as newbie as i am. For either a cdrom or a dvd You must add hdx=ide-scsi for that drive to lilo append. Xcdroast or any other burning program will then be able to 'see ' the drive. Adding the scsi emulation Will change the mt point for that drive and any other removals which follow it on the chain. Example: cdrom/dvd-master-hdc-/mnt/cdrom will become /mnt/scd0 cdrw -slave -hdd-/mnt/scd0 will become /mnt/scd1 Additionally with a dvd linkage will need to be changed in order to access thru any dvd player. From example above the following would need to be entered # ln -s scd0 /dev/dvd Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] XFree86 freezes
I am running: Mandrake 8.2, KDE3, IceWM, XFree86 4.2.0. Hardware: P166 MMX 64 Mb Ram 120 Mb Swap S3 Virge 2D card Monster3D Voodoo1 3D card Dual boot with Windows 98se using graphical LILO. My computer seems to randomly freeze up. It stops responding to everything (mouse, keyboard, CTRL+ALT+BKSPC). This only happens when I am running X11. I haven't found a pattern that shows a specific app causing the freeze. I have had combinations of IceWM, KDE2.2 and 3, running combinations StarOffice5.2, Konquoror, FreeAmp, and Ogg123, open when a crash occurs. I don't think that its a hardware issue, as this never happens under Win98SE, and HardDrake properly detected all my hardware. I have tried looking in some log files in /var/log to find a pattern. No luck. My questions: 1. Is there a systematic way to detemine what is causing the crashes? 2. What specific log files should I look at? 3. Anyone else had this problem? Fixes? Thanks, Andrew Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hylafax from OpenOffice
Derrick, Thank you for your reply. I am grateful to know it will work! I followed your instructions:- root cd to spadmin ./spadmin click new printer click 'Connect to Fax' click default driver Print Command qtcups --stdin Name Fax However, when I click print on OO, the print box offers Fax or Generic printer, I select Fax and a request pops up for Fax No. which is duly filled. Following this my normal Print Box opens offering 5 choices:- Epson (My printer) Mail PDF Print to file PDF Print to file PostScript Send to Fax If I click 'Send to Fax' the KDE box opens requesting the Fax No., I click send and it just hangs. The log seems to offer no clue. I do apologise for being a bit of a pain, but I do seem to be lost. Thank you for your kind trouble, Malcolm Candlish. On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 18:08:20 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 Jun 2002 11:16 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Sirs, Has anyone any ideas on how to fax from OpenOffice. I have HylaFax set up, which can be used from the command line within my Mandrake 8.2 . But using the ./spadmin tool to add a printer within OpenOffice and 'Connect a Fax device', I am required to select a driver. Ihave tried the 'Generic' driver and the 'apple laserwriter 16/600 PS fax'. Following the print command the computer rumbles and a request for fax no appears. Then having supplied the no, clicked OK, there follows a very small rumble and nothing else happens.I tried Star Office without faxing success; at least OpenOffice has an input file. Any ideas please? Malcolm Candlish The way I fax from OO was to use ./spadmin to add a new printer and set the print command to qtcups --stdin Then when I print to that printer I get a window offering all the printers known to cups including the fax pseudo printer. The setup of that printer offers a choice between hylafax and efax as a back end. I use efax, but I dont suppose hylafax is too much different. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mixing scsi and ide cds with xcdroast
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 21:38:22 +0200 Bart Salien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op Sunday 02 June 2002 21:01, schreef u: this is my lilo.conf file and hdc is my DVD drive , i already put the ide-scsi relation but still in my /dev directory there is only the scd0 link from my cd-rw , even after a reboot . I understand correct that this second scdx link should be created automaticaly ?? That was my fault. You will need to create the mount point for scdx. The easiest way is using mcc. Then after reboot you should have new entry in fstab and /mnt. At this point you can then create the ln -s scdx=/dev/dvd. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFree86 freezes
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 16:06:57 -0400 Andrew Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running: Mandrake 8.2, KDE3, IceWM, XFree86 4.2.0. Hardware: P166 MMX 64 Mb Ram 120 Mb Swap S3 Virge 2D card Monster3D Voodoo1 3D card Dual boot with Windows 98se using graphical LILO. My computer seems to randomly freeze up. It stops responding to everything (mouse, keyboard, CTRL+ALT+BKSPC). This only happens when I am running X11. I haven't found a pattern that shows a specific app causing the freeze. I have had combinations of IceWM, KDE2.2 and 3, running combinations StarOffice5.2, Konquoror, FreeAmp, and Ogg123, open when a crash occurs. I don't think that its a hardware issue, as this never happens under Win98SE, and HardDrake properly detected all my hardware. I have tried looking in some log files in /var/log to find a pattern. No luck. My questions: 1. Is there a systematic way to detemine what is causing the crashes? 2. What specific log files should I look at? 3. Anyone else had this problem? Fixes? Thanks, Andrew Could it be a memory problem, as in running out. 64MB doesn't seem like enough to run kde by itself, nevermind run applications on top of it. Of course that's pure speculation on my part. I have a 300MHz PII with 160MB of and I find kde painfully slow. That's why I tried xfce. Anyway, you prolly wanna look in /var/log/messages. If there are any clues, they're prolly in there. You might also wanna run free and/or top periodically to check your memory usage. HTH. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SNF and updates messing with mail?
I have had a problem with SMTP after downloading security updates. So I went back to the old configuration on my workstations and did the security updates on the Firewall box. This mail going through will make me a happy camper cause I know then that the updates are ok on the SNF box. Let us see words. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFree86 freezes
If this always happens under Linux (not X11) and never Windows, are you using memory chips with different timings? Windows is much more tolerant of this than Linux. And if the kernel crashes, there's no-one around to write error messages... RichardA Andrew Berry, Sunday 02 June 2002 21:06: I am running: Mandrake 8.2, KDE3, IceWM, XFree86 4.2.0. Hardware: P166 MMX 64 Mb Ram 120 Mb Swap S3 Virge 2D card Monster3D Voodoo1 3D card Dual boot with Windows 98se using graphical LILO. My computer seems to randomly freeze up. It stops responding to everything (mouse, keyboard, CTRL+ALT+BKSPC). This only happens when I am running X11. I haven't found a pattern that shows a specific app causing the freeze. I have had combinations of IceWM, KDE2.2 and 3, running combinations StarOffice5.2, Konquoror, FreeAmp, and Ogg123, open when a crash occurs. I don't think that its a hardware issue, as this never happens under Win98SE, and HardDrake properly detected all my hardware. I have tried looking in some log files in /var/log to find a pattern. No luck. My questions: 1. Is there a systematic way to detemine what is causing the crashes? 2. What specific log files should I look at? 3. Anyone else had this problem? Fixes? Thanks, Andrew Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mixing scsi and ide cds with xcdroast
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 16:27:37 -0400 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 21:38:22 +0200 Bart Salien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op Sunday 02 June 2002 21:01, schreef u: this is my lilo.conf file and hdc is my DVD drive , i already put the ide-scsi relation but still in my /dev directory there is only the scd0 link from my cd-rw , even after a reboot . I understand correct that this second scdx link should be created automaticaly ?? That was my fault. You will need to create the mount point for scdx. The easiest way is using mcc. Then after reboot you should have new entry in fstab and /mnt. At this point you can then create the ln -s scdx=/dev/dvd. Here is my /etc/fstab for my dvd and cdrw. /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hde,fs=iso9660,ro,exec,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,nosuid,nodev 0 0 The entry is what was orog my dvd but since adding ide=scsi this is no longer a valid device, I just have not bothered to remove it. /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,exec,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,nosuid,nodev 0 0 This entry was org my cdrw but is now my dvd. /mnt/scd1 /mnt/scd1 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,exec,--,user,noauto 0 0 This is the entry for my cdrw. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] XFree86 freezes
I run in the Kicker ksysguard and system monitor to see cpu usage, memory usage, and hard disk accesses. This morning I had a crash, and the frozen image on the kicker showed about 25% cpu usage, 50% free RAM, and 60% free swap. I've also had it crash while using IceWM. Andrew Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Bill Davidson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 16:06:57 -0400 Andrew Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running: Mandrake 8.2, KDE3, IceWM, XFree86 4.2.0. Hardware: P166 MMX 64 Mb Ram 120 Mb Swap S3 Virge 2D card Monster3D Voodoo1 3D card Dual boot with Windows 98se using graphical LILO. My computer seems to randomly freeze up. It stops responding to everything (mouse, keyboard, CTRL+ALT+BKSPC). This only happens when I am running X11. I haven't found a pattern that shows a specific app causing the freeze. I have had combinations of IceWM, KDE2.2 and 3, running combinations StarOffice5.2, Konquoror, FreeAmp, and Ogg123, open when a crash occurs. I don't think that its a hardware issue, as this never happens under Win98SE, and HardDrake properly detected all my hardware. I have tried looking in some log files in /var/log to find a pattern. No luck. My questions: 1. Is there a systematic way to detemine what is causing the crashes? 2. What specific log files should I look at? 3. Anyone else had this problem? Fixes? Thanks, Andrew Could it be a memory problem, as in running out. 64MB doesn't seem like enough to run kde by itself, nevermind run applications on top of it. Of course that's pure speculation on my part. I have a 300MHz PII with 160MB of and I find kde painfully slow. That's why I tried xfce. Anyway, you prolly wanna look in /var/log/messages. If there are any clues, they're prolly in there. You might also wanna run free and/or top periodically to check your memory usage. HTH. Bill 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] Lilo Lost!!
On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 20:06, ai4a wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: OK - MS got their own back for my last post. I had one BSOD too many, W2K scrambled, and did nasty things to my bootup. How can I get Lilo back without having to reinstall Mandrake? If you made a bootdisk at install time, use that to boot into Madrake, or if you have then Mandrake1 CD, boot from that, hit F1 and type rescue. Type lilo, and that should restore Lilo. If you want you can tweak it from the Mandrake Control Center. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hylafax from OpenOffice
On Sunday 02 Jun 2002 9:07 pm, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Derrick, Thank you for your reply. I am grateful to know it will work! I followed your instructions:- root cd to spadmin ./spadmin click new printer click 'Connect to Fax' No do not select 'Connect a fax device' Just select 'Add a printer' then select 'Generic Printer' and give qtcups --stdin as the command I am sure you could also use the 'connect a fax device' button in which case you would put the correct hylafax command in the command line. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 install gone awry
On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 07:12, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 02 June 2002 02:50 pm, Scott Wagner wrote: I am reduced to using windows now since trying to install 8.2 and I'm trying to make a floppy with a patch on it like it tells you on the Mandrake errata page. Can anyone tell me how to make a DOS file system on a floppy with windows 98? My patch isn't working and I'm thinking its because the filesystem is FAT rather than DOS. Thanks, SW Scott, try this : 1. download the patch once more (it's very small) and save it on your c-drive 2. insert a floppy, open a ms-dos prompt and type : format a: 3. when done, change directory cd to the one with the patch 4. type : copy patch.pl a: 5. the screen will tell you that 1 file was copied. 6. remove the floppy, insert your mdk 8.2 CD 7. reboot 8. the CD starts whirring, now re-insert the floppy 9. that's all. If still in trouble, repost to the list. HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark This patch doesn't need to be written as an image using rawwrite does it? Just checking. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SNF and updates messing with mail?
On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 08:33, Dennis Myers wrote: I have had a problem with SMTP after downloading security updates. So I went back to the old configuration on my workstations and did the security updates on the Firewall box. This mail going through will make me a happy camper cause I know then that the updates are ok on the SNF box. Let us see words. Congrats! -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SNF and updates messing with mail?
On Sunday 02 June 2002 06:03 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 08:33, Dennis Myers wrote: I have had a problem with SMTP after downloading security updates. So I went back to the old configuration on my workstations and did the security updates on the Firewall box. This mail going through will make me a happy camper cause I know then that the updates are ok on the SNF box. Let us see words. Congrats! Just the words we wanted to hear, thanks -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 install gone awry
On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 08:32, Michael Adams wrote: This patch doesn't need to be written as an image using rawwrite does it? Just checking. -- Michael No, it's just copied as a DOS file. Worked fine for me. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mixing scsi and ide cds with xcdroast
On Sunday 02 June 2002 04:01 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 16:27:37 -0400 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 21:38:22 +0200 Bart Salien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op Sunday 02 June 2002 21:01, schreef u: this is my lilo.conf file and hdc is my DVD drive , i already put the ide-scsi relation but still in my /dev directory there is only the scd0 link from my cd-rw , even after a reboot . I understand correct that this second scdx link should be created automaticaly ?? That was my fault. You will need to create the mount point for scdx. The easiest way is using mcc. Then after reboot you should have new entry in fstab and /mnt. At this point you can then create the ln -s scdx=/dev/dvd. Here is my /etc/fstab for my dvd and cdrw. /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hde,fs=iso9660,ro,exec,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,nosuid,nodev 0 0 The entry is what was orog my dvd but since adding ide=scsi this is no longer a valid device, I just have not bothered to remove it. /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,exec,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,nosuid,nodev 0 0 This entry was org my cdrw but is now my dvd. /mnt/scd1 /mnt/scd1 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,exec,--,user,noauto 0 0 This is the entry for my cdrw. Charles hmmm, here's mine. scd0 is a dvdrom drive, scd1 is burner. /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 He should already have a mount point (unless I read thru this thread too fast), and just needs to change the /dev in fstab and append lilo. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Miark wrote: Over the course of two years, I've been tossing old CDs in a pile. I'm guessing there are about 100 now. Any interesting ideas as to what I could do with them? Miark Skeet shooting, anyone? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs
- Original Message - From: Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie at MDK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 2:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Miark wrote: Over the course of two years, I've been tossing old CDs in a pile. I'm guessing there are about 100 now. Any interesting ideas as to what I could do with them? Miark Skeet shooting, anyone? My friend uses them as coasters, for hot mugs of tea and so on, when he has guests round. But seriously... check your Yellow Pages (or equivalent) for Recycling Organisations (or equivalent), give them a call and see what they say about it. They may let you mail them in to them for recycling. Cheers. -PV. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Testing another Mail setup
Hoping this goes out to the list from another machine. Just a test. Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A cheap home network to play with.
Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 14:20:28 +1200 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the P3 500 box running 8.2 at present. I have been given two P1 100 machines. I want to have a go at setting up a network with them. Ideally a hub is the way to go and it allows expansion. But i have Scottish ancestors and this is more of the nature of an experiment than anything else. So could i put two NICs in the P3, each one connected to a NIC in a P1 box? I will get one P1 running 8.2 working for my flatmate to use the printer on the P3 and perhaps load W95 or W98SE on the other to learn about SaMBa. -- Michael I have read all the advice, thanks everyone. Will have to save the pennies and go for a hub it seems. The idea of using one of the P1's as a server had hit me also. But the modem and the printer are working on the P3 and i can give one machine to my partner when it is running, while i experiment with the P3 and the other P1 as my test network toys. Tried loading 8.2 on the first P1. It has 48Megs of RAM and a Seagate 4Gig drive (that i until recently had running 7.1 on the P3). It installed in expert text mode. I even logged into KDE as a user. Will run IceWM when it is up for good. No mouse or sound though so i tried to run various control tools from keyboard on tty1. No luck. Top priority is the mouse. Loaded Windows95 to see the settings (used W95 rather than W98SE for a 1996 toy). I can't tell where to find the mouse driver info. The only info i can find is when i enter: Control Panel Add new Hardware. During the detect phase of the wizard it senses both a Logitech Serial Mouse AND a Standard PS/2 Port Mouse. The mouse is a Genius 3 Button model in a serial (9 pin D) port labelled COM1. There is no PS2 mouse port and the keyboard is on a DIN type plug. So during Mandrake install i had told it Serial 3 Button. Perhaps i should select the Logitech option. Any advice welcome When i get the mouse working i will have more chance of fixing the sound problem and getting a better resolution from the SiS6205. And if i get no joy from IceWM i may try MDK7.1 instead for lower memory usage. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com H Well, here is a system that will work on your P100 8.2 or even 8.x is overkill. 7.2 might be OK but 7.1 or 6.1 would likely be preferable. 7.1 you can scorre at ftp.proxad.net (French one at least). But if you want to fit the system to the machine, win 98 contemporary style http://www.civileme.com/Software/5.3mdk.iso And it LIKES serial mice. KDE 1.1 is somewhat cranky in spots, though. And you should find a srpm for a later version of samba and rebuild it and install. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Whats up with gcc?
darklord wrote: Guys, I can't even compile one single program?! Whats up with that? I get the following error everytime I do a ./configure: Your gcc does not support even i386 for '-march' and '-mcpu'. Any ideas? Geez, you have to be able to compile... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well, you need to look at an earlier gcc, I suppose, but that means an earlier glibc and so on... Sounds like the source you downloaded is badly broken for this compiler version. Try adding the optional compiler on your install disk and point to that as the default instead and see if things improve. Or point to egcs. Each new compiler version has become STRICTER since gcc2.91 rather than more feature-laden, so a LOT of broken source is floating around. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lilo Lost!!
Anne Wilson wrote: OK - MS got their own back for my last post. I had one BSOD too many, W2K scrambled, and did nasty things to my bootup. How can I get Lilo back without having to reinstall Mandrake? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com The easy way is to boot from CD1 and hit F1 at the splash screen and type rescue then you will have a menu which offers a re-run lilo choice. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] floppy mount problem
Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 02 June 2002 11:57 am, you wrote: Hi, I 've installed mandrake 8.2 everything works fine so far, but I cannot mount a floppy. Any suggestion?? cheers /giannis You may not have permission as user. Go to a console and type in su and then enter your root password. Then at the command prompt type userdrake all without the quotes. A small gui will come up and you will see your user(s) . Highlight your user with a click of the mouse and then click on edit. At this point you will see a new box, click on the group tab and then add floppy and probably cdrom cdrwriter users and any others you want, don't add root. This is done one at a time by highlighting the group with a mouse click and then clicking on the - arrow to put it on the left side. when done selecting click save and you will have access to floppy and others we hope. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It may also be that you have one of those chipsets where the PNP Bios doesn't properly reset the floppy on boot. In that case esc at the boot screen and linux nobiospnp may be necessary If that works, then go to Mandrake Control center and under Boot = Boot Configuration, change the Append line of each linux boot to include nobiospnp Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A cheap home network to play with.
On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 15:00, civileme wrote: Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 14:20:28 +1200 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the P3 500 box running 8.2 at present. I have been given two P1 100 machines. I want to have a go at setting up a network with them. Ideally a hub is the way to go and it allows expansion. But i have Scottish ancestors and this is more of the nature of an experiment than anything else. So could i put two NICs in the P3, each one connected to a NIC in a P1 box? I will get one P1 running 8.2 working for my flatmate to use the printer on the P3 and perhaps load W95 or W98SE on the other to learn about SaMBa. -- Michael I have read all the advice, thanks everyone. Will have to save the pennies and go for a hub it seems. The idea of using one of the P1's as a server had hit me also. But the modem and the printer are working on the P3 and i can give one machine to my partner when it is running, while i experiment with the P3 and the other P1 as my test network toys. Tried loading 8.2 on the first P1. It has 48Megs of RAM and a Seagate 4Gig drive (that i until recently had running 7.1 on the P3). It installed in expert text mode. I even logged into KDE as a user. Will run IceWM when it is up for good. No mouse or sound though so i tried to run various control tools from keyboard on tty1. No luck. Top priority is the mouse. Loaded Windows95 to see the settings (used W95 rather than W98SE for a 1996 toy). I can't tell where to find the mouse driver info. The only info i can find is when i enter: Control Panel Add new Hardware. During the detect phase of the wizard it senses both a Logitech Serial Mouse AND a Standard PS/2 Port Mouse. The mouse is a Genius 3 Button model in a serial (9 pin D) port labelled COM1. There is no PS2 mouse port and the keyboard is on a DIN type plug. So during Mandrake install i had told it Serial 3 Button. Perhaps i should select the Logitech option. Any advice welcome When i get the mouse working i will have more chance of fixing the sound problem and getting a better resolution from the SiS6205. And if i get no joy from IceWM i may try MDK7.1 instead for lower memory usage. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com H Well, here is a system that will work on your P100 8.2 or even 8.x is overkill. 7.2 might be OK but 7.1 or 6.1 would likely be preferable. 7.1 you can scorre at ftp.proxad.net (French one at least). But if you want to fit the system to the machine, win 98 contemporary style http://www.civileme.com/Software/5.3mdk.iso And it LIKES serial mice. KDE 1.1 is somewhat cranky in spots, though. And you should find a srpm for a later version of samba and rebuild it and install. Civileme Thanks, I already have the MDK7.1 boxed set. I guess that is a big thumbs down for 8.2 on the P100 and a thumbs up for 7.1. Right, i'll do that then. Thanks -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Testing another Mail setup
On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 14:50, Dennis Myers wrote: Hoping this goes out to the list from another machine. Just a test. Dennis M. LOL Congrats again... a bleeding expert now. You won't be on this list anymore. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs
On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 14:32, Paul_Vortex wrote: - Original Message - From: Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie at MDK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 2:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Miark wrote: Over the course of two years, I've been tossing old CDs in a pile. I'm guessing there are about 100 now. Any interesting ideas as to what I could do with them? Miark Skeet shooting, anyone? My friend uses them as coasters, for hot mugs of tea and so on, when he has guests round. But seriously... check your Yellow Pages (or equivalent) for Recycling Organisations (or equivalent), give them a call and see what they say about it. They may let you mail them in to them for recycling. Cheers. -PV. I have learned to always hang on to good cases though. How come the dumbest threads cause the biggest grins? (nerdy me???) -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
