Re: [newbie] Help Broke Fstab in MDK 8.2

[daRcmaTTeR]

Raffaele Belardi wrote:
> Ralph,
> 
> I think the problem is in all those 'none'. I think that keyword goes in
> front of the entries which are not real devices, so you should remove it
> from the cdrom and floppy entries.
> Here is a good fstab, for example:
> 
> /dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda3 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount
> dev=/dev/hdc,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount
> dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /mnt/windata ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda8 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
> 
> Note that there are only 12 lines in the above and they all begin with
> "/dev", "/mnt" or "none". The mailer program cuts longer lines in two, 
> but in your fstab you shouldn't.
> 
> raffaele

I too noticed these things in my fstab and with them things don't work 
so good. took the "none" out from the lines where it appeared and things 
were again fine.

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Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

[windwalker]

On Wednesday 16 October 2002 08:17, shane wrote:
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> On Wednesday 16 October 2002 9:12 pm, windwalker did speak unto the huddled
>
> masses, saying:
> > Walmart is selling systems without OS on them... When i was there only
> > thing for a OS on shelf was Linux in either SuSe,Mandrake or Redhat.
>
> they sell online with mandrake preinstalled.
>
If i had not had this system and on a tight budget, i would get one with 
preinstalled mandrake...




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Re: [newbie] FW: OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

[shane]

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On Wednesday 16 October 2002 1:29 pm, Craig Williamson (ENZ) did speak unto 
the huddled masses, saying:

> > Technically they can't.  Microsoft slapped on new requirements to
> > stop them doing that.
>
> Eh? How can M$ do that?

if 90%plus of all user run windows, and people fear change, and you sell 
computers, the people who make windows (MS) say "you will sell all your 
machines with windows, or you will not sell any with it.

...would you give in?

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Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

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On Wednesday 16 October 2002 9:12 pm, windwalker did speak unto the huddled 
masses, saying:

> Walmart is selling systems without OS on them... When i was there only
> thing for a OS on shelf was Linux in either SuSe,Mandrake or Redhat.

they sell online with mandrake preinstalled.

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Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:12 am, windwalker wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 October 2002 13:00, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote:
> > Hi There,
> >
> > Technically they can't.  Microsoft slapped on new requirements to
> > stop them doing that.
> >
> > But.  Dell have found a way to get around it.  If you order their
> > n-series PC's it has a copy of FreeDOS (one floppy) included in the box.
> > The n-series PC's are not advertised, so you might have to ring them up.
> > The thing I'm quite confused about, is the fact that the other PC
> > companies haven't caught on.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Craig
>
> Walmart is selling systems without OS on them... When i was there only
> thing for a OS on shelf was Linux in either SuSe,Mandrake or Redhat.
> Alot of places are starting to sell woth out a OS installed
> Mike

Mike:
My understanding is that the MS agreement with large OEM's is that (1) the 
vendor pays a fee to MS based on every computer sold -- whether it has an OS 
installed or not (sometimes this is called "the Microsoft tax", and (2) that 
the vendor agrees not to install any other OS on _any_ systems. The vendor 
has the choice between accepting this deal, or paying full price for Windows. 
Since the "deal" price is somewhere in the $40 range, there really isn't much 
of a choice. That's why Dell throws a copy of FreeDOS in the box -- 
technically, it isn't installed. Don't expect a price break, though -- Dell 
still has to give MS its share.

I'm not sure how Wally World/Microtel get around this, but I expect that 
Microtel doesn't sell PC's with windows installed, and so they don't need any 
sort of deal with MS. Similarly, small system builders probably don't build 
enough PC's to qualify for MS's OEM pricing, so it really doesn't matter to 
them either. Or they're betting that MS won't audit them.

IANAL, but MS' OEM pricing policies strike me as being very dangerous (or 
arrogant) behavior for a company that has just been convicted of monopolistic 
practices and is still awaiting final settlement. But then, given Gates' 
wealth, I guess lawyers are cheap, especially in view of the possible gains 
if he prevails.
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[newbie] blackbox config ques

[Angus Auld]

Greetings, are there any blackbox users in the house? I've been experimenting with 
blackbox on my Mdk 9.0 a bit (0.62.1-3mdk), and I think it's pretty interesting. I 
also have bbconfg-1.8-2mdk installed too.

I will have to do some reading up on bbconf to learn the in's and out's of it.(how to 
add entries to my menu primarily)

However, what I would like to ask is how do I config my mouse settings, like 
acceleration and threshold? Do I have to edit a file or what? Nothing in bbconf for 
mouse settings :(
Is there a plugin available to do mouse settings?

TIA for any feedback.



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Re: [newbie] PRIMARY MASTER HARD DISK FAIL

[Roland Hughes]

The "Quantum fireball" disk drives have a very high failure rate. At work we have 
replaced every one of them.
Roly

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:55:45 -0700
"Dimitris Adamopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Need some help here!
> Yesterday I installed mandrake 8.2 on my oldie. P133 with 72mb RAM and
> a 10gb quantum fireball.
> When I finished the installation everything seemed to be right.
> The system was stable. Only when I had the kde up was a bit slow,
> something expected of cource.
> After about an hour the system went on "stand by" mode and the monitor
> turned off.
> When I moved the mouse to wake up the system the monitor turned on but
> the only think I saw was a stucked screenshot!
> My system was crashed.
> I did my best to recover it but the only way to move on was to push
> the power off button.
> When I tried to reboot I saw this f.. message:
> PRIMARY MASTER HARD DISK FAIL
> 
> Due to my old BIOS the primary disk it seems to be only 8gb aprox.
> but during the 8.2 installation progress the disk was seemed to be
> 10gb(actual size)
> What happened?
> I am a new linux user and I would really like to know what went wrong.
> Thanks .. Until my next crash!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

[windwalker]

On Wednesday 16 October 2002 13:00, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote:
> Hi There,
>
>   Technically they can't.  Microsoft slapped on new requirements to
> stop them doing that.
>
>   But.  Dell have found a way to get around it.  If you order their
> n-series PC's it has a copy of FreeDOS (one floppy) included in the box.
> The n-series PC's are not advertised, so you might have to ring them up.
> The thing I'm quite confused about, is the fact that the other PC companies
> haven't caught on.
>
>   Hope this helps.
>
> Craig

Walmart is selling systems without OS on them... When i was there only thing
for a OS on shelf was Linux in either SuSe,Mandrake or Redhat.
Alot of places are starting to sell woth out a OS installed
Mike




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[newbie] Mandrake Update problems (not updating!)

[Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas]

Hi,

On one machine I still have mdk8.1 but MandrakeUpdate (or urpmi)
refuses to update...informing that I have the updated version!
Which is not true! In most of the cases I still hold old version but can't 
update!
Any help?

Ricardo 


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Re: [newbie] Editing grepped files

[Barry Rountree]

On Wednesday 16 October 2002 05:10 pm, Miark wrote:

>   grep -l "Price" *
>
> but how do I load all the matching files into, say emacs?

grep-l "foo" | xargs emacs

Doesn't play well with vi, though.

>
> Miark

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Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

[Miark]

> > But.  Dell have found a way to get around it.  If you order their
> > n-series PC's it has a copy of FreeDOS (one floppy) included in the box.

Hmm. I've never had much use for Dell because of their Wintel mode of
business. I think I actually felt a tinge of respect for them today.
An odd day, indeed. (I also felt more revulsion for M$ today, but
that's pretty consistent.)

Tom: feel free to crush that tinge if you see it otherwise ;)

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Re: [newbie] Linux app for resizing PDFs

[Technoslick]

Derek Jennings wrote:
> Not sure if you can resize with ghostscript.

Doesn't appear to...at least I can't get it to work with my particular 
laser printer...

> 
> What I do know is that Acrobat 5.05 allows you to print to any size paper, and 
> it will scale the image to fit the paper.  Is that what you want?

I forgot about Acrobat for Linux! I don't HAVE to reconstruct the PDFs, 
just get them to print out in the correct page format to satisfy my anal 
  printer. ;-)

> 
> It is not on the download CDs though :(
> 
> Acrobat is available as an RPM from Mandrake Club, and is available somewhere 
> on the Adobe download site.

This is great! I don't care that it is not on the MDK CDs, as long as I 
can get it somewhere.

> 
> derek


Thanks, Derek!

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RE: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

[Craig Williamson (ENZ)]

Title: RE: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft





Hi There,


    It is probably true that Dell sales people don't want to sell this, because it is mainly for businesses.  Also they probably don't want to peeve Microsoft anymore than they already have.

Some more information.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949671.html?tag=fd_top


Microsoft's response.
http://members.microsoft.com/partner/licensing/licensingbasics/DellOfferingChannel.aspx


Redhat's Reaction
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/open-source-now-list/2002q3/001508.html


-Original Message-
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Sent: Thursday, 17 October, 2002 11:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft



On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 06:00:14 +1000
"Craig Williamson (ENZ)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> Hi There,
> 
>   Technically they can't.  Microsoft slapped on new requirements to
> stop them doing that.
> 
>   But.  Dell have found a way to get around it.  If you order their
> n-series PC's it has a copy of FreeDOS (one floppy) included in the box.
> The n-series PC's are not advertised, so you might have to ring them up.
> The thing I'm quite confused about, is the fact that the other PC
> companies haven't caught on.
> 
>   Hope this helps.
> 
> Craig


MS must have tightened the reins, or the person I talked to from Dell was
clueless. I asked for the n-series and she said it was not available. I
asked for a pc without an OS, and she said they don't sell them without
the OS, but that I could use fdisk and wipe everything out. I said but I'm
still paying for the OS and she says no, it comes with the computer and I
said well, don't you think the price of the OS is factored into the price
of the computer?


Let us know if you have an inside scoop!


Todd

[newbie] Editing grepped files

[Miark]

I want to edit all file that match a grep. I figured out
how to get just the file names:

  grep -l "Price" *

but how do I load all the matching files into, say emacs?

Miark



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RE: Re[4]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

[Nick Emans]

Roman Korcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Hey,
>
>> Okay, it seems I need to answer my own question:
>
>> I'm still a newbie at Linux, and so I had no idea *why* I couldn't
>> get those halt/reboot/logout options to appear. Well, after playing
>> around, just looking and looking all over in the menus, I ran across
>> the Login Manager.  Its  kinda hidden in Dolphin's menus.  In any
>> case, in the Login Manager, I went to the "Sessions" tab.  The very
>> first  setting is called "Allow Shutdown" and you have a subsetting
>> for the Console and Remote.  The setting for Console  said "Nobody";
>> I simply changed it to "Everybody".  I logged out and logged back
>> in, and then tried to log out  again.  To my delight, I now had the
>> options to halt/reboot/logout.  Success!
>
>I remember this setting in 8.2 in KDE, too, however as I currently
>don't want to install X I'd be glad if someone could tell me what to
>do from command line.
>I'll try Derek's suggestions (thanks) and make a search on my own.
>
>
>> Have you ever had high security?, or did you upgrade instead of install?
>
>No, I never had high security and I performed a clean install with
>reformat.
>
>--
>TIA
>Roman
>
>
>
Roman:
Do a "man shutdown" from your terminal window. I believe a "shutdown now"
command will take the system cleanly down all the way

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Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

[Todd Slater]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 06:00:14 +1000
"Craig Williamson (ENZ)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi There,
> 
>   Technically they can't.  Microsoft slapped on new requirements to
> stop them doing that.
> 
>   But.  Dell have found a way to get around it.  If you order their
> n-series PC's it has a copy of FreeDOS (one floppy) included in the box.
> The n-series PC's are not advertised, so you might have to ring them up.
> The thing I'm quite confused about, is the fact that the other PC
> companies haven't caught on.
> 
>   Hope this helps.
> 
> Craig

MS must have tightened the reins, or the person I talked to from Dell was
clueless. I asked for the n-series and she said it was not available. I
asked for a pc without an OS, and she said they don't sell them without
the OS, but that I could use fdisk and wipe everything out. I said but I'm
still paying for the OS and she says no, it comes with the computer and I
said well, don't you think the price of the OS is factored into the price
of the computer?

Let us know if you have an inside scoop!

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Re: [newbie] KonCD

[Sharrea]

On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 7:53 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> KonCD appeared to recognise my ide cdreader, so I hoped to use it for a
> disk copy.  I got the following error:
>
> /usr/bin/cdrecord: No such file or directory. No read access for ''.
>
>
> Error, Exit status: 2
>
> I have checked that permission are set to give access to the group
> cdwriter, of which I am a member.  What does the ". signify, I wonder?
>
> Any ideas as to the problem would be gratefully received

Probably a stpid question but do you have cdrecord installed?

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[newbie] Let there be sound please?!?

[Marcia]

Dear All,

I have setup my /etc/modules.conf as suggested for via onboard 8233 
sound and still no sound for mp3, midi, most system sounds. Is there 
anything else I could check or do? Would I be better off to get the 
latest alsa source and compile myself? I do not want to go that far if 
it will not make a difference. I know this can work. I do not give up 
easily. It certainly worked in 8.2 except I had to do some interesting 
adjustments to make it work. This time those adjustments do not work in 
LM9. If I could get this sound to work it would not be a bad distro. I 
am having alot less problems with it than LM8.2 except for sound and 
usb.:( Any thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank 
you for all of your suggestions everyone. They did not work yet, and I 
do appreciate your help.

Thanks,

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RE: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

[Craig Williamson (ENZ)]

Title: RE: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft





Hi There,


    Technically they can't.  Microsoft slapped on new requirements to stop them doing that.


    But.  Dell have found a way to get around it.  If you order their n-series PC's it has a copy of FreeDOS (one floppy) included in the box.  The n-series PC's are not advertised, so you might have to ring them up.  The thing I'm quite confused about, is the fact that the other PC companies haven't caught on.

    Hope this helps.


Craig


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Sent: Thursday, 17 October, 2002 1:54 AM
To: Mandrake Newbie
Subject: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft



In another blow to Microsoft, a fourth computer maker plans to bundle Corel's 
WordPerfect Office with its low-end consumer machines.


http://news.com.com/2100-1040-962085.html


Now if some of the biggies would just sell some puters without an OS!


Todd

[newbie] FW: OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

[Craig Williamson (ENZ)]

Title: FW: OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft





Whoops.  I accidentally sent this to the wrong mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).  I think I might have opened a hornets nest ;-).

Craig


-Original Message-
From: Craig Williamson (ENZ) 
Sent: Thursday, 17 October, 2002 9:22 AM
To: 'Miark'
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft



Check these sites out.


http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/14/136244&mode=thread&tid=109
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/10/1420208&mode=thread&tid=109
http://www.freedos.org/


I know it's hard to beleive.  But they aren't a monopoly for nothing :-(.


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Sent: Thursday, 17 October, 2002 9:11 AM
To: Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Subject: Re: OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft



>   Technically they can't.  Microsoft slapped on new requirements to
> stop them doing that.



Eh? How can M$ do that?


Miark

[newbie] Evolution -spell checker

[Malcolm Candlish]

Does anyones Evolution 'spell checker' work. All I get is:-

'No misspelled word found'.

That is in spite of glaring mistakes!

Malcolm Candlish.






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Re: [newbie] Linux app for resizing PDFs

[Derek Jennings]

Not sure if you can resize with ghostscript.

What I do know is that Acrobat 5.05 allows you to print to any size paper, and 
it will scale the image to fit the paper.  Is that what you want?

It is not on the download CDs though :(

Acrobat is available as an RPM from Mandrake Club, and is available somewhere 
on the Adobe download site.

derek

On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 5:37 pm, Technoslick wrote:
> Is there a way to resize A4 PDF pages to U.S. Letter using what comes in
> a d/l 3-CD distro of MDK 9? I tried using KGhostView without success. I
> would like to keep the docs as PDFs, if possible, but would glady
> convert them to something else as long as they print out as they now
> look in PDF format. Currently, I am porting them over to a M$ machine
> that gives me access to AdobeDistiller to change the page sizes to fit
> my lazer printer.
>
> A friendly point in the right direction is enough, but please give me
> simple to achieve approach, if possible. :-)
>
> TIA
>
> T




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[newbie] PRIMARY MASTER HARD DISK FAIL

[Dimitris Adamopoulos]

Need some help here!
Yesterday I installed mandrake 8.2 on my oldie. P133 with 72mb RAM and a
10gb quantum fireball.
When I finished the installation everything seemed to be right.
The system was stable. Only when I had the kde up was a bit slow, something
expected of cource.
After about an hour the system went on "stand by" mode and the monitor
turned off.
When I moved the mouse to wake up the system the monitor turned on but the
only think I saw was a stucked screenshot!
My system was crashed.
I did my best to recover it but the only way to move on was to push the
power off button.
When I tried to reboot I saw this f.. message:
PRIMARY MASTER HARD DISK FAIL

Due to my old BIOS the primary disk it seems to be only 8gb aprox.
but during the 8.2 installation progress the disk was seemed to be 10gb
(actual size)
What happened?
I am a new linux user and I would really like to know what went wrong.
Thanks .. Until my next crash!






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[newbie] Linux app for resizing PDFs

[Technoslick]

Is there a way to resize A4 PDF pages to U.S. Letter using what comes in 
a d/l 3-CD distro of MDK 9? I tried using KGhostView without success. I 
would like to keep the docs as PDFs, if possible, but would glady 
convert them to something else as long as they print out as they now 
look in PDF format. Currently, I am porting them over to a M$ machine 
that gives me access to AdobeDistiller to change the page sizes to fit 
my lazer printer.

A friendly point in the right direction is enough, but please give me 
simple to achieve approach, if possible. :-)

TIA

T





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[newbie] [OT] Land of the Free?

[Charlie]

...and home of the depraved?

So Red Hat has had to link to a server outside the US to explain a kernel 
security patch? Just because the people that found the vulnerability are 
outside the US and copyright belongs to them?

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-158.html

Link from the above errata page:

http://www.thefreeworld.net/non-US/

An attempted explanation?

http://www.thefreeworld.net/faq.php

Hardly.

Add to that the DMCA case against Sklyarov (sp?) and ElcomSoft may become even 
more laughable because he can't get a visa to testify in a case he's legally 
required to attend as a witness? A case stemming from his authoring software 
that is _legal_ in his home country? 

http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=2400

Just what the hell follies have Goofy and the rest of his Hollyweird friends, 
and the music industry, really seduced the land of my birth into?

Maybe this isn't entirely off topic since this is a mailing list for those of 
us that use (worship at the temple of) free/open-source software? 

In any case sorry to waste the bandwidth people. I just felt a pressing need 
to rant.

<\rant mode>
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[newbie] Perl modules

[Gary Armstrong]

Disclaimer = Brand new to linux

I was looking to do some CGI work. Perl's CGI module doesn't appear to
be resident(MD9). I'm a little confused because I thought CGI::* and
CGI.pm were part of Perl's base release since 5.6 and this is 5.8.

Anyway, I was wondering if:

1) I'm missing something?

2) Are things like Perl's modules likely to be part of some rpm or do I
go through CPAN?

If it's an rpm, could you point me at the appropriate doc?

TIA
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RE: [newbie] Anyone got Supermount to work correctly in MDK 9?

[falcaraz]

I had to disable supermount (supermount -i disable) and now everything
it goes well.

Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)

- Mensaje Original -
Remitente: G_REEPER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fecha: Miércoles, Octubre 16, 2002 2:40 pm
Asunto: [newbie] Anyone got Supermount to work correctly in MDK 9?

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> Just a question, 
> I have had a lot of trouble getting supermount to work correctly. 
> Mainly when 
> installing rpms off of cds other than the mdk disk. Like the sims 
> cd. 
> 
> 
> Just to give you a blow by blow.
>I place the cd in and open it with the removable media link.
> It opens it fine and displays the contents of the cd.
> 
> When I launch a shell to install the rpms I issue the urpmi *.rpms 
> and I get 
> no rpms found. I get the same if I just try to click the rpms.
> 
> I have copied the entire cd to a drive via  winblows and can 
> install it from 
> the shell with no problems.
> 
> It doesn't seam to be limited to this single cd. As I have yet to 
> get mkiso to 
> make a iso file of any cd.
> 
> Yet Mandrake's add software works fine for installing rpms on their 
> cds.
> Any clues??
> 
> Thanks a ton.
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Re: [newbie] Anyone got Supermount to work correctly in MDK 9?

[Derek Jennings]

No... Supermount works just fine for me.

You did 'cd /mnt/cdom' before trying to urpmi *   I hope  (urpmi *.rpms aint 
gonna work)

In any case here is  the ***Tip of the day for newbies***

In 9.0 clicking on an RPM within Konqueror causes Kpackage to open, and you 
can then install the RPM by highlighting it and clicking install etc.

KPackage is very slow, and is 'over the top' if all you want is to install the 
RPM.

If you open KDE ControlCentre>FileBrowsing>FileAssociations
type 'rpm' inthe search box then look at the file association 'x-rpm' you will 
see Kpackage is the default application associated with RPMs.
Select 'SoftwareInstaller' and move it up the list to the top.

Now when you click on an RPM you will see a little box asking for root 
password, and then the RPM will be installed quickly and neatly.

derek




On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 1:40 pm, G_REEPER wrote:
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>
> Just a question,
> I have had a lot of trouble getting supermount to work correctly. Mainly
> when installing rpms off of cds other than the mdk disk. Like the sims cd.
>
>
> Just to give you a blow by blow.
>   I place the cd in and open it with the removable media link.
> It opens it fine and displays the contents of the cd.
>
> When I launch a shell to install the rpms I issue the urpmi *.rpms and I
> get no rpms found. I get the same if I just try to click the rpms.
>
> I have copied the entire cd to a drive via  winblows and can install it
> from the shell with no problems.
>
> It doesn't seam to be limited to this single cd. As I have yet to get mkiso
> to make a iso file of any cd.
>
> Yet Mandrake's add software works fine for installing rpms on their cds.
>
> Any clues??
>
> Thanks a ton.
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Re: [newbie] Mencoder results and questions

[Ronald J. Hall]

On Tuesday 15 October 2002 08:44 pm, you wrote:
>
> Hola. Ronald:
>
> I'm using 'video dvd rip' (plf). With a nice gui, dvdrip let you choose
> every parameters (video bitrate; 1,2,3,4 CDs as target media, preview
> images, etc.). I think mencoder is part of dvdrip. Steps are: Storage
> location>RIP title>Clip &Zoom>Transcode>Burn.
>
> Buena suerte.
>
> Sorry: I'm not so good with English.

No apologies needed, and I thank you for the advice. I just grabbed Drip and 
am looking it over. Thanks again! :-)

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RE: [newbie] Configuring M-L after installing...

[David]

Whoops!  Yep... just found the manual, but I was having a bit of trouble
navigating around the GUI until I got the mouse working!  Thanks very
much for that incredibly useful post!  Now I can REALLY start to confuse
myself :)  Can't wait to finish this stupid Windoze 2000 MCSE (need it
for work) and get my teeth into this beautiful OS called Linux!  Thanks
again, DaveA.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings
Sent: Wednesday, 16 October 2002 9:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Configuring M-L after installing...

On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 12:48 pm, David wrote:
> Hi guys,  How do I configure the basics like video, sound, USB, etc...
> in Mandrake-Linux 8.0 without having to reinstall?  I know it seems
like
> a dumb question, but the first time I installed last night I had some
> problems getting the video working (Toshiba 1710CDT laptop) and ended
up
> doing a reinstall :)  Is there some sort of GUI for this dumbo Windoze
> user to play with?  Is there some sort of FAQ or HowTo available on
the
> 'net? Tks, DaveA.

Just press the icon on the desktop labelled Mandrake Control Centre. All
the 
configuration controls for the system are in there.
To configure the KDE desktop there is KDE Control Centre which is the
4th icon 
from the left in the bottom corner of your screen.

Amazingly enough all this is described in the manual.
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdoc.php3

derek







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[newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

[Todd Slater]

In another blow to Microsoft, a fourth computer maker plans to bundle Corel's 
WordPerfect Office with its low-end consumer machines.

http://news.com.com/2100-1040-962085.html

Now if some of the biggies would just sell some puters without an OS!

Todd



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[newbie] Anyone got Supermount to work correctly in MDK 9?

[G_REEPER]

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Hash: SHA1

Just a question, 
I have had a lot of trouble getting supermount to work correctly. Mainly when 
installing rpms off of cds other than the mdk disk. Like the sims cd. 


Just to give you a blow by blow.
I place the cd in and open it with the removable media link.
It opens it fine and displays the contents of the cd.

When I launch a shell to install the rpms I issue the urpmi *.rpms and I get 
no rpms found. I get the same if I just try to click the rpms.

I have copied the entire cd to a drive via  winblows and can install it from 
the shell with no problems.

It doesn't seam to be limited to this single cd. As I have yet to get mkiso to 
make a iso file of any cd.

Yet Mandrake's add software works fine for installing rpms on their cds.

Any clues??

Thanks a ton.
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Re: [newbie] Configuring M-L after installing...

[Derek Jennings]

On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 12:48 pm, David wrote:
> Hi guys,  How do I configure the basics like video, sound, USB, etc...
> in Mandrake-Linux 8.0 without having to reinstall?  I know it seems like
> a dumb question, but the first time I installed last night I had some
> problems getting the video working (Toshiba 1710CDT laptop) and ended up
> doing a reinstall :)  Is there some sort of GUI for this dumbo Windoze
> user to play with?  Is there some sort of FAQ or HowTo available on the
> 'net? Tks, DaveA.

Just press the icon on the desktop labelled Mandrake Control Centre. All the 
configuration controls for the system are in there.
To configure the KDE desktop there is KDE Control Centre which is the 4th icon 
from the left in the bottom corner of your screen.

Amazingly enough all this is described in the manual.
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdoc.php3

derek





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[newbie] Configuring M-L after installing...

[David]

Hi guys,  How do I configure the basics like video, sound, USB, etc...
in Mandrake-Linux 8.0 without having to reinstall?  I know it seems like
a dumb question, but the first time I installed last night I had some
problems getting the video working (Toshiba 1710CDT laptop) and ended up
doing a reinstall :)  Is there some sort of GUI for this dumbo Windoze
user to play with?  Is there some sort of FAQ or HowTo available on the
'net? Tks, DaveA.





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[newbie] Problems with mouse MK 8.0

[David]

Hi y’all,

 

Just installed ML 8.0 on a Toshiba 1710CDT and everything
went fine during the install – detected everything and was able to
complete the USB mouse test successfully. Go and StartX and nada.  Mouse is a MS Optical Intellimouse and it’s dead….. Any hints on how to configure it?
…..  I’ve now hooked this
mouse up via the PS/2 adapter, and still no good – the mouse is “alive”
but no action on the screen.  If I now
want to swap it for a normal PS/2 mouse, how I configure that without having to
completely reinstall?  Yep, I’m a
REAL newbie….TIA, DaveA

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Re: [newbie] SMB package missing

[Derek Jennings]

There are three RPMS to do with samba

samba-common
samba-client
samba-server

To share with Windows mahines you need samba-common and samba-server
To mount remote shares on Win machine you need samba-client as well.

Use software manager in Mandrake Conrrol Centre to install the RPMS.

You are not finished then. It is still necessary to configure Samba to set 
WorkGroup name, and to define Samba passwords (they are different to Linux 
passwords)

This will help you out :-
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba.html

derek


On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 6:55 am, Ted Manka wrote:
> HI all!  Ok, so here is the deal.  I am trying to set up a samba server
> on my home network.  In KDE I right click on the file I want to share, I
> follow the dialog to share the file but then at the end I get a funny
> message:
>
> Diskdrake
> "Mandatory package SMB is missing"
>
> But the kicker is that SMB is installedI'm pretty sure it is.
> SoI guess my question is: how can I verify the integrity(existence?)
> of my SMB package...and I guess I wanted to see if anyone else was
> having this problem.  Prob just me.  Ok so I wanted to say thanks in
> advance to all who help me with this problem...and thanks for having me
> in the Mandrake community.
>
> Ted Manka




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Re[4]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

[Roman Korcek]

Hey,

> Okay, it seems I need to answer my own question:

> I'm still a newbie at Linux, and so I had no idea *why* I couldn't
> get those halt/reboot/logout options to appear. Well, after playing
> around, just looking and looking all over in the menus, I ran across
> the Login Manager.  Its  kinda hidden in Dolphin's menus.  In any
> case, in the Login Manager, I went to the "Sessions" tab.  The very
> first  setting is called "Allow Shutdown" and you have a subsetting
> for the Console and Remote.  The setting for Console  said "Nobody";
> I simply changed it to "Everybody".  I logged out and logged back
> in, and then tried to log out  again.  To my delight, I now had the
> options to halt/reboot/logout.  Success!

I remember this setting in 8.2 in KDE, too, however as I currently
don't want to install X I'd be glad if someone could tell me what to
do from command line.
I'll try Derek's suggestions (thanks) and make a search on my own.


> Have you ever had high security?, or did you upgrade instead of install?

No, I never had high security and I performed a clean install with
reformat.

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[newbie] New HD

[Tony S. Sykes]

Hi all,

I have installed a new HD as a pri mast on my pc and moved the old pri
mast to sec slave. It was a dual boot mdk9 and w2k. I have created the
same on my new disk, but I cant get it to boot from the new mbr without
the boot disk. It tries to load from the old mbr. How do I get rid of
the old mbr on the sec slave and use the mbr on the pri master? I am
wanting to keep the old one in the machine for a few weeks for moving
stuff across.

Thanks,

Tony.
  

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Re: [newbie] setting Mozilla as default browser

[Dennis and Sue]

On Wednesday 16 October 2002 03:17 am, you wrote:
> As interesting as Konquerer is, I greatly prefer Mozilla and want to make
> it the default under Mandrake 8.2. But I don't see any setting that allows
> that. Can someone suggest how to do that?
>
> Thanks
 If I am not mistaken, Go - K / Configuration / KDE /  File Browsing / File 
Associations.
Expand the Text heading,  Select HTML, Click on Mozilla, And "Move Up" until 
it is the top heading in that list. Click Apply.



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