Re: [newbie-it] configurare un modem adsl
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:25:47 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ho bisogno di un consiglio di questo genere: sono con Alice da qualche giorno, ma non riesco a configurare il modem, che ? un IPM Datacom usb, in Mandrake 9.1. Allora vorrei chiedere alla Telecom di cambiare questo modem e di farmi avere un Ericsson HM220dp, dopo aver configurato una scheda Ethernet che mi procurer?. Dopo che sar? entrato in rete con me stesso, cosa dovr? fare: per favore ditemi tutto nei particolari perch? (si capiva) sono un ultra pivello. (per? il Mandrake mi piace proprio) Grazie a tutti come sempre, quando si fanno le cose con interfaccia grafica, non riesco a ricordarmi i passaggi esatti. Comunque, devi entrare nel MandrakeControlCenter e configurare contemporaneamente scheda di rete e adsl. La cosa più semplice è lasciar funzionare il modem come server dhcp che assegna automaticamente un indirizzo IP ai PC che vi si connettono. Quindi NON assegnare tu un indirizzo ip alla tua scheda. Per il tuo modem in generale, vedi spazioinwind.libero.it/zaccasoft/3hm220dp4all/main.htm Poi, il collegamento si gestisce con adsl-start, adsl-stop, ... però ti consiglio di metterti sul desktop un'icona che lancia net_monitor come root (ti verrà chiesta la password) oppure, cerca in rete tkpppoe che deve essere lanciato la prima volta come root, ma che può essere configurato perché in seguito accetti gli utenti normali. ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Ricezione posta
Eraser Head wrote: Ciao a tutti! Ho un problema nella ricezione della posta tramite fetchmail: talvolta capita che fetchmail blocchi la ricezione di alcune mail, dandomi errori di questo tipo: fetchmail: SMTP 553 5.1.8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist fetchmail: SMTP error: 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not resolve fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Chiara Ma utilizzi postfix dopo fetchmail ? Se si, potrebbe essere una riga nel main.cf . Oppure potrebbe essere che prima di scaricare la posta vada a controllare il dominio del mittente e, non trovandolo, lo rifiuta. Se puoi mandare il tuo .fetchmail magari lo si analizza tutti insieme. Ciao, Lux
Re: [newbie-it] configurare un modem adsl - update
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:25:47 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ho bisogno di un consiglio di questo genere: sono con Alice da qualche giorno, ma non riesco a configurare il modem stesso problema,ma al momento non posso cambiare usb...inoltre i driver del modem errati mi hanno costretto a riformattare il disco con win. Come faccio a riconfigurare LILO (linux e win sono su due HD diversi)? tnx a chi riesce a risolvere l'arcano §.-(( Fulvio
Re: [newbie-it] configurare un modem adsl - update
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:10:45 +0200 (CEST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come faccio a riconfigurare LILO (linux e win sono su due HD diversi)? tnx a chi riesce a risolvere l'arcano §.-(( Hai reinstallato win che ti ha tolto lilo da MBR? Riparti col CD di installazione di Mandrake, alla prima schermata premi F1 poi scegli la modalità rescue. Parte un linux che usa la RAM come disco e che presenta all'inizio un menù da cui puoi fare delle operazioni di emergenza come rimettere il LILO in MBR. ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] Mouse seriale e mdk 9.1
Salve a tutti, sono una nuova utente della Mandrake 9.1 che ho installato su un AMD K6 500 mHz, sch v. Vodoo 3000, sch audio S3 Allegro,hd quantum 10 GB partizionato (1a part. win98 SE)privo d'interfacce usb e ps/2, solo con porte seriali. In fase d'installazione di mdk il mouse funziona (Logitech Pilot a tre pulsanti con adattatore seriale, com2), viene rilevato e configurato, ma una volta riavviato il sistema in modalità grafica rimane quasi immobile, si muove ad una lentezza esasperante, che mi rende difficile diverse operazioni. Ho provato a cambiare mouse, ma niente da fare; ho provato a riconfigurarlo da console cambiando protocollo e ttyS, ho dato un'occhiata anche al file XF86Config, ho riavviato il sistema tenendo premuto il tasto sinistro del mouse (letto da qualche parte), ma finora non ho ottenuto risultati. Ho cercato dappertutto, anche sui NG, ma non ho trovato soluzione. Ho anche disinstallato e reinstallato il so, provato con una distro + vecchia (la 9.0 e la 8.0), ma nulla: il mio mouse se ne resta là e si muove tre minuti dopo che l'ho strattonato... Qualcuno potrebbe aiutarmi? Grazie e scusate per la lunghezza Anna
Re: [newbie-it] configurare un modem adsl - update
Come faccio a riconfigurare LILO (linux e win sono su due HD diversi)? tnx a chi riesce a risolvere l'arcano §.-(( Hai reinstallato win che ti ha tolto lilo da MBR? qui il problemadevo cambiare molto probabilmente da 98 a 2000 e non so se questo da problemi.la partizione è unica,ma non posso usare la fat32 ho un disco di avvio di mandrake e copiato il file liloconf Riparti col CD di installazione di Mandrake, alla prima schermata premi F1 poi scegli la modalità rescue. Parte un linux che usa la RAM come disco e che presenta all'inizio un menù da cui puoi fare delle operazioni di emergenza come rimettere il LILO in MBR. linux comunque era configurato per partire per primo
[newbie-it] tar zippati su floppy
Zip di winz permette la creazione su floppy, in caso di un unico file particolarmente corposo, di un .zip che va a splittarsi su vari dischetti, fino all'esaurimento del file. Sicuro che esistesse un comando del genere anche per tar, sono subito andato a controllare il manuale; sembra però che la cosa sia possibile solo creando un .tar non compresso (opzione -M). Esiste un comando che soddisfa questa esigenza, o ci si deve vedere costretti ad usare una pipe su split, per raggiungere lo stesso risultato di winzip? Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## Fair is foul, and foul is fair -
Re: [newbie-it] configurare un modem adsl - update
Il Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:55:02 +0200 (CEST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ebbe a dire: Come faccio a riconfigurare LILO (linux e win sono su due HD diversi)? tnx a chi riesce a risolvere l'arcano §.-(( Hai reinstallato win che ti ha tolto lilo da MBR? qui il problemadevo cambiare molto probabilmente da 98 a 2000 e non so se questo da problemi.la partizione è unica,ma non posso usare la fat32 anch'io ho 2 dischi e upgradato a win$2000. Se non vuoi perdere la possibilità di scambiare comodamente dati da win a lin ti conviene creare una 2^ partizione sul disco win per il FAT32, potrai, p. e. dedicarla alla cartella documenti. ho un disco di avvio di mandrake e copiato il file liloconf Riparti col CD di installazione di Mandrake, alla prima schermata premi F1 poi scegli la modalità rescue. Parte un linux che usa la RAM come disco e che presenta all'inizio un menù da cui puoi fare delle operazioni di emergenza come rimettere il LILO in MBR. linux comunque era configurato per partire per primo no problem, il rescue fa miracoli. ciao beo
Re: [newbie-it] Mouse seriale e mdk 9.1
Alle 15:35, venerdì 4 aprile 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: [CUT] Qualcuno potrebbe aiutarmi? Grazie e scusate per la lunghezza Anna Ciao Anna, se si tratta solo di un problema di velocità di movimento del mouse, prova a riconfigurarlo da: MENU' K - CONFIGURAZIONE - KDE - PERIFERICHE - MOUSE Daniele -- «Il mondo si divide in 10 tipi di persone: quelle che conoscono la numerazione binaria, e quelle che non la conoscono.»
Re: [newbie-it] Mouse seriale e mdk 9.1
se si tratta solo di un problema di velocità di movimento del mouse, prova a riconfigurarlo da: MENU' K - CONFIGURAZIONE - KDE - PERIFERICHE - MOUSE Ciao Daniele e grazie per avermi risposto. Avevo già provato a riconfigurarlo così come tu hai descritto, ma niente da fare, purtroppo. Il cursore si sposta, ma diverso tempo dopo aver mosso il mouse, sembra quasi immobile. Anna
Re: [newbie-it] Mouse seriale e mdk 9.1
Alle 15:35, venerdì 4 aprile 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: [CUT] Qualcuno potrebbe aiutarmi? Grazie e scusate per la lunghezza Anna Ciao Anna, se si tratta solo di un problema di velocità di movimento del mouse, prova a riconfigurarlo da: MENU' K - CONFIGURAZIONE - KDE - PERIFERICHE - MOUSE Daniele -- «Il mondo si divide in 10 tipi di persone: quelle che conoscono la numerazione binaria, e quelle che non la conoscono.»
Re: [newbie-it] Mouse seriale e mdk 9.1
Alle 20:32, venerdì 4 aprile 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: se si tratta solo di un problema di velocità di movimento del mouse, prova a riconfigurarlo da: MENU' K - CONFIGURAZIONE - KDE - PERIFERICHE - MOUSE Ciao Daniele e grazie per avermi risposto. Avevo già provato a riconfigurarlo così come tu hai descritto, ma niente da fare, purtroppo. Il cursore si sposta, ma diverso tempo dopo aver mosso il mouse, sembra quasi immobile. Anna Verifica il funzionamento da una sessione di console (non grafica). Se funziona normalmente, spediscici la parte del file XF86Config-4 riguardante il mouse (cerca il file con locate - man locate). Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## Fair is foul, and foul is fair -
[newbie] 9.1 upgrade, eth0 FAILED at boot
Upgraded 9.0 to 9.1, now every time I boot it says eth0 FAILED. Oddly, I still have a live Ethernet connection. Half the time, from looking at the LEDs on my Linksys DSL/Router, it appears that the adapter is coming up in half-duplex. I didn't have this problem in 9.0, though I do have it booting 9.1 with the 9.0 kernel. What do I have to do to get eth0 to come up reliably again? I thought of uninstalling the tulip driver and reinstalling it, but that is not a separately installable piece. I have a Linksys 10/100 wired internal NIC (standard LNE whatever). On a related note, when I see the adapter is in half-duplex mode, if I do ifconfig eth0 down, I see the full-duplex LED come on immediately. But now I am disconnected, and ifconfig eth0 up does not reconnect me. The only way I found to reconnect is to go into Mandrake Control Center - Network and Internet - DrakConnect. It will determine I am disconnected and give me a button to connect. How can I do this from a command prompt so I don't have to start up MCC? service internet restart doesn't appear to work either. Thanks. -- Guy Rouillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Advanced Chipset Features/bios settings
Thanks Ryan , I wondered whether 4QW and 8QW might be something to do with memory.But, Ryan Moe wrote: If you have SDRAM don't worry about it. I have 512BM of DDR Ram. It doesn't make a difference. However if you have DDR then setting the burst rate to 4qw instead of 8qw will make your average bandwidth the same as SDRAM (although you'll still have twice the peak bandwidth). What m/b and memory controller are you using? I have a MSI K7T266 Pro2 Mobo, capable of up to 3.0gigs of memory. I cannot find a reference to the memory controller in the mobo manual. It does say you can install PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM modules on the DDR DIMM slots (DDR1-3) I believe they run on 2,5v as against 3.3v. In addition I have seen a reference somewhere that this mobo has a nForce-128 bit memory bus, but I don't think that is relevant is it . What brand of ram do you have? Certain brands of ram (mostly the cheap kind) don't support some bios memory options. I don't know. Some generic make, I think. But if it works fine in W2K on 8QW, then it ought to work fine in Mandrake as well. I guess mandrake needs tweeking somehow ? See, I had bios set on 4QW when mandrake was installed, only found out afterwards I could up it to 8QW, and the manual references it being faster, I thought I would try it out. Trouble is Mandrake boots up OK, I get to a login ,I login and a blue desktop arrives, but does not complete to the full thing with all the taskbar etc, and the mouse cursor hangs, indeed the whole computer hangs, I cannot even shutdown, I have to crash it. John Ryan On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 14:50, John Richard Smith wrote: My AMI bios has a section Advance Chipset Features In there is a section BURST LENGTH with the options 4QW and 8QW According to handbook this allows you to set the size of the Burst-Length for DRAM. The bigger the size the faster the DRAM performance. I altered my bios setting to 8QW from 4QW and found everything boots fine in W2K, but that Xwindows hangs on Mandrake 9.0. It seems a pity to have to choose the slower setting just because of mandrake. Is there any way of getting Mandrake to work with the higher setting ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning
Guy Rouillier wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Well I have plenty of ntfs partitions after the linux partitions and neither W98 nor W2K have any trouble recognising them. Maybe you cannot have a windblows OS after a linux partition, never tried that one but I would expect it to work. John Win98 won't recognize any NTFS partitions. But as you say, Win2K has no trouble seeing partitions past Linux partitions. Maybe I stand corrected, I haven't had W98 on for a while now and memory plays tricks, but it definately recognises FAT32. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fluxbox bbpager WAS [newbie] Fluxbox and background under 9.1
Good. Like Todd I find the gap between fluxbox and KDE has narrowed with Mandrake 9.1. KDE is faster and fluxbox seems a little slower. But KDE is still not fast enough to make it comfortable to use on my low end laptop. While we are on the subject of fluxbox, I have an RPM of bbpager on my download page you might like to try. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Downloadsd_op=viewdownloadcid=1 BBpager gives you a view of the contents of your desktops. You can even move windows from desktop to desktop with it. Invoke it with bbpager -n -c ~/.bbtools/bbpager.nobb in your ~/.fluxbox/startup file You will need to move the contents of /usr/share/bbtools to ~/.bbtools and edit the bbpager.nobb as required. I made these changes :- bbpager.desktopChangeButton:1 bbpager.windowMoveButton:1 bbpager.windowFocusButton: 3 bbpager.windowRaiseButton: 3 derek On Friday 04 Apr 2003 4:12 am, Terry Smith wrote: They say the memory goes first :-)). So I checked some more and am answering my own question I had actually sent a msg to a new fluxbox convert several months ago. My knowledge, in turn came from something Derek had posted. Anyhow, to get fluxbox to see your 'startup' script you need a line in the ~/.fluxbox/init config file that says: session.screen0.rootCommand ~/.fluxbox/startup The file 'startup' must be executable. Works fine now. Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 21:23, Terry Smith wrote: Derek, Todd and all you other fluxbox experts out there, Still probing 9.1 (the best yet IMHO ..in fact, on my 'minimalist' machine, I put CD1 in the drive, rebooted, left the house for 3 hours, came home, hit 'return' pulled the CD and had a system that worked perfectly [it was an update rather than a clean install but what the hey]) but I digress... I use fluxbox and rox in tandem as ably demonstrated by Derek and Todd some moths ago. The new fluxbox (fluxbox-0.1.14-6mdk but the same thing is true of texstar's 0.1.14 rpm) is 'overlaying' my desktop with a bsetbg coming from the selected theme. Said differently, although I've put a line in my 'startup' script like 'bsetbg -f ~/photos/picture_I_want' the actual background I get is that determined by the theme. I've tried commenting out the 'session.styleFile' line but that didn't work either. I thought maybe the Rox pinboard was interfering with background but it's turned off. Anybody seen/fixed this? TIA. Terry Smith Cape Cod USA __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] depmod woes
Can anyone tell me what I should do about this? [EMAIL PROTECTED] nalan]# depmod depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.o.gz: Bad symbol index: 0176 = 003f depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.o.gz: Bad symbol index: 0100 = 003f depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.o.gz: Bad symbol index: 00df = 003f depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.o.gz: Bad symbol index: 00e8 = 003f [tons more along the same lines] I get similar, though not quite so profuse error messages on boot. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xine dvd troubles
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 11:15 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2003 23:44, Brian Craft wrote: I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and just loaded all the rpm's for xine from the 3rd cd and then downloaded libdvdcss-1.2.6-2.network.i386.rpm from the link below. I've watched about 4 DVD's with no problem. http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ Did all that, only the dvd option doesn't even show up in xine. I've a feeling I'm missing something obvious but can't put my finger on it. /dev/dvd points to my cdrom so that's not the problem. Thanks anyway, HarM HarM - just an off-chance. When I had a similar problem under 9.0 it was because I had a plugin directory in the path, but not the subdirectory of it which contained other plugins. Don't know if it will help you, but it's worth checking. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Burning a bootable cd
Many thanks Anne, John and Pete. I'm pretty sure I tried burning straight to disk (and at speeds as low as 1x) without success. However, I'll have to check it out properly and.pick up this thread in a couple of months when I'm in front of the PC again. John, could you say more about the MB sum in Master tracks? This isn't the calculate size, is it? Doug At 13.52 03/04/2003 +0100, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 11:09 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip I've had problems with XCDroast,trying to copy data files. Following all those steps (disabling all the rockridge, joliet options except the one recommended for backup CDs) I was able to write out OK only on one occasion. Ever since then, everything goes fine until the actual burning, when it terminates prematurely, having written for about 0.06s.Doesn't seem to make any difference whether I try single or multi-session, CD-R or CD-RW. Any ideas? (Sorry I can't give the exact error message - I don't have that PC here; it's about 700 miles away) I've never had problems with burning data disks until I tried to burn this bootable one, which is why I thought it was linked with the boot image. I normally add directories and files to the list, excluding unnecessary ones if the collection is too big. If the last tab can calculate the sum without errors they burn fine - though it pays to burn at slowish speeds - 8x is right for most people. I don't burn to an image, I burn straight to disk, and it works. Anne Just a thought, maybe nothing, but you didn't mention doing the MB sum part of the preparation, in master tracks , I think it does more than the obvious. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Wanted: Clever email setup
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 8:35 am, RichardA wrote: I went off list a couple of months ago to move house. Didn't want to rejoin until I had my email set up just right, but I'm struggling. Here's some background: I want my server to pick up mail and dump it in /maildir format, because it's more reliable. Then I want to read it from either of two client PCs. Simple, yes? I got as far as setting up fetchmail and postfix, but courier-imap beat me. The Mandrake rpm seemed not to be all there, and when I tried to compile from source rpm the error message said there was no makefile. I used a Mandrake imap program (imap-2001), connected from KMail but I could see all of my home folder, not just the maildir. After some messing about I got the mail root folder right, but instead of seeing lots of mail in each folder I had to drill down through those strangely-named folders to read each one. If I could use courier-imap, would that problem go away? Or is KMail not very good at imap? Next, I thought that maybe I could mount the maildir over nfs on each machine. Got nfs set up first try (!), but KMail seems to move the mail into a local folder or something - I know it's not right, but I haven't worked out exactly what happens. This post is messy, as is my email currently. What I want to do must be really common, and I'd welcome help, hints, constructive abuse, anything really. If there's an entirely different way to do what I want that would be fine, too. RichardA P.S. Glad you're all still here and Mandrake haven't gone bust :-) I have a paper on Postfix/Fetchmail/Procmail/Courier-IMAP that covers what you are trying to do. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/mailserver_config.html derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Deleted mail does not go to trash in kmail
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 12:41 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2003 11:23 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 1:41 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2003 12:58 pm, Poogle wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 H:57 am, Dennis Myers wrote: as the subject says, I delete a mail and it disappears. What to configure, I have been all through kmail config in the gui. Help is appreciated. In Kmail 1.5 the delete icon with the red X on it deletes (with or without confirmation - your choice which) but next to it there is a new icon which looks like a blue cylinder which moves to trash That was the answer, thanks Poogle. A new feature I didn't recognize. Dennis - do me a favour? Choose one that doesn't matter, then see if highlight+delete key deletes or trashes? Thanks Anne Highlighting the message and then hitting delete key sends the message to the trash bin. It can still be retrieved. If you hit the X tab on the tool bar it deletes instantly and not sent to the trash. Hope that clears up a bit. It is kind of handy to be able to delete instantly. Cheers I'm going to like this, I think. To be able to get rid of the stuff I know I don't need, but keep a buffer stock of list messages will suit me fine. I have an expire date set on the trash, so that I can go back and check how a thread started if I need to :) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xine dvd troubles
On Friday 04 April 2003 10:51, Anne Wilson wrote: HarM - just an off-chance. When I had a similar problem under 9.0 it was because I had a plugin directory in the path, but not the subdirectory of it which contained other plugins. Don't know if it will help you, but it's worth checking. Anne Well, I've just found out that my dvd player can't read the dvd's anymore. Meaning what? I don't know...there's a /dev/dvd link allright. Manually trying to mount it just gives me the read error no medium found. So it's hardware recognition specific, I guess. Looks like I'll have to rumage around a little more but first I'll try an update-install it's been known to help before:o) Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to use wine?
Hi, I would like to use wine to run MS word on MDK linux for my job. Can it be possible? If so, after installing wine, how sould I install MS word please? Regards, Kishi __ Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days! http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?375380 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 for FREE! Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to use wine?
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 11:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to use wine to run MS word on MDK linux for my job. Can it be possible? If so, after installing wine, how sould I install MS word please? Regards, Kishi __ Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days! http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?375380 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 for FREE! Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 You can go here to get advice on using Wine http://frankscorner.org/ But if you want the easiest least pain method of using MSOffice, then spend a bit of money and buy Codeweavers Office. It is a version of Wine optimised for Office applications with a very nice installer, and support if you have problems. http://www.codeweavers.com/home/ derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to use wine?
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 11:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to use wine to run MS word on MDK linux for my job. Can it be possible? If so, after installing wine, how sould I install MS word please? Regards, Kishi __ I should also have added that OpenOffice will read and write Word documents perfectly well. Why use Word at all? derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xine dvd troubles
On Friday 04 April 2003 11:02 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: replying my own posts: Xine works fine, DVD player doesn't.just doesn't seem to want to read DVD's any more:o( Get plenty of errors there: Apr 3 20:54:54 triade1 kernel: hdb: packet command error: error=0x54 Apr 3 20:54:54 triade1 kernel: ATAPI device hdb: Apr 3 20:54:54 triade1 kernel: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) Apr 3 20:54:54 triade1 kernel: Cannot read medium - incompatible format -- (a sc=0x30, ascq=0x02) anybody any thoughts? Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 upgrade, eth0 FAILED at boot
hi Guy, can you try this an see if it works? from console, run dhcpcd as root # dhcpcd if it does, it's probably due the new hotplug option in 9.1 you can turn it off by running mandrake control center - Network and Internet - Drakconnect run the wizard, select expert mode, and in one of the following dialogs, remove the tick from the Network Hotplugging hope it helps - Original Message - From: Guy Rouillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 16:05 Subject: [newbie] 9.1 upgrade, eth0 FAILED at boot Upgraded 9.0 to 9.1, now every time I boot it says eth0 FAILED. Oddly, I still have a live Ethernet connection. Half the time, from looking at the LEDs on my Linksys DSL/Router, it appears that the adapter is coming up in half-duplex. I didn't have this problem in 9.0, though I do have it booting 9.1 with the 9.0 kernel. What do I have to do to get eth0 to come up reliably again? I thought of uninstalling the tulip driver and reinstalling it, but that is not a separately installable piece. I have a Linksys 10/100 wired internal NIC (standard LNE whatever). On a related note, when I see the adapter is in half-duplex mode, if I do ifconfig eth0 down, I see the full-duplex LED come on immediately. But now I am disconnected, and ifconfig eth0 up does not reconnect me. The only way I found to reconnect is to go into Mandrake Control Center - Network and Internet - DrakConnect. It will determine I am disconnected and give me a button to connect. How can I do this from a command prompt so I don't have to start up MCC? service internet restart doesn't appear to work either. Thanks. -- Guy Rouillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[newbie] Courier-imap
Hi Guys Am I being dim as usual, or is Courier-imap not included with 9.1 ? If not, does anyone know where there's a handy rpm for it. I've done a google for the package and can only find a.bz2 package. regards Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Courier-imap
hi Mark, courier-imap wasn't included with mandrake 8.2 and 9.0, dunno about before that, but some kind soul always makes mandrake specific rpms, you can find it in the contribs directory of most mandrake FTP mirrors or at rpmfind.net ps. remember to vote for it during voting season for the next release of mandrake. :) - Original Message - From: Mark Annandale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 20:03 Subject: [newbie] Courier-imap Hi Guys Am I being dim as usual, or is Courier-imap not included with 9.1 ? If not, does anyone know where there's a handy rpm for it. I've done a google for the package and can only find a.bz2 package. regards Mark 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
[newbie] Closed in my own Box! (it was= Clever email setup)
On Friday 04 April 2003 05:58, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 Apr 2003 8:35 am, RichardA wrote: Hi, Derek! I need your help! I can't email to the list! It doesn't accept me no more... this is why I am requesting your help! I' ve read your paper and that solved my future need, BUT for the now I'm in trouble with postfix (so I think!) I use the email:[EMAIL PROTECTED], for list and some business purposes, by in my box (mdk9) my user name in ricardo, so every email goes out like: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =this is the Problem Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = ditto! Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by home.english-quest.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92477124472 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 10:54:39 -0300 (BRT) Received: from pop.sao.terra.com.br [200.176.3.46] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.1.0) for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (single-drop); Fri, 04 Apr 2003 10:54:39 -0300 (BRT) Received: from [200.176.3.78] by campos.terra.com.br (LMTP); Fri, 04 Apr 2003 10:50:29 -0300 (BRT) Received: from home.english-quest.com.br (200-158-74-157.dsl.telesp.net.br [200.158.74.157]) (authenticated user equest) by botucatu.terra.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36B2129C0D6 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 10:50:29 -0300 (BRT) Is it possible to 'MASQUERADE my email? i.e. although having my user name as ricardo, Can I config postfix(or whatever) to send as [EMAIL PROTECTED] EVERYTHING was all right BEFORE my upgrading from mdk8.1 to mdk9! The postfix main.cf looks the same to me! the domain:english-quest.com.br belongs to me and it's fqdn but I have to rellay through:smtp.sao.terra.com.br (my adsl isp provider through authentication, which is OK!) Any idea? I am locked in my Box!!! Ricardo PS:thanks for you paper (below) it is just I was looking for before getting into trouble! I have a paper on Postfix/Fetchmail/Procmail/Courier-IMAP that covers what you are trying to do. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/mailserver_config.html derek -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] user == http://counter.li.org/ Get Counted! Fri, 04 Apr 2003 10:50:00 -0300 10:50am up 6 days, 8:45, 8 users, load average: 1.44, 1.23, 1.12 Do you think the Monkees should get gas on odd or even days? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II
Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having WinME(FAT32), D drive: 15GB having all my data(FAT32), 128MB RAM ) 1)back up all my data at a friends place. fdisk and delete all existing partitions. make a primary partition of 10GB on which i'll load the Windows OS and which will also have the data which i want to access from Win and Linux. 2)in the 10GB thats left i'll have 4GB for '/' where i'll load Linux. 3)the remaining 6GB will be the '/home' partition, which will have the linux only data. 4)mine is a desktop machine for normal home use. at any given time i run atmost (browser+mp3player) or (a programming IDE + mp3player) etc. now i have 128MB of RAM so i'm thinking of doing away with the swap partition but i'm not too sure about this. so if i'm wrong please do tell me. so in short: PRIMARY PARTITION: Windows (FAT32)-10GB /dev/hda1 EXTENDED PARTITION /dev/hda2 LOGICAL PARTITION 1 LINUX OS-4GB /dev/hda5 LOGICAL PARTITION 2 LINUX /home-6GB /dev/hda6 i know this is a long way to do it but this way i avoid having 2 FAT32 partitions (one for Win OS and the other for my data) and have a substantial space for the 'Linux only data' partition. now i would like to know what you all think about this. if i'm doing wrong please do tell as i'm just starting out on Linux. thank you for your help. AK __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] drakfloppy bug?
On Thursday April 3 2003 03:33 pm, cF wrote: No one seems to have noticed my post so i'll give it another try. More likely nobody had a similar experience, and/or had the problem ;) Hey. Don't get annoyed, it's me again. As told earlier, i downloaded and installed VmWare (The Win32 version). After rebooting i tried to access linux from it, and i found out i had to have a boot floppy. So off to mandrake i go, i open the MCC and click on boot, then the drakfloppy icon. I leave everything default (there was no other choice anyways) and i hit the create button. Everything goes smoothly, and within a minute i get my linux bootdisk. So back to XP i go. I reopen VmWare, put the floppy in, and wait. This is the message i got: SYSLINUX 1.67 2002-02-03 Copyright (C) 1994-2001 H. Peter Anvin Cold not find kernel image: linux boot: _ I've tried formatting the floppy (twice) and making another boot disk (twice) and i still got the same message defiantly staring at me. Is this a bug in drakfloppy or am i doing something wrong, again? -cF Update: I've successfully made a boot disk using 'mkbootdisk', but DrakFloppy still has that problem. 'mkbootdisk $(uname -r)' always worked for me till very late in 9.1 development, and now with early 9.2 mkbootdisk fails with 'not enough room on the floppy', but the GUI tool in mcc never fails. Go figure? 'Bout the only time I use this old floppy drive anyhow ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
gpart Re: Diagnostic and recovery Re: [newbie] file system of unmounted partition
Hmmm... gpart sounds promissing... I'll definitively have a look at it. Thanks a lot HarM. Blessings, Anguo On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 12:49 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I just stumbled across a tool that might be of some help, it's called gpart. I messed up my mbr partition table (please don't ask) and needed to get my partitions reread. It works fine booting into a busybox shell with a floppy (or CD) and then running gpart from another floppy on which the binary has been copied. i.e. on the cml in the running busybox (after checking dmesg if your drive is seen at all): mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy cd /mnt/floppy ./gpart /dev/hda (or whatever your disk is) and away it goes guessing the partitions and the filesystems they contained including size et all:o) Very nifty, indeed! A lifesaver:o) You can get it here: http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart Good hunting, HarM -- - Do you know the four basic nutrition groups? - Errr... Hamburger, soda, French fries and dessert? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?
Damian Gatabria wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2003 18:36, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 06:12, Lanman wrote: It would suck-start a Harley, from 2 miles away, on a windy day, in snow this deep! Are we done now?? Can we kill this thread and get back to the other cool stuff? Lanman Uh - what cool stuff? Linux R00RZ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- How about this for cool stuff. Invite some friends over and convince them to start using the Mandrake gnu/linux distro. And if that is not cool enough. Go live on the south pole =) lol. -- Marc Koenders [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- -- I don't have an eating problem. I eat. I get fat. I buy new clothes. No problem. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mdkkdm and kdm not working
On Thursday April 3 2003 09:18 pm, Frank Cote wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 22:23, cF wrote: Do you realize how geeky this sound to a non-initiated linux user like me? Whoa. Sorry, I wasn't sure if I should email the newbie or experts list, so I figured I'd try the newbie list first see if anyone ran into this before. :) I'm no expert that's for sure. Frank Frank, I only got the behaviour you described after a large update to current cooker 9.2 yesterday, which included KDE 3.1.1, and other major updates like glibc, and some like mdkkdm. I solved it by using Crtl-Alt-Backspace to restart X (and mdkkdm). This only solved it temporarily, a reboot fixed it for good. kdm didn't have the problem. Since you also said you tried kdm, I take it you have the kdebase-kdm rpm installed. Edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop and make sure, or add the line DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 3:45 pm, Arthur Kng wrote: Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having WinME(FAT32), D drive: 15GB having all my data(FAT32), 128MB RAM ) 1)back up all my data at a friends place. fdisk and delete all existing partitions. make a primary partition of 10GB on which i'll load the Windows OS and which will also have the data which i want to access from Win and Linux. 2)in the 10GB thats left i'll have 4GB for '/' where i'll load Linux. 3)the remaining 6GB will be the '/home' partition, which will have the linux only data. 4)mine is a desktop machine for normal home use. at any given time i run atmost (browser+mp3player) or (a programming IDE + mp3player) etc. now i have 128MB of RAM so i'm thinking of doing away with the swap partition but i'm not too sure about this. so if i'm wrong please do tell me. so in short: PRIMARY PARTITION: Windows (FAT32)-10GB /dev/hda1 EXTENDED PARTITION /dev/hda2 LOGICAL PARTITION 1 LINUX OS-4GB /dev/hda5 LOGICAL PARTITION 2 LINUX /home-6GB /dev/hda6 i know this is a long way to do it but this way i avoid having 2 FAT32 partitions (one for Win OS and the other for my data) and have a substantial space for the 'Linux only data' partition. now i would like to know what you all think about this. if i'm doing wrong please do tell as i'm just starting out on Linux. You do need a swap partition, but 250MB would be enough. My /home is 6.7GB of which 6 is used, BUT, I have other users, some of which back up their data onto my box in their home partitions AND, more importantly, I use win4lin, so I have a whole windows98 install, associated apps and a fair amount of data all inside my /home. My guess is that at 5.75GB you will have plenty. Apart from that, everything should be fine. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II
- Original Message - From: Arthur Kng [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 3:45 PM Subject: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having WinME(FAT32), D drive: 15GB having all my data(FAT32), 128MB RAM ) 1)back up all my data at a friends place. fdisk and delete all existing partitions. make a primary partition of 10GB on which i'll load the Windows OS and which will also have the data which i want to access from Win and Linux. 2)in the 10GB thats left i'll have 4GB for '/' where i'll load Linux. 3)the remaining 6GB will be the '/home' partition, which will have the linux only data. 4)mine is a desktop machine for normal home use. at any given time i run atmost (browser+mp3player) or (a programming IDE + mp3player) etc. now i have 128MB of RAM so i'm thinking of doing away with the swap partition but i'm not too sure about this. so if i'm wrong please do tell me. so in short: PRIMARY PARTITION: Windows (FAT32)-10GB /dev/hda1 EXTENDED PARTITION /dev/hda2 LOGICAL PARTITION 1 LINUX OS-4GB /dev/hda5 LOGICAL PARTITION 2 LINUX /home-6GB /dev/hda6 i know this is a long way to do it but this way i avoid having 2 FAT32 partitions (one for Win OS and the other for my data) and have a substantial space for the 'Linux only data' partition. now i would like to know what you all think about this. if i'm doing wrong please do tell as i'm just starting out on Linux. thank you for your help. AK You may like to add your linux swap partition to that list Stevo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer not working in openoffice
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 04:46, Dan Johnson wrote: Hi all I can't find the info I need to get my HP Deskjet 932C printer working in Openoffice 1.0 in MD 9.1 any help would be appreciated but please be very specific for I am a newbie of all newbies in linux. TIA Does the printer work for any other applications at all? -- Sat Apr 5 05:20:00 EST 2003 05:20:00 up 14 days, 17:07, 3 users, load average: 0.20, 0.16, 0.26 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** That's right; the upper-case shift works fine on the screen, but they're not coming out on the damn printer... Hold? Sure, I'll hold. -- e.e. cummings last service call Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer not working in openoffice
Dan Johnson wrote: Hi all I can't find the info I need to get my HP Deskjet 932C printer working in Openoffice 1.0 in MD 9.1 any help would be appreciated but please be very specific for I am a newbie of all newbies in linux. TIA I've also had problems, though not as bad. I've found it will only work after applying the kind of solutions I used to use in my Windows days: switch printer off and on, log in and out etc. Sounds like a blocked pipe, so to speak. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Closed in my own Box! (it was= Clever email setup)
On Friday 04 April 2003 11:15, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: I really believe on Murphy! It's been more than a week the list (both newbie and expert!) were rejecting my posts!!! (because the problem mentioned below!) When I Cry out for help IT WORKS!! Is that the huntch? Still need help to solve the problem Let's see if this one gets through TIA Ricardo On Friday 04 April 2003 05:58, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 Apr 2003 8:35 am, RichardA wrote: Hi, Derek! I need your help! I can't email to the list! It doesn't accept me no more... this is why I am requesting your help! I' ve read your paper and that solved my future need, BUT for the now I'm in trouble with postfix (so I think!) I use the email:[EMAIL PROTECTED], for list and some business purposes, by in my box (mdk9) my user name in ricardo, so every email goes out like: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =this is the Problem Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = ditto! Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by home.english-quest.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92477124472 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 10:54:39 -0300 (BRT) Received: from pop.sao.terra.com.br [200.176.3.46] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.1.0) for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (single-drop); Fri, 04 Apr 2003 10:54:39 -0300 (BRT) Received: from [200.176.3.78] by campos.terra.com.br (LMTP); Fri, 04 Apr 2003 10:50:29 -0300 (BRT) Received: from home.english-quest.com.br (200-158-74-157.dsl.telesp.net.br [200.158.74.157]) (authenticated user equest) by botucatu.terra.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36B2129C0D6 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 10:50:29 -0300 (BRT) Is it possible to 'MASQUERADE my email? i.e. although having my user name as ricardo, Can I config postfix(or whatever) to send as [EMAIL PROTECTED] EVERYTHING was all right BEFORE my upgrading from mdk8.1 to mdk9! The postfix main.cf looks the same to me! the domain:english-quest.com.br belongs to me and it's fqdn but I have to rellay through:smtp.sao.terra.com.br (my adsl isp provider through authentication, which is OK!) Any idea? I am locked in my Box!!! Ricardo PS:thanks for you paper (below) it is just I was looking for before getting into trouble! I have a paper on Postfix/Fetchmail/Procmail/Courier-IMAP that covers what you are trying to do. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/mailserver_config.html derek -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] user == http://counter.li.org/ Get Counted! Fri, 04 Apr 2003 16:15:00 -0300 4:15pm up 6 days, 14:10, 6 users, load average: 1.12, 1.07, 1.08 If you don't do it, you'll never know what would have happened if you had done it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmail can't send to mailing list
Hi, For some reason, Kmail can't be used to send to this mailing list. I use the same email address here but every time I send, it return. I can send email to any individuals but not to mailing list. If you receive this message, it is sent from Evolution. I have used evolution for a while but when I start installing a new key board to type international characters, the screen fonts and buttons look big and ugly so I have to switch to Kmail. Any one can help me with this? Thanks, Vinh N. Pham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Burning a bootable cd - SOLVED
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 7:08 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 8:54 pm, Peter Watson wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 18:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 6:47 pm, Miark wrote: Anne In XCDRoast 1) you first set up a directory, in 'Settings''HD Settings' which will contain your ISO image 2)click 'create CD', click 'master tracks', select files you want to include in right hand window (File/Directory View) click 'add' and files appear in left hand window (session view) 3)click 'create session/image' tab, click 'master to image file' (this is in the directory you set up in 1) Although I don't normally master to image file, this is familiar territory. I had a few minutes to spare today, so I tried to burn the image - and failed! The error message is attached. The image file that it could not find exists, at 1.4MB, and the path was entered using browse to be sure it was right. I'm really at a loss with this one. Thanks to an off-list post the mystery is solved. By using the browse button I had given an absolute path to boot.img, not a relative one. This corrected, the image created successfully. Thanks, Kathy. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test message
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 05:20, Vinh N. Pham wrote: Sorry this is a test message Sorry, the email didn't work; you'll have to try again! (g) -- Sat Apr 5 06:00:01 EST 2003 06:00:01 up 14 days, 17:47, 3 users, load average: 0.78, 0.57, 0.47 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy, but they were listening in gibberish. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NEW FILE: Knetmon-Applet
The gentleman who so kindly wrote this program has created and RPM that works with Mandrake 9.1 (and the rc's) - it's a great applet for monitoring your network throughput (ppp and ethernet); check it out! http://perso.club-internet.fr/hftom/knetmonapplet/ -- Sat Apr 5 07:05:00 EST 2003 07:05:00 up 14 days, 18:52, 3 users, load average: 0.22, 0.36, 0.36 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Beware the one behind you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer not working in openoffice
On Saturday 05 April 2003 04:51 am, robin.bcc wrote: Dan Johnson wrote: Hi all I can't find the info I need to get my HP Deskjet 932C printer working in Openoffice 1.0 in MD 9.1 any help would be appreciated but please be very specific for I am a newbie of all newbies in linux. TIA I've also had problems, though not as bad. I've found it will only work after applying the kind of solutions I used to use in my Windows days: switch printer off and on, log in and out etc. Sounds like a blocked pipe, so to speak. Sir Robin Switching printers off and on is definitely not the linux way. I have a HP 930 C which I suppose is very close to Dan's 932 C. I'll admit that initially I had some problems (in 9.0 that is - waiting for my pre-ordered 9.1 to arrive) with this printer. However, visiting http://www.linuxprinting.org solved those. Please give some additional information : What printing system ? ( I prefer CUPS) What do you use for configuration ( printerdrake - webmin)? Is this an Open Office problem only ? Did you download the hpijs driver form HP ? Printers are notoriously tricky, but HP seems dedicated to linux, so eventually your 932 C will work OK, I'm sure. And Dan : don't apologize for being a newbie. We all are. And will forever be. And we're proud of it. Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 - kernel 2.4.19.24 Brought to you from my 100 % Micro$oft-free computer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 8:35 am, stormjumper wrote: sorry, somewhat off topic, but how did you get your win98 to see the ntfs partitions? www.sysinternals.com have NTFS drivers for Win9x and even DOS. It'll cost $299 for read/write, but read only is free. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 8:08 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 00:47, Arthur Kng wrote: Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having WinME(FAT32), D drive: 15GB having all my data(FAT32), 128MB RAM ) Don't do away with the swap. That's dangerous. If you've already gotten the mindset to set aside 10gb for your Win/Share data, and the remaining 10gb for everything else, make things even easier on yourself. More can be confusing. For linux, you're going to need three partitions - a SWAP, a /boot and a / (root) - the /home can live off the root - less partitions the better. Sorry, Stephen, but I have to disagree. Putting /home in a separate partition is much safer. There are some advantages to having a separate /boot if you are going to run several distros, but it's far from essential, and I think risking losing /home to a re-install or upgrade formatting the partition is a much bigger risk (even though re-installs are not as frequent as in windows). I know it can be backed up, but sod's law, you won't have backed up recently when trouble does come. Put aside 100mb for the /boot, put aside 256mb for the SWAP, and the rest give to / (root) - /home can live off of the / (root) so no need to setup a special partition for that. You can always backup your /home partition to the Windows partition if any trouble comes. This way you've kept it simple (remember the KISS principle!!) and you're set. Use lilo as your boot manager to jump back and forth to Windows. This way you're not creating heaps of different partitions that are unnecessary. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Instructions Installing Linux Kernel
Hi. I want to install the linux Kernel on my computer so I can experiment with it. I already have Mandrake 9.1 and I got the source code for the Kernel. I also got instructions from someone who told me if I follow their instructions I'd be able to install it perfectly. The thing is, when I log in to the Kernel version of Mandrake 9.1 I see the same user files as the ones in the normal installation of Linux. I'm prety sure that the Source Code version is not supposed to share any user documents with the normal version. Can anybody point me to another set of instructions that will tell me how to *correctly* add the Source Code version of the Kernel on my computer? Thanks. Raja __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Instructions Installing Linux Kernel
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 08:06, Computa User wrote: Hi. Can anybody point me to another set of instructions that will tell me how to *correctly* add the Source Code version of the Kernel on my computer? Thanks. Raja If you've already installed MDK 9.1 on your system, it's only a matter of running the Mandrake Control Centre and going through the RPMDrake to get the kernel sources installed properly on your workstation. Once you have the kernel sources installed (under /usr/src/linux) all you have to do from that point is to open a console, go into that directory structure, and type make xconfig - from there you will be presented with a GUI that will assist you in setting up parameters for a kernel - and will give you the basic instructions for what to do once you've created a configuration and saved it. Basic steps: * make clean * make mrproper * make deps * make modules * make modules_install * make install * lilo -- Sat Apr 5 08:15:00 EST 2003 08:15:00 up 14 days, 20:02, 3 users, load average: 2.37, 1.60, 1.14 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** All of us should treasure his Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: Just lie down on the floor and keep calm. -- Robert Wilson, John Dillinger Died for You Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wanted: Clever email setup
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 6:07 pm, RichardA wrote: On Friday 04 Apr 2003 9:58 am, Derek Jennings wrote: I have a paper on Postfix/Fetchmail/Procmail/Courier-IMAP that covers what you are trying to do. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/mailserver_config.html derek On installing Courier 1.5.3 I get messages like this: installing ./courier-imap-1.5.3-1mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ## courier-imap ## /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86809: /usr/share/rpm-helper/add-service: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86809: /usr/share/rpm-helper/create-file: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86809: /usr/share/rpm-helper/create-file: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86809: /usr/share/rpm-helper/create-file: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86809: /usr/share/rpm-helper/create-file: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86809: /usr/share/rpm-helper/create-file: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86809: /usr/share/rpm-helper/create-file: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86809: /usr/share/rpm-helper/create-file: No such file or directory And if I do 'service courier-imap start' I get: Starting Courier-IMAP server:/usr/lib/courier/imapd.rc: /bin/env: No such file or directory /usr/lib/courier/imapd.rc: /bin/env: No such file or directory imap/usr/lib/courier/imapd-ssl.rc: /bin/env: No such file or directory /usr/lib/courier/imapd-ssl.rc: /bin/env: No such file or directory imap-ssl Which is why I used imap-2001. Clearly something isn't right. RichardA This is Mandrake 9.0 you are using here is it? I had no trouble at all with that RPM on 9.0 derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kernal Panic
Came home from work to a real problem. System was locked up in a reboot and there was something about a CRC Error. I hit reset and got this: CPU 0 Machine check exception 0004 then Bank 2: f600217a at 0ec6c080. I also noticed that the bios reported the cpu temp as 147F. I looked in the system log and couldn't find anything. Any ideas? Hopefully the system will stay up long enough to get this out and get a reply back on what to do. -- Regards Chris Registered Linux user #283774 @ http://counter.li.org 5:51pm up 2 min, 1 user, load average: 2.17, 0.78, 0.27 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wanted: Clever email setup
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 11:16 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: This is Mandrake 9.0 you are using here is it? I had no trouble at all with that RPM on 9.0 derek Oops. I misread your page. However, if I uninstall 1.5.1-1 and install 1.4.2-1 to go with mdk 8.2, I get this: Preparing...## courier-imap## /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.63603: =/var/run/authdaemon.courier-imap: No such file or directory mkdir: cannot create directory `': No such file or directory IMPORTANT NOTE: Be SURE to have a Maildir directory in the users home directory containing a Maildir spool, or else you cannot login! [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]# service courier-imap start /etc/init.d/courier-imap: gprintf: command not found /etc/init.d/courier-imap: gprintf: command not found /etc/init.d/courier-imap: gprintf: command not found /etc/init.d/courier-imap: gprintf: command not found There's something on a French Mandrake list about this gprintf error. Babel says: the function gprintf is definie in the file/etc/init.d/functions Normalement, the files of launching of services (S) must launch it at the beginning. Certain scripts test even the presence of the file before launching it. Look in another file and checks that it is done same way in this file S80courier-IMAP. It is possible that there is a bug. It is necessary that the line comprises a point and a space before the name of the file it is imperative example. Checks also the presence of the file functions. Will also see in this file if the function gprintf is well defined (can be the file functions was corrompu). Any chance checks the right of the file functions, normally only the rights of reading would be necessary but on my machine its right are - rwxr -- R -- (744) and the owner is root. Even in English, that would be over my head. And look: # cat `ls /etc/init.d/*` | grep gprintf | wc -l # 165 What does this function look like? RichardA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.1 - few laptop questions
Hi Gang- I can't get over how solid Mandrake 9.1 is and I have been using it since 6.5 - not since the 7 series have I been this excited about it and can't wait for my Power Pack to arrive. I have a few questions - I am running 9.1 on a Sony Vaio GRX 560 Laptop with ACPI. I have sound, but above a certain volume it begins to distort. The sound card was detected as an Intel, but I know it is a Yamaha card since that is the driver disk for XP that it came with. First question - anyone else on the list using this type of laptop and second does anyone know of any Yamaha sound drivers out there - I must be blind because I have not found anything yet. Thanks, -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Minimal Installations
Hi All Can anyone help me with doing a minimal linux installation. I have the 3CDs for the Mandrake Linux 8.2 distro. The Mandrake site and documentation state ..."New installation features include ... a "minimal install" mode to fit a Mandrake system into 65 MB of your hard-disk.". I want to set up my internet gateway, so I only want DNS, NAT, DHCP, some modem drivers, the ability to remotely loginand the basic command line interface and console tools. I do not need any GUI apps or environment and I don't need Xfree86. Can anyone let me know how to set up the minimal installation? Should I just de-select all of the software options in the installer? What are the essential packages I need to get the gateway up and running, without all the other bells and tassles. Thanks in advance. Simon
[newbie] Fwd: Kernal Panic
Sorry if this comes in twice, but I'm not sure if the first post made it out before a kernal panic set in. Anyone have any ideas. As an addition I've since raised the case even with a window, removed the side panel, ran memtest, reseated the memory, reseated the connections on the drives. I have a temp monitor on the front of my case and the temp probe stuck in between my dual bladed cpu fan. The temp reported is now about 108f which is probably about 118 or so. Its been pretty hot here in Central Texas today about 90 and I've had the case on the floor probably not getting enought air. The bios also reported the case temp as 100F while reporting the cpu as 147. Maybe heat was the problem? -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Kernal Panic Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 17:55:46 -0600 From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Came home from work to a real problem. System was locked up in a reboot and there was something about a CRC Error. I hit reset and got this: CPU 0 Machine check exception 0004 then Bank 2: f600217a at 0ec6c080. I also noticed that the bios reported the cpu temp as 147F. I looked in the system log and couldn't find anything. Any ideas? Hopefully the system will stay up long enough to get this out and get a reply back on what to do. -- Regards Chris Registered Linux user #283774 @ http://counter.li.org 6:48pm up 26 min, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.07, 0.14 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor Switching on/off
Is this at runlevel 3, 5, or both? Miark On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 21:43:46 -0600 Osiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings Just installed 9.0 and it seems my monitor wants to click on/off every 3 seconds or so. I assume this is a driver issue, but I can not find any updates. I am using an ATI Rage card. Any known problems with ATI cards and Mandrake? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] My USB modem on 9.1
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 11:00 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: I tried to install the drivers for my external USB modem, and the Mandrake 9.1 installer reports they are the wrong signature. Does that mean I am doomed and the drivers are no good for me? Is there any way to get around this?. I installed anyway, and the modem doesn't work. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? RPM packages can be signed by the packager with their private GPG privacy key. When you install them, your system will check to see if you have a public key to match the signature. If a match is found it confirms that the person who is claiming to have packaged the RPM is the same person you have the key for. It is a protection against the public RPM download sites being hacked and malicious RPM packages being planted onto an unsuspecting public. If you install without a key you hoping that the RPM is OK. (I have heard of only one instance of a download site being hacked and malicious code inserted into a package) Your system is preloaded with Mandrakes key, so any official Mandrake RPM should install without any error. Other maintainers of download sites such as Texstar publish their key on their site (with instructions) However many sites offer RPMs without any signature at all, with the inevitable error message you saw. So you are not doomed. If the drivers are not working there is something else wrong. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] My USB modem on 9.1
On Friday 04 April 2003 16:28, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 Apr 2003 11:00 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: I tried to install the drivers for my external USB modem, and the Mandrake 9.1 installer reports they are the wrong signature. Does that mean I am doomed and the drivers are no good for me? Is there any way to get around this?. I installed anyway, and the modem doesn't work. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? RPM packages can be signed by the packager with their private GPG privacy key. When you install them, your system will check to see if you have a public key to match the signature. If a match is found it confirms that the person who is claiming to have packaged the RPM is the same person you have the key for. It is a protection against the public RPM download sites being hacked and malicious RPM packages being planted onto an unsuspecting public. If you install without a key you hoping that the RPM is OK. (I have heard of only one instance of a download site being hacked and malicious code inserted into a package) Your system is preloaded with Mandrakes key, so any official Mandrake RPM should install without any error. Other maintainers of download sites such as Texstar publish their key on their site (with instructions) However many sites offer RPMs without any signature at all, with the inevitable error message you saw. So you are not doomed. If the drivers are not working there is something else wrong. Thank you, Derek. I now have hopes, but I do not have the slightest idea of what to do. I have searched my modem's web site for instructions of how to install, how to configure, troubleshooting, FAQ, whatever, and there is nothing which can help. They just throw the drivers at you and that's it. In 9.0 I installed another set of drivers. When I attempt to install them in 9.1, I get a too technical a message saying what to do instead, but it is like reading chinese. Maybe I will post it just in case someone like you who have experience would take the time to put it in lay man terms. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] slowing down burner to prevent overheating
- Original Message - From: joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mandrake newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 3:25 AM Subject: [newbie] slowing down burner to prevent overheating I have a LiteON 40x12x48 which seems to be crashing my comp after watching a movie for half an hour or so. Pretty sure this is a heat problem as it gets almost too hot to touch. Anyone know how to slow it down to a reasonable rate, or who could point me in the right direction for finding this info? Anyone tired of (deliberately) poorly designed hardware and firmware? (should be a separate topic I know but...) TIA for helpful advice. Just a thought... If the unit is getting that hot, have you checked your case fans/cooling to see if there is a problem. Maybe your system fan speed reports etc?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fluxbox fbdesk WAS bbpager WAS [newbie] Fluxbox andbackground under 9.1
Todd, I'm running ROX 1.3.3 (from Mandrake) seems about the same, performance wise but, if I recall you were running a somewhat older version of Rox a few months ago. Do you have 'thumbnails' turned off? Derek, I'll take a look at bbpager..sound good. Derek, Todd et al. Meanwhile, I grabbed fbdesk from a 'contrib' mirror. 'S'pose to put icons on your fluxbox desktop, which it does, but they don't seem to be very functional. Wassup with this addon? You guys using it? Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 03:49, Derek Jennings wrote: Good. Like Todd I find the gap between fluxbox and KDE has narrowed with Mandrake 9.1. KDE is faster and fluxbox seems a little slower. But KDE is still not fast enough to make it comfortable to use on my low end laptop. While we are on the subject of fluxbox, I have an RPM of bbpager on my download page you might like to try. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Downloadsd_op=viewdownloadcid=1 BBpager gives you a view of the contents of your desktops. You can even move windows from desktop to desktop with it. Invoke it with bbpager -n -c ~/.bbtools/bbpager.nobb in your ~/.fluxbox/startup file You will need to move the contents of /usr/share/bbtools to ~/.bbtools and edit the bbpager.nobb as required. I made these changes :- bbpager.desktopChangeButton: 1 bbpager.windowMoveButton:1 bbpager.windowFocusButton:3 bbpager.windowRaiseButton:3 derek On Friday 04 Apr 2003 4:12 am, Terry Smith wrote: They say the memory goes first :-)). So I checked some more and am answering my own question I had actually sent a msg to a new fluxbox convert several months ago. My knowledge, in turn came from something Derek had posted. Anyhow, to get fluxbox to see your 'startup' script you need a line in the ~/.fluxbox/init config file that says: session.screen0.rootCommand ~/.fluxbox/startup The file 'startup' must be executable. Works fine now. Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 21:23, Terry Smith wrote: Derek, Todd and all you other fluxbox experts out there, Still probing 9.1 (the best yet IMHO ..in fact, on my 'minimalist' machine, I put CD1 in the drive, rebooted, left the house for 3 hours, came home, hit 'return' pulled the CD and had a system that worked perfectly [it was an update rather than a clean install but what the hey]) but I digress... I use fluxbox and rox in tandem as ably demonstrated by Derek and Todd some moths ago. The new fluxbox (fluxbox-0.1.14-6mdk but the same thing is true of texstar's 0.1.14 rpm) is 'overlaying' my desktop with a bsetbg coming from the selected theme. Said differently, although I've put a line in my 'startup' script like 'bsetbg -f ~/photos/picture_I_want' the actual background I get is that determined by the theme. I've tried commenting out the 'session.styleFile' line but that didn't work either. I thought maybe the Rox pinboard was interfering with background but it's turned off. Anybody seen/fixed this? TIA. Terry Smith Cape Cod USA __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Terry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] slowing down burner to prevent overheating
I have a LiteON 40x12x48 which seems to be crashing my comp after watching a movie for half an hour or so. Pretty sure this is a heat problem as it gets almost too hot to touch. Anyone know how to slow it down to a reasonable rate, or who could point me in the right direction for finding this info? Anyone tired of (deliberately) poorly designed hardware and firmware? (should be a separate topic I know but...) TIA for helpful advice. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 00:47, Arthur Kng wrote: Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having WinME(FAT32), D drive: 15GB having all my data(FAT32), 128MB RAM ) Don't do away with the swap. That's dangerous. If you've already gotten the mindset to set aside 10gb for your Win/Share data, and the remaining 10gb for everything else, make things even easier on yourself. More can be confusing. For linux, you're going to need three partitions - a SWAP, a /boot and a / (root) - the /home can live off the root - less partitions the better. Put aside 100mb for the /boot, put aside 256mb for the SWAP, and the rest give to / (root) - /home can live off of the / (root) so no need to setup a special partition for that. You can always backup your /home partition to the Windows partition if any trouble comes. This way you've kept it simple (remember the KISS principle!!) and you're set. Use lilo as your boot manager to jump back and forth to Windows. This way you're not creating heaps of different partitions that are unnecessary. -- Sat Apr 5 05:05:00 EST 2003 05:05:00 up 14 days, 16:52, 3 users, load average: 0.22, 0.35, 0.51 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Are you sure you're not an encyclopedia salesman? No, Ma'am. Just a burglar, come to ransack the flat. -- Monty Python Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
I agree W2K is the best windblows distro, my friends who have XP rate it poorly, Waitjusadamnminute... :( calling w2k or anything windows a distro is going way too far. it's a homogeneous OS with *very* little in the way of additional software. it's like calling a 2 sided 45 rpm record an 'album' :) John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Wine or VM
On Thursday 03 April 2003 07:53 am, Lucio_Costa wrote: Depends what U wanbt to run... Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. More information can be read in the articles Why Wine is so important (http://www.winehq.com/?page=why) In VMWare u need a Windows license to install in it. VMware Workstation is virtual machine software for technical professionals. It lets you run multiple versions of operating systems simultaneously on a single computer. Quit wasting time configuring hardware, installing software, rebooting/reconfiguring systems. Spend more time developing, testing, and deploying applications and delivering support. I think this is the most important thing to say. [Deleted] I dual boot between LM9.0 and win2k. The win2k applications I want are already installed on the win2k. Will I have to install them again on LM9.0 in order to use wine? Or can wine on LM9.0 run those applications that are already installed on the win2k (the win2k is on a FAT32 partition). Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone tried this? (intruder retaliation)
There was an excellent one a few years back, with Linus ranting about the poor standards of personal hygiene of various Open Source luminaries. Dunno about that one but I've seen a few possible examples -- for instance lots of people at our LUG look like 70's hippies :). And I've met Richard Stallman twice in person, he's real hippie looking, in comparison with Linus who is clean shaven with a short haircut. I guess rms is clean though. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where is KDE Edu?
Where is KDE educational package in Mandrake 9.1? I have all 3 CDs but can't find it anywhere. Look for kdeedu-3.1-5mdk. And fwiw kstars still hogs the whole X session, dunno why. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] My USB modem on 9.1
I tried to install the drivers for my external USB modem, and the Mandrake 9.1 installer reports they are the wrong signature. Does that mean I am doomed and the drivers are no good for me? Is there any way to get around this?. I installed anyway, and the modem doesn't work. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II
Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having WinME(FAT32), D drive: 15GB having all my data(FAT32), 128MB RAM ) 1)back up all my data at a friends place. fdisk and delete all existing partitions. make a primary partition of 10GB on which i'll load the Windows OS and which will also have the data which i want to access from Win and Linux. 2)in the 10GB thats left i'll have 4GB for '/' where i'll load Linux. 3)the remaining 6GB will be the '/home' partition, which will have the linux only data. 4)mine is a desktop machine for normal home use. at any given time i run atmost (browser+mp3player) or (a programming IDE + mp3player) etc. now i have 128MB of RAM so i'm thinking of doing away with the swap partition but i'm not too sure about this. so if i'm wrong please do tell me. so in short: PRIMARY PARTITION: Windows (FAT32)-10GB /dev/hda1 EXTENDED PARTITION /dev/hda2 LOGICAL PARTITION 1 LINUX OS-4GB /dev/hda5 LOGICAL PARTITION 2 LINUX /home-6GB /dev/hda6 i know this is a long way to do it but this way i avoid having 2 FAT32 partitions (one for Win OS and the other for my data) and have a substantial space for the 'Linux only data' partition. now i would like to know what you all think about this. if i'm doing wrong please do tell as i'm just starting out on Linux. thank you for your help. AK __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hey what happened to my icons
here i am doing a bunch of stuff naturally and not sure what i did, but suddenly all my icons in kde 3.1 are gone. For a while just one icon was showing, now not even that - all there is is the background and my bottom pane bar. Eveerything else is running fine. Seems that a process of kde died unexpectedly, the question is which? And how to restart that portion of kde without having to drop back to console and restart X? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning
thanks. i'll look into it. to be honest, i was just curious as a seem to recall my win98 not being able to see the ntfs partitions on the same drive used by win2k. - Original Message - From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 06:17 Subject: Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning On Friday 04 Apr 2003 8:35 am, stormjumper wrote: sorry, somewhat off topic, but how did you get your win98 to see the ntfs partitions? www.sysinternals.com have NTFS drivers for Win9x and even DOS. It'll cost $299 for read/write, but read only is free. -- Richard Urwin 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
[newbie] KDE problems
Hi after upgrade to 9.1 I have two problems when I start KDE First error comes immediately after startup Kinit could not launch usr/bin/autostart truth is that there is no such file. Clicking on 'Removable Media' or 'Trash' it runs Cervisia and starts claiming that it is not a CVS catalog. I wonder how is Cervisia connected to my desktop and how to get rid of this error. uninstalling that did not change anything.. then it was claiming that it is not able to run cervisia. Also all the shortcuts I do to desctop also want to run with cervisia. Please anybody advise. Kristjan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fluxbox fbdesk WAS bbpager WAS [newbie] Fluxbox and backgroundunder 9.1
On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 22:15:12 -0500 Terry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd, I'm running ROX 1.3.3 (from Mandrake) seems about the same, performance wise but, if I recall you were running a somewhat older version of Rox a few months ago. Do you have 'thumbnails' turned off? Yup, but it's better now. I was doing a bunch of stuff before, and that's what slowed it down. Compiling apps and copying stuff from cd to hd and having 10 xterms, 4 rox windows, mcc, mail, news and xmms running has a tendency to slow things down just a touch. Meanwhile, I grabbed fbdesk from a 'contrib' mirror. 'S'pose to put icons on your fluxbox desktop, which it does, but they don't seem to be very functional. Wassup with this addon? You guys using it? I'm not. I heard it wasn't very functional from a few posts on the fluxbox list IIRC. I tried idesk, which worked well, but was a pain because you had to manually create entries for each icon you wanted. And you had to double-click to start an app. I hate double-clicking. The only extras I use are the artwiz fonts and the remember patch. I'm considering the one that lets you manage workspaces (as in different wallpaper per space etc.), but I'm not sure it's something I really need. One thing from fluxbox I really missed when using KDE was the ability to change desktops using the wheel. And I didn't like that apps from different desktops stayed in the taskbar (minimized or not) so clicking them would bring them up in any desktop. I've just about got everything back to how I like it ;) Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Moving directories
as the suggestted # tar -cvf - * | ( cd /mnt; tar -xpf - ) cp -a /home /mnt/home Not exactly. cp -a may do the job, but permissions need to be enforced. That's the job of the 'p' (preserve permissions) flag. Without that all the files may not have the right permissions and ownerships, and that can screw things up. Secondly, you may have missed one of my points. You don't copy to 'home' on /mnt. You copy home over to /mnt. For instance, I have some users in /home - such as dfox (me). If I mount my /home on /mnt, all I see are the directories (dfox, root, ftp, and so forth.) If I mount this partition on /mnt, it's /mnt/dfox, on home, it's /home/dfox. In other words, the directories on the partition have /home/ added to them by virtue of it being mounted underneath /home -- i.e., replacing the previous content of /home (i.e., empty) with a number of directories and/or files. If you start with 'home' on /mnt you end up with /home/home/username... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?
On Friday 04 April 2003 08:54 am, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: It isn't about money for me. So for my foray in Linux has cost me more than WinXP would have. I've gone to Linux because I don't like the new M$ licensing scheme or the direction M$ is going. I also tend to monkey with the hardware on my PC so it wouldn't be long before XP and I would have had a serious argument. As far as I'm concurened it's none of Bill Gates business what hardware and software I run on my machine, especially since I never use pirated software. I second that! I have lost more time trying to get Linux to work on my laptop, time I could have devoted to clients doing work and getting paid for it! I could have fired up Dreamweaver and produced the sites I needed to get done or use MS Office to work on a few proposals, BUT I have discovered later on that while Dreamweaver appears to speed up development initially that is quickly lost when a client wants something changed or something outside of the scope of what Dreamweaver can do. I run an ISP and my main work consits of: maintaining servers, keeping email flowing, responding to my customers, building web applications and working on improving services. Often I will have several programs going at once, connected to 10 different servers - with XP I would blue screen at least once or twice a day.mind you that was an improvement, but when a clients web site is down time matters. Truthfully I still have XP on this Laptop, I boot into it when I want to burn a music CD or want to use my Intel web cam - I can't get either to work well in Linux yet. On the other side of the coin I run KDE at 1600x1200 res and under XP that just hurt my eyes. So, in answer to your question - I want to do what *I* want to do on *MY* machine and do it the way *I* want to do it. Linux allows me to tweak the heck out of my machine, KDE is nice to look at and Quanta Plus has to be one of the best PHP editors out there. -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wanted: Clever email setup
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 08:35:02 +0100, RichardA wrote: I want my server to pick up mail and dump it in /maildir format, because it's more reliable. Then I want to read it from either of two client PCs. Simple, yes? I got as far as setting up fetchmail and postfix, but courier-imap beat me. Have a look at getmail. That can do all the tricks and more. http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-3.0/ The setup is really simple. Getmail delivers mail in maildir format and it is very reliable. I have used it for years and it has never let me down. No fetchmail for me. Paul -- The mome rath isn't born that could outgrabe me. -Nicol Williamson http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hey what happened to my icons
Seems that a process of kde died unexpectedly, the question is which? Addendum: I ended up restarting KDE and all my icons are back. However there are seemingly a number of stuck kdeinit processes that I am finding difficult to get rid of. I tried manually killing some of them, even killall kdeinit. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] getting rid of ethernet card ?
I have a problem. I once had an ethernet card, recognised as a tulip device. (What is this tulip btw?). I then replaced it for another one, and the problem is that the OS still looks for the old one at startup (upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1 did not fix it). Also I get no internet connection, but have to configure the network each time I have rebooted. 1. How can I get rid of the settings of the old card. 2. How can I get internet to start at boot (think this has to do with 1 since it worked with the old card). _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Burning a bootable cd
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 8:54 pm, Peter Watson wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 18:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 6:47 pm, Miark wrote: Anne In XCDRoast 1) you first set up a directory, in 'Settings''HD Settings' which will contain your ISO image 2)click 'create CD', click 'master tracks', select files you want to include in right hand window (File/Directory View) click 'add' and files appear in left hand window (session view) 3)click 'create session/image' tab, click 'master to image file' (this is in the directory you set up in 1) Although I don't normally master to image file, this is familiar territory. I had a few minutes to spare today, so I tried to burn the image - and failed! The error message is attached. The image file that it could not find exists, at 1.4MB, and the path was entered using browse to be sure it was right. I'm really at a loss with this one. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660. mkisofs 1.15a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Scanning /home/anne/Desktop/Knoppix Scanning /home/anne/Desktop/Knoppix/Demos Scanning /home/anne/Desktop/Knoppix/Demos/Audio Scanning /home/anne/Desktop/Knoppix/knoppix Scanning /home/anne/Desktop/Knoppix/Talks Writing: Initial Padbock Start Block 0 Done with: Initial Padbock Block(s)16 Writing: Primary Volume Descriptor Start Block 16 Done with: Primary Volume Descriptor Block(s)1 Writing: Eltorito Volume Descriptor Start Block 17 call to search_tree_file with an absolute path, stripping initial path separator. Hope this was intended... mkisofs: Uh oh, I cant find the boot image '/home/anne/Desktop/Knoppix/knoppix/boot.img' ! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Follow Up Mandrake9.1 and ADSL
Thank you for responding my question concerning establishing an ADSL connection withMdk9.1. The suggestion of using the command adsl-setup worked. I was curious however why DrakConnect would not setup my DSL correctly and discovered that using DrakeConnect to setup ADSL inserts addition information concerning the card's driver type in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/net_cnx_up and /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf files. Once that information is removed ADSL can startup and connect on boot. t.l. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] depmod woes
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 01:55, robin.bcc wrote: Can anyone tell me what I should do about this? [EMAIL PROTECTED] nalan]# depmod depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.o.gz: Bad symbol index: 0176 = 003f Sir Robin, Have you installed the kernel sources and the likes of that? After I put this installation together, aside from other tweaks'n'tunes, I installed the kernel sources, ran a depmod -a and since have not had to deal with any strange error messages concerning modules dependencies and the likes...ay? -- Sat Apr 5 04:50:01 EST 2003 04:50:01 up 14 days, 16:37, 3 users, load average: 2.04, 1.43, 0.78 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning
stormjumper wrote: thanks. i'll look into it. to be honest, i was just curious as a seem to recall my win98 not being able to see the ntfs partitions on the same drive used by win2k. Natively, it can't see NTFS partitions on any drive - Win9x only knows about FAT and FAT32. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
