Re: [newbie-it] Plugin per avi in xine
il Sunday 09 November 2003 01:08, Tommaso ha scritto riguardo a [newbie-it] Plugin per avi in xine Salve, qualcuno sa dirmi quali pacchetti devo installare da PLD per poter vedere file avi in xine. Grazie, Tommaso Per PLD intendi PLF? Comunque se installi la versione di PLF (aggiungendolo alla fonti per urpmi) vedi tutto o quasi. Di solito gli avi si vedono, forse quelli che cerchi tu hanno codecs particolari, quindi PLF è il posto ideale. Ciao, Germano
Re: [newbie-it] Re: Conversione videocassetta-formato digitale
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 23:23:49 + tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 20:47, Mauro wrote: ovvero, mi basta salvare l'audio, non mi interessa il video. se hai cablaggio da VCR alla scheda audio e questa è settata correttamente,puoi usare KRec. krec può andare bene per registrare... ma per registrare ed eventualmente editare il suono ci sono ottimi software come audacity o rezound. -- Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ Ma se uno e' pieno di se stesso affoga? Slack 9.1 ~ KDE Linux user Tattari_manna aka Plugs MajaGLUG member
Re: [newbie-it] spegere pc da kde 3.1.3
prenditi le tue responsabilità, scido, non puoi negarlo, tu alle 15:42, sabato 8 novembre 2003, hai digitato sulla tastiera del tuo computer credendo che forse non me ne sarei accorto: ciao a tutti. vorrei sapere se è possibile spegnere lo stesso il pc da kde anche senza utilizzare kdm (o meglio mkdm). ho cercato in giro ma non ho trovato molto ciao scido entri in una konsole e dai il comando halt (se non funziona da utente lo dai da root) -- __ ciao dal majaglug carmine l'ammaestratore consiglia: 119/123: gli antichi padri dicevano: non seguire le orme del bufalo... o calpesterai grosse merde.
Re: [newbie-it] spegere pc da kde 3.1.3
Alle 17:12, lunedí 10 novembre 2003, carmine de pasquale ha scritto: entri in una konsole e dai il comando halt (se non funziona da utente lo dai da root) a me sinceramente interessava sapere se esiste un comando che termina kde (magari salvando la sessione) e poi spegne/riavvia il pc. grazie a dio mi ricordo ancora qualche comando da console :-P se tuttavia qualcuno sa come si salva la sessione di kde, il gioco è fatto saluti Scido
[newbie-it] fetch/procmail + thunderbird_ Parte2
...mi correggo... Quando apro thunderbird dopo aver scaricato la posta con fetchmail+procmail mi appaiono ancora le mail già lette o già cancellate! Cioè ogni volta che procmail va a scrivere sui file in locale fa un qualcosa che va ad intaccare thunderbird il quale non riconosce più le mail lette, le mail cestinate e quelle ancora da leggere... uhmm... Why?? Grazie ciao ciao!
[newbie-it] Modem USB
Qualcuno è riuscito a installare un modem usb FM-56-USB-ST? -- Corrado
Re: [newbie-it] Plugin per avi in xine
Il lun, 2003-11-10 alle 10:52, Germano ha scritto: il Sunday 09 November 2003 01:08, Tommaso ha scritto qualcuno sa dirmi quali pacchetti devo installare da PLD per poter vedere file avi in xine. Di solito gli avi si vedono, forse quelli che cerchi tu hanno codecs particolari, quindi PLF è il posto ideale. Forse si tratta di file in formato divx o xvid, che come estensione hanno appunto avi: i plug-in sono comunque sempre li :) -- Corrado
Re: [newbie] dependencies - what to do?
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 04:28, Derek Jennings wrote: [...snip] Kpackage does not resolve dependencies. So if you use it you will have to download and install all the dependencies. An easier way is to get mplayer-gui-0.92-0.1plf.i586.rpm from PLF. ( http://plf.zarb.org/ ) I think you are using Mandrake 9.0 aren't you? They have a version there for Mandrake 9.0. Now to make sure you do not get dependency problems go here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php and follow the instructions to declare a urpmi source for plf (Hint:- Many of the servers are quite slow. Club-Internet is the best I have found) You can now just go to your Mandrake Software install gui type mplayer-gui in the box and everything will install nicely. Thanks for your very helpful reply, Derek. Unfortunately I'm not able to tell you yet if it works or not - the download just failed again for the 5th time in a row. Not having a lot of luck staying connected for the [estimated] 55 minutes in a single session to download a 6.5M file. I don't suppose there's any way to make it resume, instead of starting again from scratch each time? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:43, alemao wrote: What´s HTH? Highway to Hell? AC/DC! Hope That Helps HTH ;) Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thought you might enjoy this
aronsmith wrote: http://make.your.recipes.free.fr/ Lovely, thanks Aron. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....
Phil Newcombe wrote: Thinker wrote: Any idea as to how long we will have to wait for the ISO's? Is there another way to download and fully install 9.2 without the ISO's, like a Net_install? -Thanks, -=Thinker I just installed 9.2 from an ftp mirror after dl'ing the network install floppy image and 'rawrite'ing it (rawritewin doesn't seem to work, at least on W98). Slick as a rotten banana - worked like a charm. (I looked up the uri for the mirror on the mandrake 9.2 dl page before I started.) http://mirror.wa.3fl.net/pub/mandrake/9.2/ -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dependencies - what to do?
On Monday 10 Nov 2003 8:51 am, Merlin Zener wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 04:28, Derek Jennings wrote: [...snip] Kpackage does not resolve dependencies. So if you use it you will have to download and install all the dependencies. An easier way is to get mplayer-gui-0.92-0.1plf.i586.rpm from PLF. ( http://plf.zarb.org/ ) I think you are using Mandrake 9.0 aren't you? They have a version there for Mandrake 9.0. Now to make sure you do not get dependency problems go here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php and follow the instructions to declare a urpmi source for plf (Hint:- Many of the servers are quite slow. Club-Internet is the best I have found) You can now just go to your Mandrake Software install gui type mplayer-gui in the box and everything will install nicely. Thanks for your very helpful reply, Derek. Unfortunately I'm not able to tell you yet if it works or not - the download just failed again for the 5th time in a row. Not having a lot of luck staying connected for the [estimated] 55 minutes in a single session to download a 6.5M file. I don't suppose there's any way to make it resume, instead of starting again from scratch each time? -- Merlin Zener Ah yes, the joys of dial up networking :-( You could try doing the installation from the command line. Use the command urpmi --wget --no-clean mplayer mplayer-gui That will force urpmi to use wget to fetch the files. wget is capable of resuming, so hopefully it will resume if you lose the link. If you lose the link try reconnecting without stopping urpmi. The --no-clean switch tells urpmi not to erase the downloaded files from the temporary store at /var/cache/urpmi/rpms so they will still be there if the download is interrupted. Another alternative is to download the files using gftp (which resumes), put them in a directory on their own, cd to the directory and then urpmi *.rpm will install all the RPMs in that directory and will pull in any required dependencies. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dependencies - what to do?
What is PLF, please ? Tom Dne po 10. listopadu 2003 12:20 Derek Jennings napsal(a): On Monday 10 Nov 2003 8:51 am, Merlin Zener wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 04:28, Derek Jennings wrote: [...snip] Kpackage does not resolve dependencies. So if you use it you will have to download and install all the dependencies. An easier way is to get mplayer-gui-0.92-0.1plf.i586.rpm from PLF. ( http://plf.zarb.org/ ) I think you are using Mandrake 9.0 aren't you? They have a version there for Mandrake 9.0. Now to make sure you do not get dependency problems go here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php and follow the instructions to declare a urpmi source for plf (Hint:- Many of the servers are quite slow. Club-Internet is the best I have found) You can now just go to your Mandrake Software install gui type mplayer-gui in the box and everything will install nicely. Thanks for your very helpful reply, Derek. Unfortunately I'm not able to tell you yet if it works or not - the download just failed again for the 5th time in a row. Not having a lot of luck staying connected for the [estimated] 55 minutes in a single session to download a 6.5M file. I don't suppose there's any way to make it resume, instead of starting again from scratch each time? -- Merlin Zener Ah yes, the joys of dial up networking :-( You could try doing the installation from the command line. Use the command urpmi --wget --no-clean mplayer mplayer-gui That will force urpmi to use wget to fetch the files. wget is capable of resuming, so hopefully it will resume if you lose the link. If you lose the link try reconnecting without stopping urpmi. The --no-clean switch tells urpmi not to erase the downloaded files from the temporary store at /var/cache/urpmi/rpms so they will still be there if the download is interrupted. Another alternative is to download the files using gftp (which resumes), put them in a directory on their own, cd to the directory and then urpmi *.rpm will install all the RPMs in that directory and will pull in any required dependencies. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dependencies - what to do?
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 18:20, Derek Jennings wrote: [...snip] Ah yes, the joys of dial up networking :-( You could try doing the installation from the command line. Use the command urpmi --wget --no-clean mplayer mplayer-gui Thanks again for your help, Derek. I'm not at the stage of trying to get mplayer yet - I'm still trying to get the urpmi sources updated: the first one downloaded ok, but the second one keeps on timing out, usually at around 70 - 80%... Is there a way to make that easy urpmi gadget use wget too? The other thing is, I entered urpmi.removemedia -a like it said to on that site, and of course now rpmdrake doesn't see my original install CDs. I went to add sources in the Software Sources Manager in the Mandrake Control Center and added /mnt/cdrom but it said: unable to update medium; it will be automatically disabled. Now Konquerer sees no files on the CD... TIA for your thoughts/suggestions ;) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....
Any idea as to how long we will have to wait for the ISO's? Is there another way to download and fully install 9.2 without the ISO's, like a Net_install? -Thanks, -=Thinker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 22:59, Thinker wrote: Any idea as to how long we will have to wait for the ISO's? Is there another way to download and fully install 9.2 without the ISO's, like a Net_install? -Thanks, -=Thinker Eh - who in the hell in their right mind would want to run MDK 9.2 anyways...must be either a druggo from Canada or a drunk from the US... stephen kuhn - owner He's back! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....
Not in the biblical sense, but I've seen his posts, now and then. Maybe I'm being really dense but I don't know what his agnst is all about vis-a-vis Mandrake 9.2. Of course, I don't run any Bleeding Edge hardware like USB stuff, or WebCams but still, it seems to work fine on my P4 system ! Grin! So Wassup Stephen? Why the anti-9.2 post? Curious readers want to know. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/10/2003 at 9:38 AM HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:12:49 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Gee Stephen; I'm not a druggo, but I am Canadian, and 9.2 is running absolutely fine on my systems. The worst thing I've had to do with a 9.2 iunstall is to reset the BIOS to defaults until the install was complete. Don't know why you're unhappy with it. Mine runs faster, and smoother than 9.1, with nicer graphics. What seems to be your problem with 9.2? Need some help? Um, yer familiar with Stephen, no? LOL! -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations. 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] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 01:12, Lanman wrote: Gee Stephen; I'm not a druggo, but I am Canadian, and 9.2 is running absolutely fine on my systems. The worst thing I've had to do with a 9.2 iunstall is to reset the BIOS to defaults until the install was complete. Don't know why you're unhappy with it. Mine runs faster, and smoother than 9.1, with nicer graphics. What seems to be your problem with 9.2? Need some help? Lanman Hehehe...just stirring up the manure, mate...y'all reckon I'd ditch? NOT! Just been TCB and getting things straight - and also biz is flat out like a lizard drinking - so that's been another reason to not get online much unless for work related reasons... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Another Armenia, Belgium ... the weak innocents who always seem to be located on a natural invasion route. -- Kirk, Errand of Mercy, stardate 3198.4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 01:18, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 00:58:36 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Eh - who in the hell in their right mind would want to run MDK 9.2 anyways...must be either a druggo from Canada or a drunk from the US... Woot! Stephen's back! Good ta see ya mate! Ya ain't gonna kiss me, now, are ya? Can't trust those Canucks, ya know... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Many receive advice, few profit by it. -- Publilius Syrus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Grey fields in yanc ( set-up tool for nvidia graphic chipset )
Dear Friends , I am looking for a easy and fast set -up tool for my nvidia chipsetted , ASUS FX 5600 vga card. I found and installed yanc , however when I run this program , the most useful fields ( such as twinview , tv -out etc.) are always grey ( not enabled for selection ). Could anybody help me about this. I am using latest nvidia driver ( downloaded and installed) and Xfree 4.3 with hardware acceleration. Or is there any other program that is used to configure XFConfig-4 easily.?? Or does anyone know if nvidia itself will give us a its own brand -new config. program in the near future.??? Thanks.. Hertas. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....
HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:12:49 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Gee Stephen; I'm not a druggo, but I am Canadian, and 9.2 is running absolutely fine on my systems. The worst thing I've had to do with a 9.2 iunstall is to reset the BIOS to defaults until the install was complete. Don't know why you're unhappy with it. Mine runs faster, and smoother than 9.1, with nicer graphics. What seems to be your problem with 9.2? Need some help? Um, yer familiar with Stephen, no? For those who came in late and do not know of stephen, He is an ex pat US dude that came to australia and discovered magic mushrooms at what appears to be roughly the same time.. Both of those facets have been blatent in his posts ever since. Currently he is probably upset that his former linux fav redhat has abaondoned their grass roots users in the chase for the ellusive dollar. :-) rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....
On 11/11/2003 at 1:57 AM Stephen Kuhn wrote: Just been TCB and getting things straight - and also biz is flat out like a lizard drinking - so that's been another reason to not get online much unless for work related reasons... stephen kuhn - owner That brings up an interesting curiousity. I wonder how many of the list members are using Linux in a professional scenario? I'm going to ask the list. it would be nice to know how many of us are using Linux in the business world, and how it's being used. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....
Now Now Franki ,...be nice! Grin! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/10/2003 at 11:08 PM Franki wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:12:49 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Gee Stephen; I'm not a druggo, but I am Canadian, and 9.2 is running absolutely fine on my systems. The worst thing I've had to do with a 9.2 iunstall is to reset the BIOS to defaults until the install was complete. Don't know why you're unhappy with it. Mine runs faster, and smoother than 9.1, with nicer graphics. What seems to be your problem with 9.2? Need some help? Um, yer familiar with Stephen, no? For those who came in late and do not know of stephen, He is an ex pat US dude that came to australia and discovered magic mushrooms at what appears to be roughly the same time.. Both of those facets have been blatent in his posts ever since. Currently he is probably upset that his former linux fav redhat has abaondoned their grass roots users in the chase for the ellusive dollar. :-) rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. 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] Network Install Fail, Signal 11
Hi all, Thought I'd give up waiting for the ISO's to be released and do a network install, but no go. Yes, PNP is turned off in the BIOS, if that matters in this case. Anyway, boots from the floppy fine, choose FTP, then DHCP, identifies the network card correctly, then when it tries to bring up networking, I get Signal 11, exiting. The logs (alt-F3) show that the machine got the correct info from my DHCP server and loaded the driver for the net card successfully, shows no errors at all (?) Any idea what in tarnation is goin' wrong? Thanks! BTW, if anyone can point me to an FTP with the ISO's, I'd ray appreciate it, save me this hassle. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -- Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Mr. W.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....
Lanman wrote: I wonder how many of the list members are using Linux in a professional scenario? I'm going to ask the list. it would be nice to know how many of us are using Linux in the business world, and how it's being used. Lanman Lanman, If you start a new thread I'll tell you how I use Mdk 9.1 in a production environment. -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA == Dual booting 98lite;MDK 9.1 stock kernel Kde 3.1 Registered Linux User #248955 liquid/acqua Theme == If obstacles are what you see in your path... Then you have lost sight of your goal! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !
Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with it, and which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase in business because of Linux and what interesting things they're doing with Linux. It might prove to be an interesting source of information for newbie's to know what can be done with Linux, especially when it's applied in a production environment. We see all kinds of articles regarding Linux, but it's very hard to contact those people to see how something was done, and what Tips 'n' Tricks were used to accomplish a particular task. MandrakeSoft has a special site (http://www.mandrakebizcases.com ), that allows anyone to post their particular application of Linux, but for the most part you can't get the hands-on info from those companies or individuals. Is this something we could/should add to the Twiki site? Comments? Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....
Mike; New thread started, but I've been using Linux since 1995, so I know how to use it in production environments. I just thought it would be nice to hear from others on the subject. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/10/2003 at 9:40 AM mike wrote: Lanman wrote: I wonder how many of the list members are using Linux in a professional scenario? I'm going to ask the list. it would be nice to know how many of us are using Linux in the business world, and how it's being used. Lanman Lanman, If you start a new thread I'll tell you how I use Mdk 9.1 in a production environment. -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA == Dual booting 98lite;MDK 9.1 stock kernel Kde 3.1 Registered Linux User #248955 liquid/acqua Theme == If obstacles are what you see in your path... Then you have lost sight of your goal! 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] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....
Mike; Sorry about my last post. I didn't read your email poroperly before responding. Gotta remember to increase my coffee content before sending emails to people! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/10/2003 at 9:40 AM mike wrote: Lanman wrote: I wonder how many of the list members are using Linux in a professional scenario? I'm going to ask the list. it would be nice to know how many of us are using Linux in the business world, and how it's being used. Lanman Lanman, If you start a new thread I'll tell you how I use Mdk 9.1 in a production environment. -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA == Dual booting 98lite;MDK 9.1 stock kernel Kde 3.1 Registered Linux User #248955 liquid/acqua Theme == If obstacles are what you see in your path... Then you have lost sight of your goal! 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] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:40:18 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with it, and which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase in business because of Linux and what interesting things they're doing with Linux. It might prove to be an interesting source of information for newbie's to know what can be done with Linux, especially when it's applied in a production environment. We see all kinds of articles regarding Linux, but it's very hard to contact those people to see how something was done, and what Tips 'n' Tricks were used to accomplish a particular task. MandrakeSoft has a special site (http://www.mandrakebizcases.com ), that allows anyone to post their particular application of Linux, but for the most part you can't get the hands-on info from those companies or individuals. Is this something we could/should add to the Twiki site? Comments? We used Mandrake Linux for our server before but we switched to FreeBSD and is very happy with that, I am also using FreeBSD for one of my workstations at work /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !
Lanman wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with it, and which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase in business because of Linux and what interesting things they're doing with Linux. It might prove to be an interesting source of information for newbie's to know what can be done with Linux, especially when it's applied in a production environment. We see all kinds of articles regarding Linux, but it's very hard to contact those people to see how something was done, and what Tips 'n' Tricks were used to accomplish a particular task. MandrakeSoft has a special site (http://www.mandrakebizcases.com ), that allows anyone to post their particular application of Linux, but for the most part you can't get the hands-on info from those companies or individuals. Is this something we could/should add to the Twiki site? Comments? Lanman I've been using linux since just before Redhat 4 if memory serves.. so a few years.. I swapped to mandrake around mdk7.2 time and have not looked back. I've tried slackware, debian, caldera, coral, land a heap of others as well, but mdk and rh have always been the choice for me because I find getting the job done fast more important then steet cred. I've setup dozens of business's in perth with linux servers, many are just internet gateways, others are file servers and more are combinations thereof.. myself, I have about 6 linux servers and I use them to host websites for companies.. all the servers are mandrake now. my home network is a samba file server (mdk9.0) and my DNS server is also a mandrake box. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !
Very cool! Open-Source is all about choice, and FreeBSD is certainly a good choice. I find that a lot of people start with Mandrake because it's one of the easiest distro's to start with, but I also see a lot of users switch to other Open-Source solutions once they have gained some experience and confidence in their abilities. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/10/2003 at 4:50 PM Anders Lind wrote: We used Mandrake Linux for our server before but we switched to FreeBSD and is very happy with that, I am also using FreeBSD for one of my workstations at work /Anders 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] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !
Way to go Franki ! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !
Lanman wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? Lanman Lanman, I use Linux mandrake 9.1 both at home and at work .( writing from there now ) I work at an Information management company that does record storage, Microfilming, and Scanning. I use word 2000 and excel in linux through crossover office 2.1.0 to print labels and reports. this is on a dual booted win2000/Mdk 9.1 box. the network here is a combination of one win server 2003 and various older windows units 98/98se/w2k/xp and 1 older win server- I can surf tthe network freely except for the win2003 tree. I use an old HP Laser jet 5L to print with and have NO problems with anything. I didn't have to do any tweaking I can remember, it just installed and worked. I have done updates and such all thru mcc and it was boring. I have played around with a lot of different themes and styles , etc and haven't broken anything yet. we even have regular power outs but it hasn't hurt anything yet. all and all very boring to report really. -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pre-Linux install: Hardware identification tool?
PC Chips is the top selling mobo where I live, so I've installed Mandrake on more PC Chips boards than anything else. There are no particular problems -- at least not with the ones I've done -- so don't worry and just give it a go. The only thing that didn't come on the Mandrake disks was the driver for the winmodem that comes on the board. Many folks on this list will tell you that you are better off buying a real modem, and I suppose they're right, but I had no trouble following the instructions for my PCTel onboard winmodem, which works better in Linux than it ever did in Windows. Mind you, I wish I had a decent motherboard and real hardware. But PC Chips installs and works no worse in Linux than it does in Windows. PC Chips puts their mobo model number in tiny print in one of the corners of the board right next to a screw hole. You're looking for something like M748LMRT, which is what the mobo I'm using now says. The PC Chips website is http://www.pcchips.com.tw/. They have a page for every mobo they've made, including the old discontinued stuff. The page for my board, for example, is http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M748LMRT.html, which I mention so that you can simply change my model number for yours and go straight to your board's page. There you will find a downloadable manual for your mobo and the latest BIOS to flash if you're a risk taker. In case your modem is a PCTel, http://www.medres.ch/~jstifter/linux/pctel.html will help you get it going in Linux. I hate to say it but the best hardware detection tool I know is the hardware manager in Windows. It's buried somewhere in My PC - Properties, and can be printed for reference. It's the last thing I did before wiping my Windows. Hope this helps. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !
I started out with mandrake in my house but at work I use redhat 9.0 for windows file sharing, dns, all integrated into a server 2003 dfs structure and active directory, I also utilize rsync for a network back up of other things stored on the rh server. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mike Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up ! Lanman wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? Lanman Lanman, I use Linux mandrake 9.1 both at home and at work .( writing from there now ) I work at an Information management company that does record storage, Microfilming, and Scanning. I use word 2000 and excel in linux through crossover office 2.1.0 to print labels and reports. this is on a dual booted win2000/Mdk 9.1 box. the network here is a combination of one win server 2003 and various older windows units 98/98se/w2k/xp and 1 older win server- I can surf tthe network freely except for the win2003 tree. I use an old HP Laser jet 5L to print with and have NO problems with anything. I didn't have to do any tweaking I can remember, it just installed and worked. I have done updates and such all thru mcc and it was boring. I have played around with a lot of different themes and styles , etc and haven't broken anything yet. we even have regular power outs but it hasn't hurt anything yet. all and all very boring to report really. -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA * This message is intended for the sole use of the individual and entity to whom it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, nor authorized to receive for the intended addressee, you are hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose or distribute to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete the message. Thank you. STI Computer Services * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !
I think that you'll find that this is the case in most installations Mike. Usually, once it's set up and configured, Linux will usually bore you to tears in how dependable it is. Unless your clients or employers require additional administration or servers/services, you'll typically find that they don't need you very much, unless it's for other services. ( Whimper! ) In a way, I actually like that. It gives me the freedom to take on new clients and to prove the value of Linux. I was actually embarrassed one time, when speaking with a bunch of Microsoft-based Admins when I asked them how many times a month they re-booted their servers. Most of them were saying that they had to, or decided to reboot once a week! When they asked me how often I rebooted, I told the truth. Either never, or only when there was a power failure. They thought I was nuts until I told them I use Linux, at which point, they got real curious! Needless to say, there's a few more Microsoft Ex-Patriots in Montreal now! Ya Gotta Love Payback! All those guys who use to think that Linux was Way Out There are giving it a second look now! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/10/2003 at 10:17 AM mike wrote: I use Linux mandrake 9.1 both at home and at work .( writing from there now ) I work at an Information management company that does record storage, Microfilming, and Scanning. I use word 2000 and excel in linux through crossover office 2.1.0 to print labels and reports. this is on a dual booted win2000/Mdk 9.1 box. the network here is a combination of one win server 2003 and various older windows units 98/98se/w2k/xp and 1 older win server- I can surf tthe network freely except for the win2003 tree. I use an old HP Laser jet 5L to print with and have NO problems with anything. I didn't have to do any tweaking I can remember, it just installed and worked. I have done updates and such all thru mcc and it was boring. I have played around with a lot of different themes and styles , etc and haven't broken anything yet. we even have regular power outs but it hasn't hurt anything yet. all and all very boring to report really. -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, Signal 11
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 10 November 2003 8:25 am, HaywireMac wrote: snip Get a new network.img from your favourite mirror and use that. The trees have been updated to get rid of the .10.mdkBOOT kernel image and that would cause a conflict since the image you're using was likely from the original. Since I haven't done a network or hd install since I just re-synced my local trees I may be wrong, or the tree may not be fully updated to reflect the changes either but that seems unlikely. HTH Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 09:31:42 up 21:53, 1 user, load average: 0.42, 0.27, 0.16 There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? -- Woody Allen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/r75wG11CaRuZZSIRAoDNAKCX+uqRjULFj52YE1UA7myqU0iSvwCgke2T /IYdnv/fFbIIGVBE1eXqDsk= =Ytql -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !
In my corner of the office I have installed Mandrake 9.1 (started at 8.0) with Hylafax and it does a little web hosting (internally) and it also does remote checks on customers servers texting problems to support mobiles. The company has opted for RedHat in the only other area for testing our software on (I have no input there). They are very windows centric here so it is difficult to get them to change over. Tony. -Original Message- From: Lanman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 3:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up ! Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with it, and which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase in business because of Linux and what interesting things they're doing with Linux. It might prove to be an interesting source of information for newbie's to know what can be done with Linux, especially when it's applied in a production environment. We see all kinds of articles regarding Linux, but it's very hard to contact those people to see how something was done, and what Tips 'n' Tricks were used to accomplish a particular task. MandrakeSoft has a special site (http://www.mandrakebizcases.com ), that allows anyone to post their particular application of Linux, but for the most part you can't get the hands-on info from those companies or individuals. Is this something we could/should add to the Twiki site? Comments? Lanman -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pre-Linux install: Hardware identification tool?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 10 November 2003 9:21 am, Warren Post wrote: PC Chips is the top selling mobo where I live, so I've installed Mandrake on more PC Chips boards than anything else. There are no particular problems -- at least not with the ones I've done -- so don't worry and just give it a go. The only thing that didn't come on the Mandrake disks was the driver for the winmodem that comes on the board. Many folks on this list will tell you that you are better off buying a real modem, and I suppose they're right, but I had no trouble following the instructions for my PCTel onboard winmodem, which works better in Linux than it ever did in Windows. Mind you, I wish I had a decent motherboard and real hardware. But PC Chips installs and works no worse in Linux than it does in Windows. PC Chips puts their mobo model number in tiny print in one of the corners of the board right next to a screw hole. You're looking for something like M748LMRT, which is what the mobo I'm using now says. The PC Chips website is http://www.pcchips.com.tw/. They have a page for every mobo they've made, including the old discontinued stuff. The page for my board, for example, is http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M748LMRT.html, which I mention so that you can simply change my model number for yours and go straight to your board's page. There you will find a downloadable manual for your mobo and the latest BIOS to flash if you're a risk taker. In case your modem is a PCTel, http://www.medres.ch/~jstifter/linux/pctel.html will help you get it going in Linux. I hate to say it but the best hardware detection tool I know is the hardware manager in Windows. It's buried somewhere in My PC - Properties, and can be printed for reference. It's the last thing I did before wiping my Windows. Hope this helps. Isn't this an Encore Presentation of a post you made on the weekend? g Just curious. For those still stuck in Windows but considering giving Mandrake Linux or any other distribution a try the easiest way to check hardware compatibility is by booting from a CD-ROM distribution such as Knoppix. Or one of the others: http://www.google.ca/search?q=live+cdhl=enlr=ie=UTF-8sa=G There's also a fairly handy tool called Belarc Advisor that will identify and display more (probably) information about your system than you care to know. It's a freebie, runs under Windows: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html It also reads all MS software installed and checks against the list for possible Hotfixes that may be required. May as well do two things (at least) at once, don't you think? (-; Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 09:43:35 up 22:05, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.09, 0.11 That secret you've been guarding, isn't. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/r8KeG11CaRuZZSIRAuoUAJ93tew61cAHHl+xpJVjHNHp5fw9cQCfWgF/ 7qYg4n3YaZrNIK7hL4Qx1lk= =5sch -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....
On Monday 10 November 2003 09:57 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 01:12, Lanman wrote: Gee Stephen; I'm not a druggo, but I am Canadian, and 9.2 is running absolutely fine on my systems. The worst thing I've had to do with a 9.2 iunstall is to reset the BIOS to defaults until the install was complete. Don't know why you're unhappy with it. Mine runs faster, and smoother than 9.1, with nicer graphics. What seems to be your problem with 9.2? Need some help? Lanman Hehehe...just stirring up the manure, mate...y'all reckon I'd ditch? NOT! Just been TCB and getting things straight - and also biz is flat out like a lizard drinking - so that's been another reason to not get online much unless for work related reasons... Good to see that yor back We thought that you had ODed on Slim Dusty 8 track tapes and Fosters ;-) stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Another Armenia, Belgium ... the weak innocents who always seem to be located on a natural invasion route. -- Kirk, Errand of Mercy, stardate 3198.4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure
On Sunday 09 November 2003 08:43 pm, alemao wrote: Hi Adolfo, as I said in the other message, the rescue thing didn´t work. After doing the rescue-lilo, I rebooted and none of the systems could boot. What´s HTH? Highway to Hell? AC/DC! Thanks Thiago Here's what worked for me recently. After using the 1st CD rescue option, and still getting a lilo failure, I booted a DOS boot floppy and ran 'fdisk /mbr' (w/o the quotes) from the A: prompt. That completely resets the MBR. Then I used to 1st Mandrake CD to restore lilo and it was then successful. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, Signal 11
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:36:00 -0700 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Get a new network.img from your favourite mirror and use that. The trees have been updated to get rid of the .10.mdkBOOT kernel image and that would cause a conflict since the image you're using was likely from the original. I just snagged the img about an hour ago, but I'l try one from a different mirror, thanks! -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ In order to discover who you are, first learn who everybody else is; you're what's left. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, Signal 11
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:43:21 -0500 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Get a new network.img from your favourite mirror and use that. The trees have been updated to get rid of the .10.mdkBOOT kernel image and that would cause a conflict since the image you're using was likely from the original. I just snagged the img about an hour ago, but I'l try one from a different mirror, thanks! Tried a different image, dated 10/29, same problem, though this time it did show a message in the logs: reverse dns lookup on self failed Any ideas? Man, when are those ISO's comin' out... -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. -- Nietzsche Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, Signal 11
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 10 November 2003 10:39 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:43:21 -0500 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Get a new network.img from your favourite mirror and use that. The trees have been updated to get rid of the .10.mdkBOOT kernel image and that would cause a conflict since the image you're using was likely from the original. I just snagged the img about an hour ago, but I'l try one from a different mirror, thanks! Tried a different image, dated 10/29, same problem, though this time it did show a message in the logs: reverse dns lookup on self failed Any ideas? Man, when are those ISO's comin' out... Does this have anything to do with your firewall? The only time I've ever run across connection issues for network installs was if the server was expecting a user name and password because there were too many anonymous ftp users logged in already. Or through a 3Com NIC sometimes. But that shouldn't be the problem since you seem to be connecting. I would have responded quicker but for a couple points: 1.) I re-wrote the CD-RWs that I use to do network, hard disk, and USB installs. Yes I said -RWs, I hate floppies since they're so slow to load. Also; 2.) I was comparing a few mirrors to see which are the most up to date. Which mirror are you working with? uninett.no is current, sunet.se seems to be current. A few others are lagging apparently. I'll be back in a bit, I need to re-boot and test the network and hd.img install routines to be sure nothing is broken. I'm not getting to keep my uptime much lately. (-; Later; C. - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 10:47:29 up 23:08, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.17, 0.09 MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts. -- Winston Churchill -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/r9JgG11CaRuZZSIRAglxAKCgDsxEuP6rvxSPF1y9Dx43r36dGACgre0G vH+FKFsJ66jjSDXCmrB5fSg= =Blss -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, Signal 11
HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:43:21 -0500 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Get a new network.img from your favourite mirror and use that. The trees have been updated to get rid of the .10.mdkBOOT kernel image and that would cause a conflict since the image you're using was likely from the original. I just snagged the img about an hour ago, but I'l try one from a different mirror, thanks! Tried a different image, dated 10/29, same problem, though this time it did show a message in the logs: reverse dns lookup on self failed Any ideas? Man, when are those ISO's comin' out... Yeesh, How many times I gotta post this: http://mirror.wa.3fl.net/pub/mandrake/9.2/ contains: MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk1of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 08:25 652M MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk2of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 04:44 698M MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk3of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 08:51 695M These are not the RC, they are the real deal. #cat /etc/release-mandrake Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 and the checksums match up as well.. I am running it now as my primary web server. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, Signal 11
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:18:55 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Yeesh, How many times I gotta post this: http://mirror.wa.3fl.net/pub/mandrake/9.2/ contains: MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk1of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 08:25 652M MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk2of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 04:44 698M MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk3of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 08:51 695M These are not the RC, they are the real deal. #cat /etc/release-mandrake Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 and the checksums match up as well.. I am running it now as my primary web server. I tried that before, it keeps timing out. I'll keep trying, thanks! -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. -- Lao Tsu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, Signal 11
On Monday 10 November 2003 01:23 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:18:55 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Yeesh, How many times I gotta post this: http://mirror.wa.3fl.net/pub/mandrake/9.2/ contains: MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk1of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 08:25 652M MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk2of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 04:44 698M MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk3of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 08:51 695M These are not the RC, they are the real deal. #cat /etc/release-mandrake Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 and the checksums match up as well.. I am running it now as my primary web server. I tried that before, it keeps timing out. I'll keep trying, thanks! I'm getting the same but will keep trying. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, Signal 11
HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:18:55 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Yeesh, How many times I gotta post this: http://mirror.wa.3fl.net/pub/mandrake/9.2/ contains: MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk1of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 08:25 652M MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk2of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 04:44 698M MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk3of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 08:51 695M These are not the RC, they are the real deal. #cat /etc/release-mandrake Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 and the checksums match up as well.. I am running it now as my primary web server. I tried that before, it keeps timing out. I'll keep trying, thanks! hmmm, well its a mirror all the ISP's here offer bandwidth unlimited downloads from.. So its possible that is only accessable from one of the ISP's... If so, then I apologize for suggesting it.. :-) rgds Franki Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, Signal 11
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:58:59 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: hmmm, well its a mirror all the ISP's here offer bandwidth unlimited downloads from.. So its possible that is only accessable from one of the ISP's... If so, then I apologize for suggesting it.. :-) could it be that it's just all us trying to hit it at the same time? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ You can't push on a string. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, Signal 11
On Monday 10 November 2003 02:00 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:58:59 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: hmmm, well its a mirror all the ISP's here offer bandwidth unlimited downloads from.. So its possible that is only accessable from one of the ISP's... If so, then I apologize for suggesting it.. :-) could it be that it's just all us trying to hit it at the same time? sounds likely ..Oh well another all nighter (damn an all-nighter used to involve women and alcohol.. guess I'm getting old :-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, Signal 11
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 10 November 2003 12:00 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:58:59 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: hmmm, well its a mirror all the ISP's here offer bandwidth unlimited downloads from.. So its possible that is only accessable from one of the ISP's... If so, then I apologize for suggesting it.. :-) could it be that it's just all us trying to hit it at the same time? I think Franki's explanation is the correct one. It's an Australian ISP only server. No matter what method I try it always times out trying to connect. I only took a shot for curiosity since I don't need the ISOs. I have the complete cooker, 9.1 and 9.2 trees locally, plus this box will get re-cooked as soon as I finish assembling the new one. BTW; I seem able to initialize an ftp install from uninett.no using the latest network image as of 11 minutes ago. I stopped at the point where I would have to begin partitioning the drive/format partitions/select packages though so I don't know if it will go all the way through. Do you have the disk space to mirror the 9.2 tree locally? 2.4 GB for main, 2.6 GB for contrib if you skip jpackage and SRPMS. If so you'll be a hell of a lot better off, since the network install will error out every time the mirror you connect to rsyncs to the main Mandrake server. That would assume the mirror will be re-synchronized which I'm unsure of, but there were updated files twice recently in the 9.2 tree. Once for kernels (in contrib only I think) and this last one I noticed this morning. Plus the total time (rsync and then hd install) is less usually than any network install over a less than gigabit interface. Just a suggestion. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 12:07:01 up 11 min, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.12, 0.12 Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, it is damn near zero. -- David Ellis -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/r+VnG11CaRuZZSIRAveJAJwL7vMmkbb1Ji/PTpxcNJwZQ6bzsACZAWf6 nHEOXhunHzYoTywxHItxAKQ= =v529 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, Signal 11
HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:58:59 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: hmmm, well its a mirror all the ISP's here offer bandwidth unlimited downloads from.. So its possible that is only accessable from one of the ISP's... If so, then I apologize for suggesting it.. :-) could it be that it's just all us trying to hit it at the same time? Spose its possible, but I read its on a huge pipe, so I can't see it being overrun. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, Signal 11
Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 10 November 2003 01:23 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:18:55 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Yeesh, How many times I gotta post this: http://mirror.wa.3fl.net/pub/mandrake/9.2/ contains: MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk1of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 08:25 652M MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk2of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 04:44 698M MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk3of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 08:51 695M These are not the RC, they are the real deal. #cat /etc/release-mandrake Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 and the checksums match up as well.. I am running it now as my primary web server. I tried that before, it keeps timing out. I'll keep trying, thanks! I'm getting the same but will keep trying. If I had a big enough pipe, I'd put them up myself, but I don't have enough upload at the moment for one of you guys, let alone a couple of dozen... :-) sorry. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !
On Monday 10 November 2003 09:50 am, Anders Lind wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:40:18 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with it, and which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase in business because of Linux and what interesting things they're doing with Linux. It might prove to be an interesting source of information for newbie's to know what can be done with Linux, especially when it's applied in a production environment. We see all kinds of articles regarding Linux, but it's very hard to contact those people to see how something was done, and what Tips 'n' Tricks were used to accomplish a particular task. snip /Anders We use Mandrake for our small business, (furniture repair). It is used to do letters with OO.org and the books with gnucash now that they have business functions incorporated. Oh and email and surfing. Not a large operation just three of us. Linux is a complete solution now, no matter what the other naysayers naysay. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE
On Sunday 09 November 2003 8:20 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 09 Nov 2003 11:57 pm, Scott Naylor wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 4:32 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:23 am, Scott Naylor wrote: Just a small question, what would be the easiest way to upgrade KDE 3.1 to its newest release in Mandrake 9.1? I tried a couple of things before, but it didn't go so well. Get 3.1.4 in Mandrake RPMS from Texstar's 91 repository. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake /9 .1 / Otherwise, installing 9.2 will get you 3.1.3+ AHHH!! So many DEPENDENCIES. Is there any program out there that will deal with all these dependencies or do I have to hunt down and download EVERY SINGLE ONE?! If there is a program please tell me where I could find it. Yes there is. It is called urpmi and it is posted about almost every day! For the third time today. Go to http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php Define an online source for Texstar and install KDE using rpmdrake. All the dependencies will be downloaded and installed automatically. Do not worry about the messages about bad signatures. It just means you have not installed Texstar signature key. derek Now as for that program here's what I did [EMAIL PROTECTED] scott]# urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://mandrake-forum.org/pub/PLF/mandra ke/9.1 with hdlist.cz too many mount points for removable medium Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1) taking removable device as /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd,/dev/scd0 using different removable device [/dev/scd0] for Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom 1) too many mount points for removable medium Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2) taking removable device as /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd,/dev/scd0 using different removable device [/dev/scd0] for Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom 2) too many mount points for removable medium International CD (x86) (cdrom3) taking removable device as /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd,/dev/scd0 using different removable device [/dev/scd0] for International CD (x86) (cdrom3 ) added medium plf examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 1 (x86 ) (cdrom1).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 2 (x86 ) (cdrom2).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.International CD (x86) (cdrom3).cz] retrieving description file of plf... retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of plf... ftp://mandrake-forum.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/9.1/hdlist.cz ...retrieving done examining MD5SUM file examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.plf.cz] writing list file for medium plf built hdlist synthesis file for medium plf found 108 headers in cache removing 108 obsolete headers in cache write config file [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg] [EMAIL PROTECTED] scott]# urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Ma ndrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz too many mount points for removable medium Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1) taking removable device as /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd,/dev/scd0 too many mount points for removable medium Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2) taking removable device as /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd,/dev/scd0 too many mount points for removable medium International CD (x86) (cdrom3) taking removable device as /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd,/dev/scd0 added medium main examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 1 (x86 ) (cdrom1).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 2 (x86 ) (cdrom2).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.International CD (x86) (cdrom3).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.plf.cz] retrieving description file of main... retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of main... ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist.cz ...retrieving done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.main.cz] performing second pass to compute dependencies examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1).cz ] built hdlist synthesis file for medium Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1) examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2).cz ] built hdlist synthesis file for medium Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2) examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.International CD (x86) (cdrom3).cz] built hdlist synthesis file for medium International CD (x86) (cdrom3) examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.plf.cz] built hdlist synthesis file for medium plf examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.main.cz] built hdlist synthesis file for medium main found 0 headers in cache removing 0 obsolete headers in cache write config file [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg] [EMAIL PROTECTED] scott]# urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake
[newbie] Pre-newbie here!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, This is my first post to this list (I've been lurking for a few days...it sure is a busy list! :-)). After trying to figure out if my assorted bits of hardware can be expected to play nicely with a fresh Linux distribution installation, I've decided that the only thing to do is to take the leap and see what happens! :-) I've just ordered the Mandrake 9.2 PowerPack, and anxiously await its arrival! This is a new computer, with *mostly* new hardware inside (there is, from my old computer, a spare 20 GB hard drive and an older model GeForce2 MX-400 graphics card with 64 MB video RAM), and there are a few external hardware bits from my old system as well (a four year old Lexmark 3200 printer, and relatively new Creative I-Trigue 3500 speakers). I'm also currently using a Linksys external cable modem that some have told me might be a problem with Mandrake, so I'm looking into a proper ethernet card. Anyway, here's my plan... I have two hard drives in this machine: C:\ is an 80 GB drive with WinXP installed D:\ is a 20 GB drive, onto which I intend to install Mandrake 9.2 As I mentioned, the 20 GB drive is from my old computer (other than size, it's got the same specs as my new 80 GB drive (Seagate 7200 RPM ATA-100). Here's my essential question of the moment... I'm finished copying over all the files I want to save from the old drive to the new one, and I'm ready to clear the old drive in preparation for my Mandrake installation. I've been told that the Windows method of formatting the drive will not be the thing to do here. So...how do I clear this old drive to get it ready for a clean installation of Mandrake? I'm sure that once I've installed Mandrake, I'll have at least 5000 more questions for this already busy list! :-) Thanks! - -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Please%20send%20keys -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQE/r/zHjVbXUvsE8ukRApssAKCHnQ8DftTdntHRLOHpyAvCYWndIwCgytmm CIB7nrnoZsASIpVLFEtt5qc= =OuZ+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't make boot floppy - make boot CD with mkrescue
Hi All For those of you not lurking on Cooker mailing list, Pascal kindly shared this info and I've tried it on my system and it works - cdrom boots and system starts - and I'm using a customised kernel: quote For those interested, you can make an iso image of a boot disk if you are using LILO with the following command: /sbin/mkrescue --iso then just cdrecord it I tested this on my config, the cdrom boots and the system starts OK. /quote Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!
On Monday 10 November 2003 04:02 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: Here's my essential question of the moment... I'm finished copying over all the files I want to save from the old drive to the new one, and I'm ready to clear the old drive in preparation for my Mandrake installation. I've been told that the Windows method of formatting the drive will not be the thing to do here. So...how do I clear this old drive to get it ready for a clean installation of Mandrake? Just remove all the partitions from the 20GB drive. That will leave the drive completely blank with no drive letters or partition information saved to the drive. When you load Mandrake, you can simply create the partition(s) with Mandrake Linux and divide up the drive however you choose to for Linux. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dependencies - what to do?
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 19:30, Derek Jennings wrote: [...snip] In your urpmi.addmedia command use synthesis.hdlist.cz instead of hdlist.cz hdlist.cz is the file that contains the list of RPMS on the repository, their dependencies, their descriptions, and a list of the files within them. synthesis.hdlist.cz is the same but without the descriptions or file list. It is a lot smaller and quicker to download if you are on dialup. The downside is when browsing packages with rpmdrake, you cannot find out what they do by reading the descriptions. To put your CD sources back in use the command urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable:///mnt/cdrom Thanks Derek, that did the trick. :) Now to go and get mplayer... cue Jaws background music:) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bryan, On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 1:07:54 PM PST, you wrote: Just remove all the partitions from the 20GB drive. That will leave the drive completely blank with no drive letters or partition information saved to the drive. While I'm pretty handy with digging around various bits of Windows, removing partitions is not a procedure I'm familiar with. Can anyone offer me a little step by step for this? When you load Mandrake, you can simply create the partition(s) with Mandrake Linux and divide up the drive however you choose to for Linux. - From what I've read and have been told by others, I'm guessing that I'll be prompted during installation for the partitioning and other procedures. This though, brings me to another question... Is there some literature I can read up on beforehand that explains how I might want to partition the drive? Thanks Bryan! - -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Please%20send%20keys -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQE/sAXSjVbXUvsE8ukRAlq6AKD1gp5d2gy/OeeDMzRm9h15frIl8wCgl25c N6qiQxuckGnGubEbgLaA8hI= =R6G3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !
My principal business is a restaurant http://pizzapizza.vze.com/ and I've been running Linux Mandrake on our office computer since 8.0. The system is more stable and our data is no longer hostage to Microsoft's proprietary formats. One of the reasons that made me look at alternatives to Windows in the first place is that I use the office computer to supply background music for the dining area, but under Windows the system was never stable enough to rely upon. With any player under Windows -- Winamp, Music Match, whatever -- the sound would stutter and crash after a few hours. With Linux Mandrake and XMMS, I don't even have to think about the music anymore. I just turn on the system and it plays, with perfect reliability. The heart of our restaurant's office work is a spreadsheet with a list of raw ingredients that my restaurant uses. It is referenced by another sheet that has all our recipes and calculates costs and prices. It in turn is referenced by a word processing document that has our menu ready to print. Microsoft Office could never get it right: cell references were dropped, formatting was mangled, and files were irrecoverably corrupted constantly. OpenOffice imported the relevant files, converted them, and made everything work out of the box. As a side business I develop and manage web sites. The software available in Linux is so much better than the equivalent apps in Windows. Bluefish, Gimp, gFTP... they blow away the best there is for Windows. I'll never go back to Microsoft. I had opened our town's first Internet café. I have since closed it for business reasons, but at the same time I switched our restaurant to Linux I switched the café as well, renaming it the Tropical Penguin Cybercafé with a logo of Tux wearing a Hawaiian necklace. Steady customers didn't notice that it wasn't Windows but did comment on how much faster and more stable the workstations had become, and how much nicer the desktops looked. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] email reminders
I am looking for a way to send email reminders to myself. These would be to remind me of meetings, etc. I tried Kmail but have been unable to find a way to send delayed email messages. I am currently using Korganizer and Kalarm, but haven't found a way to use them to send email to myself. I need the reminders in email because I am often not at this system when I need the reminders. I can check email from other locations though. Any help or suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks, -- A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Me, On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 1:41:09 PM PST, I wrote: While I'm pretty handy with digging around various bits of Windows, removing partitions is not a procedure I'm familiar with. Can anyone offer me a little step by step for this? snip Is there some literature I can read up on beforehand that explains how I might want to partition the drive? I apologize for replying to myself here, but as you can see from my questions quoted above, we all might benefit if I take this opportunity to explain my level of expertise (or, more properly, my lack thereof) when it comes to certain technical procedures. Some comments like you can simply... may just confuse me further. Some things simple to others may not be so simple to my feeble mind. I guess the easiest analogy is to relate my computer expertise to my car driving capabilities. I'm a pretty good driver, but I'm no mechanic. While I've been known to now and again speak softly or kick my car into submission, or even find a simple mechanical solution to an immediate problem, I'm easily confused if someone tells me that I can simply reset the timing belt, and while you're at it, change the water pump! Eek! So, consider yourselves warned! :-) - -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Please%20send%20keys -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQE/sAxhjVbXUvsE8ukRAm84AKCdsnLicRJ5oQU+CRWa6FWBhmFmcwCeIMoQ /ta50V6U/tMonVTCOIn3kUU= =xlWp -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't make boot floppy - make boot CD with mkrescue
On Monday 10 November 2003 03:01 pm, Sharrea wrote: Hi All For those of you not lurking on Cooker mailing list, Pascal kindly shared this info and I've tried it on my system and it works - cdrom boots and system starts - and I'm using a customised kernel: quote For those interested, you can make an iso image of a boot disk if you are using LILO with the following command: /sbin/mkrescue --iso then just cdrecord it I tested this on my config, the cdrom boots and the system starts OK. /quote Sharrea I tried it too. As user '/sbin/mkrescue --iso' errored out. But as root, 'mkrescue --iso' created 'rescue.iso', which I then used 'cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -dao rescue.iso' as user to burn to a CDr. Worked great, 3.2mb, like the 1st CD it gives some addition rescue options, or you can just boot your existing install. I'm also not runnin a stock kernel, 2.4.22-21.tmb.2mdk Doesn't help those without a burner tho. For those, the only thing to do is recompile a slimmed down kernel, with support for only their hardware and what they use, to get it all down to floppy size. Even then, the comin 2.6 kernels probly won't fit on a floppy anyhow. So it's just a matter of time before floppy's are completely obsolete. So get a burner y'all. Somebody can have my six year old 8x4x32 Plextor. Still works fine, but the eject button broke off today. I sort'a fixed it, but then right'a way ordered a new IDE CD-RW Plextor ;) 52x32x52, $87. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!
When you go to install Linux, it will ask you which drive and you will have the opportunity to set up the required swap file as well as the Linux file system. The installer routine will format everything as you request. I will leave it to others to tell you WHICH specification to use for determining how to format your old drive - don't want you mad at me! I installed MDK 9.1 on my desktop and my new laptop without a hitch - well without any serious hitches. It is so much easier than the earlier releases! LeRoy -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, This is my first post to this list (I've been lurking for a few days...it sure is a busy list! :-)). After trying to figure out if my assorted bits of hardware can be expected to play nicely with a fresh Linux distribution installation, I've decided that the only thing to do is to take the leap and see what happens! :-) I've just ordered the Mandrake 9.2 PowerPack, and anxiously await its arrival! This is a new computer, with *mostly* new hardware inside (there is, from my old computer, a spare 20 GB hard drive and an older model GeForce2 MX-400 graphics card with 64 MB video RAM), and there are a few external hardware bits from my old system as well (a four year old Lexmark 3200 printer, and relatively new Creative I-Trigue 3500 speakers). I'm also currently using a Linksys external cable modem that some have told me might be a problem with Mandrake, so I'm looking into a proper ethernet card. Anyway, here's my plan... I have two hard drives in this machine: C:\ is an 80 GB drive with WinXP installed D:\ is a 20 GB drive, onto which I intend to install Mandrake 9.2 As I mentioned, the 20 GB drive is from my old computer (other than size, it's got the same specs as my new 80 GB drive (Seagate 7200 RPM ATA-100). Here's my essential question of the moment... I'm finished copying over all the files I want to save from the old drive to the new one, and I'm ready to clear the old drive in preparation for my Mandrake installation. I've been told that the Windows method of formatting the drive will not be the thing to do here. So...how do I clear this old drive to get it ready for a clean installation of Mandrake? I'm sure that once I've installed Mandrake, I'll have at least 5000 more questions for this already busy list! :-) Thanks! - -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Please%20send%20keys -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQE/r/zHjVbXUvsE8ukRApssAKCHnQ8DftTdntHRLOHpyAvCYWndIwCgytmm CIB7nrnoZsASIpVLFEtt5qc= =OuZ+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE
OK so it looks like your urpmi.addmedia commands worked. Only point is that the definition for your CD sources seems to be screwed up. Possibly because you changed your CD-ROM to be ide-scsi You can correct that using the Software Sources GUI in Mandrake control centre. 2nd point. If you want to install libqt3-devel the command to use is :- urpmi libqt3-devel 3rd point You do not actually need libqt3-devel unless you intend to compile QT/KDE applications 4th point You are getting those errors with libqt3-devel because it looks like you have already installed a later version of libqt than is available on any of the urpmi mirrors you have defined. The latest version of libqt3 on those mirrors is libqt3-devel-3.1.2-9.2tex.i586.rpm on Texstar, yet you apparently already have libqt3-devel-3.2.2-5mdk installed. Consequently urpmi is unable to resolve the dependency. Looking at the mirrors I see that libqt3-devel-3.2.2-5mdk is on Cooker and was only put there on 7th November So you have installed a package for Mandrake 10.0 on a 9.1 system. Result - -Dependency Hell- derek I know what you mean about dependency hell, perhaps I'll try that other QT3 rpm file. It's worth a shot. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] this is strange...TV sounds coming through my computer
I'm on cable. occasionally, i'll get an e-mail, or i'll open a web page or whatever, internet related sounds, and i'll get sounds from cable TV coming out of my computer speakers. The other day it went on for maybe 30 seconds until i switched web pages, i thought it was something related to the web page, but due to the page's contents and the nature of the TV program's audio, they couldn't of been related. the strangest thing is that my cable line for the computer is completely separate from the TV line. the cable company ran a separate line into my house for the computer. i don't even know if i can run a TV off of this line. they said it was a dedicated line for the computer. anyone else ever have this happen? it's not troubling, just odd. really odd. and i can't make it happen, it just happens on it's own. very strange. just very strange. any input? thanks. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!
On Monday 10 Nov 2003 11:33 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 10 November 2003 04:41 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: Is there some literature I can read up on beforehand that explains how I might want to partition the drive? Here is a quick tutorial about partitions under Linux. and also: swapWhich the system uses to extend the amount of memory available. It's exactly like the pagefile on Windows, but on Linux it's always a seperate partition (it's more efficient that way.) Once you're running, swap is invisible. Linux uses a single directory tree for all files, there is no C: or D:, instead it mounts each disk somewhere in that directory tree. You always need a partition to be /. That's the root of the tree if you like (and it's called the root partition.) Apart from swap that is all you actually need. So you could partition the disk into two; a large / and a small swap (less than 1G, somewhat dependant on the amount of memory in the computer.) However there are various reasons that you might want to make other partitions and mount them in various places. The main reasons are: 1. if a partition fills up then only that partition is affected. 2. if a partition is corrupted or compromised then only that partition is affected. 3. a second disk would be a set of partitions that would have to be mounted somewhere. There are a small set of places that partitions are usually mounted, Bryan has given a fairly complete list of them. Another one that's probably worth considering is a small partition formated as a FAT filesystem (that's the old Windows format, and small because it is inefficient on large partitions), because Linux can read NTFS (the new windows format) but it is not recommended to write to it. Having a FAT partition would allow you to copy data back and forth between Linux and Windows. You would usually mount that somewhere of your own devising. (For example /mnt/windows, /windows or /home/melissa/windows.) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !
I'm not using it for business, but as a long time IT professional, Linux is at least as easy to maintain as Win2k server. Added to which, the software is a lot cheaper and the support is a lot better. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!
On Monday 10 November 2003 07:27 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: One thing I know will take a little getting used to is the different type of nomenclature used in Linux. - -- Melissa Melissa: The 9.1 Manuals are available online. While they aren't exactly The Definitive Guide to Absolutely Everything Anyone Would Ever Want to Know About Mandrake Linux, they contain some very useful information, particularly for recent Windows refugees: http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/91/en/Quick_Startup.html/ http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/91/en/Starter.html/ Two things to watch out for: 1. Don't format your partitions with ext2 -- use one of the journalling filesystems. Journalling filesystems protect you against power failures, hitting reset, or doing something really stupid. Most folks seem to use either ext3 (the default) or reiser. Ext2 is for masochists. 2. Don't select any of the higher security levels unless you really know what you're doing. This ain't Windows. When these guys say high, they mean very, very high. You're best off going with the default. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video eMac problems
If you like short keys, use: Ctl-x Clt-f Or else, browse in buffer (on the toolbar) On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 19:34, Katherine Catalano wrote: On Sunday, November 9, 2003, at 03:46 PM, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Katherine, to edit configuration files you can open a terminal (console), type su (without the marks) to become root (system administrator). When prompted, give your root password. Now you'll need a text editor to browse and edit your files. There are plenty of those already on your system. For example, type : kwrite or kate or mc or emacs (if you are courageous). Then browse to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and edit as you like. - How do I browse to a file in, say, emacs? Thanks again, Katherine __ 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] Download Mandrake and make discs
You need to wait a few more days. They are delaying the release of the iso images due to the LG problem. The iso's will have the solution already in the OS and should cause no one any problems. That is just my take on what has been happening and messages I have seen. I'm still using 9.1 until all the dust settles, but I'm curious: has Mandrakesoft indicated whether the re-mastered ISOs will include all other available updates, too? I understand there are already a small mountain of updates released for 9.2. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 12:45 am, alemao wrote: I have two doubts here: 1) what this command fdisk does? I tried to figure out by XP´s prompt, but the program doesn´t exist... 2) what is MBR? thanks Thigao that was instructions for a win9x system Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure
That's a good thing to know. Good work! On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 12:15, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 08:43 pm, alemao wrote: Hi Adolfo, as I said in the other message, the rescue thing didn´t work. After doing the rescue-lilo, I rebooted and none of the systems could boot. What´s HTH? Highway to Hell? AC/DC! Thanks Thiago Here's what worked for me recently. After using the 1st CD rescue option, and still getting a lilo failure, I booted a DOS boot floppy and ran 'fdisk /mbr' (w/o the quotes) from the A: prompt. That completely resets the MBR. Then I used to 1st Mandrake CD to restore lilo and it was then successful. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Melissa Reese wrote: While I'm pretty handy with digging around various bits of Windows, removing partitions is not a procedure I'm familiar with. Can anyone offer me a little step by step for this? snip Is there some literature I can read up on beforehand that explains how I might want to partition the drive? You're no doubt nervous about sailing into uncharted waters. Mandrake is about the friendliest handholding Linux system to install. Since you're wiping the disk and starting fresh, why not just experiment? Play with it some. As another poster pointed out, early in the install you'll be given the option to create new partitions. If you say yes up will pop a rectangle representing your hard drive. If it were Linux it would be divided into chunks representing the partitions. Since Windows doesn't partition a drive into sections, it'll just be a solid rectangle. HERE'S WHERE YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL. At the top lefthand corner of the rectangle you'll see two tabs, hda and hdb. hda will be in the foreground by default, and it will probably be your 80 Gig drive. (Click in the rectangle and it will tell you its size). If that's the case, then click on hdb and your 20 Gig drive will be the one you're looking at. MAKE SURE, because if you partition and format the 80 Gig drive you'll wipe out your Windows installation and ALL your files. When you're looking at the right drive, click in the rectangle and then click on create new partition. It'll suggest / as the first partition. I'd say make it about 1 Gig. You can click to get a dropdown menu that will give you a choice of filesystems. I like reiserfs and think it's a pretty good choice for a nontechie user. When you create that first partition you'll see a sliver at the left end of the rectangle colored red, which means it's a reiserfs partition. Now click again the the remaining part of the rectangle. This time it will offer swap, but will not offer a choice of filesystems because it's just disk space that can be used to supplement your memory chips. If you've got a considerable amount of memory it'll probably suggest about 400 Megs, which is fine. The next partition it will suggest, when you click on the remaining portion of the rectangle, will be /usr. Make it 8 Gigs. That's where a loty of your executable files (ie. to start games or other applications you use) will be located, as well as documentation for all the programs you installed (because you couldn't help yourself!). I think the next default it offers is /home. Once you have permanent data there, like music files, articles, whatever, you NEVER want to reformat /home during upgrades or reinstalls. And Mandrake, bless its friendly heart, will default to not formatting /home. I'd make /home 6 Gigs. The next default offered will be /var, and I'd go ahead and use the rest of the disk for this one. Mandrake by default will not use up all the disk for /var but will offer one or several more partitions of diminishing size, but for a newbie such as yourself this is overkill. Just use all that's left and click done. Mandrake will then list your partitions and ask which you want formatted, and will show x's by its default choices, which will normally exclude /home and I think /var, but in this case will or should include all. If it doesn't, make sure all _are_ checked. After formatting you'll get to package selection. In addition to selecting the major groupings (KDE Desktop, Gnome Desktop, Internet Computer, etc.) I'd also check Individual Package Selection (near the bottom). If that's not available you might have to go back (by turning your computer off, I guess, because I've never figured out another way to back out of an install) and select expert or custom install at the very beginning. There are several options. Now the fun begins, selecting packages. This is the candy part. Mandrake for the most part won't let you go wrong. If you select a package that needs other packages to work, it'll list and ask you to okay the others before letting you choose it. After you've made all your selections you can them, if you like, toggle the list to show everything in alphabetical order rather than in groups. This list will include a _lot_ of packages the other doesn't, and is a good way to make sure that certain programs you always like to have have been checked. I always make sure to include mc (Midnight Commander), for instance, because it makes it so easy to browse your system, directory by directory, subdirectory by subdirectory, file by file. Windows makes it hard to SEE what's on your computer (since the vast majority of files don't have icons on your desktop), whereas Linux makes it transparently easy. After you're satisfied with your picks click on install. If you want to see which programs are being installed as the progress bar goes zipping across the page, click on details. After the install is
Re: [newbie] network card
the card is a built in card ifup eth0 -- message: /sbin/ifup: config for eth0 not found. - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] network card On Friday 07 November 2003 09:44 pm, Dooggie wrote: error message: /sbin/insmod/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/net/sis900.o.gz/lib/mo d ules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/net/sis900.o.gz: init_module: No such device. Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. - Original Message - From: Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] network card On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 19:25, Dooggie wrote: I just installed 9.0 on my winxp. I'm having trouble connecting to the internet. Network card is recognized when it boots, but when I try to connect in mandrake console, it says no ethernet adapter detected. Mother board is asus A7S266-VM/U2 Ethernet card is sis900 Does 9.0 support this hardware? Do I need to upgrade to 9.2? Any help is greatful. Dooggie I'm running a sis900 card on 9.0 and it works just fine. Try doing as root: # modprobe -v sis900 and see what error messages you get. HTH Scott -- - - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Where is the card mounted? Or is it a built in ethernet card? Looks like a possible IRQ conflict. So if it is a plugin card move it to a new PCI slot but not the one next to the AGP slot. If it is not a plugin card move one of your other cards or change a slot IRQ and see if the bugger comes up. You can do an ifup eth0 in a su console also and see what happens. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 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] network card
error message: bash: cat/proc/ioports: No file or directory pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci lspci: Cannot find any working access method - Original Message - From: Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 11:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] network card On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 22:44, Dooggie wrote: error message: /sbin/insmod/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/net/sis900.o.gz/lib/mod ules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/net/sis900.o.gz: init_module: No such device. Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. - Original Message - From: Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] network card On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 19:25, Dooggie wrote: I just installed 9.0 on my winxp. I'm having trouble connecting to the internet. Network card is recognized when it boots, but when I try to connect in mandrake console, it says no ethernet adapter detected. Mother board is asus A7S266-VM/U2 Ethernet card is sis900 Does 9.0 support this hardware? Do I need to upgrade to 9.2? Any help is greatful. Dooggie I'm running a sis900 card on 9.0 and it works just fine. Try doing as root: # modprobe -v sis900 and see what error messages you get. HTH Scott -- -- 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 Please post the output of: cat /proc/ioports and lspci -v 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] network card
On Monday 10 November 2003 08:55 pm, Dooggie wrote: the card is a built in card ifup eth0 -- message: /sbin/ifup: config for eth0 not found. - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] network card On Friday 07 November 2003 09:44 pm, Dooggie wrote: error message: /sbin/insmod/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/net/sis900.o.gz/lib/mo d ules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/net/sis900.o.gz: init_module: No such device. Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. snip - - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Where is the card mounted? Or is it a built in ethernet card? Looks like a possible IRQ conflict. So if it is a plugin card move it to a new PCI slot but not the one next to the AGP slot. If it is not a plugin card move one of your other cards or change a slot IRQ and see if the bugger comes up. You can do an ifup eth0 in a su console also and see what happens. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I have lost track here but if it is anything like my mobo, did you check in the bios to see that the ethernet card is enabled or disabled? If disabled there is the problem. If it is enabled, I am at a loss. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] this is strange...TV sounds coming through my computer
On Monday 10 November 2003 02:07 pm, crak600 wrote: I'm on cable. occasionally, i'll get an e-mail, or i'll open a web page or whatever, internet related sounds, and i'll get sounds from cable TV coming out of my computer speakers. The other day it went on for maybe 30 seconds until i switched web pages, i thought it was something related to the web page, but due to the page's contents and the nature of the TV program's audio, they couldn't of been related. the strangest thing is that my cable line for the computer is completely separate from the TV line. the cable company ran a separate line into my house for the computer. i don't even know if i can run a TV off of this line. they said it was a dedicated line for the computer. anyone else ever have this happen? it's not troubling, just odd. really odd. and i can't make it happen, it just happens on it's own. very strange. just very strange. any input? thanks. Mike Not all that odd at all. A classic case of TVI ( TV interference ) And there could be a number of causes. Do you have any kind of a large plastic window cut into your computer like a lot of folks do for game machines, that could be a factor. What you have is a signal escaping from your computer and probably mixing with an other signal producing a sum and difference frequency that is in the reception range of your TV or cable box. If you want to stop this signal leakage go to Radio Shack or a good electronics suppler and get some ferrite beads to go around any cables coming out of your computer. Power cord speakers, printer cable etc. Put the ferrite beads on the cables as close to the computer as possible and the problem will probably dissapear. This is the short quick explanation. Whole books have been written about this sort of problem so needless to say I don't have the space to go into all the detail here. Marc KM5KW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !
El lun, 10-11-2003 a las 12:40, Lanman escribió: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I was hired in a cybercafé last month. My job is to completely migrate it to Linux. (gaming machines included). Not an easy task as you can see, i've been working on desktop installations and config, as well as building an application that controls all of them from one computer and enables or disables them as clients walk in and ask for a computer. So, Am i using Linux in the workplace? hehe.. yeah, it's 100% of my job. I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with it, and which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase in business because of Linux and what interesting things they're doing with Linux. We've got several e-mails and messages from other places and shops that want to take the plunge and start migrating to Linux too, they mostly want to know what to do and how exactly are we doing it... It might prove to be an interesting source of information for newbie's to know what can be done with Linux, especially when it's applied in a production environment. We see all kinds of articles regarding Linux, but it's very hard to contact those people to see how something was done, and what Tips 'n' Tricks were used to accomplish a particular task. That sounds familiar :o) MandrakeSoft has a special site (http://www.mandrakebizcases.com ), that allows anyone to post their particular application of Linux, but for the most part you can't get the hands-on info from those companies or individuals. We know. In fact, i was the one to suggest (and IMPOSE ;o)) Mandrake for the task. The day they gave me the job interview they had already installed two SuSE machines. One was the first desktop, the other was the server. The server is still using SuSE, as i'm reluctant to fix something that works, but all of the desktops have now Mdk 9.1 (and one 9.2). We have been talking to some MandrakeSoft people over here and there's the chance that we also become official Mandrake vendors. As part of the arrangements, there was the success story, which involved us being in one of those articles. We're still thinking about it. Is this something we could/should add to the Twiki site? Comments? IMO yes. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] this is strange...TV sounds coming through my computer
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 03:46 am, Marc wrote: Not all that odd at all. A classic case of TVI ( TV interference ) And there could be a number of causes. Do you have any kind of a large plastic window cut into your computer like a lot of folks do for game machines, that could be a factor. What you have is a signal escaping from your computer and probably mixing with an other signal producing a sum and difference frequency that is in the reception range of your TV or cable box. If you want to stop this signal leakage go to Radio Shack or a good electronics suppler and get some ferrite beads to go around any cables coming out of your computer. Power cord speakers, printer cable etc. Put the ferrite beads on the cables as close to the computer as possible and the problem will probably dissapear. This is the short quick explanation. Whole books have been written about this sort of problem so needless to say I don't have the space to go into all the detail here. my computer is in a cabinet in my desk, solid box, no plastic windows or anything like that. the nearest TV is directly above me in a bedroom, and there's 2 walls between the computer and the TV in the living room. so nothing is extremely close to it. the strangest part though, was that was was coming through the speakers was NOT on the TV at the time. the audio from a Discovery Channel show on the Loch Ness monster was coming through, but when i ran into the next room and switched the TV to discovery channel, that show wasn't on. maybe i have found the loch ness monsterit's living in my computer desklol thanks Marc. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!
On Monday 10 November 2003 08:55 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 10 November 2003 07:27 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: One thing I know will take a little getting used to is the different type of nomenclature used in Linux. - -- Melissa Melissa: The 9.1 Manuals are available online. While they aren't exactly The Definitive Guide to Absolutely Everything Anyone Would Ever Want to Know About Mandrake Linux, they contain some very useful information, particularly for recent Windows refugees: http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/91/en/Quick_Startup.html/ http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/91/en/Starter.html/ Two things to watch out for: 1. Don't format your partitions with ext2 -- use one of the journalling filesystems. Journalling filesystems protect you against power failures, hitting reset, or doing something really stupid. Most folks seem to use either ext3 (the default) or reiser. Ext2 is for masochists. 2. Don't select any of the higher security levels unless you really know what you're doing. This ain't Windows. When these guys say high, they mean very, very high. You're best off going with the default. -- cmg Just remember under linux everything is a file Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
