Re: [newbie] File manager under 9.2?
On Friday 28 November 2003 01:49 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: CMHope this helps Ron: CM CMRepost from the Weird things in 9.2 thread: CM- Thanks Charlie - that worked just fine. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer problems
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Thanks for the reply John - turned out that /var/spool/cups did not exist - I created that file, then reran/modify from Webmin, and all was well. :-) So what procedure did you follow to create /var/spool/cups and , what's webmin got to do with it I wonder ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer problems
On Friday 28 November 2003 02:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote: JRSo what procedure did you follow to create /var/spool/cups JRand , JRwhat's webmin got to do with it I wonder ? JR JRJohn JR I just changed to su, then cd'ed into /var/spool and did a: mkdir cups As far as Webmin goes, I just used it to retrace my steps thru the printer process, making sure all was well. I never tried to print anything after creating /var/spool/cups, it might have worked just fine from that point on. It was what was mentioned in /var/log/cups/error_log. (where I should have looked -1st!-, thanks to James S. for reminding me). :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cron
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 1:41 am, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Hello, Can someone tell me where Cron from MCC went? I need it back. Thanks As I understand it. It was taken out because it did not work properly. Try webmin instead. It does all that drakcron did and lots more. Install webmin RPM then point your browser to https://localhost:1 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] Uninstall
Charlie Mahan wrote: Wy to cold up there. ;=0 Anton -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 27 November 2003 2:42 pm, mike wrote: snip Actually it was suggested to Adam. snip On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:42:01 -0330 Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And today, I stick in a music CD, wait awhile, and nothing happens. Red Hat played the CD. OMFG! I would *immediately* uninstall Mandrake, there's obviously something wrong when your OS doesn't read your mind! snip Judgeing from the begining of the CD Player thread I thought Adam asked reasonable questions. I didn't say the question was unreasonable Mike, far from it. I actually answered the question. [OT]: It was posted by others; then restated by myself, that auto run is an option that needs to be turned on in the default KDE CD player (KsCD) in Mandrake whereas apparently Red Hat does this by default. I'd rather choose whether or not to allow the behaviour, but it's a matter of personal choice. Sorry about my confusion as to which thread I was responding to. But since this is listed in the archives as a new thread, even though Adam made reference to another thread, and since the subject of *this* thread is Uninstall I directed my comments to that subject. I did think JoeHill's post might have been construed as a bit 'off-putting.' Possibly. I really didn't think it was meant as a flame though. In fact I had a chuckle over it. The rest of the posts I made in this overly long and seemingly pointless thread were direct responses to Adam's comments and questions. If he or anyone found my remarks offencive; I apologize. BTW if anyone is becoming so sensitive they can't stand to read posts that were never meant as personal attacks let me know. I'll happily walk away from the newbie list again. Not a threat, not even a warning, a statement that I don't need this crap. Since I refuse to be other than myself, the P.C Police can kiss my a$$ets. g 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 15:47:27 up 18 min, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.12, 0.13 All most men really want in life is a wife, a house, two kids and a car, a cat, no maybe a dog. Ummm, scratch one of the kids and add a dog. Definitely a dog. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/xobdG11CaRuZZSIRAktQAJ9sJKJR1x5sxRBt9rjZX7hpwXqVngCdEL7y aWNDA+H1SiCp5CRKgmK+ASE= =15UB -END PGP SIGNATURE- 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] IBM Tutorials
Hey, Am already well into them. I will be recommending them to every newbie and 'pert I meet. Cheers Anton The Other wrote: 11/27/03 It's probably been mentioned before, but on the IBM developerWorks website, they have some excellent Linux tutorials. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/views/linux/tutorials.jsp 55 tutorials were listed (if I counted correctly.) Some of them are for the LPI Certification 101 (release 2, 4 tutorials) and 102 (release 2, 4 tutorials) exams. I'll be busy for a while now. .. ;) 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] Thanks Mandrake+OSS+The Mandrake Lists - Please Read Mandrake
Shameless greaser this chap ;--7 Anton ... not that I haven't mentioned the fact that Redhat put me off Linux for months before discovering MDK... Jason Greenwood wrote: Hi All, Dunno if anyone from Mandrake is listening but - THANK YOU. - Thank you for being there for my first tentative Linux steps somewhere around MDK 8.0 - Thank you for staying true to OSS ideals - Thank you for being there as I got my head around the CLI (well, sort of, i.e. it doesn't terrify me anymore) and leaving me with a true Linux in the process - Thank you for being there when it looked like you might go out of business - Thank you for becoming so much better since 8.0 - Thank you for installing perfectly on the last 3 laptops I tried, despite the fact I did not verify if the hardware was supported by Linux first - Thank you for supporting almost every single peripheral I have ever attached since 9.1 (including scanners, printers, media readers etc.) - Thank you for taking a menagerie of OSS, choosing the best of breeds and bundling it into an easy to install and configure package - Thank you for not destroying KDE - Thank you for helping the wonderful OSS Community get the credit it so richly deserves - Thank you for making it easier to create Linux converts - Thank you for listening when I actually still had time to be a Cooker - Thank you for hosting lists like expert and newbie where many friends have been made and experts have been quizzed for their knowlege - Thank you for becoming so much more than just another fork of RedHat - Thank you for making ISO's available so I and others can try before we buy (or join the Club) - Thank you for staying true to Desktop Users - Thank you for URPMI - Thank you for the MCC - Thank you for not being totally perfect so I actually appreciate you - Thank you for all the other wonderful things I have forgotten and long since taken for granted with Mandrake. I am an American who has been in New Zealand for over 8 years now and though I don't really celebrate the U.S. Thanksgiving anymore, I thought now was an appropriate time to send this to you. Please everyone, feel free to add to my short list as you feel appropriate. Regards, Jason Greenwood 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] ssh + X forwarding to Windows
On Thursday 27 November 2003 07:57 pm, David E. Fox wrote: Well, if you are tunneling X, it would be display 0, not 1. You would be much better off to use TightVNC since it supports compression and also has a Actually I figured part of it out, and was able to start gtkatlantic and xterm and display them here - apparently when I start the putty session the display is already set, which is cool. What is not cool is I have here only a 2 button mouse, and there isn't apparently a way to enable 3 button emulation in this nagware X server I'm trying out ($25 to purchase but I'm using the free trial version of it right now). freely available windows client that you can run either by tunneling through SSH or even without doing so. Since TightVNC is built into Mandrake already, you only need to install the server and create an id and then you are ready to connect. vnc server is where? I have vnc installed on the Windows side, and I'd have to do the setup remotely. TightVNC. You can find it at http://www.tightvnc.com -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer problems
Ronald J. Hall wrote: I just changed to su, then cd'ed into /var/spool and did a: mkdir cups Well I certainly have a /var/spool/cups so that cannot be my problem. As far as Webmin goes, I just used it to retrace my steps thru the printer process, making sure all was well. I never tried to print anything after creating /var/spool/cups, it might have worked just fine from that point on. It was what was mentioned in /var/log/cups/error_log. I see what you mean, but, /var/log/cups/error_log, seems to be a log of each individual print job. Unfortunately for me my failed kde print jobs don't even show up in here, so it doesn't really help me much, excepting to say that whatever is wrong, it is likely to be before the main spooling opperations. I suspect the problem is something to do with kde's own pre-spool final setup mechanism. All that stuff about page select, driver settings , margins,resolutions, and I note kde has some sort of filter thingy doing something I know not what. If you go the KDE CC -peripherals-printers-instances-settings-filters there is something there, and I get pop-up messages like this, The filter chain is wrong. The output format of at least one filter is not supported by its follower. See Filters tab for more information. But it doesn't say anything that might help me understand what if anything the problem is. Then again, according to KDE-peripherals-printer, kde believes my Z53 is on a port, local system-USB-USB printe~1-Lexmark Z53, maybe it is in kde parlance, but if so the OS thinks it is on /dev/usb/lp0 But thern again Pup see's my printer as /dev/lp0 which is wrong, and it should be /dev/usb/lp0 but nothing I do to alter it here takes. So I don't know ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble?? with 9.2
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:19:22 -0800 aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: system slows waaay down system logs disapear dsl activity at 3.00 am(when i'm not online Get yerself a firewall, d00d ;-) http://www.smoothwall.org/ http://www.bbiagent.net/ http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!-- Rick Mercer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 16:20:53 -0700 Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I refuse to be other than myself, the P.C Police can kiss my a$$ets. Big huge ditto. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.-- Timothy Leary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble?? with 9.2
On Friday 28 November 2003 04:41 am, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:19:22 -0800 aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: system slows waaay down system logs disapear dsl activity at 3.00 am(when i'm not online Get yerself a firewall, d00d ;-) http://www.smoothwall.org/ http://www.bbiagent.net/ http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ I am using shorewall,and yes I configured it _before_configureing the lan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble?? with 9.2
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 12:57 pm, aron wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 04:41 am, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:19:22 -0800 aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: system slows waaay down system logs disapear dsl activity at 3.00 am(when i'm not online Get yerself a firewall, d00d ;-) http://www.smoothwall.org/ http://www.bbiagent.net/ http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ I am using shorewall,and yes I configured it _before_configureing the lan Is there nothing at all in the logs to show what happens at 3a.m.? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble?? with 9.2
On Friday 28 November 2003 05:03 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 28 Nov 2003 12:57 pm, aron wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 04:41 am, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:19:22 -0800 aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: system slows waaay down system logs disapear dsl activity at 3.00 am(when i'm not online Get yerself a firewall, d00d ;-) http://www.smoothwall.org/ http://www.bbiagent.net/ http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ I am using shorewall,and yes I configured it _before_configureing the lan Is there nothing at all in the logs to show what happens at 3a.m.? Was getting repeated access attempts then the logs disapeared. I then wiped the system and reloaded 9.1. sorry to not know the right procedure Anne -- PK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble?? with 9.2
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 04:57:09 -0800 aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using shorewall,and yes I configured it _before_configureing the lan I assumed that, but are you running a *seperate dedicated firewall*? There are huge issues with running firewall software on the box you are trying to protect. You gotta stop the intrusion *before* it gets anywhere near the protected host. I can almost guarantee you that if you can get your mitts on an old P2 for about 50 bucks, pop in one of the firewall sol'ns I linked to above, you will not have this happen again. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas.-- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble?? with 9.2
On Friday 28 November 2003 05:27 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 04:57:09 -0800 aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using shorewall,and yes I configured it _before_configureing the lan I assumed that, but are you running a *seperate dedicated firewall*? There are huge issues with running firewall software on the box you are trying to protect. You gotta stop the intrusion *before* it gets anywhere near the protected host. I can almost guarantee you that if you can get your mitts on an old P2 for about 50 bucks, pop in one of the firewall sol'ns I linked to above, you will not have this happen again. I have an old Compaq just need memory and a HD to be operational (what else would I need ?) -- The Pen may be mightier than the Sword, But a Glock beats a Bic every time Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble?? with 9.2
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 1:07 pm, aron wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 05:03 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 28 Nov 2003 12:57 pm, aron wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 04:41 am, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:19:22 -0800 aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: system slows waaay down system logs disapear dsl activity at 3.00 am(when i'm not online Get yerself a firewall, d00d ;-) http://www.smoothwall.org/ http://www.bbiagent.net/ http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ I am using shorewall,and yes I configured it _before_configureing the lan Is there nothing at all in the logs to show what happens at 3a.m.? Was getting repeated access attempts then the logs disapeared. I then wiped the system and reloaded 9.1. sorry to not know the right procedure Anne What services do you have running? If you are not running rlogin,telnet,ssh,ftp then it is going to be very hard for them to attack you. Also if you run 'Higher' level security level then root log on is prohibited and they will have to break your user account password before breaking your root password. And I assume you are using 'strong' passwords (ones with random alpha and numeric characters) There are utilities which will quickly guess a weak password. 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] Trouble?? with 9.2
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 1:59 pm, aron wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 05:27 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 04:57:09 -0800 aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using shorewall,and yes I configured it _before_configureing the lan I assumed that, but are you running a *seperate dedicated firewall*? There are huge issues with running firewall software on the box you are trying to protect. You gotta stop the intrusion *before* it gets anywhere near the protected host. I can almost guarantee you that if you can get your mitts on an old P2 for about 50 bucks, pop in one of the firewall sol'ns I linked to above, you will not have this happen again. I have an old Compaq just need memory and a HD to be operational (what else would I need ?) If you run LEAF-Bering firewall http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ you can run the whole thing from a single floppy no HD required, and about 8M of memory. It uses shorewall just like Mandrake so configuration is the same. (Well the text files are, you don't get a GUI running in 8Meg) 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] Trouble?? with 9.2
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 05:59:58 -0800 aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old Compaq just need memory and a HD to be operational (what else would I need ?) H, I dunno about a Compaq... ;-) My problem with an old Compaq I had was that: 1. I couldn't get into the BIOS to shut off the go to sleep after x minutes feature, so 2. It would go to sleep and not do *anything*. Yours may be different. You don't need a hard drive, any of those sol'ns will run off either a floppy or CD alone. For the floppy versions, and even Smoothwall, IIRC, you would only need about 16 or 32 MB of memory. I personally use BBIAgent, but I've been meaning to switch over to Smoothwall, as it is much stronger and has *way* more features. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.-- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble?? with 9.2
On Friday 28 November 2003 06:19 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 05:59:58 -0800 aron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old Compaq just need memory and a HD to be operational (what else would I need ?) H, I dunno about a Compaq... ;-) My problem with an old Compaq I had was that: 1. I couldn't get into the BIOS to shut off the go to sleep after x minutes feature, so 2. It would go to sleep and not do *anything*. Yours may be different. You don't need a hard drive, any of those sol'ns will run off either a floppy or CD alone. For the floppy versions, and even Smoothwall, IIRC, you would only need about 16 or 32 MB of memory. I personally use BBIAgent, but I've been meaning to switch over to Smoothwall, as it is much stronger and has *way* more features. -- The Pen may be mightier than the Sword, But a Glock beats a Bic every time Thanks for all the suggestions I will try to get the OPOS(Old Piece of S***) up as a firewall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble?? with 9.2
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:06:48 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you run LEAF-Bering firewall http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ you can run the whole thing from a single floppy no HD required, and about 8M of memory. It uses shorewall just like Mandrake so configuration is the same. (Well the text files are, you don't get a GUI running in 8Meg) If yer into that, fine, but from the Smoothwall FAQ: Installation is as simple as booting your PC with the Smoothwall CD, and configuring ... as easy as pointing a browser at the Smoothwall system. One thing I *did* notice, though, is that Smoothwall does require a HD, though it only needs to be 100MB or so...god, can you even *find* HD's that small anymore? -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File manager under 9.2?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 28 November 2003 12:59 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 01:49 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: CMHope this helps Ron: CM CMRepost from the Weird things in 9.2 thread: CM- Thanks Charlie - that worked just fine. :-) Any time Dark Lord. C. - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 08:03:07 up 16:34, 1 user, load average: 0.90, 0.64, 0.80 Counting in binary is just like counting in decimal -- if you are all thumbs. -- Glaser and Way -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/x2PaG11CaRuZZSIRAgJoAJ9IVlsq9pGgZ5xukPLsHobbNU1+7QCgk8uT 1bfxKJtxipjs8UW8vYbCKcM= =LQqx -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble?? with 9.2
Le ven 28/11/2003 à 14:07, aron a écrit : system slows waaay down system logs disapear dsl activity at 3.00 am(when i'm not online I don't know if it can help, but I get the same behavior here (9.2, DSL goes away every two days at 3am). I guess it is an operator 'problem' (I have tele2) becausethe leds on my modem show no DSL activity at all... -- Alexandre Aractingi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble?? with 9.2
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 2:32 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:06:48 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you run LEAF-Bering firewall http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ you can run the whole thing from a single floppy no HD required, and about 8M of memory. It uses shorewall just like Mandrake so configuration is the same. (Well the text files are, you don't get a GUI running in 8Meg) If yer into that, fine, but from the Smoothwall FAQ: Installation is as simple as booting your PC with the Smoothwall CD, and configuring ... as easy as pointing a browser at the Smoothwall system. One thing I *did* notice, though, is that Smoothwall does require a HD, though it only needs to be 100MB or so...god, can you even *find* HD's that small anymore? You'd be amazed what junk some of us keep g Seriously, though, if you're stuck for a very small HDD, Aron, mail me off-list. I may have finally thrown all the 100MB ones (think I did that a couple of months ago) but I'm very likely to have one or two 400MB ones. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble?? with 9.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 28 November 2003 7:32 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:06:48 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you run LEAF-Bering firewall http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ you can run the whole thing from a single floppy no HD required, and about 8M of memory. It uses shorewall just like Mandrake so configuration is the same. (Well the text files are, you don't get a GUI running in 8Meg) If yer into that, fine, but from the Smoothwall FAQ: Installation is as simple as booting your PC with the Smoothwall CD, and configuring ... as easy as pointing a browser at the Smoothwall system. One thing I *did* notice, though, is that Smoothwall does require a HD, though it only needs to be 100MB or so...god, can you even *find* HD's that small anymore? I still have a few old ones. A 200 MB, a 500 MB, an 80 MB, three 1.3 GB, a 2.1 GB, two 3.2 GB, and a couple of 6.4 GB. Left-overs from upgrades I've done for people. They all still work. Plus boxes full of 72 pin memory. I don't know about your neck of the Great White North, or Aron's part of the U.S., but round here the flea markets and swap meets have tons of this stuff. I should probably make the time to take some of it in and reduce the clutter around here. (-; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 08:08:16 up 16:39, 1 user, load average: 0.26, 0.32, 0.60 The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. -- Glaser and Way -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/x2aoG11CaRuZZSIRAs3iAJ93JJ2ucRjakzVXy8/F5lbAEe5gLwCdG3B5 s2LThcgOdPlaOtmOEISLW9Q= =gbeD -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] power pack club membership.
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 11:03 am, et wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 03:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 28 Nov 2003 9:02 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have bought mandrake 9.2 powerpack. As per that I am supposed to get one month club membership. How to get the membership? If no-one here can answer, go to the Club Forums - there are some areas where you can ask before you are registered to the club - and ask there. It has a better chance of someone from MandrakeSoft seeing it and replying. Anne when he gets the boxes they should have info about it, and when he runs 'drakclub' he can fill in the info. try 'drakclub' from a command prompt. a 'produck key' is what he will need and get in the powerpack boxes. It seems so long since my 9.1 PP arrived, I had forgotten that. And I am sure in the long run, you will feel it was money well spent. I have been a member of the club and downloaded the bit torrent ISOs, and have (this morning) decided to purchase a powerpack as a present for some friends. ET Nice one. I'm leaving it until the new year - just too busy to deal with it right now. I agree about the club membership, though. I'm in my second year. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 installation with HPT374 onboard Raid device
Does anyone know how to get the Highpoint HPT374 Raid device to work during the Mandrake 9.2 installation. I need it to recognise my raid array attached to the HPT374 device. i have a Abit AT7MAX2 motherboard which has an on oard hpt374 raid device. on this I have attached 2 80 GB Maxtor HDs, I also have two smaller (2GB and 8GB) HDs on the normal IDE channels. I have tried the opensource files provided by highpoints web site: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/374drivers_down.htm But i cant get them to work with the Mandrake 9.2 installation, maybe I'm not using them correctly? Nilesh. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer problems
On Friday 28 November 2003 05:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote: JRThen again, according to KDE-peripherals-printer, JRkde believes my Z53 is on a port, local system-USB-USB JRprinte~1-Lexmark Z53, JRmaybe it is in kde parlance, but if so the OS thinks it is on JR/dev/usb/lp0 JRBut thern again Pup see's my printer as /dev/lp0 which is wrong, JRand it should be /dev/usb/lp0 but nothing I do to alter it here takes. JRSo I don't know ? JR JRJohn JR Have you tried removing all instances of your printer, down to zero, and running printerdrake again? I did this at one point. It might help - I've seen it suggested before. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad signatures in 9.2
On Wednesday 26 Nov 2003 8:54 am, Jerry Barton wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:18:48 + Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering why the Contrib repository was giving the error messages with Mandrake9.2, when it didn't with earlier versions. Should I try to solve the bad signature message problem, or ignore it? That was the reason for my posting. I hadn't seen anyone else reporting this happening. Keith, same thing happens here. I just didn't think much of it since i got so used to texstar and plf rpms doing it. I too haven't ever had a signature problem with contrib before until now. That and i get some kind of mirror uses invalid list trying alternate method message when I install packages from contrib. but so far i haven't had any that haven't installed. Jerry I too get the Mirror uses invalid list try alternative method message when installing packages from contrib. I didn't mention it, though, as I did not want to confuse things even more! It's still there after a contrib update. Things install OK, so I ignore it. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad signatures in 9.2
On Wednesday 26 Nov 2003 7:48 pm, Dick Gevers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:18:48 +, Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] Bad signatures in 9.2: I installed the download edition of 9.2 from magazine cover disks, but KPPP did not install. So I installed it from the CDs using MCC. When I installed it, there was the bad signature message, which I ignored. I could not understand why there was this message with a package which was on the CDs. I then downloaded and installed the security updates (which were clear of the error message). Next I downloaded and installed a package from Contrib and got the error message. Then I downloaded and installed all the other updates. These too were clear of the signature error message. Now, installing packages from the CDs don't give the bad signature message, but installing packages from Contrib do. I was wondering why the Contrib repository was giving the error messages with Mandrake9.2, when it didn't with earlier versions. Should I try to solve the bad signature message problem, or ignore it? That was the reason for my posting. I hadn't seen anyone else reporting this happening. Hope this is a bit clearer. Okay clear. There are 2 separate things here: packages on CD for which the signature checks and packages on the same CD`s for which the signature does not check. In principle that ought not to be possible, but, I have the same CD`s and see on Installation CD No. 2: kdenetwork-kppp-3.1.3-37mdk.i586.rpm when I go to /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS and type (as root) rpm -K *kppp* I get: kdenetwork-kppp-3.1.3-37mdk.i586.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 gpg OK so the signature *is* okay. If I go into MCC - Software management - Software Media Manager - Manage Keys I see that CD # 2 has the original MD key # 70771FF3 next to it. So I can only assume that if and when you have bad signature message that at that time your rpm database was corrupt or the key was not associated to CD # 2. As far as the Contrib Cooker packages are concerned, I understood that had been a lot of discussion about those, and it will apparently not be possible to authenticate them all (this isn`t new, the same applied to 9.1 packages in these categories). However if you look at the information page per rpm in rpmsearch (e.g. on MandrakeClub) you should see already mention of the key with which it has been signed, if any and if so which. In the latter case you can obtain the key as previously described and add it to your rpm-keyring. If it is not signed at all, you should consider whether or not you want to install it. If it has a high securety impact for you, you should not install an unsigned package. In such case, PH you might ask the contributor to add his personal GnuPG signature to the package. Thanks for the extra information, Dick. I'll work on it over the week-end and see follow your advice. Been too busy the last couple of days to do anything about it. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad signatures in 9.2
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:37:35 + Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too get the Mirror uses invalid list try alternative method message when installing packages from contrib. I didn't mention it, though, as I did not want to confuse things even more! You will get that error if you are not using ../base for your contrib source. The whatever/contrib/i586/ contains a synthesis.hdlist2.cz and the rpms can be installed using such, But, it does not contain a list or hdlist as does base so you get the 'invalid list' Charles -- Fortune's real live weird band names #130: Cherry Poppin' Daddies - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.6.0-0.1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] oldworld pm7200 scsi problems
Hello I was hoping somebody fluent with power pc and mandrake 9.1 could lend me a hand. I purchased the cd's from mandrake and have tried installing, but no luck at all. I have a problem with my scsi cd-rom and hard drive being recognized by the text-based installer. I do have BootX running but I don't know any specific arguments to config my scsi drives to work with the installer. My rig is as follows: PowerMac 7200 at 90Mhz with 112 Megs of ram 3 Gig HDD (scsi) Yamaha CD-RW (scsi) Many thanks in advance for any assistance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer problems
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 7:01 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 05:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote: JRThen again, according to KDE-peripherals-printer, JRkde believes my Z53 is on a port, local system-USB-USB JRprinte~1-Lexmark Z53, JRmaybe it is in kde parlance, but if so the OS thinks it is on JR/dev/usb/lp0 JRBut thern again Pup see's my printer as /dev/lp0 which is wrong, JRand it should be /dev/usb/lp0 but nothing I do to alter it here takes. JRSo I don't know ? JR JRJohn JR Have you tried removing all instances of your printer, down to zero, and running printerdrake again? I did this at one point. It might help - I've seen it suggested before. John, are you still on 9.1? I've set up all my printers from MCC printerdrake. For some reason yours seems to be confused as to whether it is connected by parallel port or usb. You can modify the settings, including the connection, there in printerdrake. Don't forget, though, that unless you back out gracefully your changes will not be saved. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad signatures in 9.2
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:15:57 + Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You will get that error if you are not using ../base for your contrib source. The whatever/contrib/i586/ contains a synthesis.hdlist2.cz and the rpms can be installed using such, But, it does not contain a list or hdlist as does base so you get the 'invalid list' Thanks Charles, My original contrib url is ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586 path to hdlist: ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz (this was the urpmi.addmedia given by easy urpmi on plf) that path to hdlist was the only /base dir i could find. So as far as I can tell it was reading the right hdlist. I'll mess around with it and see. I even tried updating the contrib source or using a different one and it still gives me that error when installing from contrib. I'll report back after trying a few things. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Old-World install problem
Hello All, My first post, so hope it's not an old question. I have a g3 Wallstreet. I get as far as the install app loading and past the selection of language and license agreement. I get a message saying it loaded the pcmcia drivers, but then everything stops. Eventuallyl the CD spins down and I am sitting at the install screen with no messages, license is still selected on the left, and the watch timer. I've let it sit like this for half an hour with no luck. I tried adding video=atyfb:vmode:14,cmode:32, but it still just sits there. I get the same result if I use the benh kernel and all-benh.gz image or the vmlinuz kernel and the all.gz image. Always just stops at the same point. Any suggestions? Thanks, Max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] leaving linux again
On Friday 28 November 2003 16:17, Void lon iXaarii wrote: seems like you really have a strong opinion on this :-) .. still .. remote is cool .. having a remote for my computer is just awesome :) ... and now I can record Daffy duck stuff ;) Paah!, since I've installed linux I lost the time and patience to watch TV. There's always something to be fixed or...or to enjoy a brief moment of victory when it all runs perfectly, only to gather that the next version just came out;) Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Update Doesn't Update
Hi.
I'm running 9.2 and when I try to run the update from the control center
it tells me that I have at least one selected media but that they are
all disabled. When I go to the Software Media Manager as directed to
enable the media. They are all marked enabled. I've tried unchecking
them one at a time then rechecking them and trying again but I still get
the message, that they are all disabled. I've even done a couple of
reboots over a couple of days but I still get the same all
disabledmessage. What can I do to correct this and get my installation
of ML-9.2 updated with the latest patches??
TIA
LTR }}:{(
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Re: [newbie] Trouble?? with 9.2
On Friday 28 November 2003 15:19, JoeHill wrote: I personally use BBIAgent, but I've been meaning to switch over to Smoothwall, as it is much stronger and has *way* more features. I've got an old P166 16M ram running Smoothwall for over 2 yrs now (24/24)..very goood! I don't know about the feature thing but it's rock-solid, uses about 30M HD-space (not counting the logfiles of course) and is almost silent i.e. I cut out all the fans incl. the one on the P166 chip.the only thing you can hear is the HD writing the log-files. If I switched of logging I wouldn't hear anything at all:) To top it all of, I wedged the thing vertically between my bookshelf and the heating radiator so it's not in a cool place either. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update Doesn't Update
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 10:30 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote:
Hi.
I'm running 9.2 and when I try to run the update from the control center
it tells me that I have at least one selected media but that they are
all disabled. When I go to the Software Media Manager as directed to
enable the media. They are all marked enabled. I've tried unchecking
them one at a time then rechecking them and trying again but I still get
the message, that they are all disabled. I've even done a couple of
reboots over a couple of days but I still get the same all
disabledmessage. What can I do to correct this and get my installation
of ML-9.2 updated with the latest patches??
TIA
LTR }}:{(
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do you actually have an 'update' media defined?
Go here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php and follow the instructions to
add an 'update' media source. While you are there add a source for 'plf' and
'contrib' as well and you will be able to install 100's of cool extra
applications online.
Note: Do *not* do what it says about urpmi.removemedia -a or else you will
lose your CD sources.
Note: The web page will give you a command to copy and paste into a terminal
window. The window has to be a 'root' window. Type 'su' in a regular terminal
window to become root.
Copy/paste in Linux is mouse highlight/wheel click
Note: If you do not want to use the command line install the urpmi.update
package from your CDs using the Mandrake Software manager.
Then run urpmi.update and a nice little GUI will guide you through adding
sources.
HTH
derek
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Re: [newbie] Uninstall
On Friday 28 November 2003 00:20, Charlie Mahan wrote: BTW if anyone is becoming so sensitive they can't stand to read posts that were never meant as personal attacks let me know. I'll happily walk away from the newbie list again. Wot, walk out on us lovely fella's? You really are a hard bastard;) Like taking candy from a kid. Bears on your path, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mozilla-1.4.1
9.2 mozilla-1.4.1 rpms are now available from my site. Also added galeonrebuilt for mozilla-1.4.1 gentooa file mgr (not the distro) cantus-2..a gtk2 GUI mp3 tagger Charles -- One girl can be pretty -- but a dozen are only a chorus. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-21.tmb.2mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Unninstalling packages
How do I unninstall packages that were installed from the source? If you're lucky, there's instructions, or an option in the makefile. Otherwise, you just have to delete all the files it installed. I don't know if source compilations change menu setting, etc. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] External editors with Kmail/Sylpheed-claws/Knode/Pan?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Can anyone recommend some capable text editors that I can use as external editors with various email and news clients? Being a Virgo, I'm pretty picky about how I present messages, and would like a bit more plain text formatting functionality than I'm finding, at least so far, within the various email/news clients. Here are a couple of things I'd like to be able to do (perhaps these *are* available already from within the clients mentioned in the subject, and if so, feel free to point them out to me)... 1) The ability to re-flow text - especially quoted text of any quote level - to my preferred wrap length. This would be especially useful when replying to messages where I cut up a paragraph of quoted text into smaller bits in order to insert my comments. A small example: When I cut up quoted paragraphs for reply insertion, the bits of quoted text can look like this: qqq qq qqq In cases like that, I would like to be able to re-flow it to look more like this: q qqq qqq 2) If I'm quoting text that has been mangled by the previous sender's email/news client, I'd like to be able to clean it up. An example of this: Sometimes, I'm faced with something like this: q q qqq q qqq qq I would like to clean that up as well. 3) When I create or quote numbered items (or some other type of bulleted items), I'd like to be able to format/re-format the items so that the second and subsequent lines are indented to start directly underneath the first line, instead of those lines starting at the very left margin, as you can see in this email. In Windows, my email client (The Bat!) can do these sorts of things (and much more!), and I've also used a cleanup utility called MessageCleaner along with my news reader to accomplish these things. I'm looking at Emacs, and while it has many options, It'll take me a while to learn all of its capabilities, and I haven't yet found the above mentioned options in it. Any recommendations will be appreciated...thanks! - -- Melissa -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/x9DajVbXUvsE8ukRAr1lAJ42Wc0dy2/6CLOV7LgsaYDalLAUIwCfawvv tyCwqM9iDQDCIKHeaDG1zkE= =jnbw -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update Doesn't Update
te in Linux is mouse highlight/wheel click Note: If you do not want to use the command line install the urpmi.update package from your CDs using the Mandrake Software manager. Then run urpmi.update and a nice little GUI will guide you through adding sources. Drat. I should have said 'urpmi.setup' Sorry 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] Update Doesn't Update
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:30:47 -0500
Langsley T Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi.
I'm running 9.2 and when I try to run the update from the control
center it tells me that I have at least one selected media but
that they are all disabled. When I go to the Software Media
Manager as directed to enable the media. They are all marked
enabled. I've tried unchecking them one at a time then rechecking
them and trying again but I still get the message, that they are
all disabled. I've even done a couple of reboots over a couple of
days but I still get the same all disabledmessage. What can I
do to correct this and get my installation of ML-9.2 updated with
the latest patches?? TIA
LTR }}:{(
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. su to root
2. type urpmi.removemedia -a
3. Go to http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ and follow simple
instructions.
hth
Lee
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Re: [newbie] Update Doesn't Update
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 22:44:05 +
Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 10:30 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote:
Hi.
I'm running 9.2 and when I try to run the update from the
control center it tells me that I have at least one selected
media but that they are all disabled. When I go to the Software
Media Manager as directed to enable the media. They are all
marked enabled. I've tried unchecking them one at a time then
rechecking them and trying again but I still get the message,
that they are all disabled. I've even done a couple of reboots
over a couple of days but I still get the same all
disabledmessage. What can I do to correct this and get my
installation of ML-9.2 updated with the latest patches??
TIA
LTR }}:{(
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do you actually have an 'update' media defined?
Go here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php and follow the
instructions to add an 'update' media source. While you are there
add a source for 'plf' and 'contrib' as well and you will be able
to install 100's of cool extra applications online.
Note: Do *not* do what it says about urpmi.removemedia -a or
else you will lose your CD sources.
Note: The web page will give you a command to copy and paste into
a terminal window. The window has to be a 'root' window. Type 'su'
in a regular terminal window to become root.
Copy/paste in Linux is mouse highlight/wheel click
Note: If you do not want to use the command line install the
urpmi.update package from your CDs using the Mandrake Software
manager. Then run urpmi.update and a nice little GUI will guide
you through adding sources.
HTH
derek
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Curious what the advantage of keeping the CD sources might be?
Lee
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Re: [newbie] Update Doesn't Update
Lee Wiggers wrote:
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 22:44:05 +
Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 10:30 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote:
Hi.
I'm running 9.2 and when I try to run the update from the
control center it tells me that I have at least one selected
media but that they are all disabled. When I go to the Software
Media Manager as directed to enable the media. They are all
marked enabled. I've tried unchecking them one at a time then
rechecking them and trying again but I still get the message,
that they are all disabled. I've even done a couple of reboots
over a couple of days but I still get the same all
disabledmessage. What can I do to correct this and get my
installation of ML-9.2 updated with the latest patches??
TIA
LTR }}:{(
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do you actually have an 'update' media defined?
Go here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php and follow the
instructions to add an 'update' media source. While you are there
add a source for 'plf' and 'contrib' as well and you will be able
to install 100's of cool extra applications online.
Note: Do *not* do what it says about urpmi.removemedia -a or
else you will lose your CD sources.
Note: The web page will give you a command to copy and paste into
a terminal window. The window has to be a 'root' window. Type 'su'
in a regular terminal window to become root.
Copy/paste in Linux is mouse highlight/wheel click
Note: If you do not want to use the command line install the
urpmi.update package from your CDs using the Mandrake Software
manager. Then run urpmi.update and a nice little GUI will guide
you through adding sources.
HTH
derek
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Curious what the advantage of keeping the CD sources might be?
Lee
If you have broadband, probably no advantage at all...but if you're on a
slow dialup, and particularly if you're paying by the minute for your
connection, it is much faster (and cheaper!) to add packages from the CD
sources. That way, you only spend precious internet time downloading
packages that aren't on the CDs.
Margot
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Re: [newbie] Update Doesn't Update
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:17:47 +
Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lee Wiggers wrote:
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 22:44:05 +
Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 10:30 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote:
Hi.
I'm running 9.2 and when I try to run the update from the
control center it tells me that I have at least one selected
media but that they are all disabled. When I go to the Software
Media Manager as directed to enable the media. They are all
marked enabled. I've tried unchecking them one at a time then
rechecking them and trying again but I still get the message,
that they are all disabled. I've even done a couple of reboots
over a couple of days but I still get the same all
disabledmessage. What can I do to correct this and get my
installation of ML-9.2 updated with the latest patches??
TIA
LTR }}:{(
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do you actually have an 'update' media defined?
Go here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php and follow the
instructions to add an 'update' media source. While you are
thereadd a source for 'plf' and 'contrib' as well and you will
be ableto install 100's of cool extra applications online.
Note: Do *not* do what it says about urpmi.removemedia -a or
else you will lose your CD sources.
Note: The web page will give you a command to copy and paste
intoa terminal window. The window has to be a 'root' window.
Type 'su'in a regular terminal window to become root.
Copy/paste in Linux is mouse highlight/wheel click
Note: If you do not want to use the command line install the
urpmi.update package from your CDs using the Mandrake Software
manager. Then run urpmi.update and a nice little GUI will guide
you through adding sources.
HTH
derek
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Curious what the advantage of keeping the CD sources might be?
Lee
If you have broadband, probably no advantage at all...but if
you're on a slow dialup, and particularly if you're paying by the
minute for your connection, it is much faster (and cheaper!) to
add packages from the CD sources. That way, you only spend
precious internet time downloading packages that aren't on the
CDs.
Margot
Thought about it after I put my foot in, as usual.
Thanks
Lee
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Re: [newbie] Update Doesn't Update
On Friday 28 November 2003 23:00, Lee Wiggers wrote: snip Curious what the advantage of keeping the CD sources might be? /snip If you've got a fast connection : none . Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer problems
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 05:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Have you tried removing all instances of your printer, down to zero, and running printerdrake again? I did this at one point. It might help - I've seen it suggested before. No I haven't , I didn't think to do this, and so I did. Turns out there must be a bug somewhere in the setup software, because, my usb printer is detected right enough as /dev/usb/lp0 but if you don't watch out very carefully indeed it is written up as /dev/usb/lp1 which is wrong. This is in auto detect . But even in manual it will not accept the correct /dev/usb/lp0 without substancial fidling about , but eventually I did get it set up as being on /dev/usb/lp0. I think it's dot actually every case, sometimes it seems to detect and set it up correctly, sometimes it mucks it up.It's hard to replicate the circumstances when it does it right and when it does it wrong. But I think there is a problem with the reliability of the detection and setting up. For the moment it's working.Have no reason to think it will not go on working. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mozilla-1.4.1
Charles A Edwards wrote: 9.2 mozilla-1.4.1 rpms are now available from my site. Also added galeonrebuilt for mozilla-1.4.1 gentooa file mgr (not the distro) cantus-2..a gtk2 GUI mp3 tagger Charles Charlie, Can you list that which constitutes a full list of mozilla-1.4.1 including all options and dependencies, thanks, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer problems
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 28 Nov 2003 7:01 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 05:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote: JRThen again, according to KDE-peripherals-printer, JRkde believes my Z53 is on a port, local system-USB-USB JRprinte~1-Lexmark Z53, JRmaybe it is in kde parlance, but if so the OS thinks it is on JR/dev/usb/lp0 JRBut thern again Pup see's my printer as /dev/lp0 which is wrong, JRand it should be /dev/usb/lp0 but nothing I do to alter it here takes. JRSo I don't know ? JR JRJohn JR Have you tried removing all instances of your printer, down to zero, and running printerdrake again? I did this at one point. It might help - I've seen it suggested before. John, are you still on 9.1? I've set up all my printers from MCC printerdrake. For some reason yours seems to be confused as to whether it is connected by parallel port or usb. You can modify the settings, including the connection, there in printerdrake. Don't forget, though, that unless you back out gracefully your changes will not be saved. Anne No I have to fixkde print in M9.1 before I can spare the partition that was where M9.0 was for M9.2. But looks like wiping the lot and starting again has done the trick, I think M9.1 had a bug in the detection and setup of usb printer port. But I guess it's old news now. Thanks anyway John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unninstalling packages
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:47:15 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I unninstall packages that were installed from the source? If you're lucky, there's instructions, or an option in the makefile. Otherwise, you just have to delete all the files it installed. I don't know if source compilations change menu setting, etc. eric If you use checkinstall to install from source (it's in contrib, i believe... you'd do ./configure/make then instead of make install you'd do checkinstall) it creates an rpm in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS and it can be installed and removed using rpm. otherwise you have to go a-hunting and delete any files that it installed manually. I've found checkinstall to be a great tool for trying out software. I'd recommend it to anyone building from source. Also to reduce hunting if I'm going about it the regular ./configure make make install route I prefer leaving the prefix as /usr/local and adding /usr/local/bin to my$PATH in ~/.bashrc (and /usr/local/lib/ to ld.so.conf) so finding any bits and pieces will be easier. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble?? with 9.2
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:40:42 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an old P166 16M ram running Smoothwall for over 2 yrs now (24/24)..very goood! I don't know about the feature thing but it's rock-solid, uses about 30M HD-space (not counting the logfiles of course) and is almost silent i.e. I cut out all the fans incl. the one on the P166 chip.the only thing you can hear is the HD writing the log-files. If I switched of logging I wouldn't hear anything at all:) To top it all of, I wedged the thing vertically between my bookshelf and the heating radiator so it's not in a cool place either. I've got a P90 running my BBIAgent, with no HD, but I *do* have an old 2GB HD and I've got the Smoothwall ISO burned and ready to go, it's just that my BBIAgent box has been so invisible to me for so long (it's uptime must be in the several months by now...only time it ever went down is a power failure), I just never think of it. It's been going like that for about 3 years now, since before I started using Linux. Actually, like you it's way out of the way, behind a panel next to my desk, you can see a shot on my site :-) -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. -- Bakunin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update Doesn't Update
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 11:00 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: SNIP Note: Do *not* do what it says about urpmi.removemedia -a or else you will lose your CD sources. Curious what the advantage of keeping the CD sources might be? Lee The advantage is that I do not have to explain how to put the CD sources back again ;-) In the last month we have had two posts from newbies who complained about losing their CD sources after executing this command. 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] Update Doesn't Update
On Friday 28 November 2003 23:53, Derek Jennings wrote: snip The advantage is that I do not have to explain how to put the CD sources back again ;-) /snip Which brings up a rather naive question : Let's say a newbie leaves his original CD sources as is and then decides to add some more, following your excellent advice, Derek. Then, being on the easy urpmi- site, he/she -accidentally defines main once again, this time from some mirror on the net. Now, our newbie has two sources for main. What happens ? - Will urpmi get confused ? - Or just spit out a message like : you idiot, why bother me with two identical sources, waisting my time ? - Do you want to shuffle CD's or watch the blinkenlights on your modem ? Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update Doesn't Update
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:53:05 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 28 Nov 2003 11:00 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: SNIP Note: Do *not* do what it says about urpmi.removemedia -a or else you will lose your CD sources. Curious what the advantage of keeping the CD sources might be? Lee The advantage is that I do not have to explain how to put the CD sources back again ;-) In the last month we have had two posts from newbies who complained about losing their CD sources after executing this command. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Now I got it! Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] knoppix
Can someone tell me why knoppix installs perfectly on all of my 7 boxes of various and sundry (Spelled Cheap, mostly) vintage boxes without a hitch. Even a beautiful blonde telling me she is preparing to load. Or preparing to get loaded or something. (Don't argue. I know she's a blonde.) I appreciate mdk giving me gray hair with every switch, being the sporting type that I am, but some prefer less panic. Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update Doesn't Update
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 01:13:41 + Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 23:53, Derek Jennings wrote: snip The advantage is that I do not have to explain how to put the CD sources back again ;-) /snip Which brings up a rather naive question : Let's say a newbie leaves his original CD sources as is and then decides to add some more, following your excellent advice, Derek. Then, being on the easy urpmi- site, he/she -accidentally defines main once again, this time from some mirror on the net. Now, our newbie has two sources for main. What happens ? - Will urpmi get confused ? - Or just spit out a message like : you idiot, why bother me with two identical sources, waisting my time ? - Do you want to shuffle CD's or watch the blinkenlights on your modem ? Kaj Haulrich. Hey, I've tried every wrong way to do all this stuff. Way back in 8.2 as I recall, everything listed twice in gurpmi, anyway. Just assumed I needed reinforcements maybe? Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] knoppix
On Saturday 29 November 2003 00:29, Lee Wiggers wrote: Can someone tell me why knoppix installs perfectly on all of my 7 boxes of various and sundry (Spelled Cheap, mostly) vintage boxes without a hitch. Even a beautiful blonde telling me she is preparing to load. Or preparing to get loaded or something. (Don't argue. I know she's a blonde.) I appreciate mdk giving me gray hair with every switch, being the sporting type that I am, but some prefer less panic. Lee, do you really install Knoppix ? - I never managed to do so, althougt I use Knoppix on my PC at work (a hospital where the IT-department loves to collect viruses). Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update Doesn't Update
On Saturday 29 November 2003 00:32, Lee Wiggers wrote: snip Hey, I've tried every wrong way to do all this stuff. Way back in 8.2 as I recall, everything listed twice in gurpmi, anyway. Just assumed I needed reinforcements maybe? /snip Maybe. Didn't seem to do any harm, though. After 9.0, the first thing I did was to remove the CD sources what with having broadband. Nevertheless, I constantly order my Powerpack CD's from Mandrake. Being no big X-mas fanatic, they come in quite handy at yuletide as gifts for Microsoft-geeks. Teaches them something about Darwinism. Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update Doesn't Update
On Saturday 29 Nov 2003 1:13 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 23:53, Derek Jennings wrote: snip The advantage is that I do not have to explain how to put the CD sources back again ;-) /snip Which brings up a rather naive question : Let's say a newbie leaves his original CD sources as is and then decides to add some more, following your excellent advice, Derek. Then, being on the easy urpmi- site, he/she -accidentally defines main once again, this time from some mirror on the net. Now, our newbie has two sources for main. What happens ? - Will urpmi get confused ? - Or just spit out a message like : you idiot, why bother me with two identical sources, waisting my time ? - Do you want to shuffle CD's or watch the blinkenlights on your modem ? Kaj Haulrich. I don't know. Want to try it and tell us? At a guess I would say it would prefer the CD sources. Of course your question is actually rhetorical since the CDs and 'main' are not actually identical. 'Main' contains the kernel-source package which is not on the CDs. (Although it is superceded by the one in 'updates' ) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT? Critical Flan in GnuPG
Thought I'd pass this along. Not sure if it applies to anyone. - Critical flaw in GnuPG - Oxygen3 24h-365d, by Panda Software (http://www.pandasoftware.com) Madrid, November 28, 2003 - A critical security flaw has been found in the GnuPG encryption software which could compromise a user's private key in seconds. This flaw affects versions 1.0.2 and later of GnuPG which use ElGamal keys for encryption and signing (type 20). ElGamal keys used for encryption only (type 16) are not affected by this flaw. Although use of sign+encrypt keys is not considered good cryptographic practice, the OpenPGP standard allows them to be used and GnuPG supports creation and handling of them. Fortunately, these keys are not used very often nor are they created by default in GnuPG, since -compared to RSA or DSA keys - they have significant disadvantages with regard to security and performance. Actually, users must create ElGamal sign+encrypt keys through specific options in GnuPG. To avoid being affected by this vulnerability, it is advisable not to generate ElGamal keys for encryption and signing (type 20), revoke the keys that are already in use and take into account that all the material signed and encrypted with them could have been compromised. GnuPG has already announced that future versions of the program will not allow these keys to be created. More information at: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2003q4/000276.html -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:22pm up 10:18, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.09, 0.04 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT? Critical Flan in GnuPG
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 November 2003 05:25 pm, Chris wrote: Thought I'd pass this along. Not sure if it applies to anyone. - Critical flaw in GnuPG - [snip] It does indeed apply to a minority of GnuPG users who elected to create *non-default* type ElGamal signing keys. Anyone who only created the default type of signing/encrypting key pairs are not affected by this flaw. However, your subject line mentioned Critical Flan. For more information about critical flan, please see: http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/flan.htm ;-) - -- Melissa -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/x/wljVbXUvsE8ukRAkGPAJ9r1GSPz68vkMfBBTD/XSVr0pABCQCdEdXi wEh3ypxHyNFws9NZUNiKi1A= =2VxL -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT? Critical Flan in GnuPG
On Friday 28 November 2003 07:53 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 However, your subject line mentioned Critical Flan. For more information about critical flan, please see: http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/flan.htm ;-) - -- Melissa Damm, and the 'n' key isn't even near the 'w' key. The recipe does sound kind of good though. Thanks. Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:55pm up 10:51, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] test
Sorry for the disturbance guys. I'm having problem with this list. Pls ignore. Thanks. ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.542 / Virus Database: 336 - Release Date: 11/18/2003
Re: [newbie] knoppix
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 01:41:41 + Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 November 2003 00:29, Lee Wiggers wrote: Can someone tell me why knoppix installs perfectly on all of my 7 boxes of various and sundry (Spelled Cheap, mostly) vintage boxes without a hitch. Even a beautiful blonde telling me she is preparing to load. Or preparing to get loaded or something. (Don't argue. I know she's a blonde.) I appreciate mdk giving me gray hair with every switch, being the sporting type that I am, but some prefer less panic. Lee, do you really install Knoppix ? - I never managed to do so, althougt I use Knoppix on my PC at work (a hospital where the IT-department loves to collect viruses). Kaj Haulrich. No, if install means tuck it in on the hd and use it every day. Hmmm, guess I wasn't asking the right question. Why does it just come up with a working kde desktop every time, then? Cranky laptop to 99.00 piece of junk. No video issues, xmms works flawlessly, drives are all there, readable. I didn't try writing a file because of the ntfs issue. Didn't have to unmute a multitude of strange acronyms, even. I know there's another step to load and use my day to day programs, but what does that have to do with the basic housekeeping? I'm not being obtuse (I don't think.). I'm waiting for the lightbulb to light. Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 update rpms.
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 4:17 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 28 Nov 2003 9:06 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I want to selectively download rpms for updates for 9.2 powerpack. How to go about it. 1)From where I can download 2)how to know what rpms are new compared what was provided in powerpack? 3)how about dependency. I want to avoid direct urpmi updating from site as I want to store those rpms for future use and also for using in other's machines Run 'drakclub' and enter your product key. That will define a urpmi source to enable you to install 'commercial' applications. There is nothing in the commercial folder you do not already have in your Powerpack Then go here http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?name=Mirrors-list to define club-contributions etc Club contrib contains packages not in your Powerpack. If you do not want to use urpmi then you can browse and download the club packages here http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/ Note you do not need club membership to get security updates and bug fixes. You can get them off any public mirror under the mandrake-devel/updates folder. derek May be I was not clear in my question. I want to update my 9.2. For that I want to download latest rpms, but not all, only that I need. I want to do it simply because I can use it later in my own pc or some other machines I install also. How to know what are all the latest rpms available than what was given in powerpack? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] power pack club membership.
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 4:02 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 03:02 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have bought mandrake 9.2 powerpack. As per that I am supposed to get one month club membership. How to get the membership? Have you registered your powerpack on-line? I think the membership is done as part of that registration? Howto register? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update Doesn't Update
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 01:52:20 + Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 November 2003 00:32, Lee Wiggers wrote: snip Hey, I've tried every wrong way to do all this stuff. Way back in 8.2 as I recall, everything listed twice in gurpmi, anyway. Just assumed I needed reinforcements maybe? /snip Maybe. Didn't seem to do any harm, though. After 9.0, the first thing I did was to remove the CD sources what with having broadband. Nevertheless, I constantly order my Powerpack CD's from Mandrake. Being no big X-mas fanatic, they come in quite handy at yuletide as gifts for Microsoft-geeks. Teaches them something about Darwinism. Kaj Haulrich. I gave a set of CD's to a friend once. The problem, I've learned, is that you are then his only source of assistance. I've already been married 4 times, and prefer women as my prime source of aggravation. Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] power pack club membership.
On Saturday 29 November 2003 02:47 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Friday 28 Nov 2003 4:02 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 03:02 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have bought mandrake 9.2 powerpack. As per that I am supposed to get one month club membership. How to get the membership? Have you registered your powerpack on-line? I think the membership is done as part of that registration? Howto register? run drakclub. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
