Re: [newbie] Eleven days...some thoughts
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 01:51:44 -0800 Melissa Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you'll find this encouraging: http://www.thescreamonline.com/cartoons/cartoons3-3/index.html Okay here's my funny: We were watching the CBC last night, This Hour has 22 Minutes was on, this news item had me pissing myself: Scientists have invented a robotic dog, with smelling capabilities far beyond normal dogs. It can detect explosives, drugs, and the asses of other robotic dogs from over one thousand meters. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.-- Howard Zinn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Eleven days...some thoughts
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 11:01, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 01:51:44 -0800 Melissa Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you'll find this encouraging: http://www.thescreamonline.com/cartoons/cartoons3-3/index.html Okay here's my funny: We were watching the CBC last night, This Hour has 22 Minutes was on, this news item had me pissing myself: Scientists have invented a robotic dog, with smelling capabilities far beyond normal dogs. It can detect explosives, drugs, and the asses of other robotic dogs from over one thousand meters. ROFLMAO HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org -Please do NOT reply to this message in HTML-format as it will be deleted as spam- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
philip wrote: I have a seperate 20 gb hdd with 9.1 installed. Just taken delivery of a new machine with a 80gb hdd i am going to install 9.2 on this disk and intend to sell the other disk. How do I format this disk with linux on it so it can be sold as a clean disk. Thanks Philip There are any number of ways, With the old HD still in place, 1) Shove an old windblows boot disk in the A drive and run to an A: prompt and use fdisck to remove all the old partitions and format the whole drive. 2) Use Partition Magic . With the HD inserted in IDE as slave on new computer, 3) If you have a spare IDE connection on your new machine, plug the old HD in as slave, let the computer's bios detect it , run the CD1 istallation disc to the partition/formating programme and remove everything. 4) If you already have something like W2K /XP , or Mandrake on your new machine, put up a consol and remove and reformat everything as administrator with the second HD plugged in the IDE line as slave. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re-scribed / calendars
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 08:06 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 02 Dec 2003 5:07 am, Miark wrote: I haven't been around very much these last couple of weeks, so I just realized that I had (somehow) become unsubed from the Newbie list. Odd. Anyway, I can't seem to find any calendar sharing program for a Linux-only network. Evolution and Korganizer don't share, and Mozilla's calendar doesn't seem ready yet. Suggestions? KDE are working on a sharing version. I don't know how far they've got, though. I have read that it is almost ready, and assuming that printed articles are several weeks old when you read them, it would be worth browsing. Try Kroupware or Kontact in google. Anne would a web based solution work? have you looked into phpgroupware? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
If you really want keep all the info on the HD only to yourself i.e. the info is very confidential: Compress all the files on the HD first and encrypt that, then reformat the drive. That way it'll be fairly hard (I won't say impossible)to recover. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org -Please do NOT reply to this message in HTML-format as it will be deleted as spam- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] uninstall
I think I have not been clear. the 20 gb hard drive i have is still in my old computer, before I can remove it i need to format it. My question is how do you format a hdd in Linux so is is empty. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall
On Tuesday 02 Dec 2003 11:45 am, philip wrote: I think I have not been clear. the 20 gb hard drive i have is still in my old computer, before I can remove it i need to format it. My question is how do you format a hdd in Linux so is is empty. Thanks Philip, I missed the beginning of this thread. I'm assuming that you have installed linux on your new drive? If so, go into MCC Mount Points. Remove the partition(s) on the old drive. Create one fat32 partition for the whole drive. 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] needed paid support
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 05:30 am, Anguo wrote: On Tuesday 02 Dec 2003 12:52 pm, aronsmith wrote: Write to me if you're really knowledgeable or better: pick up the aforementionned mandrake expert incidents. thanks, Anguo payment = we get to pick on you Sorry? My English is good, but I must admit that I am not sure I understand what you mean. Is this a pun or do you mean something specific? Blessings, Anguo I think he means this is NOT the paid support,,, this is a community support pages, but as far as your problems,,, have you been to linmodems.org for the winmodem problem? and as far as networking, do both computers have network cards? ar e they connected to a hub or router? as far as the file system problem? which filesytem? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel
On Monday 01 December 2003 10:27 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: urpmq kernel returns a number of choices, 2.4.21.0.13mdk along with smp, enterprise and secure versions... plus 2.4.21.0.25mdk with the same alternatives besides the minor # 18 secure version. Where can I read up on smp and secure versions? SMP is multiprocessor and secure is a secure version that is usually only used for servers that are exposed and expected to be attacked. Secure is not bad, I run my web server on that kernel but it is secure and more difficult to work with than the regular kernel, everything is closed by default and you have to specifically open things up to get access to it. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 04:28 am, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:19:53 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, to tell you the truth, I never really looked at the filesize or file list, I had already installed and compiled the 4496 Nvidia driver for the stock -0.25mdk kernel and figured that installing Texstar's RPM couldn't do any worse than installing the plain driver. It did prevent the dependency issues with his KDE packages, however. This get's curiouser and curiouser. How could you have two Nvidia driver modules installed at the same time? I'm surprised Texstar would build his KDE packages against a specific driver... I don't, his probably replaced mine since it was compiled against the same kernel version. Probably just an oversight on his part when he built the package that no one fixed or complained about. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel
On Monday 01 December 2003 10:27 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:16:40 -0500 BP wrote: | On Monday 01 December 2003 07:18 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: |Would 'urpmi kernel-2.3.21-0.25mdk' be a mistake? |If so, what would be the proper way to do it? | | Well, you could instead choose | NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.21.0.25.2tex-4496.i586 which will give you the | latest Mandrake Kernel along with the Nvidia module which will not | load for you. That way, no more issues about dependencies from the | Texstar packages. Oops! #urpmi NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.21.0.25.2tex-4496.i586 Preparing... ### ## 1:NVIDIA_kernel ## modprobe: Can't locate module nvidia Failed to install nvidia.o error: execution of %post scriptlet from NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.21.0.25.2tex-4496 failed, exit status 1 Well, obviously his RPM includes a script to modprobe the Nvidia module after installation which fails on your machine because you have no Nvidia card. Either you can manually select the packages from his site and see which ones require the Nvidia package and ignore those or you can ignore dependencies and force the install. If you use Kpackage, you can check the ignore dependencies block to do that. Or use the urpmi command line to do it. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] auto-select wants to install an nvidia kernel
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 04:36:01 -0500 J wrote: | On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:16:13 -0600 | C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | not even the updated kernel. Everything already installed... for | each. | | Well, you must be already up-to-date with at least the packages in | main, ie. Gnome 2.4, KDE, kernel, etc. It looks like the only thing | you are *not* right up on is the Texstar stuff, ie. KDE packages. As I | said before, if you want to install those, and they demand you install | an Nvidia package, I can't logically see any harm in doing so, since | you won't ever be loading it with X. | | What kernel are you running, the original 9.1 kernel? | 2.4.21-0.13mdk is presently installed I ran each source individually and texstar also returned Everything already installed - no NVIDIA_ etc choice at all this time. | The updated kernel should be in updates soon, if it's not there | already: urpmi --update kernel returns 0.18 and 0.25 minor version numbers for the 2.4.21 kernel this morning. I'll check again later -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] I'm not receiving
I am not receiving messages from the list since yesterday at about 5:30 PM. My addy is working all right. Can someone tell me why I cold be having this problem? Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] rpm --rebuilddb
Hi, Please what does the following mean...and what could be done to correct... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rdiff]# rpm --rebuilddb error: failed to remove directory /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.3776: Directory not empty Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] two versions of application
Hi, I need to install an rpm but it complains that it req python[2.3] I suppose an older model that's now installed? Now can 2 different versions of the same application co-exist on same system? What steps should be taken? Some pointers please Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm not receiving
On Tuesday 02 Dec 2003 2:33 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: I am not receiving messages from the list since yesterday at about 5:30 PM. My addy is working all right. Can someone tell me why I cold be having this problem? Teilhard. Your post arrived without problems. Did you have to confirm when sending? Try a re-subscribe - it won't do any harm if you are already subscribed. If none of that works could it be your isp? There are issues concerning isps who don't have reverse lookup correctly set. HTH 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] sounds in 9.2
anyone else having trouble getting grip to encode as mp3? lame is installed and selected. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] two versions of application
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 15:32, Johan wrote: Hi, I need to install an rpm but it complains that it req python[2.3] I suppose an older model that's now installed? Now can 2 different versions of the same application co-exist on same system? What steps should be taken? Some pointers please Thanks They can and especially python will, but you'll have a heck of a lot of laughs getting all the paths straightened out. Probably you're using an older rpm as most new ones have already been switched to python2.3.try looking for a newer one or wait a while. IIRC the last rpm I've been waiting on was sketch but that's got it's act straightened out on the last download from rpmfind. What rpm is it? Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org -Please do NOT reply to this message in HTML-format as it will be deleted as spam- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall
philip wrote: I think I have not been clear. the 20 gb hard drive i have is still in my old computer, before I can remove it i need to format it. My question is how do you format a hdd in Linux so is is empty. Thanks Run CD1 installation disc to partition and format programmes and whipe the drive clean. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re-scribed / calendars
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 06:14:14 +, et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I can't seem to find any calendar sharing program for a Linux-only network. Evolution and Korganizer don't share, and Mozilla's calendar doesn't seem ready yet. Suggestions? would a web based solution work? have you looked into phpgroupware? php scares me :-) But I'll take a look nonetheless. Thanks Ed. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re-scribed / calendars
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 08:06:47 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I can't seem to find any calendar sharing program for a Linux-only network. Evolution and Korganizer don't share, and Mozilla's calendar doesn't seem ready yet. Suggestions? KDE are working on a sharing version. I don't know how far they've got, though. I have read that it is almost ready, and assuming that printed articles are several weeks old when you read them, it would be worth browsing. Try Kroupware or Kontact in google. Cool! I'll take a look. Thanks, Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] two versions of application
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 17:38, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 02 December 2003 15:32, Johan wrote: Hi, I need to install an rpm but it complains that it req python[2.3] I suppose an older model that's now installed? Now can 2 different versions of the same application co-exist on same system? What steps should be taken? Some pointers please Thanks They can and especially python will, but you'll have a heck of a lot of laughs getting all the paths straightened out. Probably you're using an older rpm as most new ones have already been switched to python2.3.try looking for a newer one or wait a while. IIRC the last rpm I've been waiting on was sketch but that's got it's act straightened out on the last download from rpmfind. What rpm is it? Good luck, HarM The problem is a application I want to install requires the older one. That app is the latest of its kind...rdiff-backup Johan -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 02 December 2003 4:45 am, philip wrote: I think I have not been clear. the 20 gb hard drive i have is still in my old computer, before I can remove it i need to format it. My question is how do you format a hdd in Linux so is is empty. Thanks Do what I did on the weekend, boot from pclinuxos live cd and after mounting the drive use the shred facility in the super user file manager to wipe everything, then reboot run hard drake from Mandrake disk 1 (any recent version) and turn the entire drive into one large FAT 32 or ext2 partition, then shut down and remove it or whatever you want. Trust me; everything is gone enough for most people. A scanning tunnelling electron microscope might find enough fragments to do a partial reconstruction but you haven't pissed anyone _that_ powerful off enough for them to bother. Have you? 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 10:31:32 up 18:22, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.05 If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing. -- Bertrand Russell -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zM3ZZqvqlrLPr5YRAl7jAJ92N2yM7hdjwz4xifr30KL92FZBSgCfYfIG kAfiailW7dnF6PlHVo5NC2U= =KSiN -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT texstars pclinuxos live cd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 02 December 2003 5:28 am, racerpup2 wrote: snip I do have preview 4 and I will be putting it on my other hard drive so I can see what it does. thanks for letting me know about this! Walt You still have the reply to set in your Evolution! Turn it off for list posts please? I haven't even had time to burn the latest preview yet Walt so let us all know how it goes, please? I have systems to build today so I doubt I'll get on it for a while. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 10:38:28 up 18:29, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.07, 0.05 Most people need some of their problems to help take their mind off some of the others. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zM8FZqvqlrLPr5YRAjtTAKCEkFAmkxJK6JMiJI+vxBGPyTxwqgCfXT5w Fe2oRipEvC/X0BwCv/UOsXU= =xDDc -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tribes 2 - no sound under 9.2?
Op dinsdag 2 december 2003 05:41, schreef Ronald J. Hall: On Monday 01 December 2003 11:24 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: RJ Anyone got Tribes 2 working with sound under v9.2? Don't have any here with my RJ Soyo Dragon Plus MBs' onboard sound. RJ RJ Other sound software works great - XMMS, system sounds, etc, etc,... RJ RJ Thanks! RJ Bad form, but I just realized its not just a Tribes 2 problem. None of these games have sound either: Heretic2 Rune Quake2 Unreal Tournament Descent 3 WineX games seem to work and have sound. I've not checked all my titles though, ditto with native games. This appears to be a large problem - anyone have any ideas/same experience? Thanks again. had the same problem, starting games with artsdsp /pad to/game was the solution ronald -- Registered Linux User #163597 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 02 December 2003 10:37 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: Tuesday 02 December 2003 4:45 am, philip wrote: I think I have not been clear. the 20 gb hard drive i have is still in my old computer, before I can remove it i need to format it. My question is how do you format a hdd in Linux so is is empty. Thanks Do what I did on the weekend, boot from pclinuxos live cd and after mounting the drive use the shred facility in the super user file manager to wipe everything, then reboot run hard drake from Mandrake disk 1 (any recent version) and turn the entire drive into one large FAT 32 or ext2 partition, then shut down and remove it or whatever you want. Damn! That should have said diskdrake, not hard drake. Sorry about that. ther rest is accurate though. Trust me; everything is gone enough for most people. A scanning tunnelling electron microscope might find enough fragments to do a partial reconstruction but you haven't pissed anyone _that_ powerful off enough for them to bother. Have you? 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 11:02:19 up 18:53, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.11, 0.08 fortune: not found -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zNPVZqvqlrLPr5YRAox+AJ9NwWAsZnr4PT/j9e0ZOly/1m5TFgCeIsyA T+km6t2RYCzcR4e6MBrY+uw= =5E6f -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] two versions of application
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 18:41, Johan wrote:
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 17:38, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 15:32, Johan wrote:
Hi,
I need to install an rpm but it complains that it req python[2.3]
I suppose an older model that's now installed?
Now can 2 different versions of the same application co-exist on
same system?
What steps should be taken?
Some pointers please
Thanks
They can and especially python will, but you'll have a heck of a lot
of laughs getting all the paths straightened out.
Probably you're using an older rpm as most new ones have already been
switched to python2.3.try looking for a newer one or wait a
while.
IIRC the last rpm I've been waiting on was sketch but that's got
it's act straightened out on the last download from rpmfind.
What rpm is it?
Good luck,
HarM
The problem is a application I want to install requires the older one.
That app is the latest of its kind...rdiff-backup
Johan
Johan,
from what I gathered rdiff-backup is a python app that should run under 2.3 so
probably you could install it ('if you're using an rpm) urpmi --allow-nodeps
rdiff-backup.etc.etc.rpm.
If need be you might have to change the first line of the first line of the
app as mentioned in their FAQ document. Just check that it's #!/us/bin/env
python without any extra's like 2.2, which would then point to 2.3 on your
system.
I haven't really dabbled that much in 2.3 yet but the only time I found a
difference was in importing the date module i.e. using it to print the
current time and date.
Shouldn't be any other reason than that the rpm was built by someone who
didn't have 2.3 on his/her system yet.
Good luck,
HarM
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Re: [newbie] uninstall
On Tuesday 02 Dec 2003 6:03 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: Tuesday 02 December 2003 10:37 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: Tuesday 02 December 2003 4:45 am, philip wrote: I think I have not been clear. the 20 gb hard drive i have is still in my old computer, before I can remove it i need to format it. My question is how do you format a hdd in Linux so is is empty. Thanks Do what I did on the weekend, boot from pclinuxos live cd and after mounting the drive use the shred facility in the super user file manager to wipe everything, then reboot run hard drake from Mandrake disk 1 (any recent version) and turn the entire drive into one large FAT 32 or ext2 partition, then shut down and remove it or whatever you want. Damn! That should have said diskdrake, not hard drake. Sorry about that. ther rest is accurate though. Trust me; everything is gone enough for most people. A scanning tunnelling electron microscope might find enough fragments to do a partial reconstruction but you haven't pissed anyone _that_ powerful off enough for them to bother. Have you? g Regards; Charlie OK folks. I talked him through off-list, and he's happy enough now. He's off-list until his new box is ready. 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] xvid4conf
Hello ! According to DVD-Rip, xvid4conf is missing. I urpmi'ed for it, but I have been unable to find it. Could someone tell me how or where I can find it ? Thanks in advance. JM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 02 December 2003 11:51 am, Anne Wilson wrote: whack OK folks. I talked him through off-list, and he's happy enough now. He's off-list until his new box is ready. Anne Thanks for the status report Anne. C. - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 12:36:30 up 1:13, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.11, 0.31 Just close your eyes, tap your heels together three times, and think to yourself, `There's no place like home.' -- Glynda the Good -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zOnuZqvqlrLPr5YRAn37AKCt7a9ggXaVFO6vawgKKm+e7DOu8QCfaSsb YYBv26I95yEUe9PRjjQ9nxQ= =LhNU -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't boot after install
Sorry it's taken so long to get back to you, but I don't get much time with my computer these days. I now have Linux booting by putting bootloader on Floppy. Many thanks for your help. Will start a new thread for my Internet/network/Samba problems when I get some more time. Shaz - Original Message - From: Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't boot after install On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:07 am, many eyes noted that Al wrote: Hi all, I have a dual Pentium 200 cpu system with 256mb ram (8 x 32Mb 30pin) 8 x SCSI HDD 4 x 4Gb 4 x 8Gb attached to an AMI Megaraid controller with 16Mb ram Matrox Millenium 4Mb video card (ex server) I have attempted to install Mandrake 9.1 many times, each time I have done a complete hardware level format of the physical drives from the RAID controller then made 2 (two) logical drives the 4 x 4Gbs together and the 4 x 8Gbs together in RAID 5 to give me approx 13Gb and approx 26Gb. I have also attempted to install Redhat 9.0 and Mandrake 9.0 It seems to go through the install process fine. Under both wizard and expert configuration. (I'm no expert, but have worked with M$ from DOS 1.1 upwards so figured I might stand a chance of understanding some of the setup in expert) Finished install and time to reboot. Remove CD from drive and reboot. Before LILO or GRUB I get: L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 etc.. until it freezes. Usually about 1/2 screen of 40's Then no LILO or GRUB. I've tried FDISK/MBR from a win98 bootdisk then RESCUE from the Mandrake CD1 to recreate LILO. No error messages, everything fine... But still no boot. Just L 40 40 40 40 40 etc... Any help would be appreciated. TIA Shaz I had an experience something like that on a Mandrake 9.1 install but the number was 99 99 for half the screen. But I can't recall what I did to fix it. Usually keeping copious notes, in this case I did not, probably because I was so perturbed by this behaviour. I seem to think that I installed the bootloader badly. Try the install, and create the bootloader on floppy alone; if you have already attempted to put it on /dev/hda1 or the MBR and failed. Where are you trying to put the bootloader? Always give as much information as possible. But this might well be a raid issue? Sorry can't suggest more at this stage. Charlie. -- Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death nor actual difficulty in our life. Shunryu Suzuki This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 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] Combat Situation
Just a question to you, my fellow troopers : Where are we ? http://www.atai.org/softwarewar.png Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: tnt2 to geforce2
Thanks Greg, Install went as planned,no problems at all.Cards was pick during boot,and walk me thought the set up. Drew - Original Message - From: Drew Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 2:56 PM Subject: tnt2 to gefoce2 Hello All, I have just been given a 64meg GeForce to replace my old and flaky TNT2.Will I have any problems swapping them over?I have the Nvidia Drivers installed(from their web site),and had compile the kernel,to make them work. Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: tnt2 to geforce2
Thanks Greg, Install went as planned,no problems at all.Cards was pick during boot,and walk me thought the set up. Drew - Original Message - From: Drew Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 2:56 PM Subject: tnt2 to gefoce2 Hello All, I have just been given a 64meg GeForce to replace my old and flaky TNT2.Will I have any problems swapping them over?I have the Nvidia Drivers installed(from their web site),and had compile the kernel,to make them work. Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Combat Situation
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 22:50, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Just a question to you, my fellow troopers : Where are we ? http://www.atai.org/softwarewar.png Kaj Haulrich. Busy tunneling??? Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org -Please do NOT reply to this message in HTML-format as it will be deleted as spam- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] installing mandrake
I am interested in learning mandrake linux. The computer I would install to already has WinXP Pro on the first hdd, and has FreeBSD 4.6 on the second hdd. Thatsecond drive has about 25GB of unpartioned space I can put mandrake on. When I install mandrake, will it have it's own boot manager that will be installed so I can choose between all 3 OS on starting the computer up? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] installing mandrake
Yes, it's called LILO (LInuxLOader) and is very OS flexible. Cheers Jason Eric Greene wrote: I am interested in learning mandrake linux. The computer I would install to already has WinXP Pro on the first hdd, and has FreeBSD 4.6 on the second hdd. That second drive has about 25GB of unpartioned space I can put mandrake on. When I install mandrake, will it have it's own boot manager that will be installed so I can choose between all 3 OS on starting the computer up? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Combat Situation
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 21:19, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 02 December 2003 22:50, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Just a question to you, my fellow troopers : Where are we ? http://www.atai.org/softwarewar.png Kaj Haulrich. Busy tunneling??? Yes, stealthy, inwards ! Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sounds in 9.2
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 07:26:40 -0800 aronsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone else having trouble getting grip to encode as mp3? lame is installed and selected. Is it making ogg's? Click the config tab, then the encode tab. Change the Encode file format to have an mp3 extension. That should fix it. John Drouhard P.S., your reply-to is not necessary. -- Tue Dec 2 16:18:21 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sounds in 9.2
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 14:19, John Drouhard wrote: On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 07:26:40 -0800 aronsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone else having trouble getting grip to encode as mp3? lame is installed and selected. Is it making ogg's? Click the config tab, then the encode tab. Change the Encode file format to have an mp3 extension. That should fix it. John Drouhard thanks that did it P.S., your reply-to is not necessary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Speed issues in X
Hi All, I experience severe slowdown on the desktop whenever Evolution (Ximian) goes and checks my mail. Is there anyway to avoid the slowdown? Travis Crook Visions Beyond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] scrolling in mozilla/firebird eats up cpu
Scrolling up/down a lengthy web page in Mozilla quickly eats up my cpu usage. Running top I see that it's both Mozilla and X (moreso X) that's utilizing the cpu. The machine becomes somewhat sluggish with this, which is why I've been using dillo. Anyway, now that I'm trying to figure out why, anybody else experience this or know of a remedy (besides upgrading)? k6-2 @ 500MHz, 384MB RAM, crappy ATI video card, incorrectly id'd as a Rage XL AGP. I believe it's an Xpert 98 with a whopping 8MB of powerful memory and ATI RAGE graphics technology. Todd -- Reclaim the flag: http://www.pbs.org/now/commentary/moyers19.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Speed issues in X
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 07:46 pm, Travis wrote: Hi All, I experience severe slowdown on the desktop whenever Evolution (Ximian) goes and checks my mail. Is there anyway to avoid the slowdown? Travis Crook Visions Beyond Travis: Give us a hint. It could be all sorts of things. What version of Mandrake? Evolution? And be sure to tell us about your hardware. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No sound...
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 02:53 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: RB Have you checked the /dev/dsp permissions? RB RB raffaele What are yours set at? I've got /dev/dsp which is a link to /dev/dsp0. I get this here: crw-r--r--1 darklord audio 14, 3 Nov 24 16:06 /dev/dsp0 and this: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Dec 2 21:58 /dev/dsp - dsp0 Thanks. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tribes 2 - no sound under 9.2?
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 12:55 pm, ronald wrote: ro had the same problem, starting games with ro artsdsp /pad to/game was the solution ro ro ronald Hmm, not sure what you mean? For example, I would start Rune like: artsdsp /pad to/usr/local/bin/rune ? What about turning artsd off before running any game? Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tribes 2 - no sound under 9.2?
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 12:55 pm, ronald wrote: ro had the same problem, starting games with ro artsdsp /pad to/game was the solution ro ro ronald Ah, might have misunderstood you - did you mean /path to game? like: artsdsp /user/local/bin/rune Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
