Re: [newbie] no sound in 9.1
I would search the alsa users mail list archives for your sound card and or your problem and see if someone else had the same trouble. I find the alsa group to be most helpful Aaron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] probing hdc, hdd, hde failed
Rob, i shut down either from KDE or using the halt command and it seems ok, everything is unmounted properly before i get the power down message. but i do have multiple boots on both c:(Win2k Server) and d:(WinXP Pro).Both are NTFS. LILO is residing in hda(C:). Any ideas? Thx and Rgds - Original Message - From: Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:59:22 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] probing hdc, hdd, hde failed On Tuesday 23 December 2003 6:55 pm, moey tony droned on: Hi guys, i am a new on the list. Need some help... i have noticed that every time my linux box boots, it starts probing all the partitions on my single hard disk and gives me error messages such as probing hdc, probing hdd then it tells me IRQ error- failed to probe hdd, etc. This happened with 2 distros i use(Mandrake RedHat). sounds like you are not shutting it down properly. How do you shut down? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- __ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
Installation should be a breeze ! You can always post your questions here, just like any other Linux mailing list. So far, i have learnt everything from such lists, the ppl involved in Linux really stick to the open-source principles and they have been wonderful help, always. Rgds, Tony - Original Message - From: Steven Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 06:22:28 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Am new to Linux. Worked with Linux for about 5 months. I've studied computers for a while. Can understand computers pretty good. Need help configuring Linux though. Will somebody assist me with installing and configuring Linux? Installing and configuring will probably get very technical. From, Steven _ Have fun customizing MSN Messenger learn how here! http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_customize Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- __ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons
have u tried configuring from the Control Center in KDE? - Original Message - From: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 19:20:20 +1300 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Desktop Icons Hi all, i'm new to the list so if this has been addressed before please so so. I've looked in the archives but could not find anything there on the subject. That does not mean its not there if it is its just I didn't find it. My problem is a minor but annoying one and is that on startup the desktop icons all gather on the left of the screen in any old order they feel like.I have to snap them to grid each time to see to use them. This happened under 9.1 and now 9.2, in 9.0, my first experience with Linux they sat where they were told to. Any info on how to get them to appear on desktop as I want on startup appreciated. Both myself and my Guru are stumped on how to fix this problem. TIA David -- *** This email originates from a 100% Mandrake Linux OS computer. If you receive a virus apparently from me, it is because this email has forged someone elses Windows Address Book headers. I'm not interested in hearing about it, thanks. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- __ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XF86Config-4 question
On Tuesday 23 Dec 2003 6:30 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: BTW Richard, do you use an Nvidia card? Yes, but I haven't installed the drivers yet since upgrading to 9.2. The Nvidia--nv change was the only one I made when restoring the file. I'm wondering since the virtual use is with the file included from my download edition install, and the generic nv Nvidia drivers, and I'm now using the nvidia proprietary drivers, should I be using the mode file instead? I have no idea, but I suspect it wouldn't be a problem. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 06:20, David wrote: Hi all, i'm new to the list so if this has been addressed before please so so. I've looked in the archives but could not find anything there on the subject. That does not mean its not there if it is its just I didn't find it. My problem is a minor but annoying one and is that on startup the desktop icons all gather on the left of the screen in any old order they feel like.I have to snap them to grid each time to see to use them. This happened under 9.1 and now 9.2, in 9.0, my first experience with Linux they sat where they were told to. Any info on how to get them to appear on desktop as I want on startup appreciated. Both myself and my Guru are stumped on how to fix this problem. Assuming you are using kde, open up the Control Center Components Session Manager. I think that if you set that up to restore session, then arrange your icons where you want them and log out, it should do what you want. 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]
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 06:22 am, Steven Nelson wrote: Am new to Linux. Worked with Linux for about 5 months. I've studied computers for a while. Can understand computers pretty good. Need help configuring Linux though. Will somebody assist me with installing and configuring Linux? Installing and configuring will probably get very technical. From, Steven _ Have fun customizing MSN Messenger learn how here! http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_customize It's not a problem at all... just let us know what stage you are at. have you burned the *.iso to a CDrom? and have you set the BIOS to boot from CDrom? we are here for you bud just ask away Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 06:22, Steven Nelson wrote: Am new to Linux. Worked with Linux for about 5 months. I've studied computers for a while. Can understand computers pretty good. Need help configuring Linux though. Will somebody assist me with installing and configuring Linux? Installing and configuring will probably get very technical. Steven, installing Mandrake is easier than installing windows. How old is your hardware? What model is your video card? Do you have anything unusual in your setup? You may be as well checking out the capability of your video card and monitor, just in case you have to choose from an option list. Assuming that all your equipment is fairly standard stuff, just boot from the cd and you're ready to go. One thing I would advise, though, is when you get to the partitioning screen, create a separate partition for /home - and make it a reasonably big one. If you feel the need to reinstall at any time you will be able to keep all the data and config files that are in /home, whereas if you don't do this you will lose everything, just like in a windows re-install. Over the holiday there may not be too many of us around, but ask any questions you like. Someone will always try to answer. 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] probing hdc, hdd, hde failed
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 08:36, moey tony wrote: Rob, i shut down either from KDE or using the halt command and it seems ok, everything is unmounted properly before i get the power down message. but i do have multiple boots on both c:(Win2k Server) and d:(WinXP Pro).Both are NTFS. LILO is residing in hda(C:). Any ideas? The error message mentioned irq, which makes me ask if you have turned off plug-n-play in bios? Let the distro deal with irqs. 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] CD-ROM with scsi emulation
I want copy from cd-rom to cdwriter in K3B. I append to lilo.conf line like this hdd=ide-scsi. Now I may copy from cd on the fly, or create image, but I can't read any cd disk on the cdrom. Sergey Berezka Sorry for my English.
[newbie] cd-rom
I need help getting use of my cdrom. I asked last week and didn't have time to make changes to the fstab file that I received from Anne and another before installing the xfree security update. Xfree was removed and now I can't use the cdrom either. I have md 9.2 coming any day now and this seemed to be a good time to switch. System would not boot to 9.1 cd when restarting and I don't know if the 9.2 cd will work. Any help would be appreciated. Best wishes for the holidays John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] A seasonal blast from the past
From the SunOS4.1 cookie file:
better !pout !cry
better watchout
lpr why
santa claus north pole town
cat /etc/passwd list
ncheck list
ncheck list
cat list | grep naughty nogiftlist
cat list | grep nice giftlist
santa claus north pole town
who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | egrep 'bad|good'
for (goodness sake) {
be good
}
Merry Christmas everyone.
--
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Re: [newbie] cd-rom
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 14:28, John wrote: I need help getting use of my cdrom. I asked last week and didn't have time to make changes to the fstab file that I received from Anne and another before installing the xfree security update. Xfree was removed and now I can't use the cdrom either. I have md 9.2 coming any day now and this seemed to be a good time to switch. System would not boot to 9.1 cd when restarting and I don't know if the 9.2 cd will work. Any help would be appreciated. Best wishes for the holidays John John, have you tried HardDrake (Mandrake Control Centre)? It should scan and pick up the hardware again. It's important to back out using the buttons, not the X. 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] cd-rom
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cd-rom On Wednesday 24 December 2003 14:28, John wrote: I need help getting use of my cdrom. I asked last week and didn't have time to make changes to the fstab file that I received from Anne and another before installing the xfree security update. Xfree was removed and now I can't use the cdrom either. I have md 9.2 coming any day now and this seemed to be a good time to switch. System would not boot to 9.1 cd when restarting and I don't know if the 9.2 cd will work. Any help would be appreciated. Best wishes for the holidays John John, have you tried HardDrake (Mandrake Control Centre)? It should scan and pick up the hardware again. It's important to back out using the buttons, not the X. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Anne I don't have the gui,only command line. I had tried hardrake as you suggested last week. It recognized the cdrom but the files had changed. Harddrake listed: new devfs device: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd; old device file: /dev/scd0. The old device file was the default setup when I installed md9.1. I don't what caused the change. When trying to access I get the error message could not enter /mnt/cdrom. There were some changes to the fstab file. I was going to change the file where you suggested but didn't have time and now I don't know how to proceed from the command line. I am using a laptop xp system now to correspond(definitely not preferred) Thanks for the response. john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 2:03 pm, Sergey Berezka wrote: I want copy from cd-rom to cdwriter in K3B. I append to lilo.conf line like this hdd=ide-scsi. Now I may copy from cd on the fly, or create image, but I can't read any cd disk on the cdrom. Sergey Berezka Sorry for my English. You must also edit the entry for your cdrom in the /etc/fstab file. Change it from /dev/hdd to /dev/scd1 (or whatever it is) 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] cd-rom
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 15:14, John wrote: quote Anne I don't have the gui,only command line. I had tried hardrake as you suggested last week. It recognized the cdrom but the files had changed. Harddrake listed: new devfs device: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd; old device file: /dev/scd0. The old device file was the default setup when I installed md9.1. I don't what caused the change. When trying to access I get the error message could not enter /mnt/cdrom. There were some changes to the fstab file. I was going to change the file where you suggested but didn't have time and now I don't know how to proceed from the command line. I am using a laptop xp system now to correspond(definitely not preferred) Thanks for the response. unquote John, when you reply to an email with a sig, remove it. The two -- are treated as separators and everything below gets removed when you try to reply, in kmail and a number of other mail clients. It should be possible to change the fstab with vi. I'm no expert, but you can get by in emergencies with only a very few commands. Launch it with vi fstab (you'll need to be root, of course) To go to edit mode you can choose a - for append i - for insert To for insert here. Navigate with arrows When you've done you go back to command mode with Esc Save your work with :w and quit :q HTH Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.2 Documentation System broken
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:28:30 -0200, Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I switched to Opera 7.23 as my web browser, I removed the other HTML reading programs such as Mozilla, Netscape, Evolution, and Galeon(spelling?). Now when I use the Gnome 2.2 menus and try to open the HowTo's in HTML format (under the Documentation menu), nothing happens. What did program should I have *not* removed? :) What did I break? I think that if you go to Config-Gnome-Advanced-Prefered Aplications and set Opera as your favourite browser you'll solve this. JM Hello JM, Thanks for the tip. I went there and saw that Links is the default browser. Links is installed on my system. I selected Custom Browser and typed in Opera with all possible combinations I could think of, no go. At this point, I'm ready to go to the file location of the html documentation files and hand load them. Any idea where they are stored? From my Windows background, I'll still learning the file system layout for Mandrake. Thanks, The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 15:19, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 2:03 pm, Sergey Berezka wrote: I want copy from cd-rom to cdwriter in K3B. I append to lilo.conf line like this hdd=ide-scsi. Now I may copy from cd on the fly, or create image, but I can't read any cd disk on the cdrom. Sergey Berezka Sorry for my English. You must also edit the entry for your cdrom in the /etc/fstab file. Change it from /dev/hdd to /dev/scd1 (or whatever it is) derek When you've done that, from a root console type 'mount -a' to make it read fstab again. 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] cd-rom
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 14:28, John wrote: I need help getting use of my cdrom. I asked last week and didn't have time to make changes to the fstab file that I received from Anne and another before installing the xfree security update. Xfree was removed and now I can't use the cdrom either. I have md 9.2 coming any day now and this seemed to be a good time to switch. System would not boot to 9.1 cd when restarting and I don't know if the 9.2 cd will work. Any help would be appreciated. Best wishes for the holidays John For XFree86, the links have been mended now, so it should be possible to urpmi XFree86 from the command line. If it returns a whole list of packages and drops back to the command line, try to identify which ones will be the most important. Install them by urpmi, and with any luck they will pick up the other essential ones as dependencies and install them for you. 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] CD-ROM with scsi emulation
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 5:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation On Wednesday 24 December 2003 15:19, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 2:03 pm, Sergey Berezka wrote: I want copy from cd-rom to cdwriter in K3B. I append to lilo.conf line like this hdd=ide-scsi. Now I may copy from cd on the fly, or create image, but I can't read any cd disk on the cdrom. Sergey Berezka Sorry for my English. You must also edit the entry for your cdrom in the /etc/fstab file. Change it from /dev/hdd to /dev/scd1 (or whatever it is) derek When you've done that, from a root console type 'mount -a' to make it read fstab again. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Thanks, I'll try and answer later Sergey Berezka 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] cd-rom
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 14:28, John wrote: I need help getting use of my cdrom. I asked last week and didn't have time to make changes to the fstab file that I received from Anne and another before installing the xfree security update. Xfree was removed and now I can't use the cdrom either. I have md 9.2 coming any day now and this seemed to be a good time to switch. System would not boot to 9.1 cd when restarting and I don't know if the 9.2 cd will work. Any help would be appreciated. Best wishes for the holidays John For XFree86, the links have been mended now, so it should be possible to urpmi XFree86 from the command line. If it returns a whole list of packages and drops back to the command line, try to identify which ones will be the most important. Install them by urpmi, and with any luck they will pick up the other essential ones as dependencies and install them for you. Anne I tried the vi fstab. It came up as a new file. I must have done something wrong. I also tried urpmi xfree86 incorrectly. I am lost when it comes to the command line. Will keep trying anything suggested. Sorry for the confusion on the email reply. Hope this works better. Thanks John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-rom
Op woensdag 24 december 2003 17:28, schreef John: I tried the vi fstab. It came up as a new file. I must have done something wrong. I also tried urpmi xfree86 incorrectly. I am lost when it comes to the command line. Will keep trying anything suggested. Sorry for the confusion on the email reply. Hope this works better. Thanks John did you become root john? and did you cd to /etc before vi fstab? HTH and Merry Christmas! ronald -- Registered Linux User #163597 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Merry Christmas!
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 14:55, Lanman wrote: The subject says it all Folks! Have a great one! Don't Drink and Drive! You might hit a bump and spill your drink! Grin! Best Wishes Gang! Lanman Same to you my friend. May your stockings be hung with care! I'm off to get the the Gold edition of Neverwinter Nights. Don't tell anyone. hehehehe LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Merry Christmas!
All the Best Lyvim! Don't eat too much. Don't forget that you'll have be able to reach the keyboard afterwards! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/24/2003 at 11:45 AM Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 14:55, Lanman wrote: The subject says it all Folks! Have a great one! Don't Drink and Drive! You might hit a bump and spill your drink! Grin! Best Wishes Gang! Lanman Same to you my friend. May your stockings be hung with care! I'm off to get the the Gold edition of Neverwinter Nights. Don't tell anyone. hehehehe LX 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] cd-rom
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronald Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cd-rom Op woensdag 24 december 2003 17:28, schreef John: I tried the vi fstab. It came up as a new file. I must have done something wrong. I also tried urpmi xfree86 incorrectly. I am lost when it comes to the command line. Will keep trying anything suggested. Sorry for the confusion on the email reply. Hope this works better. Thanks John did you become root john? and did you cd to /etc before vi fstab? HTH and Merry Christmas! ronald ronald thanks for response. I had changed to root but not to /etc. Did as you suggested.Came up with the following: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none/mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--, iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850.umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 This file doesn't list the changed file shown by harddrake which was /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd. Are there any changes to make here? Thanks for the help John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-rom
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 16:28, John wrote: On Wednesday 24 December 2003 14:28, John wrote: I need help getting use of my cdrom. I asked last week and didn't have time to make changes to the fstab file that I received from Anne and another before installing the xfree security update. Xfree was removed and now I can't use the cdrom either. I have md 9.2 coming any day now and this seemed to be a good time to switch. System would not boot to 9.1 cd when restarting and I don't know if the 9.2 cd will work. Any help would be appreciated. Best wishes for the holidays John For XFree86, the links have been mended now, so it should be possible to urpmi XFree86 from the command line. If it returns a whole list of packages and drops back to the command line, try to identify which ones will be the most important. Install them by urpmi, and with any luck they will pick up the other essential ones as dependencies and install them for you. Anne I tried the vi fstab. It came up as a new file. I must have done something wrong. I also tried urpmi xfree86 incorrectly. I am lost when it comes to the command line. Will keep trying anything suggested. Sorry for the confusion on the email reply. Hope this works better. Thanks John I forgot to say, either cd to /etc, or vi /etc/fstab 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] cd-rom
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 17:04, John wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronald Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cd-rom Op woensdag 24 december 2003 17:28, schreef John: I tried the vi fstab. It came up as a new file. I must have done something wrong. I also tried urpmi xfree86 incorrectly. I am lost when it comes to the command line. Will keep trying anything suggested. Sorry for the confusion on the email reply. Hope this works better. Thanks John did you become root john? and did you cd to /etc before vi fstab? HTH and Merry Christmas! ronald ronald thanks for response. I had changed to root but not to /etc. Did as you suggested.Came up with the following: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none/mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--, iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850.umask =0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 This file doesn't list the changed file shown by harddrake which was /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd. Are there any changes to make here? Thanks for the help John Chage /dev/scd0 to /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd 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] cd-rom
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 4:35 pm, ronald wrote: Op woensdag 24 december 2003 17:28, schreef John: I tried the vi fstab. It came up as a new file. I must have done something wrong. I also tried urpmi xfree86 incorrectly. I am lost when it comes to the command line. Will keep trying anything suggested. Sorry for the confusion on the email reply. Hope this works better. Thanks John did you become root john? and did you cd to /etc before vi fstab? HTH and Merry Christmas! ronald If you do not like the command line and vi, then do not use it. From your KDE desktop Alt+F2 will open a box to run a command. In the box type kdesu kedit /etc/fstab After prompting you for root password a simple text editor will open in superuser mode. Alternatively kdesu konqueror will open up a root copy of konqueror so you can browse for files and edit them with a right click There used to be a menu item for this, but for some unexplained reason Mandrake took it out in 9.2 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] cd-rom
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 17:14, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 4:35 pm, ronald wrote: Op woensdag 24 december 2003 17:28, schreef John: I tried the vi fstab. It came up as a new file. I must have done something wrong. I also tried urpmi xfree86 incorrectly. I am lost when it comes to the command line. Will keep trying anything suggested. Sorry for the confusion on the email reply. Hope this works better. Thanks John did you become root john? and did you cd to /etc before vi fstab? HTH and Merry Christmas! ronald If you do not like the command line and vi, then do not use it. From your KDE desktop Alt+F2 will open a box to run a command. He's lost X, Derek, due to the upgrade. 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] Merry Christmas!
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 14:55, Lanman wrote: The subject says it all Folks! Have a great one! Don't Drink and Drive! You might hit a bump and spill your drink! Grin! Best Wishes Gang! Lanman Same to you my friend. May your stockings be hung with care! I'm off to get the the Gold edition of Neverwinter Nights. Don't tell anyone. hehehehe Enjoy! Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-rom
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 3:26 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: It should be possible to change the fstab with vi. I'm no expert, but you can get by in emergencies with only a very few commands. Launch it with vi fstab (you'll need to be root, of course) To go to edit mode you can choose a - for append i - for insert Esc to leave append or insert mode. To for insert here. Navigate with arrows When you've done you go back to command mode with Esc Save your work with :w and quit :q -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-rom
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 5:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 24 December 2003 17:14, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 4:35 pm, ronald wrote: Op woensdag 24 december 2003 17:28, schreef John: I tried the vi fstab. It came up as a new file. I must have done something wrong. I also tried urpmi xfree86 incorrectly. I am lost when it comes to the command line. Will keep trying anything suggested. Sorry for the confusion on the email reply. Hope this works better. Thanks John did you become root john? and did you cd to /etc before vi fstab? HTH and Merry Christmas! ronald If you do not like the command line and vi, then do not use it. From your KDE desktop Alt+F2 will open a box to run a command. He's lost X, Derek, due to the upgrade. Anne Ah.. well in that case I would suggest :- Log in as root and then type urpmi mc That will install midnight commander an easy to use text based file manager with an easy built in editor. Launch it with 'mc' IMO vi is totally newbie hostile. (After 3 years of using Linux I still only know 2 vi commands.) 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] Update question
For the last few days I've been fighting with GIMP. When trying to print, it spits out papers with only a few lines of gibberish on them. Well, I uninstalled the thing and reinstalled. Now funny things happened : My Control Center disappeared completely. Had to reinstall drakxtools, drakconf etc. to get it back. But : Mandrake-update, Install Software and Remove Software are all gone. Mandrake Control Center does not have a software option any more. Can anyone remember to which package those belong ? Thanks in advance and Merry Christmas to all of you ! 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] cd-rom
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 17:35, Richard Urwin wrote: On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 3:26 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: It should be possible to change the fstab with vi. I'm no expert, but you can get by in emergencies with only a very few commands. Launch it with vi fstab (you'll need to be root, of course) To go to edit mode you can choose a - for append i - for insert Esc to leave append or insert mode. To for insert here. Navigate with arrows When you've done you go back to command mode with Esc Save your work with :w and quit :q Probably the shortest guide to vi ever written g 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] cd-rom
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 17:33, Derek Jennings wrote: Ah.. well in that case I would suggest :- Log in as root and then type urpmi mc That will install midnight commander an easy to use text based file manager with an easy built in editor. Launch it with 'mc' IMO vi is totally newbie hostile. (After 3 years of using Linux I still only know 2 vi commands.) You're halfway there, Derek - you only need 4 g 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] cd-rom
Log in as root and then type urpmi mc That will install midnight commander an easy to use text based file manager with an easy built in editor. Launch it with 'mc' That's good to know when helping new users. IMO vi is totally newbie hostile. (After 3 years of using Linux I still only know 2 vi commands.) Well, you should be using emacs, then. :) (just kidding) I love emacs, but emacs and vi are both capable of intimidating a new user out of using *nix. Even better is when you run emacs in console mode, a newbie might think cool, there're pulldown menus while i learn, but i don't know how to make them work. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update question
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 6:40 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: For the last few days I've been fighting with GIMP. When trying to print, it spits out papers with only a few lines of gibberish on them. Well, I uninstalled the thing and reinstalled. Now funny things happened : My Control Center disappeared completely. Had to reinstall drakxtools, drakconf etc. to get it back. But : Mandrake-update, Install Software and Remove Software are all gone. Mandrake Control Center does not have a software option any more. Can anyone remember to which package those belong ? Thanks in advance and Merry Christmas to all of you ! Kaj Haulrich. urpmi rpmdrake And a very Merry Christmas to one and all 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] cd-rom
did you become root john? and did you cd to /etc before vi fstab? HTH and Merry Christmas! ronald ronald thanks for response. I had changed to root but not to /etc. Did as you suggested.Came up with the following: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none/mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--, iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850.umask =0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 This file doesn't list the changed file shown by harddrake which was /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd. Are there any changes to make here? Thanks for the help John Chage /dev/scd0 to /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd Anne Hi Changed file and saved according to earlier instuctions. Tried to mount cdrom and got the message can't find cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. Thanks john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update question
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 17:48, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 6:40 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: For the last few days I've been fighting with GIMP. When trying to print, it spits out papers with only a few lines of gibberish on them. Well, I uninstalled the thing and reinstalled. Now funny things happened : My Control Center disappeared completely. Had to reinstall drakxtools, drakconf etc. to get it back. But : Mandrake-update, Install Software and Remove Software are all gone. Mandrake Control Center does not have a software option any more. Can anyone remember to which package those belong ? Thanks in advance and Merry Christmas to all of you ! Kaj Haulrich. urpmi rpmdrake And a very Merry Christmas to one and all derek Aaaarghh - must be my age. Of course. Thanks Derek. 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] cd-rom
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 17:56, John wrote: did you become root john? and did you cd to /etc before vi fstab? HTH and Merry Christmas! ronald ronald thanks for response. I had changed to root but not to /etc. Did as you suggested.Came up with the following: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none/mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--, iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850.uma sk =0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 This file doesn't list the changed file shown by harddrake which was /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd. Are there any changes to make here? Thanks for the help John Chage /dev/scd0 to /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd Anne Hi Changed file and saved according to earlier instuctions. Tried to mount cdrom and got the message can't find cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. Thanks john John, did you say you were running 9.1? I've never seen this behaviour in 9.1, though I have seen threads about 9.2 using this kind of naming. I think it's time to take it to the expert list. At least you will double your chances of it being read by someone who recognises the problem. Sorry I wasn't much help 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] cd-rom
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 5:44 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 24 December 2003 17:33, Derek Jennings wrote: Ah.. well in that case I would suggest :- Log in as root and then type urpmi mc That will install midnight commander an easy to use text based file manager with an easy built in editor. Launch it with 'mc' IMO vi is totally newbie hostile. (After 3 years of using Linux I still only know 2 vi commands.) You're halfway there, Derek - you only need 4 g Anne Well actually I get by OK just knowing :q! and zz Unless you count the 'Delete' key. But why should newbies have to learn arcane keystroke sequences when there are lots of easier text editors out there? mc and jed come to mind. (Both on the CDs) 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] cd-rom
ronald thanks for response. I had changed to root but not to /etc. Did as you suggested.Came up with the following: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none/mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--, iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850.uma sk =0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 This file doesn't list the changed file shown by harddrake which was /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd. Are there any changes to make here? Thanks for the help John Chage /dev/scd0 to /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd Anne Hi Changed file and saved according to earlier instuctions. Tried to mount cdrom and got the message can't find cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. Thanks john John, did you say you were running 9.1? I've never seen this behaviour in 9.1, though I have seen threads about 9.2 using this kind of naming. I think it's time to take it to the expert list. At least you will double your chances of it being read by someone who recognises the problem. Sorry I wasn't much help Anne Everyone has been helpful. Yes I am running 9.1. Everything had been working great with no indications of problems. Then the cdrom wouldn't work. I have 9.2 hopefully getting here today and I would like to install this. I thought the cdrom would have to work before I could install 9.2. Is there a way to get the 9.2 installation up with where I am now or do I need to continue with trying to fix the cdrom connection? Thanks John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Tuesday 23 December 2003 10:22 pm, Steven Nelson droned on: Am new to Linux. Worked with Linux for about 5 months. I've studied computers for a while. Can understand computers pretty good. Need help configuring Linux though. Will somebody assist me with installing and configuring Linux? Installing and configuring will probably get very technical. it is real easy to install Mandrake. But a few notes: If you have a modem that you use to connect to the Internet, make sure that it will work under Linux. Some are WinModems, but only a subset can become LinModems. If you use DSL or connect to a LAN via a PCI NIC, then you should have no problem. If you connect via a USB connection, see below. Know your actual monitor name. My Sony Trintron Multiscan 17SE is actually as Sony GDM-17SE, as you will be asked to provide that, I don't think it can be auto-detected. If you have anything USB that is important to you, either learn to live without it, or study up on USB and the needs first. My USB mouse, and camera works great, but it took a little tweaking to be right. I would suggest a PS2 mouse to install. During Mandrake's Install, after Hardware detection, you will get a screen that lists all the possible hardware categories on the machine, and how they are set up. Go through each of these, and make sure that they are setup for your machine. One of my biggest goofs was when I breezed by this. -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A seasonal blast from the past
Absolutely lovely!
I have not seen this before, but it is beautiful!
Rob
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 6:56 am, Richard Urwin droned on:
From the SunOS4.1 cookie file:
better !pout !cry
better watchout
lpr why
santa claus north pole town
cat /etc/passwd list
ncheck list
ncheck list
cat list | grep naughty nogiftlist
cat list | grep nice giftlist
santa claus north pole town
who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | egrep 'bad|good'
for (goodness sake) {
be good
}
Merry Christmas everyone.
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[newbie] Good Updates to Poor Updates
Anne Wilson wrote: I think it's time to take it to the expert list. At least you will double your chances of it being read by someone who recognises the problem. Sorry I wasn't much help Anne Anne: IIRC, I saw your or someone else tread last week whereas some updates deleted some of the programs and applications such as it did to my 9.2. I installed and reinstaalled 10 last weekend and narrowed it down to one or more of the 24 Bugfixes Updates. Do you have any idea if the corrupted update(s) was/were fixed? Regard, Ken Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-rom
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 6:22 pm, John wrote: ronald thanks for response. I had changed to root but not to /etc. Did as you suggested.Came up with the following: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none/mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--, iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850.uma sk =0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 This file doesn't list the changed file shown by harddrake which was /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd. Are there any changes to make here? Thanks for the help John Chage /dev/scd0 to /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd Anne Hi Changed file and saved according to earlier instuctions. Tried to mount cdrom and got the message can't find cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. Thanks john John, did you say you were running 9.1? I've never seen this behaviour in 9.1, though I have seen threads about 9.2 using this kind of naming. I think it's time to take it to the expert list. At least you will double your chances of it being read by someone who recognises the problem. Sorry I wasn't much help Anne Everyone has been helpful. Yes I am running 9.1. Everything had been working great with no indications of problems. Then the cdrom wouldn't work. I have 9.2 hopefully getting here today and I would like to install this. I thought the cdrom would have to work before I could install 9.2. Is there a way to get the 9.2 installation up with where I am now or do I need to continue with trying to fix the cdrom connection? Thanks John Erm.. I am coming in a bit late on this thread, but I take it that you have defined your CD drive to ide-scsi and now it does not work? In the fstab file you list above there is a space missing between 'none' and '/mnt/cdrom' - Maybe just a typo? Also be aware if this is a DVD drive there are some DVD drives that will not work as ide-scsi (mine included) You can confirm your drive is working as ide-scsi with cat /proc/scsi/scsi Apologies if I have totally misunderstood your problem. 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] cd-rom
Chage /dev/scd0 to /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd Anne Hi Changed file and saved according to earlier instuctions. Tried to mount cdrom and got the message can't find cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. Thanks john John, did you say you were running 9.1? I've never seen this behaviour in 9.1, though I have seen threads about 9.2 using this kind of naming. Another way around this is to edit /etc/lilo.conf as root, and in the area named linux on the Append= line add devfs=nomount then save it and run lilo at the root prompt, and reboot. My append line looks like this (all on one line): append=devfs=nomount hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht splash=silent Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-rom
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 10:22 am, John wrote: Everyone has been helpful. Yes I am running 9.1. Everything had been working great with no indications of problems. Then the cdrom wouldn't work. I have 9.2 hopefully getting here today and I would like to install this. I thought the cdrom would have to work before I could install 9.2. Is there a way to get the 9.2 installation up with where I am now or do I need to continue with trying to fix the cdrom connection? Thanks John That won't be a problem, because you will be booting from cdrom--your Linux system on the hd won't even be mounted. In fact, you will be nuking what you have when you format later. The one glitch could be if the cd drive itself is bad (I've had several die), but if the machine finds the cd boot img that will rule out a bad drive. I helped a friend put 9.2 on a laptop yesterday. The install went smooth as silk--really, really easy. He was up and running in under 30 minutes. Hopefully, yours will be the same. e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] cd-rom
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of E. Hines Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 2:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cd-rom On Wednesday 24 December 2003 10:22 am, John wrote: Everyone has been helpful. Yes I am running 9.1. Everything had been working great with no indications of problems. Then the cdrom wouldn't work. I have 9.2 hopefully getting here today and I would like to install this. I thought the cdrom would have to work before I could install 9.2. Is there a way to get the 9.2 installation up with where I am now or do I need to continue with trying to fix the cdrom connection? Thanks John That won't be a problem, because you will be booting from cdrom--your Linux system on the hd won't even be mounted. In fact, you will be nuking what you have when you format later. The one glitch could be if the cd drive itself is bad (I've had several die), but if the machine finds the cd boot img that will rule out a bad drive. I helped a friend put 9.2 on a laptop yesterday. The install went smooth as silk--really, really easy. He was up and running in under 30 minutes. Hopefully, yours will be the same. e. Hi Apparently the cd has gone bad. 9.2 won't boot. The light blinks continuously as it did before. Any suggestions on which way to proceed? I probably still have time to pick up one today. What would be compatible with mandrake? External with usb hookup? Etc. Thanks for the help John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-rom
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 09:33, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 5:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 24 December 2003 17:14, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 4:35 pm, ronald wrote: Op woensdag 24 december 2003 17:28, schreef John: I tried the vi fstab. It came up as a new file. I must have done something wrong. I also tried urpmi xfree86 incorrectly. I am lost when it comes to the command line. Will keep trying anything suggested. Sorry for the confusion on the email reply. Hope this works better. Thanks John did you become root john? and did you cd to /etc before vi fstab? HTH and Merry Christmas! ronald If you do not like the command line and vi, then do not use it. From your KDE desktop Alt+F2 will open a box to run a command. He's lost X, Derek, due to the upgrade. Anne Ah.. well in that case I would suggest :- Log in as root and then type urpmi mc That will install midnight commander an easy to use text based file manager with an easy built in editor. Launch it with 'mc' IMO vi is totally newbie hostile. (After 3 years of using Linux I still only know 2 vi commands.) Just a suggestion .. but go to Applications - editors- Konsole open it then click on sessions MC is probably already installed. (at least it was on mine after the urpmi --auto-select upgrade. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-rom
He's lost X, Derek, due to the upgrade. Anne Ah.. well in that case I would suggest :- Log in as root and then type urpmi mc That will install midnight commander an easy to use text based file manager with an easy built in editor. Launch it with 'mc' IMO vi is totally newbie hostile. (After 3 years of using Linux I still only know 2 vi commands.) Just a suggestion .. but go to Applications - editors- Konsole open it then click on sessions MC is probably already installed. (at least it was on mine after the urpmi --auto-select upgrade. Yeah, but the OP had lost X.. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-rom
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 18:10, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 5:44 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 24 December 2003 17:33, Derek Jennings wrote: Ah.. well in that case I would suggest :- Log in as root and then type urpmi mc That will install midnight commander an easy to use text based file manager with an easy built in editor. Launch it with 'mc' IMO vi is totally newbie hostile. (After 3 years of using Linux I still only know 2 vi commands.) You're halfway there, Derek - you only need 4 g Anne Well actually I get by OK just knowing :q! and zz Unless you count the 'Delete' key. But why should newbies have to learn arcane keystroke sequences when there are lots of easier text editors out there? mc and jed come to mind. (Both on the CDs) derek Each to his own, Derek. I just find this the easiest when I have to do emergency work. I can manage to remember those very few commands g 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] Good Updates to Poor Updates
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 18:41, Ken Green wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I think it's time to take it to the expert list. At least you will double your chances of it being read by someone who recognises the problem. Sorry I wasn't much help Anne Anne: IIRC, I saw your or someone else tread last week whereas some updates deleted some of the programs and applications such as it did to my 9.2. I installed and reinstaalled 10 last weekend and narrowed it down to one or more of the 24 Bugfixes Updates. Do you have any idea if the corrupted update(s) was/were fixed? I believe so. This is what Vincent wrote on the MandrakeSecure list yesterday: quote No time to reply to every message. Looks like our timing was bad on this for a few things. The cooker snapshot ISO slowed down the xfree86 mirroring, which may have been a problem for a number of people updating on Friday and possibly Saturday as well.If you think of the snapshot mirroring and people downloading them, the mirrors probably were moving slower than usual. Also, due to my over-protective scripts, not all of the old XF86 packages were removed and I neglected to tell Stew (who handled this update) about that. It shouldn't have mattered because the system where the hdlists were built didn't have them, but you never know. It also looked like some mirrors had corrupt hdlists... not sure how that happened, but it wasn't anything due to us. I did regenerate the hdlists to make all the mirrors force pick it up again this morning... I don't know how they mirror, but a rsync would have cleaned up the bad hdlists quickly, whereas something like wget or fmirror may not have and we can't control how mirrors mirror. So, in short, hopefully things will start to work as they should from this point forward. And we're really sorry for the inconvenience caused to folks... if we had known the snapshot was going out Friday, we likely would have waited until today to release. (/quote It looks as though this was a set of circumstances that couldn't have been foreseen though I suspect that there will be more communication between Cooker and MandrakeSecure in future, as they probably both had a shock. No-one seems to know how the hdlists got corrupted though. Still, I think it is fair to say that you can expect the upgrade to work now. It would be nice, though, if someone who has done it would confirm that. 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 move proceeding please wait...
hello, I just tried Mandrake move. It boots (part 1,2,3...) but then the screen becomes black and I have a message at the bottom saying: proceeding, please wait. I then fail to notice anything happening. I am supposed to wait how long? Augustin -- Quote of the day: [SCO] appears to have the same grasp of reality as the former Iraqi information minister. Matt Loney Read more: http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t523-s2134763,00.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[OT] Re: [newbie] Merry Christmas, people!
Hi all! Merry Christmas and have a happy new year! On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 03:37 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A wish for all to enjoy thier tradition's winter holiday/festival. :-) Regards, _nasturtium Currently slowly roasting in Australia :-) (summer down in the southern hemisphere) * Resent, mailing list bounced the original one. * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrakemove and Quanta
Hi Peeps, Has anyone here noticed whether MM has Quanta? I use it and would love to be sure it is in MM before I purchase. It is the main thing I would need. Comments on other editors not needed or solicited. :^) Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.2 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951 Mandrake Club Silver Member Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 17:00:56 up 3 days, 8 min, 1 user, load average: 2.24, 2.08, 2.04 -- Never mud wrestle with a pig.. you get dirty and the pig enjoys it! Never try to teach a pig to dance. You waste your time and annoy the pig. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
