[newbie] playing .WMV files
Hi I have MDK 9.1, I am not able to play .WMV movie files. Has any one had success with this? How about .WMA audio files? THanks Tk ___ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 10 -- Excellent...but...
First of all I have to say that MDK 10 is very pleasing eye candy. It's fast with the 2.6 series kernel and it's a pleasure to use it. The download via Bittorrent went smoothly and I continued to share it for a couple of weeks. (I'll get it back up soon once I get something here fixed :-) ). The only problem was that CD 4 wasn't recognized on installation and had to be added manually later. I'm thinking the problem is the folder name RPMS5 instead of RPMS4. In any event, it wasn't serious. Updates went smoothly from the listed update sites. Sound works, all hardware was recognized and both machines came up flawlessly. Now, onto the problems. I think the first one about the unreliablity of reading and, apparently, writing CDs and DVDs has been answered in that I probably don't have magicdev (??) installed and I'm using automount instead. It seems automount is installed by default for some strange reason and yes I'm using the 2.6.x kernel. The second issue is more troubling. When setting up internet connection sharing the wizard fscks all networking. I can always reach the internet before I set it up but not after. I admit I haven't had the time yet to look too deeply into it so I don't know whether or not it's the shorewall installation, the "transparent" proxy or if it just screws up the settings on the NIC. What I have noticed is that the wizard insists on setting up my eth1 card which is the one the internet connects to as static and eth0 as dhcp. It should be the other way around. This was a problem with the older releases up to 9.1 when it suddenly worked as I wanted it to. Ditto with 9.2. 10 seems to have taken a step backwards in assuming that eth0 is the one heading to the outside world. Nevertheless, it's caused some headache and I've been wondering if anyone else has experienced this. It's not a big problem as I can set it all up manually if needs must. Incidentally, the machines installed on are an old Dell Dimension and a newer Sony Viao desktop. Next victim will be my laptop :) ttfn (a generally very happy) John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] permissions..
Well, I do not know the answer... but generally spoken: root has the permission to the whole system. okay, a guess... what probably happend is that you have run your system in paranoid mode and executing binary files without ownership of root is forbidden. however, let me say one thing... the principle of security is based on permission... and best security is, when the user is only and only allowed to execute what he is allowed to... my suggestion to you is: configure your system in a way that you have as a user access to your program but do not execute it as root. you can see the ownership if you do "ls -la" on your directory in a terminal. I hope this helps. Regards, Stephanus Fengler Ville Vartiainen wrote: hi. a had thinking and struggling , how i can have permissions to my whole system ? I am root and only user to this system and i cant understand , how i can have permissions to whole system: for example , i cant launch a launcher from panel... it says: Cannot launch icon Details: Failed to execute child process "/home/mansikka/binaryprograms/gtk-gnutella-0.93.3" (Permission denied) - for example.. and with firefox it does same thing. so. how can i have permissions to whole system? thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] permissions..
hi. a had thinking and struggling , how i can have permissions to my whole system ? I am root and only user to this system and i cant understand , how i can have permissions to whole system: for example , i cant launch a launcher from panel... it says: Cannot launch icon Details: Failed to execute child process "/home/mansikka/binaryprograms/gtk-gnutella-0.93.3" (Permission denied) - for example.. and with firefox it does same thing. so. how can i have permissions to whole system? thank you. -- T:Ville Vartiainen [Mansikka^] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] permissions to system
hi. a had thinking and struggling , how i can have permissions to my whole system ? I am root and only user to this system and i cant understand , how i can have permissions to whole system: for example , i cant launch a launcher from panel... it says: Cannot launch icon Details: Failed to execute child process "/home/mansikka/binaryprograms/gtk-gnutella-0.93.3" (Permission denied) - for example.. and with firefox it does same thing. so. how can i have permissions to whole system? thank you. -- T:Ville Vartiainen [Mansikka^] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
Marc wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 05:27 pm, bascule wrote: it would be interesting to know the results of putting the gateway hard drive in a 'normal' machine and putting a 'normal' hard drive in the gateway machine bascule Been there done that. I had to put the Gateway HDD in a different machine to format it with a windoze disk before the gateway would recognize it again. The other machine reconized it right away and actually booted right on to the Linux installation on the HDD that I had removed from the Gateway That was 2 different HDDs that worked fine in the gateway (1 Western Digital and 1 Maxtor) until I installed Linux after that the Gateway machine would not reconize eather of them until they were installed in an other machine and reformated using a winbloze disk. After reformating with a windoze disk the Gateway machine was again able to use them with no trouble at all. And as I said in the first bessage I had a old 500 MB HDD with windoze on it that the Gateway computer was able to recognize. It seems to me like something has been done to the bios in the Gateway to make it NOT recognize any HDD with Linux installed on it. The MOBO was made by Intel but the Bios was customized with the Gateway logo so I really cant say Who is responsible for the bios problems intel or Gateway but due to the fact that Intel brand MOBOs are used in so many brands of computers if this was a Intel related problem I suspect that we all would have heard about it much sooner. As I said this machine is less than 3 months old so maybe as time passes we will hear more storys like this. It seems like this almost had to be something done on purpose to the bios. If that Is the case I hope that the Linux community comes down on Gateway and, or Intel like a ton of bricks. Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I had the same problem with a friend of mine who wanted to try Linux. I also had a spare harddrive that had linux already on it. We took his out and put mine in and it would start to boot and then just stall. Couldn't get into the BIOS at all. We put his old disk in and it was recongized just fine but had to reinstall windows. This is a 3 year old gateway. He tried to install linux on the original harddrive and all went well until reboot. Again we couldn't get into the bios. Now that I know what the problem is I can reformat his drive with partition majic and he can use the restore disk. Although it doesn't surprise me in the least, gateway and gates, both suck. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cannot login with mdkdm
Hi, I just installed Mandrake 10 community edition. Now I got the following problem: I installed with mode Paranoid so root should be generally unable to login XSession or console. However, on console F1-F6 this works and is fine. But when I try to login at mdkkdm as a normal user, screen turns blank and restarts xserver again, see [1] for logfile /var/log/mdkkdm.log ... But the funny thing is: root can login!?! So something is obviously screwed up... Can anyone help me in understanding the logfile and how to solve that problem, please? My guess is, that the XServer configuration in XF86Config-4 is not 100% right. So my keyboard section says this: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "Keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "en_US" Option "XkbOptions" "" EndSection where I have to add anyways: Option "AutoRepeat" "200 30" because this is not working... Thanks in advance, Stephanus Fengler P.S. My system is a hp pavilion zt3000 notebook. So the notebook keyboard might not be properly detected? P.P.S. Sorry, for 356 lines of junk!?! [1] This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository (http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs). XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 Release Date: 15 August 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.0-1mdkenterprise i686 [ELF] Build Date: 01 March 2004 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sun Feb 22 21:18:53 2004 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" Using vt 7 The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for conflicting fields > Warning: Symbol map for key redefined > Using last definition for confli
Re: [newbie]
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:03 pm, many eyes viewed Bryan Phinney's words:- > On Tuesday 23 March 2004 04:06 am, Charlie wrote: > > Not being an ironmonger, I was always under the impression that if you > > had one say 5400rpm hardrive then the 7500rpm or whatever only ran at the > > slower speed as well? > > You might be confusing RPM speed with UDMA or ATA standards. If you have > two drives, one a UDMA/33 and the other a UDMA/66 on the same controller, > the controller has to access both drives at the slowest speed, so the > UDMA/66 drive would be accessed at UDMA/33 speeds. Same principle applies > to two drives, one a UDMA/66 and the other a UDMA/100. Both drives would > be accessed at UDMA/66 speeds. Yes Bryan, that's what I was confusing it with. You picked it in one, thank you. Charlie -- Today I contemplated the principle of being at peace whatever circumstances are encountered. The sense of rest is still with me. This purpose does not admit any slackening. How could I get sick and tired of things due to old age? - Wu Yubi (1391-1469) This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie]
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:37 pm, many eyes viewed David Bachechi's words:- > No not at all...not even if they are on the same channelit would > slow it down but, not tremendously. they physically cant slow down just > because of the other drive. > > Thats my 2 cents. > > Charlie wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:51 pm, many eyes viewed Tavazzani Paolo's words:- > > > >>I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my PC. > >>The system has two disks, on disk 1 I just left the original Windows Xp > >>partition, on disk 2 (bigger and faster) I have freed some 11gb from XP > >>with Partition Magic. > > > > Not being an ironmonger, I was always under the impression that if you > > had one say 5400rpm hardrive then the 7500rpm or whatever only ran at the > > slower speed as well? > > > > Charlie Thanks for that David, I have long been under a misapprehension then. -- Today I contemplated the principle of being at peace whatever circumstances are encountered. The sense of rest is still with me. This purpose does not admit any slackening. How could I get sick and tired of things due to old age? - Wu Yubi (1391-1469) This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opening terminal adds users
On Monday 22 March 2004 02:41 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 23:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > Chris and I talked a little about this. On my 9.1 system, every time I > > start a new konsole it creates a new user, however, when I "exit" the > > konsole, it removes the additional user. It is not doing that on his > > system, it is leaving the user session active even after he exits from > > the konsole. I don't think that is normal behavior, at least, it is > > not normal on my 9.1 system. > > So it's "ghosting" sessions; ah - ok - now I get the picture; I just > tried to duplicate the issue here and well, it doesn't duplicate; I'm on > a 9.1+ system (upgraded/updated with urpmi from cooker and with > Red-Carpet); but my system is also optimised and tuned highly; I'm > wondering if it's something to do with memory cache... > Looking at my user log in /var/log/user.log I see the following entires. The last entry was when I just ran sa-learn. Does this help at all? Mar 22 17:14:04 chris gconfd (chris-27016): starting (version 1.2.1), pid 27016 user 'chris' Mar 22 17:14:04 chris gconfd (chris-27016): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0 Mar 22 17:14:04 chris gconfd (chris-27016): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/chris/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1 Mar 22 17:14:04 chris gconfd (chris-27016): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2 Mar 22 17:16:04 chris gconfd (chris-27016): GConf server is not in use, shutting down. Mar 22 17:16:04 chris gconfd (chris-27016): Exiting Mar 22 20:06:06 chris gconfd (chris-29938): starting (version 1.2.1), pid 29938 user 'chris' Mar 22 20:06:06 chris gconfd (chris-29938): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0 Mar 22 20:06:06 chris gconfd (chris-29938): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/chris/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1 Mar 22 20:06:06 chris gconfd (chris-29938): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2 Mar 22 20:08:06 chris gconfd (chris-29938): GConf server is not in use, shutting down. Mar 22 20:08:06 chris gconfd (chris-29938): Exiting Mar 22 20:11:33 chris gpm[30132]: info: [gpn.c(363)]: Mar 22 20:11:33 chris gpm[30132]: Started gpm successfully. Entered daemon mode. Mar 22 20:14:30 chris gpm[30245]: info: [gpn.c(363)]: Mar 22 20:14:30 chris gpm[30245]: Started gpm successfully. Entered daemon mode. Mar 22 20:26:59 chris userhelper: pam_timestamp: timestamp file `/var/run/sudo/chris/unknown:root' is too old, disallowing access to simple_root_authen for UID 501 Mar 22 20:27:04 chris userhelper: pam_timestamp: updated timestamp file `/var/run/sudo/chris/unknown:root' -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:49pm up 23:45, 5 users, load average: 0.82, 0.90, 0.60 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] sound comes only though left channel
I recently upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 community. Everything works pretty good (I don't really see the point in upgrading though, at least not yet). Anyway, sound only comes through the left speaker no matter what I try. Any ideas? John -- Mon Mar 22 20:40:00 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. -- Titus Maccius Plautus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opening terminal adds users
On Monday 22 March 2004 02:41 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 23:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > Chris and I talked a little about this. On my 9.1 system, every time I > > start a new konsole it creates a new user, however, when I "exit" the > > konsole, it removes the additional user. It is not doing that on his > > system, it is leaving the user session active even after he exits from > > the konsole. I don't think that is normal behavior, at least, it is > > not normal on my 9.1 system. > > So it's "ghosting" sessions; ah - ok - now I get the picture; I just > tried to duplicate the issue here and well, it doesn't duplicate; I'm on > a 9.1+ system (upgraded/updated with urpmi from cooker and with > Red-Carpet); but my system is also optimised and tuned highly; I'm > wondering if it's something to do with memory cache... > Don't know Stephen, any way I can find out? -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:25pm up 23:21, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.17, 0.22 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] iPOD with Mandrake?
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 22 March 2004 06:48 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Now a second question Can anyone lend me some money for an iPod? Yeah sure. You're new around here, aren't you? -- cmg Subscribed a couple months ago. So, yea I guess. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] iPOD with Mandrake?
On Monday 22 March 2004 03:48 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > Maryam wrote: > >Never tried it myself but these look promising > >http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/ > >http://neuron.com/~jason/ipod.html > >http://www.blinkenlights.ch/cgi-bin/fm.pl?get=ipode > > > >On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 10:17, Marc Resnick wrote: > >>Is it possible to use an iPOD with Mandrake? I'm not quite sure of how > >>iPODs work. Would it be recognized just as a removable device? Or does > >>anyone know of any open source apps equivalent to the itunes software? > >> > >>TIA > >> > >>--Marc > >> > >> > >>__ > >>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >> > >>Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > Yea I saw those... > > Now a second question > > Can anyone lend me some money for an iPod? Sorry just upgraded my Glock ;-) > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > >Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] iPOD with Mandrake?
On Monday 22 March 2004 06:48 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > Now a second question > > Can anyone lend me some money for an iPod? Yeah sure. You're new around here, aren't you? -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie]
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:19, Anne Wilson wrote: > I've done it both ways and been OK, but I've read that some people > have not been so lucky, so create the partition in windows. Create > the linux partitions with diskdrake. > > Remember that if you start an install you can 'dummy run' - you can > try out your partition settings because nothing is written to disk > until you finish. It will warn you when it is about to write the > partition table, and you can abort at any time before that write and > you will be perfectly safe. Okay, I've obviously still have a lot of learning to do before I understand this process, as I'm at a loss at this point. Perhaps it's more difficult and/or undoable because I'm dealing with existing WinXP/NTFS and Linux/Ext3 partitions, and a block of free space smack dab in the middle, and it would be a simpler process if installing Linux from scratch at this point? In short, my previous setup (prior to resizing the XP partition downward in size was, roughly, a 40GB drive split thusly: 25GB NTFS/XP partition, followed by a 15GB logical partition, consisting of /, swap and /home I resized the XP partition down to 15GB, freeing up an approximately 10GB block of drive, so I now have it sitting between hda1 and hda5 ... Partition Manager (which I'm still learning and getting used to) seems to only want to offer the option to create another primary drive out of that free space -or- give me the option of extending the logical drive containing hda5, swap and hda7. Again, I'm confused and admittedly still pretty ignorant about this whole process. Have I blundered already in my shrinking of the NTFS position and leaving the block of "free" space in the midst there, or am I just missing some important concept here? (A somewhat rhetorical question, as I know I'm missing a lot in terms of knowledge of the process). -- Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:30:29 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Gordon wrote: > > > > > > >Yes its definetly in a fixed interval but is a longer time than 15 > >minutes, more like an hour but I'm not sure exactly. I have turned > >off power control in kde both as user and in root. > > > >Regards, > >Dan Gordon > > > > > > > Is this a CRT with TCO the energy savng thing ? > John > Yes its a CRT with that energy saving stuff but I have turned it off in the BIOS and in kde, xscreensaver and wherever I could find an option to do so. Ive never had this happen before, Just reinstalled everything a week ago and it started to go into suspend after a period of time at least an hour. Its got me beat all to heck. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Mon Mar 22 19:21:59 EST 2004 19:21:59 up 7:37, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.02 The closest library doesn't have the material you need. -- Hansen's Library Axiom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xml and grep
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:53:50PM +, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Help, I have my web limited by my company now, so I can't google till tomorrow. I need help with parsing an xml file. I need to cut out a fax number from the file. Easy enough I though just grep and cut the line, but the whole file is one line. I know this is a simple command but I can't work it out on my own, and with out google (strange how easy you get attached to things) I am stuck. Please help. Thanks, Tony. So, assuming the xml fax line was something like 123-456-7890 Assuming the same tags as above, this would probably work also: cat fax.xml | perl -n -e ' print "$1\n" if /(.+)<\/fax>/; ' HTH, Carl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Insitu upgrade from 9.2 to 10
On Monday 22 March 2004 04:15 am, Oliver Marshall wrote: > Has anyone done an upgrade from 9.2 to 10 ? I have a box here that I use > as a desktop machine (so OpenOffice, Firefox etc) as well as a test > server to tinker with (irc, ssh, samba etc). I want to upgrade it to 10 > from 9.2, but im worried it will bugger it totally, and that some of the > stuff wont work after. I'm a noob, so I would be outta my depth if it > busted it. > > Anyone got any words of wisdom on the best way of upgrading so that > everything was still there and in one piece after ? > > Olly I just did it. Save /home and once you get the update you will have to move your old mail into a new mail if you have Kontact on the system. Just save the old mail as .mail2 and then do the upgrade. create .mail in the new /home/username and move the old stuff into it. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] iPOD with Mandrake?
Maryam wrote: Never tried it myself but these look promising http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/ http://neuron.com/~jason/ipod.html http://www.blinkenlights.ch/cgi-bin/fm.pl?get=ipode On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 10:17, Marc Resnick wrote: Is it possible to use an iPOD with Mandrake? I'm not quite sure of how iPODs work. Would it be recognized just as a removable device? Or does anyone know of any open source apps equivalent to the itunes software? TIA --Marc __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Yea I saw those... Now a second question Can anyone lend me some money for an iPod? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie]
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:51 pm, many eyes viewed Tavazzani Paolo's words:- > I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my PC. > The system has two disks, on disk 1 I just left the original Windows Xp > partition, on disk 2 (bigger and faster) I have freed some 11gb from XP > with Partition Magic. Not being an ironmonger, I was always under the impression that if you had one say 5400rpm hardrive then the 7500rpm or whatever only ran at the slower speed as well? Charlie -- "It would be some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilisation, if only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life, and what methods have been taken to obtain them." Henry David Thoreau Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 13:44, robin wrote: > There's a choice of two for VIA, and neither of them worked. But as I > posted recently, I got sound working somehow (I think it was when I was > fiddling with /etc/modprobe.conf). > > Sir Robin Well, as we all know, you're a resourceful kinda guy mate. BTW, the GF and I might be coming out yer way on our way to Cairo this year. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Chemistry is applied theology. -- Augustus Stanley Owsley III Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged
> Are > the XP utilities to fix MBR OK? > Yes, fixboot and fixmbr will do the trick, used from the recovery console, and restore the MBR. After a Linux reinstall, just allow lilo to reinstall iteslf into the MBR as usual. I don't think you really have a problem with your file system though. I am more inclined to believe that you have run up against the PM limitation I described earlier. PM is not a good tool to use along with other partitioning utilities. If you want to use PM, use it and no other utility to partition and format all of your partitions, then install Linux into these pre-partitioned locations. I agree with other advice eariler in the thread, use some other utility without the limitation. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie]
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 00:51, Tavazzani Paolo wrote: > Hi all, > I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my PC. > The system has two disks, on disk 1 I just left the original Windows Xp partition, > on disk 2 (bigger and faster) I have freed some 11gb from XP with Partition Magic. > > I've installed Mandrake 10.0 in expert mode, I got it to install in the free space, > making two partitions: one of 10gb for '/' and a 1gb swap partition. Result after > partitioning: 70GB NTFS - 10GB Ext3 - 1GB Swap > > Installation went OK. > > Now I can access with LILO both the XP installation and the Mandrake one and > everything works fine. > > The main problem I have is that if I launch Partition Magic from XP, PM shwos for > disk 2 with a single partition and says it is a damaged one. I suspect some > partition overlap but I'm not sure on how to move > > Any suggestion? > > Thanks Don't run PQM from inside of Windows. Make the boot disks and run it from there. DON'T let it repair the partition(s). stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Majority, n.: That quality that distinguishes a crime from a law. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opening terminal adds users
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 23:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: > Chris and I talked a little about this. On my 9.1 system, every time I start > a new konsole it creates a new user, however, when I "exit" the konsole, it > removes the additional user. It is not doing that on his system, it is > leaving the user session active even after he exits from the konsole. I > don't think that is normal behavior, at least, it is not normal on my 9.1 > system. So it's "ghosting" sessions; ah - ok - now I get the picture; I just tried to duplicate the issue here and well, it doesn't duplicate; I'm on a 9.1+ system (upgraded/updated with urpmi from cooker and with Red-Carpet); but my system is also optimised and tuned highly; I'm wondering if it's something to do with memory cache... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Happiness is the greatest good. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 20:02, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:50, Anne Wilson wrote: > > If you are dual booting you really need a fat32 partition for > > data, so that it can safely be read and written to by both OSs. > > You should also have a separate partition for /home, as you do > > not want to lose everything under home if things go wrong and you > > have to reinstall or want to upgrade. Swap need not be more than > > 512MB. HTH > > Is it better to set up that FAT32 partition for data from the > Windows side of things, or from the Linux side, or does it make any > difference in the long run? In other words, if it becomes, say, an > "F:" drive within Windows, is that the same as creating it as, say, > "/data" from within Linux, or are there some gotchas in this > process? > I've done it both ways and been OK, but I've read that some people have not been so lucky, so create the partition in windows. Create the linux partitions with diskdrake. Remember that if you start an install you can 'dummy run' - you can try out your partition settings because nothing is written to disk until you finish. It will warn you when it is about to write the partition table, and you can abort at any time before that write and you will be perfectly safe. > Paranoid, as always, and certainly not used to the whole > partitioning "thang" ... TIA Actually, I feel the whole thing is less fraught with diskdrake than it ever was in windows. As for being paranoid - join the gang! It's a healthy thing to be Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAX0pOkFAvMr/nNX8RAhd+AKCFzQP/aDIvUEnr8BFDupgrpA1dpwCfaBf5 RAxQB7HnDt+9sVT+7hxRp0s= =4hbx -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie]
Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:50, Anne Wilson wrote: If you are dual booting you really need a fat32 partition for data, so that it can safely be read and written to by both OSs. You should also have a separate partition for /home, as you do not want to lose everything under home if things go wrong and you have to reinstall or want to upgrade. Swap need not be more than 512MB. HTH Is it better to set up that FAT32 partition for data from the Windows side of things, or from the Linux side, or does it make any difference in the long run? In other words, if it becomes, say, an "F:" drive within Windows, is that the same as creating it as, say, "/data" from within Linux, or are there some gotchas in this process? Paranoid, as always, and certainly not used to the whole partitioning "thang" ... TIA Makes no difference, AFAIK. The way I did it last time I set up a dual boot system was to install Windows (which always insists on being installed first) with only one partition, then install Mandrake with a FAT32 partition next to Windows (i.e. /hda2), then divide the rest of the disk between my various Linux partitions. Sir Robin -- "Have you googled yet?" "Willow, she's seventeen!" - Buffy the Vampire Slayer 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 Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SCO goes after the *wrong* people.
On Monday 22 March 2004 09:57 am, Lanman wrote: > On face value, you'd almost think that he already works for > them, but you may be right! So might you > > Lanman > > *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** > > On 3/22/2004 at 9:53 AM rikona wrote: > >Hello Lanman, > > > >Sunday, March 21, 2004, 3:20:12 PM, you wrote: > > > >L> Gee Darl, Good thing you stopped marketing Caldera > > Linux then isn't > > >L> it! But, wait just a minute? Isn't it true that Caldera > > earned > > >L> enough money to BUY SCO, using that big ole nasty > > Open-Source > > >L> software? What a friggin' hypocrit! > > > >L> I'm tellin' ya fellow list-members, when this guy is > > done, his name > > >L> and reputation won't be worth diddley-squat! > > > >He'll just go to work for M$, and will be right at home. > > They LOVE > > >people with that kind of reputation. > > > >-- > > > > rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > >Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 20:55, anton wrote: > may they all die, like all furry aussie animals destroying NZs beautiful > and unique nature! > Anton the kiwi who won't be for much longer... > ps. Yes, we do have them, what's more, we have/had a species that is > extinct in Aussie! And we graciously gave them to you instead of killing > them all! What have you done for us lately? Eh? What have we done for Kiwis? Lessee - we let them come here and take jobs from Australians, we give them free range in immigration, we give them the ability to bludge the welfare system and the health care system, we treat them better than some Aussies, we let them play on our footy teams, AND we go so far out of our way to take what they claim is a pest and transport them BACK to Australia to be re-instated into the ecosystem...howzat mate? (g) stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- "All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory..." (By Larry Wall) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Printer Problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 16:22, Matthew Harrison wrote: > Matthew Harrison wrote: > > Hi all, > > On my 9.2 box, I am trying to print to a network printer. I go > > through the MCC and try and set up the printer. When it tries to > > configure the printer, it comes back and tells me that it Failed > > to Configure the printer. I am at a loss, because I have had > > this printer set up before on different MDK machines with no > > problem, and there should be no difference in the way I set mine > > up with the way I set others up. Any ideas would be welcome. > > > > Reply to my own problem here. I just removed and reinstalled cups > and it seems to be fine now. Sorry about that. > I'm glad you did, Matt. I struggled this morning trying to find out why the 9.2 box could not print to my printer(s). PrinterDrake said that it saw all four instances of the printer (each set up with different parameters - but that's a different story) but nothing seemed to work. I'll try your solution. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAX0bOkFAvMr/nNX8RAjb/AKCRDpTC3Wc0UlgSGETv849vQzWBqgCfUrxz b8kjJHaT9KdWa+wnrNrQNmI= =ZZgT -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie]
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:50, Anne Wilson wrote: > If you are dual booting you really need a fat32 partition for data, so > that it can safely be read and written to by both OSs. You should > also have a separate partition for /home, as you do not want to lose > everything under home if things go wrong and you have to reinstall or > want to upgrade. Swap need not be more than 512MB. HTH Is it better to set up that FAT32 partition for data from the Windows side of things, or from the Linux side, or does it make any difference in the long run? In other words, if it becomes, say, an "F:" drive within Windows, is that the same as creating it as, say, "/data" from within Linux, or are there some gotchas in this process? Paranoid, as always, and certainly not used to the whole partitioning "thang" ... TIA -- Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged
Partition Magic (and the Windows partitioning tool) expect partitions to begin and end on cylinder boundaries. Both make sure this is the way the disks are physically partitioned. Linux has no such limitation, and this is probably the reason for the PM error. Windows partitions will run just fine if not ended on a cylinder boundary, as Linux partitions do also. If you're looking for a good Windows partition utility, I wound up buying Paragon Hard Disk Manager (I've no affilliation with them, just a user), and have used the app on several occasions where PM failed to work. Once you get the error, you can't use PM, it will fail to start. I believe there are some free partitioning tools out there, Ranish partition manager comes to mind, but I haven't used it in years. As was mentioned already in this thread, *do not* use PM to repair the non-error. If you do, you'll have a non-working Linux installation. I believe the utility to access the Linux ext2 and ext3 file systems from Windows is still included with Paragon, if you have a need for such access. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 13:51, Tavazzani Paolo wrote: > > The main problem I have is that if I launch Partition Magic from > XP, PM shwos for disk 2 with a single partition and says it is a > damaged one. Whatever you do, when it offers to fix it for you, say 'no' - or you may lose both XP and Mandrake. If you are dual booting you really need a fat32 partition for data, so that it can safely be read and written to by both OSs. You should also have a separate partition for /home, as you do not want to lose everything under home if things go wrong and you have to reinstall or want to upgrade. Swap need not be more than 512MB. HTH Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAX0OgkFAvMr/nNX8RAh4rAKCBxag213vtLtX+g/NGxb5aNJ1NCgCdHmxC 17iVqxzMsrJkFpfmGoBZfCA= =bgj/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 14:38, robin wrote: ...and it's safe to assume that you've tried other drivers - like forcing ALSA? How would I do that? Sir Robin Is there not a means by which - such as in 9.1 - to change the driver in MCC/Hardware to utilise a different driver for sound (or any other bit of hardware)? There's a choice of two for VIA, and neither of them worked. But as I posted recently, I got sound working somehow (I think it was when I was fiddling with /etc/modprobe.conf). Sir Robin -- "Have you googled yet?" "Willow, she's seventeen!" - Buffy the Vampire Slayer 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 Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 09:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: > If you really must use a Windows tool for partitions, you might consider > getting Paragon Partition Manager. It is a superior tool, IMHO, and will > happily copy, format, move, extend all Linux partitions that I have ever run > into including ReiserFS, EXT3, 2, etc. It also will not report the erroneous > error messages that you are currently seeing. Hey, nice. Partition Magic was groaning and complaining, wanting to "fix" things (scary) when I tried to fire it up, but I bought a copy of Paragon PM and it quickly did the NTFS resizing, etc., that Partition Magic had been balking at; no errors, no complaints, and I'm still here. :) Thx. -- Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xml and grep
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:53:50PM +, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > Help, I have my web limited by my company now, so I can't google till tomorrow. I > need help with parsing an xml file. I need to cut out a fax number from the file. > Easy enough I though just grep and cut the line, but the whole file is one line. I > know this is a simple command but I can't work it out on my own, and with out google > (strange how easy you get attached to things) I am stuck. Please help. > > Thanks, > > Tony. Tony, Not sure if this'll help, but here's what I used to get all links to begin on a new line. sed s/''/'\/a>\n'/g > processed The "\n" gives you a new line, so I'm saying every time you see "" replace it with "/a>\n" So, assuming the xml fax line was something like 123-456-7890 you could do sed s/''/'\n'/g file_with_fax_number.xml | sed s/'<\/fax>'/'<\/fax>\n'/g > some_output_file Then, you could grep some_output_file for "fax" or of course get fancy and cut a certain number of characters to pull out just the fax number. HTH, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot
On Monday 22 March 2004 12:33 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: >Well, there's more goin on than I can contemplate then Bryan. > You certainly should not have any problem with that hardware of > yours. I'm basing my opinions (ok, bias ;) on my experience that > the only time during the 10.0 development process, IIRC, at > beta1, CD1 wouldn't boot ... it was because I couldn't check the > md5sum of the burned CDr. A re-d/l (torrent) of the iso cured the > problem. That an I've made close to a half/dozen sets of 10-CE > CD's for other's ... and they've had no problems. Even on > hardware I wouldn't buy. Well, I have had problems in the past, especially with the RAID controller on my board, I gave up trying to use it and just disabled it. I have a spare Promise EIDE controller that I popped in that works fine. The only problem that I had with Mandrake 10.0 was that I had to specify ide=reverse on the LILO options because if I don't, Linux always reverses the IDE controller to make the Promise controller primary and that means that Linux boots with one set of drives detected and then switches them out mid boot and refuses to find the kernel image. With that one option, it works great. I had to give up on 9.2, couldn't get that version to install regardless of which options I specified. > I'm just plain wrong on this. Probly why it took Warly so long > to figure out the problem too. As to Official, cooker updates > have slowed to a crawl since this last weekend. In the past > that's a sure sign, that after a little more testing, 10-OE will > be ready. Now whether it'll then be released right away under the > new scheme remains to be seen. Well, I just started looking through the instructions to build a bootable DVD and am planning on using the rsync directory of devel-stable, or 10.0 mirror to build an image with all the updates intact once it gets the blessing. Even if it doesn't work, it will be an interesting learning experience. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SCO goes after the *wrong* people.
I heard microsoft invested a lot of money into SCO. Supposedly not for the purpose of going after linux users thoughyeah right.. Lanman wrote: On face value, you'd almost think that he already works for them, but you may be right! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 3/22/2004 at 9:53 AM rikona wrote: Hello Lanman, Sunday, March 21, 2004, 3:20:12 PM, you wrote: L> Gee Darl, Good thing you stopped marketing Caldera Linux then isn't L> it! But, wait just a minute? Isn't it true that Caldera earned L> enough money to BUY SCO, using that big ole nasty Open-Source L> software? What a friggin' hypocrit! L> I'm tellin' ya fellow list-members, when this guy is done, his name L> and reputation won't be worth diddley-squat! He'll just go to work for M$, and will be right at home. They LOVE people with that kind of reputation. -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SCO goes after the *wrong* people.
On face value, you'd almost think that he already works for them, but you may be right! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 3/22/2004 at 9:53 AM rikona wrote: >Hello Lanman, > >Sunday, March 21, 2004, 3:20:12 PM, you wrote: > >L> Gee Darl, Good thing you stopped marketing Caldera Linux then isn't >L> it! But, wait just a minute? Isn't it true that Caldera earned >L> enough money to BUY SCO, using that big ole nasty Open-Source >L> software? What a friggin' hypocrit! > >L> I'm tellin' ya fellow list-members, when this guy is done, his name >L> and reputation won't be worth diddley-squat! > >He'll just go to work for M$, and will be right at home. They LOVE >people with that kind of reputation. > >-- > > rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SCO goes after the *wrong* people.
Hello Lanman, Sunday, March 21, 2004, 3:20:12 PM, you wrote: L> Gee Darl, Good thing you stopped marketing Caldera Linux then isn't L> it! But, wait just a minute? Isn't it true that Caldera earned L> enough money to BUY SCO, using that big ole nasty Open-Source L> software? What a friggin' hypocrit! L> I'm tellin' ya fellow list-members, when this guy is done, his name L> and reputation won't be worth diddley-squat! He'll just go to work for M$, and will be right at home. They LOVE people with that kind of reputation. -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot
On Monday 22 March 2004 08:56 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Monday 22 March 2004 08:43 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > OK, then you probly need to look at the motherboard and > > what controller it's usin to run the CD drive(s). > > Soyo KT400 Dragon UP. VIA chipset and I am using onboard IDE > controller for the DVD Burner, Primary Controller, > Master/Single Drive. No problem with any other bootable > CD-ROM's. > > > Also the bios. > > Up to date per Manufacturer. > > > Also, it's more important to check the md5sum of the burned > > CDr, than it is to check the d/l'd iso. 'Course both should > > be checked and must agree. > > md5sum /dev/cdrom agrees with official mirror md5sum value. > > > It's sort'a academic now tho, Warly's found a work-around > > I am not complaining, I was able to install and that is what is > important. I suspect that if I took the CD2 iso and reworked > it to add the RPMS files from CD1, I could make a totally > bootable CD1. However, I would prefer to wait for Mandrake's > official release of 10.0 prior to attempting to roll my own > CD's, or DVD as the case may be. Well, there's more goin on than I can contemplate then Bryan. You certainly should not have any problem with that hardware of yours. I'm basing my opinions (ok, bias ;) on my experience that the only time during the 10.0 development process, IIRC, at beta1, CD1 wouldn't boot ... it was because I couldn't check the md5sum of the burned CDr. A re-d/l (torrent) of the iso cured the problem. That an I've made close to a half/dozen sets of 10-CE CD's for other's ... and they've had no problems. Even on hardware I wouldn't buy. I'm just plain wrong on this. Probly why it took Warly so long to figure out the problem too. As to Official, cooker updates have slowed to a crawl since this last weekend. In the past that's a sure sign, that after a little more testing, 10-OE will be ready. Now whether it'll then be released right away under the new scheme remains to be seen. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xml and grep
Here is the complete scenario: urpmi libxslt-proc [EMAIL PROTECTED] xmlTest]$ xsltproc trans.xsl test.xml [EMAIL PROTECTED] xmlTest]$ It should work regardless of the position of the fax element (or rename it as necessary). > Help, I have my web limited by my company now, so I can't google till > tomorrow. I need help with parsing an xml file. I need to cut out a fax > number from the file. Easy enough I though just grep and cut the line, > but the whole file is one line. I know this is a simple command but I > can't work it out on my own, and with out google (strange how easy you > get attached to things) I am stuck. Please help. > > Thanks, > > Tony. I do not know about cut &co (that should be possible). But the real tool for the job is a XSLT processor! urpmi libxslt (urpmi libxml2 too?) xsltproc (read the options) The xsl file should look like this: --- > > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is > confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from > your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and > notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The > contents of this message may contain personal views which are not > necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless > specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that > emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility > of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business > Computer Projects Ltd > BCP House > 151 Charles Street > Stockport > Cheshire > SK1 3JY > Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 > Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 > Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";> 23 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Mandrake 7.0 Error
Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 21 March 2004 08:32 pm, Tomy Alarie wrote: >> Hi, i just want to know on mandrake 7, why when i try to make a boot disk >> or install lilo it tells me : "couldn't find kernel file" ? thanks >> > Well, there is probably about 20 reasons, including your lilo.conf entries > are pointing to the wrong place or your /boot partition is not mounted, so > more info is necessary. > > The $100,000 question everyone wants answered though is why on earth are > you still using 7.0? Proberbly because it still works. I upgraded to 9.1 on a fileserver at work 2 months ago, from 7.2. (Yes, it had scsi disks so it was ok to work with) The only reason for the upgrade was, I found newer hardware, and the old Pentium I was replaced with a Pentium II (Wow :) The new one was ok to run KDE on, so I got rid of Blackbox, which was the only windowmanager the old pc could run, and still be usefull. /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xml and grep
> Help, I have my web limited by my company now, so I can't google till > tomorrow. I need help with parsing an xml file. I need to cut out a fax > number from the file. Easy enough I though just grep and cut the line, > but the whole file is one line. I know this is a simple command but I > can't work it out on my own, and with out google (strange how easy you > get attached to things) I am stuck. Please help. > > Thanks, > > Tony. I do not know about cut &co (that should be possible). But the real tool for the job is a XSLT processor! urpmi libxslt (urpmi libxml2 too?) xsltproc (read the options) The xsl file should look like this: --- > > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is > confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from > your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and > notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The > contents of this message may contain personal views which are not > necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless > specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that > emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility > of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business > Computer Projects Ltd > BCP House > 151 Charles Street > Stockport > Cheshire > SK1 3JY > Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 > Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 > Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Are the iso's limited?
On Monday 22 Mar 2004 16:30, Paul wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 18:10, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 11:01, Paul wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 17:48, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > > Pardon me if I am sounding a bit paranoid but it has been a very long > > > > weekend testing various alternatives to RedHat. There is a lot that > > > > I like about Mandrake but have found some things infuriating. I > > > > downloaded the three iso images and did not register. I wanted to > > > > see if our organization wanted to further investigate the Mandrake > > > > route before investing. > > > > > > > > I know that the commercial packages are not available without paid > > > > membership with Mandrake but kernel documentation and freeswan and > > > > tripwire are certainly no commercial (well at least the gpl'd > > > > tripwire). What is this fourth CD? Is there some intentional > > > > crippling for those who have not purchased a membership beyond the > > > > commercial software / license limitations? Thanks - John > > > > > > All you are likely to need are on the 3 ISOs, when installing just > > > click on 'cancel' when it asks for number 4. > > > > > > BTW, I'd recommend you use version 9.2 for evaluation purposes, 10 is > > > not yet considered stable enough for commercial distribution. > > > > > > Paul M. > > > > Thanks but what if you want to install some of the packages on CD4, > > e.g., tripwire or superfreeswan? > > The easiest/preferred way to install software with mandrake is using > urpmi. > > If you go to the easy urpmi site at http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php > it'll give you the necessary commands. Then when you want to add > software use the command (e.g.) > > urpmi tripwire > > this will also take care of dependencies. > > Paul M Tripwire and Super-freeswan are in the 'main' repository. If you user the Easy urpmi site to choose a 'main' Cooker source you will be able to install them using either the GUI or urpmi from the command line. There is a guide to using urpmi on the Mandrake Twiki. Follow my sig. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Are the iso's limited?
On Monday 22 March 2004 10:48 am, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > I know that the commercial packages are not available without paid > membership with Mandrake but kernel documentation and freeswan and > tripwire are certainly no commercial (well at least the gpl'd > tripwire). Â What is this fourth CD? Is there some intentional crippling > for those who have not purchased a membership beyond the commercial > software / license limitations? The fourth CD was a convenience for Club Members, but everything on it is available on the public ftp mirrors. If you do not have CD4 when installing, you should just hit cancel at the prompt and the installer should go right past it and not try to install anything on it. There is nothing on this fourth CD that is restricted from a licensing sense, it was just a convenience for people who supported the deistro by joining the club. There is some confusion right now with respect to the ftp mirror structure and where the packages reside, which I think Mandrake soft is working on at the moment. The stage Mandrake is at now may not be a good way to evaluate the product. We are in a pre-release phase right now that is really working out the kinks before the distro goes gold and is sent to manufacturing. You might want to install 9.2+updates for now or wait and try 10.0 when the official packs come out in May. At that point, 10.0 should be very stable and nearly bug free. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot
When is the Official 10.0 Release? > On Monday 22 March 2004 08:43 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > OK, then you probly need to look at the motherboard and what > > controller it's usin to run the CD drive(s). > > Soyo KT400 Dragon UP. VIA chipset and I am using onboard IDE controller for > the DVD Burner, Primary Controller, Master/Single Drive. No problem with any > other bootable CD-ROM's. > > > Also the bios. > > Up to date per Manufacturer. > > > Also, it's more important to check the md5sum of the burned CDr, > > than it is to check the d/l'd iso. 'Course both should be checked > > and must agree. > > md5sum /dev/cdrom agrees with official mirror md5sum value. > > > It's sort'a academic now tho, Warly's found a work-around > > I am not complaining, I was able to install and that is what is important. I > suspect that if I took the CD2 iso and reworked it to add the RPMS files from > CD1, I could make a totally bootable CD1. However, I would prefer to wait > for Mandrake's official release of 10.0 prior to attempting to roll my own > CD's, or DVD as the case may be. > > -- > Bryan Phinney > Software Test Engineer > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Are the iso's limited?
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 18:10, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 11:01, Paul wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 17:48, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > Pardon me if I am sounding a bit paranoid but it has been a very long > > > weekend testing various alternatives to RedHat. There is a lot that I > > > like about Mandrake but have found some things infuriating. I > > > downloaded the three iso images and did not register. I wanted to see > > > if our organization wanted to further investigate the Mandrake route > > > before investing. > > > > > > I know that the commercial packages are not available without paid > > > membership with Mandrake but kernel documentation and freeswan and > > > tripwire are certainly no commercial (well at least the gpl'd > > > tripwire). What is this fourth CD? Is there some intentional crippling > > > for those who have not purchased a membership beyond the commercial > > > software / license limitations? Thanks - John > > > > All you are likely to need are on the 3 ISOs, when installing just click > > on 'cancel' when it asks for number 4. > > > > BTW, I'd recommend you use version 9.2 for evaluation purposes, 10 is > > not yet considered stable enough for commercial distribution. > > > > Paul M. > Thanks but what if you want to install some of the packages on CD4, > e.g., tripwire or superfreeswan? The easiest/preferred way to install software with mandrake is using urpmi. If you go to the easy urpmi site at http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php it'll give you the necessary commands. Then when you want to add software use the command (e.g.) urpmi tripwire this will also take care of dependencies. Paul M -- And in the beginning, man created religion. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Printer Problem
Matthew Harrison wrote: Hi all, On my 9.2 box, I am trying to print to a network printer. I go through the MCC and try and set up the printer. When it tries to configure the printer, it comes back and tells me that it Failed to Configure the printer. I am at a loss, because I have had this printer set up before on different MDK machines with no problem, and there should be no difference in the way I set mine up with the way I set others up. Any ideas would be welcome. Thanks, Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Reply to my own problem here. I just removed and reinstalled cups and it seems to be fine now. Sorry about that. -Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mouse problems
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:48:30 -0500 Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I plugged the offender back in to the box it > went crazy on and, sure enough, it was unusable. > > Go figure. > > Lee Hmmm.. It could well be my rodent then. I bought it from our local Sunday market, for the equivalent of $4.00, which in the UK, is peanuts. I've had a good bit of service out of it till recently.. So it looks like it's due for replacement! Many Thanks, JRH -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 9.2. "Software is like sex-It's better when it's free!" 14:53:55 up 46 min, 0 users, load average: 0.07, 0.12, 0.38 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Are the iso's limited?
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 11:01, Paul wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 17:48, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > Pardon me if I am sounding a bit paranoid but it has been a very long > > weekend testing various alternatives to RedHat. There is a lot that I > > like about Mandrake but have found some things infuriating. I > > downloaded the three iso images and did not register. I wanted to see > > if our organization wanted to further investigate the Mandrake route > > before investing. > > > > I've had grief installing various packages as it looked for CD4 out the > > three CD's. > > > > When attempting to update, I could not connect and, upon further > > investigation, found that this was due to typographical errors in the > > update source paths from the Mandrake installation. > > > > I've finally gotten everything I need but it was a maddening process of > > figuring out how to use the source configurator and then downloading > > everything that was supposedly on CD4 from the ftp sites. > > > > I know that the commercial packages are not available without paid > > membership with Mandrake but kernel documentation and freeswan and > > tripwire are certainly no commercial (well at least the gpl'd > > tripwire). What is this fourth CD? Is there some intentional crippling > > for those who have not purchased a membership beyond the commercial > > software / license limitations? Thanks - John > > All you are likely to need are on the 3 ISOs, when installing just click > on 'cancel' when it asks for number 4. > > BTW, I'd recommend you use version 9.2 for evaluation purposes, 10 is > not yet considered stable enough for commercial distribution. > > Paul M. Thanks but what if you want to install some of the packages on CD4, e.g., tripwire or superfreeswan? -- John A. Sullivan III Chief Technology Officer Nexus Management +1 207-985-7880 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Are the iso's limited?
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 17:48, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Pardon me if I am sounding a bit paranoid but it has been a very long > weekend testing various alternatives to RedHat. There is a lot that I > like about Mandrake but have found some things infuriating. I > downloaded the three iso images and did not register. I wanted to see > if our organization wanted to further investigate the Mandrake route > before investing. > > I've had grief installing various packages as it looked for CD4 out the > three CD's. > > When attempting to update, I could not connect and, upon further > investigation, found that this was due to typographical errors in the > update source paths from the Mandrake installation. > > I've finally gotten everything I need but it was a maddening process of > figuring out how to use the source configurator and then downloading > everything that was supposedly on CD4 from the ftp sites. > > I know that the commercial packages are not available without paid > membership with Mandrake but kernel documentation and freeswan and > tripwire are certainly no commercial (well at least the gpl'd > tripwire). What is this fourth CD? Is there some intentional crippling > for those who have not purchased a membership beyond the commercial > software / license limitations? Thanks - John All you are likely to need are on the 3 ISOs, when installing just click on 'cancel' when it asks for number 4. BTW, I'd recommend you use version 9.2 for evaluation purposes, 10 is not yet considered stable enough for commercial distribution. Paul M. -- And in the beginning, man created religion. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Guide to Linux File Command Mastery
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 09:55, JoeHill wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:43:16 +0700 > Fajar Priyanto disseminated the following: > > > > Looks like a pretty good intro to command line file manipulation and > > > processing: > > > > > > http://otn.oracle.com/pub/articles/calish_file_commands.html > > > > > > ...and from Oracle, no less :-) > > Thanks Joe. > > It's great. > > One note, there is a link on the page, to the left, 'printer view'. Save the > printer-friendly page, then: > > htmldoc --webpage -f .pdf .html > > ...and you have yourself an always-ready PDF version, even print it out if ya > want. Muito obrigado, Dr. Joe Hill ! -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 * "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Nietzsche Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:16:34 +0700 Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this happening in a fix interval, say when you leave your box > untouched for about 15 minutes, etc? Or randomly? > Have you checked in Configuration>KDE>Power Control? > - -- Yes its definetly in a fixed interval but is a longer time than 15 minutes, more like an hour but I'm not sure exactly. I have turned off power control in kde both as user and in root. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Mon Mar 22 10:50:16 EST 2004 10:50:16 up 11:23, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.31, 0.33 The days are all empty and the nights are unreal. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Successful boot yet failure to find CD-ROM files
On Sunday 21 March 2004 11:11 pm, John A. Sullivan III wrote: >>> whack > My apologies if this has already been asked. I did not see a way to > search the archives late than 2003-11. How does one search the most > current postings to this mail list? > > Thanks, all - John John: This source archives a great many mail lists (and well worth bookmarking): http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ This source is mandrake-newbie only: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/index.html -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Are the iso's limited?
Pardon me if I am sounding a bit paranoid but it has been a very long weekend testing various alternatives to RedHat. There is a lot that I like about Mandrake but have found some things infuriating. I downloaded the three iso images and did not register. I wanted to see if our organization wanted to further investigate the Mandrake route before investing. I've had grief installing various packages as it looked for CD4 out the three CD's. When attempting to update, I could not connect and, upon further investigation, found that this was due to typographical errors in the update source paths from the Mandrake installation. I've finally gotten everything I need but it was a maddening process of figuring out how to use the source configurator and then downloading everything that was supposedly on CD4 from the ftp sites. I know that the commercial packages are not available without paid membership with Mandrake but kernel documentation and freeswan and tripwire are certainly no commercial (well at least the gpl'd tripwire). What is this fourth CD? Is there some intentional crippling for those who have not purchased a membership beyond the commercial software / license limitations? Thanks - John -- Open Source Development Corporation Financially Sustainable open source development http://www.opensourcedevelopmentcorp.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 08:38 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:53:46 +0700 > > Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Uumm... how about in BIOS? > > - -- > > Have checked in BIOS, i should mention that this is 9.2. > For the life of me I can not find out where the monitor is being put on > standby. > > Regards, > Dan Gordon Is this happening in a fix interval, say when you leave your box untouched for about 15 minutes, etc? Or randomly? Have you checked in Configuration>KDE>Power Control? - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 22:15:27 up 1:52, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXwNWkp5CsIXuxqURAmnsAKCn+4qSJN2+S6AD0fURPlhMjvL8nwCgucJJ bPisoHIYdwhjsitotXl7YYs= =UOvv -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Printer Problem
Hi all, On my 9.2 box, I am trying to print to a network printer. I go through the MCC and try and set up the printer. When it tries to configure the printer, it comes back and tells me that it Failed to Configure the printer. I am at a loss, because I have had this printer set up before on different MDK machines with no problem, and there should be no difference in the way I set mine up with the way I set others up. Any ideas would be welcome. Thanks, Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot
On Monday 22 March 2004 08:43 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > OK, then you probly need to look at the motherboard and what > controller it's usin to run the CD drive(s). Soyo KT400 Dragon UP. VIA chipset and I am using onboard IDE controller for the DVD Burner, Primary Controller, Master/Single Drive. No problem with any other bootable CD-ROM's. > Also the bios. Up to date per Manufacturer. > Also, it's more important to check the md5sum of the burned CDr, > than it is to check the d/l'd iso. 'Course both should be checked > and must agree. md5sum /dev/cdrom agrees with official mirror md5sum value. > It's sort'a academic now tho, Warly's found a work-around I am not complaining, I was able to install and that is what is important. I suspect that if I took the CD2 iso and reworked it to add the RPMS files from CD1, I could make a totally bootable CD1. However, I would prefer to wait for Mandrake's official release of 10.0 prior to attempting to roll my own CD's, or DVD as the case may be. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged
On Monday 22 March 2004 08:54 am, Tavazzani Paolo wrote: > The main problem I have is that if I launch Partition Magic from XP, PM > shwos for disk 2 with a single partition and says it is a damaged one. I > suspect some partition overlap but I'm not sure on how to move The problem is with Partition Magic, I think that the newer versions may work better but from previous experience, the older versions don't work well with certain Linux partitions. If you really must use a Windows tool for partitions, you might consider getting Paragon Partition Manager. It is a superior tool, IMHO, and will happily copy, format, move, extend all Linux partitions that I have ever run into including ReiserFS, EXT3, 2, etc. It also will not report the erroneous error messages that you are currently seeing. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] xml and grep
Help, I have my web limited by my company now, so I can't google till tomorrow. I need help with parsing an xml file. I need to cut out a fax number from the file. Easy enough I though just grep and cut the line, but the whole file is one line. I know this is a simple command but I can't work it out on my own, and with out google (strange how easy you get attached to things) I am stuck. Please help. Thanks, Tony. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] xml and grep
Help, I have my web limited by my company now, so I can't google till tomorrow. I need help with parsing an xml file. I need to cut out a fax number from the file. Easy enough I though just grep and cut the line, but the whole file is one line. I know this is a simple command but I can't work it out on my own, and with out google (strange how easy you get attached to things) I am stuck. Please help. Thanks, Tony. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Bounce when mailing to newbie list?
just my quick test. I've not been getting any mail from here for a few weeks and it's only just started to arrive this last couple of days. On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 9:06 pm, Björn Lundin wrote: > Philip Cronje wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:05:59 +0100, Björn Lundin > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello! > >> Why do I get a reply like this when posting to the list? > >> The post did show up (This was my reply to Anne in the > >> 'is there an easy way to Samba'-thread > >> > >> /Björn > > > > You can ignore (read: delete) these without any worries. We're all > > getting them. :P > > Strange behaviour? But good to know. Then I don't need to talk to my ISP > again, I had some trouble getting any mail out a while ago. > > /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] MDk10CE, KDE 3.2 and no sound
I did do an update immediately... But it was a "selective" update. I didn't do things like Apache. Tonight I may well do the whole lot just to be on the safe side. -Original Message- From: Greg Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 1:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MDk10CE, KDE 3.2 and no sound On Monday 22 March 2004 04:36 am, Sweeney, Stephen wrote: > (sorry if this comes out a bit long, but I'd like to make sure that > I've explained everything). > > On the weekend I installed Mandrake 10 (install, not update). Install > went fine. I then booted into KDE 3.2. It hung leaving the Mandrake > wallpaper in the background. I tried again, this time I got a warning > about Knotify not starting and asking me if I wanted to disable it. I > did and it still hung. I then went into IceWM, fired up Kcontrol and > turned off the sound in KDE (can't remember how I came to this > conclusion). > Have you applied any updates to the original install of 10.0. OIIRC, there were a bunch of things fixed related to the arts soundeserver and OSS emulation. You should update before spending a lot of time because whatever you are running into may have been fixed. -- /g -- This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This communication is for information purposes only and should not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product, an official confirmation of any transaction, or as an official statement of Lehman Brothers. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that this information is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon as such. All information is subject to change without notice. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] MDK 10 and Drakconnect
If you have problems try it this way...
- Firmware (mgmt.o) in /usr/share/speedtouch/ (ALREADY DONE)
- Run through dragconnect wizard and put all your ISP details in (PROBABLY
ALREADY DONE)
- Goto command line and type: /usr/share/speedtouch/speedtouch.sh start
- ('/usr/share/speedtouch/speedtouch.sh stop' to close connection)
I can't connect directly through the wizard, but it always works from the
command line.
-Original Message-
From: JRH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 March 2004 13:26
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] MDK 10 and Drakconnect
Lee,
I have since upgraded from 9.2 to 10, and it shouldnt have really changed
things much. However, I have my connection set to start at boot, both green
lights began to flash on my modem, (as is normal), and then the ADSL light
went yellow, and that was it, a failure message.
I'm going to try setting it up with the Speedtouch package from the 9.2
Distro. The modem firmware code is the same as I have always used.
Like you said, 9.2 is now history on this box. so if I cant get things
to go my way, I'll reinstall 9.2, and let a Linux guru buddy of mine have a
play with it at a later date.
James Hill
- Original Message -
From: "Lee Wiggers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] MDK 10 and Drakconnect
> On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:44:36 +
> JRH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm currently downloading Mandrake 10.
> >
> > I downloaded and Installed Mandrake 10 RC1 a while back, and had
> > some issues with Drakconnect, and my USB ADSL modem.
> >
> > The problem I had, was that unlike Mandrake 9.2, the auto
> > detection wizard just wouldnt set the modem up properly. For
> > example, the wizard would bring up a list, asking me to choose my
> > ADSL provider. There was only 2 UK providers on the list, not one
> > of them being my provider!. This, coupled with other problems,
> > made for a non working internet connection, and it was
> > uninstalled, and I went back to 9.2.
> >
> > Does anybody here have any experience of the Alcatel Speedtouch
> > 330 USB ADSL modem and Mandrake 10?. Can someone offer a step by
> > step guide to installation and config? (I have the modem firmware
> > code, so dont tell me I havent installed that!)
> >
> > Many Thanks,
> >
> > James Hill
> >
> >
> >
> Before you leave 9.2 get a list of your drivers that are working.
> You can choose them manually if the automagic install picks the
> wrong ones.
>
> Happened to me when it was already too late (9.2 was history on that
> box) I had to find someone with the same setup. He listed his
> config and I was running in minutes.
>
> Lee
>
>
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RE: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged
Paolo, PM reports this error when it is not really an error. You will always get it. (Have a look in the archives as there was a big discussion on this a while back). If you want to re-install Linux just put CD 1 in the drive and start again. My personal opinion is to not use PM at all. You can do all the partitioning through diskdrake. If you are happy with the current partition table you can just install over the top of the old install. As for the MBR I will leave that to one of my more knowledgeable list friends to answer as I never have had to deal with it. Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tavazzani Paolo Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged Hi Tony, thanks for the suggestion. I must admit that, having installed the Linux partition just yesterday I could loose it and re-install without too many troubles. What I'm worried about is that, if PM is right, something crazy like a partition overlapping has happened and I could end up, when filling one of the two partitions, with trashing the other one and loosing some meaningful data. BTW, how have you solved the problem? While we are at it, If I should decide to re-install Linux from scratch, which is the best way to get rid of LILO and reset the XP boot process? Are the XP utilities to fix MBR OK? Thanks Paolo -Original Message- From: Tony S. Sykes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: lunedà 22 marzo 2004 15.03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged Paolo, Ignore the error message from PM, if you try and fix it you can hose your Linux installation (I did a long time ago). Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tavazzani Paolo Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged Hi all, Sorry if I re-post, but the original message had no subject :-( I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my PC. The system has two disks, on disk 1 I just left the original Windows Xp partition, on disk 2 (bigger and faster) I have freed some 11gb from XP with Partition Magic. I've installed Mandrake 10.0 in expert mode, I got it to install in the free space, making two partitions: one of 10gb for '/' and a 1gb swap partition. Result after partitioning: 70GB NTFS - 10GB Ext3 - 1GB Swap Installation went OK. Now I can access with LILO both the XP installation and the Mandrake one and everything works fine. The main problem I have is that if I launch Partition Magic from XP, PM shwos for disk 2 with a single partition and says it is a damaged one. I suspect some partition overlap but I'm not sure on how to move Any suggestion? Thanks Paolo Tavazzani Fastweb S.p.A. Via Caracciolo 51 20155 Milano Phone: +39 02 4545 4892 Mobile: +39 348 3673 626 Fax:+39 02 4545 4811 <> -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :
Re: [newbie] Guide to Linux File Command Mastery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 07:55 pm, JoeHill wrote: > One note, there is a link on the page, to the left, 'printer view'. Save > the printer-friendly page, then: > > htmldoc --webpage -f .pdf .html > > ...and you have yourself an always-ready PDF version, even print it out if > ya want. This reminds me one thing. The copy paste from Konqueror to OO writer is not so good. They miss the hyperlink and all the image. When I can save the html directly I do it, but for some dynamic pages I just can't do it. Well, usually this one requires the job of MS IE and Word. Any work around here? - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 21:25:57 up 1:03, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXvf4kp5CsIXuxqURAhQgAJ9NKhtRB3fYP3aiD7DGpaoSjP/RxgCffAEP cFt2TPrObK+v6Jr2tOywn6s= =WT4p -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged
Hi Tony, thanks for the suggestion. I must admit that, having installed the Linux partition just yesterday I could loose it and re-install without too many troubles. What I'm worried about is that, if PM is right, something crazy like a partition overlapping has happened and I could end up, when filling one of the two partitions, with trashing the other one and loosing some meaningful data. BTW, how have you solved the problem? While we are at it, If I should decide to re-install Linux from scratch, which is the best way to get rid of LILO and reset the XP boot process? Are the XP utilities to fix MBR OK? Thanks Paolo -Original Message- From: Tony S. Sykes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: lunedì 22 marzo 2004 15.03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged Paolo, Ignore the error message from PM, if you try and fix it you can hose your Linux installation (I did a long time ago). Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tavazzani Paolo Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged Hi all, Sorry if I re-post, but the original message had no subject :-( I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my PC. The system has two disks, on disk 1 I just left the original Windows Xp partition, on disk 2 (bigger and faster) I have freed some 11gb from XP with Partition Magic. I've installed Mandrake 10.0 in expert mode, I got it to install in the free space, making two partitions: one of 10gb for '/' and a 1gb swap partition. Result after partitioning: 70GB NTFS - 10GB Ext3 - 1GB Swap Installation went OK. Now I can access with LILO both the XP installation and the Mandrake one and everything works fine. The main problem I have is that if I launch Partition Magic from XP, PM shwos for disk 2 with a single partition and says it is a damaged one. I suspect some partition overlap but I'm not sure on how to move Any suggestion? Thanks Paolo Tavazzani Fastweb S.p.A. Via Caracciolo 51 20155 Milano Phone: +39 02 4545 4892 Mobile: +39 348 3673 626 Fax:+39 02 4545 4811 <> -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged
Paolo, Ignore the error message from PM, if you try and fix it you can hose your Linux installation (I did a long time ago). Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tavazzani Paolo Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged Hi all, Sorry if I re-post, but the original message had no subject :-( I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my PC. The system has two disks, on disk 1 I just left the original Windows Xp partition, on disk 2 (bigger and faster) I have freed some 11gb from XP with Partition Magic. I've installed Mandrake 10.0 in expert mode, I got it to install in the free space, making two partitions: one of 10gb for '/' and a 1gb swap partition. Result after partitioning: 70GB NTFS - 10GB Ext3 - 1GB Swap Installation went OK. Now I can access with LILO both the XP installation and the Mandrake one and everything works fine. The main problem I have is that if I launch Partition Magic from XP, PM shwos for disk 2 with a single partition and says it is a damaged one. I suspect some partition overlap but I'm not sure on how to move Any suggestion? Thanks Paolo Tavazzani Fastweb S.p.A. Via Caracciolo 51 20155 Milano Phone: +39 02 4545 4892 Mobile: +39 348 3673 626 Fax:+39 02 4545 4811 <> -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have recieved it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged
Hi all, Sorry if I re-post, but the original message had no subject :-( I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my PC. The system has two disks, on disk 1 I just left the original Windows Xp partition, on disk 2 (bigger and faster) I have freed some 11gb from XP with Partition Magic. I've installed Mandrake 10.0 in expert mode, I got it to install in the free space, making two partitions: one of 10gb for '/' and a 1gb swap partition. Result after partitioning: 70GB NTFS - 10GB Ext3 - 1GB Swap Installation went OK. Now I can access with LILO both the XP installation and the Mandrake one and everything works fine. The main problem I have is that if I launch Partition Magic from XP, PM shwos for disk 2 with a single partition and says it is a damaged one. I suspect some partition overlap but I'm not sure on how to move Any suggestion? Thanks Paolo Tavazzani Fastweb S.p.A. Via Caracciolo 51 20155 Milano Phone: +39 02 4545 4892 Mobile: +39 348 3673 626 Fax:+39 02 4545 4811 <> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Successful boot yet failure to find CD-ROM files
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 08:14, Derek Jennings wrote:
> On Monday 22 Mar 2004 11:23, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 04:52, Derek Jennings wrote:
> > > On Monday 22 Mar 2004 04:11, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > > > I needed to rebuild one of our test security gateways and after
> > > > experimenting with RedHat, Debian and Slackware, I wanted to give
> > > > Mandrake 10.0 a try. I was initially very impressed but I am having a
> > > > devil of a time just installing.
> > > >
> > > > The test device is an old e-machines 400Mhz Celeron with 64 MB Ram and
> > > > a 6.4 GB hard drive. I can successfully install RedHat and Debian from
> > > > CD.
> > > >
> > > > I first tried a CDROM install using the ISO images I downloaded and
> > > > burned. The system booted perfectly fine but when it tried to access
> > > > files on the CDROM, I generated the following errors:
> > > > <4>hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-140, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> > > > .
> > > > .
> > > > .
> > > > <4>hdc: ATAPI 40x CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
> > > > <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> > > > <5>SCSI subsystem initialized
> > > > <4>hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > > > <4>hdc: command error: error=0x50
> > > > <4>end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64
> > > > <4>isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16
> > > >
> > > > I thought it might be a bad CD even though it appeared to work when I
> > > > tried it on a different computer. I did find that if I booted the test
> > > > computer into the current Debian installation, I could not manually
> > > > mount the CD. So I downloaded the ISO again from a different site,
> > > > checked the MD5 checksum and burned a new CD. Same results.
> > > >
> > > > Based upon some other information I found, I tried booting from CD2
> > > > instead -- same results.
> > > >
> > > > I tried a text installation -- same results.
> > > >
> > > > I then thought I'd mount the CD on a different computer and do an NFS
> > > > installation. That started to work but, after a while, it aborted with
> > > > a signal 7.
> > > >
> > > > I tried an NFS installation in text mode -- it made it 60+% of the way
> > > > and then aborted with a signal 7 error.
> > > >
> > > > So far I am striking out even though it appears that one of Mandrake's
> > > > features is ease of installation. Oh, I also tried cleaning the CD
> > > > lens in case it was dirty. Same problem. Can someone tell me what I
> > > > am doing wrong? I'd really like to give Mandrake a try.
> > > >
> > > > My apologies if this has already been asked. I did not see a way to
> > > > search the archives late than 2003-11. How does one search the most
> > > > current postings to this mail list?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, all - John
> > >
> > > Try booting from CD2 and then switch back to CD1 when it asks for the
> > > disc http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3
> > >
> > > Bear in mind this is the "Community edition" which means there are still
> > > bugs to be ironed out before 10,0 "Official" is released. Having said
> > > that, my own experience is that 10.0 is very solid and stable. I hope you
> > > like it :-)
> > >
> > > derek
> >
> > Nope - tried that and it didn't work. I suspect it may have something
> > to do with the 2.6 kernel as all of the error messages I saw in Google
> > relating to the specific error message appear to be about the 2.6x
> > kernel. I found the alternate images to boot from floppy using the
> > 2.4.25 kernel but that didn't work either.
> >
> > Thanks anyway. Any other thoughts or work-arounds? - John
>
> Follow up to my last post :-
> Before you try an FTP install you might like to try booting from a boot floppy
> made with the "cdrom.img" from the Cooker/Stable mirror. A new cdrom.img
> went on the mirrors on 19th March. It is possible it might help with your
> problem.
>
> Another workaround might be to boot with one of the alternate images on your
> CDs
> When you first boot from CD1 hit F1 (or Esc I can never remember which) and at
> the prompt enter 'alt1' That will boot you with the 2.2 Boot kernel. Any
> PCMCIA devices will not be detected, but it will install the 2.6 kernel which
> will run at the end of the install process.
>
> derek
Thanks for the suggestions. This seems to be something either Mandrake
of kernel specific.
I did try installing from boot floppy and then CD - it still could not
find the CD.
I eventually copied the CDs to another workstation and did an NFS
install. That worked but I still cannot mount any CD including ones
that I know mounted under Debian and RedHat.
I'm also having trouble with some packages such as the kernel docs,
mandrake docs, tripwire, superfreeswan, etc. They are asking for a CD4
yet there were only three iso images. What is this fourth CD?
At this point, for the sake of time, I'm thinking of heading back to
RedHat. Thanks - John
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[newbie]
Hi all, I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my PC. The system has two disks, on disk 1 I just left the original Windows Xp partition, on disk 2 (bigger and faster) I have freed some 11gb from XP with Partition Magic. I've installed Mandrake 10.0 in expert mode, I got it to install in the free space, making two partitions: one of 10gb for '/' and a 1gb swap partition. Result after partitioning: 70GB NTFS - 10GB Ext3 - 1GB Swap Installation went OK. Now I can access with LILO both the XP installation and the Mandrake one and everything works fine. The main problem I have is that if I launch Partition Magic from XP, PM shwos for disk 2 with a single partition and says it is a damaged one. I suspect some partition overlap but I'm not sure on how to move Any suggestion? Thanks Paolo Tavazzani Fastweb S.p.A. Via Caracciolo 51 20155 Milano Phone: +39 02 4545 4892 Mobile: +39 348 3673 626 Fax:+39 02 4545 4811 <> BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Tavazzani;Paolo FN:Paolo Tavazzani (E-mail) ORG:Fastweb S.p.A.;Network Engineering VoIP TEL;WORK;VOICE:+39-02-4545-4892 TEL;CELL;VOICE:+39-348-3673-626 TEL;WORK;FAX:+39-02-4545-4744 ADR;WORK:;;Caracciolo 51;Milano, MI;;20155;Italia LABEL;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Caracciolo 51=0D=0AMilano, MI 20155=0D=0AItalia ADR;HOME:;;Caracciolo 51;Milano, MI;;20155;Italia LABEL;HOME;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Caracciolo 51=0D=0AMilano, MI 20155=0D=0AItalia ADR;POSTAL:;;Italia LABEL;POSTAL:Italia EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REV:20031016T100800Z END:VCARD Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot
On Sunday 21 March 2004 11:11 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Sunday 21 March 2004 09:53 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > Like the 9.2 LG cdrom deal, It's not Mandrake that's > > broken, it's some CD drives that aren't quite right. Not > > checking the md5sum of the iso, and then also from the burned > > CDr also contributes to the problem. It's also not clear to > > me if people who experience this problem have tried booting > > CD1 from both their CDrom and CD-RW drives. From the CD-RW > > would be the preferred IMO, and from a CDr, not cd-rw media. > > Well, I burned the CD on my Plextor PX-708a. I tried to boot > CD1 from that same drive and it would not boot. CD2 does. I > confirmed the md5 and the sums match reported values. The same > Mandrake CD1 will boot from an older CD-ROM drive. My Plextor > DVD Burner would probably not fall into the realm of cheap > hardware. So, I don't think that this is totally md5 sum or > improper burning related. I suspect that there is some minor > anomaly in the iso image that is being spotted by newer or > better CD devices but ignored by older ones. OK, then you probly need to look at the motherboard and what controller it's usin to run the CD drive(s). Also the bios. Also, it's more important to check the md5sum of the burned CDr, than it is to check the d/l'd iso. 'Course both should be checked and must agree. It's sort'a academic now tho, Warly's found a work-around -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:53:46 +0700 Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uumm... how about in BIOS? > - -- Have checked in BIOS, i should mention that this is 9.2. For the life of me I can not find out where the monitor is being put on standby. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Mon Mar 22 08:35:30 EST 2004 08:35:30 up 9:09, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.06, 0.04 Since we're all here, we must not be all there. -- Bob "Mountain" Beck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 Error
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 08:57 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 08:32 pm, Tomy Alarie wrote: Hi, i just want to know on mandrake 7, why when i try to make a boot disk or install lilo it tells me : "couldn't find kernel file" ? thanks Well, there is probably about 20 reasons, including your lilo.conf entries are pointing to the wrong place or your /boot partition is not mounted, so more info is necessary. The $100,000 question everyone wants answered though is why on earth are you still using 7.0? LOL, very interesting indeed. Even my first encounter with mdk was 8.0. Wasn't mdk 7.0 one of the last ones that would run on a 486??? That might be the reason certainly.. I don't know that I'd risk it nowdays though.. at least not on anything connected to the internet. rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl & PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com Free web developer resources. Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html -- rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl & PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com Free web developer resources. Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
anton wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: may they all die, like all furry aussie animals destroying NZs beautiful and unique nature! Anton the kiwi who won't be for much longer... ps. Yes, we do have them, what's more, we have/had a species that is extinct in Aussie! And we graciously gave them to you instead of killing them all! What have you done for us lately? Eh? We gave you tasmania, The only place on earth that paints New Zealanders in a good light.. :-) After all, its so close to NZ, and the people act so much like Kiwis, that its often hard to tell them apart. The only difference is that in Tasmania, not only is not not bad to marry your sister and procreate, its encouraged and is a statewide pasttime... (always count the number of fingers and toes on a tasmanian girl before getting naughty with her. :-) LOL, sorry, but had to come up with something in response to a question like that.. rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl & PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com Free web developer resources. Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opening terminal adds users
On Monday 22 March 2004 12:39 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > Chris - every time you open a term - or whatever - you start another > process that has your name on it - so, if you open twenty terms, you'll > find twenty references to YOU...does that make sense? Chris and I talked a little about this. On my 9.1 system, every time I start a new konsole it creates a new user, however, when I "exit" the konsole, it removes the additional user. It is not doing that on his system, it is leaving the user session active even after he exits from the konsole. I don't think that is normal behavior, at least, it is not normal on my 9.1 system. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Successful boot yet failure to find CD-ROM files
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 04:52, Derek Jennings wrote:
> On Monday 22 Mar 2004 04:11, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > I needed to rebuild one of our test security gateways and after
> > experimenting with RedHat, Debian and Slackware, I wanted to give
> > Mandrake 10.0 a try. I was initially very impressed but I am having a
> > devil of a time just installing.
> >
> > The test device is an old e-machines 400Mhz Celeron with 64 MB Ram and a
> > 6.4 GB hard drive. I can successfully install RedHat and Debian from
> > CD.
> >
> > I first tried a CDROM install using the ISO images I downloaded and
> > burned. The system booted perfectly fine but when it tried to access
> > files on the CDROM, I generated the following errors:
> > <4>hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-140, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > <4>hdc: ATAPI 40x CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
> > <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> > <5>SCSI subsystem initialized
> > <4>hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > <4>hdc: command error: error=0x50
> > <4>end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64
> > <4>isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16
> >
> > I thought it might be a bad CD even though it appeared to work when I
> > tried it on a different computer. I did find that if I booted the test
> > computer into the current Debian installation, I could not manually
> > mount the CD. So I downloaded the ISO again from a different site,
> > checked the MD5 checksum and burned a new CD. Same results.
> >
> > Based upon some other information I found, I tried booting from CD2
> > instead -- same results.
> >
> > I tried a text installation -- same results.
> >
> > I then thought I'd mount the CD on a different computer and do an NFS
> > installation. That started to work but, after a while, it aborted with
> > a signal 7.
> >
> > I tried an NFS installation in text mode -- it made it 60+% of the way
> > and then aborted with a signal 7 error.
> >
> > So far I am striking out even though it appears that one of Mandrake's
> > features is ease of installation. Oh, I also tried cleaning the CD lens
> > in case it was dirty. Same problem. Can someone tell me what I am
> > doing wrong? I'd really like to give Mandrake a try.
> >
> > My apologies if this has already been asked. I did not see a way to
> > search the archives late than 2003-11. How does one search the most
> > current postings to this mail list?
> >
> > Thanks, all - John
>
> Try booting from CD2 and then switch back to CD1 when it asks for the disc
> http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3
>
> Bear in mind this is the "Community edition" which means there are still bugs
> to be ironed out before 10,0 "Official" is released. Having said that, my own
> experience is that 10.0 is very solid and stable. I hope you like it :-)
>
> derek
Nope - tried that and it didn't work. I suspect it may have something
to do with the 2.6 kernel as all of the error messages I saw in Google
relating to the specific error message appear to be about the 2.6x
kernel. I found the alternate images to boot from floppy using the
2.4.25 kernel but that didn't work either.
Thanks anyway. Any other thoughts or work-arounds? - John
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[newbie] Mouse problems
Hi All, I have a problem Every now and then, my mouse pointer will go totally mental, flying round the screen, opening up applications, minimizing windows, and generally doing it's own thing. Is this a problem with Linux or a hardware issue? I have a windows partition, and not once have I had the problem whilst running in windows. Any Ideas? JRH -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 10. "Linux - It's not Windows!" 11:15:44 up 1:49, 0 users, load average: 1.03, 0.75, 0.59 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Insitu upgrade from 9.2 to 10
Has anyone done an upgrade from 9.2 to 10 ? I have a box here that I use as a desktop machine (so OpenOffice, Firefox etc) as well as a test server to tinker with (irc, ssh, samba etc). I want to upgrade it to 10 from 9.2, but im worried it will bugger it totally, and that some of the stuff wont work after. I'm a noob, so I would be outta my depth if it busted it. Anyone got any words of wisdom on the best way of upgrading so that everything was still there and in one piece after ? Olly Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] MDk10CE, KDE 3.2 and no sound
Well, hey... If I can get KDE 3.2 working with sound on Mandrake 9.2 then I will do that instead... Could anyone advise me? Does XMMS, Mplayer and other sound apps play well with MDK9.2 and KDE 3.2? -Original Message- From: JRH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MDk10CE, KDE 3.2 and no sound On Monday 22 Mar 2004 09:36, Sweeney, Stephen wrote: Hear Hear Stephen! I'm having exactly the same problem! amongst others.. at the moment, 9.2 looks an increasingly better option :-) JRH > (sorry if this comes out a bit long, but I'd like to make sure that > I've explained everything). > > On the weekend I installed Mandrake 10 (install, not update). Install > went fine. I then booted into KDE 3.2. It hung leaving the Mandrake > wallpaper in the background. I tried again, this time I got a warning > about Knotify not starting and asking me if I wanted to disable it. I > did and it still hung. I then went into IceWM, fired up Kcontrol and > turned off the sound in KDE (can't remember how I came to this > conclusion). > > So now KDE loads. That's good. The trouble is that there are a number > of apps that now will not support sound. I have tried setting KDE to > use OSS and Threaded OSS and, although it will still load fine, I > still can't get sound from the apps I want to use. In particular I'm > having problems with, > > 1) XMMS - This one is strange. With ALSA it will not play. With OSS it > will continually loop the first 1 second or so of the song until I hit > stop. > > 2) Mplayer - Will play most movie files fine, but if you exit half way > through the sound will loop around for around 5 seconds before > stopping. > > 3) SDL game (not tried others) - There is no sound whatsoever. I tried > recompiling the projects I'm working on and they simply can't get > access to the sound. > > I know my hardware is compatible (Sony VIAO laptop) as I have been > using MDK9 on it for over a year. > > Anyone got any suggestions, fixes, etc? It's very frustrating have all > the benefits of the new KDE and general speed of everything but with > such a let down in the sound department. > > Cheers, > > Steve :| > > >--- >--- This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of > the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended > recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, > dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly > prohibited. This communication is for information purposes only and should > not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy > any financial product, an official confirmation of any transaction, or as > an official statement of Lehman Brothers. Email transmission cannot be > guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that > this information is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon > as such. All information is subject to change without notice. -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 10. "Linux - It's not Windows!" 10:12:31 up 46 min, 0 users, load average: 1.25, 1.16, 1.24 -- This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This communication is for information purposes only and should not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product, an official confirmation of any transaction, or as an official statement of Lehman Brothers. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that this information is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon as such. All information is subject to change without notice. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Error when issuing commands from console
Hi, I have an odd error that has started happening over the weekend. When I issue certain commands, URPMI being one of them, I get the following output. /usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so: unexpected reloc type 0x58 I have tried to reinstall the rpm that provides libperl.so using the RPM command rather than URPMI but it keeps telling me its already install and wont allow me to reinstall. Any ideas how to fix this as its really limiting my usage (only have ssh access to that box) Thanks Olly Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDk10CE, KDE 3.2 and no sound
On Monday 22 Mar 2004 09:36, Sweeney, Stephen wrote: Hear Hear Stephen! I'm having exactly the same problem! amongst others.. at the moment, 9.2 looks an increasingly better option :-) JRH > (sorry if this comes out a bit long, but I'd like to make sure that I've > explained everything). > > On the weekend I installed Mandrake 10 (install, not update). Install went > fine. I then booted into KDE 3.2. It hung leaving the Mandrake wallpaper in > the background. I tried again, this time I got a warning about Knotify not > starting and asking me if I wanted to disable it. I did and it still hung. > I then went into IceWM, fired up Kcontrol and turned off the sound in KDE > (can't remember how I came to this conclusion). > > So now KDE loads. That's good. The trouble is that there are a number of > apps that now will not support sound. I have tried setting KDE to use OSS > and Threaded OSS and, although it will still load fine, I still can't get > sound from the apps I want to use. In particular I'm having problems with, > > 1) XMMS - This one is strange. With ALSA it will not play. With OSS it will > continually loop the first 1 second or so of the song until I hit stop. > > 2) Mplayer - Will play most movie files fine, but if you exit half way > through the sound will loop around for around 5 seconds before stopping. > > 3) SDL game (not tried others) - There is no sound whatsoever. I tried > recompiling the projects I'm working on and they simply can't get access to > the sound. > > I know my hardware is compatible (Sony VIAO laptop) as I have been using > MDK9 on it for over a year. > > Anyone got any suggestions, fixes, etc? It's very frustrating have all the > benefits of the new KDE and general speed of everything but with such a let > down in the sound department. > > Cheers, > > Steve :| > > --- >--- This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of > the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended > recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, > dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly > prohibited. This communication is for information purposes only and should > not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy > any financial product, an official confirmation of any transaction, or as > an official statement of Lehman Brothers. Email transmission cannot be > guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that > this information is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon > as such. All information is subject to change without notice. -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 10. "Linux - It's not Windows!" 10:12:31 up 46 min, 0 users, load average: 1.25, 1.16, 1.24 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] M10's CD1
Is there any likelyhood of a fix for M10's CD1 boot problem being available anytime soon. I have to begin again on CD1 as my md5sums failed, so would be intersted in getting a repaired CD1 as the next download instead of the existing one, which will not be for a few days . So if there is any possibility of getting the fixed CD1 I will wait. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MDk10CE, KDE 3.2 and no sound
(sorry if this comes out a bit long, but I'd like to make sure that I've explained everything). On the weekend I installed Mandrake 10 (install, not update). Install went fine. I then booted into KDE 3.2. It hung leaving the Mandrake wallpaper in the background. I tried again, this time I got a warning about Knotify not starting and asking me if I wanted to disable it. I did and it still hung. I then went into IceWM, fired up Kcontrol and turned off the sound in KDE (can't remember how I came to this conclusion). So now KDE loads. That's good. The trouble is that there are a number of apps that now will not support sound. I have tried setting KDE to use OSS and Threaded OSS and, although it will still load fine, I still can't get sound from the apps I want to use. In particular I'm having problems with, 1) XMMS - This one is strange. With ALSA it will not play. With OSS it will continually loop the first 1 second or so of the song until I hit stop. 2) Mplayer - Will play most movie files fine, but if you exit half way through the sound will loop around for around 5 seconds before stopping. 3) SDL game (not tried others) - There is no sound whatsoever. I tried recompiling the projects I'm working on and they simply can't get access to the sound. I know my hardware is compatible (Sony VIAO laptop) as I have been using MDK9 on it for over a year. Anyone got any suggestions, fixes, etc? It's very frustrating have all the benefits of the new KDE and general speed of everything but with such a let down in the sound department. Cheers, Steve :| -- This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This communication is for information purposes only and should not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product, an official confirmation of any transaction, or as an official statement of Lehman Brothers. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that this information is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon as such. All information is subject to change without notice. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SCO goes after the *wrong* people.
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 08:57, JoeHill wrote: Quote: "SCO sent letters raising the prospect of legal action for using Linux to two Department of Energy facilities, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)." Link: http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5176308.html Hint for SCO: do not antagonize people who know how to build NUCLEAR BOMBS. Look - we've been over this time and time again; they can't make money at their own level - SCO UNIX - and Microsoft HAS admitted to giving SCO money/funding - c'mon - they're in bed with Microsoft, they're dying, and McBride is going out of his way to do what he does best - litigate - instead of run a proper company - he's a frigging vulture - and he's not going to be able to keep this crap up forever. Once all of this stuff actually hits the court system, IBM's going to start the Big Blue Ball rolling and SCO is going to meet it's demise - as well as it's going to be publicly found out that they're in bed with Microsoft - so "anti-competition" is going to come into play on this one as well. stephen kuhn - owner We should not let others fight our battles for us.. My other half already thinks I am a computer nerd (and probably rightly too). but I have successfully drummed into her head that both MS and SCO suck.. When she gets asked about PC crashes and virus's at work. (and because of me that happens to her allot now) she happily blames MS woeful software security for it.. and rigthly so. She knows about linux, and its benefits and is generally well informed for "just a user". So when life presents her with the oportunity to give her opinion, she does and thus others are illuminated. Remember, This current stuff (SCO) is just one part of the fight,, DRM and palladium are battles being fought on the sly because right now if their true meanings came to light, they would garner significant bad press... so they will be introduced slowly with much marketing to convince those that don't know any better that its for their own good. (M$ will very likely use "protection from virus's" and cracking as some of the big benefits of hardware/software lockin.) Its our job to keep in mind that if M$ get any more control over the design of PC hardware, it will result in more Pc's that will only run Winblows, and forced upgrades and subscription services etc.. don't be fooled into thinking they wouldn't do that.. they are a commercial company that has had a massively overrated stock price for a very long time, and the only way to fully sustain that is via growth, and that means to create stuff like forced subscription services and force people to pay M$ for software upgrades they probably don't need and other things of that nature.. best way to do that is to make the hardware/software work together to "require" it.. so we should not support any hardware efforts that help M$ do that. I would make the following suggestions... - Whenever a big company offers linux drivers for a product, download the drivers, even if you don't have the product they are for.. this way that company will get some sort of idea of the demand for linux support. - Never buy or encourage the purchase of any hardware that even intimates that its "win" hardware.. unless it comes with linux drivers (from the manufacturer, not the OSS comunity..).. even if the hardware is going to be used on winblows machines.) - Don't support any form of DRM and paladium if it is not platform non specific.. and even then, treat it with caution. (because the likes of M$ might start it off as an "open design" to get people to buy it and then change the license later on as they often do.) Just some thoughts.. and I bring them up because there are thousands of users on this list, and all of them have families and friends with PC's, and they are the people that each of us can help to understand the issues. -- rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Successful boot yet failure to find CD-ROM files
On Monday 22 Mar 2004 04:11, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> I needed to rebuild one of our test security gateways and after
> experimenting with RedHat, Debian and Slackware, I wanted to give
> Mandrake 10.0 a try. I was initially very impressed but I am having a
> devil of a time just installing.
>
> The test device is an old e-machines 400Mhz Celeron with 64 MB Ram and a
> 6.4 GB hard drive. I can successfully install RedHat and Debian from
> CD.
>
> I first tried a CDROM install using the ISO images I downloaded and
> burned. The system booted perfectly fine but when it tried to access
> files on the CDROM, I generated the following errors:
> <4>hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-140, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> .
> .
> .
> <4>hdc: ATAPI 40x CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
> <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> <5>SCSI subsystem initialized
> <4>hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> <4>hdc: command error: error=0x50
> <4>end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64
> <4>isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16
>
> I thought it might be a bad CD even though it appeared to work when I
> tried it on a different computer. I did find that if I booted the test
> computer into the current Debian installation, I could not manually
> mount the CD. So I downloaded the ISO again from a different site,
> checked the MD5 checksum and burned a new CD. Same results.
>
> Based upon some other information I found, I tried booting from CD2
> instead -- same results.
>
> I tried a text installation -- same results.
>
> I then thought I'd mount the CD on a different computer and do an NFS
> installation. That started to work but, after a while, it aborted with
> a signal 7.
>
> I tried an NFS installation in text mode -- it made it 60+% of the way
> and then aborted with a signal 7 error.
>
> So far I am striking out even though it appears that one of Mandrake's
> features is ease of installation. Oh, I also tried cleaning the CD lens
> in case it was dirty. Same problem. Can someone tell me what I am
> doing wrong? I'd really like to give Mandrake a try.
>
> My apologies if this has already been asked. I did not see a way to
> search the archives late than 2003-11. How does one search the most
> current postings to this mail list?
>
> Thanks, all - John
Try booting from CD2 and then switch back to CD1 when it asks for the disc
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3
Bear in mind this is the "Community edition" which means there are still bugs
to be ironed out before 10,0 "Official" is released. Having said that, my own
experience is that 10.0 is very solid and stable. I hope you like it :-)
derek
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Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:27:26 -0800 Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 09:42 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:02, Aron Smith wrote: Thanks for jumping on this before I had a conniption. that anything like a Walalaby? WALLABY. Great Ceasar - y'all cain't spell for the life of ya! Wallabies don't jump, they hop. They're also very gentle unless provoked. They way small than a kangaroo, but are part of the kangaroo family. They ARE endangered now - especially rock wallabies. may they all die, like all furry aussie animals destroying NZs beautiful and unique nature! Anton the kiwi who won't be for much longer... ps. Yes, we do have them, what's more, we have/had a species that is extinct in Aussie! And we graciously gave them to you instead of killing them all! What have you done for us lately? Eh? -=-=- ... The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism. -- Dorothy Parker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] iPOD with Mandrake?
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:47 am, Marc Resnick wrote: > Is it possible to use an iPOD with Mandrake? I'm not quite sure of how > iPODs work. Would it be recognized just as a removable device? Or does > anyone know of any open source apps equivalent to the itunes software? An iPod works fine as an USB storage device with Linux, so you can copy all the mp3's (or any other files) on your iPod to your Linux computer. But I think you need itunes to manipulate the iPod database and therefore play any music files you may load onto your iPod from your Linux machine. Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 11:13 am, Dan Gordon wrote: > All of a sudden my monitor goes in to sleep or suspended mode, I have > turned this off in kde, gnome, xscreensaver, the bios, looked in mcc and > at a loss, turned off apm. Is there any where else i should look ? > I have never had this problem before. Any help is welcome. > > Regards, > Dan Gordon Uumm... how about in BIOS? - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 14:53:30 up 1:20, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXpuNkp5CsIXuxqURAkV/AJwILThvsi6TmHW0eYcIrgunrzYsVQCghUpt 5C1mFfSgQt3Ib4eyG/Aqan4= =a6og -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 Error
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 08:57 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 21 March 2004 08:32 pm, Tomy Alarie wrote: > > Hi, i just want to know on mandrake 7, why when i try to make a boot disk > > or install lilo it tells me : "couldn't find kernel file" ? thanks > > Well, there is probably about 20 reasons, including your lilo.conf entries > are pointing to the wrong place or your /boot partition is not mounted, so > more info is necessary. > > The $100,000 question everyone wants answered though is why on earth are > you still using 7.0? LOL, very interesting indeed. Even my first encounter with mdk was 8.0. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 14:43:57 up 1:10, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXpm9kp5CsIXuxqURAiQhAKCJDVQ+TR79egOiPzHOcIGWT1N+/gCeOeoe YJ4Up/U5sS1UzGuJ4/P390c= =VOkM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Guide to Linux File Command Mastery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 08:06 am, JoeHill wrote: > Looks like a pretty good intro to command line file manipulation and > processing: > > http://otn.oracle.com/pub/articles/calish_file_commands.html > > ...and from Oracle, no less :-) Thanks Joe. It's great. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 14:43:02 up 1:09, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXpkWkp5CsIXuxqURAuOlAJsEaJLzYFtZp/KkKvrOmMo3AoUPtACgyEdp CImfc5v1XNIu1nzSKeRdsUg= =GPeL -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
