Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Friday 27 August 2004 12:52, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 03:31, Vincent Voois wrote: charlie wrote: snip It just got upset of Hoyt's remark about Kmail being too unstable. Kmail unstable? Outlook and Outlook Express are unstable; Kmail is just, er, quirky. I dont recall OE ever refusing to send a message I thoght it sent too much. Perhaps the defination of quirky and unstable ought to be reversed. -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.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] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Friday 27 August 2004 13:38, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 27 August 2004 19:22, Vincent Voois wrote: snip Until I receive a new set of installation CDs from HP, her Windows XP stays disconnected. With the new installation disks at hand, I will install XP, Then Open Office, Mozilla, 5 antivirus, 3 trojan/worm/spyware/ad-ware killers and 2 firewalsl (all downloaded and burned from my linux box). Then, maybe, it will be connected. Until then, my daughter uses her account on my Linux box. She herself is now highly motivated to stay off the internet with her Windows XP. Reason : We reviewed the logs from the various cleaning applications. They showed no less than 1543 dubious files. In one week. We don't like flies, so we don't put a carcass in our living room and then open the Windows. Kaj Haulrich. That is one good reason there are others. Have you considered Win4linux or Crossover Office? -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.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] Book recommendations?
On Friday 27 August 2004 16:15, Peter Davis wrote: I know this is heresy, but I'd love to get recommendations for a book on becoming a Linux power user. It's heresy because I'm supposed to get everything I need from man pages, Google, or reading source code. However, frankly, I don't have the patience for that anymore. I like the orderly explanations that a good book can offer. Unfortunately, I'm finding that my *n*x experience (DEC Ultrix, SGI Irix, etc.) is too far in the past, and too dissimilar to Mandrake, to be helping me much. Thanks, -pd For a starting point 'urpmi rute' -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.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] urpmi gone!
Stephen Kühn wrote: ...and I'll assume you've rebooted and double checked in the /usr/sbin directory for any remnants of urpmi and associated programs? Thanks, Stephen. Now, I am trying to do the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] paulus]# urpmi.update Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1) removable://mnt/cdrom/ trying to select nonexistent medium removable://mnt/cdrom/ examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Cooker.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Contrib.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Updates.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.plf.cz] mounting /mnt/cdrom unable to access medium Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1), this could happen if you mounted manually the directory when creating the medium. You can always remove all the media already listed, then one by one recreate them (so you know things are being pointed to the right places; I generally copy all the CD's to the local drive, blow out the original installation sources, then recreate them; that way, in the course of a month or so, I know I have all the bits and bobs I need, and then narrow it all down to update media... Good piece of advice: I removed all the media and, afterwards, I added them and the problem became solved. Thanks, Stephen. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question
On Friday 27 August 2004 16:22, BJ Tracy wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:58 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Snip Thanks Hoyt, I'm still a little confused. By reading your partitions you have one large hard drive. I have Three (3) and one is working great. Yes one 120GB. Here is what I have then I will ask for advice / help. My new hard drive has / swap and /home on it. Snip Did you use DiskDrake to partition your hard drive?? The options /backup and /music are not in my options OR can I call them anything I want and assign them to /part 1 thru 12 as needed ??? You can forget about them if you want they are what I use and your drives should reflect your use. And yes I used Diskdrake(mount point) during the installation to paritition the drive which will allow you to do all three of your drives just remember to format all drives and all partitions, (also you will have an option to check for bad blocks. This takes about an hour for my drive) but if you dont know or have some reason to suspect any drive its a good idea. Also IIRC you are not limited to 12 partitions I seem to remember 24 per extended partition(could be incorrect). My question is: If I go into Mount Points and go to each hard drive and choose the partition size and define it what should they be ? Anything you want them to be misc1, misc2, keep1, keep2, in my case I used backup. You can see in mount point the directories that the system wants after you use all of them it dosent matter as long as you define them they will be mounted. /var ?? another /home ? ?. just what I'm not sure. I have all this space and it's not showing up usable. Snip ? ? Do I need a swap on all three drives ? ? No although I have been advised by some to put a swap at the beginning and at the end of the partitions. I have gone thru all my books and the net and nothing really talks about multiple hard drives. There is really nothing out there for multiple hard drives. Snip I'm really confused now on what to do. Thanks for all your help in advance, bj Snip This is helpful . Do you have just one large hard drive ? Yes. Alter it to your needs: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 2.9G 123M 2.7G 5% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 18G 4.7G 12G 28% /backup /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 66M 11M 53M 17% /boot /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 20G 3.6G 15G 20% /home /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part10 34G 26G 5.9G 82% /music /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 7.7G 406M 7.0G 6% /tmp /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 20G 5.9G 13G 33% /usr /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part11 9.5G 207M 8.8G 3% /var I have installed everything that looked interesting so in my case reseting the part's to used would be sufficient. Thanks again. Sorry Still confused bj -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.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] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Saturday 28 August 2004 12:50, Hoyt Bailey wrote: snip That is one good reason there are others. Have you considered Win4linux or Crossover Office? /snip Win4Linux runs Win98 only, not XP. Crossover doesn't list other applications then the most common, such as Office. Derive is a very special beast. Never mind Hoyt, Lyvim, John and all you nice people. My daughters Windows box stays off the net, she uses Linux for networking, there's peace in my home, in my mind and - hopefully on this fine list too. Have a good week-end, all. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.0) - kernel 2.6.7* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question
On Friday 27 August 2004 16:23, BJ Tracy wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:58 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: SNIP Thanks Hoyt but I'm still a little confused. From your response you have one large hard drive ( I think that is what I see ). Yes. I have three large hard drives - I is perfect and the other two well not sure. If not sure means not mounted then likely they have not been defined in Mount Point. My question is: If I go into Mount Points and go to each hard drive and choose the partition size and define it what should they be ? /var another /home . just what I'm not sure. I have all this space and it's not showing up usable. Do not make duplicate partitions(two with the same name). Do I need a swap file on all three hard drives? No. Also do I need a swap on all three drives? I have gone thru all my books and the net and nothing really talks about multiple hard drives. I'm really confused now on what to do. Thanks for all your help in advance, bj SNIP Hoyt, Are you using the DiskDrake tool to do this? The reason I'm askin is that /music is not an option neither is /backup. I'm not sure of you mount scheme either. If you use Mount Point to define your part's then they will be mounted. Can you call a partition anything you want and assign it to part 1 If you delete all parts and start with all three disks clean then hda should be the first disk and the first part can be called anything you want normally '/boot' or '/' but anything you want. Windows even. thru 12 ? Let mount point worry about the part # it knows more about that than you and I both put together. You might want to put a swap near the begining for easy and more rapid access. I went through this exercise a while ago and got a lot of suggestions from which I developed a scheme. It proved to be somewhat too generous and if I had to do it again I would set things closer to the used col. I am not going to give any advice but will because I am sending you my df. Alter it to your needs: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 2.9G 123M 2.7G 5% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 18G 4.7G 12G 28% /backup /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 66M 11M 53M 17% /boot /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 20G 3.6G 15G 20% /home /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part10 34G 26G 5.9G 82% /music /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 7.7G 406M 7.0G 6% /tmp /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 20G 5.9G 13G 33% /usr /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part11 9.5G 207M 8.8G 3% /var I have installed everything that looked interesting so in my case reseting the part's to used would be sufficient. -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.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] External Drive
On Saturday 28 August 2004 00:38, John Wilson wrote: On August 27, 2004 08:17 pm, Marc wrote: I just tried to use a USB external drive in ML 10.0 My hopes were that ML would detect it and add a icon to my desktop like my card reader did. I was wrong, it was not that simple. Anyone have any ideas about how to get a External HDD workinh in ML 10.0? TIA Marc Hi Marc My copy of MDK 10 found the drive and added it like a charm. I know that doesn't help a lot but it does show that it can be done. For the record it's an 80 Gig Western Digital drive formated with fat, at least for now. :-) ttfn John run as root, harddrake2? -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question
On Friday 27 August 2004 16:26, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Thanks Hoyt for responding to my questions. Not sure if you are going to see my responses, I tried to respond and Kmail went nuts and crashed the first time and rebooted itself the second time. What is up with that ?? I have never had any problems with Kmail. Can anyone help,,, is this a bug or what. Thanks again Hoyt, let me know if you get my other questions Regards to all, bj Sorry I didnt feel well yesterday so I gave up early. I think I had some good luck as to kmail when I switched from kernel-2.6.3.15 to 2.3.6.16 a bugfix possibly dating back a ways. -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.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] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 15:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Win4Linux runs Win98 only, not XP. Crossover doesn't list other applications then the most common, such as Office. Derive is a very special beast. Never mind Hoyt, Lyvim, John and all you nice people. My daughters Windows box stays off the net, she uses Linux for networking, there's peace in my home, in my mind and - hopefully on this fine list too. Have a good week-end, all. Kaj Haulrich. Crossover only list the tried proven applications, I use it for several other apps that aren't listed. Try the trial version, check whether yours work or not, but still probably better to maintain the present setup. pm -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Enlarging Mandrake's partition
Dear All My computer has a dual boot (Mandrake 10 and Windows2000) and I would like to enlarge Mandrake's partition at the expense of reducing Windows2000 partition. So, I am here asking for advice about the safest and the fastest way of doing this operation. Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mozilla misbehaving
I have just hit an old problem with mozilla, having networked my laptop at last (10 months since receipt). The same version of mozilla (1.4) runs on my desktop with Mandrake Prosuite 9.2 and on the Sony VAIO laptop with Mandrake Download Edition 9.2. There is a problem with saving pages or images on the laptop from mozilla. Right click and choose Save As and nothing happens, no popup and no download manager. Does anybody know if there is a way to enable saving in the browser? When I had this problem on the desktop I took it to the expert list but nobody there could explain it. They said they had never seen or heard of such behaviour. Using GNOME on both machines. Cheers -- Len Lawrence -- Xerox never comes up with anything original. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] External Drive
On August 28, 2004 05:46 am, et wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 00:38, John Wilson wrote: On August 27, 2004 08:17 pm, Marc wrote: I just tried to use a USB external drive in ML 10.0 My hopes were that ML would detect it and add a icon to my desktop like my card reader did. I was wrong, it was not that simple. Anyone have any ideas about how to get a External HDD workinh in ML 10.0? TIA Marc Hi Marc My copy of MDK 10 found the drive and added it like a charm. I know that doesn't help a lot but it does show that it can be done. For the record it's an 80 Gig Western Digital drive formated with fat, at least for now. :-) ttfn John run as root, harddrake2? Come to think of it, yes. I'd actually installed it under XP to back up the last of the data on the XP partition before wiping it out completely. On reboot into Linux it was found during the check for new hardware routine by harddrake. I suspect Marc could do the same thing with MCC. ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered Linux User 362316 *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get out of X Video Test in Installation
Thanks Steve and Hoyt for your responses There seemed to be a problem with the generic S3 video card that I had. Even when the X Video test crashed the install (I left it for a half hour and still nothing!) a reboot of the system came up with a working Linux without the X Server. (since I hadn't gotten to the part that asks if I would like to boot into X Server) So far so good. I tried agian with the MCC (Mandrake Control Center) in text mode to configure the video card but none of the settings worked so I changed video cards. All working fine. It is a very generic (and old) PCI video card with no real distinctive markings on it other then the S3 chip (Trio64V2/DX) and SP765 Rev. F over the CE cert. Not too worried about it. Thanks again Robert - Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 12:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't get out of X Video Test in Installation On Thursday 26 August 2004 22:09, Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:26:49 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody have the problem of the X Graphical Server test freezing in the installation. No, at least not yet. This used to happen to me every time I would install a new version of MD. Live and learn after x number of times (probably 10 for me) and I eventually quit testing the xserver during install. Key here is, I never upgraded the monitor - those settings remain the same for each version of MD. Now I have the monitor specs kept within arms length and plug in the appropriate horizontal and vertical refresh rates each time, and avoid the xserver test. I just choose the custom setting during install and it provides fields for you to fill out - sorry I cannot be specific as to what that area of the install is like and what to look for, it's been awhile since that happened last. I have a generic monitor, there isnt even a mfg's name on it, yet this is good advice. But I let the system make that decision. IRC though, I thought the xserver test eventually times out and puts you back to the install without freezing up. Again, been awhile so I don't know if that happens now or not. In my case when I check X I get a multicolor screen (fancy test pattern) with a little box in the center that says something like 'is this ok' and a yes/no check yes every time and its all over. Warning though, be sure to plug in the correct values for your specific monitor. If you do not have them, go to their web site and search up their support area for your monitor. Unlike windows which trys to protect your system/monitor (can the word protect be in the same sentence as windows?) linux will allow you to fry the monitor at your discretion. True but not knowing who made the monitor can be a difficulty. Good luck -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.org 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] Enlarging Mandrake's partition
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 23:12, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All My computer has a dual boot (Mandrake 10 and Windows2000) and I would like to enlarge Mandrake's partition at the expense of reducing Windows2000 partition. So, I am here asking for advice about the safest and the fastest way of doing this operation. Thanks in advance, Paul It depends on whether you want to enlarge a specific partition because you are low on space on it, or whether you just want some more storage available on a linux file system. If it's the latter, then you can just use the tools under drakconf to shrink your doze partition, then create a new partition in the free space and mount it as /data or whatever. You can use this approach to, for example, increase the storage available under /home, by just mounting the new partition as /home/new-name. This makes /home physically segmented into two, but allows you to use it logically as a single storage area. It's a little more complicated if you need to really increase the size of an existing partition, so perhaps it would be best if you tell us more specifically what you need to achieve, so we can provide specific directions. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Update site for Mandrake 10 official
Hi all, I'm visiting relatives in Hong Kong and have access to 10Mbps internet for a week or so. I've just downloaded Mandrake 10 official. Can anyone suggest where to get all the updates so I can burn them to cd before going back home to my 56k dialup? Also, have to get with MSWindows :( thats what they have installed here... Chinese version at thatLucky 've used XP English enough to guess my way through the Chinese menus :):) TIA Al Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP
Kaj Haulrich wrote: replies within On Saturday 28 August 2004 12:21, John Richard Smith wrote: John, the HP box came with no CDs at all. Instead, the is an icon on the desktop, labelled create HP restore disks or some such. Being only human, I was curious and connected to the net first in order to see if this crap really worked. Then, after about half an hour, I clicked the icon. that initiated a burn of no less than 6 CDs. The set of installation CDs from HP that you refer to, were they not supplied by HP with the Computer as backup/restore discs, No. I had to burn'em myself. Self-service, y'know. If you get stuck for an M$ XP install disc, see me off list. John Thanks, John. After some arguing back and forth HP agreed to send me fresh CD's. Kaj Haulrich. Heck, Things have sunk low. HP doesn't even give you their own backup disks as an emergency recovery any more. I mean, not unnaturally the average user , ain't gonna think of creating their own image backups, the moment they first plug the PC in and boot up. So these people are totally stuffed, and totally reliant upon HP's generaosityif they still have them.Plus the backup is presumeably to HD where it can also get infected/corrupted. All I can say is that HP used to give you their own backup/recovery dics. That means your daughter did you a serice is getting your computer virused up early on in the computers life , because you were then quick enough to ask for the missing discs before they don't have them any more. I'm glad I don't buy there proprietary PC's any more. 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] External Drive
On Saturday 28 August 2004 10:56, John Wilson wrote: On August 28, 2004 05:46 am, et wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 00:38, John Wilson wrote: On August 27, 2004 08:17 pm, Marc wrote: I just tried to use a USB external drive in ML 10.0 My hopes were that ML would detect it and add a icon to my desktop like my card reader did. I was wrong, it was not that simple. Anyone have any ideas about how to get a External HDD workinh in ML 10.0? TIA Marc Hi Marc My copy of MDK 10 found the drive and added it like a charm. I know that doesn't help a lot but it does show that it can be done. For the record it's an 80 Gig Western Digital drive formated with fat, at least for now. :-) ttfn John run as root, harddrake2? Come to think of it, yes. I'd actually installed it under XP to back up the last of the data on the XP partition before wiping it out completely. On reboot into Linux it was found during the check for new hardware routine by harddrake. I suspect Marc could do the same thing with MCC. ttfn John only if the hardrake service was set to run on boot, but he could just fire up a console, su to root and type harddrake2, hit enter and go from there -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.
On Saturday 28 August 2004 03:12, Thereidos wrote: W licie z pi, 27-08-2004, godz. 17:24, Hoyt Bailey pisze: snip [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# mount /sys mount: sysfs already mounted or /sys busy mount: according to mtab, none is already mounted on /sys snip Yeah, I had the same problem :) It helps to know I'm not alone. -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.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] Enlarging Mandrake's partition
On Saturday 28 August 2004 08:12, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All My computer has a dual boot (Mandrake 10 and Windows2000) and I would like to enlarge Mandrake's partition at the expense of reducing Windows2000 partition. So, I am here asking for advice about the safest and the fastest way of doing this operation. Thanks in advance, Paul Reinstall Mandrake 10 and select use entire disk. -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.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] Update site for Mandrake 10 official
On Saturday 28 August 2004 17:33, Unknown wrote: Hi all, I'm visiting relatives in Hong Kong and have access to 10Mbps internet for a week or so. I've just downloaded Mandrake 10 official. Can anyone suggest where to get all the updates so I can burn them to cd before going back home to my 56k dialup? Also, have to get with MSWindows :( thats what they have installed here... Chinese version at thatLucky 've used XP English enough to guess my way through the Chinese menus :):) TIA Al You can try here : (all on one line) ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.0/RPMS HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.0) - kernel 2.6.7* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] need help with menu
It's the newbness in me. lol have to check everything out to see what is what, and during this process I had changed my menu from the MDK default style to KDE style. How can I get the MDK menu style back. Because of this it also had altered my taskbar and it's back to the default layout. I had it setup the way I want it and what applets I wanted in the taskbar, but I can't put those particuliar applets in because their not in the menu now. Could someone help me getting my menu back to the default MDK style? Bobby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla misbehaving
On Saturday 28 August 2004 09:37, Len Lawrence wrote: I have just hit an old problem with mozilla, having networked my laptop at last (10 months since receipt). The same version of mozilla (1.4) runs on my desktop with Mandrake Prosuite 9.2 and on the Sony VAIO laptop with Mandrake Download Edition 9.2. There is a problem with saving pages or images on the laptop from mozilla. Right click and choose Save As and nothing happens, no popup and no download manager. Does anybody know if there is a way to enable saving in the browser? When I had this problem on the desktop I took it to the expert list but nobody there could explain it. They said they had never seen or heard of such behaviour. Using GNOME on both machines. Cheers One of the I dont know crowd I am running 1.6 and firefox 0.8 no problem with saving anything. -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] problem playing DVD movies
Before I had redone my computer switching my MDK to my 160gb hdd I was able to watch movies with totem, but now when a movie is in my DVD Rom I can't click on Play Movie in the menu when it comes up. How can I fix this problem? Bobby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] rekall
Hello, in the site of Charles Edwars i found the Rekall (a database GUI for MySQL, PosgreSQL, etc...) compiled for Mandrake 10, but when i urpmi, i have this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jusoz]# urpmi rekall No se puede instalar algún paquete pedido: librekall2-2.2.0-0.1mdk.i586 (debido a que no se satisfizo devel(libxbsql)) rekall-2.2.0-0.1mdk.i586 (debido a que falta librekall2-2.2.0-0.1mdk.i586) (S/n) It seems the libxbsql is not present. Do you know the RPM for this file? thanks and saludos, jose. -- Jose Usoz / Cromosfera http://www.cromosfera.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] Update site for Mandrake 10 official
On Saturday 28 August 2004 10:33, Unknown wrote: Hi all, I'm visiting relatives in Hong Kong and have access to 10Mbps internet for a week or so. I've just downloaded Mandrake 10 official. Can anyone suggest where to get all the updates so I can burn them to cd before going back home to my 56k dialup? Also, have to get with MSWindows :( thats what they have installed here... Chinese version at thatLucky 've used XP English enough to guess my way through the Chinese menus :):) TIA Al With a web browser go to urpmi.org and look for the link 'easyurpmi' select a mirror close to you with the web browser find the update directory and download it, Otherwise download everything and put the whole thing on several CD's. -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.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] problem playing DVD movies
On Sunday 29 August 2004 01:55 pm, Bobby wrote: Before I had redone my computer switching my MDK to my 160gb hdd I was able to watch movies with totem, but now when a movie is in my DVD Rom I can't click on Play Movie in the menu when it comes up. How can I fix this problem? We probably need more info, such as an error message. If you run totem from the CLI, hopefully, you will see errors and can let us know. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] GZIP/GUNZIP
I just loaded Mandrake 10 and want to add new programs like the latest version of Open Office, AOL Instant Messenger and a couple of others so I downloaded those files. They are tar'd and gzipped. However, I do not seem to have a program in KDE to unzip them. When I right click on them it does not give me the choice to unzip them because it does not know what they are. I have also downloaded the program KARCHIVER as an RPM but cannot get it to load becasue it fails file dependencies for a file that is in the RPM. I am at a stand still. DO you have any advice on how to get these programs unzipped so I can install them or what might be the problem with the KARCHIVER RPM? Thanks, Steve
Re: [newbie] GZIP/GUNZIP
I just loaded Mandrake 10 and want to add new programs like the latest version of Open Office, AOL Instant Messenger and a couple of others so I downloaded those files. They are tar'd and gzipped. However, I do not seem to have a program in KDE to unzip them. When I right click on them it does not give me the choice to unzip them because it does not know what they are. I have also downloaded the program KARCHIVER as an RPM but cannot get it to load becasue it fails file dependencies for a file that is in the RPM. I am at a stand still. DO you have any advice on how to get these programs unzipped so I can install them or what might be the problem with the KARCHIVER RPM? Thanks, Steve Hello, maybe the zip?: Nombre: zip Versión: 2.3-10mdk Tamaño: 273 KB Resumen: A file compression and packaging utility compatible with PKZIP. The zip program is a compression and file packaging utility. Zip is analogous to a combination of the UNIX tar and compress commands and is compatible with PKZIP (a compression and file packaging utility for MS-DOS systems). saludos, jose. -- Jose Usoz / Cromosfera http://www.cromosfera.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] W32.Netsky - Linux really better protected than windows?
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 02:31:40 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Save the attachment to your drive; un-tar/un-gzip it; cd into the virus directory; type sudo ./configure make make install; then run sudo /usr/bin/virus - sit back and watch your system fry. pedant viruses should really be installed in /usr/local... /pedant stephen kuhn - proprietor -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] GZIP/GUNZIP
They are tar'd and gzipped. However, I do not seem to have a program in KDE to unzip them. At the command line you can tar -xvzf filname.tgz or whatever it is called I made an alias for it since i use it a lot: alias untar='tar -xvzf' eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] GZIP/GUNZIP
On Saturday 28 August 2004 11:17 am, Steve wrote: I just loaded Mandrake 10 and want to add new programs like the latest version of Open Office, AOL Instant Messenger and a couple of others so I downloaded those files. They are tar'd and gzipped. However, I do not seem to have a program in KDE to unzip them. When I right click on them it does not give me the choice to unzip them because it does not know what they are. I have also downloaded the program KARCHIVER as an RPM but cannot get it to load becasue it fails file dependencies for a file that is in the RPM. I am at a stand still. DO you have any advice on how to get these programs unzipped so I can install them or what might be the problem with the KARCHIVER RPM? Thanks, Steve open a terminal tar xvzf package.tar.gz will n pack it then enter the directory type ./configure type make type su give root password type make install works for most Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] GZIP/GUNZIP
On Saturday 28 August 2004 13:31, jose usoz wrote: I just loaded Mandrake 10 and want to add new programs like the latest version of Open Office, AOL Instant Messenger and a couple of others so I downloaded those files. They are tar'd and gzipped. However, I do not seem to have a program in KDE to unzip them. When I right click on them it does not give me the choice to unzip them because it does not know what they are. I have also downloaded the program KARCHIVER as an RPM but cannot get it to load becasue it fails file dependencies for a file that is in the RPM. I am at a stand still. DO you have any advice on how to get these programs unzipped so I can install them or what might be the problem with the KARCHIVER RPM? Thanks, Steve Hello, maybe the zip?: Nombre: zip Versión: 2.3-10mdk Tamaño: 273 KB Resumen: A file compression and packaging utility compatible with PKZIP. The zip program is a compression and file packaging utility. Zip is analogous to a combination of the UNIX tar and compress commands and is compatible with PKZIP (a compression and file packaging utility for MS-DOS systems). saludos, jose. You might want to try 'tar xzf filename'. -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] UltraATA 100 IDE
Are UltraATA 100 IDE drives backward-compatible to conventional IDE? I'm running a dual Windows XP / Linux-Mandrake box with an Asus A7V133 motherboard. I've decided to add a second HDD 1) to rip my CD collection to and 2) as backup media for my primary HDD. I'm finding some pretty good deals on 7200RPM, 200GB HDDs in UltraATA 100. My version of LM (7.2 (I know, I know)) doesn't support UltraATA 100, so I'm running the HDD on the conventional IDE bus. I'd rather not upgrade the Linux side right at the moment. Can I continue to use the conventional IDE bus? Thanks. Mark Shaw Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 15:31, John Wilson wrote: On August 27, 2004 04:28 am, Lanman wrote: seriously snipped! viciously and heartlessly snipped Now for my 2 cents,... Folks, if you think SP2 is gonna sway a lot of Microsoft users over to Linux, just wait until Microsoft releases LongHorn! There's gonna be a huge groundswell of people switching to linux when that happens! Lanman That's if and when Longhorn ever see's the light of day. The longer it's delayed the more it starts to sound like XP The Next Generation. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5326850.html A lot of it's alleged improvements are gonna be slipstreamed into XP by Christmas this year so that M$ actually has something new to sell. And, if ZDNet is to be believed (and it can't be always) the wonderful new WinFS file system will be released as beta with Longhorn in 2006/2007 or whenever. Another improvement to computiing by those famous vendors of high quality vapourware...Steve Gates and Bill Balmer...or is it Bill Gates and Steve Balmer, I can never get that right :) ttfn John Same old story, same old song and dance. Vapourware. Marketing. Promises that won't get kept. MS Licensing 6.0; the biggest lie. A new product every two years. Makes you wonder how many corporate entities paid out for that one... -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. You have a message from the operator. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] webmin upgrade resets https-access??
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 18:48, Harald T ZIPKO wrote: After upgrading webmin to the actual version via webmin.com the hosts are not accessible via https anymore?? Not very safe, I guess... ;-) -- (o- Best regards //\ Harald T ZIPKO V/_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-mails please Having lived in Webmin for the past four years, I have never seen that with the exception of compiling from source; have you restarted the webmin service? Have you rebooted? -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla misbehaving
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 00:37, Len Lawrence wrote: I have just hit an old problem with mozilla, having networked my laptop at last (10 months since receipt). The same version of mozilla (1.4) runs on my desktop with Mandrake Prosuite 9.2 and on the Sony VAIO laptop with Mandrake Download Edition 9.2. There is a problem with saving pages or images on the laptop from mozilla. Right click and choose Save As and nothing happens, no popup and no download manager. Does anybody know if there is a way to enable saving in the browser? When I had this problem on the desktop I took it to the expert list but nobody there could explain it. They said they had never seen or heard of such behaviour. Using GNOME on both machines. Cheers I'd advise to blow out the ~/.mozilla directory or rename it and try again; else, just upgrade to Firefox (faster, better, more features) -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Kirk: One day your wife is making you your favorite meal, the next day you're thawin'a hot dog in a gas station sink. Homer: Oh, that's tough, pal. But it's never gonna happen to me. A Milhouse Divided Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] mouse kboard dont work
Hi i have an old keyboard gateway2000 (the one that has 12 'f' buttons onn the far left), and a relatively new simple laser logitech mouse. It's USB, but I use the P/S 2 adapter that it came with. Whenever I boot mandrake, the keyboard stops working. I tried fixing that by, going thourgh the Install, and disabling all the services. Then it works, but when i try to start the x window, neither keyboard nor mouse works. Mandrake is really nice, and i just wanna have a working system with printing (btw mandrake is great at setting up printers) and Icewm. I really would appreciate if you could help me. Regards N. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] W32.Netsky - Linux really better protected than windows?
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 04:35, David E. Fox wrote: On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 02:31:40 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Save the attachment to your drive; un-tar/un-gzip it; cd into the virus directory; type sudo ./configure make make install; then run sudo /usr/bin/virus - sit back and watch your system fry. pedant viruses should really be installed in /usr/local... /pedant Good point, sorry for my misleading instructions... -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, How would the Lone Ranger handle this? 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 kboard dont work
On Saturday 28 August 2004 03:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi i have an old keyboard gateway2000 (the one that has 12 'f' buttons onn the far left), and a relatively new simple laser logitech mouse. It's USB, but I use the P/S 2 adapter that it came with. Whenever I boot mandrake, the keyboard stops working. I tried fixing that by, going thourgh the Install, and disabling all the services. Then it works, but when i try to start the x window, neither keyboard nor mouse works. Mandrake is really nice, and i just wanna have a working system with printing (btw mandrake is great at setting up printers) and Icewm. I really would appreciate if you could help me. Regards N. Is the problem apparent only in X-windows? Does your keyboard have a PS/2 adapter or does it have one of the old-style din connectors? /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] Enlarging Mandrake's partition
Brian Parish wrote: My computer has a dual boot (Mandrake 10 and Windows2000) and I would like to enlarge Mandrake's partition at the expense of reducing Windows2000 partition. So, I am here asking for advice about the safest and the fastest way of doing this operation. It depends on whether you want to enlarge a specific partition because you are low on space on it, or whether you just want some more storage available on a linux file system. If it's the latter, then you can just use the tools under drakconf to shrink your doze partition, then create a new partition in the free space and mount it as /data or whatever. You can use this approach to, for example, increase the storage available under /home, by just mounting the new partition as /home/new-name. This makes /home physically segmented into two, but allows you to use it logically as a single storage area. It's a little more complicated if you need to really increase the size of an existing partition, so perhaps it would be best if you tell us more specifically what you need to achieve, so we can provide specific directions. Thanks, Brian. The reason for enlarging my Linux partition is the fact that I have installed so many things that I am fearing that I am reaching the limit of my hard disk capacity. (My Linux partition has 8,5 GB.) I use MS Windows very, very, rarely and my MS Windows partition has 11,5 GB, which is a waste... so, I am wanting to enlarge my Linux partition. How can I check how my Linux partition is being used? Hoyt: you are very radical... :) Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Existential Linux Question
I figure this one ought to keep the conversation going for a while. I have been going through a Linux from Scratch build just for the learning experience, and something has just dawned on me. If a Linux system needs to be built from a host system, how did the first linux system get built? In other words, how can I create something that needs itself to be created? -- /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] audio pop.
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 16:31, jmb10 wrote: Sup folks. i'd say i'm new to linux, other might not, but i'll post here anyway. i have just installed Mandrake 10.0 and have not done any modification at all. i'm in gnome using the totem player, streaming some audio and here's my problem: i have a more or less generic sound card (built in on a ECS mobo) and when i'm listening to audio there is a noticeable pop with certain, strong, high-freq (high to human ears and in the musical realm) sounds. It's most noticeable in things like sharp snares or highhat hitsi have a decent set of 2.1 Klipsch's, so i'm guessing it's not them. This was not there in XP. i checked my alsamixer settings and nothing is above 75%totem is around ~30% volume and the speakers are down low, but not too low (by the knob setting), bass is set low (knobs) and there is this annoying pop. Prolly okay for me and my needs, but bothering as i don't want to damage the speakers (in any way at all) and sure not okay for anyone doing audio work - my gf is NOT happy at all with the pops. Just wondering if anyone else was getting pops or if this is just the norm or if i should check some settings or something? Please advise. Thank you. j I would tend to think that you need to adjust the mixer settings for trble and bass (I had the same with my SB Live 128 5.1); a bit of careful mixing and the sound is not so treble anymore... -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Q: I cant spell worth a dam. I hope your going too tell me what to do? A: Don't worry about how your articles look. Remember it's the message that counts, not the way it's presented. Ignore the fact that sloppy spelling in a purely written forum sends out the same silent messages that soiled clothing would when addressing an audience. -- Brad Templeton, _Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette_ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with MandrakeUpdate
Dear All I removed all the media and, afterwards, I added all of them. Surprisingly, now, whenever I run MandrakeUpdate, all hdlists are updated at startup, which is not very convenient, specially if they are already updated. Any ideas to solve this? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Enlarging Mandrake's partition
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 05:21, Paul Smith wrote: Brian Parish wrote: My computer has a dual boot (Mandrake 10 and Windows2000) and I would like to enlarge Mandrake's partition at the expense of reducing Windows2000 partition. So, I am here asking for advice about the safest and the fastest way of doing this operation. It depends on whether you want to enlarge a specific partition because you are low on space on it, or whether you just want some more storage available on a linux file system. If it's the latter, then you can just use the tools under drakconf to shrink your doze partition, then create a new partition in the free space and mount it as /data or whatever. You can use this approach to, for example, increase the storage available under /home, by just mounting the new partition as /home/new-name. This makes /home physically segmented into two, but allows you to use it logically as a single storage area. It's a little more complicated if you need to really increase the size of an existing partition, so perhaps it would be best if you tell us more specifically what you need to achieve, so we can provide specific directions. Thanks, Brian. The reason for enlarging my Linux partition is the fact that I have installed so many things that I am fearing that I am reaching the limit of my hard disk capacity. (My Linux partition has 8,5 GB.) I use MS Windows very, very, rarely and my MS Windows partition has 11,5 GB, which is a waste... so, I am wanting to enlarge my Linux partition. How can I check how my Linux partition is being used? Hoyt: you are very radical... :) Paul df -h -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. -- Francis Bacon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Existential Linux Question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 August 2004 13:23:01, Greg Meyer wrote: I figure this one ought to keep the conversation going for a while. I have been going through a Linux from Scratch build just for the learning experience, and something has just dawned on me. If a Linux system needs to be built from a host system, how did the first linux system get built? In other words, how can I create something that needs itself to be created? -- /g On an i386 running minix as far as I remember. I'd have to dig for links to the history but for some reason that answer is stuck in my feable and fallible old brain. C. - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.6.8.1-5mdk 13:38:36 up 3:42, 2 users, load average: 1.24, 0.80, 0.95 ... with liberty and justice for all ... who can afford it. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBMN/oZqvqlrLPr5YRAmqGAJwMinPuWBWSPwZKNdGlMqn17PBmggCeN95P c3DL9P72TzADjVxdaFIRrF4= =PnHK -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] Enlarging Mandrake's partition
Stephen Kühn wrote: Thanks, Brian. The reason for enlarging my Linux partition is the fact that I have installed so many things that I am fearing that I am reaching the limit of my hard disk capacity. (My Linux partition has 8,5 GB.) I use MS Windows very, very, rarely and my MS Windows partition has 11,5 GB, which is a waste... so, I am wanting to enlarge my Linux partition. How can I check how my Linux partition is being used? df -h Thanks, Stephen. Should I take some actions considering the following information? [EMAIL PROTECTED] paulus]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 4,5G 3,5G 816M 82% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 2,8G 1,9G 933M 68% /home /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 12G 6,4G 4,9G 57% /mnt/windows [EMAIL PROTECTED] paulus]# Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Enlarging Mandrake's partition
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 07:16, Paul Smith wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Look, you say your rarely use it; what DO you use it for? Best bet would be to defrag it, then use either diskdrake or Partition Magic to resize it; else you could whack another drive in there and balance out your stuff... Stephen, Unfortunately, I have to use MS Windows for establishing a VPN connection from home to my work, where the servers are all Microsoft. I have not manage yet to use Linux for VPN connections, although I have tried hard. Paul VMWare? -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Courage is fear that has said its prayers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] GZIP/GUNZIP
On Saturday 28 August 2004 01:36 pm, Eric Huff wrote: They are tar'd and gzipped. However, I do not seem to have a program in KDE to unzip them. At the command line you can tar -xvzf filname.tgz or whatever it is called I made an alias for it since i use it a lot: alias untar='tar -xvzf' eric Funny I find myself on the 'darkside' in this circumstance, but for tarballs I prefer to r-click and preview with Archiver (ark), then choose Extract to. Mainly cause it handles any kind of compressed files, even windoze .zips, if you have the proper decompress utils installed. Both it an FileRunner will even handle .rar's Tho I usually do those on the CL -- 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] GZIP/GUNZIP
On Saturday 28 August 2004 19:17, Steve wrote: I just loaded Mandrake 10 and want to add new programs like the latest version of Open Office, AOL Instant Messenger and a couple of others so I downloaded those files. They are tar'd and gzipped. However, I do not seem to have a program in KDE to unzip them. When I right click on them it does not give me the choice to unzip them because it does not know what they are. I have also downloaded the program KARCHIVER as an RPM but cannot get it to load becasue it fails file dependencies for a file that is in the RPM. I am at a stand still. DO you have any advice on how to get these programs unzipped so I can install them or what might be the problem with the KARCHIVER RPM? Thanks, Steve Do you have the kdeutils-ark package installed? It provides the ark archiving package. It will appear when you right click on an archive file, or just double left click. BTW: karchiver is on the contrib mirrors. You can install it by declaring a source for 'contrib' by following the instructions on this page http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php You can then install any package on contrib by using your normal Mandrake Software install GUI. All dependencies will be sorted out for you. 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] rekall
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:56:57 +0200 jose usoz wrote: It seems the libxbsql is not present. Do you know the RPM for this file? The specific missing depend, devel(libxbsql), is provided by libxbsql0-devel-0.11-3mdk.i586.rpm. You will also need libxbsql0-0.11-3mdk.i586.rpm. Since you were using urpmi both should have been pulled-in if you have Contrib mirror set-up as 1 of your source locations for urpmi. Charles -- Death is a spirit leaving a body, sort of like a shell leaving the nut behind. -- Erma Bombeck - Mandrake Linux 10.1 on PurpleDragon 2.6.8.1-4mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgpNzqO0DOWz8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good
Another improvement to computiing by those famous vendors of high quality vapourware...Steve Gates and Bill Balmer...or is it Bill Gates and Steve Balmer, I can never get that right :) Can't blame you, they're both fat and ugly. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Existential Linux Question
On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:11 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 14:23, Greg Meyer wrote: I figure this one ought to keep the conversation going for a while. I have been going through a Linux from Scratch build just for the learning experience, and something has just dawned on me. If a Linux system needs to be built from a host system, how did the first linux system get built? In other words, how can I create something that needs itself to be created? -- /g Easy. On a UNIX system. But then how was the first UNIX system created? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Existential Linux Question
On Saturday 28 August 2004 07:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:11 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 14:23, Greg Meyer wrote: I figure this one ought to keep the conversation going for a while. I have been going through a Linux from Scratch build just for the learning experience, and something has just dawned on me. If a Linux system needs to be built from a host system, how did the first linux system get built? In other words, how can I create something that needs itself to be created? -- /g Easy. On a UNIX system. But then how was the first UNIX system created? According to Dennis Ritchie (and he should know), it began on a PDP7 using assembly language. (See http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html). A very interesting read, particularly for those who have ever labored in the fields of RD and had troubles generating interest and funding for the latest Really Great Idea Guaranteed to Revolutionize Civilization. -- 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] Existential Linux Question
On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: But then how was the first UNIX system created? On a PDP-11, likely using RSTS or RSX-11. It's really a 'bootstrapping' process (called so because you're lifting yourself by your bootstraps). From bare iron you write a loader that loads from something simple - old times it was paper tape. On the first paper tape you have a very simple control program, all it might do is execute other programs and manage devices a bit. Using that you write the machine language code to write an assembler, then use the assembler to write better programs (maybe a disk driver and a file system), then use the improved tools to write a better control program, then an operating system, etc. With outside hardware you can write a lot of the system on another computer and have the advantage of terminals, editors, compilers, linkers - file systems! Build things and put then to a floppy or hard disk, them boot it on the new system. Once in place start putting the tools and such together - for Linux it was nice because there was a whole bunch of GNU stuff that could run. The old term of bootstrapping lives - you 'boot' your system up when it powers up. First the BIOS runs, then it loads a better loader from the hard drive, then the loader load the operating system. (In the old days I had to use the front panel switches to load a simple paper tape loader, then load a loader from paper tape and then tell it to load things from the hard drive. Yup, men were *men* and computers were made of *iron* in those days.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] permission changes
Hello After reinstalling md10, several folders now show locked. Security settings are standard and I 'm not sure what happened to change these folders. Any advice on how to change them to normal settings would be appreciated. Thanks 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] Existential Linux Question
On Saturday 28 August 2004 06:25 pm, Russ Kepler wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: But then how was the first UNIX system created? On a PDP-11, likely using RSTS or RSX-11. Damn - missed the model by this: much. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] permission changes
On Sunday 29 August 2004 01:32, john wrote: Hello After reinstalling md10, several folders now show locked. Security settings are standard and I 'm not sure what happened to change these folders. Any advice on how to change them to normal settings would be appreciated. Thanks John When you add users to your system each user is allocated a User ID starting from 501 upwards. (and a Group ID number the 'GID') It is the UID number in the header of each file which determines the 'owner' If you have added your users in a different order to your last install, and did not reformat the /home partition, then the preexisting files will have the old UID/GID numbers. When reinstalling it is important to enter your users in the same sequence to ensure they have the same UID/GID numbers as the previous install. To resolve it, as root change the owner of the /home folders. It is easy enough in KDE hit Alt+F2 then type 'kdesu konqueror' in the box to get a root copy of konqueror, then right click on the home folders and select properties to change the ownerships. 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] Enlarging Mandrake's partition
Stephen Kühn wrote: Look, you say your rarely use it; what DO you use it for? Best bet would be to defrag it, then use either diskdrake or Partition Magic to resize it; else you could whack another drive in there and balance out your stuff... Unfortunately, I have to use MS Windows for establishing a VPN connection from home to my work, where the servers are all Microsoft. I have not manage yet to use Linux for VPN connections, although I have tried hard. VMWare? I have heard that VMWare is expensive and does not operate well on slow machines; mine is a 4 years old computer with 256MB of ram and a Pentium III 600MHz. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with /dev/tty
Dear All I have done some updates on my computer and now, at start-up, the script rc.sysinit tries to access to several tty, but the permission is denied. Afterwards, still during booting, IPMI fails. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Enlarging Mandrake's partition
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 06:03, Paul Smith wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Thanks, Brian. The reason for enlarging my Linux partition is the fact that I have installed so many things that I am fearing that I am reaching the limit of my hard disk capacity. (My Linux partition has 8,5 GB.) I use MS Windows very, very, rarely and my MS Windows partition has 11,5 GB, which is a waste... so, I am wanting to enlarge my Linux partition. How can I check how my Linux partition is being used? df -h Thanks, Stephen. Should I take some actions considering the following information? [EMAIL PROTECTED] paulus]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 4,5G 3,5G 816M 82% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 2,8G 1,9G 933M 68% /home /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 12G 6,4G 4,9G 57% /mnt/windows [EMAIL PROTECTED] paulus]# Paul Here is something specific you can do which will address the issue without blowing away your doze install. 1. Backup ALL important stuff - this procedure is reliable, but then so am I and you would want your life depending on just me! ;-) 2. Defrag the doze partition 3. Use diskdrake to shrink it leaving enough space to be workable. Looks like you could trim at least 3GB. 4. Create a new partition in the free space and mount it as /new telling diskdrake to save the changes to fstab 5. As root: cp -a /usr /new 6. Edit /etc/fstab and change /new to /usr 7. Reboot - now you have all the /usr files being accessed from your new partition and the /usr within your root partition is an unused copy. 8. As root: cd / mv usr oldusr 9. Reboot again just to make sure you got everything right and it all still works (so far you haven't deleted anything) 10. If everything looks happy, as root: cd / rm -rf oldusr df -h should now present a rosier picture HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Existential Linux Question
On Saturday 28 August 2004 18:14, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:11 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 14:23, Greg Meyer wrote: I figure this one ought to keep the conversation going for a while. I have been going through a Linux from Scratch build just for the learning experience, and something has just dawned on me. If a Linux system needs to be built from a host system, how did the first linux system get built? In other words, how can I create something that needs itself to be created? -- /g Easy. On a UNIX system. But then how was the first UNIX system created? That may not be accurate if you define linux as the kernel then LT developed that on a miniux system. The C language was developed on a pdp 4 running UNIX and UNIX was rewritten in C after that Linux was devloped as a subset of UNIX. END. -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.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] Existential Linux Question
On Saturday 28 August 2004 09:55 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 18:14, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:11 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 14:23, Greg Meyer wrote: I figure this one ought to keep the conversation going for a while. I have been going through a Linux from Scratch build just for the learning experience, and something has just dawned on me. If a Linux system needs to be built from a host system, how did the first linux system get built? In other words, how can I create something that needs itself to be created? -- /g Easy. On a UNIX system. But then how was the first UNIX system created? That may not be accurate if you define linux as the kernel then LT developed that on a miniux system. The C language was developed on a pdp 4 running UNIX and UNIX was rewritten in C after that Linux was devloped as a subset of UNIX. Ha. I just realized that I could be a SCO troll trying to prove that Linux is an unauthorized version of UNIX. Thanks everyone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kwifimanager
Kwifimanager (on kde 3.2.2/MDK10) defaults to monitoring the eth1 connection. How can I get it to monitor a different connection (ath0)? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with /dev/tty
On Saturday 28 August 2004 09:03 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have done some updates on my computer and now, at start-up, the script rc.sysinit tries to access to several tty, but the permission is denied. Afterwards, still during booting, IPMI fails. Any ideas? That error was coming up on boxes running cooker when Mandrake switched the default de vice manager from devfs to udev. You are a bad boy running cooker stuff and posting to the newbie list. Seriously though, are you running cooker or a 10.1 beta. if yes, you might want to check the cooker mailing list archives because I believe this was explained over there. -- /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] Existential Linux Question
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 10:21, Carroll Grigsby wrote: According to Dennis Ritchie (and he should know), it began on a PDP7 using assembly language. (See http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html). A very interesting read, particularly for those who have ever labored in the fields of RD and had troubles generating interest and funding for the latest Really Great Idea Guaranteed to Revolutionize Civilization. -- cmg That was a mind boggling read. Awesome. So then 1969 was a good year after all, eh? -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. -- William Orton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Enlarging Mandrake's partition
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 10:52, Paul Smith wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Look, you say your rarely use it; what DO you use it for? Best bet would be to defrag it, then use either diskdrake or Partition Magic to resize it; else you could whack another drive in there and balance out your stuff... Unfortunately, I have to use MS Windows for establishing a VPN connection from home to my work, where the servers are all Microsoft. I have not manage yet to use Linux for VPN connections, although I have tried hard. VMWare? I have heard that VMWare is expensive and does not operate well on slow machines; mine is a 4 years old computer with 256MB of ram and a Pentium III 600MHz. Paul Ah...hmm...and you've researched ALL the vpn clients for GNU/linux and found none that work? -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Distinctive, adj.: A different color or shape than our competitors. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kwifimanager
On Saturday 28 August 2004 10:55 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: Kwifimanager (on kde 3.2.2/MDK10) defaults to monitoring the eth1 connection. How can I get it to monitor a different connection (ath0)? TIA Paul Paul, this is from the web site: Autodetecting your device KWiFiManager needs to know the interface name of your wireless LAN card to change any settings. You can either enter the information (e.g. eth1 or wlan0) manually in the input field right of Settings apply to interface:, or let KWiFiManager auto-detect the interface. To do so, push the button Autodetect interface. This will perform a scan on all interfaces listed in /proc/net/dev to find your card. The result of the scan will show up in the input field left of the button. If the field remains empty, no card was found. Please note that KWiFiManager uses the wireless extensions to detect cards. If you use a card controlled by the wlan-ng package, KWiFiManager only shows correct results if your driver has a compatibility layer for the wireless extensions built-in. at this location: http://kwifimanager.sourceforge.net/ -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Existential Linux Question
On Sunday 29 August 2004 12:12 am, Stephen Khn wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 10:21, Carroll Grigsby wrote: According to Dennis Ritchie (and he should know), it began on a PDP7 using assembly language. (See http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html). A very interesting read, particularly for those who have ever labored in the fields of RD and had troubles generating interest and funding for the latest Really Great Idea Guaranteed to Revolutionize Civilization. -- cmg That was a mind boggling read. Awesome. So then 1969 was a good year after all, eh? Stephen: Well, for me it was. It was the last summer that I could go out in the sun and not burn the top of my head. (Getting closer to the topic) What I found interesting was Ritchie's reference to programming in B, the predecessor language to C. The connection between C and Unix goes back a long, long way. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
