Re: [newbie] Task Manager
Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Task Manager Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:28:00 -0500 On February 8, 2005 10:03 pm, Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: As a old Windows user, I find really useful the Windows' Task Manager utility, where I can close applications, check resources, etc. I actually don't know if there is a similar application already developed, but I'm willing to make one, based on the /proc files and kernel stuff. However, this email is for asking if some already knows of an application as the Task manager, so I don't waste time programming such application... I like gnome-system-monitor although I am sure there are others as well. Regards, Dan Gordon ** Start System Monitoring KDE System Guard..for us KDE users. :-) --Angus For those NOT using the KDE desktop, the same utility is available by using the command ksysguard in a terminal - do it from a root terminal if you want to be able to kill processes started by root. -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* Sent using Mozilla on a 100% Microsoft-Free Computer Registered Linux User 307617 http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-24mdk ~~~ The power to destroy a planet is insignificant when compared to the power of the Force. - Darth Vader ~~~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installation problem - ?disc not being read
Well - I have an install - did not get GUI up so obviously have a couple of things to sort out. LILO worked great - so thank you to those who helped. I'll reboot to Mdk and see what I can work out. Printer is perfect! Thanks Rosemary Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 07 February 2005 23:25, you wrote: Sometimes it refuses to boot from CD1, in that case try CD2, it'll prompt you to change disks later on. BTW two things : 1. please don't post in html. Most people here filter html-messages out before they get read. 2. please remove your reply to field in your mailer. If not, messages will go to you only, not this list. Welcome to Linux, Rosemary. Thanks Kaj Hope I've got the settings correct this time. I'll let the list know how I get on with the insertion of CD2, but realise I need to be sure about a couple of other things first. I'll post separately. Thanks again Rosemary You are welcome, Rosemary. A small advice : you can find some useful information here : http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/100/en/Starter.html/bigfat-warning.html Kaj haulrich. 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] Mandrake 10.1 install
Well I am delighted I have an install, but obviously some issue to sort out. I am *very* inexperienced re command line etc but have used it with explicit instructions! Problem - boot to linux and get the usual lines of info about stuff loading, when I expect/hope/am used a GUI getting lines of text ending in mount USB file system. This is probably basic to you people, but a mystery to me. Any help greatly appreciated Rosemary 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 10.1 install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 10:43, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Well I am delighted I have an install, but obviously some issue to sort out. I am *very* inexperienced re command line etc but have used it with explicit instructions! Problem - boot to linux and get the usual lines of info about stuff loading, when I expect/hope/am used a GUI getting lines of text ending in mount USB file system. This is probably basic to you people, but a mystery to me. Any help greatly appreciated Rosemary Have you got usb peripherals plugged in? Try unplugging them for the time being and installing them later. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCCetskFAvMr/nNX8RAqVGAKCddtNutD9fL2BZ9iC3JcYr4WTvEACeLvjv 5+X4TAr1IvrPoK9zgrPDEuI= =vDg4 -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] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Basically, I have two hdd's with the now slave having suffered my first attempts at Linux and of course, the last 9x going [ WinMe }. I can boot into WinMe without any hassles whatsoever but am unable to get lilo.conf right to boot into the old linux9.1 OS I have also installed on that hdd. Latest attempt: other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 [ My boot partition on this hdd ] label=linux90 table=/dev/hdb image=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only I have tried other=/dev/hdb2 ( my boot partition on this drive ) and tried also other=/dev/hdb2 [ WinMe starts out as other=/dev/hdb1 ] I have made sure that vmlinuz and initrd.img exist on that boot partition still. I added the table=/dev/hdb but still no go. So someone want to slap me over the wrist for being dump here somewhere? Dumb question time - Is this lilo.conf you are working with on the second hard drive? Was the drive /dev/hdb when you installed Linux on it, or did you just have the drive with Linux on it in the machine when you installed it, and added back the Windows drive? Or do you have both Linux and Windows on the first drive, and you are trying to boot a second Linux install from the second drive? Mikkel Sorry for the delay in getting back to you folk but hopefully I can make up for it now. First my lilo.conf [ Note: this is on my master hdd and is booting Mandrake10 Official and then of course my WinMe which is on the slave hdd.] # File generated by DrakX/drakboot and reconfigured by SnapafunFrank. # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map default=windows keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=200 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=linux263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz2610 label=linux2610 root=/dev/hda5 vga=788 append= noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent initrd=/boot/initrd2610.img read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=linux267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=linux-nonfb263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz2610 label=linux-nonfb2610 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd2610.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=linux-nonfb267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=failsafe263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz2610 label=failsafe2610 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd2610.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=failsafe267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only other=/dev/hdb1 label=windows table=/dev/hdb map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz2422 label=linux2422 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd2422.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only #other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 # label=linux90 # table=/dev/hdb # image=/boot/vmlinuz # root=/dev/hdb5 # initrd=/boot/initrd.img # append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent # vga=788 # read-only image=/boot/memtest-1.11.bin label=memtest-1.11 read-only Hope someone is suitably impressed ~ I can boot the lot seen here (other than the system on the slave hdd) albeit that except for linux263, the others are only to text consoles at the moment because I have yet to compile the new nVidia drivers as I have done for the 2.6.3-7 kernel. And oh yeah - haven't convinced Jan yet so the default is still Windows - got to get my LAN started so that she can play her cards on Linux without probably knowing it initially. No, she ain't dumb, I'm just being a little sneaky is all. Anyway, back to my problem. I do not believe that starting out with image=/boot/vmlinuz will not work because there is nothing in that to tell lilo to find the image on the slave (hdb) drive. Please correct me if'n I'm wrong here! To explain how I got WinMe to work you need to
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 install
Okay thanks Anne - will try that on next boot. Actually - one thing I did notice was - boot sort of froze on first install attempts. Then when install actualy happened, by accident ii had printer and scanner disconnected. - install went ahead - seems too co-incidental. Thanks Rosemary Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 10:43, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Well I am delighted I have an install, but obviously some issue to sort out. I am *very* inexperienced re command line etc but have used it with explicit instructions! Problem - boot to linux and get the usual lines of info about stuff loading, when I expect/hope/am used a GUI getting lines of text ending in mount USB file system. This is probably basic to you people, but a mystery to me. Any help greatly appreciated Rosemary Have you got usb peripherals plugged in? Try unplugging them for the time being and installing them later. Anne - 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] Mandrake 10.1 install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 12:22, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Okay thanks Anne - will try that on next boot. Actually - one thing I did notice was - boot sort of froze on first install attempts. Then when install actualy happened, by accident ii had printer and scanner disconnected. - install went ahead - seems too co-incidental. Thanks Rosemary I didn't have this problem myself, but I know some others have had, and I think they were cured by adding peripherals back after install. I'm not sure whether ohci, uhci and hotplug were all installed at initial installation, or whether they had to be added as well. Keep us informed of your progress and we'll see what we can sort out. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCCgIOkFAvMr/nNX8RAlSUAJ4yva/aXh1+wznLCLG4wu8yqm11cACgmwBn m1VMtxm//2TQZeiwT7kNC6M= =Rgn5 -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] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:24:04 +1300 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dumb question time - Is this lilo.conf you are working with on the second hard drive? Was the drive /dev/hdb when you installed Linux on it, or did you just have the drive with Linux on it in the machine when you installed it, and added back the Windows drive? Or do you have both Linux and Windows on the first drive, and you are trying to boot a second Linux install from the second drive? Mikkel Sorry for the delay in getting back to you folk but hopefully I can make up for it now. First my lilo.conf [ Note: this is on my master hdd and is booting Mandrake10 Official and then of course my WinMe which is on the slave hdd.] # File generated by DrakX/drakboot and reconfigured by SnapafunFrank. # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map default=windows keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=200 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=linux263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz2610 label=linux2610 root=/dev/hda5 vga=788 append= noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent initrd=/boot/initrd2610.img read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=linux267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=linux-nonfb263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz2610 label=linux-nonfb2610 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd2610.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=linux-nonfb267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=failsafe263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz2610 label=failsafe2610 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd2610.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=failsafe267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only other=/dev/hdb1 label=windows table=/dev/hdb map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz2422 label=linux2422 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd2422.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only #other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 # label=linux90 # table=/dev/hdb # image=/boot/vmlinuz # root=/dev/hdb5 # initrd=/boot/initrd.img # append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent # vga=788 # read-only image=/boot/memtest-1.11.bin label=memtest-1.11 read-only Hope someone is suitably impressed ~ I can boot the lot seen here (other than the system on the slave hdd) albeit that except for linux263, the others are only to text consoles at the moment because I have yet to compile the new nVidia drivers as I have done for the 2.6.3-7 kernel. And oh yeah - haven't convinced Jan yet so the default is still Windows - got to get my LAN started so that she can play her cards on Linux without probably knowing it initially. No, she ain't dumb, I'm just being a little sneaky is all. Anyway, back to my problem. I do not believe that starting out with image=/boot/vmlinuz will not work because there is nothing in that to tell lilo to find the image on the slave (hdb) drive. Please correct me if'n I'm wrong here! To explain how I got WinMe to work you need to understand that windows must think it's in control, hence the 'map' entries - I turn things on for windows then turn them off again ~ enough to fool windows into believing it is in control. So, though starting with other- may not be the way, I need to tell lilo where to find the image I want it to use, and that critter is in the boot partition on hdb which the current system sees as /mnt/hdb2_boot . Lilo of course would see it as /dev/hdb2. Basically, lilo needs to be pointed at that partition the moment I select it as an option. What I've done in the past (not saying it is the correct way to do it, or the only way) is to copy all the necessary files out of /boot from all partitions which
[newbie] graphics question
Hi all, Maybe this question should not be on this list, but I didn't know where else to put it. I have around 400 jpeg images and I want to put 3x2 images on an A4 size document, preferrably in PDF format. Is there a way to do this in Mandrake 10.1. I recall having this kind of functionality in Photoshop. Any ideas suggestions?? Thanks... Omar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Data Base Help
Hi All I have a problem with what I am trying to accomplish which begans with I have no idea of what I need to do technically to accomplish my objective so hence this posting. Basic objective is a data base of clients along with their address phone numbers, contact names, and preferences plus other additional fields. The eventual product of this information could be used in a number of different computers so a client server DB such as mysql or postgres or Open Office 2 will be needed. All well and good but there is a pre stage to the data base. In order to input the required data I must first output it from a number of existing data bases over which I have no control of the output consequentally there are issues with data placement and format which is easiest to explain by example. For example my database requires data to be in the form of: Given_Names | Family_Name | Address_1| Address_2 | City | State | Zip and I receive data in the format of Names | Address | City__State_Zip The cut past and text transformation options are slightly better in MS Office than they are in Open Office so I have been manipulating this data by means of MS Word and Excel to obtain the correct format which is painful and time consuming as neither a word editor or spread sheet are setup with the tools required for data editing and column formating. I would thus like to know if anyone knows of a spreadsheet type program not set up to do mathematical operations but data editing. The program must be spread sheet based so that one may see the data and provide better tools which are again best explained by example. Lets assume that one has a matrix of test data that is 20 columns wide and 30,000 rows deep, not a small matrix, with data scattered through in the wrong column. For example: Given Names for individual 1 is 1 name, for individual 2 it is 5 names, and for individual 3 it is 3 names. English names of first, middle, last are not to difficult but sprinkle in a number of Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese names and total confusion reigns not to mention issues with other regions. Address can be 1 line, 2 lines, or 3 lines et. By now you get the picture of what the data is. What is needed is sort ability for all or blocks of data by: 1. either rows or columns. 2. by data from the front or back Let me explain the latter. Lets assume that you have a number of individuals in your data which have 2, 3, 4, or 5 names but all have Jr. or II, or III at the end which is not required for this application so it would be best to remove such formality in simplification. This feature would allow one to search by the last letter of the field first. Anyway by now one gets the idea that a spread sheet/word editor or database is not what I have reference to as none of these programs is geared to organizing data into the apposite column for usage in a data base. Any help suggestions or ideas concerning how to procede, which programs to examine or more applicable bulletin board would be appreciated. Thanks Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo
SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Basically, I have two hdd's with the now slave having suffered my first attempts at Linux and of course, the last 9x going [ WinMe }. I can boot into WinMe without any hassles whatsoever but am unable to get lilo.conf right to boot into the old linux9.1 OS I have also installed on that hdd. Latest attempt: other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 [ My boot partition on this hdd ] label=linux90 table=/dev/hdb image=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only I have tried other=/dev/hdb2 ( my boot partition on this drive ) and tried also other=/dev/hdb2 [ WinMe starts out as other=/dev/hdb1 ] I have made sure that vmlinuz and initrd.img exist on that boot partition still. I added the table=/dev/hdb but still no go. So someone want to slap me over the wrist for being dump here somewhere? Dumb question time - Is this lilo.conf you are working with on the second hard drive? Was the drive /dev/hdb when you installed Linux on it, or did you just have the drive with Linux on it in the machine when you installed it, and added back the Windows drive? Or do you have both Linux and Windows on the first drive, and you are trying to boot a second Linux install from the second drive? Mikkel Sorry for the delay in getting back to you folk but hopefully I can make up for it now. First my lilo.conf [ Note: this is on my master hdd and is booting Mandrake10 Official and then of course my WinMe which is on the slave hdd.] # File generated by DrakX/drakboot and reconfigured by SnapafunFrank. # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map default=windows keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=200 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=linux263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz2610 label=linux2610 root=/dev/hda5 vga=788 append= noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent initrd=/boot/initrd2610.img read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=linux267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=linux-nonfb263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz2610 label=linux-nonfb2610 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd2610.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=linux-nonfb267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=failsafe263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz2610 label=failsafe2610 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd2610.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=failsafe267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only other=/dev/hdb1 label=windows table=/dev/hdb map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz2422 label=linux2422 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd2422.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only #other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 # label=linux90 # table=/dev/hdb # image=/boot/vmlinuz # root=/dev/hdb5 # initrd=/boot/initrd.img # append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent # vga=788 # read-only image=/boot/memtest-1.11.bin label=memtest-1.11 read-only Hope someone is suitably impressed ~ I can boot the lot seen here (other than the system on the slave hdd) albeit that except for linux263, the others are only to text consoles at the moment because I have yet to compile the new nVidia drivers as I have done for the 2.6.3-7 kernel. And oh yeah - haven't convinced Jan yet so the default is still Windows - got to get my LAN started so that she can play her cards on Linux without probably knowing it initially. No, she ain't dumb, I'm just being a little sneaky is all. Anyway, back to my problem. I do not believe that starting out with image=/boot/vmlinuz will not work because there is nothing in that to tell lilo to find the image on the slave (hdb) drive. Please correct me if'n I'm wrong here! To explain how I got WinMe to
[newbie] A touch of humour
http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/102722.html Enjoy! -- Lanman Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Amarok, Audacity and streamtuner
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 11:38 pm, rikona wrote: Hello newbie, I'm trying to get some sound up on a box recently updated to 10.1. Using Amarok to play an mp3 file results in severely distorted sound, but xmms and Audacity seem to do OK. If I try to use another 'engine' in Audacity it crashes. Tried adjusting levels everywhere, but can't get good sound in Audacity. Any way to get rid of the distortion in Amarok? Also tried streamtuner - very nice. When I try to run Audacity after streamtuner, it tells me a copy of Audacity is already running (although I may have left a copy running somewhere). I can't seem to access it though. How can I do that? Did you try a top command to see if you had another copy of streamtuner running? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] graphics question
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 14:28, Omar wrote: Hi all, Maybe this question should not be on this list, but I didn't know where else to put it. I have around 400 jpeg images and I want to put 3x2 images on an A4 size document, preferrably in PDF format. Is there a way to do this in Mandrake 10.1. I recall having this kind of functionality in Photoshop. Any ideas suggestions?? Thanks... Omar I'm not quite sure what you mean, but if you just want to place 6 photos on the document, you can use OpenOffice. Set the page to A4, select Insert--Graphics--From file. Then you can manipulate the photos around, and when finished, File--Export as PDF. If, on the other hand, you want a batch command to do it I'm not aware of any, but maybe the mogrify command in ImageMagick is a way to go. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Too True!
http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/24861.html Lanman Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A touch of humour
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:48:35 -0500, Lanman wrote: http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/102722.html Enjoy! Very funny! Now how do I get a copy? I can get the video with the following URL: http://www.novell.com/img/flash/n_fader.swf?streamIn=/video/win_nt/win_nt.flv But I dunno how to get it as one single file that I can play later. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Task Manager
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:03:34 -0800, Fernando wrote: ...this email is for asking if some already knows of an application as the Task manager, so I don't waste time programming such application... gps (kinda like top, but graphical) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Data Base Help
SOTL wrote: Hi All I have a problem with what I am trying to accomplish which begans with I have no idea of what I need to do technically to accomplish my objective so hence this posting. Basic objective is a data base of clients along with their address phone numbers, contact names, and preferences plus other additional fields. The eventual product of this information could be used in a number of different computers so a client server DB such as mysql or postgres or Open Office 2 will be needed. All well and good but there is a pre stage to the data base. In order to input the required data I must first output it from a number of existing data bases over which I have no control of the output consequentally there are issues with data placement and format which is easiest to explain by example. For example my database requires data to be in the form of: Given_Names | Family_Name | Address_1| Address_2 | City | State | Zip and I receive data in the format of Names | Address | City__State_Zip The cut past and text transformation options are slightly better in MS Office than they are in Open Office so I have been manipulating this data by means of MS Word and Excel to obtain the correct format which is painful and time consuming as neither a word editor or spread sheet are setup with the tools required for data editing and column formating. I would thus like to know if anyone knows of a spreadsheet type program not set up to do mathematical operations but data editing. The program must be spread sheet based so that one may see the data and provide better tools which are again best explained by example. Lets assume that one has a matrix of test data that is 20 columns wide and 30,000 rows deep, not a small matrix, with data scattered through in the wrong column. For example: Given Names for individual 1 is 1 name, for individual 2 it is 5 names, and for individual 3 it is 3 names. English names of first, middle, last are not to difficult but sprinkle in a number of Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese names and total confusion reigns not to mention issues with other regions. Address can be 1 line, 2 lines, or 3 lines et. By now you get the picture of what the data is. What is needed is sort ability for all or blocks of data by: 1. either rows or columns. 2. by data from the front or back Let me explain the latter. Lets assume that you have a number of individuals in your data which have 2, 3, 4, or 5 names but all have Jr. or II, or III at the end which is not required for this application so it would be best to remove such formality in simplification. This feature would allow one to search by the last letter of the field first. Anyway by now one gets the idea that a spread sheet/word editor or database is not what I have reference to as none of these programs is geared to organizing data into the apposite column for usage in a data base. Any help suggestions or ideas concerning how to procede, which programs to examine or more applicable bulletin board would be appreciated. Thanks Frank Basically, I think that the best thing you can do is learn a little Perl, which by it's name is designed for these sorts of tasks. With a little basic help/reading, all of your tasks are achievable. All you really need to do is define the rules for which the data should comply. And then convert these to code. HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] graphics question - semi HiJack
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 15:01, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 09 February 2005 14:28, Omar wrote: Hi all, Maybe this question should not be on this list, but I didn't know where else to put it. I have around 400 jpeg images and I want to put 3x2 images on an A4 size document, preferrably in PDF format. Is there a way to do this in Mandrake 10.1. I recall having this kind of functionality in Photoshop. Any ideas suggestions?? Thanks... Omar I'm not quite sure what you mean, but if you just want to place 6 photos on the document, you can use OpenOffice. Set the page to A4, select Insert--Graphics--From file. Then you can manipulate the photos around, and when finished, File--Export as PDF. If, on the other hand, you want a batch command to do it I'm not aware of any, but maybe the mogrify command in ImageMagick is a way to go. One thing that seems to be missing in linux is a good photo-printing program. This is one of the few things that makes me used Win4Lin. ArcSoft PhotoPrinter has templates for sheets of various sizes of photo, and you can import the relevant number of graphic files from any directory. It handles simple editing like rotate, flip and crop, but nothing more. I wish someone could write something similar for linux. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCCjoKkFAvMr/nNX8RArQFAJ93LJNtYBK7s5syb8p2bp8w0uGthgCfQ5Ko lqSnVNlc2WXLAl0xE1600Zo= =Nnxl -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] GTK+ 2x pixbuf
Hi folks, Can someone point me to the right package(s) to install GTK2 pixbuf? I have gtk2+ installed (Mandrake 10.0), but I need forementioned package(s) to compile Sylpheed 1.9.x sources... Paul -- Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Amarok, Audacity and streamtuner
Hello Aron, Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 7:00:13 AM, Aron wrote: AS On Tuesday 08 February 2005 11:38 pm, rikona wrote: Hello newbie, I'm trying to get some sound up on a box recently updated to 10.1. Using Amarok to play an mp3 file results in severely distorted sound, but xmms and Audacity seem to do OK. If I try to use another 'engine' in Audacity it crashes. Tried adjusting levels everywhere, but can't get good sound in Audacity. Any way to get rid of the distortion in Amarok? Also tried streamtuner - very nice. When I try to run Audacity after streamtuner, it tells me a copy of Audacity is already running (although I may have left a copy running somewhere). I can't seem to access it though. How can I do that? AS Did you try a top command to see if you had another copy of streamtuner AS running? I have about 120 processes running - too many to display with top, at least on my small screen. ps -A shows me there is a copy of Audacity running, but I didn't know how to get to it so I could use it. There wasn't another copy of streamtuner running. Finally decided it was easier to just kill Audacity and start over with a new copy. It's still distorted, though. Any ideas on how to remove the distortion? Thanks, Aron... -- 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
[newbie] Program to manage an archive of books
Dear All I have at home dozens and dozens of books and when I want to find a specific book, sometimes I hard... Is there some program to manage our personal books? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to manage an archive of books
On February 9, 2005 03:56 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have at home dozens and dozens of books and when I want to find a specific book, sometimes I hard... Is there some program to manage our personal books? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Tellico is the program you want. Just type in a terminal as root urpmi tellico Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Feb 9 16:21:11 EST 2005 16:21:11 up 1 day, 9:18, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.07, 0.01 Those who hesitate under fire usually do not end up KIA, MIA or WIA -- Murphy's Military Laws n°101 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Amarok, Audacity and streamtuner
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 10:53 am, rikona wrote: Hello Aron, Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 7:00:13 AM, Aron wrote: AS On Tuesday 08 February 2005 11:38 pm, rikona wrote: Hello newbie, I'm trying to get some sound up on a box recently updated to 10.1. Using Amarok to play an mp3 file results in severely distorted sound, but xmms and Audacity seem to do OK. If I try to use another 'engine' in Audacity it crashes. Tried adjusting levels everywhere, but can't get good sound in Audacity. Any way to get rid of the distortion in Amarok? Also tried streamtuner - very nice. When I try to run Audacity after streamtuner, it tells me a copy of Audacity is already running (although I may have left a copy running somewhere). I can't seem to access it though. How can I do that? AS Did you try a top command to see if you had another copy of streamtuner AS running? I have about 120 processes running - too many to display with top, at least on my small screen. ps -A shows me there is a copy of Audacity running, but I didn't know how to get to it so I could use it. There wasn't another copy of streamtuner running. Finally decided it was easier to just kill Audacity and start over with a new copy. It's still distorted, though. Any ideas on how to remove the distortion? Thanks, Aron... use xmms to play instead of Amarok Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] trouble mounting zip drive
After installing 10.1 my zip was not recognized, no entry in fstab. Tried to create device using Create New/Device/Zip Device from the desktop (right click). An icon appeared but it won't mount (as root). Tried to create a device using makedev /dev/hdd4 (4 since I want vfat and windows uses partion 4?). I did not see when it happened but now I have two zip icons on the desktop. After reboot they are still there and now there is no hdd4 in dev. What the !*^% is going on. How do I get rid of those icons and start over? MIke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Life............
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 22:10, Charlie wrote: I'm actually pleased that you did Anne, because it was a wrong click of the mouse that sent it to the list. I was in a bit of a rush. Got a shock when I saw it returned to me, then thought that someone might enjoy it, but was ready to send out my apologies. We are back living in the scrub and on solar power here, so everything is a bit rushed at times. So maybe it was serendipitous, one of those magic things that life takes in hand, creating the circumstances so that our actions take us to a certain convergence to change a direction. Who would know? I was ready to apologise to any who might have thought it was inappropriate list traffic. I had a suspicion that it may be accidental - it didn't seem like you to send something so OT without comment. As far as I'm concerned, it lightens the day to smile. Thanks again Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCCoxfkFAvMr/nNX8RAvj7AJ9pIyrJhmg21iZKtR4hFBmuJ6klFwCfTy8g 0KHIz+NbBukfwYC93HS5oTU= =llnN -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] trouble mounting zip drive
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 20:02, Mike Adolf wrote: After installing 10.1 my zip was not recognized, no entry in fstab. Tried to create device using Create New/Device/Zip Device from the desktop (right click). An icon appeared but it won't mount (as root). Tried to create a device using makedev /dev/hdd4 (4 since I want vfat and windows uses partion 4?). I did not see when it happened but now I have two zip icons on the desktop. After reboot they are still there and now there is no hdd4 in dev. What the !*^% is going on. How do I get rid of those icons and start over? Have you tried running HardDrake? I think there's an option on a button to scan for zip drives. There is something of a problem still with removable drives and 2.6 kernels, though, as the name for removable drives keeps changing if you unplug and re-plug later. It clears itself in time, though. Still, that's probably your *next* problem, not the current one :-) Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCCo0fkFAvMr/nNX8RAmQtAJ4szv9Ou+s/Yhlu8aj1qdLvz20fgQCfQiI3 1mrWpgNyFU8LYBaAo7OkYBA= =NZfB -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] Program to manage an archive of books
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:24:23 -0500, Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have at home dozens and dozens of books and when I want to find a specific book, sometimes I hard... Is there some program to manage our personal books? Tellico is the program you want. Just type in a terminal as root urpmi tellico Thanks a lot, Dan. What a fantastic program! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Amarok not starting.
Hi, I am on Mdk 10.1 and had got Amarok running OK. But after trying out Xmms and installing and uninstalling other sound programs I can't get Amarok to run. This is the output from a terminal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] simon]$ amarok [amaroK loader] connecting to /home/simon/.kde/socket-x1-6-00-50-8d-e1-0b-3e/amarok.loader_socket [amaroK loader] amaroK not running. Trying to start it.. amarok: [PluginManager] Plugin trader constraint: [X-KDE-amaroK-framework-version] == 3 and [X-KDE-amaroK-plugintype] == 'engine' and [X-KDE-amaroK-name] == 'void-engine' and [X-KDE-amaroK-rank] 0 amarok: [PluginManager] Trying to load: libamarok_void-engine_plugin amarok: amarok: PluginManager Service Info: amarok: --- amarok: name : no engine amarok: library : libamarok_void-engine_plugin amarok: desktopEntryPath : amarok_void-engine_plugin.desktop amarok: X-KDE-amaroK-plugintype : engine amarok: X-KDE-amaroK-name : void-engine amarok: X-KDE-amaroK-authors : (Max Howell,Mark Kretschmann) amarok: X-KDE-amaroK-rank : 1 amarok: X-KDE-amaroK-version : 1 amarok: X-KDE-amaroK-framework-version: 3 amarok: Simon. -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xE94E2292 pgpLJKGhlOD1O.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Dual layer DVD recommendations?
On February 8, 2005 16:25, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 08 Feb 2005 21:09, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On February 8, 2005 00:30, Anne Wilson wrote: ... I meant the Community TWiki :-) Look at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DVDDriVes. That page is a child page of http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/Hardware Compatibility, which you might also want to look at (use the tree link near the top of the page). ... Actually, that link should be: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HardwareCompatibility (without the space between Hardware and Compability) Thanks Ron - fingers in a twist again :-) Anne That's okay. I only noticed because I clicked the link and got This Wiki topic does not exist yet. I have a few entries I should make myself, but haven't gotten around to it yet. You may have noticed that I didn't do so well typing Compatibility in my reply either 8^). Know what I'd like to see? A script or wizard that would extract all known hardware info and bring up a list for you to check off worked first time, worked with tweaking (and a place to describe the tweak), or couldn't get it working, and maybe a don't know (not ideal, but it's bound to come up), then send the completed list to a database somewhere that is publicly queryable. Right now it's too much work to report all the hardware, so most people don't bother. Of course, nowadays most of the hardware just works, so it's less of an issue. -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. As you know, necessity is the mother of invention. I don't know who the father is. Remorse, I guess. - Red Green Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Hard disk partitioning detection
Hi to you all, Have recently add a 80 GB hard disk on my PC. Have windows 98 SE intalled on it and Linux Mandrake 10.0 installed on my old 10 GB hard disk. Because my Bios is old I had to use a Dinamic drive overlay so the computer doesn't halt at the POST and to recognise all the partitions on the 80 GB disk. All the partitions on this disk are FAT 32 and windows 98 se is installed on the first one. What is wrong is that linux doesn't recognise but the first main partition on the 80 Gb disk and sees all the other partitions as a single one (I have Drive C=10GB D=10GB E=20 GB F=20 GB G=20 GB on Windows 98). Linux sees partition 1=10 GB and partition 2=70GB. More. Diskdrake knows that a Dinamic Drive Overlay is beeing used because it shows that on the information of the main partition of hda. Is there any way of making all the partitions availlable? Thanks in advance for any help. Marco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to manage an archive of books
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 03:24 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On February 9, 2005 03:56 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have at home dozens and dozens of books and when I want to find a specific book, sometimes I hard... Is there some program to manage our personal books? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Tellico is the program you want. Just type in a terminal as root urpmi tellico Regards, Dan Gordon I agreen Dan, Tellico is fantastic, does books, and others as well. Do you know why the author changed the name from Bookcase to Tellico? -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 19:49:13 up 29 days, 2:25, 2 users, load average: 1.13, 1.38, 1.07 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk egrep patterns are full regular expressions; it uses a fast deterministic algorithm that sometimes needs exponential space. -- unix manuals Live - Classic Rock - From Virgin Radio UK Van Morrison - Domino - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to manage an archive of books
On February 9, 2005 08:50 pm, Chris wrote: I agreen Dan, Tellico is fantastic, does books, and others as well. Do you know why the author changed the name from Bookcase to Tellico? I think it is because the person(s) maintaining it changed hands. Regardless it does not matter it is a great program. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Feb 9 21:16:11 EST 2005 21:16:11 up 1 day, 14:13, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to manage an archive of books
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 19:50:20 -0600 Chris wrote: I agreen Dan, Tellico is fantastic, does books, and others as well. Do you know why the author changed the name from Bookcase to Tellico? * Tue Oct 19 2004 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0.12-1mdk - Renamed to Tellico because of trademark conflict. Tellico 0.12 is identical to Bookcase 0.11, except for the name change. BTW 0.13.2 is the current release and is available for Mdk 10.1 from my site Charles -- Dow's Law: In a hierarchical organization, the higher the level, the greater the confusion. - Mandrake Linux 10.2 on PurpleDragon 2.6.10-1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgpWhcwKTJjyd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Program to manage an archive of books
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 19:50:20 -0600 Chris wrote: I agreen Dan, Tellico is fantastic, does books, and others as well. Do you know why the author changed the name from Bookcase to Tellico? * Tue Oct 19 2004 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0.12-1mdk - Renamed to Tellico because of trademark conflict. Tellico 0.12 is identical to Bookcase 0.11, except for the name change. BTW 0.13.2 is the current release and is available for Mdk 10.1 from my site Charles -- Dow's Law: In a hierarchical organization, the higher the level, the greater the confusion. - Mandrake Linux 10.2 on PurpleDragon 2.6.10-1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgps0s2thq88v.pgp Description: 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 10.1 install checking for new hardware
I didn't have this problem myself, but I know some others have had, and I think they were cured by adding peripherals back after install. I'm not sure whether ohci, uhci and hotplug were all installed at initial installation, or whether they had to be added as well. Keep us informed of your progress and we'll see what we can sort out. Thanks Anne Rebooted with scanner unplugged and this time got as far as checking for new hardware. I waited five minute - not sure how long to wait. Nothing happened so stopped it. The other thing I forgot to say, was that on the first boot after install I received a message saying 'Welcome to first boot' but mouse wouldn't work. I thought it was detected correctly during the install, but perhaps not. It is a MS intellipoint on USB. I can change it to standard mouse connection with an adapter, if this would help. I have a recollection that mouse was a problem a few years ago with linux and had to call it something else. Thank Rosemary - 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] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo
Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:24:04 +1300 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikkel Big SNIP to focus on problem- made by Frank #other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 # label=linux90 # table=/dev/hdb # image=/boot/vmlinuz # root=/dev/hdb5 # initrd=/boot/initrd.img # append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent # vga=788 # read-only End of first big SNIP Bit of a SNIP here - Frank You are correct that image=/boot/vmlinuz probably wouldn't work on your system because that is typically a link to which ever kernel version is installed. Your system appears to be setup to not use such a link, so you would just have to show it as image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.whatever.version.youhave then you would also need to modify initrd=/boot/initrd.img to point to what ever version of initrd you would be using, like your other entries in lilo.conf do. if you were to copy vmlinuz, initrd, config, etc. (not exactly sure off the top of my head which files you need to copy out of /boot - anybody know off hand?) from your 9.1 install IRC to which ever partition that controls your bootup, then instead of; other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 label=linux90 table=/dev/hdb image=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only how about this; image=/boot/vmlinuz.your.version.here label=linux90 root=/dev/hdb5 initrd=/boot/initrd.your.version.here.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only other than that, I would tend to suspect that maybe root=/dev/hdb5 may need to have a different partition number instead of 5. Hope I am not too confusing! It isn't that it is confusing because it raises question that my technical logic trips up and that is what may make things confusing. Keep the input coming as it is most helpful. Brought over from another reply I still don't know how you installed Linux on the second drive. But there are a couple of things you could do. One would be to something like this: *** I had this hdd drive only to start with and successfully got dual booting with it before consigning it to be slave when I went to update to Mandrake10. *** *** Now everything Mikkel writes here has finely woken me up to what needs to be done and I look forward to the challenge because Mikkel has 'hit the nail on the head', so to speak. As Mandrake 9 was installed whilst the slave was the only hdd on my system then of course everything in the config files points to hda and of course will need to be changed. So where do I start and what do I look for once I have booted into this system ? [ This is an exercise only for me and not a mission critical requirement so I will, hopefully with the help offered here, take this one step at a time and if it is worthwhile and others agree, I will post it to the TWiki as a possible system recovery idea.] Anyway, with sleeves rolled up I venture forth. Here are the files I need to investigate that I know about to date - please add others as you think of them. I'm of course referring to the hdb files only here. /etc/fstab /etc/lilo.config mkdir /boot-9 mount /dev/hdb2 /boot-9 Use this in lilo: image=/boot-9/vmlinuz label=linux90 root=/dev/hdb5 initrd=/boot-9/initrd.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only Add a line in /etc/fstab to mount boot-9 in the future. (Coppy the line for /boot, and change /boot to /boot-9 and /dev/hda2 to /dev/hdb2) Now, if /dev/hdb was /dev/hda when you installed MDK9, then you will have to edit /etc/fstab on that version, and change everything that refers to /dev/hda to /dev/hdb. Another way to do it is use: other=/dev/hdb label=linux90 Then, in 9.0, change /etc/lilo.conf so that it installs in the MBR of the second drive. Hmmm Not sure I can do this without actually having MDK9 running at the time otherwise to my way of thinking, it will install directly to the master MBR surely?? Even then I'm not sure how to control running /sbin/lilo to be sure it actually installs onto the hdb MBR. boot=/dev/hda becomes boot=/dev/hdb. What happens then is when you pick linux90, you get a second boot screen. Again, if you installed 9.0 when the drive was the first hard drive, you have some editing to do. Both in /etc/fstab, and /etc/lilo.conf. You will also need to run lilo when in 9.0 to update the boot loader on the second drive. Can you boot 9.0 now, or do you need instructions on how to mount the partitions, and make the changes? I haven't gone this way yet Mikkel because I think things will only fall over until all changes to config files are made. I do like your idea of having the second logon screen option and will venture that way first once files are changed. One thought also
Re: [newbie] Dual layer DVD recommendations?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 23:01, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Know what I'd like to see? A script or wizard that would extract all known hardware info and bring up a list for you to check off worked first time, worked with tweaking (and a place to describe the tweak), or couldn't get it working, and maybe a don't know (not ideal, but it's bound to come up), then send the completed list to a database somewhere that is publicly queryable. Right now it's too much work to report all the hardware, so most people don't bother. Agreed - it would be really nice. Even better would be one that allowed the distro information to be included, so that it could become more widely useful. People who absolutely need a particular piece of less-common hardware could then see which distro was the best bet for it. Of course, nowadays most of the hardware just works, so it's less of an issue. True. Still, for those considering the change, or for buying new hardware, it would be extremely helpful. The problem is finding someone with the skills to do it and sufficient time. It must be possible to collect info from either kcontrol or harddrake and put it into a form, but there would have to be a central database, hosted by who? And of course the interface to upload the data. I wish I had the skills to try it, though. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCCwxckFAvMr/nNX8RAhsuAJ9DlIUiucyUCOL7L5yy8s5lnDyHYwCZAUaB 1qzuo8li1bf5oOsDTNcXykI= =6FxG -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 10.1 install checking for new hardware
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 Feb 2005 05:35, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: The other thing I forgot to say, was that on the first boot after install I received a message saying 'Welcome to first boot' but mouse wouldn't work. I thought it was detected correctly during the install, but perhaps not. It is a MS intellipoint on USB. I can change it to standard mouse connection with an adapter, if this would help. I have a recollection that mouse was a problem a few years ago with linux and had to call it something else. I'm sure there has been a lot written about usb mice problems - I don't use one, so I don't remember the details. First, try searching the Expert and Newbie list archives - you'll find a list of archive links at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MailingLists If you don't find what you need there start a new thread with 'usb mouse' in the subject, to attract the attention of people who use them. HTH Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCCw2qkFAvMr/nNX8RAulsAJ9vI/BdimkQeAI/hoN4qBQMyN2aegCgi15v CqEoeh5BU1pjxN1he34skmY= =C90s -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
