Re: [newbie] Ogle RPM not installing
Charlie wrote: On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 05:42 pm, Craig Bowyer sent these thoughts: I've been trying to install Ogle for viewing DVD's. However, whenever I've tried to install of the RPM PLF lists, I get the following from Rpmdrake: The following packages have bad signatures: libdvdcontrol9-0.9.2-1plf.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 gpg GPG#caba22ae NOT OK) libmsgevents6-0.9.2-1plf.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 gpg GPG#caba22ae NOT OK) ogle-0.9.2-1plf.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 gpg GPG#caba22ae NOT OK) Do you want to continue installation? I then say no. I've tried changing PLF lists, however, exactly the same message comes up when trying to install from another one as well. Is there something I need to remove/change in my standard install before this can install? I'm currently using Community 10.0. Regards, Craig Wrong answer, say 'yes' Works every time. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Sorry if I'm sounding confused - I've only recently switched from Windows where error messages mean your system is about to go down the gurgler. If it works every time, why are these error messages appearing? Regards, Craig. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Dual Boot WinXP - Mandrake 10.0 Mnt question
Hi all, I have a dual boot system which automatically mounts my Windows XP partition, however, it mounts it read only. Is there a way of changing the mounting so it can be written to as well? Regards, Craig. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ogle RPM not installing
Craig Bowyer wrote: I've been trying to install Ogle for viewing DVD's. However, whenever I've tried to install of the RPM PLF lists, I get the following from Rpmdrake: The following packages have bad signatures: libdvdcontrol9-0.9.2-1plf.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 gpg GPG#caba22ae NOT OK) libmsgevents6-0.9.2-1plf.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 gpg GPG#caba22ae NOT OK) ogle-0.9.2-1plf.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 gpg GPG#caba22ae NOT OK) Do you want to continue installation? I then say no. I've tried changing PLF lists, however, exactly the same message comes up when trying to install from another one as well. Is there something I need to remove/change in my standard install before this can install? I'm currently using Community 10.0. Regards, Craig Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Your right, I installed it anyway, and it's working perfectly. The only reason I queried it is before I reinstalled Mandrake, I had installed it and it failed to run. Now it seems to be working a bit better. Thanks, Craig. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ogle RPM not installing
Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 11 Jul 2004 08:42, Craig Bowyer wrote: I've been trying to install Ogle for viewing DVD's. However, whenever I've tried to install of the RPM PLF lists, I get the following from Rpmdrake: The following packages have bad signatures: libdvdcontrol9-0.9.2-1plf.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 gpg GPG#caba22ae NOT OK) libmsgevents6-0.9.2-1plf.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 gpg GPG#caba22ae NOT OK) ogle-0.9.2-1plf.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 gpg GPG#caba22ae NOT OK) Do you want to continue installation? I then say no. I've tried changing PLF lists, however, exactly the same message comes up when trying to install from another one as well. Is there something I need to remove/change in my standard install before this can install? I'm currently using Community 10.0. Regards, Craig Click Yes and it will install. That message is simply telling you that the signature of the packager who created the RPM does not match the signature associated with that mirror. It does not mean the package is corrupted in any way. A corrupted RPM will not install. The package signature is intended to assure you that some nasty person has not cracked the mirror FTP site and inserted a malicious package on the site. However not all the package creators sign their work correctly and so you see messages like this. If you are worried, then just think how many packages you have downloaded and installed for Windows, not one of which had any sort of protection like this. If you open MandrakeControlCemtreSoftwareMediaManagerManage keys you should see that the key associated with PLF is caba22ac while these packages are signed with caba22ae derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Thanks Derek, You've just managed to explain this to me and ease my confusion. Regards, Craig. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot WinXP - Mandrake 10.0 Mnt question
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 12 July 2004 06:46 am, Craig Bowyer wrote: Hi all, I have a dual boot system which automatically mounts my Windows XP partition, however, it mounts it read only. Is there a way of changing the mounting so it can be written to as well? Yes. But at the risk of corrupting or losing your Windows XP filesystem. Writing NTFS is not yet fully trusted by most open source authors due to unpublished quirks. You would do much better to set up a smaller, FAT32 partition and use that for transferring files. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Thanks Brian, The reason I asked is that I heard that a couple of distributions were allowing this as an add-on or straight out of the box. I wasn't sure if any advances had been made to the technology to make it more reliable or not. Regards, Craig Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Need to change desktop manager from KDE at startup/command line
Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 07 Jul 2004 12:26, cbowyer wrote: Hi guys, I've just updated KDE and crashed it (it seems to be missing something when running - I might have missed something when upgrading KDE). When I start up it tries to run KDE and can't find certain files/folders then drops me back to the command line where I can login normally. I'm using Mandrake 10 Community and have it set to auto-login with KDE as default desktop manager. I used the Cooker URPM servers to upgrade KDE to version 3.2.3. Can someone advise me how to get into gnome (or another desktop manager) from the command line or how to edit the startup file to stop automatically defaulting to KDE and choose another desktop manager? Regards, Craig startx icewm for example will start IceWM (assuming it is installed) If it is not installed log in at the command line as root and urpmi icewm to install it. Did this and ended up in Icewm OK, then went to remove KDE Gnome from RPMDrake. After removing all rpm's for kde and gnome and reinstalling them, still getting same problem, except now I can also use the startx kde and startx gnome commands, the only problem is they go to Icewm not KDE or Gnome. Deleting your ~/.kde directory may enable you to log into KDE again Tried deleting the .kde directory, it still did not work. It tries to start it up but blanks out then returns to the prompt. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I've since reinstalled Mandrake from scratch and updated everything that was updatable. It again crashed KDE. Seems there is an incompatibility with my PC or the way I am updating. I've left KDE and Gnome without any updates for the moment - I'm afraid of breaking something again, and I only seem to find out after a reboot. Regards, Craig Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Need to change desktop manager from KDE at startup/command line
Lanman wrote: cbowyer wrote: Hi guys, I've just updated KDE and crashed it (it seems to be missing something when running - I might have missed something when upgrading KDE). When I start up it tries to run KDE and can't find certain files/folders then drops me back to the command line where I can login normally. I'm using Mandrake 10 Community and have it set to auto-login with KDE as default desktop manager. I used the Cooker URPM servers to upgrade KDE to version 3.2.3. Can someone advise me how to get into gnome (or another desktop manager) from the command line or how to edit the startup file to stop automatically defaulting to KDE and choose another desktop manager? Regards, Craig Get your hands on the Xtart RPM, and install it. That will give you a console-based menu of your desktop systems, and from there you can pick whichever one you want Craig. Before you do this, you can boot into a console by pressing Shift and I - that is, hold down the shift key and press the letter I (eye) before going past the interactive boot process. You'll be given the option to start all the normal services one at a time. Make sure that you don't start the dm service, because that's the one that's launching your log-in screen. Once you're at the console, urpmi Xtart, and after installation, run it from the prompt. You'll see the list of desktops you can launch. HTH Lanman I tried this, however, it wouldn't let me into Gnome or KDE even though they were in the list. When I restarted the PC, I was given a choice at the graphical login, however it wouldn't let me login there. Kept refusing, even when trying to login as Root. I have since reinstalled Mandrake Community and ran all the updates again, the same thing happened so I think something in the updates doesn't like my hardware. I have reinstalled again, but not run any updates for KDE, Gnome or XFree86 yet, as I'm not sure which ones are breaking my desktop. I have the following hardware: Intel pentium 4 2.8e processor Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000-G motherboard Powercolor Radeon 9600XT Graphics Card (picked up by Linux as a Radeon 9600XT AR (AGP)) AOC LM520i 15 LCD Monitor (picked up by Linux as a standard 1024x768 flatscreen with 16 million colours) Is there something I need to change? Regards, Craig Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] switching from fedora core, need some advice
Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: hello, i've been a pretty devout redhat user since around 2000. that being said, i'm thinking of switching over to mandrake 10.0 because of a couple reasons: 1) i'm a huge KDE fan and that is default desktop on mandrake (as opposed to fedora core's gnome) 2) fedora core 2 seems to have been getting tons of complaints lately now i have a few questions/concerns before switching over: 1) typically, i do a pretty minimal linux install + dev tools and i install all my program from source. i like to have my stuff pretty up to date. if i'm in a bind for time, i sometimes download an rpm and manually install it. i'm older now and more busy, i don't really have the time to compile everything from source (else i would use gentoo i guess)...;) i never learned how to use yum or anything like that but i think if i do a fresh install of some linux distro i'd like to learn a tool like that. does mandrake have anything like yum? what is package management like and where can i learn more about it? 2) related to #1 above, i noticed that mandrake 10.0 comes with kde-3.2. the latest version of kde is 3.2.3. is there any easy way to upgrade? 3) there is some issue about the new kernel and dual booting with winxp (i've read about it on the fedora mailing list). does mandrake have a similar problem? it would seem like the answer is yes, since its a 2.6 kernel problem. I am running a dual boot system with both Windows XP and Mandrake 10.0 Community. It picked up the Windows XP partition with no problem. The only thing is it mounts it with read only access. I'm not sure if this is a standard feature of mounting Windows partitions or not in Linux, as I've only been using it for a month. 4) i'm tired of manual configuring things with vim...;) since mandrake is suppose to be the leader in linux desktop computing, i'm hoping that there are gui configuration tools for pretty much everything. is this true? thats all i can think of now. i guess my main reason for switching is KDE and i'm guessing that all of mandrakes configuration tools use the KDE (or QT) libraries. what do you all think? thanks for the insights and advice! 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] Motherboard Ethernet adaptor not detected correctly
Hi there, I have a system with a Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000-G Motherboard, this motherboard has an onboard Gigabit Ethernet card which Windows 2000 detects as a Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter, Copper RJ-45. Linux however picks it up as an Intel Chipset adapter. This is causing Eth0 connection to fail to connect. Can anybody out there advise how I can get the Ethernet adapter driver for Linux (The Gigabyte website doesn't even seem to list this motherboard in their products,let alone provide the driver and the Hardware list doesn't seem to have any Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Motherboards supported)? Thanks in advance, Migrane - A tree falling in the forest with nobody around does NOT make a sound. Sound is only sound when it is heard - otherwise it's just a vibration in the air. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Gateway config???
Every time I boot up I have to assign my default gateway manually so I can get online. Is there a file that I need to add the gateway to? I've tried the network file in /etc/sysconfig Any suggestions Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] New Galaxy theme.
Title: RE: [newbie] New Galaxy theme. Thanks for that. Any screenshots? -Original Message- From: mycal62 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 21 February 2003 12:17 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New Galaxy theme. Hi Craig, you can get it here : http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/galaxy-kde-0.0.4-5mdk.i586.html You will also need fontconfig, and libfontconfig.so.1 first. Tried it in KDE 3.1 under 9.0 and it will install fine , but it's nothing special. very flat and plain Later Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: Hi All, What is this galaxy theme everyone is talking about (came with 9.1_RC1)? Does anyone have any screen shots of this new theme. IMHO it could be Mandrake's reaction to Redhat's Bluecurve. Thanks in advance. Craig Good luck Team New Zealand. Lets keep the cup at home. -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA ~~ Currently triple booting 98lite; MDK 9.1-beta3 with Kde 3.1; MDK 9.0 kernel 2.4.19-16 Kde 3.1 Registered Linux User #248955 ~~ If obstacles are what you see in your path... Then you have lost sight of your goal!
[newbie] ISO Downloads
I just downloaded Mandrake 9 ISOs from mirror.aca.oakland.edu The first image, Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso, after I burn it to a CD (Using Nero 5.5), does not boot, and I cannot see any files on it in windows as I can on the other two (Discs 23). I am using Nero 5.5 with a Philips 8x4x32 CDRW Drive (CD4800 I think). I tried booting on my laptops CD-ROM drive (QSR SDR-081 DVD ROM) and my desktops (Creative DVD-ROM DVD1241E) to no avail. My computers are set in the BIOS to boot from CD-ROM first. Any suggestions? Besides downloading from another server? Thanx craig
RE: [newbie] ISO Downloads
Title: RE: [newbie] ISO Downloads I did burn it as an image. I started downloading another image, it has about 20 mins left. I will have to see how it works. Thanx, craig -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWO Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 2:37 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] ISO Downloads -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Craig Deline Jr Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] ISO Downloads I just downloaded Mandrake 9 ISO's from mirror.aca.oakland.edu The first image, Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso, after I burn it to a CD (Using Nero 5.5), does not boot, and I cannot see any files on it in windows as I can on the other two (Disc's 23). I am using Nero 5.5 with a Philips 8x4x32 CDRW Drive (CD4800 I think). I tried booting on my laptop's CD-ROM drive (QSR SDR-081 DVD ROM) and my desktop's (Creative DVD-ROM DVD1241E) to no avail. My computers are set in the BIOS to boot from CD-ROM first. Any suggestions? Besides downloading from another server? Thanx craig Sounds like an often made mistake, you copied the file and did not make an image from iso. Nero should have a tool that says make image from iso on the tool bar somewhere. I don't use Nero so may be wrong. Anybody else familiar with it? HTH Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] M9.0 and OpenOffice
Title: RE: [newbie] M9.0 and OpenOffice Hi All, I had this trouble with 3D shapes. If you have OpenGL turned on and are using an nVidia card (with latest drivers), this will cause the problem you have described. I found by turning off OpenGL in OpenOffice fixed the problem for me. Hope this helps. Craig -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 22 November, 2002 8:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] M9.0 and OpenOffice On Thursday 21 Nov 2002 5:55 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Joe Braddock wrote: To insert a picture into an OO document, use the Insert==Graphics==From File menu. Works like a charm. Joeb Then I think there must be something wrong with my settings. I go insert-graphics-from file menu - up comes a window, I direct to .jpeg file, click open and a square with 6 small green markers to the parimiter appears but no photo. Any thoughts ? I think this one is a setting, too, John. There is one somewhere to show or hide graphics - to speed up handling of large documents. Check through all the settings you can find. Anne
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Title: RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Hi There, I asked that question before. Not many people were forthcoming with suggestions. It seems like the spellchecker in Mandrake9.0 is corrupted. There is no possible way that I know to get it working. Redhat8.0's OpenOffice spellchecker had the same problem, but running the repair tool fixed this up. Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack). I actually e-mailed the openoffice mailing list as well and their suggestion was to blow away the Mandrake version, and grab the 'official' version from the openoffice.org site. Hope this helps. Craig -Original Message- From: Malcolm Candlish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 20 November, 2002 8:56 AM To: Mandrake List Subject: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Hello, Can any one suggest a method of getting OO Spell Checker in Mandrake 9.0 working. I have looked around without finding information, except at www.openoffice.org from whence I downloaded 'OOodi-static-0.55-0.i386.rpm'. However I simply cannot get it to run! I expect this has come up some where before, if so please let me know. With thanks in advance of your kind reading. Malcolm Candlish.
RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
Title: RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Hi There, I can't be 100% certain about this. I know that the mandrake guys are really clued up about what they do, maybe they did disable the spell checker on purpose, maybe it was a genuine mistake. If they did it on purpose, they would most likely try and push the fix to the solution as StarOffice (hence the powerpack statement) or possibly even the Mandrake Club. If true, it smells of a Microsoft tactic. Disable an important feature in a cheaper program, and push the solution as the more expensive option. It could also be a mistake, no bodies perfect. In my experiences with Mandrake9.0, there are a lot of bugs that keep me from completely dropping windows. This problem is pretty big for a lot of people, and I am sure that if Mandrake didn't ship StarOffice as well, OpenOffice would have been working correctly. Any comments? Craig -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 20 November, 2002 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Craig, you can't be serious. Miark Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack).
[newbie]
Hiya! Brand new to Linux, and trying to install Mandrake 8.0 on an old Compaq Proliant Server (1500) with P166 and 128. Also new to SCSI, and this machine has tonnes of it. I managed to boot off the installation diskette, and got to the install of Linux, but was stopped when Linux could not find somewhere to load the OS onto. I have heard that installaing linux on these servers isn't easy. I used Compaqs Smart Start CD, and I think I got all that right. Maybe there is a command line way to get this to work? Thanks, Craig Wet Behind em Ears! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT?
Title: RE: [newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT? Try Codeweavers' Crossover-plugin. It has direct support for quicktime. -Original Message- From: Carl J. Bauman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 04 November, 2002 10:39 AM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: [newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT? Hi All, I'm using Netscape 7.0 with Mandrake 9.0 and was wondering if there's plugin that I can use to handle the video/quicktime MIME type. If so, how would I implement that plugin? I apologize if this is OT for the list. Hopefully, I can be forgiven for such a slight transgression... Thanks in advance, Carl
[newbie] FW: OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft
Title: FW: OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft Whoops. I accidentally sent this to the wrong mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I think I might have opened a hornets nest ;-). Craig -Original Message- From: Craig Williamson (ENZ) Sent: Thursday, 17 October, 2002 9:22 AM To: 'Miark' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft Check these sites out. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/14/136244=thread=109 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/10/1420208=thread=109 http://www.freedos.org/ I know it's hard to beleive. But they aren't a monopoly for nothing :-(. -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 17 October, 2002 9:11 AM To: Craig Williamson (ENZ) Subject: Re: OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft Technically they can't. Microsoft slapped on new requirements to stop them doing that. Eh? How can M$ do that? Miark
RE: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft
Title: RE: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft Hi There, Technically they can't. Microsoft slapped on new requirements to stop them doing that. But. Dell have found a way to get around it. If you order their n-series PC's it has a copy of FreeDOS (one floppy) included in the box. The n-series PC's are not advertised, so you might have to ring them up. The thing I'm quite confused about, is the fact that the other PC companies haven't caught on. Hope this helps. Craig -Original Message- From: Todd Slater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 17 October, 2002 1:54 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft In another blow to Microsoft, a fourth computer maker plans to bundle Corel's WordPerfect Office with its low-end consumer machines. http://news.com.com/2100-1040-962085.html Now if some of the biggies would just sell some puters without an OS! Todd
RE: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft
Title: RE: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft Hi There, It is probably true that Dell sales people don't want to sell this, because it is mainly for businesses. Also they probably don't want to peeve Microsoft anymore than they already have. Some more information. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949671.html?tag=fd_top Microsoft's response. http://members.microsoft.com/partner/licensing/licensingbasics/DellOfferingChannel.aspx Redhat's Reaction https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/open-source-now-list/2002q3/001508.html -Original Message- From: Todd Slater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 17 October, 2002 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 06:00:14 +1000 Craig Williamson (ENZ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi There, Technically they can't. Microsoft slapped on new requirements to stop them doing that. But. Dell have found a way to get around it. If you order their n-series PC's it has a copy of FreeDOS (one floppy) included in the box. The n-series PC's are not advertised, so you might have to ring them up. The thing I'm quite confused about, is the fact that the other PC companies haven't caught on. Hope this helps. Craig MS must have tightened the reins, or the person I talked to from Dell was clueless. I asked for the n-series and she said it was not available. I asked for a pc without an OS, and she said they don't sell them without the OS, but that I could use fdisk and wipe everything out. I said but I'm still paying for the OS and she says no, it comes with the computer and I said well, don't you think the price of the OS is factored into the price of the computer? Let us know if you have an inside scoop! Todd
RE: [newbie] OO program fonts
Title: RE: [newbie] OO program fonts Hi There, For your font rendering problem. I don't now what the Mandrake 9.0 stance is for xft2, fontconfig, and freetype. If these are installed, try some of the xft2 fonts in OpenOffice. Just as an example, take a look at this Redhat 8.0 screenshot for OpenOffice. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/screenshots/redhat80/snapshot12.jpg This is what can happen if they take some time to look at OpenOffice. -Original Message- From: Robin Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 14 October, 2002 8:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OO program fonts Noah Hicks wrote: Any one know how to change the program fonts in Openoffice.org? I read how to do it somewhere a long time ago but I can't remember where. Presently the fonts look like they went through a blender. Use spadmin to add/delete fonts. Use Options to choose the default fonts for text documents, and font substitution if required. BTW, font handling is much better in the latest verison - it will detect resident fonts automatically. Sir Robin
[newbie] Mandrake 9.0 i18n ISO
Title: Mandrake 9.0 i18n ISO Hi All, I finally downloaded it. Do you need to download the i18n ISO image or can you get away without it. Thanks in advance. Craig
[newbie] Mandrake9.0 with WindowsXP
Title: Mandrake9.0 with WindowsXP Hi All, This may sound dumb, but when Mandrakes website says it can support NTFS natively, does that include WindowsXP's version of NTFS (NTFS 5.1 I think). Can someone help. Thanks in advance. Craig
[newbie] Issues with kmerlin
Title: Issues with kmerlin Hi All, I recently downloaded kmerlin 0.3.1 with KDE 2.2.2 . There are quite a number of bugs (funny it accesses an M$ product ;-) ) so is there an alternative to accessing MSN. Any suggestions please. Sorry if this arrives as HTML as this is my work PC. Cheers. Craig
[newbie] Konqueror and Flash Plugin
Title: Konqueror and Flash Plugin Hi All, I recently installed the Flash plugin that came with the Mandrake 8.1 PowerPack Edition. It will work with Netscape but not with Konqueror or Mozilla. Loading and enabling Konqueror plugins still won't detect it. Is there any way I can get Konqueror to work with Flash. Also on a side note, any way to get Mozilla to detect it. I'm using Mozilla 0.9.5 that came with Mandrake 8.1. Cheers. Craig Williamson
RE: [newbie] XFREE86 4.x.x and Mandrake 8.1
Title: RE: [newbie] XFREE86 4.x.x and Mandrake 8.1 Hi there, You need XFree86 4.0.3 or higher in order to run the nVidia drivers. Mandrake also comes with XFree86 4.1.0 so you should be right there. -Original Message- From: Dan bingham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 11 January 2002 12:25 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] XFREE86 4.x.x and Mandrake 8.1 I've been farting around with my X setup (Mandrake 8.1).. getting my NVidia TNT2 to work.. I got the driver working, but now I can't find out where to specify which version of XFREE to load.. it's loading into the old 3.x.x version and the Nvidia driver doesn't work.. Does anyone know how to specify which version of XFREE86 to run? Any help is appreciated. /Dan _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
RE: [newbie] How to renew IP address?
Title: RE: [newbie] How to renew IP address? Hi All, You can also try: ifdown eth0 (stops the current network) ifup eth0 (looks for new information for the new network) This can be used for anything from ethernet (eth0, eth1,...), PPP sessions (ppp0, ppp1,...) so this command is quite flexible. Good Luck -Original Message- From: Gerald Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How to renew IP address? On Tuesday 08 January 2002 05:33 pm, Johnson, David wrote: Ok. I've searched around and I know I've seen it on the list before, but I just moved my machine to a different physical network and need to get a new IP address from a DHCP server. How do I release/renew my IP address without rebooting the machine? Thanks in advance! Hopw about /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart Gerald
[newbie]
Hi All, I am looking for a Microsoft Publisher-like program for Linux. Gnome/GTK+ or KDE/QT only please. Do any of you have suggestions. Thanks. Craig
[newbie] Joystick setup
Title: Joystick setup Hi All, Can anyone tell me how to set up a joystick under Linux. Also, does the throttle control and the VOP buttons work under Linux or is that just wishful thinking. I have an A4Tech Scrollfire SF-5 joystick. Please help.
RE: [newbie] avi files
Title: RE: [newbie] avi files If you've got Mandrake8.1 there ia a program called xmovie. If you don't have it go to sourceforge with the address http://xine.sourceforge.net and download an excellent media player. It's still in beta, but it should help you. Cheers and good luck. Craig Williamson -Original Message- From: mnu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 7:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] avi files Does anyone know of any program that would allow me to view .avi files in linux? Thanks Meg
[newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware
Title: Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware Hi All, I'm writing this because I'm curious. With all the trouble with WindowsXP having all these hardware issues, isn't it about time to get our thinking caps on and re-focus our attention on the fact at this moment in time we have an opportunity to exploit Linux hardware capabilities. One guy saying he couldn't get his USB keyboard to work under WinXP where Linux could is a prime example. Okay so WindowsXP has almost rock solid stability, but for the first time ever, LINUX SUPPORTS MORE HARDWARE!!!. We need to push this at this time before Microsoft gets it's act together. What are your thoughts on this and I hope it will inspire someone on this mailing list to push this further. This may be the invunerability that could drag Microsoft to its knees. Craig Williamson
RE: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and WindowsXP
Title: RE: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and WindowsXP Hi There, If you go to www.kde-look.org you can get the Luna interface (but only for KDE 2.2 or higher) FYI You can also get the Acqua (MacOS X) theme if you really want it. Also you can change the window decoration to system++ (I think) and you will have the classic MAC window decoration. I'm using this at the moment and it's frickin' awesome. Craig Williamson -Original Message- From: Lin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and WindowsXP how do we get the Luna theme on Mandrake? does it come with KDE selection? I really enjoyed and missed apple system 7.6, but Mac computers usually are more expensive than pc. If we can run mac theme on Mandrake - that would be great! Eric On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, skinky wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 02:11, D. wrote: | Well why do we care about XP? And if you just | installed it how do you know that it is more stable | then ME? Don't you need some run time before you make | that statement?? And please tell us how you enjoy | paying the license fee again after you upgrade your | hardware. The last time that I looked this was | [newbie] Linux-Mandrake list not XP. If there is a | problem running a dual boot with XP(eww) and Mandrake | then yes we care. | Don | | --- Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Just upgraded to WindowsXP, for those who even care, | and it went smoothly. | Runs faster than ME and is very stable and solid. | The usual applications that | would crash ME without fail didn't even make XP | hiccup. | | Two things though in both Linux and XP I just can't | get my ancient external | parallel port CDwriter to work automatically. With | XP I have to wait until HP | puts the download on their website, which I had to | to with my scanner with | ME, and so far with Linux the information I found | requires me to play with | some settings which I am more than willing to learn | just hard to find the | time lately. | | As far as the Luna interface being a rip of Apple's | Aqua, not with all the | wishful thinking and eye squinting does it look like | Aqua. I still enjoy | Linux's adaptability for making the Aqua theme much | nicer than to enjoy | without tying it to a premium system. | | If anyone wishes to drop me a hint on the CDwriter | issue or a link for the | truly RAW newbie I would appreciate it very much. Quite the opposite in my case. As I have _no_ intention of upgrading M$ Win98SE to XP, I'm quite curious as to the differences in XP. I never got ME but I've read about a few people's experiences with it. Yes, this is a Linux-Mandrake list but there's nothing wrong with the comparision between the two OS's displaying a theme. And besides, I think Robert wants to know how to get his CD Writer going in Linux. Sorry I can't help you there Robert. Good luck. skinky PS. why are we getting so touchy on the M$ subject? Must be the weather... ; ) -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip)
[newbie] deleting contents of a file
Is there a linux command that will remove the contents of a file, but leave the file name? Thanks HW
Re: [newbie] Windows killed Linux- can't find fs
Hi again, Thanks for the replies thus far. I don't think that I have a separate /home partition (duh!). I did before with Mandrake 7 but I believe that I just went with one big partition (yeah I'm lazy) when I reformated and installed Mandrake 8. I have tried to upgrade with the Mandrake 8 CD - no luck. It reports back that the list is empty or some such (partition map table perhaps). I am wondering if this might work: I have another 2 GB laptop hard drive around the house somewhere. I could swap that into the computer and then install Linux on it fresh. If I could find a way to hook up the present internal exterally, then perhaps I could retrieve my files. (What do you think?) Does anyone know of a way to house a laptop internal drive in some kind of (probably USB) external enclosure? I have seen this done with old drives from desktop machines. Craig Hagerman -- Hi, I am in a real bind and am desperatly hoping someone can help me out. I am using Mandrake 8 on a laptop with filesystem ReiserFS. Windows (98) is installed on it's own partition but I haven't event booted it in about 6 months. When I did happen to use Windows a couple days ago I went through deleting lots of stuff I don't need. Then I decided to defrag the hard drive (thinking that it would only affect the Windows partition) to make sure everything was neat and tidy again. The standard defrag utility told me to run scan disc first to check and repair the drive - so I did. After about an hour or so I was all done. Scan disc found and fixed some errors and then the defrag app optimized the hard drive. But then when I tried to boot into Linux again i got a strange error just after starting up. After a page or two of start up messages booting into Linux it stops and reports: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07 I get the same result when trying to boot with failsafe or with a boot floopy. Anyone have any idea what is going on here? I have tried searching on the internet but can't come across this problem. Has Windows gone and messed up Linux when I used either scan disc or defragment? (By the way everything was working PERFECTLY with Linux before I went and tried to do all of this housecleaning in Windows.) Please please tell me there is a way to get everything back - I have 6 months of work on the Linux partition that I don't want to lose. (I know, I know - I didn't think to back up most of it. But I promise if anyone can help me boot in again doing a backup will be the very next thing I do!) TIA, Craig Hagerman
[newbie] Partition Size Recommendation
Hello all, I'm installing Mandrake 8 on a 30 gb HD with 512 mb RAM. What size should I make the following? Why? / swap /usr /var /home I'll be using mostlyfor graphics, HTML authoring and learning Perl/CGI. Thanks Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] corrupt RPM file ??
I had the same problem with some of the packages on my CD's, both my supplier and I came to the conclusion that, yes, the packages were corrupt. I ended up getting some new CD's as it was hard to tell which packages were corrupt (I couldn't be bothered testing several thousand packages), downloading the packages should do the trick though. Good luck, Craig - Original Message - From: Robert Fleming To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 10:00 PM Subject: [newbie] corrupt RPM file ?? I am trying to install the glibc-devel rpm. However when I try andinstall it the following results:[root@localhost /root]# rpm -i/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/glibc-devel-2.1.3-16mdk.i586.rpmunpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic[root@localhost /root]#Also inspection of the install.log file shows the above error messagepresent as well. I have checked the RPM file inquestion, and here are the results: [root@localhost RPMS]# rpm -i --test glibc-devel-2.1.3-16mdk.i586.rpm[root@localhost RPMS]# rpm -K glibc-devel-2.1.3-16mdk.i586.rpmglibc-devel-2.1.3-16mdk.i586.rpm: MD5 GPG NOT OK[root@localhost RPMS]# rpm --checksig glibc-devel-2.1.3-16mdk.i586.rpmglibc-devel-2.1.3-16mdk.i586.rpm: MD5 GPG NOT OK[root@localhost RPMS]# Does this mean that the RPM is corrupt? And I guess if that is the case I will need to get the entire RPM again? Finally is it possible to acquire RPMs that have been compressed? (ie tar.Z)wade
[newbie] corrupt RPM packages
Does anyone know of a way to check a group of RPM packages (say, a directory full), to see if any of them are corrupt. I have had problems with several packages, I use the rpm -K utility to check the packages which gives a "NOT OK" response on problem packages, so I would like to see exactly which packages are corrupt.
[newbie] installing everything
there's been a few posts on the subject, but how exactly do I install everything from the 2 CD's at installation and how much space would it require?
[newbie] Newly compiled 2.4.1 kernel won't boot- grub to blame?
Hi, I have compiled the new 2.4 kernel and everything seems to have gone OK, but I can't boot into it. All of the on-line "how to compile and install a new kernel" web pages end up talking about configuring lilo but I am using grub (+ Mandrake 7.1 with upgraded KDE, developer tools etc.) I think that my problem is just that I have not configured things correctly for grub. Can anyone give me advice on this procedure. (I have found grub documentation (in the doc/ directory, info doc and the on-line page) less than helpful in this regard.) Here is what I have done: Downloaded the source for kernel 2.4.1 to my /root directory extracted the tarball with % tar -zxvf linux-2.4.1.tar.gz cd to the resultant linux/ directory and configured the kernel with the graphical tool: % make xconfig and then: % make dep % make clean % make bzImage % make modules % make modules_install then I moved and renamed both bzImage and System.map % mv /arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.1 % mv System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.1 and finally deleted the existing symlinks for System.map and vmlinuz and made new ones linked to those new files: % rm System.map % rm vmlinuz % ln -s System.map-2.4.1 % ls -s vmlinuz-2.4.1 vmlinuz So far everything proceeded just fine with no complaints. I figured that the grub menu.lst just needed a bit of tweaking (to removed references to initrd that I don't need) and I would be good to go. ... But no. On reboot after the grub time delay I get some message about decompressing the kernel and asking me to wait ... and that is all. It doesn't go anywhere after that. I can still boot into the old kernel (Linux_old) just fine. I have deleted everything that I described above and did it all over again thinking I must have made a mistake but it has the same results. Finally I tried the step that all of the "how to compile a kernel" web sites end on and added a new section to the lilo.conf file and ran: % lilo Now on reboot grub is gone, lilo is taking it's place and it still stops just after the "decompressing kernel" message. How do I get grub back working? How do I properly configure grub for the new kernel? And what else have I missed to get 2.4.1 to boot properly. Sincere thanks in advance, Craig Hagerman
[newbie] win98 freezes after 7.2 install
I just installed mandrake 7.2 and now my windows 98 seems to pause for about 20 seconds at certain times. I'm not sure whether its mandrake or not, maybe its something to do with the boot loader. Anyone had the same problem.
[newbie] Problem with gcc
I'm using the version of gcc that comes with mandrake 7.2. I try to compile and itsaid I itcouldn't find some header files (stddef.h and stdarg.h), I got those and then it said it couldn't find crtbegin.o, I got that and now it say t cant find -lgcc. I stuck now, anyone know what to do?
[newbie] Modem Problem
I have a problem with my modem, I don't know what brand it is, I just use a generic rockwell driver in windows98, it is ISA. I have succeded in dialing through minicom, nowhere else. I thought I should use kppp, but I can't seem to find that, maybe it wasn't installed although I couldn't see it in the package list (mandrake 7.2). Can anybody help setting up my modem and kppp.
[newbie] Permissions
Can someone help me with this one? I just installed M 7.2 using KDE-2. I find that even as root, I cannot access the CD Rom or floppy drives. When I look at the properties in X-Win, I see that as root, I have All permissions. When I check in console, I see the same. What can I do to fix this? Thanks Ron CraigEducational ServicesDatalex Communications, Inc USA2325 Lakeview Pkwy. Suite 600Alpharetta, GA 30004770 255-2436http://www.datalex.com
[newbie] network card detected....can't use internet
I have a AMD ethernet card(model 79c970) that has been detected under linux mandrake 7.1 But i still have had no luck getting on the internet at all. I've set up settings copying from windows for dns, host name, ip, subnet mask, and gateway. all with no luck. When i try to use netscape, for example, i get two errors. 1. Netscape is unable to locate the server "." 2. Perhaps you have a probelem with your name server. You will need to set the $SOCKS_NS environment variable to point at the appropriate name server. If any one could help me with this i would be greatly appreciative. Thanks Craig Zutavern
[newbie] Latest Hard Drake
Anyone having trouble installing latest version of Hard Drake? I am. It is supposed to have fixed many of the modem configuration problems many of us are experiancing. http://www.linuxmandrake.com/harddrake http://www.linux-mandrake.com/harddrake/download.html Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] I can't detect my modem - Attention Charles A Edwards
5$2f301aa0$76833dd0@quantex Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Craig Sorry for the flare up. The humor just hit me wrong when I read it. Denis replyed to another post that recalled something I had forgotten. Did you set up any kind of network during or after your Mandrake installation. This can cause the behavior we are seeing with your modem Also have you used anything other than kppp to set-up your connection if so it may also be causing a problem. Since we have done what should work but dosn't we now enter the realm of trial, error, and hope. Charles Charles, When doing the Mandrake 7.1 install I answered NO when it wanted to set up local network. No network after either. KPPP is the only thing I have tried to connect with. Thanks Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Hard Drake version
How do I find what version of Hard Drake I have installed? Thanks Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Possible modem solutions
In my quest to get my Linux compatible modem working with Mandrake 7.1, I ran across this article that may be of help to some of you. If it has already been posted here. My apologies. http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/printer.pl?issue=2000-03article=newbies Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] The dish net work going isp
Hugh, Read more about it herehttp://www.gilat2home.com/index.html Available through Dish Network and Radio Shack. Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hugh wrote: I had my system upgraded I use the Dish Network which has one of those tiny dish setups. Well the gentleman and I were talking about computers and he mentioned that they are going to add Internet service to there lineup. Now the thing is it's two way via the satt. so there wont be a need to use a phone line to dialin. I called there main office and they said it should be on-line sometime in Nov. or Dec. It's only ten times as fast as dialin but would only cost about $20.00. Just thought I would mention this. Sounds like the solution for me as ADSL isnt in my area yet. PS The gentleman said I could stop by there shop and test it out :) Now if only I can set my box up to use it LOL
[newbie] Modem doesn't show up in HardDrake
Hello Guys and Gals, Just installed Mandrake 7.1 a few hours ago. Was running SuSE 6.4 for about 3 weeks prior. My system is: ASUS P3V4X motherboard 800 Pentium III 256 - 133 MHz RAM 2 - 29 gb Seagate UDMA 66 hard drives Sony CD Sony CDR SoundBlaster 128 US Robotics 3CP5610A Matrox G400 video card ViewSonic G810 - 21" monitor I'm running Win 98 and Mandrake 7.1 through System Commander 2000. I have 17 gb on 1st HD allotted to Linux Having trouble with modem installation. Here is some screen shots showing what I have. http://www.chanuteks.com/usa/images/modem03.gif http://www.chanuteks.com/usa/images/modem04.gif http://www.chanuteks.com/usa/images/modem05.gif Thanks Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] mounting win disk on linux4win
Hello there A very basic question, reflecting my absolute begginer status in the world of mandrake. I'm running linux4win, and am wanting to access my windows files, by mounting the win disk. Only problem is that all the procedures I have read assume you have paritioned the hard drive and are mounting hda1 to the linux tree. I haven't partioned my disk, but can I still use the /dev/hda1 /windows...etc in the fstab file? Or will this have no effect? I am aware partioning the drive and doing a "proper" linux instillation would resolve this problem, but I want to learn a bit about the system before I go full in... Thanks in adavnce for your help --- Craig Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Postgraduate, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ UNITED KINGDOM Tel: (01603) 592702 http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk http://www.uea.ac.uk/~f907076/ ---
Re: [newbie] Mount permissions
Hey Alan! Thanks for your help, I'll give it a try. Craig - Original Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Craig" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 5:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mount permissions Craig wrote: Hey how did you get Mandrake to see your LS-120? I still can't get mine to work. [snip] Craigthe 7.1 installation did it all automatically, here's the fstab entry it wrote: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/hda 0 0 The only variable here is which controller channel (hdX) yours is on, a, b c, or d. Mine is on the primary/master hence hda. Alan
[newbie] Email
Hi I was wondering if anyone knew about a good email program to use that can show HTML emails. Thanks in advance. Craig
Re: [newbie] Mount permissions
Hey how did you get Mandrake to see your LS-120? I still can't get mine to work. Craig - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 2:19 PM Subject: [newbie] Mount permissions I have got an internal LS120 (in place of my floppy) it works fine under kde when I access ext2 "formatted" floppies, but if I try to mount vfat or msdos I get a kfm error message that says "only root can do this" I can access vfat or msdos as root or su as a user and mount -t . from a command line , I can then click on the kdelnk to view the contents. Has anybody any ideas why only root can mount as vfat or msdos, if so what do I need to change to allow user access. TIA
[newbie] Setting up outgoing mail server
Can someone help me? I want to set up a cron job to email a log file everyday. I know how to use cron, that's not the problem. How do I setup Mandrake 7.0 to specify the outgoing mail server? Thanks! Craig
[newbie] automatic start of process
Does anyone know how I can have my Mandrake 7.0 box start a process automatically? I'm running Squid and would like squid to start when the machine boots. Thanks, Craig
[newbie] Newbie Question
I just installed ver. 6.0 on my computer. It will be a duel boot suation with Windows 98 as the default OS. Linux is VERY NEW to me. It's like working in MS DOS again. Can anyone recommend a good book (like Dummies Guide to Linux) that will will explain step by step how to work with linux? Is there a graphical interface for Linux (like windows) that will make it easier to use Linux? Craig "Those who do not learn from History, are doomed to repeat it". Author unknown
[newbie] User name Password
I installed mandrake 6.0 and I forgot my user name password. Is there a way to find the above or do I have to reinstall the OS? Craig "Those who do not learn from History, are doomed to repeat it". Author unknown
[newbie] dual boot question
So, I'm trying to set up a dual-boot system with Mandrake 7.0, and I'm having a few... concerns. Here's the details: I have a PII-233 currently running Win98 on a 10G drive all by its lonesome. I also have a 4G drive I want to plug in use as my Linux playground. I've played with it a little, by putting the Linux drive on the secondary controller, unplugging the Win98 drive, and installing from CD, but now I want to make it a real live dual-boot machine. I have a couple of questions about doing this, and I'm not sure which is the right one, but basically... - the Linux drive is currently loaded as /hdc and works fine by itself, but if I plug in both drives (Win98 on the primary controller Linux on the secondary, just like it expects), and use loadln to boot Linux, it chokes on the boot. I would guess it's because there's an /hda there all of a sudden, so can I hack fstab to just make things happy bootable? - If not, I don't mind re-loading Linux, but I do _not_ want to re-load Windoze... If I just plug both drives in, boot from CD, and do a fresh install on /hdc, is Mandrake's partitioning software sophisticated enough to _not_ squash my Win98 drive? The thought of LILO dancing around on the mbr of my primary HD, which I don't have the facilities to back up right now, just gives me the Fear... Thanks, Craig
[newbie] Real Player
Hi You may have seen my earlier mail concerning finding RealPlayer, well I found it eventually(it is not realplayer 7 or G2 or whatever it is the older realplayer 3). Anyway I downloaded it to /home/craig/tmp and tried to install it using kpackage but it says that libg++.so.2.7.2 is unsatisfied (like I care about that!!) anyway as a result it will not install. Any ideas (in very very simple terms) where I can get this thing from and how to install it Thanks in advance Craig
[newbie] New User Simple Problems
I have just recently installed Linux on my system (mandrake6.1) and I am having a few problems in changing over from Windows (maybe I should not have put a capitol at the start of it?) please can anyone help with any of the following, bearing in mind that I have only been using Linux for a week and I have only dabbled with the console e.g ls and a few other basic commands! 1. How can I mount my other cd drive (hdb2 I think, secondry IDE slave drive) my first one is mounted automatically when I boot up.nbsp; Also I have installed Linux on my second hard disk (hda2, primary IDE slave drive) but how can Inbsp;access my windows drive (I think it will be hda1, primary IDE master drive). I have a dos partition on my Linux drive and it is mounted at start up and has a shortcut to it on the desktop as does the cd rom writernbsp; on the secondry master ide port. I have tried going into Linux Conf-- file systems -- access local drive and adding hdb2 and hda1 but cannot get it to work. Any ideas??? 2. I have managed to set up the Internet OK but I have found some applets that I want to add to the task bar, namely modem lights and PPPdialer but cannot get either to work with the modem. Modem lights does not light when I connect usingnbsp; KPPP and I cannot get PPPDialer to dial !! Any help on the avbove subjects would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance Craig Jameson [EMAIL PROTECTED]/html
Re: [newbie] and another thing - best printer?
Lance Borden wrote: Okay, I see what y'all are saying...high praise for the Epson S. P. 700! Since I'm looking for a new printer right now, I went right out to find me one of those, and where I live (Austria) I couldn't find one! Or could I? I found Stylus Color 740, 750, 860 and numerous others, but none that were "exactly" 700 or 800 (the 800 was in the Linux-compatible listing). My question is this: when y'all are talking about the 700, do you mean "only" 700, or would the driver include the entire 700 range (i.e., anything between 700-799)? The 740 is the same(well almost) as the 700. The 740 is just the later model, and Includes additionally a USB Port as well as the standard parallel. Craig Thanks for the help! Lance
Re: [newbie] and another thing - best printer?
I am very new to Linux, I'm triple booting with Win2K, Win98, Linux my Epson Stylus Photo 700 works fantastic in all three. Craig dave wrote: I recently switched from an HP 720 to an HP 880 because the former was a winprinter and wouldn't work on a jet direct card - or under linux very well. But even the 880 doesn't look very good and if set up as MDK7.0-2 WANTS to do it it'll be just a standard HP Deskjet / Deskjet Plus. Prints in black and white :- I understand that HP's protocols are proprietary and linux likes Post/Ghost-script printers. What I'd like to know is - IS there a printer out there that will print in photo-quality ... at least as good as the 720 or 880 in windows - in LINUX? All I've been able to determine is that there are some workarounds to get printers to work poorly or almost text-only. Thanks again. dave w
Re: [newbie] and another thing - best printer?
dave wrote: Craig wrote: I am very new to Linux, I'm triple booting with Win2K, Win98, Linux my Epson Stylus Photo 700 works fantastic in all three. Craig Photo printing looks good/great??? Really sounds like Epson is the only way to go! I still have on a shelf somewhere an old Epson Stylus Color 600 I think. Might be time to get a new one, though. I can always sell the HP880 to a windows user at work :-) Photo Printing, well I've scanned pictures of my kids, and printed them out on photo quality to blow them up to larger size for framing. Using photo quality paper, you can't tell the difference, infact after a little photoshop tweaking of the image, the printed ones look to have truer color than the orig. Craig
[newbie] Install question
I downloaded Mandrake 7.0 and burned a cd, however install fails. CD Boots up ok, Hit enter Initializing cdrom ... in second stage install... fails with: X11TransSocketUnixConnect Can't connect: errno=111 X11TransSocketUnixConnect Can't connect: errno=111 Gtk WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 at /usr/bin/perl-install/my_gtk.pm line 139 install exited abnormally I tried this with 2 different video cards, same error. Any thoughts? -Craig
Re: [newbie] newbie@linux-mandrake.com newbie@linux-mandrake.com
You can also try http://www.linuxcentral.com That's where I got mine. Also ordered a cool little Tux pc badge (the little 1" brand tag on the front of most machines.) At 02:49 PM 1/17/00 -0500, you wrote: If anyone is interested, send me 3 bucks for the media and postage, and I will send you what you want. Mail to the address on my still not finished site...(Pardon the shameful plug attempt) http://www.kband.net I'm not in it to make any money, but I have a cable modem, a burner, and a desire to spread the gospel of Linux!! Bryan "Mark Potochnik" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/17/2000 02:42:59 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: Re: [newbie] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there anyplace I can just spend $2 to get a copy, rather than spend a month downloading? MarkP I ´m really sorry. I´d tried this server too and I can read in getright. "This server does not support resuming" Please. Could you mail me another Server. Thanks. -Charms strike the sight but merit wins the soul
[newbie] no desktop (Mandrake 7)
Okay, just installed Mandrake 7. Finally got everything to click, but after I enter a user and pass, the system loads to 2 consoles, and a console log. Where is the rest of the desktop? The login screen also doesn't give me an option to switch to different desktops. -C
[newbie] Lnx4win and installation
I am trying to install Linux Mandrake 6.1 using Lnx4win. I have got as far as completing an installation successfully(??) but with Lnx4win only allocating 400 megs of space for the image size installation (I had wanted 1 gig space). Unfortunately I got in a muddle with the password and user name and couldn't get into the final Linux system. I uninstalled Lnx4win as directed and then deleted the Lnx4win directory but on reinstalling Lnx4win, I can not get Lnx4win to set up the Linux image file and swap file so the installation fails. (Under the setup it asks if I am ready to boot under Linux and then when started crashes with the following error message: **Preparing Loopback device **Kernel panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:21 I find two text files in the Lnx4win directory which contain the proposed sizes for the Linux file and swap file I have chosen from the menu, but the installation program doesn't format them. This suggests that there is something that the uninstall routine has failed to remove properly which (without the formation of the Linux file and swap) is preventing Linux Mandrake from installing. Anyone have any thoughts?? I've been itching to try Linux but I am very frustrated getting so close to installation without succeeding. Thanks. Craig Joly
Re: [newbie] MSIE when?
Our best hope for IE on linux is Mainsoft's work as described in the article on this webpage: http://www.mainsoft.com/press/pr-linux.html Here's an excerpt out of that page: About MainWin MainWin puts the Win32 on UNIX and supports a full range of the Win32 API. This is possible because of the WISE agreement with Microsoft where Mainsoft received and incorporated several million lines of original Windows NT source code into MainWin. This ensures that applications developed with C or C++ for Windows will run on UNIX as it does on Windows NT. For example, some of the more compelling business applications re-hosted to UNIX with MainWin include; Microsoft's Internet Explorer; Microsoft's Outlook; Computer Associate's Unicenter and Alcatel's X-Vision Enterprise. About Linux International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that Linux commercial shipments will grow faster than the total shipments of all other client or server OS systems through 2003. Linux is strongly differentiated from virtually all other operating systems because it is "open source" software, with the source code freely available to all users. Unlike proprietary operating systems that restrict access to the source code, Linux benefits from a worldwide community of highly experienced programmers and technically savvy academics who have the access to enhance and improve the system. About Mainsoft Corporation Mainsoft automates re-hosting Windows NT applications on UNIX and soon Linux platforms. Mainsoft, founded in 1991 is privately held with its corporate headquarters in San Jose, California, provides worldwide support for its product lines. Mainsoft maintains sales offices in Boston, Atlanta, Austin, Washington D.C., and London. =donning flame suit = I personally have had a lot more problems with Netscape 4.7 than 4.6 and am looking forward to a better linux browser. Judging from the number of attempts to test IE running under wine (see their website, I'm unsure of the URL right now) there are a lot of linux users who would love to use a FREE copy of IE5 on linux. I am one of them! And if Konquerer or any other browser is to have any hope, they better have 128-bit encryption before I use it. =taking flame suit off= -- Doug Craig - Original Message - From: "Chip Wiegand" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 7:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] MSIE when? On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: Chip Wiegand wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hay, wasnt MSIE supossed to be out in november for linux? Thats wat i heard. I don't know about ya'll, but my reason for moving to Linux was to get away from micro$oft, not use that stuff in Linux. Isn't that defeating the purpose of using an alternative OS? -- Chip Wiegand Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly Robert F. Kennedy not necessarily. another reason to use Linux is cause it is perceived as superior -- not just cause it isn't MS. And as much as I dislike MS business practices and their products generally, IMHO IE is superior to the alternatives. -- Keith Indeed Linux is a superior OS to what is available from micro$oft. That is why I changed os's. And I personaly do not endorse companys that follow the type of business practices that micro$oft does. I don't like seeing any company monopolize the market place, that kills competition and just about prevents innovation. Intel doesn't have the market wrapped up like micro$oft and they have some stiff competition, and they aren't crying foul about it. I believe what it comes down to is if you change to a better OS, then support it and the developers, support the new releases and help make them it better so they can be competitive, on the same level, because if we who use the better OS don't - who will? How will it ever get better? Anyway, that's my thoughts, not bad for middle of the night I guess. Good nite -- Chip Wiegand Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly Robert F. Kennedy
Re: [newbie] Ethernet card recognition
James, I don't know which model of Linksys you have. But my model LNEPC12T uses the NE2000 PCI driver and it works great with a few adaptations to accomodate my @home service. Read the DHCP-mini-howto and you may discover a few things that helped me attach to my @home service here in San Diego. Lesson #1: Upon machine boot-up eth0 does not get started, it fails. I am not a pro with this, but I have discovered that @home uses non-standard netmasks, dhcp with activation by hostname, and other odd quirks. Interim solution for #1: Load your dhcpcd package first. It is found under Environment, daemons. It's not loaded with a default installation. Go ahead and let your machine boot up and login in as root to your K desktop. (eth0 will fail, let it. You've got a workaround!) Open up your konsole window. Type these commands: cd / ifconfig eth0 YourHostname netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast xx.x.x.255 up cd sbin ./dhcpcd -h YourHostname Allow a minute or so for your installation to be established. Now you can jump on the Internet. If you are having problems just type ifconfig and see if eth0 is listed along with lo. If you have no eth0, then you are probably experiencing problems with your driver or network card. Sorry, I don't have any tips for how to fix that. (I still a newbie when it comes to drivers.) I did have some problems with a NEC DECChip 21041 network card and the tulip driver with that with my Mandrake 6.0, but it worked great with Win95. I am of the opinion the tulip driver with the Mandrake 6.0 distribution is hosed. Just yesterday I loaded RH 6.1 on that other computer, not this one with the Linksys, and the tulip driver now works great with that same NEC DECChip 21041 network card Lesson #2: I still have a lot to learn about the way linux boots. I am trying to figure a way to make this occur during the network rc script, but every time I try to add or make changes to the script I mess everything up and have to restore a saved copy of the script. THIS IS NOT YELLING, BUT A CRY FOR HELP! DOES ANYBODY OUT THERE NOW HOW TO CHANGE THE RC SCRIPT TO MAKE eth0 pass BOOTUP DURING WHEN CONNECTING TO @HOME VIA A CABLE MODEM!! Thanks you all in advance and I am also working this one out and hope to have it figured out in a week or two with a little luck. Best wishes for success, Doug Civileme wrote: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.24 Your Linksys may be one of two different chipsets, both handled by the tulip driver. Now for the CD-ROM, if it is SCSI, it is understandable that it might not be working after install unless you made sure the system detected and loaded all SCSI Drivers. It is also inderstandable if it is an IDE working off a third IDE channel attached to a soundcard. I went to the Panasonic Tech Support site and didn't find that model number listed, not even in the old devices. I do know that there were some, long ago, on a 34-pin interface (Long ago, ancient history, like 1995), and this might be one of them. 6.1 is NOT an upgrade option. You can install 6.1 but do not upgrade. Install it. Most of your files and settings will be left intact if you install without formatting any of the partitions. If you upgrade, well, you'll have the same problems people did going from RH 5.0 to 5.1 to 5.2. There are still optimal ways to set up directories being sought by vendors, and the location of objects is changing. And yes, 6.1 is worth it. Civileme "Mr.InterNet @ Home" wrote: Wow - back to school after all these years About time I jumped into the Linux foray and kept ahead of technology, and not just trying to "keep up" with Windows! Problem 1: using Linux-Mandrake 6.0 I want to setup my network connection in Linux. My card is a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 PCI LAN I cannot locate it in the accepted list of cards. Is there an upgrade (I cannot locate one) or a workaround? Does upgrading to 6.1 help at all, and is it worth it after I just installed 6.0 ? Problem 2: CD ROM Matshita CR-584 Not working after install. Is there a compatible setup option using another CD ROM driver in Linux? Problem 3: me No help there - I'll have to fix that! James Cousineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Independent IT Contractor and Consultant Internet and Web Design "Finally back in my sandbox, playing with a new toy"
Re: [newbie] XF86Config? Where is it?
Also xconf works as well. John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hello, I can't find XF86Config. Where would this program reside? Does it get installed with the standard Workstation install? XF86Config is NOT a program. It's a config file. If you want the exe file, it's xf86config (all lower case.) In any event, XF86Config (the config text file) is in /etc/X11. John
Re: [newbie] STB nVidia ZX 8MB accelator card
He's right. I just bought an ATI XPERT 98 8MB AGP card for only $45 and it works great with both OSs. :-) HeLLBeNT` wrote: any ati cards should be fine... - Original Message - From: Leith Shabbot To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 2:23 PM Subject: [newbie] STB nVidia ZX 8MB accelator card I am trying to create a dual OS with my Win 98. I had installed The Complete Linux OS 6.0. X windows does not support my video card(STB nVidia ZX). I was wondering if anybody could give some advice on affordable($50-90) video card that will support both Mandrake's X-windows and Windows 98. Thanks,Leith
[newbie] IPX Client
I am wondering if anybody out there has gotten their Linux workstation configured as an IPX client. I do not want to be a server, just a client. Any help in pointing me in the right direction is greatly appreciated. -- Craig Burlingame e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] v6.0 ISO Image
Can we expect the .iso image to be available soon for Mandrake v6.0? I tried pulling down the various directories, but it seems WinDoze screws up the names and stuff. Thanks for any info
[newbie] Mandrake 6.0
Sorry if I am repeating anything that's been asked before, but I've been without e-mail for a few days. Anyway my question is this. When is Mandrake 6.0 coming out, and will there be an ISO9660 image available when it does? I appreciate any information anybody can give me in regards to this question.
[newbie] NUM Lock Problem
I have just installed Linux-Mandrake for the first time. I put it on my Thinkpad 760ED and everything works great. Except.. Every time I boot up, my num lock is on and when I try to login in, if the login id uses any keys that fall in the numeric keypad area, I get numbers instead of letters. If anybody can help this rookie out I'd greatly appreciate it. TIA, Craig
