[newbie] update a file
maybe some can tell me this is a simple question I am making some alias's and wish to test them with out having to keep loging in and out. I use to know a command that would force linux to read a file over agin. So you can avoid loging in and out dues any one know that command? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] samba is not accessible
can any one tell me why I cant access my samba server I keep getting the following error below. I also will put in my smb.conf file. thanks David \\testserver is not accessible You might not have permission access this network resource. Contact the administrator of the server to find out if you have access permissions. The network path was not found. # This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the # smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed # here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options (perhaps too # many!) most of which are not shown in this example # # Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash) # is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a # # for commentry and a ; for parts of the config file that you # may wish to enable # # NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command testparm # to check that you have not made any basic syntactic errors. # #=== Global Settings = [global] # 1. Server Naming Options: # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name workgroup = MDK # netbios name is the name you will see in Network Neighbourhood, # but defaults to your hostname netbios name = dsexton.servebeer.com # server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field server string = Samba Server %v # Message command is run by samba when a popup message is sent to it. # The example below is for use with LinPopUp: ; message command = /usr/bin/linpopup %f %m %s; rm %s # 2. Printing Options: # CHANGES TO ENABLE PRINTING ON ALL CUPS PRINTERS IN THE NETWORK # (as cups is now used in linux-mandrake 7.2 by default) # if you want to automatically load your printer list rather # than setting them up individually then you'll need this printcap name = cups # It should not be necessary to spell out the print system type unless # yours is non-standard. Currently supported print systems include: # bsd, sysv, plp, lprng, aix, hpux, qnx, cups printing = cups # Samba 2.2 supports the Windows NT-style point-and-print feature. To # use this, you need to be able to upload print drivers to the samba # server. The printer admins (or root) may install drivers onto samba. # Note that this feature uses the print$ share, so you will need to # enable it below. # This parameter works like domain admin group: # printer admin = @group user printer admin = @adm # This should work well for winbind: ; printer admin = @Domain Admins # 3. Logging Options: # this tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine # that connects log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m # Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb). max log size = 50 # Set the log (verbosity) level (0 = log level = 10) ; log level = 3 # 4. Security and Domain Membership Options: # This option is important for security. It allows you to restrict # connections to machines which are on your local network. The # following example restricts access to two C class networks and # the loopback interface. For more examples of the syntax see # the smb.conf man page. Do not enable this if (tcp/ip) name resolution does # not work for all the hosts in your network. ; hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 127. # Uncomment this if you want a guest account, you must add this to /etc/passwd # otherwise the user nobody is used ; guest account = pcguest # Allow users to map to guest: map to guest = Bad User # Security mode. Most people will want user level security. See # security_level.txt for details. security = user # Use password server option only with security = server or security = domain # When using security = domain, you should use password server = * ; password server = NT-Server-Name ; password server = * # Password Level allows matching of _n_ characters of the password for # all combinations of upper and lower case. ; password level = 8 ; username level = 8 # You may wish to use password encryption. Please read # ENCRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation. # Do not enable this option unless you have read those documents # Encrypted passwords are required for any use of samba in a Windows NT domain # The smbpasswd file is only required by a server doing authentication, thus # members of a domain do not need one. ;encrypt passwords = yes # The following are needed to allow password changing from Windows to # also update the Linux system password. # NOTE: Use these with 'encrypt passwords' and 'smb passwd file' above. # NOTE2: You do NOT need these to allow workstations to change only #the encrypted SMB passwords. They allow the Unix password #to be kept in sync with the SMB password. ; unix password sync = Yes # You either need to setup a passwd program and passwd chat, or # enable pam password change ; pam password change = yes ; passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u ; passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password* %n\n
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 on a 64MB RAM box
You should be able to install it just do a custom install and specifiy what you want to install. If I recall I had 9.1 running on a P200 with 64mb of ram and KDE it was a bit slow but worked. From: Tadimeti Keshav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/12 Thu PM 12:14:42 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 on a 64MB RAM box Hi all, I wonder if I can install and run Mandrake 9.1 on a machine with a Pentium 200 MMX, 64MB RAM and 10 GB HDD. I believe the processor and RAM will limit the usability of the machine. Can I install MDK without KDE/GNOME? My experience has been that MDK would install KDE whether you want it or not. What I want is a lean installation with Window Maker/FluxBox as window managers and the ability to play sound and connect to the internet. sound = the box has a soundblaster 16 compatible. BTW, does MDK 9.1 have a PPP program to connect to the internet (other than the excellent KPPP). wvDial gave me a lot of headaches. I tried FreeBSD 5.1(Slack was plain too tough). But sound needs a kernel compile and I have reached a dead end with linking failure. (the .o files wouldn't link). thanks = -- K E S H A V T A D I M E T I -- BeOS Air You have to pay for the tickets, but they're half the price of Windows Air, and if you are an aircraft mechanic you can probably ride for free. It only takes 15 minutes to get to the airport and you are cheuferred there in a limozine. BeOS Air only has limited types of planes that only hold new luggage. All planes are single seaters and the model names all start with an F (F-14, F-15, F-16, F-18, etc.). The plane will fly you to your destination on autopilot in half the time of other Airways or you can fly the plane yourself. There are limited destinations, but they are only places you'd want to go to anyway. You tell all your friends how great BeOS Air is and all they say is What do you mean I can't bring all my old baggage with me? ___ BT Yahoo! Broadband - Free modem offer, sign up online today and save £80 http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Will any thing change with mandrake
I just want to know what every one thinks, what is going to happen to Mandrake. Since Redhat is no longer going to support and release Redhat and instead have Fedora as a replacement. Douse that mean Mandrake is going to be based off Fedora? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]
Hi all I am unable to get my DVD drive to eject I tried to hold the open button on the drive. Also tried to use the eject command. The drive is not mounted but yet it refuses to eject. when I try to use the eject command I get the following error. eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument David David Sexton Registered linux user #332925 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd
Bryan I have tryed alreday using umount /mnt/cdrom and got back no errors but still can not eject it I have been using the command eject /mnt/cdrom but get same error I posted earyler I also tryed eject /mnt/hdc From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/05 Thu PM 03:49:49 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd On Thursday 05 February 2004 11:36 am, David Sexton wrote: Hi all I am unable to get my DVD drive to eject I tried to hold the open button on the drive. Also tried to use the eject command. The drive is not mounted but yet it refuses to eject. when I try to use the eject command I get the following error. eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument What target are you using for the command? If you haven't created a /dev/dvd or link, you may need to specify /dev/cdrom depending on how many drives you have. You can also use the mount point /mnt/cdrom /mnt/dvd depending on what you use and it should still open the tray. However, if you have opened a console window to go to a mounted drive or konqueror window, you need to close all of those before you can eject the drive and you may need to su to root to get the drive to open. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com David Sexton Registered linux user #332925 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd
ok I tryed the mount command i got back no errors when I typed mount /mnt/cdrom here is my mtab file /dev/hda5 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda9 /tmp ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /usr ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hda7 /var ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/05 Thu PM 06:05:18 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd On Thursday 05 February 2004 04:05 pm, David Sexton wrote: Bryan I have tryed alreday using umount /mnt/cdrom and got back no errors but still can not eject it I have been using the command eject /mnt/cdrom but get same error I posted earyler I also tryed eject /mnt/hdc Okay, well assuming that you are using ide-scsi emulation for your DVD device, then /dev/hdc would probably not work. The actual device would probably be listed in fstab as /dev/scd0 or something along that line. Have you tried to actually issue a mount /mnt/cdrom to see if that works. If so, it would confirm that the drive is not mounted, if you get an error, it might help to troubleshoot the problem. Do you happen to have a copy of the fstab that I could look at, especially the line related to the dvd device. Also, just off hand, have you tried restarting to eliminate an actual hardware fault on the dvd device? In other words, restart Linux and see if the eject button works while the OS is not active. If we confirm that there is no hardware problem, we can then try to figure out why the eject command is not working. Sometimes eliminating possibilities is the quickest path to a solution. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd
I tryed eject /mnt/cdrom and /dev/hdc as root and got this error eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/05 Thu PM 07:58:25 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd On Thursday 05 February 2004 06:25 pm, David Sexton wrote: ok I tryed the mount command i got back no errors when I typed mount /mnt/cdrom here is my mtab file /dev/hda5 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda9 /tmp ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /usr ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hda7 /var ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 Okay, so now that the disk is mounted, try as root: eject /mnt/cdrom or eject /dev/hdc. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Bios problems
Thanks Tony I thought there was a program to stop it from checking new hardware. Ill Check on google David Sexton Registered linux user #332925 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Bios problems
Is hardrake the program that checks for new hardware, and hardware changes. Maybe if I turn that off on boot that will keep it from detecting changes. could that work? David Sexton Registered linux user #332925 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Bios problems
Here is the problems I have a Dell Inispron 4000 series the and of cores the mother board is bad but every thing works fine except the system bios dues not keep time. No problem I don't mind the clock time being wrong but every time it boots up it finds my network card and wireless network card also. So it keeps screwing up my network settings and I have to keep copying the configuration for the wireless card over every time I want to use it. Dose any one have any idea how to fix this problem? Besides replacing the mother board maybe a permission change would that work? Thanks so much Yeah I know I a cheep David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Users ?
Ken could you explain more in detail what you want. David From: Ken Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/21 Tue PM 01:45:35 EDT To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED], '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] New Users ? When I create new user for access to pre-defined samba shared folders, with an associated password in smbpasswd. Do I have to create a home directory and a private group if they will never ever be near the server ? Ken Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm goin' mobile....
Ok this is what I have done a few times I have a computer at home with mandrake 9.1 and vnc server. Ssh gets forwarded from my computer to my router and out to the net. I then take my laptop with me and I can access the computer from home from any where in the world. My laptop has Mandrake 9.1 and vnc client on it. At this point I just ssh in to the box at home and start vnc by typing vnclient on my laptop from the command prompt. But this kind of defeats the fact you don't want to take your laptop with you. I don't know how it works with windows so can't tell you about that. Sorry I am not much help David From: Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/21 Tue PM 01:47:36 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] I'm goin' mobile At 01:20 PM 10/21/03, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 21 October 2003 12:54 pm, Grant wrote: I'll be traveling off and on for the foreseable future, and I don't want to bring a laptop. What I'd like is some kind of a setup that allows me to connect to a remote machine that I've set up and use my apps through there from Internet cafes. What do you guys think might work? Also, I'm a little paranoid of keystroke loggers in Internet cafes. I was wondering if anyone has created any kind of an application to solve that problem. Maybe an on-screen representation of a keyboard that allows you to save your click-strokes to the clipboard? - Grant Okay, here's what I do. The machine I am connecting to, which is in my home office, is set behind a firewall that is forwarding port 22 for ssh connections. Then I run vncserver with fluxbox as the window manager. I then carry in my briefcase, a mini cd that has a windows ssh client and the windows and linux vncviewer. I use PuTTy for the windows ssh client. It is free and very easy to use. From whatever computer I am at that has Internet access (Windows or Linux), I can set up an ssh session that forwards the vnc port to the local machine, and then I use the vncviewer through the ssh tunnel to access my desktop. In fact, this is how I am typing this email right now. When the rules say you cannot access personal e-mail at work, us Linux users have an advantage ;-) Could you provide specifics about command options you use to establish this connection? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
Try urpmi -q packagename.rpm where packagename is the name of the rpm your looking for From: Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/17 Fri PM 11:07:26 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] urpmi question How can i search the names of rpms, and show the summary and description? If i urpmf, it appears to search more. For example: urpmf man page says the --summary switch searches summaries, but the urpmf help says: --summary - print tag summary: summary. which i thought meant it would print the sumary. What i'd like is a command line version of what rpmdrake does: once i get it open, it very nicely shows only packages with nmh in the name (for example) and i can quickly see the description and summary. It also, on the same page, shows the current version i have installed, if any. Is there a line (or lines) for urpm* that i can use? Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MSN Messenger + Linux clients
You could try amsn it works very well for me and looks alot like msn http://amsn.sourceforge.net/ David From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/20 Mon PM 03:47:49 EDT To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] MSN Messenger + Linux clients Anne was asking recently about having trouble using her kopote IM client with MSN. Since Oct 15th Microsoft have changed the protocol for MSN which has locked out 3rd party clients. I had read reports that Gaim 0.71 would still work with MSN, and the latest version of the Jabber transport for MSN is also supposed to work with MSN. However I could not get Gaim0.71 to log onto MSN, and Psi when using the MSN Jabber transport would report remote server error I think I may have found the solution :- I discovered that if I logged onto MSN using the Microsoft IM client, then afterwards I could log on with Gaim and Psi as well. No idea why, but it might help anyone having trouble. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Googling
It works for me . maybe you need to clean out your cookies and history on mozilla From: Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/20 Mon PM 06:14:38 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Googling Graham Watkins wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: Is Google still alive? For several weeks, or maybe months, mozilla here has been timing out on www.google.com, so some of the links posted in the list have been failing. Has anybody else seen this problem? It was happening to me for a couple of days last week. Mind you, it was happening with a lot of other sites as well. I'd assumed that the internet was collapsing under the weight of all the spam, trojans, virii etc. I have my home page set to www.google.co.uk and not www.google.com - a tip I picked up from a friend, very useful because it gives the option of searching UK sites only as an alternative to searching whole of www so gives quicker results when I need something UK-specific. I don't know if there are other national versions of google, but it might be worth a look. No problems with google.co.uk recently - maybe on different servers from google.com? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Dull monitors and video cards
Thanks Ill give that a try. Damian From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/16 Thu PM 09:11:50 EDT To: Lista Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dull monitors and video cards El jue, 16-10-2003 a las 20:10, David Sexton escribió: Ok I have done some looking and didnt find much about dull monitors and video cards. I have a voodoo 3500 and a Diamond Stealth 2500 video card the voodoo is AGP and the Diamond Stealth is PCI, my questions is how to you set them up so that each monitor has its own desktop and so youre able to move windows between either one of them. I tried to configure both of them by hand by editing the XF86Config-4 file but X crashed. I made a back up copy of XF86Config-4 and XF86Config Note this is on a Mandrake 9.1 system Any help would be appreciated Thanks David For a very dull destop, be sure to set resolution at 640x480, and 8 bpp color depth. /joke Google for Xinerama. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dull monitors and video cards
Ok I have done some looking and didnt find much about dull monitors and video cards. I have a voodoo 3500 and a Diamond Stealth 2500 video card the voodoo is AGP and the Diamond Stealth is PCI, my questions is how to you set them up so that each monitor has its own desktop and so youre able to move windows between either one of them. I tried to configure both of them by hand by editing the XF86Config-4 file but X crashed. I made a back up copy of XF86Config-4 and XF86Config Note this is on a Mandrake 9.1 system Any help would be appreciated Thanks David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] two monitor setup
Sorry if you get this two times it dident go the first time at that's what my isp e-mail server said Ok I have done some looking and didnt find much about dull monitors and video cards. I have a voodoo 3500 and a Diamond Stealth 2500 video card the voodoo is AGP and the Diamond Stealth is PCI, my questions is how to you set them up so that each monitor has its own desktop and so youre able to move windows between either one of them. I tried to configure both of them by hand by editing the XF86Config-4 file but X crashed. I made a back up copy of XF86Config-4 and XF86Config Note this is on a Mandrake 9.1 system Any help would be appreciated Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to make 8.2 run faster
Thanks stephen On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 22:57, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 13:35, David Sexton wrote: I am running Mandrake 8.2 on my Dell Laptop with 850 PII 128mb of ram. I was wondering if any one had any sugestions on how to speed it up. I am in the process of getting 256 MB more of ram. Duse any one have any ideas. I don't want to upgrade to 9.0 yet as I have a lot of tweaks running on it right now. David You can first do something about the HD access timings. If you have hdparm installed, you can use it to tweak the speed at which I/O is handled by the disk and the controller. A great generic one is: hdparm -d1 -p2 -X66 /dev/hda If you don't have it installed, it's probably on either CD1 or CD2 of your MDK installation set. You might be surprised at how much that increases your overall system speed. -- Thu Dec 12 15:55:01 EST 2002 3:55pm up 1 day, 8:17, 6 users, load average: 1.46, 1.84, 1.96 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn A hundred thousand lemmings can't be wrong! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Linux Rules Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]
Can any one tell me how i can setup Konqueror so I can browse the local network like you do under ms windows. Or is that not possable Thanks David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Install something from cD
Damian, Well first you need to mount your CDROM with the mount command so type mount /mnt/cdrom then type cd and change in to the directory your rpm's are in next type su for super user installing a rpm is quit easy simply type rpm -i fowled by the name of the rpm package for example if you want to install samba the samba rpm package would be called something like this smb-0.9.3.i386.rpm so to install that package you would type rpm -i smb-0.9.3.i386.rpm hope this helps David -Original Message- From: Damian G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 12:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Install something from cD On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:48:46 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since im new to linux, and downloading third CD from an FTP program (hopefully the md5sums will be the same :)) I downloaded a whole bunch of programs i use for windows, that have a linux file for it too.. I went to the site of my favorite windows programs, and downloaded the linux rmp files... some are tar.gz also. I was wondering from the console, how do i install some of the packages from the CD... I know how to tar, amd make, and stuff like that however how do i specify my CD rom: im sure in linux there is an D: drive lol :) hmm.. ok. let's see. C:, D: and A: is the way Microsoft OS's identify hard/floppy/CD/ZIP drives, etc. on Linux, however, this is not the case, the devices are mounted upon directories, meaning that you 'tell' Linux that when you are going to enter this or that directory, what you are really trying to do is enter into that drive... (this may sound strange and complex, but the installation takes care of it automatically and you will find it's just as easy to use, and besides, the fact that you enter your drives thru directories allows for more 'self-explainatory' names, i.e. your CD-ROM can be mounted on a directory called 'CDROM' which is a much more 'proper' name than just D: ) after installation, all floppy drives, CD/DVD-ROM devices, etc etc etc will be set to be mounted inside of a directory called /mnt. so, your cdrom drive will probably be called /mnt/cdrom ( and you will also find /mnt/floppy, and /mnt/win_c if you have a windows partition, etc ) now, the 'installation' stuff... that's a pretty wide subject to explain on a single post, but for now, the very very basic is this: to install a RPM package: at the console, do: urpmi filename or simply browse your files with konqueror ( which is KDE's file manager ) and click on the RPM file. mandrake's softwaremanager should pop up by itself. .tar.gz files... are sourcecode packages. to decompress them: tar -xzf filename or open them with ARK ( which is KDE's winZIP-style program ) and extract all files. then, once decompressed, from the shell, cd into the directory containing the unpacked sources and do these 5 commands: ./configure (this will check your system for needed libs and stuff ) make( this will compile the program, turn the source code into executables, etc ) su ( this will ask for your 'root' -administrator- password. you need to be root in order to add programs/modify system config ) make install( this will install the program ) exit( exit 'root' mode ) . well, you will find more questions when you get your hands on it. for now, take notes of all this stuff.. and have fun. good luck on those ISO's Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] FW: DVD player
Duse any one know of a simple to install DVD player for Mandrake 8.2? ---BeginMessage--- Duse any one have any sugestions on a easy to setup dvd Player for Mandrake 8.2? ---End Message--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CD burning software
Dose any one have any suggestions on CD duplication software? I copy a lot of cd's. I have tried X-CD-Roost but it only can read and copy from the CD Write drive. Thanks David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] CD burning software
Charles, One problem I am running grub and not lilo. So won't that change things? -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CD burning software On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:52:02 -0500 David Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dose any one have any suggestions on CD duplication software? I copy a lot of cd's. I have tried X-CD-Roost but it only can read and copy from the CD Write drive. If you want to write on the fly you will need to add scsi emulation for your cdrom drive and then set it as your read device in x-cd-roast. You add the emulation by adding hdx=ide-scsi to the append line in /etc/lilo.conf for your booting kernel and then editing /etc/fstab to reflect said change. Charles -- The future is a race between education and catastrophe. -- H.G. Wells -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] CD burning software
Charles well thanks for the help I might change over to lilo for the time being thanks for the help David -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CD burning software On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:18:02 -0500 David Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles, One problem I am running grub and not lilo. So won't that change things? Yes that does change things. It's been so long since I tried grub that I ca not tell you how. Try checking info grub. There should be something in it that will tell you. Charles -- politics, n.: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Setting Clock to 12 time
Can some one tell me how to set my clock to 12 time on Mandrake 8.2? I know this is an easy question I haven't had problems figuring it out in the past Thanks David
[newbie] Linux DVD player
Duse any one know of a simple to install Dvd player? and if so can you give me a url. I am running Mandrake 8.2 with a Vodoo3 3500 video card. I was looking at ogal but havent had much luck with it. Thaks much David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
