[newbie] Installation (program) problems
Hiya Was planning to do the upgrade today but I loaned my car out and left the 10.2 CDs in there :( Doh! Anyway, Tried to install Crossover Office and it didnt like it... [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# '/home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh' bash: /home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# '/home/elwyn/install-crossover4.sh' bash: /home/elwyn/install-crossover4.sh: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# Don't undestand where I've gone wrong :( ... Later It helps if you change the attributes to "exectuable" :( :( [fx: hangs head in shame] Now installed :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 12:04, Lee Wiggers wrote: > Is anyone else having trouble with the logitech optical mouse in > 10.1? > > I have used it, and am using it now on 4 boxes through a Belkin kvm > switch. I've got a MS wireless optical mouse. It used to be plugged into the PS2 port then I needed the adapter for the notebook, so it's now in USB. Changeover was fine and great, no problems. The difference is that I do not use a KVM switch... Are you able to try the USB option to see if that cures it?? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 20:46, Lee Wiggers wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:55:24 +0100 > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 15:37, Miark wrote: > > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:44:42 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > In that case, the whole /home directory, including mail and any saved > > work, will be wiped out. You really do need a backup of your work and > > mail before you install. I'm not sure where sylpheed-claws stores your > > mail, but if you can't find it I'm sure someone will point you to it. > > > > Anne > home/yourhome/Mail. > > AND > > home/yourhome/.sylpheed or home/yourhome/.sylpheed-gtk2 also > needed depending on your vers. > > Lee Yes, I will back up as much as possible (ie everything) and then reinstall. But I am sooo tempted to hang on for 10.2. Although I had a MS Certified Engineer and IT chappie around here that always extolls the microsoft side and stuff... They've just moved and have no gas or hot water... Was quite surprised to find Mdk10 on Amd1300 more responsive and quicker than XP on a 2400 :) A convert I think... :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 02:39, Elwyn York wrote: Time flies when you play with computers :( Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 02:34, Aron Smith wrote: > I'm setting up a mini-itx eden m6000 (600Mhz) fanless boots off a CF card > (256Mb) 20G notebook drive > adding Streamtuner streamripper and xmms-diskwriter > and audacity it's already got rox dillo and firefox on it Ooh, I wondered who was getting that little lot from Ebay :) I was sorely tempted until I had my bank statement turn up :( Perhaps in a year I can get some new ITX's :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 21:52, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 03 April 2005 01:42 pm, Elwyn York wrote: > > What do I need to do to get it ?? > You can freely interchange the cooker and 10.2 branches of the devel tree > on the mirrors at this point. They are the same until 10.2 goes "gold" in > few days time. So if I'm only looking at waiting a "few days" then surely it would be better to wait for the latest one? Isn't "gold" a package level?? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 00:49, Aron Smith wrote: > On Sunday 03 April 2005 01:35 pm, JoeHill wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:42:36 +0100 > > > > Elwyn York disseminated the following: > > > 80 gig of mp3s > > > > ??!! > > > > I sense 'eclectic' musical tastes... > > 80 Gig ?? Me thinks dedicated music server > BTW joe seeing as you are a minimalist have you tried DSL linux only 50 Meg > on the live CD Now that, sir, is a good idea. I just need to get the hardware together. I had planned to utilise the Smeserver I am running but that might be a bit much for it. 333mhz processor, 20gb Hdd, 128mb Ram. No monitor, keyboard attached. Only a power cord and network cable. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 21:35, JoeHill wrote: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:42:36 +0100 > > Elwyn York disseminated the following: > > 80 gig of mp3s > > ??!! > > I sense 'eclectic' musical tastes... Yeah, I look after my Dad and Sisters collection too. My Sister doesn't have a PC but every now and again she gets MP3 CDs made up for their DVD player for music Don't like a lot of the new stuff, but am rather partial to things like classical music, chilling/relax stuff, then some of the louder stuff to hear when on the road, not forgetting Oakenfold :) It is stuff I have collected along the way. Got close on 25gb of classical mp3s :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 20:38, Mr. Geek wrote: > Elwyn York wrote: > > On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 17:53, Greg Meyer wrote: > >>On Sunday 03 April 2005 07:52 am, Elwyn York wrote: > Well, other than the fact that you just answered your own question > Elwyn, you need to transfer your mail to another machine and sort out > some place to dump 8 Gb's of MP3 files. 80 not 8, but it's still quite a bit. I've found a place for them now. Alas it is on an NTFS drive, but it'll do for now :( > > Which begs the question,...should we consider setting up our own private > P2P system? But back to your question,. I had considered that, and theoretically it is possible to just shove another hard drive in my Smeserver webserver but (and I have already spoken at great lengths with another forum over getting an 80gb to work in a machine that barfs at anything over 25gb!) I don't want to burden the machine with that much stuff. > > How is your hard drive partitioned now? Is the 80 Gb's of MP3's on a > separate partition? If you decide to install 10.2, your /home folder > should be fine as long as you don't attempt to change your partition > sizes or to re-format your drive. The 80gb partition was in the /home/elwyn/shared/mp3s so yes, it is on my home partition. However, I did not know whether 10.+ takes anymore file size space and I would have thought it would have been easier to keep to a clean install... However, saying that, I've still got this dual booting with WinXP on it as well (for gaming purposes :o :o :)) > > The 10.2 installer should detect your existing partitions, and it will > show you that the /home partition will not be formatted, unless you > manually select it. Ahh, this is what I like to hear. Another linux friend this evening also pointed out some of these salient points and alayed some fears of dataloss. > Any other partitions which have atypical names (partitions names that > Linux doesn't already have in it's own list), will also be left alone > unless you tell the installer and/or diskdrake otherwise. Good ;) > > Hope that helps. > > Now, about that VP-P2P-Network,.. Hmm. The problem with all of these is that they can put an innordinate amount of pressure on the adsl link. I've got a 512k down and 256k up, and whilst the upload is unlimited I have yet to find a way to force the smeserver to only use, say, 50 percent of the available bandwidth. Whilst having loads of members having their own small server with their own collection there is always going to be someone who wants to grab loads now :( There are other places to go for the fix Oh, and my ADSL link is an older package now and discontinued, but basically doesn't allow P2P on the system. I can however run my own intranet and webserver, fileserver etc etc as long as it doesnt break their end :) > > > Mr. Geek > Registered Linux User #190712 Elwyn York I'll get there... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 17:53, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 03 April 2005 07:52 am, Elwyn York wrote: > > I am debating whether to upgrade to 10.1 or wait for 10.2 > > Oooohh, wait for 10.2. It'll only be a few days and it is very nice. > > hal + dbus == hardware that works better > Very stable KDE 3.3.2, you will only get 3.2.3 with 10.1 > OO.o 1.1.4 and better integrated into the desktop > Newest Firefox and thunderbird > > I am running on 2 production machines for a few weeks with no showstoppers Ok, so if I temporarily transfer my mail over to another machine, and sort out some place to dump 80 gig of mp3s to "another place" on my network I too can play with 10.2 ?? :) What do I need to do to get it ?? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 15:30, Christopher Taylor wrote: > On Apr 3, 2005 6:52 AM, Elwyn York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 05:53, Dennis Myers wrote: > > I am debating whether to upgrade to 10.1 or wait for 10.2 > > I would install 10.1. I tried out the beta for 10.2 and there were > some definite issues. Granted, I did an upgrade and not a clean > install, but... The main problem that I had regarded installing > packages. Many of the packages wouldn't install because they required > older dependancies. 10.1 had been very good for me. With the help of > this list, I have the most stable system I've had in 14 years. Ok, thanks for that. I've managed to prune my mail folders from 1500mb down to about 200mb but have yet to get it lower... How easy is the upgrade process from 10.0 to 10.1 without destroying the data?? Or is it best to just start again... Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 05:53, Dennis Myers wrote: > Supposed to be released on the 6th, but they have not hit a date yet so it > will be soon after.Cooker is the incubator that they develop the next > OS release. It is very much cutting edge and could as easy as not have bugs > in individual packages. Once they decide that all of the packages that are > going to go in the next release have been decided on then the developers > start concentrating on bugs. A good stable release will evolve after about > the 2nd or third update in my experience and that may be 2 to 5 weeks after > the official release. ( opinion expressed here is not necessarily based on > scientific fact or analysis, It is just a opion.) HTH I see, thanks for that :) I am debating whether to upgrade to 10.1 or wait for 10.2 Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 10.2
Can anyone speculate here roughly when Mandrake 10.2 will be ready for end user (ie me). It is, apparently, sometime the beginning of April (er, now! :) ) ready for "cooker". Oh, and can someone explain what "cooker" is please?? (reference to Linux, not the kitchen... Google doesn't like me this morning!) Thanks Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
