Re: [newbie] URPMI
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:13:56 +0100 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 23 January 2005 15:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NEED THE URL OF THE URPMI UPDATES PLEASE Be root and create and run this script..works for me..MDK 10.0 official..call it any name you like..BE sure to be on line for it to work.. #!/bin/bash ISCOZA= ESLRACH= CONTACTEL= CONTRIB_SK= UNININET= SUNET= PLF= #** echo; echoadding iscoza ; echo su - -c urpmi.addmedia --update iscoza ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/10.0/RPMS/ with ../base/synthesis.hdlist.cz if [ $? -ne 0 ] then ISCOZA=failed else ISCOZA=success fi #** echo; echoadding eslrach ; echo su -c urpmi.addmedia --update eslrahc http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/ with hdlist.cz if [ $? -ne 0 ] then ESLRACH=failed else ESLRACH=success fi #** echo; echoadding contactel ; echo su - -c urpmi.addmedia --update contactel ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bibri/mandrake/9.2/RPMS/ with synthesis.hdlist.cz if [ $? -ne 0 ] then CONTACTEL=failed else CONTACTEL=success fi #** echo; echoadding contrib-sk ; echo su - -c urpmi.addmedia --update contrib-sk ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/10.0/contrib/i586 with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/synthesis.hdlist2.cz if [ $? -ne 0 ] then CONTRIB_SK=failed else CONTRIB_SK=success fi *** echo; echoadding uninet ; echo su - -c urpmi.addmedia --update uninet ftp://ftp.uninett.no/linux/Mandrakelinux/stable/updates/10.0/RPMS/ with ../base/synthesis.hdlist.cz if [ $? -ne 0 ] then UNINET=failed else UNINET=success fi #** echo; echoadding sunet ; echo su - -c urpmi.addmedia --update sunet ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.0/RPMS/ with ../base/synthesis.hdlist.cz if [ $? -ne 0 ] then SUNET=failed else SUNET=success fi #** echo; echoadding plf ; echo su - -c urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/10.0 with synthesis.hdlist.cz if [ $? -ne 0 ] then PLF=failed else PLF=success fi #** echo ; echo echo ISCOZA = $ISCOZA echo ESLRACH= $ESLRACH echo CONTACTEL = $CONTACTEL echo CONTRIB_SK = $CONTRIB_SK echo UNINET = $UNINET echo SUNET = $SUNET echo PLF= $PLF echo ; echo #** exit 0 When the above is successful then run this after creation.. #!/bin/bash ESLRAHC= CONTRIB= JPACKAGE= MAIN= UPDATES= PLF= #** echo; echoupdating synthesis eslrahc ; echo su - -c urpmi.update eslrahc if [ $? -ne 0 ] then ESLRAHC=failed else ESLRAHC=success fi #** echo; echoupdating synthesis contrib ; echo su - -c urpmi.update contrib if [ $? -ne 0 ] then CONTRIB=failed else CONTRIB=success fi #** echo; echoupdating synthesis jpackage ; echo su - -c urpmi.update jpackage if [ $? -ne 0 ] then JPACKAGE=failed else JPACKAGE=success fi #** echo; echoupdating synthesis main ; echo su - -c urpmi.update main if [ $? -ne 0 ] then MAIN=failed else MAIN=success fi #** echo; echoupdating synthesis updates ; echo su - -c urpmi.update updates if [ $? -ne 0 ] then UPDATES=failed else UPDATES=success fi #** echo; echoupdating synthesis plf ; echo su - -c urpmi.update plf if [ $? -ne 0 ] then PLF=failed else PLF=success fi #** echo ; echo echo ESLRAHC = $ESLRAHC echo CONTRIB = $CONTRIB echo JPACKAGE= $JPACKAGE echo MAIN= $MAIN echo UPDATES = $UPDATES echo PLF = $PLF echo ; echo #** exit 0 - When the above is successful then run..this..be prepared for some long time on line if first time... urpmi --auto-select --noclean --wget -a goodluck -- Johan Sch Registered linux user #333034 May this be a good day for learning 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 help installing 10.1
On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 23:26:48 -0300 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] need help installing 10.1 Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 21:10:36 + -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 04 Dec 2004 21:05, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I just got my 10.1 cd's from Cheapbytes, and I am trying to get it installed on my Dell Inspiron. Trouble is, I can't seem to figure out how I can access the option to choose another type of filesystem other than the default ext3. Could someone here give me the lowdown on choosing to install with reisers fs??? I can get a screen where my choice is requested, but when I type in reisers, it just ignores my choice and reverts to default. Help please? Have you selected 'Expert' on the partitioning page? I think that as well as allowing you to set partition mount names you are also given the choice of filesystem. I use ext3 myself, though, so I could be wrong. Anne Thanks Anne, I reinstalled, and just allowed the defaults to prevail. I have installed and used Mandrake through several versions now, but I still find the *expert* install option quite cryptic. :-/ Just confirms my *newbie* status. I seem to be having a problem with kded sucking up a lot of cpu cycles...upwards of 75% or so. I have disabled kded, but I wonder if I need it for anything. It may be a bug perhaps, and I haven't done any updating yet. Anybody note any similar issues with kded? Best regards. --Angus ** Yes. Update and it wil be gone. -- Johan Sch Registered linux user #333034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] kdeinit hooging 97% of cpu
Hi, Since updating last night now I find that according to gkrellm the cpu is fulltime busy. Runningtop show that kdeinit now uses permanently between 96 97 % cpu time. Kindly please can this be rectified and how/where. -- Johan Sch Registered linux user #333034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] kdeinit hooging 97% of cpu
Hi, Sorryrunning mdk 10.1 CE. Since updating last night now I find that according to gkrellm the cpu is fulltime busy. Runningtop show that kdeinit now uses permanently between 96 97 % cpu time. Kindly please can this be rectified and how/where. -- Johan Sch Registered linux user #333034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kdeinit hooging 97% of cpu
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 04:14:08 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 24 October 2004 03:57, Johan wrote: Hi, Since updating last night now I find that according to gkrellm the cpu is fulltime busy. Runningtop show that kdeinit now uses permanently between 96 97 % cpu time. Kindly please can this be rectified and how/where. Run top and see what is tying up the cpu and kill that ps. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org * Thanks for your reply. Kindly look below and please give me the exact complete command to kill the d thing. This will now happen every time I boot. Any suggestions to get rid of this and keep my system running. 6092 internet 25 0 24612 11m 23m R 95.1 2.3 71:05.88 kdeinit -- Johan Sch Registered linux user #333034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kdeinit hooging 97% of cpu
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 05:46:18 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 24 October 2004 04:28 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Sunday 24 October 2004 05:09, Johan wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 04:14:08 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 24 October 2004 03:57, Johan wrote: Hi, Since updating last night now I find that according to gkrellm the cpu is fulltime busy. Runningtop show that kdeinit now uses permanently between 96 97 % cpu time. Kindly please can this be rectified and how/where. Run top and see what is tying up the cpu and kill that ps. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org * Thanks for your reply. Kindly look below and please give me the exact complete command to kill the d thing. This will now happen every time I boot. Any suggestions to get rid of this and keep my system running. 6092 internet 25 0 24612 11m 23m R 95.1 2.3 71:05.88 kdeinit Run top type 'k' type '6092' it may be necessary to kill '6092' as root if it doesnt die as user then su to root and type kill 6092 as root. You are not running mgm are you ? I have no idea. What is it.? Please -- Linux -- Have you administered a real OS today? -- Johan Sch Registered linux user #333034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kdeinit hooging 97% of cpu
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:03:50 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 20:09, Johan wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 04:14:08 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 24 October 2004 03:57, Johan wrote: Hi, Since updating last night now I find that according to gkrellm the cpu is fulltime busy. Runningtop show that kdeinit now uses permanently between 96 97 % cpu time. Kindly please can this be rectified and how/where. Run top and see what is tying up the cpu and kill that ps. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org * Thanks for your reply. Kindly look below and please give me the exact complete command to kill the d thing. This will now happen every time I boot. Any suggestions to get rid of this and keep my system running. 6092 internet 25 0 24612 11m 23m R 95.1 2.3 71:05.88 kdeinit Don't run KDE. Yes. Done that. All seems ok. Thanks -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered User # 267497 --- An exotic journey in downtown Newark is in your future. -- Johan Sch Registered linux user #333034 May this be a good day for learning 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 booting with XP [Solved]
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:24:22 +0100 Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions regarding not being able to install Mandrake on a hard drive which already had XP on it. When trying to install, the machine just rebooted into XP. It was solved by starting the Mandrake installation with Disk2. When asked which CD drive to use for installation, remove Disk2 and replace it with Disk1 and click on OK. Then, from the report I have received, the installation went smoothly as though Disk1 had been used for booting. So it would appear that there is a problem with his CD drive not reading some disks. I also have that problem occasionally. Cheers Keith ** Kindly correct me if i am wrong please. I have read somewhere that booting with disc2 helps with the older machines and cater for older drivers while disc1 cater for later models and drivers??? -- Johan Sch Registered linux user #333034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] SOLVED - unable to mount/read floppy
Hi, Now for years I have seen people having problems with their floppy drive..well now it has happened to me. I have various flavours of linux on this HD..suse 9.1 - mdk 10.0 - ubuntu warty and no problem with floppy. Today installed mdk 10.1 CE. Here is the entry in fstab..looks the exact same as in mdk 10.0.. none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 Kernel .. 2.6.8.1-10mdk Kindly please is there a issue in mdk 10.? Thanks *** I think I solved this problem by myself. I tried the various suggestions from list to no avail .. thanks to respondents. Out of shear desperation I did some changes to the fstab, Now any user can mount/unmount read/write to this floppy. That is on my system. When mounted via console a floppy icon appears and can be used. umount and it disappears. can be umounted on this icon too. See relevant fstab entry as was and now... Was..#none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 Now../dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users,rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 *** -- Johan Registered linux user #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] unable to mount/read floppy
Hi, Now for years I have seen people having problems with their floppy drive..well now it has happened to me. I have various flavours of linux on this HD..suse 9.1 - mdk 10.0 - ubuntu warty and no problem with floppy. Today installed mdk 10.1 CE. Here is the entry in fstab..looks the exact same as in mdk 10.0.. none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 Kernel .. 2.6.8.1-10mdk Kindly please is there a issue in mdk 10.? Thanks -- Johan Registered linux user #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] unable to mount/read floppy
On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:07 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 09 October 2004 11:23, Johan wrote: Hi, Now for years I have seen people having problems with their floppy drive..well now it has happened to me. I have various flavours of linux on this HD..suse 9.1 - mdk 10.0 - ubuntu warty and no problem with floppy. Today installed mdk 10.1 CE. Here is the entry in fstab..looks the exact same as in mdk 10.0.. none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepag e=850 0 0 Kernel .. 2.6.8.1-10mdk Kindly please is there a issue in mdk 10.? Thanks Not that I know of, I seldom use floppy (too small) but am including my /etc/fstab FWIW: none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 Looks a lot like yours except the fs=. *** Thanks for your reply To me it looks the same. True floppy is small. But after install I always make myself a grub boot floppy. This saved some heart ache a lot of times. True cd 1 can be used to boot .. but floppy is easy and quick. Johan Registered linux user #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Permissions
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:06:40 +0200 Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody please advice me with this problem? I have three fat32 partitions mounted in /windows/c /windows/d and /windows/e directories i can with any user write/read these partitions. I cannot however use a program called azureus to download to these partitions as it give me a file creation fault. however it does create the file but with a 0kb file size. I can download to my home dir but space is limited. Thanks Alan ** Just a thought. /windows/d and /windows/e directories .. probably just data partitions. Could convert /windows/e to ext 3 after cleaning it out. If large enough you could save your /home dir with rsync (need a script just ask) to it daily or just before logging off. If it is larger than your excisting /home dir/partition you could move your home partiton to this after doing the neccessary before logging off. Johan -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xorg xfree
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:51:29 +0200 Thereidos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: W li_cie z nie, 19-09-2004, godz. 08:11, Johan Sch pisze: Hi, While updating this weekend this... ** To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (66 MB): XFree86-4.3-32.2.100mdk.i586 libxfree86-4.3-32.2.100mdk.i586 ** If yes to the above then screensfull of this... file /usr/share/icons/whiteglass/cursors/xterm from install of XFree86-4.3-32.2.100mdk conflicts with file from package xorg-x11-6.7.0-0.2.8.9mdk ** Kindly please.. How to fix this. Correct me if I'm wrong, but: It looks like you have xorg installed and are trying to update an app that was compiled against xfree86. You can switch back to xfree86 (remember to shutdown your x server before doing so) or force the installation. To do so you'll have to download the rpms and type: urpmi --allow-nodeps name-of-the-rpm this will let you decide whether to ignore dependencies or not. The reason of this is that 10.0 is shipped with xfree86 and all the rpms are compiled against it. Thankfully 10.1 will use xorg. Which of the two would be the best on the system. Does they do the same thing? Yes. They are both X servers and do the same but cannot be installed at the same time. IMHO xorg looks better. -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No. 362185 http://counter.li.org GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your reply and advice. Evereything seem to work fine. I will just stay with xorg. -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ghost in the machine?
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:07:50 -0300 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I had something strange occur today as I was doing some downloading with Apollon on my Mandrake10 system. Suddenly my cd burner drive spun up for no reason. I didn't have a cd in the drive, and wasn't doing anything with the drive at all. My system seemed to be responding normally otherwise, so I rebooted, and things seem OK now. What could have caused the glitch? My cdrw crapping out on me? It's an LG GCE-8525B, and is only a few months old. Anyone ever note this sort of thing, or have any ideas on it? Many TIA's for your time. Regards. --Angus * Yes. In my case it was the power supply wires to the cdrom. When moving them the power to the cdrom went on and of. Probably the slight vibration of the box making the connection on/off. Used another supply plug and to date not happened again. HTH -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kernel-265 or later
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 19:58:14 -0500
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 12 September 2004 01:13 pm, Johan Sch wrote:
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 10:59:36 +0100
snip
#
# Firmware Drivers
#
CONFIG_EDD=y
*** That's a paste from /usr/src/linux/.config for the latest
Mandrake kernel, 2.6.8.1-10
If you're current kernel's .config (in /boot) shows
CONFIG_EDD=y then 'tech staff' is wrong. Otherwise..
Install the kernel-source rpm for your kernel if it isn't
already. Search it's .config and and if the line looks somethin
like# CONFIG_EDD is not set , remove the leading hash
(ie, uncomment the line) and edit it to CONFIG_EDD=y
Save that .config to a another, eg, .config.save ... and after
moving it back into .config after the 'make
mrproper' (mandatory) first step, then 'make oldconfig' and
continue with the steps to compile a new kernel.
make make modules_install make install
The last step is only fully productive if you first edited
Makefile before compiling, changed the EXTRAVERSION = (new_name),
and uncommented the line (about 460 somethin),
export INSTALL_PATH=/boot
Then the files and links needed are created in /boot, lilo (and
grub) is edited and run for you to make the new kernel an option
on boot. Your new kernel will not be the default, you'll have to
choose it on booting up.
--
Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
Proud to be an American
*
First. Thanks for your detailed instructions. Some of it is still a foreign language
to me.
The following command which I got from another list shows this..
find . -type f -exec grep CONFIG_EDD {} \; -print
CONFIG_EDD=y
./config-2.6.3-7mdk
CONFIG_EDD=y
./config-2.6.3-15mdk
CONFIG_EDD=y
./config-2.6.3-16mdk
uname -r
2.6.3-16mdk
I am running the last kernel. Then I suppose they must be wrong??
But it is not the kernel 2.6.5 or later as suggested. Should that make a difference??
Thanks
--
Johan Sch
Registered Linux User #330034
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Re: [newbie] kernel-265 or later
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:35:04 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 September 2004 23:04, Johan Sch wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:13:09 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 September 2004 08:24, Johan Sch wrote: Hi, Need to update to the latest kernel for mdk10.0. Please any site where latest kernels compiled for mdk10.0 could be found. Thanks I just realised you are looking for kernels later than 2.6.5 The update mirrors will not have anything later than 2.6.3 The mirrors for 10.1 have 2.6.8 kernels which may run OK in 10.0 but it cannot be guaranteed they will. derek -- I could try them if I can locate them. Could only find the iso's but no kernels. Please. Would appreciate the URL to this kernels. Thanks ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/10.1/i586/media/main derek -- *** Hi Derek, Thanks for kindly providing the above. Seem some changes to install kernel has taken place in 10.1. Downloaded the kernel. Required some dependencies. Downloaded that. Too many conflicts. Do not want to maybe cripple my system. At least I tried. Regards -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kernel-265 or later
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 10:59:36 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 12 September 2004 07:17, Johan Sch wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:35:04 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 September 2004 23:04, Johan Sch wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:13:09 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 September 2004 08:24, Johan Sch wrote: Hi, Need to update to the latest kernel for mdk10.0. Please any site where latest kernels compiled for mdk10.0 could be found. Thanks I just realised you are looking for kernels later than 2.6.5 The update mirrors will not have anything later than 2.6.3 The mirrors for 10.1 have 2.6.8 kernels which may run OK in 10.0 but it cannot be guaranteed they will. derek -- I could try them if I can locate them. Could only find the iso's but no kernels. Please. Would appreciate the URL to this kernels. Thanks ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/10.1/i586/med ia/main derek -- *** Hi Derek, Thanks for kindly providing the above. Seem some changes to install kernel has taken place in 10.1. Downloaded the kernel. Required some dependencies. Downloaded that. Too many conflicts. Do not want to maybe cripple my system. At least I tried. Regards Yes thats what I was afraid of. You never said why you needed a kernel later than 2.6.5 Is there some kind of hardware support you need? derek ** Yes. Some problems with harddrive. Tech staff at . testdisk . utility suggested I should upgrade to a later kernel with CONFIG_EDD activated. Regards -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] kernel-265 or later
Hi, Need to update to the latest kernel for mdk10.0. Please any site where latest kernels compiled for mdk10.0 could be found. Thanks -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kernel-265 or later
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:13:09 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 September 2004 08:24, Johan Sch wrote: Hi, Need to update to the latest kernel for mdk10.0. Please any site where latest kernels compiled for mdk10.0 could be found. Thanks I just realised you are looking for kernels later than 2.6.5 The update mirrors will not have anything later than 2.6.3 The mirrors for 10.1 have 2.6.8 kernels which may run OK in 10.0 but it cannot be guaranteed they will. derek -- I could try them if I can locate them. Could only find the iso's but no kernels. Please. Would appreciate the URL to this kernels. Thanks -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] re-initialise drive
Hi, Troubleshooter.exe in dos have this function that alows to re-initialise a harddisk that can no longer be touched by partition magic and fisk in dos as well as fdisk in linux. If I understand it correctly it zero's out partition table and the whole disk. On a 80Gig drive this takes whole night. For the disk . it is something like throw it away. In the past I was able to re-use such drives and still uses them after this operation. Now all the partition utilities is happy to touch it again. Does such a utility exist in linux. Kindly please may I then have the name. Thanks -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] re-initialise drive
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 18:08:44 +0200 Vincent Voois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johan Sch wrote: Hi, Troubleshooter.exe in dos have this function that alows to re-initialise a harddisk that can no longer be touched by partition magic and fisk in dos as well as fdisk in linux. If I understand it correctly it zero's out partition table and the whole disk. On a 80Gig drive this takes whole night. For the disk . it is something like throw it away. In the past I was able to re-use such drives and still uses them after this operation. Now all the partition utilities is happy to touch it again. Does such a utility exist in linux. Kindly please may I then have the name. Thanks I doubt you can download it I had such a classified utility at Defense at my fingertips called S.O.S. (In english it would be called D.C.S. :Disc Cleaning System). It sweeped bootsector tables, all disc-sectors (three times using a fixed byte the first two sweeps and then a random byte the last sweep) and even mangled with the drive firmware stating all drive area was bad (if this was possible to do then) making the drive totally unusable. It was a bootable flop that did the job more than well. But i suppose you still want to use your harddrive after the sweep. Vincent. *** Ye . for sure. The point is is trying to restore it to use-ability. -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Disk Space Left?
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 08:34:45 -0700 Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using Mandrake 10.0 with KDE. Where Can I find how much disk space I have left? Thank you, Steve *** Try.. df -h. All mounted partitions will be shown with usage and what is left. -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] linux utility to fix partition table
Hi, While rsyncing data to my second drive for backup it went into forever . the disk light stayed on and the box hanged. The only recourse was to press the reset switch. So to be on the safe side I booted with the cdrom rescue system. Fdsik -l . told me that disk hdg1 , hdg2, hdg3, hdg4 the extended partition did not end on a cylinder. The rest from hdg5 up to hdg11 were OK. Checking with partition magic 8. I was told there is errors and want to fix it. I read sometime ago on one of the many lists I belong to not to fix this with PM. There is a linux utility that can fix linux partitions. This drive was partitioned with qtparted. There was also mention that linux utilities exist to reset the mbr and other disk repair operatins. Kindly please may I have the names of these utilities. Thanks -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] External Drive
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:17:01 -0500 Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried to use a USB external drive in ML 10.0 My hopes were that ML would detect it and add a icon to my desktop like my card reader did. I was wrong, it was not that simple. Anyone have any ideas about how to get a External HDD workinh in ML 10.0? TIA Marc -- ** Have you tried fdisk -l . will show all found drives. mine loop like this.. fdisk -l snip. Disk /dev/sda: 10.2 GB, 10242892800 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19846 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 500 251968+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 * 501 19846 9750384 83 Linux If so just create mount points in /mnt and enter in fstab. -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] permission changes
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 01:49:17 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 29 August 2004 01:32, john wrote: Hello After reinstalling md10, several folders now show locked. Security settings are standard and I 'm not sure what happened to change these folders. Any advice on how to change them to normal settings would be appreciated. Thanks John When you add users to your system each user is allocated a User ID starting from 501 upwards. (and a Group ID number the 'GID') It is the UID number in the header of each file which determines the 'owner' If you have added your users in a different order to your last install, and did not reformat the /home partition, then the preexisting files will have the old UID/GID numbers. When reinstalling it is important to enter your users in the same sequence to ensure they have the same UID/GID numbers as the previous install. To resolve it, as root change the owner of the /home folders. It is easy enough in KDE hit Alt+F2 then type 'kdesu konqueror' in the box to get a root copy of konqueror, then right click on the home folders and select properties to change the ownerships. derek * Another quick one . in console as su in the user directory for example. chown -R username:username * All files and dirs will be changed in a flash. -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] LAN printing setup
Hi, My setup as follow.. Laptop connected to workstation via etho . straight cable . switch . and running suse 9.1. Gateway the same type connection. Workstation have 2 printers . Samsung laser and HP Deskjet 710c . and running suse 9.1 or mandrake 10.0. Now I would like to print a file from the laptop on any one of the 2 printers on the workstation. I tried via YAST and MCC but failed due to not fully understanding what is required in the setup. There is Cups and some other possible settings which mean nothing to me. I am sure it can be done and is probably easy to a knowledgeable person which I am not in this instance. Kindly please some pointers how this can be accomplished. Thanks -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] SOLVED - port 22 : Connection refused
On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 14:38:22 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johan Sch wrote: Hi, I have the following hardware and OS'ses.. Gateway .. running Suse 9.0 with a firewall setup Laptop .. running Suse 9.1 with a firewall setup. Workstation .. running Suse 9.1 with no firewall. Same workstation .. running Mandrake 10.0 with no firewall. I can ssh gateway . laptop. I can ssh gateway . workstation when running Suse 9.1. I can ssh laptop . workstation when running Suse 9.1. All pc's can ping each other with no problem. All pc's can ssh each other except when workstation is running Mandrake 10.0 .. then I get .. port 22 : Connection refused. PROBLEM.. ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. (workstation with mdk 10.0) .. returns .. port 22 : Connection refused Kindly please how can this be fixed in mdk 10.0 Thanks Dumb question - did you enable the ssh server and start it after installing it? What does service sshd status return? If it says sshd is stopped, check the configuration to make sure it is what you want, and run: service sshd start chkconfig --add sshd Mikkel ** Thanks to repondents.. Some advice on another list it was found that sshd-server was not installed. Enjoy -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] port 22 : Connection refused
Hi, I have the following hardware and OS'ses.. Gateway .. running Suse 9.0 with a firewall setup Laptop .. running Suse 9.1 with a firewall setup. Workstation .. running Suse 9.1 with no firewall. Same workstation .. running Mandrake 10.0 with no firewall. I can ssh gateway . laptop. I can ssh gateway . workstation when running Suse 9.1. I can ssh laptop . workstation when running Suse 9.1. All pc's can ping each other with no problem. All pc's can ssh each other except when workstation is running Mandrake 10.0 .. then I get .. port 22 : Connection refused. PROBLEM.. ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. (workstation with mdk 10.0) .. returns .. port 22 : Connection refused Kindly please how can this be fixed in mdk 10.0 Thanks -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] port 22 : Connection refused
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:25:31 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 August 2004 14:29, Johan Sch wrote: Hi, I have the following hardware and OS'ses.. Gateway .. running Suse 9.0 with a firewall setup Laptop .. running Suse 9.1 with a firewall setup. Workstation .. running Suse 9.1 with no firewall. Same workstation .. running Mandrake 10.0 with no firewall. I can ssh gateway . laptop. I can ssh gateway . workstation when running Suse 9.1. I can ssh laptop . workstation when running Suse 9.1. All pc's can ping each other with no problem. All pc's can ssh each other except when workstation is running Mandrake 10.0 .. then I get .. port 22 : Connection refused. PROBLEM.. ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. (workstation with mdk 10.0) .. returns .. port 22 : Connection refused Kindly please how can this be fixed in mdk 10.0 Thanks Try opening port 22 on the Mandrake machine. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux user #363264 http://counter.li.org ** Please tell me how. This sort of stuff is new to me. Thanks -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Laptop choice - REPORT
Hi list, I had an unbelievable good response to my request for some pointers. I want to thank all those kind people who took the time and effort to try to make my choice easy .. I still like the IBM. Here follow all responses from 4 mail lists compiled in this document. Hope with all this on one doc it my help some one else. ** NEWBIE maillist.. Johan; There's a lot of things to consider when buying a laptop. My personal preference is a laptop that can handle a normal P4, and NOT a P4M. While this means that it will use battery power faster, most of the time I'm using the laptop, I'm plugged in to AC power somewhere. P4M's (Pentium 4 Mobile CPU's) are OK, but a standard P4 and laptop that uses Hyper-Threading will always outperform a P4M without question. Also, you should be able to upgrade the P4 as new ones come out, and P4's will always be less expensive than the P4M's. One other thing about P4's. Some of the newer P4's also have onboard cache that is one MB, and not 512K. This makes a huge difference in how fast the laptop will run. All that extra performance will keep you happy with the laptop much longer than a Centrino or Celeron could ever hope to do. Celeron CPU's are basically the same as a P4, but have a lot less cache onboard, and this is what makes them slower. Centrino's aren't an actual CPU, but a collection of P4M, Intel Chipset, Intel graphics GPU, and wireless and/or Bluetooth technologies built-in. Once I knew they used the P4M, I never kept looking for more details so you might want to look into that a bit more. I've set up or owned Toshiba, Compaq and Asus laptops. My problem is that my clients see whichever one I have and offer to buy them right there! The next one on my shopping list is the ECS G900 which can be viewed here; http://www.ecsusa.com/products/g900.html And that says it all. I know ECS isn't always known for their quality, but I have to see how this one runs before passing judgement. I'm hoping that it will surprise me. Since laptops are very expensive, most people don't buy new ones very often. My philosophy is to buy the fastest, most powerful one you can buy for the best price, so that your investment lasts a long time. Remember that many laptops will have modems which aren't supported by Linux, and others can be a real pain to set up. If you manage to get a modem working, consider yourself very lucky! If possible, try to find one that comes without an OS, so that you can do a fresh install and not have to worry about a Windows recovery CD set erasing your whole hard drive. Lanman ** celerion .. various speeds. Not as good as equivilent P4, stay away if you can centrino .. various speeds. Really the Pentium-M. Centroni is a brand that means the combination of the processor, chipset and WiFi card. It has a slower clock speed, but more work per cycle a la AMD, giving a cooler chip that uses less power and does the same amount of work. My 1.6GHz Pentium-M compiles a kernel a few seconds faster than my desktop 2400+. Intel's reliance on the Megehertz myth the past few yeares to try and best AMD has cost them with the Pentium-M IMO. The centrino seem to be the slower one than the other two. Do not mind price .. hardware .. trying to find what would be best in long run between the 3 processors. In a laptop, the Pentium-M IMHO. Kindly some pointers and suggestions to IBM laptops .. please. I like the T series the best. A great blend of portability and power. The R's are to big and bulky, and the others are crippled or too small. /g Greg I would like to put in a good word for Dell laptops. I have used 2 different models. The Inspiron 8000 and the Inspiron 9100. Both are considered heavy at around 8 or 9 pounds. The reason I chose them is that they both are easily setup with Mandrake. I dual boot into both of them. I had minor installation problems, both easily resolved with an email to this list. Another reason that I chose them is that they are both considered gaming machines with dedicated (upgradeable) video cards. No dependence on 'integrated' graphics. The 9100 is new and has a 3.2 Ghz P4 (not mobile). I generally use this machine at two different locations but plugged into power at both. I'm not sure if you have been pointed to the linux laptops page yet, so here's a real good link for that information. http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Best of luck in your research, I'll give one vote for Dell. (They also have dedicated forums for issues that may arise). Bill W. *** Best of luck in your research, I'll give one vote for Dell. (They also have dedicated forums for issues that may arise). Hoyt *** Dell needed a good word. I was about to place them with gateway. Dell has also recently anounced two linux corporate workstations in their inventory. I can't afford one
[newbie] Laptop choice
Hi List, Looking at IBM laptops I see the following..for processors.. Intel p4.. various speeds. celerion.. various speeds. centrino.. various speeds. The centrino seem to be the slower one than the other two. Do not mind price .. hardware .. trying to find what would be best in long run between the 3 processors. Kindly some pointers and suggestions to IBM laptops .. please. I will be crossing that bridge very soon. Thanks -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network setup - can't ping router
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Job Evers wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: snip - see below If you can access the Internet, and the setup page on the router, then I would not worry about being able to ping it. It could be that the router will not respond to pings from a wireless connection... I wish this were the case. I think the problem might be due to mandrake control center. In order to setup the wireless card I did modprobe ndiswrapper loadndisdriver blah blah blah blah iwconfig wlan0 power off iwconfig wlan0 key open X iwconfig wlan0 essid House ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.105 route add default gw 192.168.1.1 When I go to Mandrake Control Center to check what the internet settings are it has different settings for wlan0 then what I manually configured. Is there a way to maybe turn off the mcc internet configuration, or at least point me towards what files I need to modify to get the settings in line? Mikkel Dumb question time. Can you ping the router from other computers on the network? If so, is it only the wireless connection you can not ping from? Nope, the other computers on the network are able to ping the router wireless or not. Are you running a firewall on the wireless computer? I was but I just disabled it - no affect. Can you access the Internet using the wireless connection through the router? Not from my computer. Any attempt to fire up a browser just sits and spins. Any attempt at pinging IP's outside of the network returns a network not available error. (Or something like that) Other computers using the wireless connection work fine Can you access setup on the router using the wireless connection? (Usually http://192.168.1.1) Again, not from my computer but the other wireless computers are okay. You probably posted this before, but I lost it. What does /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 show? I am at a loss here - with you able to ping other computers on the network, we know the network connection is working. About the only other thing I can think of is if your router is set up to limit Internet connections to specific IPs, or has an enforced proxy setup... I was hoping someone else would have a better idea... Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I have a similar system up and running, and to me it looks like you have done all that is needed. I have noticed that one needs to be a bit careful with using KWifiManager and similar programs. On my PC they tend to drop the connection. What does your /etc/resolv.conf say? cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 192.168.2.1 search localhost Johan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Buffalo WLI-CB-G54A Wireless Card
Job Evers wrote: Has anybody gotten the Buffalo WLI-CB-G54A Wireless Card (http://www.buffalo-technology.com/webcontent/products/wireless/wli-cb-g54.htm) to work? I was thinking about purchasing one if there are drivers available. It appears to be using the Broadcom chipset if that helps. I know Linuxant claims to support it (https://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php), but I would like to find something free if possible. Cheers, Job Job, I have another card linksys 54G based on Broadcom chips. I am using ndiswrapper 0.7 and it is up and running. You can check on *ndiswrapper*.sourceforge.net to see if your chipset is supported. Ndiswrapper was a bit complicated to set up, but doable. I had to recompile the kernel, then it all worked out. Cheers Johan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:06:17 -0700 Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *snips down a whole lot* Johan Sch wrote: 1-The way Amy did with the help of a friend,, Amy .. kindly if possible the required rpms to restore urpmi please. I'd love to let you know what rpms are needed to restore it, but I didn't make a list while I was doing it. Basically what I did was poke through one of the mirrors, find the most recent version of urpmi, try to install that, then went to find whatever it asked for when it wouldn't install. However, if I'm not mistaken, the big thing that needed to be updated was perl. I think if you start with grabbing the most recent version of perl, and the most recent version of urpmi, then try to install those two, you should have a pretty good idea on what needs to be updated to get urpmi rolling again. Sorry I couldn't be much more help! Good luck! Thanks for your reply. Mine is now fixed..but all this info may help another linux friend in need. Regards -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #33034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:00:54 -0700 Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johan Sch wrote: Hi list, It happened too me twice today .. urpmi taken permanent vacation after update .. it seems that it just wipes dependencies .. even its own .. after some years of using and trusting it I was let down. Well I have seen this some time ago. Kindly point me to site were I can try to find the mail please. Maybe if it is short kindly explain please. I did a repair by popping cd 1 and upgrade same system .. some side effects .. nvidia must be re-istalled .. urpmi in MCC additional sites wiped .. maybe something else I stiil have not discovered. Thanks I've had that happen to me. Basically what you have to do is go find the rpm packages to install yourself by spelunking through ftp and stuff, and install everything package by package. Annoying, but I managed to do it with the help of my friend, and I'm fairly new to all this stuff. From what I was told, urpmi is a fairly simple program, so it just removes what needs to be removed, then installs the new stuff. But when one of the things it removes is one of it's dependencies, it'll remove itself too because it wasn't told ~not~ to. Good luck on getting that rolling. I haven't had a problem with it again since I had to reinstall it the hard way. Kind of you to reply, thanks. I did not have such good friend. I wiped that OS of the HD and reinstalled. Lucky I rsync my home dir and my updates from .../urpmi/rpms to a spare partition on regular bases. So to reach my previous state took 5 hrs. If this was the easy or the hard way I am not so sure. Regards -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #33034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HOW TO: Create Local mirror of main, contrib updates ??
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:40:56 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 15 June 2004 09:08 am, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Has anyone managed to get a local mirror working ?? If so, can you let me know how you achieved this?? (oh and how much disk-space is used) Yes. Using Rsync, there are instructions for doing so on the Mandrakelinux download site. The mirror size totally depends on what you mirror. You can mirror the Official files, Community files, Cooker files, ISO Files, and Updates separately. There is also the optional Contrib section, PLF repository, and a few others. If you want pretty much everything, plan on about 16GB. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer There is a application .. dalziel-1.2 .. explicitly created for mandrake mirroriring when I last looked into this. You could create your own script with rsync and create include/exclude files and use rsync friendly sites. I have done this in suse 9.0. It is not that complicated once you got the hang of it. here is a example of the rsync command I used in suse.. rsync -auvv --stats --delete --exclude-from=/home/internet/test-ftp/-gwdg-exclude ftp.gwdg.de::pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/update/9.0/. /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/9.0/. Here is one I use to list kernels..in mdk10.. rsync -auvv --stats --exclude-from=/home/internet/Test-kernels/files-exclude \ ftp.sunet.se::pub/Linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.0/RPMS/. The ..files-exclude.. look like this.. + kernel-2.6.3*.rpm + kernel-source-2.6.3*.rpm - *.* This may give you some idea what could be done by yourself..but look into dalziel. HTH -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #33034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MCC - gone.
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:06:57 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 June 2004 16:04, Johan Sch wrote: Hi List, MCC is gone..no GUI..no mcc from console. Kindly please which rpms need to be re-installed to fix this . I have already gone via cd1 upgrade..no use. Urpmi was also gone but was restored by cd1 upgrade. Thanks If I recall correctly : drakxtools and (maybe) drakxtools-newt HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- Thanks for your reply. Were already installed. Will now go for a new install. Lucky I save all updates to a spare partition. My home dir also saved to same spare part. Regards -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linking a file to a directory
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:13:10 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 13 Jun 2004 04:22, OOzy wrote: how can I link a dir to file? By command line ln -s target_path link_path See 'man ln' or #ln in a konqueror URL By GUI In konqueror drag target onto directory for link and select Link here in the dialogue box. In ROX right click on file and select link In XWC Drag file from one pane to the other and select Link from the dialogue box derek -- I do this in my /root directory to have quick move to /home/internet. ln -s /home/internet This makes .. internet@ .. which shows in blue. Now if in /root .. do this ..type i TAB .. ENTER .. you wil be in /home/internet HTH Enjoy -- Johan Sch kernel 2.6.3-13mdk May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] GAIM 0.78 RPM
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:22:30 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 13 Jun 2004 08:08, Carl J. Bauman wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anybody on the list knows where I could find a MDK 10.0 rpm of GAIM 0.78. TIA, Carl Charles Edwards' site has it http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/ Follow the instructions to make it a urpmi source and you can download any of the apps with your software install GUI, or urpmi. Thanks to Charles for providing this service. BTW: As Tom Brinkman (I think) pointed out yesterday, there is a new utility called urpmc which will list all packages for which an update exists. Not just the ones on the official update mirror. urpmi urpmc to install it. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org This is a very useful site..I have it in urpmi update list in a script. http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/ The creator/maintainer creates very good rpms. If you are mdk 9.2 .. go look http://www.eslrahc.com/9.2/ AGAIN .. this is a very good site Enjoy -- Johan Sch kernel 2.6.3-13mdk May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] GRUB using
Hi list, I am a grub user. Now I usually install grub in the HD mbr if over-written by another instal like this.. # grub grubgrub root (hd0,0) grubsetup (hd0) This time there was a error. So I read the GRUB instructions (hardcopy) which is quite extensive. Found another command.. grubfind /boot/grub/stage1 Now this gives 4 different devices with stage1 .. see below please. This is because I have various installs using grub. Again I studied the instructions .. but .. for me it is not clear which is which.. should the wrong setup be given the writing will be in the wrong place .. probably creating more chaos. Now what worries me is what would the correct command for setup be to use hd0,0 mbr and hd0,9 stage1. Please could I get some pointers here.. for the above short way .. long way see bottom..note. ** #grub GRUB version 0.93 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xc grub find /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,5) (hd0,9).this is the one I want to use. (hd1,4) (hd1,8) grubsetup (hd0) ** Thanks Note..I already fixed this the long way..by using disc 1 and selecting the install on hde10. This causes the menu.lst to over-written (which is not really a problem because I have it on boot-floppy). Also found that all my MCC additional entries for urpmi was wiped out. -- Johan Sch kernel 2.6.3-13mdk May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] printing - man files info files.
Hi list, printing man files I do this .. man grub | col -b | lpr .. which is ok. but.. Please how can info files be printed, they seem to have more detail. Thanks -- Johan Sch kernel 2.6.3-13mdk May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] URPMI wiped
Hi list, It happened too me twice today .. urpmi taken permanent vacation after update .. it seems that it just wipes dependencies .. even its own .. after some years of using and trusting it I was let down. Well I have seen this some time ago. Kindly point me to site were I can try to find the mail please. Maybe if it is short kindly explain please. I did a repair by popping cd 1 and upgrade same system .. some side effects .. nvidia must be re-istalled .. urpmi in MCC additional sites wiped .. maybe something else I stiil have not discovered. Thanks -- Johan Sch kernel 2.6.3-13mdk May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] printing - man files info files.
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:15:14 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 13 Jun 2004 10:35 pm, robin wrote: Johan Sch wrote: Hi list, printing man files I do this .. man grub | col -b | lpr .. which is ok. but.. Please how can info files be printed, they seem to have more detail. You can send them directly to lpr too, but I use a2ps for printing out both man and info pages (and indeed most text documents). The basic command is: info grub | a2ps -t grub This will print it out in two virtual pages, with the title grub. There are a lot of options for both commands, so first look at info info and info a2ps The first can select which nodes you want to print, and the second will give you lots of printing options. Sir Robin For man pages, the man command can do it without any help: man -t subject | lpr This has the advantage of retaining the bold and underline attributes, which the col -b command strips. -- Richard Urwin Would like to thank the respondents for helping in this matter. Enjoy -- Johan Sch kernel 2.6.3-13mdk May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Undelivered mail
Hi List, been a while now getting this below. Funny my mail gets posted , but this annoying message. Kindly, any way to stop/fix/shoot or whatever this please. Thanks This is the Postfix program at host smtp.mandrax.org. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mail forwarding loop for [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** -- Johan Sch kernel 2.6.3-13mdk May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Undelivered mail
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 13:01:10 -0500 Chuck MATTSEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johan Sch wrote: | Hi List, | been a while now getting this below. | Funny my mail gets posted , but this annoying message. | Kindly, any way to stop/fix/shoot or whatever this please. Lots of discussion on this in the archives (comes up every couple of days, it seems) ... easiest thing to do is to filter it to the trash. - -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Thanks Chuck. Will do -- Johan Sch kernel 2.6.3-13mdk May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:29:43 +0200 Johan Sch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, It happened too me twice today .. urpmi taken permanent vacation after update .. it seems that it just wipes dependencies .. even its own .. after some years of using and trusting it I was let down. Well I have seen this some time ago. Kindly point me to site were I can try to find the mail please. I found the archives here.. http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie%40linux-mandrake.com/ but nothing for urpmi wiping itself of the disk. Maybe if it is short kindly explain please. I did a repair by popping cd 1 and upgrade same system .. some side effects .. nvidia must be re-istalled .. urpmi in MCC additional sites wiped .. maybe something else I stiil have not discovered. Thanks -- Johan Sch kernel 2.6.3-13mdk May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 -- Johan Sch kernel 2.6.3-13mdk May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] GRUB using
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 15:55:54 +0200 Johan Sch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I am a grub user. Now I usually install grub in the HD mbr if over-written by another instal like this.. # grub grubgrub root (hd0,0) grubsetup (hd0) This time there was a error. So I read the GRUB instructions (hardcopy) which is quite extensive. Found another command.. grubfind /boot/grub/stage1 Now this gives 4 different devices with stage1 .. see below please. This is because I have various installs using grub. Again I studied the instructions .. but .. for me it is not clear which is which.. should the wrong setup be given the writing will be in the wrong place .. probably creating more chaos. Now what worries me is what would the correct command for setup be to use hd0,0 mbr and hd0,9 stage1. Please could I get some pointers here.. for the above short way .. long way see bottom..note. ** #grub GRUB version 0.93 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xc grub find /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,5) (hd0,9).this is the one I want to use. (hd1,4) (hd1,8) grubsetup (hd0) ** Thanks Note..I already fixed this the long way..by using disc 1 and selecting the install on hde10. This causes the menu.lst to over-written (which is not really a problem because I have it on boot-floppy). Also found that all my MCC additional entries for urpmi was wiped out. -- Johan Sch kernel 2.6.3-13mdk May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 I have joined the grub list .. maybe they can help me. -- Johan Sch kernel 2.6.3-13mdk May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] clamav error
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:04:47 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 Jun 2004 21:15, Johan Sch wrote: Hi, Kindly see..ERROR.. how can I fix this please. The first update this same error showed .. I created an empty file by that name in /etc dir. Maybe something else should be done? ** ClamAV update process started at Fri Jun 11 22:05:59 2004 Reading CVD header (main.cvd): OK main.cvd is up to date (version: 23, sigs: 21096, f-level: 2, builder: ddm) Reading CVD header (daily.cvd): OK Downloading daily.cvd [*] daily.cvd updated (version: 350, sigs: 800, f-level: 2, builder: ccordes) Database updated (21896 signatures) from database.clamav.net (24.244.193.21). ERROR: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't find or parse configuration file /etc/clamd.conf Thanks This message means that when freshclam is run by your nightly cron job, after the database was updated it tried to notify the clamd daemon about the new database. Either your clamd daemon has stopped running, or else it was not installed in the first place. If your daemon has stopped you can restart it with 'service clamd restart' On the other had you may be using clamav without using the clamd daemon preferring to invoke clam scanning manually (as I do myself). In which case you will get this message every time freshclam runs. Personally I just ignore these messages. derek Yes I Do it manually with a script. Thanks for your reply. That is what I needed to know. -- Johan Sch kernel 2.6.3-13mdk May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 calc - starting
Hi list, Mandrake 10.0. It seems that OpenOffice.org.1.1.0 got to be started twice. Have not been using it much before so this was not known to me. First click on it..then shows starting for a while and goes away..nothing happens. Second time..click again..show start and after a while the application show on screen. Please, is this correct for O.O.O or is there a way to fix this. Thanks -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 calc - starting
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 18:49:15 +0200 Johan Sch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 10:36:03 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 June 2004 09:59, Johan Sch wrote: Please, is this correct for O.O.O or is there a way to fix this. No, it's not the way it should be. Could you be more specific what on exactly you're clicking on? For more verbose output you could try starting from the commandline using ooffice without the quotes and see what's preventing it from showing the first time. Good luck, HarM Oh, clicking on the icon. Now that I know it should not act that way I did as you suggested. it takes almost a minute to load..and waiting..waiting..waiting..I then clicked a second time. Now the first clicked come to screen and a second instance later also on the same screen. Giving the..impression..that the second click did the job. Thanks for your help -- Johan Sch May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Laptop choice
Thanks to all that responded. Be looking into the references. -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Laptop choice - REPORT
Hi, Here are some snippets from various mail lists that I asked for a laptop choice. I had good responses. Trust this may be of help to some.. ** I'm dual-booting win XP and various Linux distros using FAT32, getting online and burning CDs on a Dell Inspiron 8500 and am very happy with it. ** My DELL Latitude C840 installed Mdk10 without any problems. Runs great. ** Yes, I have a T41 that works great with 10.0. ** If I was realistic I would use a Dell Inspiron 9100.. I have always bought dell laptops and never had any problems with running *nix on them. If I was dreaming then http://www.go-l.com/laptops/hollywood_gold/features/index.htm Would win hands down ;-) ** I would also go for the Dell option. VERY linux friendly. ** I love my IBM Thinkpad X31. It does very well with SuSE 9.1 on it. ** I got my laptop from http://www.powernotebooks.com/ and have been pleased with it. I'm running SuSE 9.0 Professional. ** These websites should give you a better approach: http://www.tuxmobil.org http://www.linux-laptop.net/ ** Have a look on www.linux-on-laptops.com ** My elcheapo Dell 1100 works fine on 10.0. ** I have a Compaq Presario that works like a champ with ML10. ** As everyone knows, all decent laptops are made by Tadpole... http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/html/ (No alphabook anymore though :-( ) ** Here are some sites that might help: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ http://tuxmobil.org/ ** I love the IBM T41 to death. I'm so happy with it that I'd buy another 10 if I had the money. You can see more info at http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?categoryId=2072693storeId=1catalogId=-840langId=-1 ** Of course you can avoid the whole ACPI mess if you can find a laptop with a working Linux APM implementation. The Toshiba laptops are always a good start (just make sure your laptop works with the toshiba utilities). Some of my Toshiba links: http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/eng/installinfo.htm http://newsletter.toshiba-tro.de/main/index.html http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/ http://www.linux-laptop.net/ I'd say the two most important things to watch out for on a laptop: (a) Power Management Check ACPI or APM support, Suspend to disk, support for the fans / battery monitoring. Check whether the motherboard chipset has I2C and/or SMBus support. Watch out for IBM Thinkpads and I2C problems. (b) Display Card Avoid Trident like the plague. Also avoid SiS, etc. Make sure your display card works with Linux and that it has X support with an accelerated driver. Be wary of the latest display chipsets (e.g. Intel 8xx chipsets, etc). Watch out for cards without onboard display memory, e.g. Intel's chipsets. If the cards memory is shared with the system memory, make sure that the BIOS supports a mode where you can select at least as much display memory as you require to display an entire framebuffer + maintain some page tables. 1MB is not enough! If you can choose a decent display card. That means one of two: - ATI Radeon series - NVidia (anything) With the ATI cards, check if Tungsten Graphics supports the drivers. They wrote the whole Radeon driver + support code. If they don't support it and/or the display chipset haven't been around for 12 months or so, you're in for a nasty surprise or two. ** Make sure that the one you chose has ACPI working. ACPI is a total mess - every laptop bios has a different implementation, and it's almost impossible to fix it yourself. Check here: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/index.html If your laptop has ACPI broken, you fix it by linking a custom DSDT table into your kernel. If there is a fixed one available for your model it's great, but if there isn't you're on your own. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, ACPI is the interface to battery status, fan status, temperature, lid switch, power switch, etc. ** I'm ready to give rave notices to the mdk crew for 10.0 on a Dell 1100. Have no idea where yours compares, but I have all good to report on this one. ** Thanks to every one involved. Regards -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Laptop choice
Hi laptop users, Please .. if you should have the chance to a buy a new laptop..what make..model..etc..would be top of your list. This is for linux use..like mandrake..suse. It was suggested to me that IBM laptops are ..very..linux friendly? Thanks -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] how do I open....
Hi, First you must save the file to disk..say in Documents..then you can double click on it while in konqueror..or..right click and see what choices you have to open with..maybe the needed software is already installed. Johan Sch On Thu, 27 May 2004 12:51:05 -0400 Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: koffice 1.3 - free openoffice.org 1.1 - free or if you need more general MS Office compatibility you can use Wine (free) or Codeweaver's wine (free demo, but $), Netraverse ($) VMWare ($$$) and run Excel natively. On Thursday 27 May 2004 12:44 pm, M.Schild wrote: I received an Excel .exe attachment. I know it is safe. How do I open it, please? I have Mk 9.1 Thanks Maryse -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning - Still learning. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to trouble shoot 'eth0 FAILED'?
On Sat, 15 May 2004 18:40:59 -0700 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 May 2004 09:53 am, David A. Ferguson wrote: Where can I read detailed error messages on my network card initialization? When my computer boots I see this line: Bringing up interface eth0: [FAILED] The network seems to work ok though. However, the lights on the hub indicate that it is operating in half-duplex. I don't know how to go about trouble shooting this. Are there more detailed log files some where? I am running a fresh install of Mandrake10 official. Thanks...David I'm interested also. In 9.2 I get the same boot-up message. Network works fine, however, so I haven't pursued the problem, if it is one. Same here since on mdk 10..gateway and workstation on static IP..been on the net for 36 hrs..no problem. -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MDK-10.0 and nvidia drivers
Hi, It seem that in mdk-10..kernel-2.6..you can only use/reboot in the kernel with the nvidia driver installed. This I fopund out after installing a later kernel..installing nvidia driver. If you boot into previous one..well a few screen flashes and then you are in command line. This is a least better than previous versions..just black screen. Was so used in mdk-9.2 to have two or more kernels installed and booting in any one you desire. Are my asumptions correct or did I miss something. Kindly some pointers please -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to trouble shoot 'eth0 FAILED'?
Hi David Thanks to several tips I found my problem. Turning off 'Network Hotplugging' in MCC networking fixed it. Well, just one click and it is gone Thanks Johan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Howto install nvidia drivers
Thanks for a informative and detailed reply. Joihan * On Sat, 15 May 2004 01:51:00 +0200 Wojciech Podgórni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: U_ytkownik Johan napisa_: Hi, I installed a ready compiled kernel..but have nividia card. Ok, it boots up to a command line login..after some screen on/off's. Rebooting in original is ok. Maybe I have to install some drivers on the new kernel..because its working on the old? Is there a easy way..looking at some howto's seems that I must compile a kernel? Please some pointers. Thanks You have to compile nvidia driver for a new kernel. Don't worry - it's quite easy: 1) Go to NVIDIA homepage (http://www.nvidia.com/). Download the latest Linux driver. 2) Install kernel source that matches your current kernel. 3) Go to init level 3. Make your downloaded NVIDIA package executable (chmod +x name_of_package). 4) Run your package as superuser. It should execute smoothly (and quickly). 5a) Modify /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to use the nvidia driver if necessary (that is, if it hasn't been done before). 5b) Modfy /etc/modules (or /etc/modprobe.preload if you use 2.6 kernel) to preload nvidia module ad each start of a system. 6) You can now test it by executing commands modprobe nvidia (loading the module to memory) and service dm start (starting X server). It should work well. I hope it helps - my nvidia card (WinFastA360TDH with NVIDIA GeForce 5700 chip) works well on my machine. One more thing - each time you update kernel or a XFree86 package (the one containing OpenGL libraries - because NVIDIA driver overrides them) you should do following steps: 1) Go to init level 3 (or just execute service dm stop) 2) Uninstall NVIDIA driver (nvidia-installer --uninstall) 3) Install updated package (if it is kernel, installation of its source and a reboot to use a new one is necessary). 4) Install NVIDIA driver. If your want just to update driver, run nvidia-installer --update as superuser when connected to Internet. Wojciech Podgórni PS. For club users there is downloadable NVIDIA package with precompiled drivers (but I am not member, so I cannot help you with them). -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Howto install nvidia drivers
Hi, I installed a ready compiled kernel..but have nividia card. Ok, it boots up to a command line login..after some screen on/off's. Rebooting in original is ok. Maybe I have to install some drivers on the new kernel..because its working on the old? Is there a easy way..looking at some howto's seems that I must compile a kernel? Please some pointers. Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:19:54 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 March 2004 10:14 am, Johan wrote: No this is the workstation with the problem. The gateway is using suse 9.0 I would like to thank you very much for trying to solve this problem. No problem, that's why I hang out here. Unfortunately, I think I am out of ideas. Could this be a DNS issue so the network is actually running but you cannot tell because you cannot navigate to any site? Next time you boot up but before you run the network wizard, what is the output of ifconfig run as root? -- /g ** Hi Greg, This is the output of ifconfig..before setup..after reboot.. ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]# ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3296 (3.2 Kb) TX bytes:3296 (3.2 Kb) ** This is the output of ifconfig..after setupafter reboot.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:DF:F6:77:0F inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1036 (1.0 Kb) TX bytes:1209 (1.1 Kb) Interrupt:5 Base address:0xdc00 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3296 (3.2 Kb) TX bytes:3296 (3.2 Kb) ** Seems you are on to something here...look the differencenow how to correct this please. Thanks -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 07:04:40 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 March 2004 12:13 am, Johan wrote: If everything up to now seems as it should be...then...my OS must have one %%##@@ of a bug. Because fedora and suse 9.0 find no problem with same hardware. Please trust there is still something to correctthis would be no problem ...but...MDK 9.2 is my main OS. I don't see anything wrong. Are you the gateway machine or is the other machine the gateway. If you are, maybe you don't have ics setup properly. -- /g Hi Greg, No this is the workstation with the problem. The gateway is using suse 9.0 I would like to thank you very much for trying to solve this problem. Regards -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 01:00:19 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 March 2004 12:13 am, Johan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=johannes NETWORKING=yes GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 I'm not sure about your setup, but here, using cable-modem service, there is no gateway statement in my network file. In fact, I don't think it would work until I removed it. (I did have it pointed at my hardware routers' ip address) Hi Ronald, I removed it and problem stays. Thanks -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Keep losing LAN settings
Hi, We have setup a gateway and one workstation. Workstation MDK 9.2 fully updated up to saturday 28/02/04. This workstation keep losing its LAN settings...have to launch LAN wizard every time after reboot. Win xpsuse 9.0fedora...they all keep their settings on same box. Kindly some pointers please. Thanks -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings
Hi Greg, I forwarded your message to my friend with the know-how that set up the system so we can get correct answersbe back to you as soon as I get the info. Thanks for the time to help me. Johan On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:51:26 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 29 February 2004 02:01 pm, Johan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 cat: /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0: No such file or directory Interesting. This looks like your problem right here. This is the file that is supposed to holds the configuration settings so that the interface can be brought back up at boot. ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]# cat /etc/modules.conf snip irrelevant parts alias eth0 ne2k-pci You are correctly getting an alias set up for your network adapter, so we just have to get you a ifcfg-eth0 file. This file should be written out by drakconnect, and I have no explanation why it is not. We could get one setup manually if we know a little more about your network setup. Are you on cable/DSL, do you have a router, other machines on the network, etc. What is addressing scheme you are using, dhcp or static. You could try something like this if you have a dhcp server: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp DHCP_TIMEOUT=5 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no NEEDHOSTNAME=no -- /g -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings
Hi Greg, It now seem from my friend it does exist but in another directory... here is the info...from my workstation. Use a dial-up modem on single phone-lineNo router..just workstation and gateway via cross-over cable. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ip-up.d]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.2 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no * Well this is all greek to me..should it be in this or the dir you provided...does the file give you the info you require?? HTH Regards Johan On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:51:26 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 29 February 2004 02:01 pm, Johan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 cat: /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0: No such file or directory Interesting. This looks like your problem right here. This is the file that is supposed to holds the configuration settings so that the interface can be brought back up at boot. ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]# cat /etc/modules.conf snip irrelevant parts alias eth0 ne2k-pci You are correctly getting an alias set up for your network adapter, so we just have to get you a ifcfg-eth0 file. This file should be written out by drakconnect, and I have no explanation why it is not. We could get one setup manually if we know a little more about your network setup. Are you on cable/DSL, do you have a router, other machines on the network, etc. What is addressing scheme you are using, dhcp or static. You could try something like this if you have a dhcp server: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp DHCP_TIMEOUT=5 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no NEEDHOSTNAME=no -- /g -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:55:05 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Hi Greg, This should work. What does /etc/sysconfig/network have in it? * [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=johannes NETWORKING=yes GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 * Look also at the system = drakxservices in Mandrake Control Center and make sure both network and internet services are checked off to start at boot. *** internetrunning..x..on boot networkrunning..x..on boot *** If everything up to now seems as it should be...then...my OS must have one %%##@@ of a bug. Because fedora and suse 9.0 find no problem with same hardware. Please trust there is still something to correctthis would be no problem ...but...MDK 9.2 is my main OS. Thanks very much for input up to now...very kind of you. Regards Johan -- /g -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mdk 9.2 not keeping gateway settings
Hi, Andre Truter and myself installed a LAN on 2 PC's. One is a gateway and the other is the network pc. OK..the pc with 3 linux fl;avours and win xp have a little trouble. 1-win xp works fine everytime after reboot. 2-suse 9.0 works fine everytime after reboot. 3-fedora works everytime after reboot. 4-mdk 9.2 works fine but only keep it's settings untill rebooted. Here is the sequence of events to set it up...MCC - Networks/Internet - Drakconnect - Lanch wizard - auto Detection - x Lan connection - IP Adress 192.168.1.2 + Netmask 255.255.255.0 - Hostname=johannes..Zeroconfig hostname= BLANK..Dns server=127.0.0.1 this should be 168.210.2.2 but after reboot it reverts back to 127.0.0.1.gateway=192.168.1.1 -. the next remains blanks - then apply settings = yes - Finish... Well this is untill next time. Please why DNS Server 127.0.0.1 - 168.210.2.2 reverts back to 127.0.0.1 When finished it is supposed to be saved to disk ?? Thanks -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: snip As far as I know, Grub should be ok with this, but don't hold me to it. What should I say to the bootloader option when installing Mandrake? MBR? The MBR = yes Thanks -- Cheers, Trey --- No lake so still but that it has its wave; No circle so perfect but that it has a blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't, you must take them as they are. --Han fei Tzu -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?
Hi, Well..NO NO NO or YES YES YES here is my menu.lst from the mbr starting various OS flavors effortlessly. But you should know what you are doing..thats linux..various ways to reach succes..but the choice is yours.. Goodluck Johan title Windows XP Home hdg1 root (hd1,0) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 #*** title Mandrake 262-0rc22ent kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.2-0.rc2.2mdkenterprise devfs=mount splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde11 vga=788 root=/dev/hde9 initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd-2.6.2-0.rc2.2mdkenterprise.img #*** title Mandrake 260-1 enterprise hde-9-10 kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0-1mdkenterprise devfs=mount splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde11 vga=788 root=/dev/hde9 initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd-2.6.0-1mdkenterprise.img # title Windows 98 hde1 root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 #*** title Mandrake linux-nonfb hde9-10 kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hde9 devfs=mount splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde11 initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd.img #** title floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 # title Suse 9.0 kernel-121-K_delft hde5/6 kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-121-default root=/dev/hde5 vga=0x314 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.4.21-121-default # title Fedora Core 1 2422-1.2115.nptl hde7/8 root (hd0,6) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi rhgb initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img # title Memory Test kernel (hd0,4)/boot/memtest.bin # ** On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:27:06 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:20 am, Johan wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: snip As far as I know, Grub should be ok with this, but don't hold me to it. What should I say to the bootloader option when installing Mandrake? MBR? The MBR = yes NO, NO, NO You want to install mandrake bootloader in partition, not on MBR. You will not be able to boot SuSE if you do this. You want to chainload Mandrake bootloader just like windows. Install Mandrake's bootloader in the root partition and then boot to linux and add a stanza to Grub's menu.lst kind of like the windows one title WindowsXP root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title Mandrake root (hd0,7) == Put the drive partition number that you installed chainloader +1 Mandrake on here. Remember that 1st partition is zero. -- /g -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition.
Because everybody do have a free choice to decide what to use/buy/get for free...we are lucky that this choice do exist...maybe not always the correct one but still it there :-) Johan * On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:28:34 -0700 Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 13 October 2002 7:11 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: whack Well if you do screw up don't panic, it's all recoverable , just don't do anything to mess your windblows OS. If you do have trouble just ask again here on this list. Plenty of people with loads of experience to help you. What I have described is my way, I'm not presumptious enough to say it's the only way, but it's never failed me, and I've used most of them. John I still don't know why anyone buys proprietary stuff to do something that can be done with free open source tools. Has anybody ever heard of parted? http://www.linuxmigration.com/quickref/install/disk.html Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (RC1) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.pre7.3mdk 09:11:12 up 22:33, 1 user, load average: 0.64, 0.39, 0.77 Ahh... the smell of cuprinol and mahogany. It excites me to... acts of passion... acts of... ineptitude. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFALPsyZqvqlrLPr5YRAhUcAJ9BxqOPelYTkpdO8yL8sNhh2ORbIACgnGch ZZJUhwKe4vzhLA1MuoUzDBI= =C4sD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual-booting
Hi, If at all possible always the windows OS first...then linux...then the linux bootloader install correctly and you will be able to boot both on choice. since allready using MDK you will be familiar with the bootloader etc. Johan *** On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:35:35 -0600 Eric Geater 1/27/03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, this isn't a Mandrake question TOO much, though I am using Mandrake. On a new unpartitioned hard drive that I want to dual-boot between XP and 'Drake, which should I install first? Thanks Eric -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dalziel-1.2
Hi,
I am a standalone user that does not have practice on networks.
I googled but there don't seem to be any good howto out there.
I would like to understand the workings and learn by it.
Please anybody on this list familiar with dalziel or rsync-plus that could possibly
change this to be effective on
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/ with
../base/synthesis.hdlist.cz
*
Dalziel script..
#!/usr/bin/pl -q -t mandrake_updates_9_2_RPMs -f
mandrake_updates_9_2_RPMs:-
[prolog/mandrake_load],
mandrake_load,
mandrake('mandrake_updates_9_2_RPMs','rsync_exclude','--delete',
'rsync://ftp.sunet.se:873/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/',
'/mnt/mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/').
***
Thanks
--
Johan
Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning
May this be a good day for learning
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Re: [newbie] urpmi hdlists
Hi, Do you perform the following sequence..if not...your local list will be the date you added the link...this is my setup..scripts I use.. This one only once...unless you lost your list-media... su - -c urpmi.addmedia --update iscoza ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/ with ../base/synthesis.hdlist.cz This every time you want to update... su - -c urpmi.update iscoza #the name I gave to my media. su - -c urpmi --auto-select --noclean --media iscoza If you do this then it will work correctly...every time.. unless the server is off. Feel free to create 3 scripts..just change the media name. Enjoy Johan On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 03:50:20 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Every now and then my urpmi sources lose the relative path to synthesis/hdlist Typically I update daily and get everything already installed for a couple of weeks before I get suspicious. Tonight I fixed my choice of mirrors and got 42 updates. Is there anything I can do to protect the urpmi configuration? Lee -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?
Hi, Since you want to give it a try..here is a copy of my grub menu.. * timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan i18n (hd0,8)/boot/grub/messages keytable (hd0,8)/boot/us.klt altconfigfile (hd0,8)/boot/grub/menu.once default 0 # title Windows XP Home hdg1 root (hd1,0) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 #*** title Mandrake 260-1 enterprise hde-9-10 kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0-1mdkenterprise devfs=mount splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde11 vga=788 root=/dev/hde9 initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd-2.6.0-1mdkenterprise.img # title Mandrake 2422-26 Enterprise hde-9-10 kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-26mdkenterprise devfs=mount splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde11 vga=788 root=/dev/hde9 initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd-2.4.22-26mdkenterprise.img # title Mandrake 2422-26 hde-9-10 kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-26mdk devfs=mount splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde11 vga=788 root=/dev/hde9 initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd-2.4.22-26mdk.img # title Mandrake 2422-21 hde-9-10 kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-21mdk root=/dev/hde9 devfs=mount splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde11 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd-2.4.22-21mdk.img # title Windows 98 hde1 root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 #*** title Mandrake linux-nonfb hde9-10 kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hde9 devfs=mount splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde11 initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd.img #** title floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 # title Suse 9.0 kernel-121-K_delft hde5/6 kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-121-default root=/dev/hde5 vga=0x314 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.4.21-121-default # title Fedora Core 1 2422-1.2115.nptl hde7/8 root (hd0,6) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi rhgb initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img # title Memory Test kernel (hd0,4)/boot/memtest.bin # * Johan On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 23:01:07 -0500 Guy Rouillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 19:56:24 +0200 Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I suggest grub.. On my drive one there is win 98 - mdk 9.2 - fedora - suse 9.0. On my drive two there is win xp home. Grub handles this effortlessly. I even experimented with to two win systems (up to 3 win systems can be handled) on same drive - that worked fine with the hide/unhide option. This is all in the grub howto.. etc. grub need some close study and I feel sure it can be done. Thanks, I'm going to give it a try! Johan *** sni -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kernel 260ent and floppy drive
Hi, I am running kernel 260ent for a while without problem. Now it seems that byaccident I found that it ca not read a grub boot floppy. That is a ext2 file system. Other boot and dos floppy's no problem. reboot in 2422-26 and all is well. It seems that 260 can not read it's own fs ? Any ideas please. Thanks -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?
Hi, I suggest grub.. On my drive one there is win 98 - mdk 9.2 - fedora - suse 9.0. On my drive two there is win xp home. Grub handles this effortlessly. I even experimented with to two win systems (up to 3 win systems can be handled) on same drive - that worked fine with the hide/unhide option. This is all in the grub howto.. etc. grub need some close study and I feel sure it can be done. Johan *** On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 20:17:49 + Robert Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 4:59 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: Robert, mind if I piggyback on this question? I have a new AMD64 laptop, and it came with XP Home (of course!) I want to put XP-64 as well as Mandrake 32-bit and 64-bit. Can lilo or grub handle copying files before starting to boot Windows versions? Here's the rub: all versions of Windows derived from NT have two critical startup files: ntldr and ntdetect.com. These are incompatible between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions, so I need the boot mechanism to copy in the right versions from backup directories before kicking off the boot process. System Commander does this, and I just learned the hard way that BootMagic (comes with Partition Magic) does *not* gr. Seeing as I have to start all over, I thought I'd try doing it with grub. Thanks. Greg, If I read your question right you want to quad boot your machine? That is an interesting idea :-) Might be difficult to manage booting into the 2 Windows partitions though. (Not sure really). I think you might have to move this question to the expert mailing list if you get stuck :-) It would be difficult for Lilo/Grub to see the windows files you refer to as the Windows partitions wouldn't be mounted by Linux at that point. Robert -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 urpmi db behaviour questions
Hi, Maybe for those who does not hate GUI the same can be accomplished via MCC without mistakes. Johan ** On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:34:48 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 27 Jan 2004 12:13 pm, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:25:29 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.2 urpmi db behaviour questions On Tuesday 27 January 2004 02:20, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I have 9.2 installed and updated/config'd for the most part. It was a looong weekend downloading all the updates on my dialup. ;-) I seem to be encountering something that seems odd with the urpmi db. There are some packages listed as installable, which I know are already installed. The packages show as being 0bytes in size. Anyone know what is going on here? I have tried rebuilding the the db with rpm --rebuilddb. Also, concerning urpmi. I get the following warning everytime I install a software package with urpmi: There was a problem during the installation: medium contrib uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method. If I just click OK, the installation goes fine. I tried deleting my contrib source and using a different one, but the same warning keeps appearing. Anyone else having this happen? What might I try to fix it? TIA for your time/help. Best regards. --Angus Angus, as always Derek answered this a few weeks ago : Go to /var/lib/urpmi and remove the offending file listfilename. That's all. Next time you update the annoying message is history. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Thanks Kaj, I must have missed Derek's post on this. He certainly is on top of things, and a credit to this list. As are you, and all of the many others here. :-) Best regards to you. --Angus Hey you will make me blush. I was just repeating what I read on the expert list. I read some additional info on the expert list on this subject recently. Apparently the problem can come back unless you edit /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg Find the stanza for contrib, and remove the linelist: list.contrib derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: [K3b-user] Good packages for Mandrake 9.2
Hi Ales, This was ** good ** advice. I added this site to my urpmi update list and it worked like a charm. K3b installed with all its dependencies without hitch...and the GUI looks very new...not used it yet. I downloaded kernel-enterprise- 2.6.xxx..installed... rebooted and I am sending this running new kernel. I trust that no surprises waits but then just reboot in previous. Mandrake 9.2 is good once you get past the update hitches. Thanks again for passing on good info. Enjoy Johan. ** On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:27:35 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TOSOVSKY Ales) wrote: Hi, it seems, the Mandrake 9.2 k3b 0.11 package from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/k3b/k3b-0.11-db.i686.rpm?download is not all right. It depends on some devel library and k3bsetup2 file is missing. Good packages can be found at ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bibri/mandrake/9.2/RPMS/ Thanks to Ivan Bibr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for building from the Cooker. -- Ales --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn ___ K3b-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/k3b-user Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update Files
Hi, I think what you are looking for will be found in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms Depending how you did your update. if you where using urpmi similar to this... su - -c urpmi --auto-select --noclean --media iscoza .then they will be there. I have a spare linux partition for backups. I copy them there and with a few tricks create a directory with the rpms and headlist...now after burning you can register this in MCC and all is available. If interested I will provide you with some scripts I use for the *tricks* and more details. maybe someone else may have a better solution..I am looking forward to some more tricks. Enjoy Johan *** On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:28:17 + Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 21 January 2004 12:37, Budhi Astiyadi wrote: I use Mandraka 9.2 Download Edition. Can anybody tell me where are the Update Files that I download from live update? I want to burn it and install them in other machine that has no internet connection. Thanks before. Budhi, simply point your browser to any of the mirrors, for example here : ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS Then download the appropriate files (or all of them), burn them to a CD, and define that CD as an update-source. Or, just update the files you want by copying them into some directory of your choice, and then (as root): urpmi somefile. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sylpheed-claws - slight problem
Hi, I was running sylpheed. I read about sylpheed-claws and installed that. Now in folders Inbox -- CLUG -- Newbie shows in blue they have files...but click on that and nothing shows. There may have been files in there before moving from sylpheed to sylpheed-claws. What I see in Mail folder...there are files for Kmail and files in same folder but otherwise listed...take it to be sylpheed files. Any idea to correct this please. Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed-claws - slight problem
On Sunday 18 January 2004 05:53, Lee Wiggers wrote: snip Try a right click on Mailbox rebuild folder tree. That should shape it up. Lee Hi Lee, Yes as easy as thatit works within seconds. Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I restore original URPMI.cfg settings
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:06:19 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In an effort to get a steady and current stream of Mandrake updates for version 9.2 I was testing different mirrors and settings. Anyway, I got it so mucked up at some point that I did the wrong thing.. I did the urpmi.removemedia -a which of course deleted everything.. I would like to restore the settings that came with the first 3 cd's of the powerpack (the silver club download version). I am just unsure of how to do this. What were they named, do I need to browse to each cd.. can someone just email me the urpmi.cfg file out of their etc/urpmi directory that shows the original settings? There was a another newbie post earlier this week but it did not quite do the same thing plus it was not quite right in its instructions either. Bruce Here is the full details..if this does not work for you..then sorry..:) urpmi.removemedia -a You will find that your installation CD's are missing from the list To readd your cd sources do:. Put CD1 in the drive and in root terminal type: urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable://mnt/cdrom Johan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fstab and lilo
On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:14, Lee Wiggers wrote: I have my fstab and lilo pretty much fouled up. Would someone who has a working cdrw and dvd please post theirs so I can figure out where I overused my delete key? Lee * Hi Lee, Depending what editor you where using there may be a backup. Ok here is mine as attachment May try this and see if mandrake will not do it for you.. Pop in cd1 and reboot.. go through the motions of a upgrade but check along the line that all settings as should be. I have done this a few times and where able to recover. But the best remedy is to make a backup before editing :). -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning /dev/hde9 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hde10 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hde1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,users,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hdg1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,users,,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdg5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,users,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hdg6 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,users,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hdg7 /mnt/win_f vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,users,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hde11 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdg8 /mnt/backup ext3 rw,users,exec,auto,suid 0 0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] enabling ide-scsi emulation
On Sunday 11 January 2004 05:31, Rick Kunath wrote: Add the following to your lilo.conf file, then issue a lilo -v from a terminal to write the updated lilo to the boot sector. add this to your append line hdc=ide-scsi Like this append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdclun=0 acpi=ht splash=silent Make sure to change hdc to whatever your cd-rom drive is. Just add it to whatever is there, the example is my own entry line, just as an example. Rick *** Hi, About fstab...no changes there to reflect this? ** If you have 2 cdroms and the writer is already scsi can the reader only also be simulated? Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cd with faulty md5sum
Hi, Report back on this thread and copy cd.. It seems the question of a cd will md5sum pass boils down how it was recordedif it does not pass md5sum does not mean there is technically something wrong with such cd. If it was recorded in Track At Once .. TAO then it will not md5sum and unable to use dd to copyuse readcd. NOTE: All CD-R's written in Track At Once mode end in two unreadable run-out sectors. To prevent readcd from reading the run-out sectors, reduce the number of sectors to copy by 2. This iso and the resulting burned cd will md5sum if written in DAO..Disk At Once. *** If it was recorded in Disk At Once...DAO...mode it will md5sum and be able to use dd to copy such cd. *** There is also cdrdao to copy burn cd's..it needs some study. All of them actually needs some study. *** Please note...all the above is taken to be *linux data* cd's and that the media is not defective. *** For those interested to copy and write cd's in DAO.some commands...that works for me on mdk9.2...since the study.. * cdrdao blank --eject --device 0,0,0 ... this is a short blank. cdrdao read-cd --device 0,0,0 cd1 cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --datafile cd2.iso --device 0,0,0 cd2 cdrdao write --device 0,0,0 --speed 8 --eject cd1 * readcd dev=0,0 sectors=0-326656 f=cd1.iso...adjust to sectors reported * cdrecord -v -dao speed=8 dev=0,0 cd1.iso * The last 2 works very nice for me. * Now thankyou very much to those that made input. Special thanks for Izak Burger for detailed and good suggestions..this put me on the right track for finding info and study. All this was meant to understand cd burning/copy more and to make *good* copies for friends and for myself of course. Enjoy -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd with faulty md5sum
On Saturday 10 January 2004 19:05, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 03:35 am, Johan wrote: Now thankyou very much to those that made input. ^^^ biso knop33.iso (alias biso='cdrecord -v -eject driveropts=burnfree speed=16 dev=0,0,0 -dao') Hi Tom, Would you be so kind as put provide me with that script of yours. Exact copy on e-mail or as an attachment please. If you do not want to put it on list kindly direct email please. I have a lot of scripts for various jobs myself.once it works it will so everytime.no need to worry about all the options etc. I would like to collect good ones from people. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nice to see more stuff about cd copy/burning...I see a lot of traffic on k3b list. Being a windows user for 30 years I am used to GUI. Console ..if you know your stuff is powerful of course. Thanks Johan -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd with faulty md5sum
On Saturday 10 January 2004 15:35, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 09:35, Johan wrote: Hi, Report back on this thread and copy cd.. It seems the question of a cd will md5sum pass boils down how it was recordedif it does not pass md5sum does not mean there is technically something wrong with such cd. snip Johan, this should be on the TWiki - it's too good to lose. Only problem is, I'm not sure where the best place is. Would you browse the index and see what you think? Anne Hi Anne, Here is something similar.. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/BurningCDsFromISOs Johan -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Having trouble upgrading to kernel-2.4.22.26mdk
On Sunday 11 January 2004 07:10, Ferdog wrote: I'm having trouble upgrading to kernel-2.4.22.26mdk on my brand new Mandrake 9.2 installation. Following the instructions on mandrakesecure.net, I first upgraded bootloader-utils to bootloader-utils-1.6-3.1.92mdk, which, seems to install fine. Then, I attempt to install kernel-2.4.22.26mdk and get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi kernel-2.4.22.26mdk Installation failed, some files are missing: ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/update s/9.2/RPMS/./kernel-2.4.22.26mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm You may want to update your urpmi database So, I update my urpmi database with 'urpmi.update -a' and that seems to update properly, however, I continue to get the same error when trying to install the kernel update. I have no idea what files are missing. Currently, I am running the same kernel that was originally installed with the system, 2.4.22-10mdk, so this would be the first kernel update I have done on this system. I am new to Mandrake and linux in general so I would really appreciate any help in this matter. Thanks, Mike Hi Mike, This will be a lengthy thing.. Ok, here is 4 scripts I use for updating my system- mdk9.2. They work fine for me in South Africa ... this site is located here too...I do have other sites in smiler scripts...but you could maybe modify them to a more local good site. Use as follows.. First save them to a directory...like bin in your user account. Then... ./00-add-iscoza then.. ./000-listmedia.you Will now see all listed media and the above one should show. Go on to the net then.. ./00-upd-iscoza Quite a lot of stuff will show but wait until prompt. ** Now if you want to do a full update of your system then... ./00-use-iscoza BEWAREthis WILL take hours.about 150 to 200 MB on first update. What you want to do is to update your kernel them like thisactual on my system... [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# urpmi kernel One of the following packages is needed: 1- kernel-2.4.22.10mdk-1-1mdk.i586 2- kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586 3- kernel-2.4.22.26mdk-1-1mdk.i586 What is your choice? (1-3) ...then pick 3..about 40MB I installed choice 3 last night. Now on my system all 3 are installed side by side. on boot I can pick any of them to run. If you are using GRUB bootloader everything is done for you in the menu.lst by the installer. LILO...sorry I am not sure..maybe /sbin/lilo -vto re-install lilo..grub no need to anything. As su go check before you REBOOT to use new kernel... /boot/grub/menu.lst...or.../etc/lilo.confto see if what I said is true...depending on your bootloader. Also check the entries in /boot .will see your new kernel there. Actually it is as easy as this to install a kernel...no sweat. ..hope so??? Well if you should do a full update there is some issues of missing menus and some missing apps. The menus may be rectified by.update-menus -v Missing apps - re-install. If you want to safely change from one loader to the other...lilo grub... Pop in cd 1 and reboot.. Do as if install but pick upgrade...then go through motions as required but when you reach the choices list of hardware/printer/region/etc ...make sure they are correct but for the loader ( about second last one) of list pick grub or lilo...then continue. Well I like grubcan do with it on boot that is impossible with lilo. GoodluckEnjoy -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning su -c urpmq --list-media su - -c urpmi.addmedia --update iscoza ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/ with ../base/synthesis.hdlist.cz su - -c urpmi.update iscoza su - -c urpmi --auto-select --noclean --media iscoza Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Having trouble upgrading to kernel-2.4.22.26mdk
On Sunday 11 January 2004 07:10, Ferdog wrote: I'm having trouble upgrading to kernel-2.4.22.26mdk on my brand new Mandrake 9.2 installation. sip I am new to Mandrake and linux in general so I would really appreciate any help in this matter. Thanks, Mike After you saved those scripts and they do not show up green when you * ls * them..then... chmod 777 00* now they will show up green and be executable. -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] copy a cd
Hi, Thanks for all the input from list members... This seems to work for me...after all the suggestions... Pop cd into cdrom...then... [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]$ md5sum /dev/hdb 9babc164ac9fe1426dcb00a5a75d945a /dev/hdb [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-files]$ dd if=/dev/hdb of=cd1.iso 1289788+0 records in 1289788+0 records out [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-files]$ md5sum cd1.iso 9babc164ac9fe1426dcb00a5a75d945a cd1.iso Now k3b write iso image...(no multisession).. Check new cd... [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-files]$ md5sum /dev/hdb 9babc164ac9fe1426dcb00a5a75d945a /dev/hdb Looks fine.is it a true copy?? -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cd with faulty md5sum
Hi, Now it seem that I have success to copy cd's with a good md5sum..what about those that gives input/output error.. I have about 30 of them received from a source that supply downloaded versions of linux. They work faultlessly without fail to date. The problem is when you want to copy them...dd ... does not work... ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-files]$ md5sum /dev/hdb md5sum: /dev/hdb: Input/output error [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-files]$ dd if=/dev/hdb of=cdtest.iso dd: reading `/dev/hdb': Input/output error 993344+0 records in 993344+0 records out ** Even K3B refuses to copy this cd's. ** I have made copies of them in windows and the recipients had problems. Now maybe I could use rsync to copy all those files in one go and then burn them back to cd * or * use mkisofs and then burn to cd? ** CD1 ** needs to be bootable..how could that be accomplished. Some suggestions would be appreciated please. Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] uses an invalid list file
Hi Derek. Anne Correct all stuff listed in MCC is here.. rm /var/lib/urpmi/list.media is what you are looking for. Hi Anne, Correct about MCC.just click on the X ...it is removed but site still there and not active... Thats the one I would suggest if you want to keep it but no complaints. Thanks to you both. -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] uses an invalid list file
Hi, Sorry this was on list but I lost it. Kindly what to delete and where please. medium contrib-sunsite uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] libGLcore.so.1
Hi, Anybody know where I may find this file. When I google I find a reference to an rpm..try click to download and ..I think some 500 error..it seems a nividia file not longer excisting??? kmymoney.x.rpm needs this file. I remember the latest k3b also needed it...I just left it after not being able to find it. Please. Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] libGLcore.so.1
Thanks for your reply...but I am still in the dark...please maybe some more info...like... under what name were etc.. Thanks Johan *** On Tuesday 30 December 2003 17:14, Kevin Ferguson wrote: Its the development library you will need Regards. Johan wrote: Hi, Anybody know where I may find this file. When I google I find a reference to an rpm..try click to download and ..I think some 500 error..it seems a nividia file not longer excisting??? kmymoney.x.rpm needs this file. I remember the latest k3b also needed it...I just left it after not being able to find it. Please. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Grub entry
Ok, here is mine as an attachment Johan * On Tuesday 30 December 2003 15:52, trufflesdad wrote: Could someone using grub please post me the booting stanza.. I have been trying to boot Mandrake from the Fedora menu.lst but I must have an error as calling the mandrake partition goes straight into Fedora... -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan i18n (hd0,8)/boot/grub/messages keytable (hd0,8)/boot/us.klt altconfigfile (hd0,8)/boot/grub/menu.once default 0 title Windows XP Home hdg1 root (hd1,0) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 title Mandrake 2422-21 hde9-10 kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-21mdk root=/dev/hde9 devfs=mount splash=silent splash=silent splash=silent splash=silent splash=silent splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde11 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd-2.4.22-21mdk.img title Mandrake 2422-10 kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-10mdk root=/dev/hde9 devfs=mount splash=silent splash=silent splash=silent splash=silent splash=silent splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde11 splash=silent initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd-2.4.22-10mdk.img title Windows 98 hde1 root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title Mandrake linux-nonfb hde9-10 kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hde9 devfs=mount splash=silent splash=silent splash=silent splash=silent splash=silent splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde11 initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd.img title floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 # title Suse 9.0 hde5/6-kernel-121-K_delft kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-121-default root=/dev/hde5 vga=0x314 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.4.21-121-default #** title Redhat 9.0 hde7/8 root (hd0,6) kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 root=/dev/hde7 initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img # title Memory Test kernel (hd0,4)/boot/memtest.bin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] copy a cd
Hi, To make an exact copy of a cd will this be the format... dd if=xx/zzz/test.iso of=/mnt/cdrom or dd if=xx/zzz/test.iso of=/dev/hdb *** or *** any other application unknown to me please. Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] financial app
Hi, Thanks for all your suggestions .. I will be looking into them. -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] financial app
Hi, Any known financial app for linux except gnucash, please Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] stock application
Hi, Any known application in linux that would keep track of stock in and sales, please. Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
