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
specs. on the machine and that should indicate something of what I am saying. But, yes, I agree, the centrino IS a lot slower than the P4 equivalents. Hamish * CLUG maillist.. The Centrino is a laptop specific cpu and has better power consumption, heat management blah blah blah. The P4 Celeron stuff are desktop cpus so they will run hotter chew more battery power. There is also the Pentium-M - the older brother of the Centrino Zoltan *** Not as far as I understand. Pentium-M is the CPU component of Centrino. Centrino is a combination of Pentium-M and some energy-efficient components (including Wifi). Neil *** Intel p4 .. various speeds. fastest CPU, big working caches. celerion .. various speeds. celeron: disabled (or much smaller) caches than the P4 centrino .. various speeds. much less power consumption, performance on par with faster clock rate P4s but those appear to be the interactive office work type applications. The centrino seem to be the slower one than the other two. Noted that the AMDs are lower clock rates, but performance on pat with higher clock rate P4s?? MHz/GHz aren't everything with regards to performance. Hendrik ** Speed comparisons for the intel chips is http://developer.intel.com/hardwaredesign/processors.htm#2 click on Intel® Processor Performance Benchmarks. Like with other cpu's, you cannot really compare the MHz speeds of a mobile and desktop p4 cpu. If battery life and portability is your primary concern get a centrino platform, otherwise a desktop p4 might be best. Jacobus Brink * Regards 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] 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] 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
