Re: [newbie] how to setup TV-card in Mandrake8.1?
mandrake linux wrote: HI: how to setup TV-card in Mandrake81? anyone can help? Ming Wu Depends on which tv card you have if it is an ati then google for gatos i think gatos has moved to sourceforge but am not sure about this +mario -- The software said 'runs on Win95 or better,' so I installed it on Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] Help with internet connection.
Paul Clyne wrote: Hi all, You help would be VERY appreciated.. I'm running MDK8.1 and for the life of me can not get my Internet connection to work properly. I can dial, connect (all seems ok upto here) but can not connect to any named services. I can ping the remote address given in kppp but I can not ping anything else. More than a simple problem with DNS settings I think. I've tailed the messages file and it reports nothing (that I consider) wierd, it even tells me that I have two nameservers assigned. I've been through most of the 'network related' files in /etc can not see anything wrong (but remember I'm a newbie). I've read various how-tos, pocket guides and done numerous searches on the web but It's beyond me. Some documentation even seems to contradict other documentation so I'm getting more confused and frustrated. Kppp (2.0.9), pppd (2.4.1), kernel (2.4.8-26mdk), what other information would be helpful ? HELP. !!! PS : please also directly reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (so as I don't miss any messages) Thanks heaps in advance. Paul Clyne you can ping to your ISP ip i.e. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx but cannot open a page like google.com ? if this is the case, then simply edit your /etc/resolv.conf and add the entry of your ISP DNS resolver. nameserverip_of_your_isp_dns_server nameserverip_of_your_isp_secondary_dns_if available HTH, mario -- The software said 'runs on Win95 or better,' so I installed it on Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 beta startup command
Brian Parish wrote: It's soffice in whatever directory you chose as the root for StarOffice. On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 20:31, Charles Muller wrote: I've installed the StarOffice 6.0 beta, but am unable to locate the startup command. Does anyone know this? Chuck look for the executable soffice file in the installation path. at work where i have StarOffice 5.2 it is in my $HOME/office52 directory, so in an xterm if i type [mario@mario mario]$ office52/soffice it opens up the StarOffice desktop. off-topic, go with OpenOffice, it will not expire, and AFAICT there is no difference with OpenOffice641 and StarOffice6. Thank You, Regards, mario -- The software said 'runs on Win95 or better,' so I installed it on Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] zip
Paul Kraus wrote: How do you windows/zip a file? I can unzip using the unzip command but there doesn't seem to be a zip conterpart. I need to zip a file to send to a assocaite running windows. Thanks. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com there should be a zip command as well. just try 'zip file_name' +mario -- The software said 'runs on Win95 or better,' so I installed it on Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] enlightenment oops
Michael wrote: I was having a look around enlightenment and i pushed the virtual desktop windows right over to the right where they seemed to sit better. Then i rolled them up - right off the side of my screen... now how do i get them back? Yes i have RTFM, at least i scanned it looking for an answer. I think that in my home directory there should be a setup file i can delete that will be replaced when i restart enlightenment again. Can anybody please tell me what/where this file is and can i delete it ok? MDK V7.1 and enlightenment V0.16.3 TIA Michael with egg on his face truth be told, i cannot comprehand what the problem is. try doing the reverse of what you did, roll them down and push them left, turn around and clap your hands :o) OR, you can try the foll: ctrlaltleft_or_right_arrow key to change between desktops altshiftarrow keys to change between *virtual* desktops of the *same* desktop. this may help you roll them back down. alternatively push your mouse right to the edge and that virtual desktop will *roll* into view. ctrlmiddle_click_of the mouse -- select the desktop -- click on the app, that may bring it into view. if you can see even a bit of the window, then left click that portion, press alt and move the window back into view. you may also post your query to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] you will need to suscribe over there first. HTH, Regards, mario -- The software said 'runs on Win95 or better,' so I installed it on Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Program with ./configure
Daniel Chen wrote: Strange problem I download the source code of PHP-4.1.1 and tried to compile it in my Mandrake Linux 8.1 This is my first time compiled a source code. I followed the instruction in INSTALL and execute ./configure. However, no matter how hard I tried, I could not run ./configure. I always got this error message: bash: ./configure: bad interpreter: No such file or directory Help me please, I am going to crazy! Also, can anybody tell me what is foo. I saw this word appeared quite often in Linux document but I don't understand what it mean. Thank you for help! Daniel -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com i cannot understand the bad interpreter part, but are you running the command from the same directory where you have untarred the sources ? try doing a ls | grep configure to see if you have the configure script in the directory. if it is present then do a ./configure -help or maybe --help if the -help option does not work. this may list out a set of other options that you may need to supply to the configure script. HTH, mario -- The software said 'runs on Win95 or better,' so I installed it on Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unix to dos and dos to unix....
Robin Turner wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2002 05:17, Franki wrote: Hi all, I have many perl scripts in a directory that all contain windows control characters.. I would like to make a shell script or something that will go through all the files in a directory, (and any sub directores) grep every file for ^M characters and swap them for their unix equivalent has anyone ever done this? PS, the only txt editor that allowed me to see the ^M's was vi, pico and others did not show them.. why is that? On Thursday 14 February 2002 05:17, Franki wrote: Hi all, I have many perl scripts in a directory that all contain windows control characters.. I would like to make a shell script or something that will go through all the files in a directory, (and any sub directores) grep every file for ^M characters and swap them for their unix equivalent has anyone ever done this? PS, the only txt editor that allowed me to see the ^M's was vi, pico and others did not show them.. why is that? AFAIK KWrite doesn't show, but does give the opportunity to, say, search/replace regexps, and change the EOL character. I'm still finding I have the same problem - I converted a ton of Word documents ages ago (with noword, IIRC) but some control characters just won't go, no matter what kind of substitutions I run on them; e.g., s/t+//g; should get rid of tabs, but doesn't. open the file in vi or vim, and when in command mode, use the foll command: :%s/^M//g now the ^M is not shift6, shiftm rather it is obtained by: ctrlv,ctrlm if you have some problem with this command, play around a bit, then mail me, i'll give you a key by key sequence. but i doubt you'll need it. let me break down the command % = for the entire file as scope s = search and replace eg. s/old_data/new_data/ g = global i.e for all occurances of old_data between the 2nd and 3rd foward-slash there is nothing, not even a space. thus we are effectivly deleting that character by replacing it with nothing. just showing off :-P mario -- The software said 'runs on Win95 or better,' so I installed it on Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What does CTRL-ALT-F2 get you?
Burrows, Scott wrote: My system starts up in GNOME. I pressed CTRLALTF1 and it took me to a command prompt out of GNOME. This is OK and expected but.. How do I get back to GNOME from there? you can also do it with altleft_or_right_arrow_key till you get your X windows back. How is this different then simply clicking the Open Terminal icon in GNOME? well if you want a good and proper console, than that ctrlaltF2 would be the way to go i guess. but it is much more convenient to open an xterm from within x-windows. if you find the fonts to small play around with the options a bit. i have finally settled on the foll combinaion: xterm -rv -fn 10x20 -geometry 100x37 the -rv option gives white text on a black background -fn 10x20 gives me a comfortable font size -geometry 100x37 gives me an almost full screen terminal. you may need to change the -geometry numbers according to your screen size. the above options work even with rxvt, which is another terminal emulator but uses less ram. Thank You, Regards, mario -- The software said 'runs on Win95 or better,' so I installed it on Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memory
hmmm, 96 megs is a lot of RAM IMHO, having more RAM won't hurt, but is the type of RAM that you want available ? with the 200 mmx systems, the SDRAM has to have 60 - 70 ns timing. most modern SDRAMS have 10 less ns timing. even the smaller SIMMS are hard to find. check and see wether the RAM that you want will be supported by your mobo. refer to your mobo manual for this. besides it is not always true that incrasing your ram will increase the speed of your computer, the reverse is also possible. offhand, 128 MB would be ideal for a 200 mmx system, you have 96 which is good enough. switch to windowmaker/fvwm(2)/enlightenment instead of gnome or kde. Thank You, Regards, mario Roy wrote: ram is the biggest bottle neck on a machine. installing ram will help out alot by improving most software preformace and reduce the read-write caching to your hard drive roy - Original Message - From: Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 1:26 PM Subject: [newbie] Memory Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.323 / Virus Database: 180 - Release Date: 2/8/02 -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- The software said 'runs on Win95 or better,' so I installed it on Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Operating Systems and Ram
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still no up and running linux box yet =(. Still want to stay somewhat active on the list. As for linux I am very new, I used Mac's all my life (Big happy grin). The computer I now have is WindowsXP, so it's obvisious why I want mandrake. ::drifts off course:: I thought that using linux had a smaller Ram fingerprint. Yet as for previous posts people have recommended 500+.What happen to small, lean and compact. I know linux can be powerful, but from this point it's seems to me, linux like other things seem just demanding more. I mean what happen to slow processor and low ram? linux can still be lean and mean. but if you want user friendliness, then you have to be prepared for bloated memory hungry desktops and gui's. however after some time you tend to do away with the frills. Load only what is needed, recompile the kernel and remove what you don't need. and pretty soon you end up with a system that is functional, comfortable and productive. sort of like my old pillow :o) +mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] On the Subject of clocks ... Need Enlightenment
use the command xclock -digital -brief this will open up a small clock window displaying the time in digital format. do a man xclock for more details. Since you seem keen to stick with enlightenment edit the file $HOME/.enlightenment/file.menu and add the foll line there: MY_CLOCK NULL exec xclock -digital -brief please keep the quotes when editing the file.menu file. save the file and restart enlightenment (ctrl + alt + end will also work if enlightenment is already running). Then left-click any where on your desktop and in the menu that appears choose MY_CLOCK. HTH, mario FemmeFatale wrote: yes OK Bad joke in subject line I literally need a clock in Elightenment. I'm so frigging clueless... Every other WM. has one... Even that weirdo TWM. I have tried all the WM's Mandrake 8.x has to offer by default. I don't remember if there is one in Blackbox (haven't played with it much). So far I am partial to KDE *yay windowsy interface i can handle!* Enlightenment *Yay Linuxy interface I can handle!* But... the lack of a clock in E is driving me insane! Help? Femme Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 04 February 2002 11:32 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Dennis Myers wrote: What is this AWAIK or something like that. AFAIK is As Far As I Know Mike I think someone needs to set the date and time on their system.. : ) Yeah yeah...heh...brand new box, literally just put together and running for about the third time. Hey, and no windows! :-) That's ok, it made me look at mine and guess what it was an hour off and now it is 5 hours off. I'll fix it after I send this. Onward and upward. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] personal organizer
Hello, I need to use some sort of organizer that will keep track of my todo tasks etc. and provide an alarm as and when a deadline approaches etc. Something on the lines of M$ Outlook in windblows. I have tried korganizer, but am dissapointed coz i can't get the alarm to work. I do not use KDE as my default desktop, even though KDE is installed. I use enlightenment as my window manager and will not change to kde in the near future. Any one out there know of any thing that may help or perhaps i am missing something in korganizer ? Thank You, Regards, mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tiny Emacs
Charles Muller wrote: I am trying to learn how to use the Emacs package that came with ML 8.1, but the program runs as a tiny window in one corner of my screen, with microscopic menu fonts. Is there a way to make this window larger, with larger menu fonts? Regards, Charles Muller asbestos suit on Hello Charles, If you don't already know emacs, may i suggest you try vim, or gvim ? :o) it's much easier, and once you get used to it, you will find that it makes life very very easy. If you need any help with learning vim, i would be glad to help out. just mail me, and i'll reply first thing on monday morning when i get back to work, or i'm sure that there will be a lot of vimmers on this mailing list only too eager to help out. Thank You, Regards, mario asbestos suit off Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Swap Partititon
FLYNN, Steve wrote: If I were you, you 512 meg box would get 256 meg of swap - if you need more than that then I'd suggest you invest in more RAM rather than more swap space - if you have to swap more than 256 meg on a 512 meg machine, you need more RAM! I don't really know how true, what i am about to type below sounds, it is what was told to me by a more tech savvy friend. The swap partition must be at least as big as the amount of physical ram in a machine. This is because in some cases the entire contents of the ram may be swapped back and forth between the ram and the swap partition. I know it sounds a little farfetched, but at least this is what i follow, coz to be honest, i don't know any better. Why don't you try it with 256. If you need more, repartition and increase the swap partition in size. I use partition magic personally, but there are undoubtedly open source products which will do the same thing. gnuparted is a name that pops to my mind, don't know what exactly it can or can't do though. Thank You, Regards, mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cron
Miark wrote: Thanks, Mario. I had the varibale set in .bashrc, but I was missing the export. Now it works like a charm! Miark Hello Miark, You're welcome. for those who use a c-shell instead of a bash, the commnad would be setenv instead of export, without the = sign. Thank You, Regards, mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cron
Miark wrote: Wouldn't crontab -e be much easier? This edits your personal crontab and after saving it, cron will pick up the revised version and run that. This way cron will also pick it up after a reboot. Btw, crontab -l will list the current cron jobs you have set up. It probably would if the editor were set up right ;-) I use MicroEmacs, but crontab -e always invokes the Devil, er, vi. I just never got around to figuring out how to make it us uemacs. put this line in your .bashrc export EDITOR=emacs lo and behold, crontab -e should then invoke the kitchen sink instead of the devil :o) Thank You, Regards, mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test
ai4a wrote: Test and what is the result ? did we pass or fail ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ebay
Lee wrote: Hello Lee, This is not the reply that you are looking for, but i started using netscape when i ran into similar problems. I wish it would work in konquorer though. Thank You, Regards, mario Thanks Mario, I still have the old Windows box to resort to w/Win98, but I was hoping for an Opera or Konq solution. I'm weaning myself off of MS one step at a time. Lee Hello Lee, Netscape runs pretty well under linux as well, the scroll wheel if you have one on your mouse requires a seperate config file for netscape, but otherwise it's ok. You will find netscape on the MDK cd's, i.e. if it isn't already installed on your machine. To even suggest the use of MS is sacriledge for me :o) Thank You, Regards, mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] install/hdd problems
I tried changing the dma to 66 and even 33 in the bios- same thing. I even tried changing to 40 pin cable. Hello s, I don't think you need to change your bios settings. rather while booting from the linux cd, there must be some parameter to be entered regarding your dma. i read about a similar problem some time back on another mailing list. sorry i can't be of much help, just didn't want you to play around with the bios, in case you break something. Thank You, Regards, mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: VB on Linux???
Gerald Waugh wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: %_On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:53:51 -0300 ngn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks!!! I'm a programmer [not a senior programmer but not a newbie at all] and I have the question if Linux has the need of VB or any Visual Language which runs on Windows to be ported to Linux. If exists any Visual language that runs on linux, I'd like to know it!!! Delphi on windows, Kylix on Linux by Borland TCL/TK comes to mind, do a search on sourceforge, i **think** there is even a VB clone out there for linux. Thank You, Regards, mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] partitions
Nick wrote: Does anyone know of a partition tool in Linux that can resize a partition with losing the data? Thanks -- Registered Linux user #225209 -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hello Nick, I have never tried this, but it may be what you are looking for: GNU Parted http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ Thank You, Regards, mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro 32mg AGP
Curt Tresenriter wrote: Being a little behind in my email, I've just read your post. I'm using this card under LM 8.1, the ATI page says it will only work as a graphics adapter, but I've read (somewhere) that someone was able to get the TV in/out to work though it's supposed to be somewhat involved. Haven't found anyone who's done it yet. On Monday 24 December 2001 02:36 pm, you wrote: I'm in the process of building a PC, and I'm considering using this video card. Any problems with that, that anyone knows of? This is going to be for use with both 7.2 and 8.1, primarily 8.1. I checked, but I did not see it listed in the Mandrake hardware page... -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hello Curt, Check out http://gatos.sf.net And no watching TV on your pc is not involved in the least bit. The gatos ati.2 drivers work well with a frontend xawtv or even the gatos very own avview frontend. I have an ATI AIW pro, and use it to watch TV on my Mandrake 8.1 box. Thank You, Regards, mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] install win after install linux?
Fadel Cazor Casis wrote: Hi, i have LM8.1 in a filled primary disk, is possible install now windows in a new secondary disk by switching primary disk to secondary an sencondary disk to primary? and not lost mi linux? how to accomplish this? Thanks on advance -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com remove the linux disk and connect the new disk, install windblows onto that. Then connect the win disk as primary slave or secondary master/slave and put your linux disk back to where it was. boot up linux and change your /etc/fstab file so that you can mount your windows partition in linux. I don't really think that this is necessary, but do it anyway. now assuming you use LILO, modify the /etc/lilo.conf file to point to your windows disk, add the foll lines: other=/dev/hdXX optional label=dos next run /sbin/lilo, reboot and when prompted enter dos and hope for the best. hdXX is your windblows harddisk, it could be hdb, hdb1, hdc etc. depending on where your windblows disk is connected. NOTE!! i have never done this before myself. and what i said seems to make sense to me, but i cannot be sure. so please be carefull and backup any impotant data before. All the best, Regards, mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Correct md5sums after burning a CD?
Randy Kramer wrote: I've checked the md5sums after downloading, and also after burning (using md5sum /dev/cdroms/cdrom1), but after burning the md5sums can be different (for various reasons) without necessarily indicating a problem. I burn my cds under Windows using Adaptec Easy CD Creator Deluxe, version 3.5c. Before burning the cd's you run the MD5 on an ISO image file. After burning the cd's you are running MD5 on some of the files () on the cd. These should be different. If you really want to check, after burning the cd, extract the iso image from it, and run MD5 on that iso. Then compare with the MD5 of original iso. These in my opinion must be same. Regards, mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Question - school related so ignore if you want.
I need to do a project for my statistics class and thought this place would be perfect for it. I need 50 people to answer this and it would be greatly appreciated. 1. How many hours a week do you spend online? 40+ 2. What is your age? 28 3. Sex? M/F male 4. What type of Internet connection do you have? T1 (lan in office) / dialup (home) 5. How many computers do you own? 1 + an old 486 which is not currently in use This is for a Elementary Statistics course for a project I am doing. It's a wintersession course and I need to collect this information ASAP. I need a total of 50 people to respond. all the best, glad to be of some help. Isn't 50 a rather small sample size ? Thank You, Regards, mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] killing a connection
Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi, I noticed this evening when I logged in to our server at work and ran who that I show being still logged in a couple of different places, though my workstation is shut down. How do I kill these connections? Thanks, Fred -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ask the root to kill all the shells opened by you after you logout. mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Still no printing in LM 8.1
Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have not gotten anywhere so far with the printing so I may install vmware put on my Win95 and print from there. Does anyone know how I would mount or access Linux files in Windows95 (without using Samba) when the Windows 95 is running in Vmware? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much for your help. Sincerely, Marcia -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com don't know squat about vmware, but i suppose you could, copy your linux files to a windows partition from within linux. and then print from there. this assumes the files you want to print are plain text, or some other format that windows can open such as pdf, ps etc. mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing hardare
daim !! i must have missed it then. and all this time used to install wvdial from a RH 6.x cd, and for mdk 8.1 i had to compile wvdial from the sources. I have the downloaded 3 cd set of mdk 8.1, where can i find wvdial ?. My apologies to the excellent folk at mandrake, all this time i considered mandrake linux the easiest OS yet except for the dialup proggy. If only i had known earlier. Thanks You, Regards, mario David Robertson wrote: Yes they do! -Original Message- From: Mario da Costa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 November 2001 11:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing hardare h, i prefer to use wvdial to get my modem to work. suprisingly Mandrake does not include this in their distros. mario Gerard van Winssen wrote: Op zondag 11 november 2001 18:43, schreef u: I just set up a dual boot with Win 2K LM 8.1. I can't seem to get my modem going either. Had the same problem in SuSe 7.2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fat32 vs reiserfs for storage
Sorry if this question was already answered, I couldn't find it. I have two partitions on the same disk, one fat32, one reiserFS, oth with plenty of space. Since I spend all of my time in Linux, I keep the Fat32 partition for storage. I frequently access a large number of small files (~10-30k), but I only need to have them available to Linux. Is there any advantage to keeping these files on one partition as opposed to the other. (e.g. as far as space taken up them or acess speed?) -Paul RodrÃguez unless you want to access your file from winows and from your post, you don't, there is really no point in storing your files on fat32. As far as the disk usage goes, on a 8 GB partition, the smallest block on a fat 32 partition was 8 kb i think. so a 10 kb file would use up 16 kb on you fat 32 partition, and a 30 kb file would use up 32 kb of space. the larger the file the less percentage of space wasted. but since reiserFS is native to linux you could even store your applications there and run them from the reiserFS partition. somehow i wasn't able to do this on a dos partion. Thank You, Regards, mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
