[newbie] HOw to make Mandrake 8.1 broadcast XDMCP protocol
I would like my Mandrake box to broadcast the XDMCP Protocol, but I cannot seem to figure out how to make it do this. Can anyone provide me with a way to do this. Thanks MIke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to create a cd from ISO file
I downloaded the Mandrake 8.2 .iso files and I am having problems getting them to work when I try to burn to a cd. Can someone please provide me with a quick easy way to put iso files on CDs thnks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Noisy Processor Fans
FWIW i know ppl have taken the stuff you line cars with *some sort of foam rubber* sealed the inside of their cases with that to reduce noise quite a bit. It's called Dynamat it is a sound deadening material. It is rather good too.. I have never tried it on a computer case, but I read an article on one of the overclocking websites about it. I have seen it in a lot of cars though and know it works there. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: What can I use to open a Corel Draw Vector drawing file
I have a couple of files that are .cdr Corel Draw Vector drawing files and I do not have Corel Draw. Is there a program that will open these files for editing??? I don't want to have to purchase Corel Draw to open these files. Thanks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
Other states have better gun laws than this state (read: less restrictive on law abiding tax paying citizens), such as Texas, Tennessee, and a few others I can't remember. Here in Georgia, in the city I live in Kennesaw, GA there is a city ordinance that you cannot live inside the city without owning a Firearm. There is not that many home break-ins here, most of the crime we have is traffic violations in the city of Kennesaw, there are the occasional break-ins but those are of stores, not homes. Anyway I think all should be allowed to own weapons, especially for defense of your home. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OT over reacting
Well it actually came on the installation CD's, then again since I am new to linux that may not be what I am looking for and could explain why it doesn't work. When I did my install (clean). I choose expert mode and selected the option to install individual packages and one of them was wine. Which told me it was for emulating windows. figure this might be helpful to me as a beginner so I installed it and the man page for it. I have looked on http://winehq.com and they have a download section for the binaries and source. from what some people have said they might be on http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ Sorry I can't be of more help, with locating the packages, but I would still appreciate the tips :) Thanks Mike -Original Message- From: daRcmaTTeR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 6:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] OT over reacting On Fri, 3 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Winex, but I just can't figure out how to get it to work, I am fairly new to Linux and still learning. I installed it when I installed the Linux OS on the machine. I read the man page for wine and it didn't make much sense to me. I have also tried to read docs on the winehq.com website. Can you please send me some tips on how to get it working properly. Mike, I'll share tips with you if you'll tell me where in the sam-hill you found those nasty buggers. I can't find the packages anywhare. 'course I may not be looking in the right place either. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OT over reacting
Personally I don't agree with anyone flaming someone because of the email signature. Who cares what their opinion is. Also he does have a right to his opinion especially if he lives in the USA, this is guaranteed by the 1st amendment in the Constitution ( As noted below). Also Microsoft does suck, I have used windoz products for a number of years now and I have just started to use Linux in the last year. I never have to reboot my Linux box, but I have to reboot any windoz box at least once a day. And the only reason I still use windoz is because I like to some games every now and then. If the damn game companies would port stuff to Linux I would get rid of windoz all together. Just my $.02 shockingly, freedom of speech is something that the open source ppl think highly of. welcome to linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
I hear that... If it does go Enron then they also have to prove I have that on my systems, at which time will have nothing but Mandrake, Redhat, SuSe, or anyone of the other flavors out there. Believe me I am not paying a dime to that co, nor am I going to jail for them either. But, none the less you did make good points. I don't agree with the license agreement but the only way I can use is to click yes. I haven't found a way to get around that yet. Anyway if I could get winex to work I wouldn't need to use that inferior product anyway. If they start to go Enron, then you can expect an all out user hunt. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] installing RPM
this is what I get when trying to install the rpm package, can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong or what I need to do to install this. $ rpm -ivv geneweb.rpm D: == geneweb.rpm D: Expected size: 2032953 = lead(96)+sigs(68)+pad(4)+data(2032785) D: Actual size: 2032953 D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x42 D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm D: found 0 source and 0 binary packages Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] installing RPM
You need to su/root: # rpm -ivv geneweb.rpm You can not install as usr: $ rpm -ivv geneweb.rpm Charles Thanks Charles I should have tried that anyway. Stupid me. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] dual boot with XP
you have to put /boot on /dev/hda, I put my in the first 150mb of my hard disk and then I created a Partition for Windows XP about 5gb and then the rest is for Linux / /home /var /swap /tmp etc... and then I use LILO as my boot manager. Also make sure you use FDISK to make the 150mb partition active or else LILO won't load. At least this is what I had to do. As for editing the boot.ini As 'root', edit '/etc/lilo.conf': the first line of lilo.conf reads boot=hda, change the 'hda' to where ever the '/boot' partition is located (find out with mount). Run lilo Make a copy of the new boot sector with dd if=/dev/hda[x] bs=512 count=1 of=linux.lnx Note: 'hda[x]' is whatever the '/boot' partition is. Copy linux.lnx to the windows 'C: drive' cp linux.lnx /mnt/windows_c Modify the 'boot.ini' on the 'C: drive' by appending a line for Mandrake pointing to the location of the copied LILO boot sector: [boot loader] timeout=5 default=C:\ [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT=Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro /fastdetect C:\= Microsoft Windows 98se C:\Linux.lnx=Mandrake 8.0 Reboot. Login to Win98SE. Open a command line window and run: fdisk /mbr to restore the Windows boot sector. -Original Message- From: Norman Zhang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 3:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] dual boot with XP Hi, I am trying to dual boot Linux Mandrake 8.2 with XP. XP runs on the primary disk, and LM 8.2 runs on the secondary disk. They are both on the IDE slot 1. I put LILO on hdb. Would someone please tell me how I can edit boot.ini to make it boot for both OS? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problem loading X
I just installed Mandrake 8.1 last night, again after deciding that I wanted to dual boot again. I have set it up to boot to LILO and from there I can go into Windows, Linux, Floppy, etc. When I choose to go into Linux it boots up to the shell prompt. This is what I want it to do. From there I want to be able to type a command to load X. I prefer to use Gnome for my window manager. I tried typing X at the prompt, while this seems to try to start X it freezes up the system and I can't get it to respond to anything. I get a grey screen with an X in the middle and it tries to load for about 30 sec then it stops, I have let it sit there like that for 15 min nothing else happens. I rebooted and tried to type startx and this didn't do anything. On my Redhat machine I have a similar problem when just typing X to load it, but startx usually works fine. Can anyone help me load gnome from the shell prompt. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Install 8.1 and XP in a dual boot
OK I installed this damn MS OS on my 1st hard drive. and I installed Mandrake on the 2nd hard drive. I put the /boot filesystem on /dev/hda1 and Windoz is on /dev/hda2 The 2nd hard drive is all various Linux file systems. here is my problem. I would like to have LILO as the defualt boot loader. I have installed it but the only way to get to it is to edit the boot.ini file for windoz so that I can boot to linux and then I get the LILO boot menu. I want to do away with the windows boot loader but I can't figure out how to do this. the /boot partition is the first one on the first hard drive. my Lilo.conf is setup properly to boot from /dev/hda1 Can someone tell me how to do this??? Thanks Mike -Original Message- From: Tony S. Sykes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 3:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Install 8.1 and XP in a dual boot Install Xpee first, then MDK 8.2. After that you can reinstall Xpee (as you usually have to) as many times as you like. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 April 2002 16:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Install 8.1 and XP in a dual boot HI This is what I want to do and am having trouble getting this to work I have 2 hard drives in the computer, both are blank. I want to install Mandrake 8.1 on the second disk hdb 40GB and Windows XP on the first disk hda 20 GB I want file systems for (not necessarily in this order) all on hdb /boot / /usr /var /tmp /home I am attempting to install Linux first then to do Win XP Can anyone tell me if I am doing this right/wrong/best way to go about this. Thanks -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify me immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd, unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Install 8.1 and XP in a dual boot
HI This is what I want to do and am having trouble getting this to work I have 2 hard drives in the computer, both are blank. I want to install Mandrake 8.1 on the second disk hdb 40GB and Windows XP on the first disk hda 20 GB I want file systems for (not necessarily in this order) all on hdb /boot / /usr /var /tmp /home I am attempting to install Linux first then to do Win XP Can anyone tell me if I am doing this right/wrong/best way to go about this. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] /boot
what is the difference in /boot and / file systems I know that / is root, but what is /boot for??? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installation Problems
Hi, I just installed ver 8.1 on my system. This is a dual boot and during install it asked me to install LILO which I did. then it said to remove media and it rebooted the pc. Goes through POST, then starts to load everything. Gets to the point where it tries to boot from the CD ROM, then tries to boot from the Floppy Drive. At this point the screen has 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 in a continuous loop going across the screen The light for the floppy drive is on constantly. it is not blinking. Normally this is due to cable being installed wrong, but the cable is right cause if I boot to windows it is fine. I can boot to windows if I use my windows boot disk. I can boot to Linux if I use the Linux boot did it asked me to create. but it will not boot up normally to LILO and give me the boot options that it should. Windows is installed on hda 40GB Linux is installed on hdb 40GB Computer config is Dual P3 1GHZ, 768 MB RAM, CDR, Floppy, 2 hard drives, and zip drive, GeForce2 video card. The install went smoothly as far as I can tell I didn't get any errors during install and everything seemed to be recognized properly. There is no SCSI equipment in the machine. Has anyone seen this before. I cannot get it to stop unless I turn the pc off. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
OT: Games working with TransGaming (was Re: [newbie] officially ms free)
but TransGaming tends not to work well with brand new games. Will games like Medal of Honor, Return to Castle Wolfenstein work on TransGaming??? _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] I am at a loss as to what the disks are for
My friend gave me a copy of Mandrake Linux 8.1. He gave me 3 disks, and didn't tell me what they are used for. When asked he didn't know said he never used them. I installed the OS from disk 1. What I would like to know is what the other 2 disks are for. Thanks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Question about a Linux box in an Windows Domain
If I have a Windows domain and want to add a linux box, do I need to have Samba installed on it. I have a small network at home and am going to add the Linux box I built to it. Network config is Router | Hub | -- | | | | | Domain PC1 PC2 PC3Linux Controller Box The Domain Controller is Providing DNS, DHCP. The Router does NAT translations. My question is do I need Samba to install on the domain? Can I just plug in and then configure proper settings like a static IP, and DNS server IP, Gateway IP, etc... Thanks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
