Re: [newbie] Help
On Sat, 17 November 2001, Stephen Kitchener wrote: Hi, On Saturday 17 November 2001 03:55, you wrote: I downloaded the mandrake 8.1 ISO from one of your FTP sites. I used winimage to open the ISO and extract the contents to a empty folder. I need burned all of the contents to a CD. When I try to boot from the CD it tells me searching for boot record : None found ISO's are just disk images - they need to be burnt to a CD as-is, they arn't expected to be extracted. I can't seem to get this installed, HELP! Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- Stephen Kitchener Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NFS mounts
On Sat, 17 November 2001, Derek Jennings wrote: There is a good tutorial on NFS at www.mandrakeuser.org On Saturday 17 November 2001 06:38, Brian Parish wrote: Can anyone help me with NFS? I understand that NFS shares are created using /etc/export, but what do I put in there? The /etc/exports publishes a list of folders available to be mounted by other computers. This is an extract from mine. /home/abi 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw) # Abi Home /mnt/windows 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw)# windows partition After changing the exports file type 'export -ra' to update the advertised exports. Control Center then allows me to do NFS mounts - prompts for Server and shared resource. I presume that server is just the host name associated with an IP address and shared resource is whatever I put in /etc/exports??? ?? Not sure what you are referring to. You do not need control centre to mount shares. To mount a share on a remote computer the best thing to do is to have it listed in your /etc/fstab file. Here is an extract from mine:- VAIO:/home/rosie /mnt/rosievaio nfs user,rw,soft,noauto,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 Andy:/home/andy /mnt/andySIS nfs user,rw,soft,noauto,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 Here Andy and VAIO are remote computers (Listed in my /etc/hosts table), the block size of 8192 makes for faster file transfer (the default is 4096), The 'soft' parameter means that if 1 computer is switched off the share will become unmounted. A 'hard' share will keep trying to remount the share ad infinitum. This is a pain because it will 'hang' during shut down if the remote computer is not switched on to gracefully unmount the share. No auto means it will not automatically mount at boot. 'auto' will make it mount at boot. I can mount these shares easily with 'mount /mnt/rosievaio' for example. Kwikdisk is handy because then you can mount a remote file share by clicking on an icon in the system tray. Be warned NFS is not very secure. Avoid using it on lans exposed to the internet, and at the very least insert all hosts which may use NFS in /etc/hosts.allow, and all IP ranges on the same seg who are not permitted into /etc/hosts.deny To use NFS you must have portmapper, the nfs daemon, and the nfslock daemon running. Refer to the howto in mandrakeuser. (Obviously the remote computer must be running them too) Derek Any help much appreciated! Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hmmm.. two questions.
On Sat, 17 November 2001, Roy Hershberger wrote: Gina, Gimp is there but you might have to run the software manager to install it if it didn't install initially. Linux ppc should work in any PPC mac, but not in 68k. Roy On Saturday 17 November 2001 00:10, you wrote: One: Is it standard for mandrake 8.1not to come with gimp? Is it perhaps that I do not have a full set of libraries? Out of curiosity (my partner is a complete mac freak -ok so I haven't looked at osX as of YET)- Can you run linux on (I should stress) older mac architecture? Gina __ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
On Sat, 17 November 2001, Franki wrote: I recently stopped using Reiserfs on the server boxes, I swaped to ext3, the reason being that recently I have had some data corruption on both mdk7.2 and mdk8.1 and in both cases, it appears that reiserfs was the problem, for one thing, it apparently doesn't like postfix much. ext3 is abit slower then reiserfs for small files, but the difference is not that noticable. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) Sent: Saturday, 17 November 2001 3:50 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions? For the purpose of a server machine, is REISER FS better than EXT2? Or are there others that might be better? I'm using LM8.0 PowerPack, and HAVE 8.1 PowerPack (haven't installed it yet since I keep hearing the horror stories). --- Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs, University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Web page design
On Fri, 16 November 2001, Ed Kasky wrote: FYI - 11K8410 WebSphere Homepage Builder V4.0 for Linux Electronic Delivery $57.00 11K8409 WebSphere Homepage Builder V4.0 for Linux Boxed software $66.00 11K8414 WebSphere Homepage Builder V4.0 for Linux User's Guide $5.00 At 04:50 PM Thursday, 11/15/2001, Miark wrote -= IBM's Home Page Builder is Linux' only WYSIWYG web authoring software that doesn't suck. You can download a free trial, and then you can choose to buy it for about $5 (if memory serves). Miark - Original Message - From: William R. Nash [EMAIL PROTECTED] What program is the best to design web pages without knowing now to program. I have been using frontpage 2000. I'm trying to get away from windows and just use linux. next i need to change over my hp joranda 450 to use under linux and quicken then i can delete windows. thanks Bill Nash Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . You are here X Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
