Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:58:38 +1200 Rosemary McGillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. someday, you will look at reinstalling a thing of the past! I know, I was once there. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. Count me in there. It is a valuable place to hold all Mandrake related issues, just kinda rough getting around. My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows access. If you will be doing a fresh install, don't worry about this one. Lilo has always provided a Windows entry - IRC even if it finds just a fat32 partition table *without* M$ installed. Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose it needs a new thread. someone else could give a go here - I use just the basics. just /, /home and one for swap (3 total) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:33:21 -0500 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I install sylpheed-claws2, will I be able to use my current Claws mail and configuration without any hiccups? when I installed claws2, it first removed my previous sylpheed install, then after installing the new version, a message popped up stating something to the effect that the new location for the config files is ~/.sylpheed-gtk2 and that you could transfer your old config files over and it would work. I passed on that myself due to a bad experience before attempting such. Wasn't much to reset up anyway. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Syslogd
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 06:50:12 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I prevent syslogd from showing events on the screen? Is it not normal to simply pass these events to the correct log file in /var/log ? question, can you confirm that any of the messages being displayed on the monitor *are also being logged* in /var/log/syslog ? I also had this problem on our server after playing around with vlan - although I couldn't put my finger on it that vlan or possibly vclient IRC could have even had anything to do with it. Logged myself (the only user) off, and noticed the messages kept coming. Seemed to only be firewall hit messages were showing up on the screen though. My M$ infliction - which doesn't seem to go away since I have to work with it everyday - kicked in about now and my uncontrollable urge to reboot overtook me. ;( the messages went away after that and I never bothered going back to figure it out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] login problem
Hello, My son recently installed Mandrake 10.1 over 9.2 on my machine. While most things seem to be going smoothly, sometimes it takes a long time to log in. The machine has a p3 and 256MB RAM. It gets to the GUI login screen. I log in, but it then sits there and does nothing for sometimes over 10 minutes. It does it for other users as well, using both KDE and Gnome. It doesn't do it all the time, nor can I see a pattern. Can anyone help? Steve. Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:24:04 +1300 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dumb question time - Is this lilo.conf you are working with on the second hard drive? Was the drive /dev/hdb when you installed Linux on it, or did you just have the drive with Linux on it in the machine when you installed it, and added back the Windows drive? Or do you have both Linux and Windows on the first drive, and you are trying to boot a second Linux install from the second drive? Mikkel Sorry for the delay in getting back to you folk but hopefully I can make up for it now. First my lilo.conf [ Note: this is on my master hdd and is booting Mandrake10 Official and then of course my WinMe which is on the slave hdd.] # File generated by DrakX/drakboot and reconfigured by SnapafunFrank. # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map default=windows keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=200 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=linux263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz2610 label=linux2610 root=/dev/hda5 vga=788 append= noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent initrd=/boot/initrd2610.img read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=linux267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=linux-nonfb263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz2610 label=linux-nonfb2610 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd2610.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=linux-nonfb267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=failsafe263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz2610 label=failsafe2610 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd2610.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=failsafe267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only other=/dev/hdb1 label=windows table=/dev/hdb map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz2422 label=linux2422 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd2422.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only #other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 # label=linux90 # table=/dev/hdb # image=/boot/vmlinuz # root=/dev/hdb5 # initrd=/boot/initrd.img # append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent # vga=788 # read-only image=/boot/memtest-1.11.bin label=memtest-1.11 read-only Hope someone is suitably impressed ~ I can boot the lot seen here (other than the system on the slave hdd) albeit that except for linux263, the others are only to text consoles at the moment because I have yet to compile the new nVidia drivers as I have done for the 2.6.3-7 kernel. And oh yeah - haven't convinced Jan yet so the default is still Windows - got to get my LAN started so that she can play her cards on Linux without probably knowing it initially. No, she ain't dumb, I'm just being a little sneaky is all. Anyway, back to my problem. I do not believe that starting out with image=/boot/vmlinuz will not work because there is nothing in that to tell lilo to find the image on the slave (hdb) drive. Please correct me if'n I'm wrong here! To explain how I got WinMe to work you need to understand that windows must think it's in control, hence the 'map' entries - I turn things on for windows then turn them off again ~ enough to fool windows into believing it is in control. So, though starting with other- may not be the way, I need to tell lilo where to find the image I want it to use, and that critter is in the boot partition on hdb which the current system sees as /mnt/hdb2_boot . Lilo of course would see it as /dev/hdb2. Basically, lilo needs to be pointed at that partition the moment I select it as an option. What I've done in the past (not saying it is the correct way to do it, or the only way) is to copy all the necessary files out of /boot from all partitions which
Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:42:49 +1300 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, I have two hdd's with the now slave having suffered my first attempts at Linux and of course, the last 9x going [ WinMe }. I can boot into WinMe without any hassles whatsoever but am unable to get lilo.conf right to boot into the old linux9.1 OS I have also installed on that hdd. Latest attempt: other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 [ My boot partition on this hdd ] label=linux90 table=/dev/hdb image=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only I have tried other=/dev/hdb2 ( my boot partition on this drive ) and tried also other=/dev/hdb2 [ WinMe starts out as other=/dev/hdb1 ] I have made sure that vmlinuz and initrd.img exist on that boot partition still. I added the table=/dev/hdb but still no go. So someone want to slap me over the wrist for being dump here somewhere? I might be wrong, but isn't other used only for windows? At least all the lilo.conf's I've looked at on my systems had other=/dev/hda1 for the first line to boot into windows. I hate to take a stab at what exactly you should have in your lilo.conf, but my first guess is that the section refering to your linux install would start with something like image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux90 root=/dev/hdb ---seems like maybe a partition number goes behind? and-so-on and-so-on maybe attach your whole lilo.conf and someone might be able to help you better. Myself, I am sort of curious how you have windows working with it. -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:42:49 +1300 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, I have two hdd's with the now slave having suffered my first attempts at Linux and of course, the last 9x going [ WinMe }. I can boot into WinMe without any hassles whatsoever but am unable to get lilo.conf right to boot into the old linux9.1 OS I have also installed on that hdd. Latest attempt: other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 [ My boot partition on this hdd ] label=linux90 table=/dev/hdb image=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only I have tried other=/dev/hdb2 ( my boot partition on this drive ) and tried also other=/dev/hdb2 [ WinMe starts out as other=/dev/hdb1 ] I have made sure that vmlinuz and initrd.img exist on that boot partition still. I added the table=/dev/hdb but still no go. So someone want to slap me over the wrist for being dump here somewhere? noticed I botched that root=/dev/hdb line... didn't notice the root listing below your table entry (gotta slow down on reading!). I did manage to find my lilo.conf from my 9.1 install for an example; boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map vga=normal default=Mandrake9.1 keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=Mandrake9.1 root=/dev/hdb5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 label=RedHat9 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img append=hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=788 read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=Windows2000 table=/dev/hda I would say drop the other= line and replace it with image=/boot/vmlinuz and remove the table= line as well for starters. -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File undelete utility?
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:33:32 -0500 (EST) cervixcouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the process of trying to set up an external hard drive, I misread the Seagate setup instructions and accidentally destroyed the partitions on my laptop so badly that using 'rescue' from the installation CD couldn't do good. (all my partitions were gone) I've since reinstalled Linux and tried to set the partition sizes to what they were before, in the hope that I could run some sort of file restore utility on /dev/hda6, which was where my /home drive was. (my hope was that that portion of the hard drive wouldn't be overwritten by the install) I've tried r-linux, recover and mundelete and none of them have worked. I need something a little more thorough than those three, something that will scan the drive itself instead of only checking the inodes. Any suggestions? have you tried the ultimate boot cd? http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ not sure if it has anything you need, but it has alot on it. The web site list all the programs on it, you might find something useful, if not for now maybe later on. -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Bootloader
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:39:20 +1300 Rosemary McGillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the install is it quite safe to allow the windows boot loader to be overwritten with GRUB or LILO? When I tried Linux a few years ago I had some problems with boot loader and ended having to do fresh install of windows. Thanks Rosemary should not be a problem, if you need to restore it back to win for some reason, something like a fdisk /mbr or something like that could be run from a win boot disk which would reload the Master Boot Record or mbr which windows uses. No fresh install of windows would be needed either. if you don't feel comfortable doing that, you could always save the bootloader to a floppy to avoid overwriting your mbr. -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File undelete utility?
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:12:46 -0600 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you tried the ultimate boot cd? http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ not sure if it has anything you need, but it has alot on it. The web site list all the programs on it, you might find something useful, if not for now maybe later on. It does have partition recovery tools on it. But I am not sure they will work after doing a re-install. I hate to say it, but it would have been fairly simple to recover before trying to re-install Linux. But it is worth a try... Under the Partition Tools section, I counted 11 programs. a few sections above that were some Seagate Hard drive utitilties as well. I know it also has some partition wipe utilities as well ;) but that's for other reasons! -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] partition
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:14:09 +0100 Martin Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: other than my unasnwered kword problem ... what is the ebst way to resize a partition and make another one? Martin, You can use MCC to setup your partitions. Open up Mandrake Control Center, Mount Points, Partitions - and adjust to your needs. I've even used it to setup fat32 partitions so as to install that other less-than-desirable O.S. (after installing MD first) - but that isn't for the faint at heart - especially in that order. I do not recall seeing your kword post, but if it was like this one, and you hijacked somebodies else's post, well your question made it to probably 50 percent or even less of the list members. Alot of the regulars here setup filters in such a way that if the subject line doesn't match the original post, the message gets dumped and never read. Can anybody clarify this statement a tad better than me? Reference this web link Martin, http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette so hopefully any of your future questions will be seen by all - and you will have a much better chance of getting your questions answered if seen by a greater number of people. Just trying to help - without sounding like a list cop I hope! Good luck -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] partition
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:59:40 +0100 Martin Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve I tried it with MCC but I only have the one partition set up (eg swap home and /) so I think I need to resize it with the boot disk to start with -NO? you are correct, I was unaware of what number and or active partitions currently in use. You would need to use a boot disk or something like MandrakeMove or Knoppix Live-CD in order to resize, then create a partition in the free space which is normally mounted and in use by your native O.S. my kword request was I downloaded it and installed it but it wont open Sorry about this one Martin, use Sylpheed-Claws myself. Little to no KDE stuff is installed on any of my systems. -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Photo Album Software.
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 04:58, Steve Goodey wrote: Any suggestions for Photo Album software that does tags similar to Adobe Photoshop Album? Thanks for all the suggestions, will try Digikam. -- Regards, Steve Goodey Colchester, England. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stevegoodey.com http://www.bbcfactual.com Registered Linux user #372670 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digikam
On Monday 03 Jan 2005 20:56, Anne Wilson wrote: My one hardware failure is my CanoScan FS2710 film scanner. I understand that it is now possible to get it working - presumably with the latest kernels - but I haven't had time recently to take another shot at it. I really would like to try it, though. I no longer have windows at all, so I can't use the thing. It cost an arm and a leg, and I still have lots of work that I need it to do, so I'll have to keep plugging away whenever I can spare a little time. Anne Anne, Hello, do you have any further info on this. I would like to get my Canonscan 3000f working, but a quick look on the Sane website and in MCC says not supported! Not really. Is the 3000f very new? If so, it can take a while for drivers to appear. Remember that Canon refuse to help us, so it has to be done the painful way. And if, like mine, you are talking about a model that is simply not mass-market enough you have to hope that an enthusiast somewhere is a damned good hacker and scripter and willing to share. Anne Thanks Anne. Not very new. Shame I didn't consider Linux compatability when I got it! So next time, avoid Canon gear? -- Regards, Steve Goodey Colchester, England. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stevegoodey.com http://www.bbcfactual.com Registered Linux user #372670 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Photo Album Software.
On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 22:01, John Layt wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 04:58, Steve Goodey wrote: Hello, I'm running 10.1O with KDE. Any suggestions for Photo Album software that does tags similar to Adobe Photoshop Album? A search has brought up gPhoto or Fotoon. Any body any experience with these? Thanks. I'm going to put in a plug here for Digikam 0.7 which is THE photo album for KDE. You can get RPMs for it from Thac at: http://rpm.nyvalls.se/kde10.1.html Make sure you install the Digikam Plugins and Kipi Plugins to get all the extra features. John. P.S. There's a 0.6.2 version that comes with Mdk10.1, but 0.7 is a vast improvement. --- -- Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 John, Thanks for your suggestion. However, big problems with Digikam 0.7, although 0.6.2 was installed and worked OK. Are you running KDE 3.3 by any chance? -- Regards, Steve Goodey Colchester, England. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stevegoodey.com http://www.bbcfactual.com Registered Linux user #372670 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digikam
On Monday 03 Jan 2005 20:56, Anne Wilson wrote: My one hardware failure is my CanoScan FS2710 film scanner. I understand that it is now possible to get it working - presumably with the latest kernels - but I haven't had time recently to take another shot at it. I really would like to try it, though. I no longer have windows at all, so I can't use the thing. It cost an arm and a leg, and I still have lots of work that I need it to do, so I'll have to keep plugging away whenever I can spare a little time. Anne Anne, Hello, do you have any further info on this. I would like to get my Canonscan 3000f working, but a quick look on the Sane website and in MCC says not supported! -- Regards, Steve Goodey Colchester, England. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stevegoodey.com http://www.bbcfactual.com Registered Linux user #372670 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Photo Album Software.
Hello, I'm running 10.1O with KDE. Any suggestions for Photo Album software that does tags similar to Adobe Photoshop Album? A search has brought up gPhoto or Fotoon. Any body any experience with these? Thanks. -- Regards, Steve Goodey Colchester, England. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stevegoodey.com http://www.bbcfactual.com Registered Linux user #372670 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] torrents
On Tuesday 28 Dec 2004 18:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could be very right. Unfortunately, I haven't installed mandrake yet. My local guru and friend advises against it. I don't want to make him less happy so, I will wait until he builds my new system in a couple months. Meanwhile I am trying to dld Man Move so I can get my feet wet. Having only dialup service it will be 35 more hours of dlding a little at a time to get it. DSL Is two miles out of range for me. Move house :-) -- -- Regards, Steve Goodey Colchester, England. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stevegoodey.com http://www.bbcfactual.com Registered Linux user #372670 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] easyurpmi site gone
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:41:17 -0600 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ easyurpmi website is no longer mirrored here. They are having to many issues and the hassle isn't worth it even after I complain and ask for a better way to sync. just seen it myself and am trying to update 10.0 official to 10.1 official. Will try browsing the mirror I am setup for on 10.0 and attempt to setup those sources manually for 10.1 but does anybody have a easier solution? anybody here use mirror.cs.wisc.edu for their source that can confirm this is the 10.1 main source for example? ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/10. 1/ i586/media/main the main source address for 10.0 was the same for 10.1 up to i586, then it appears to change after that. -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] easyurpmi site gone
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:36:34 -0600 Dennis Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boy did I hose THAT post up. Try http://urpmi-addmedia.org Thanks Dennis I was thinking there had to be another site because they called it a mirror - just didn't know how to find out what site they mirrored. -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gainward fx5700 ultra
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:46:35 +0100 Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody got the Gainward fx5700 Ultra working with Mandy 10? I have not had a good Linux fix on my home PC for months now and to make matters worse I have somehow contracted a virus in windows (Normally all emails goes through Mandy). X just does not seem to be happy with the card at all. I have used the nv driver, no luck, the Nvidia driver no luck, I just can't get a graphical interface, but it is fine during installation and everything else. My XFree86 log does not show anything helpful at the moment and all I get when I start X is the screen flashing every now and again with all the colours while it is trying to display the screen. I have looked around various site and even posted some of the errors to the list but I still have not fixed it. Thanks for listening, Tony. snip Tony Not sure if this helps but I've got the Gainward fx5600 256mb working with Mandrake 10 official. The nv driver has worked for me and I currently use the Nvidia 5336 driver. The only thing I haven't tried to get working is dual monitor support (need to do some editing of the XF86Config-4 file to get it to work). Steve M. -- __ Mandrake Linux 10.0 (Official) Kernel 2.6.3-7mdkenterprise i686 http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Connecting to and printer attached to a Windows XP computer
I am trying to print to a printer attached to a Windows XP computer from my Linux 10.1 computer. I have file and print sharing turned on on the XP computer and CUPS and SAMBA client loaded on the LINUX computer. When I run install printer from Linux and check the box that says I want to print to printer on the Windows computer, it goes out to look for it but, never finds it. Does anyone have any ideas?? Thanks, Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting to and printer attached to a Windows XP computer
Yes I have shared the printer on the XP Box but, no I have not set the Linux box to the workgroup in SAMBA. Do you know how to do that? Steve Albert Charron wrote: Maybe a dumb question, but happened to me so often... You said you have file and printer sharing turned on, but have you shared the printer? Have you set your linux box (samba) and your Windows box to be on the same workgroup (another windows thing) ? Albert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Mason Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 2:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Connecting to and printer attached to a Windows XP computer I am trying to print to a printer attached to a Windows XP computer from my Linux 10.1 computer. I have file and print sharing turned on on the XP computer and CUPS and SAMBA client loaded on the LINUX computer. When I run install printer from Linux and check the box that says I want to print to printer on the Windows computer, it goes out to look for it but, never finds it. Does anyone have any ideas?? Thanks, Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] real newbie
first attempt at linux here, have 10.0 amd64 up and running,have rpms for video and motherboard on a cd but can not fiigure out how to install them, even have some rpms (bittorrent) on my desktop but cant figure out the basics. amd 3000+ asus k8n-e deluxe (onboard lan not recognized) msi geforce 4 4400ti wd 60 gb on ata (recognized) linux 2 seagate 80gb sata(recognized but not as the mirror the are) xp linksys lan on pci liteon cdrw/dvd Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] drivers
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Re: [newbie] Apache2
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:06:16 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 19:44:12 -0500 Steve Jeppesen disseminated the following: Hmm- thread hijack. It was?? Showed up as a new post for me...weird. Otherwise I woulda been *all over that shite* ;-) showed up as a hijack for me too. Might be your gtk2 version? dunno LOL! GTK version?? No, more likely it was a hijack of a post/thread I had previously deleted because *that* was in turn a hijack. yeah yeah, meant your version of Sylpheed which is using or built with GTK2... here to learn. will hush up now and go back to trolling! -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache2
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:56:03 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:41:16 -0500 Dennis Myers disseminated the following: Hmm- thread hijack. It was?? Showed up as a new post for me...weird. Otherwise I woulda been *all over that shite* ;-) showed up as a hijack for me too. Might be your gtk2 version? dunno -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:57:48 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is an file index.html at http://www.mysite.org/mypage and it loads fine without the trailing / There is also an index.php file under /mypage. When I type in http://www.mysite.org, the browser appends a / in the address bar when the page loads. On another server, I have Squirrelmail running and can access that by typing http://www.mysite.org/squirrelmail. Same story, the browser appends a / in the address bar when the page loads But when I try type in http://www.mysite.org/mypage I get the error message. Obviously, something is happening on the other server if I can type the directory name without the trailing / and apache knows to look for the index.php file in that directory. sorry no fix, just saying what happens on my end; http://www.mysite.org/mypage shows what appears to be your complete web page (rm-rf) - with all the images and one link. The Unix Manual link is red. If I hold my cursor over it, it disappears (the words Unix Manual disappears, but the link still works) and; http://www.mysite.org/mypage/ shows the same web page at first glance, except it is missing the Apache, PHP and mod_ssl images. Sun's is still working though. And the Unix Manual link is blue, underlined and does not disappear when hovering over it. Not sure if any of this is caused by my browsers settings though. which is Epiphany 1.0.7. -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Disk Space Left?
Hi, I'm using Mandrake 10.0 with KDE. Where Can I find how much disk space I have left? Thank you, Steve
Re: [newbie] CUPS
Thank you, It is now working. Steve - Original Message - From: Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CUPS On Monday 30 August 2004 4:15 pm, Steve wrote: After I intsall CUPS from the RPMs and then go to Configure your hardwarePrinters, it tries to load CUPS again, opens the packages to install it (even though I have already installed it) and then fails with the message CUPS cannot be installed. It does this every time. You installed it using rpm, no? Under mandrake one needs to use urpmi, as its urpmi that is having the problem. I am not sure how to correct this problem, if there is one. Now, let the configure your hardware stuff alone, Use the Cups software to configure it all. Point your browser at http://localhost:631/ and fire away. The CUPS web interface should come right up. If you have problems with that, and its a pretty simple interface, then you can click the on-line help link to get help from the cups website. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] CUPS
I am trying to install a printer in Mandrake 10 but each time it gets to the point where it installs CUPS it fails and says CUPS could not be installed. I am logged in as ROOT. Any ideas? Thanks, Steve
Re: [newbie] CUPS
After I intsall CUPS from the RPMs and then go to Configure your hardwarePrinters, it tries to load CUPS again, opens the packages to install it (even though I have already installed it) and then fails with the message CUPS cannot be installed. It does this every time. Steve - Original Message - From: Cdrack To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 9:45 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] CUPS Seems to me like you don´t have CUPS installed jet, so I recomend you to install all the CUPS RPM´S befor trying to install the printer.After doing that you can use the web configuration tool for cups http://localhost:631Cdrack.El lun, 30-08-2004 a las 21:00, Steve escribió: I am trying to install a printer in Mandrake 10 but each time it gets to the point where it installs CUPS it fails and says CUPS could not be installed. I am logged in as ROOT. Any ideas?Thanks,Steve
[newbie] GZIP/GUNZIP
I just loaded Mandrake 10 and want to add new programs like the latest version of Open Office, AOL Instant Messenger and a couple of others so I downloaded those files. They are tar'd and gzipped. However, I do not seem to have a program in KDE to unzip them. When I right click on them it does not give me the choice to unzip them because it does not know what they are. I have also downloaded the program KARCHIVER as an RPM but cannot get it to load becasue it fails file dependencies for a file that is in the RPM. I am at a stand still. DO you have any advice on how to get these programs unzipped so I can install them or what might be the problem with the KARCHIVER RPM? Thanks, Steve
[newbie] X-86 Will not load
I made the mistake of reloading Mandrake 10.0 and forgot that last time I loaded it X86 would not start. Linux tries to start it but, there is a video resolution problem so it dropsto the command line. I fixed it the first time by editing a file that showed the different video resolutions for the monitor. However, I cannot remember what file it was. Do you know what file that info is kept in? Thank you, Steve
[newbie] Printing
I have two linux PCs connected to a wireless router. One of the PCs has a printer, the other does not. Is it difficult to get the one PC to send print jobs to the other PC? It would make printing homework alot easier Thank you, Steve
Re: [newbie] Printing
Thanks, I'll give it a try!!! Steve - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing On Friday 27 August 2004 00:23, Steve wrote: I have two linux PCs connected to a wireless router. One of the PCs has a printer, the other does not. Is it difficult to get the one PC to send print jobs to the other PC? It would make printing homework alot easier Thank you, Steve It is real easy. Just go through the printer configuration Wizard in Mandrake Control CentreHardware on each machine starting with the machine with the attached printer. The wizard will install the CUPS print server which will make the printer available to any computer. If you have Windows computers on the net, then install Samba after setting up the printer, and then Samba will make the printer available to Windows users. The only problem you might have is if you have a firewall running on either machine. If the firewall is in place you will need to open port 631. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get out of X Video Test in Installation
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:26:49 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody have the problem of the X Graphical Server test freezing in the installation. This used to happen to me every time I would install a new version of MD. Live and learn after x number of times (probably 10 for me) and I eventually quit testing the xserver during install. Key here is, I never upgraded the monitor - those settings remain the same for each version of MD. Now I have the monitor specs kept within arms length and plug in the appropriate horizontal and vertical refresh rates each time, and avoid the xserver test. I just choose the custom setting during install and it provides fields for you to fill out - sorry I cannot be specific as to what that area of the install is like and what to look for, it's been awhile since that happened last. IRC though, I thought the xserver test eventually times out and puts you back to the install without freezing up. Again, been awhile so I don't know if that happens now or not. Warning though, be sure to plug in the correct values for your specific monitor. If you do not have them, go to their web site and search up their support area for your monitor. Unlike windows which trys to protect your system/monitor (can the word protect be in the same sentence as windows?) linux will allow you to fry the monitor at your discretion. Good luck -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] looking for print server distro that runs off floppy
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:52:17 -0600 evolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to run it from a floppy on an old pentium. I need to share a printer with a bunch of windows boxes (samba I suppose). Is this possible? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am determined to use OSS in some capacity at work. do a google search for LRP - Linux Router Project. I've used a few different versions yrs ago, last I recall back then was printer support (server type) was limited. Maybe it has come a ways since then. There are many different distributions of LRP to choose from. I believe some may even refer to their versions as something other than LRP, but you should be able to discover those by going to web sites which contain descriptions of the various LRP-type distros you have to choose from. I even remember setting up a old P2 200 with two 3 1/2 floppy drives in order to include more options and features for the server. -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FQDN's preventing me to connect to Todd's site?
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 01:15:54 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 00:28, Steve Jeppesen wrote: this relates to the link Todd S. posted to which I cannot connect to; http://clevername.homeip.net/2004_08_21-00_33_35.png whack TIA Steve I would tend to reckon it has everything to do with DNS; have you tried adding some of the bigger DNS's to your /etc/resolv.conf current resolv.conf; search ce1.client2.attbi.com nameserver 63.240.76.19 nameserver 204.127.198.19 I have always been under the impression that file is created by other means than directly editing it. When eth0 connects to Comcast and pulls a IP, doesn't it update /etc/resolv.conf automatically for nameservers? We have always had our broadband provided thru the same cable, they just change the name the check goes to quite often. Used to be ATT, now Comcast, but for some reason we have stayed within ATT's network apparently. Could this be out-dated info perhaps? -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FQDN's preventing me to connect to Todd's site?
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 16:57:08 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By putting '192.168.1.15 steve.homeip.net steve' in your hosts table you are claiming that the domain homeip.net is on the subnet 192.168.1.x so whenever you try to visit Todds site it will be looking on 192.168.1.x You do not need to declare your servers external IP address (the interface facing your ISP) in your hosts table at all.You will find the address through DNS lookup. The internal address (facing your local net) must be in a different domain to the external interface. It is quite acceptable to make up a domain name such as 'localdomain' As in 192.168.1.15 steve.localdomain steve 192.168.1.1 server.localdomain server DNS is not used to discover IP addresses in the internal network, so you must put entries in the hosts table. Thanks for your help Derek, with your suggestions I have managed to get the server to connect to Todd's site, but none of the clients can resolve his site yet. First I changed the linux systems hostnames in their respective /etc/sysconfig/network files, HOSTNAME=server.homenetwork HOSTNAME=steve.homenetwork HOSTNAME=andrea.homenetwork then I updated (and removed any mention of homeip.net) their hosts files, server's /etc/hosts; 192.168.1.1 server.homenetwork server client's respective /etc/hosts files; 192.168.1.15steve.homenetwork steve 192.168.1.25andrea.homenetwork andrea I have also logged out (to reset the hostname), logged back in and restarted the network service on all the linux systems. None of the Windows systems had any mention of homeip.net in their setups so I believe they shouldn't be the source of DNS resolve errors. It seems as if the server or one of the clients is holding onto the homeip.net domain somehow still. Is there anywhere else that domain might be listed and I need to remove it? Somehow I feel this is a easy oneugh! TIA Steve --- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screenshots
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 13:06:23 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, may have been something temporary, everything seems OK here now? for some reason I am still getting that cannot connect message. I checked my hosts file to be sure your web address wasn't listed (one of those bloated hosts files from the web which redirects alot of web addresses to 127.0.0.1). All other internet stuff is working - dns and such. odd -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 + Multimedia keyboard
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:29:39 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 06:28, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Hey y'all. I'm getting dead tired of relearning how to type here; MDK 10.0 surely isn't treating my keyboard nicely; I can either choose UK, US or US International - if I choose US, then my right alt key no longer works, and if I choose US International, I have to hit the ' and then tap the space bar - which is getting horribly annoying. I've almost gotten to the point where I don't want to chat in IRC or even do email as it's so annoying. No where I've looked can I change this behaviour - no where I've looked can I specify what KIND of keyboard I have - HELP! I'm not getting any response here folks...wassup? when 10CE came out, I could not even get the install started - until I swapped out my M$ Intel(stupid)keyboard with a plain jane and I was on my way. that keyboard worked for me since 8.x too. Never bothered looking for a fix - just one less POS hardware towards a completely free M$ system. Might just try swapping keyboards and see what happens if ya haven't already. Only thing left is the M$ mouse...hope a security hole doesn't happen with that! like yeah right (ya never know) --- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Finally - an ad we can enjoy.
anybody find the mp3 file? I gotta get that one! Wonder how long before someone starts whining about it! On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:33:42 -0400 Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think that Linspire is just trying to open some doors. Bill On Friday 23 July 2004 06:28 pm, Jeff Reid wrote: I LOVE IT!! :-) Thanks for the laugh! Jeff - Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 5:10 PM Subject: [newbie] Finally - an ad we can enjoy. Friends, although it is Linspire, it´s still Linux : http://www.linspire.com/RunLinspireFlash.php Turn your sound volume up and have a good laugh. Kaj Haulrich. -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Noob question of the day
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:20:10 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok now I know more than I did do you know of a reference that lists all ports and their use? check /etc/services it doesn't go into great detail, but it's a starting point. -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] visual linux
File System Viewer (fsv) - displays your files system as 3d blocks...not sure if it is the same program that was mentioned b4. On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:22:47 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody remember a program that gave a visual representation of your system IIRC it was about six months ago thanks smitty -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] visual linux
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:10:47 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just bear in mind that unless you can reconfigure the source code, you're not going to get it installed properly on MDK 10.0; I've done my trying for the alloted 10 minutes with no go...so I have only fond memories of surfing my file structures...unless someone's created and RPM with fulfilled dependencies...Oh Sir Robin! Charles! Someone! couldn't tell you exactly what I did, but I know I didn't reconfig any source code - fsv installed without a problem IRC, running 10.0 official here. -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] testing...no mail coming thru
sympa down again? -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] test
ignore -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Log-In Screen
I created 3 logins for our Mandrake 10.0computer ( 2 users and root) but, only one of them is now showing on the login screen? How do I get the other two back (including the root user)? Thanks, Steve
Re: [newbie] Log-In Screen
Thanks Marc, I'll give it a try. Steve - Original Message - From: Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 4:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Log-In Screen On Tuesday 29 June 2004 05:31 pm, Steve wrote: I created 3 logins for our Mandrake 10.0 computer ( 2 users and root) but, only one of them is now showing on the login screen? How do I get the other two back (including the root user)? Thanks, Steve If you are using KDE go to configure my desktop/ Login Manager, click on administrator mode then go to users and uncheck all the users that you want shown on the login screen. Marc KM5KW -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and Windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 10.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] allow users to halt from comman line
Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you allow users to halt from the command line? I've seen the click box a million times, but now i can't find it! Or, where is the config file? I just did a fairly minimal install on a box with ML 10.0, and it doesn't allow user halt by default. I get the feeling i saw it in the graphical boot setup or something like that on previous boxes, but i don't use that anymore. thanks, eric just type halt, in a terminal and it will shutdown your pc. man halt -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] allow users to halt from comman line
Sorry Eric, just woke up and didn't read thru your post completely. Never mind. Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you allow users to halt from the command line? I've seen the click box a million times, but now i can't find it! Or, where is the config file? I just did a fairly minimal install on a box with ML 10.0, and it doesn't allow user halt by default. I get the feeling i saw it in the graphical boot setup or something like that on previous boxes, but i don't use that anymore. thanks, eric just type halt, in a terminal and it will shutdown your pc. man halt -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Networking 2 Linux PCs
Okay, I am not a network person but, I have two home computers running Madrake 10.0 connected to a D-Link wireless router andI want them to be able toshare files on each other. How hard is it going to be to accomplish this and where do I start? Thanks, Steve
Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels
Thanks, I'll take your advice and use urpme. Steve - Original Message - From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels On Monday 31 May 2004 01:21 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: then use the rm command on all the set of files that end in the kernel version you wish to remove. Then you left 20 MB of files in /lib/modules that are no longer necessary. Best way if you installed the lernels from rpms, is to use 'rpm -qa | grep kernel' to see what is installed and use urpme to remove them. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Old LInux Kernels
How do you get rid of old kernels once you have loaded a new one and determine it works? Also how do you remove old versions from the LILO Screen? I have limited space and want to clear out as much old stuff as possible. Thanks, Steve
Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels
Yes I know which ones I do not want but, don't know where they are located. It is just one file per kernel? Steve - Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 10:01 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 02:51, Steve wrote: How do you get rid of old kernels once you have loaded a new one and determine it works? Also how do you remove old versions from the LILO Screen? I have limited space and want to clear out as much old stuff as possible. Thanks, Steve Just delete the kernels you don't want...do you KNOW what kernels you don't want? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- pain, n.: One thing, at least it proves that you're alive! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels
Thank you. You have been a great help!
Steve
- Original Message -
From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels
On Monday 31 May 2004 12:07 pm, Steve wrote:
Yes I know which ones I do not want but, don't know where they
are located. It is just one file per kernel?
No, an just don't delete the kernel. You'll still be stuck
with many files, as in /lib/modules/kernel version
Use 'rpm -qa | grep -i kernel' to list installed kernels, then
'urpme kernel-x.x.x' to remove all of of the one(s) you want
to remove. Example:
tom $ rpm -qa | grep -i kernel
kernel-2.6.6.0.rc3.1mdk-1-1mdk
kernel-tmb-2.6.5-1.tmb.5mdk-1-1mdk
kernel-sds-2.6.7-0.rc1.1.sds.1mdk-1-1mdk
kernel-2phoenix-2.6.6.1mdk-1-1mdk
kernel-tmb-source-2.6.5-1.tmb.1mdk
kernel-sds-2.6.7-0.rc2.1.sds.1mdk-1-1mdk
So if I wanted to remove all files of 2.6.5-1.tmb, including
it's lilo entry, I'd su to root and type
'urpme kernel-tmb-2.6.5-1.tmb.5mdk-1-1mdk'
(use copy'n paste to avoid typos).
Make sure you're not removing a kernel that is currently your
(lilo) default kernel and that you're currently using the one you
want to keep ('uname -r'). If you have kernel-source installed,
remove that with urpme also, as above. Kernel-source and modules
removal will yield the most disk space. Kernel files in /boot
take up very little space. In any event 'urpme' will clean up
the whole deal.
- Original Message -
From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 02:51, Steve wrote:
How do you get rid of old kernels once you have loaded a
new one and determine it works? Also how do you remove old
versions from the LILO Screen? I have limited space and
want to clear out as much old stuff as possible.
Thanks,
Steve
Just delete the kernels you don't want...do you KNOW what
kernels you don't want?
--
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Proud to be an American
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[newbie] Argh! Accented characters (again)
On my SuSE 8.2 system I can type accented characters on this UK keyboard by using AltGr as a 'dead key' - ie, AltGr-; then e gives é. I just tried that on a Mandrake 10.0 Community installation and ... nothing. No accents. I've Googled on this and have found loads of highly confusing and contradictory explanations of how to get accented characters. Many of these explanations refer to config files that aren't on my system. There seems to be a file called /etc/X11/Xmodmap which looks promising but I can't work out what to add to get a dead key (I'd prefer to use AltGr as on my SuSE system). Any pointers? @+ Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opera
--- On Sunday 23 May 2004 00:56, Erylon Hines wrote: | To keep this on topic, Opera 7.5 is an excellent browser with a very | attractive interface. The Opera folks did a good job and deserve the | praise. Absolutely right - my point is that I like each job to be done by a separate app. If you're using one app to act as browser, email client and newsreader (not to mention HTML editor, address book etc) then it's harder to adopt newer, better single-function apps when they become available. In other words, if a whizzy new browser comes along, you either have to find new clients to do all the other functions that you were doing with your old browser, or carry on using it accepting that you're carrying deadweight. I like Opera a lot, but I wish they'd produce a 'lite' version which was just a browser, the way Mozilla has done with Firebird/Firefox. That said (and talking about deadweight) I have Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, Firebird and Firefox installed on this machine, because I use them all to check the web sites I create! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opera
--- On Saturday 22 May 2004 09:50, David Robertson wrote: | Like others, I find Opera fast, and I like the interface. The fonts look | terrible, though - changing them in preferences doesn't seem to make a | difference, so am I missing some other way? Once you've selected your preferred fonts (and I find Adobe Helvetica is very clean-looking), make sure you also visit the 'Page style' sections of preferences and select the 'My fonts and colors' option in Author mode and User mode. @+ Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opera
--- On Saturday 22 May 2004 15:55, Greg Meyer wrote: | On Saturday 22 May 2004 12:38 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: | Anyone else have any feeling on it? | | Love it (I don't use m2 though). Worth every penny. | | Is there a specific reason you're not using it for mail? I'm not | shilling for Opera or anything. I'm just curious. | | I just like Kmail a lot better. It is more mature, has better filtering | options, which I use extensively to manage the 10 mailing lists I am on. I'm with you there. I'm running SpamAssassin to filter out junk, but before mails get to the SA filter in Kmail they first go through a bunch of others. Kmail's facility to allow you to use regexes for filtering means I kill a lot of spam without even having to invoke SA. The same flexibility means I can sort and manage mail is all kinds of useful ways. I've always had the habit of using separate apps for different jobs, which means you can always use the best available. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Konq's gone weird
I've run into a problem with a new install of Mandrake 10 Community. Everything's been working fine until now, but suddenly Konqueror is refusing to behave like a proper browser. The PC is connected to a local network which also has an ISDN router. Konq was able to access the web without trouble and also our intranet server on 192.168.0.2. But suddenly, if I feed it a URL - even if I specifically give it the http:// - it comes back with 'file or folder not found'. I have made a few config changes recently, the most significant probably being the resolv.conf file which now says: search local nameserver 192.168.0.1 (All machines on the network have the domain 'local' - and the machine itself has the hostname 'photolib.local'. That nameserver is the IP address of the router). Netscape on the same machine is having no problems at all accessing the server or the web, and mail is working fine (using the same server as a mail server) so I presume the problem is in Konq's config somewhere. Anyone have any ideas? @+ Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Konq's gone weird
--- On Friday 21 May 2004 12:54, bascule wrote: | unless the router is also a dns server i don't see how konq is supposed to | resolve addresses The router kicks DNS requests further upstream to the DNS servers assigned dynamically by the ISP. Like I said, Netscape is having no trouble at all. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Confused about domain names
I'm a little uncertain about which domain name to use for my network configuration. Here's the setup: * I have a small home network. Until today, only one of the machines on it was running Linux - now I've installed Mandrake 10 Community on another. * I own a domain name - let's call it mydomain.com - so when I was installing Mandrake I chose this for the machine's domain. The machine's name is 'photo' So the FQDN for that machine is: photo.mydomain.com. * However, the other Linux machine, called 'scoop' (running SuSE, as it happens) selected for itself the domain 'local' - so that machine is 'scoop.local'. * The domain mydomain.com is actually hosted by a third party, not on my machines. Does any of this matter much? Are there advantages to having both machines using 'mydomain.com'? I thought I'd ask because I've just persuaded my better half to convert to Linux, so a third Linux machine will be joining the network. I've googled a fair bit on this, but nothing I've found really tackles the issue of whether it matters what domain name you choose - simply that you have to have one! Intuitively, I can see that it might be best if all the machines have the same DN - I don't know what it affects, but it seems sensible that they would. But should it be 'mydomain.com' or 'local'? I'd appreciate any thoughts. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] D-Link Wireless LAN Card
Mandrake 10 Community recognized my D-Link 520 Wireless LAN card (it shows up under hardware with the correct driver) but, now what? How do I configure/set it up to work properly? At this time I have no netwrok connection with it. Thanks, Steve
Re: [newbie] D-Link Wireless LAN Card
Thanks for the info. Steve - Original Message - From: Kevin Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] D-Link Wireless LAN Card Steve wrote: Mandrake 10 Community recognized my D-Link 520 Wireless LAN card (it shows up under hardware with the correct driver) but, now what? How do I configure/set it up to work properly? At this time I have no netwrok connection with it. Thanks, Steve Hi Steve I've not been able to get my d-link 520+this to work in mandrake 10 But I've got it working in 9.1. These sites will be of use to you. http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ Regards Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Security Advisory MDKSA-2004:037
I read this security advisory and wanted to install the kernel update associated with it however, the advisory gives a list of about 20 rpm files for release 10.0. Do I install all of these? If not, how do I know which one(s) to install? The example in the section on doing kernel updates only show one file being installed. Thanks, Steve
Re: [newbie] Security Advisory MDKSA-2004:037
Okay, Okay, my screen says: Mandrake Linux Release 10.0 (Community) for i586 Kernel 2.6.3-4mdk on an i686 /tty1 The kernel files available for download that look like they would match are: kernel-2.6.3.9mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm kernel-source-2.6.3-9mdk.i586.rpm Do I use the 1st or 2nd one? Thanks, Steve - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Security Advisory MDKSA-2004:037 On Sunday 02 May 2004 17:34, Steve wrote: I read this security advisory and wanted to install the kernel update associated with it however, the advisory gives a list of about 20 rpm files for release 10.0. Do I install all of these? If not, how do I know which one(s) to install? The example in the section on doing kernel updates only show one file being installed. Thanks, Steve These are all the different kernel flavours. You only need to install the one corresponding to the kernel you are using. If you do not know which kernel you are using hit Ctl+Alt+F1 and the kernel revision will be shown above the prompt (Ctl+Alt+F7 to go back to X) This page http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MdkKernel92 describes the kernel flavours (It is a bit out of date and does not mention the 2.6 kernels) New kernels have to be installed not upgraded so open a terminal, su to become root, then urpmi.update -a (to update tour urpmi database), followed by urpmi kernel You will be provided with a list of available kernels. Pick the one you want. On your next boot you will be running the new kernel, there will be a new Lilo menu entry to enable you to select the old kernel if you wish. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Security Advisory MDKSA-2004:037
Thank you so much. I thought that was it but, did not want to blow it on nthe first try. Thank you for your help, Steve - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 10:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Security Advisory MDKSA-2004:037 On Sunday 02 May 2004 18:15, Steve wrote: Okay, Okay, my screen says: Mandrake Linux Release 10.0 (Community) for i586 Kernel 2.6.3-4mdk on an i686 /tty1 The kernel files available for download that look like they would match are: kernel-2.6.3.9mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm kernel-source-2.6.3-9mdk.i586.rpm Do I use the 1st or 2nd one? Thanks, Steve kernel-2.6.3.9mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm is the kernel to use kernel-source-2.6.3-9mdk.i586.rpm is the source code to build the kernel. You would only need this if you needed to compile your own kernel modules/drivers. For example if you have an Nvidia graphics card and you want to use the Nvidia supplied 'nvidia' driver instead of the default opensource 'nv' driver, you would need to install the kernel-source so the nvidia-installer application could compile a new nvidia driver derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Samba / Shorewall
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:23:41 +0300 Klemens Arro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats with samba and shorewall? I cant use samba server or Smb4K (guess that shorewall blocks it). When I take the whole firewall down Everything (no firewall) then samba works perfectly, but then I can't share my ADSL connection. By allowing ports 193-194 doesn't help, neither by telling shorewall to allow Samba server! -- Klemens Arro Klemens, I maybe wrong, but I thought you had to open ports 137, 138 and 139. Double check to be sure -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!
Don't really understand what the big deal is, so they have switched from Unix to Linux and have no intention of dropping windows from their desktops. As far as other comments go about Windows being given away, it will never happen unless Gates wants to give even more of his personal fortune up to the US Justice Department. I use and see the advantage of Linux but it will never be a big player as it is too difficult for a layman or typical computer user to use. - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 9:00 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart! -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 18 April 2004 15:54, Lanman wrote: Another Canadian city gets smart. Ya gotta love this stuff! http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3340731 The thing that makes me uneasy if the quote Linux's killer app is not Apache, it's cost,. It has been said that M$ have contingency plans to give away windows if necessary until linux is beaten. They are stockpiling funds to cover it. Let's hope that's another report that's wrong, because cost is *the* big factor in too many decisions. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAgUaLkFAvMr/nNX8RAhjSAJsGaK9WpH1osmCYQcPZyF5f6a7dWQCfRxBD xSkl90gEvCzOlQY8m+iEWnM= =fg5l -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!
You are 100% right and that is where all the problems occurs in getting it all setup and making changes after setup. STEVEN TURNER - Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 10:00 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart! On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 00:26, Steve Turner wrote: I use and see the advantage of Linux but it will never be a big player as it is too difficult for a layman or typical computer user to use. If a machine is already setup - all the apps are there, the desktop is there, the icons are on the desktop and all the end-user has to do is to click away, it's dummy-proof. Aside from that, bear in mind that HoeJill can use it...(g) stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- In the course of reading Hadamard's The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field, I have come across evidence supporting a fact which we coffee achievers have long appreciated: no really creative, intelligent thought is possible without a good cup of coffee. On page 14, Hadamard is discussing Poincare's theory of fuchsian groups and fuchsian functions, which he describes as ... one of his greatest discoveries, the first which consecrated his glory ... Hadamard refers to Poincare having had a ... sleepless night which initiated all that memorable work ... and gives the following, very revealing quote: One evening, contrary to my custom, I drank black coffee and could not sleep. Ideas rose in crowds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination. Too bad drinking black coffee was contrary to his custom. Maybe he could really have amounted to something as a coffee achiever. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] pw prompt/sudo
Hmmm Got a new harddrive, reinstalled Mandrake 9.2use GNOME, have a good idea of what i'm doing during install so I don't think i did anything drastically different from previous ones. However, since install, over half of my applications/launchers/etc can't be run as any user outside of root. plus, instead of just prompting me for root pws on applicable stuff, i.e. rpmdrake, harddrake, and the like, it just pops a window on me quoting insufficient rights. I thought this might have something to do with sudo (not too familiar with the program, it's just that it was suggested on a linuxhelp channel. I wasn't really sure where to start with sudo (except that I knew I had it), so I tried removing it and then recompiling it. As far as I know, it got reinstalled properly, but did nothing to change my situation. I'm thinking this lack of access to half my launchers is the reason why i can't get anything on my menu unless i recompile them. Thanks in advance, -stv _ Tax headache? MSN Money provides relief with tax tips, tools, IRS forms and more! http://moneycentral.msn.com/tax/workshop/welcome.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Simple home network
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 10 April 2004 09:47 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Questions: 1. Has anyone used any of this hardware? I tend to use Netgear stuff, but it seems to me that it is all pretty good, exspecially if you don't mix and match brands between the router and the nics. 2. How good is the router's integrated firewall? It will probably be good enough to prevent anybody that might scan your ip address from seeing a machine running. 3. Since wireless introduces some security problems, what measures should be taken? You can turn on WEP to encrypt your traffic, but this in my mind is less of a risk than preventing people you don't want to access the lan from logging in. -Change the default essid and password -Turn on authentication by mac address, so only your two computers can log on and obtain an ip address -Turn on wep, realizing that you might lose some network throughput, although if you are not transferring files back and forth, your wireless net will still be faster than the cable modem, so you shouldn't ever notice it. 4. Wife's PC is pure Mandrake 9.1; mine is Mandrake 9.2 with a non-functional Win98SE installation. (No, not another MS dig -- it hasn't been used since a major hardware upgrade last year. I'd like to keep it that way.) DLink claims that the router and wireless adapters are compaible with Linux, but their manuals only cover Windows. Be prepared to possibly have to at least update your wife's kernel to get support for whatever nic you choose. Depending on how new, the kernel from 9.1 (or 9.2 for that matter) may not support the nic you have chosen, although later kernels might. Try to find someone using this hardware and find out what kernel version works well before committing. You may wanted to consider upgrading both boxes to 10.0 when it becomes official in a couple of weeks. The drakconnect wizard is really good at setting up wireless now and there is a better chance the new kernel will support your nics. 4. Can I install, configure all of the DLink stuff and verify that it works prior to the visit by the cable guy? Yes, in fact it might be helpful to see if the signal will be strong enough from the most convenient place to place the router, instead of the best place to get strong signal, which might be inaccesible and difficult to run a cable line to. 5. How much of a hassle will it be with the cable modem and router in a remote location? If you have to reset the modem and router, you usually have to remove power from it and then recycle them, nmodem first and then router. I rarely have to do that with mine, but when I do, it is nice that it is accessible. Plus, when I am havng a problem, it is easy to check and see if the modem has sync. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Greg, What about having the cable run on the outside of the house for the office? They should be able to split it where it comes into the house on the outside. My home has a box on the outside with 3 or 4 connections for different runs. Steve
Re: [newbie] Simple home network
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 April 2004 14:22, Steve Kaurfman wrote: Greg, What about having the cable run on the outside of the house for the office? They should be able to split it where it comes into the house on the outside. My home has a box on the outside with 3 or 4 connections for different runs. One caveat, Steve. We had a telephone wire going round the outside of the house like that. One day we had a thunderstorm, lightning found the cable, and the whole system (including a mini-switchboard setup) was fried. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAeU8GkFAvMr/nNX8RAleqAJ0Y9s4d0HJoDOvxrIw2xVCnVS93JACbB/dR +1y3YApheVrAnggChyegb8Y= =84k3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Good Thought Anne. I have a small section running from the cable box on the outside of the house up to the attic where I then split it off to different rooms. So far no problem with lightening in 2+ years but you never know. Steve
Re: [newbie] DVD writter supported by mandrake 9.2
On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:10:11 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 06 April 2004 06:42, Steve Mazil wrote: On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 11:35:17 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 05 April 2004 08:05 am, Jean-Pierre Real wrote: I tried to have a look around and found some threads regarding DVD writer that said that all dvd writer should work in theory, but I would prefer to buy something that has been successfully used by a mandrake user. All ATAPI should work in theory, that doesn't necessarily apply to external USB devices. I have used a Plextor, and HP DVD Burner and various other CD devices successfully with 9.0, 9.1 and now 10.0. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer I'm currently using a LiteOn LDW 451s with Mandrake 10. Cdr, cdrw and dvd+rw successful burns so far. Steve Mazil Could you add that to the TWiki, please, Steve? We are short of info on DVD writers. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DVDDriVes Anne Anne I've added the above to the TWiki DVDDriVes under the Atapi heading with a link to the product information on the LiteOn web site for that drive. It's the first time I've done this on a TWiki web site so I hope it's done right. Steve Mazil -- __ Mandrake Linux 10.0 (Community) Kernel 2.6.3-7mdkenterprise i686 http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD writter supported by mandrake 9.2
On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 08:46:32 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 April 2004 07:22, Steve Mazil wrote: Anne I've added the above to the TWiki DVDDriVes under the Atapi heading with a link to the product information on the LiteOn web site for that drive. It's the first time I've done this on a TWiki web site so I hope it's done right. Good start, then, Steve. The only thing it needed was a heading symbol so that it shows up in the Table of Contents. I've put it in for you. Take a look at the page in edit mode and you'll see what I did. HTH for next time ;-) Anne - -- Thanks for the correction, I think I read through the text formatting rules but forgot about the heading when I added the info. I should have left the text formatting window open so I could refer back to it (next time). Steve Mazil -- __ Mandrake Linux 10.0 (Community) Kernel 2.6.3-7mdkenterprise i686 http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD writter supported by mandrake 9.2
On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 11:35:17 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 05 April 2004 08:05 am, Jean-Pierre Real wrote: I tried to have a look around and found some threads regarding DVD writer that said that all dvd writer should work in theory, but I would prefer to buy something that has been successfully used by a mandrake user. All ATAPI should work in theory, that doesn't necessarily apply to external USB devices. I have used a Plextor, and HP DVD Burner and various other CD devices successfully with 9.0, 9.1 and now 10.0. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer I'm currently using a LiteOn LDW 451s with Mandrake 10. Cdr, cdrw and dvd+rw successful burns so far. Steve Mazil -- __ Mandrake Linux 10.0 (Community) Kernel 2.6.3-7mdkenterprise i686 http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with firefox
rhein wrote: Job Evers wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:32:42 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I put this script in /usr/bin and tell all my apps to use it for handling Web pages. It opens pages in a new tab, if you want you can use new-window instead. Todd #/bin/bash browserPath="/usr/local/firefox/firefox" url="" $browserPath -remote "ping()" # $? = false if running, true if not if [ $? = 0 ] ; then exec $browserPath -remote openURL"($url,new-tab)" else $browserPath $url fi exit Todd, this script is awesome. Thanks. My browsing experience has been greatly improved. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com How do you tell the other applic to use this script? Thanks Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Please see the TWIKI page I made for getting Firefox and Thunderbird to play nice together. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg153776.html Steve
Re: [newbie] Grrrr...dhcpcd...
Marc Resnick wrote: I logged my dhcpcd, still trying to figure out why it will never renew the lease. Here's the log Mar 28 22:33:02 localhost dhcpcd[23328]: terminating on signal 15 Mar 28 22:33:02 localhost dhcpcd.exe: wrong interface name "wlan0" Mar 28 22:33:05 localhost dhcpcd[26518]: broadcasting DHCP_REQUEST for 192.168.1.102 Mar 28 22:33:06 localhost dhcpcd[26518]: broadcastAddr option is missing in DHCP server response. Assuming 192.168.1.255 Mar 28 22:33:06 localhost dhcpcd[26518]: dhcpIPaddrLeaseTime=43200 in DHCP server response. Mar 28 22:33:06 localhost dhcpcd[26518]: dhcpT1value is missing in DHCP server response. Assuming 21600 sec Mar 28 22:33:06 localhost dhcpcd[26518]: dhcpT2value is missing in DHCP server response. Assuming 37800 sec Mar 28 22:33:06 localhost dhcpcd[26518]: DHCP_ACK received from (192.168.1.1) Mar 28 22:33:06 localhost dhcpcd.exe: wrong interface name "wlan0" Mar 29 04:33:06 localhost dhcpcd[26522]: sending DHCP_REQUEST for 192.168.1.102 to 192.168.1.1 Mar 29 04:33:06 localhost dhcpcd[26522]: dhcpIPaddrLeaseTime=43200 in DHCP server response. Mar 29 04:33:06 localhost dhcpcd[26522]: dhcpT1value is missing in DHCP server response. Assuming 21600 sec Mar 29 04:33:06 localhost dhcpcd[26522]: dhcpT2value is missing in DHCP server response. Assuming 37800 sec Mar 29 04:33:06 localhost dhcpcd[26522]: DHCP_ACK received from (192.168.1.1) Mar 29 10:33:06 localhost dhcpcd[26522]: sending DHCP_REQUEST for 192.168.1.102 to 192.168.1.1 Mar 29 15:03:06 localhost dhcpcd[26522]: broadcasting DHCP_REQUEST for 192.168.1.102 Note that it stopped exactly after 12 hours, my current lease time. I then proceeded to reset my router, which is what the last message is. I see no clues here. Could it be that there's something wrong with my router then? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Why not either try another router or just attach it directly to your cable? modem and see what happens then? Steve
Re: [newbie] Scanner 3570c not working
Steve Kaurfman wrote: I have poked around on Google and the forums and don't seem to find anyway to make this scanner work. I looked at XSANE and it was not listed as supported. Anyone have any ideas on how to get it to work. I'm running 9.2 BTW. Thanks Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Trying again. HELP anyone.. HP Scanner 3570c. Harddrake found it on system install cause it is in dev/usb/scanner0 but nothing want to see it. Kooda even put an icon on my desktop during install but it does nothing. I also just tried VUESCAN and that doesn't see it either. -- 17:50:00 up 1:06, running Mandrake Linux 9.2, kernel 2.4.22-10mdk on an AMD 2500+ running @ 2700+ Registered Linux user #344404 Steve Miksch's Law: If a string has one end, then it has another end.
Re: [newbie] Scanner 3570c not working
Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:53:44 -0500, Steve Kaurfman wrote Trying again. HELP anyone.. HP Scanner 3570c. Harddrake found it on system install cause it is in dev/usb/scanner0 but nothing want to see it. Kooda even put an icon on my desktop during install but it does nothing. I also just tried VUESCAN and that doesn't see it either. -- 17:50:00 up 1:06, running Mandrake Linux 9.2, kernel 2.4.22-10mdk on an AMD 2500+ running @ 2700+ Do you have the module 'scanner' in your /etc/modules file? For reasons beyond me Mandrake recognizes the that it is a scanner, but insists that it can not be configured through the scanner device tool. I guess only the scanner device tool adds the 'scanner' entry. Xsane found the printer/scanner just fine after I added it. You'll either need to reboot, or 'modprobe scanner'. You'll find a little more information on the TWiki. Anne can point you to the correct link if you can't find it ;) Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Just downloaded xsane and that doesn't work either. Yes scanner is loaded. here is lsmod output af_packet 14856 1 (autoclean) sr_mod 19384 0 (autoclean) floppy 55932 0 3c90x 27468 1 (autoclean) ov511 92032 0 i2c-core 20484 0 [ov511] videodev7936 1 [ov511] v4l2-common 4032 0 [ov511] scanner12064 0 nls_cp850 4284 1 (autoclean) vfat 11820 1 (autoclean) fat38040 0 (autoclean) [vfat] nls_iso8859-1 3484 3 (autoclean) ntfs 77292 2 (autoclean) supermount 84032 3 (autoclean) ide-cd 33956 0 cdrom 32608 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] ide-scsi 11376 0 ehci-hcd 19212 0 (unused) usb-ohci 21080 0 (unused) usbcore74988 1 [ov511 scanner ehci-hcd usb-ohci] rtc 9004 0 (autoclean) ext3 60048 2 jbd39264 2 [ext3] sd_mod 12188 4 aic7xxx 162160 2 scsi_mod 93344 5 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi sd_mod aic7xxx] in harddrake it shows the scanner as an unknown device and no module. I could not find the TWIKI you were referencing. -- 20:11:00 up 3:27, running Mandrake Linux 9.2, kernel 2.4.22-10mdk on an AMD 2500+ running @ 2700+ Registered Linux user #344404 Steve Reporter: "How did you like school when you were growing up, Yogi?" Yogi Berra: "Closed."
Re: [newbie] Scanner 3570c not working
Steve Kaufman wrote: Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:53:44 -0500, Steve Kaurfman wrote Trying again. HELP anyone.. HP Scanner 3570c. Harddrake found it on system install cause it is in dev/usb/scanner0 but nothing want to see it. Kooda even put an icon on my desktop during install but it does nothing. I also just tried VUESCAN and that doesn't see it either. -- 17:50:00 up 1:06, running Mandrake Linux 9.2, kernel 2.4.22-10mdk on an AMD 2500+ running @ 2700+ Do you have the module 'scanner' in your /etc/modules file? For reasons beyond me Mandrake recognizes the that it is a scanner, but insists that it can not be configured through the scanner device tool. I guess only the scanner device tool adds the 'scanner' entry. Xsane found the printer/scanner just fine after I added it. You'll either need to reboot, or 'modprobe scanner'. You'll find a little more information on the TWiki. Anne can point you to the correct link if you can't find it ;) Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Just downloaded xsane and that doesn't work either. Yes scanner is loaded. here is lsmod output af_packet 14856 1 (autoclean) sr_mod 19384 0 (autoclean) floppy 55932 0 3c90x 27468 1 (autoclean) ov511 92032 0 i2c-core 20484 0 [ov511] videodev7936 1 [ov511] v4l2-common 4032 0 [ov511] scanner12064 0 nls_cp850 4284 1 (autoclean) vfat 11820 1 (autoclean) fat38040 0 (autoclean) [vfat] nls_iso8859-1 3484 3 (autoclean) ntfs 77292 2 (autoclean) supermount 84032 3 (autoclean) ide-cd 33956 0 cdrom 32608 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] ide-scsi 11376 0 ehci-hcd 19212 0 (unused) usb-ohci 21080 0 (unused) usbcore74988 1 [ov511 scanner ehci-hcd usb-ohci] rtc 9004 0 (autoclean) ext3 60048 2 jbd39264 2 [ext3] sd_mod 12188 4 aic7xxx 162160 2 scsi_mod 93344 5 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi sd_mod aic7xxx] in harddrake it shows the scanner as an unknown device and no module. I could not find the TWIKI you were referencing. -- 20:11:00 up 3:27, running Mandrake Linux 9.2, kernel 2.4.22-10mdk on an AMD 2500+ running @ 2700+ Registered Linux user #344404 Steve Reporter: "How did you like school when you were growing up, Yogi?" Yogi Berra: "Closed."
Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)
Chuck Mattsen wrote: Resurrecting an old thread here ... On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 14:33, Charlie Mahan wrote: Here's a slightly different way to get the "running Mandrake..." blah blah: #bin bash echo "Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org" echo `cat /etc/mandrake-release` kernel "`uname -r`" echo `uptime` echo "`/usr/games/fortune -s`" The second line (cat /etc/mandrake-release kernel uname -r) generates the second line below. The next line generates the uptime stamp, the last line generates the last line(s) a.k.a.; the "short" (the -s flag) Fortune cookie. I should add a tag to the end of that second line; "On a 6 year old stone axe" g Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (RC1) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.rc4.1mdk 13:26:32 up 1 day, 1:45, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.10, 0.19 Vegetarians beware! You are what you eat. Okay, I /think/ my problems with this are related to my use of Ximian Evolution as an e-mail client -- which, if I understand correctly, assumes all signatures are in HTML format for insertion purposes. Therefore, with the following script ... #bin bash echo "Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN" echo "Registered Linux User #346519" echo `cat /etc/mandrake-release` kernel "`uname -r`" echo `uptime` everything gets "mooshed" together, as below. Any suggestions on how to get some line formatting in there? Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 09:56:22 up 6:59, 1 user, load average: 0.28, 0.24, 0.15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Well I finally got the time to mess with this last night after getting Thunderbird to work on both my windoze and MD systems. It now shares the folders correctly and I can read my emails from either side. So as you can see below I did it. To make this work in TB I had to run it from cron (which I set up to do every minute) and the output of the command goes to a signature.txt file. On quick question if you please. Being very new at this ... For corn to execute something every five minutes is it necessary to have the first parm be 0,5,10,15,20 etc or is there another trick to this? -- 08:07:00 up 12:31, running Mandrake Linux 9.2, kernel 2.4.22-10mdk on an AMD 2500+ running @ 2700+ Registered Linux user #344404 Steve The way to a man's heart is through the left ventricle.
Re: [newbie] package name? - HIJACKED THREAD TIME PROBLEM
Charlie wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:39 am, many eyes viewed John Wilson's words:- On March 28, 2004 09:58 am, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 09:42:01 -0700 Charlie Mahan disseminated the following: I just installed Mdk on a new machine and I can't seem to remember what package it is that puts the server config page in Mandrake Control Center. Anyone know? urpmi drakwizard [Enter] Heh, everybody always jumps on the easy ones...in my case 'cuz those are the only ones I usually know the answer to ;-) Okay..but can you explain Stephen Harper? :-) ttfn John The easy ones are always the ones you know. The others are always hard. Charlie. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I am using thunderbird and this mail from Charlie shows up with a date on 3/29/04 @ 3:48 AM in my inbox. Anybody have an idea why. It is only the 28th here in CT. Easter Standard Time. Shouldn't it get converted to local time? Here's my time setting Thx Steve On my windows box. inline: moz-screenshot.jpg
[newbie] Scanner 3570c not working
I have poked around on Google and the forums and don't seem to find anyway to make this scanner work. I looked at XSANE and it was not listed as supported. Anyone have any ideas on how to get it to work. I'm running 9.2 BTW. Thanks Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] File Sharing
Any file sharing software that works with Linux? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Video Editing Programs
Anybody know of any good video editing programs for Linux?
[newbie] Installation Problem
I got the following error while trying to install the 64 bit version: FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1 I/O Error It says it can't recover and I should reboot? Any help would be great.
Re: [newbie] Installation Problem
Hardware is all new. - Original Message - From: Ayares, Mark (Mark) To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:32 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Installation Problem Depending on how old the hardware is, I have had success with older machine installsby using "linux ide=nodma" during the install. Mark -Original Message-From: Marcin Michalak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 10:25 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation Problem I had the same error with a 32b version. Do you install from CD? If so the cd you use might be bad. I tried to do network install and it worked (well, I had a different error and I still haven't installed the os, but that's different story). If installing from net is not good for you for some reason, try to burn the cd again. Marcin - Original Message - From: Steve Turner To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:12 AM Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem I got the following error while trying to install the 64 bit version: FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1 I/O Error It says it can't recover and I should reboot? Any help would be great.
Re: [newbie] Making Firefox and Thunderbird play nice together - Twiki.
I don't know??? Maybe LOL :-) Steve Linux user number 344404 ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03/14/04 16:46:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Making Firefox and Thunderbird play nice together - Twiki. Steve Kaufman wrote: snip but have not had time to play with it. Steve Steve; Do you think this is the appropriate list to say such things? Grin! Lanman
Re: [newbie] Netscape Mail
Found this on the netscape search engine. http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=command+line+for+netscape+mailpage=1offset=0result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26amp%3BrequestId%3D793dcdfcd68c865b%26amp%3BclickedItemRank%3D1%26amp%3BuserQuery%3Dcommand%2Bline%2Bfor%2Bnetscape%2Bmail%26amp%3BclickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fdeveloper.netscape.com%252Fdocs%252Fmanuals%252Fdeploymt%252Foptions.htm%26amp%3BinvocationType%3D-%26amp%3BfromPage%3DNSCPResultsremove_url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.netscape.com%2Fdocs%2Fmanuals%2Fdeploymt%2Foptions.htm Steve Linux user number 344404 ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03/14/04 08:33:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Netscape Mail Does anyone know what the CLI command is to launch netscape mail separately from Netscape - the web-browser? I'd liek to add it to my menus if possible. I'm currently using Netscape 7.1. TIA Lanman
Re: [newbie] Netscape Mail
Glad I could be of some help. You have helped me a couple of times and I really appreciate it. Good luck with PEACE for the world. I sure wish Google had the answer for that as well. Steve Linux user number 344404 ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03/14/04 09:18:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape Mail OK Steve. My bad. Didn't think to Google my question first. Your idea worked. Did a search at Netscape and found the answer right away. The CLI command, by the way, is"/usr/lib/netscape/netscape -mail" , assuming that this is the location for Netscape on your PC, which it is for me. Worked like a charm. Created a menu entry and it's all good. That's 2 problems fixed this morning. Now, I gotta get a handle on my "World Peace" project ! Trying to get it done before lunch! Grin! Lanman
Re: [newbie] Triple Boot Mandrake
Here's a real newbie question but maybe a good answer Why not backup your lilo.conf to a diskette and thenmerge it with the one 10.0 will build. Actually after you boot to 10.0 can't you just mount the old partisions and get access to the old lilo.conf? Can't you just let 10.0buildLILO to the MBR? When I build 9.2 it found all my bootable devices so I would thinkthat during the the 10.0 install that the process would find window/9.2/10.0 and build the boot record accordingly and even if it didn't you could then just take the conf file you backed up and merge it with the one 10.0 built. This is totally a guess on my part beinga very newbie and not having loaded 10.0 but it seems logicalI know I shouldn't trust logic but what the he**. Had I been installing 10.0 this is the choice I would have used. Steve Linux user number 344404 ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03/14/04 09:05:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Triple Boot Mandrake On Sunday 14 March 2004 07:22 am, Philip Cronje wrote: On Sunday, 14 March 2004 14:10, Stephen Reynolds wrote: Will the Mandrake 10.0 Community installation process automatically add the second installation of Mandrake to lilo.conf or will it overwrite lilo with Mandrake 10.0 Community. I'm guessing that it will overwrite. Seems to be the logical thing for it to do, considering that you won't be upgrading, but installing. (Your 9.2 partition won't be mounted, thus it won't know about your /etc/lilo.conf). But this is just me firing shots in the dark :) It is quite easy.During installation of 10.0, you will be asked a question of where to install the bootloader.The choices should be 1) on MBR 2) on / (root) partition, or 3) do not install. You want to choose number 2, install to root partition. You will temporarily not be able to boot into 10.0 until you go back into 9.2 and adjust your lilo there.Make note of the device for the root partition for 10.0 (something like /dev/hda6) Then when the installation finishes, it will reboot and you will get your old lilo menu.boot to 9.2 and then edit your /etc/lilo.conf file.You should see a stanza in there for winxp that looks like this: other=/dev/hda1 label="windows" table=/dev/hda Add another one for 10.0 that looks like this: other=/dev/hdax label="Mandrake10" table=/dev/hda replace the /dev/hdax with the actual root partition of your 10.0 install. now run lilo to effect the changes and when you reboot, you should see an entry for 10.0.When you swelect it, the 10.0 lilo menu should come up with a choice to boot 10.0. I hope I didn't make any mistakes, but the others on this list will quickly correct me if I did.HTH. -- /g
Re: [newbie] Triple Boot Mandrake
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 March 2004 09:49 am, Steve Kaufman wrote: Here's a real newbie question but maybe a good answer Why not backup your lilo.conf to a diskette and then merge it with the one 10.0 will build. Actually after you boot to 10.0 can't you just mount the old partisions and get access to the old lilo.conf? Can't you just let 10.0 build LILO to the MBR? When I build 9.2 it found all my bootable devices so I would think that during the the 10.0 install that the process would find window/9.2/10.0 and build the boot record accordingly and even if it didn't you could then just take the conf file you backed up and merge it with the one 10.0 built. This is totally a guess on my part being a very newbie and not having loaded 10.0 but it seems logical I know I shouldn't trust logic but what the he**. Had I been installing 10.0 this is the choice I would have used. Yes there are ways to use this, in fact it is much easier using GrUB than with LILO, but as this is a newbie list, I chose to instruct in getting a 10.0 installation triple booted with a minimum amount of fuss and learning/research. These other methods require a little more planning and advanced knowledge about how the kernel boots. The instructions to use one instance of LILO or GrUB exist all over the place, and any enterprising user could find what they need if they know what they are doing. So, in the interest of getting the OP going ASAP, this does the job. If he later wants to go do the required learning to simplify the setup, he can do that when he is ready. The other nice thing about the method I noted is that you can then install any OS on that spare partition and never have to update the main lilo.conf again. Always chainloading the boot will let whatever OS you install on that spare partition boot without additional work. This is the method I use on my spare partition that I use for running cooker or experimenting with other distros. I can forever do clean installs and just install the bootloader to the root partition, making the first reboot easy. If you consolidate the bootloaders, every time you install something new, you have to go back and boot the controlling OS and edit the bootloader config. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Thanks Greg I did not think of that. I was just thinking that one prompt for what I wanted to load was enough but your explanation makes sense and is probably less risky and more flexible than mine. Thanks Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Making Firefox and Thunderbird play nice together - Twiki.
All, I spent a lot of time and frustration trying to get Firefox and Thunderbird to play nice together so I decided to create my first Twiki explaining how I made this work. I hope it was appropriate to do this as it is not directly a Makdrake Linux thing but more of an application thing but I thought it would be appropriate. For anyone interested it is at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/ThunderbirdAndFirefox I intend on adding more things to it as I have time but wanted to get it down while it was still fresh. Part two will be how to be able to share Thunderbird with windows so I can read all of this stuff from the list in both win and Linux. That is the only reason I went with Thunderbird. I have pulled some information from the Mozzila forums but have not had time to play with it. Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Screen shots (printscreen) Utility
All, I am looking for a utility to do screen captures to the clipboard by using the printScrn key. I would like to be able to paste the screenshots directly to the clipboard so I can immediately paste them into an email for example. It would be great if it had the flexability to only do the active window and/or select only the part of the screen you wanted. Found Ksnapshot but it does not go to the clipboard so it would require me to save then import. I want to paste some screenshots into the twiki I created. Any ideas??? Thanks Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] GAIM
From the GAIM website at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/: January 28th, 2004 - 1:51PM EST Security vulnerabilities On Monday, several potential security vulnerabilities in Gaim 0.75 (and previous versions) were publicly disclosed by Stefan Esser. Due to problems with current Gaim CVS (Yahoo! still not working properly being the most influential) we are not yet ready to release 0.76. You are encouraged to get and apply this patch from the FreeBSD security team, released with the disclosure. That probably answers your question :) -stv From: Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] GAIM Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 08:38:31 -0500 Hi all, I am using Mandrake 9.2 and I have been trying to get GAIM to connect to Yahoo. It will connect to everything else, but it errors out on Yahoo and says that it is Unable to Read. I have the latest version of GAIM available through Mandrake Update. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, M. Harrison Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar get it now! http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Re: [newbie] Printing Problems HP 5L - Open Office Calc
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 23 Feb 2004 20:52, Weiers Coetser wrote: Hi, I am as newbie as can be. I set up a sizeable spreadsheet with Open Office and neglected to toggle print selected sheet only option. Ended up printing 8 copies of the whole spreadsheet (11 sheets) = approximately 90 pages. I tried everything to try to stop the printjob. But it was not registered in the Print Manager. Swithched the computer off. Swithced the printer off. Rebooted into Win XP. The moment I returned to Linux the printer started printing. Questions: 1. How do I stop a printjob if I am not happy with it. 2. How do I set OpenOffice to only print the selected sheet by default, in stead of the whole document? Thanks. (I hope I did not hi-jack any threads. I did do a search of the archives, but did not find something that seems to answer this particular questions) There are lots of ways to manage print jobs. Assuming you are using KDE and CUPS :- In konqueror press the 'services' button in the tool bar dividing the pane. The left pane will then show 'Print System Browser' You can stop jobs in there. Derek, I don't understand this at all. I don't see a button dividing any pane. Help Or Right click on your 'Quick start' bar select Panel MenuAddSpecial ButtonPrint System Got this... Or in any browser http://localhost:631 This works too derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Weires. if you go to start applications/configuration/printing/CUPS www admin then you can 'Manage Jobs' or 'Manage Printers' from there. Dereks ways are quicker but I had a similiar problem yesterday and found this other way. Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
