Re: [newbie] Installing new monitor
On Sunday 10 April 2005 08:02 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > I bought a new monitor today -- 17 inch LCD -- to replace an aging 14 > > inch CRT on my backup machine running Mandrake 9.1 (yeah, I know). The > > video card is a Matrox G200 Millenium. How do I get the video resolution > > to run any higher than 800 x 600? > > > > -- cmg > > Run drakxconf and update the monitor settings. Then change the resolution. > > Mikkel Mikkel: That did it -- thanks for your help. My problem was that I hadn't seen the "Monitor" heading and just tried changing the resolution. Just another senior moment here. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new monitor
Carroll Grigsby wrote: I bought a new monitor today -- 17 inch LCD -- to replace an aging 14 inch CRT on my backup machine running Mandrake 9.1 (yeah, I know). The video card is a Matrox G200 Millenium. How do I get the video resolution to run any higher than 800 x 600? -- cmg Run drakxconf and update the monitor settings. Then change the resolution. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing new monitor
I bought a new monitor today -- 17 inch LCD -- to replace an aging 14 inch CRT on my backup machine running Mandrake 9.1 (yeah, I know). The video card is a Matrox G200 Millenium. How do I get the video resolution to run any higher than 800 x 600? -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Linux on extended partition (logical drive)
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2005 11:43 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Note: If you used "image=/dev/hda10" instead of "other=/dev/hda10", then you might get the 'no root partition found' error. I am not sure what the first error would be, but lilo stops at the first error it finds. Yes, that's the one. I used the "other=/dev/hda10". Like this: other=/dev/hda10 label="Suse92" table=/dev/hda The error was "no root partition found". Yes. I think I know what is going on now. What does your Suse /etc/lilo.conf look like? If you boot into Suse, and run "lilo -v", does it run without errors? I think your error may have been because the Suse version of lilo was not passing the root partition information, or was passing the wrong information. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Linux on extended partition (logical drive)
On Thursday 10 March 2005 11:43 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Note: If you used "image=/dev/hda10" instead of "other=/dev/hda10", then >you might get the 'no root partition found' error. I am not sure what > the first error would be, but lilo stops at the first error it finds. Yes, that's the one. I used the "other=/dev/hda10". Like this: other=/dev/hda10 label="Suse92" table=/dev/hda The error was "no root partition found". Yes. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 04:23:52 up 7:20, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Linux on extended partition (logical drive)
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2005 01:13 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I tried it first, but lilo complained about 'no root partition found' Let me guess - the second copy of lilo is the one that complained, right? If so, check your /etc/lilo.conf in Suse, and make sure it is correct. Make sure you run lilo in Suse after you make any changes in that copy of the config file. The thing you have to remember here is that you will be using two separate lilo installs to boot Suse. The version from Mandrake handles booting Mandrake, and Windows. To boot Suse, it will hand control over to the Suse lilo install, and it will handle booting Suse. No, the one that complained is Mdk's lilo. That's why then I googled and found the way to 'load' Suse's lilo from Mdk by mounting the partition in Mdk. What did the lilo entry look like when it complained? The setup you are using now does not use Suse's lilo at all. It just adds an entry in Mandrake's copy of lilo to load the Suse kernel and inital RAM disk. Note: If you used "image=/dev/hda10" instead of "other=/dev/hda10", then you might get the 'no root partition found' error. I am not sure what the first error would be, but lilo stops at the first error it finds. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Linux on extended partition (logical drive)
On Thursday 10 March 2005 01:13 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > I tried it first, but lilo complained about 'no root partition found' > > Let me guess - the second copy of lilo is the one that complained, > right? If so, check your /etc/lilo.conf in Suse, and make sure it is > correct. Make sure you run lilo in Suse after you make any changes in > that copy of the config file. The thing you have to remember here is > that you will be using two separate lilo installs to boot Suse. The > version from Mandrake handles booting Mandrake, and Windows. To boot > Suse, it will hand control over to the Suse lilo install, and it will > handle booting Suse. No, the one that complained is Mdk's lilo. That's why then I googled and found the way to 'load' Suse's lilo from Mdk by mounting the partition in Mdk. > As far as the Mandrake version of lilo knows, it could be booting any OS > when it uses the "other=/dev/hda10" entry. > Yes, that is why. I am surprised it even boots. If the old version of > the kernel and initial RAM disk were removed as part of the upgrade, > then the only reason it still boots is that the space they use on the > disk has not been overwritten by new data. > > The thing you have to understand about lilo is that it is really two > separate parts. The part you run from Linux understands the file system, > and configures things for the part that actually boots the system. The > part that boots the system does not understand the file system. All it > know is where the information it wants is located on the disk. You gave > it this information when you ran lilo in Linux. But if you make changes, > you have to run lilo again, to update this information. > > With the normal setup, this is not a problem. The package managers in > both Suse and Mandrake take care of running lilo for you when you update > the kernel. But, because you are using the Mandrake copy of lilo to boot > Suse, Yast updates the wrong version of lilo. Mandrake does not take > care of it, because it has no idea that you updated the kernel in Suse. > So you have to do it manually. > > I would spend the time getting the version of lilo on /dev/hda10 > working, and using the "other=/dev/hda10" option to boot Suse. Or I > would consider changing Mandrake to use Grub instead of Lilo. Grub does > understand file systems, so it would handle the kernel changing in Suse > better. You would still have to make sure and update the grub config > files when you change kernels, but at least if would warn you when you > break things. > > Now, if you want a real challenge, install one of the other boot manages > on the MBR, change Mandrake lilo so it installs to your root partition > instead of the MBR, and let the boot manager give you a menu for > Mandrake, Suse, or Windows. There are several options for free boot > managers on freshmeat, or you could go with something like System > Commander. > > Mikkel Thank you so much for the very detail explanation Mikkel. I really appreaciate it. Your explanation opens up a new understanding for me on Linux bootloader. I will surely experiment it on my spare pc. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 21:34:16 up 30 min, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Linux on extended partition (logical drive)
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 11:22 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: other=/dev/hda10 lable="Suse92" When you pick this option, it will transfere control over to the new version of lilo. I tried it first, but lilo complained about 'no root partition found' Let me guess - the second copy of lilo is the one that complained, right? If so, check your /etc/lilo.conf in Suse, and make sure it is correct. Make sure you run lilo in Suse after you make any changes in that copy of the config file. The thing you have to remember here is that you will be using two separate lilo installs to boot Suse. The version from Mandrake handles booting Mandrake, and Windows. To boot Suse, it will hand control over to the Suse lilo install, and it will handle booting Suse. As far as the Mandrake version of lilo knows, it could be booting any OS when it uses the "other=/dev/hda10" entry. The way you have it set up, if you update the kernel in Suse, you then have to boot Mandrake, update /etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo before you can boot the new kernel in Suse. Also, if you want to have more then one kernel in Suse, you will have to add the entries in the Mandrake copy of lilo.conf, and run lilo from Mandrake. Also, if you wipe out the boot partition in Mandrake, you will not be able to boot Suse from the hard drive. Ah interesting, no wonder when I update my Suse kernel with Yast Online Update, it gave me lots of error when rebooting about can't find /lib/modules.. Many thanks Mikkel :) I hope Mdk10.2 will be much better than Suse92. Yes, that is why. I am surprised it even boots. If the old version of the kernel and initial RAM disk were removed as part of the upgrade, then the only reason it still boots is that the space they use on the disk has not been overwritten by new data. The thing you have to understand about lilo is that it is really two separate parts. The part you run from Linux understands the file system, and configures things for the part that actually boots the system. The part that boots the system does not understand the file system. All it know is where the information it wants is located on the disk. You gave it this information when you ran lilo in Linux. But if you make changes, you have to run lilo again, to update this information. With the normal setup, this is not a problem. The package managers in both Suse and Mandrake take care of running lilo for you when you update the kernel. But, because you are using the Mandrake copy of lilo to boot Suse, Yast updates the wrong version of lilo. Mandrake does not take care of it, because it has no idea that you updated the kernel in Suse. So you have to do it manually. I would spend the time getting the version of lilo on /dev/hda10 working, and using the "other=/dev/hda10" option to boot Suse. Or I would consider changing Mandrake to use Grub instead of Lilo. Grub does understand file systems, so it would handle the kernel changing in Suse better. You would still have to make sure and update the grub config files when you change kernels, but at least if would warn you when you break things. Now, if you want a real challenge, install one of the other boot manages on the MBR, change Mandrake lilo so it installs to your root partition instead of the MBR, and let the boot manager give you a menu for Mandrake, Suse, or Windows. There are several options for free boot managers on freshmeat, or you could go with something like System Commander. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Linux on extended partition (logical drive)
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 11:22 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > other=/dev/hda10 > lable="Suse92" > > When you pick this option, it will transfere control over to the new > version of lilo. I tried it first, but lilo complained about 'no root partition found' > > The way you have it set up, if you update the kernel in Suse, you then > have to boot Mandrake, update /etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo before you > can boot the new kernel in Suse. Also, if you want to have more then one > kernel in Suse, you will have to add the entries in the Mandrake copy of > lilo.conf, and run lilo from Mandrake. Also, if you wipe out the boot > partition in Mandrake, you will not be able to boot Suse from the hard > drive. Ah interesting, no wonder when I update my Suse kernel with Yast Online Update, it gave me lots of error when rebooting about can't find /lib/modules.. Many thanks Mikkel :) I hope Mdk10.2 will be much better than Suse92. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 11:34:35 up 3:17, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Linux on extended partition (logical drive)
Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, For those of you who are interested in installing Linux on extended partition (or in MS terms we call it logical drive), I've successfully do it on installing Suse92 on hda10, where there is already MS Windows, and Mandrake. Here's the brief steps: 1. Install Windows (with 2 partitions in my case) 2. Install Mandrake on its own partition (with 5 partitions in my case, with 1 partition I call /data --> hda10) 3. Install Suse92 on /data. This is the caveat: -- choose LILO (you can use grub too, but I don't know yet the syntax), -- install LILO on the root partition of /hda10, -- format hda10 with any filesystem as long as Mandrake can read it. Suse will reboot once we finish the first installation step. 4. When rebooted, go into Mandrake. Modify /etc/lilo.conf with this: image=/data/boot/vmlinuz label="Suse92" root=/dev/hda10 initrd= /data/boot/initrd vga=788 read-only Modify the above lines that suits your environment. Run lilo -v to see if there's any error. If there isn't, you good to go. Reboot. You will see in the LILO menu that there's Suse92 entry. Choose it, and Voila! You've got Suse92! You dont even bother to create swap partition, Suse will use the swap from Mandrake. I've made an artikel about it in http://linux2.arinet.org (Indonesian) HTH. With this setup, you do not need to install lilo for Suse92 at all. You are using the version of lilo you installed when you installed Mandrake to boot Suse. If you want to use the version of lilo you installed on hda10, then use this: other=/dev/hda10 lable="Suse92" When you pick this option, it will transfere control over to the new version of lilo. The way you have it set up, if you update the kernel in Suse, you then have to boot Mandrake, update /etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo before you can boot the new kernel in Suse. Also, if you want to have more then one kernel in Suse, you will have to add the entries in the Mandrake copy of lilo.conf, and run lilo from Mandrake. Also, if you wipe out the boot partition in Mandrake, you will not be able to boot Suse from the hard drive. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing Linux on extended partition (logical drive)
Hi all, For those of you who are interested in installing Linux on extended partition (or in MS terms we call it logical drive), I've successfully do it on installing Suse92 on hda10, where there is already MS Windows, and Mandrake. Here's the brief steps: 1. Install Windows (with 2 partitions in my case) 2. Install Mandrake on its own partition (with 5 partitions in my case, with 1 partition I call /data --> hda10) 3. Install Suse92 on /data. This is the caveat: -- choose LILO (you can use grub too, but I don't know yet the syntax), -- install LILO on the root partition of /hda10, -- format hda10 with any filesystem as long as Mandrake can read it. Suse will reboot once we finish the first installation step. 4. When rebooted, go into Mandrake. Modify /etc/lilo.conf with this: image=/data/boot/vmlinuz label="Suse92" root=/dev/hda10 initrd= /data/boot/initrd vga=788 read-only Modify the above lines that suits your environment. Run lilo -v to see if there's any error. If there isn't, you good to go. Reboot. You will see in the LILO menu that there's Suse92 entry. Choose it, and Voila! You've got Suse92! You dont even bother to create swap partition, Suse will use the swap from Mandrake. I've made an artikel about it in http://linux2.arinet.org (Indonesian) HTH. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 09:46:07 up 1:28, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing PHP
On Thursday 24 February 2005 18:19, Christopher Taylor wrote: > I'm new to Linux and I just got a 1.8GHz pc with no OS so I downloaded > the 3 iso's and installed 10.1. I see that Apache is running. Is > there a resource available that would tell me how to install php and > mySQL? I would really like to debug my websites locally. Any help is > greatly appreciated. > > Christopher Taylor Menu>System>Configure>ConfigureYourComputer?Software>Install type php in the search box and select the apache2-mod-php package, type mysql in the search box and select the MySQL and MySQL-client packages. Install them, then restart apache from MandrakeControlCentre>System>Services restart the httpd service. Thats it done! To administer MySql the phpMyAdmin package is very useful. 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
[newbie] Installing PHP
I'm new to Linux and I just got a 1.8GHz pc with no OS so I downloaded the 3 iso's and installed 10.1. I see that Apache is running. Is there a resource available that would tell me how to install php and mySQL? I would really like to debug my websites locally. Any help is greatly appreciated. Christopher Taylor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing programmes
Noel McG. wrote: - Original Message - From: "SnapafunFrank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing programmes Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am trying to install a programme called Mambo http://www.mamboserver.com/ on a linux box. I needed Apache, PHP and MySQL on first apparently. I loaded them from Mandrake CD's and got Apache running and a page up in a browser. I did not get as far as enabling PHP or MySQL. However when I tried to Mambo in /var/www I found the I was unable to extract the compressed files to it. 'Permission not allowed to write to this folder. Create a new folder' well more or less. I then logged in as Admin and the same thing happened. Now I also have a LAMP programme, xampp, http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html that seems easier to set up. So I removed Apache, PHP and MySQL from the system and tried to install xampp, the set up instructions gave a sequence [tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.4.11.tar.gz -C /opt] to enter once logged in as su root. I did this and it came up with cannot find file. The tar is on the desktop. Did you cd to the desktop containing the file first ? ie: $ cd ~/Desktop $ tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.4.11.tar.gz -C /opt $ cd /opt/xamp[TabKey] - There is usually a README file within the uncompressed directory to advise before you continue. $ ./configure ( if required ) $ make ( if required ) Change to root: $ su Password # make install ( if required ) I don't mean to over simplify things believing you are unaware of the procedure, it's just that it is easier to include the lot whilst I got the time. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank I have now got Mambo installed in /var/www/ and Xampp in /opt/. I am not sure if Mambo is working however xampp is and in a terminal window starting xampp brings up this Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.4.11... XAMPP: XAMPP-Apache is already running. XAMPP: XAMPP-MySQL is already running. XAMPP: XAMPP-ProFTPD is already running. XAMPP for Linux started. I am told that I now need to create a database in MySQL for Mambo and run an install script[?] The instructions give '$ mysqladmin -u db_user -p create Mambo', db_user has to be changed to a suitable name for the system.This come up 'no such msql command' I have tried changing to /var/www but still get the same thing. Any thoughts please. Thanks. Can't help you from here Noel, but keep posting you successes because I am about to go this way myself, so will need to learn ~ great timing for this thread for me. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing programmes
- Original Message - From: "SnapafunFrank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing programmes > Noel McG. wrote: > > >Hello, > > > > I am trying to install a programme called Mambo http://www.mamboserver.com/ > >on a linux box. I needed Apache, PHP and MySQL on first apparently. > >I loaded them from Mandrake CD's and got Apache running and a page up in a > >browser. I did not get as far as enabling PHP or MySQL. However when I > >tried to Mambo in /var/www I found the I was unable to extract the > >compressed files to it. 'Permission not allowed to write to this folder. > >Create a new folder' well more or less. I then logged in as Admin and the > >same thing happened. > > > >Now I also have a LAMP programme, xampp, > >http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html that seems easier to set > >up. So I removed Apache, PHP and MySQL from the system and tried to > >install xampp, the set up instructions gave a sequence [tar xvfz > >xampp-linux-1.4.11.tar.gz -C /opt] to enter once logged in as su root. I > >did this and it came up with cannot find file. The tar is on the desktop. > > > > > Did you cd to the desktop containing the file first ? ie: > > $ cd ~/Desktop > $ tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.4.11.tar.gz -C /opt > $ cd /opt/xamp[TabKey] - There is usually a README file within the > uncompressed directory to advise before you continue. > $ ./configure ( if required ) > $ make ( if required ) > Change to root: > $ su > Password > # make install ( if required ) > > > I don't mean to over simplify things believing you are unaware of the > procedure, it's just that it is easier to include the lot whilst I got > the time. > > -- > Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! > > Regards > > SnapafunFrank I have now got Mambo installed in /var/www/ and Xampp in /opt/. I am not sure if Mambo is working however xampp is and in a terminal window starting xampp brings up this Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.4.11... XAMPP: XAMPP-Apache is already running. XAMPP: XAMPP-MySQL is already running. XAMPP: XAMPP-ProFTPD is already running. XAMPP for Linux started. I am told that I now need to create a database in MySQL for Mambo and run an install script[?] The instructions give '$ mysqladmin -u db_user -p create Mambo', db_user has to be changed to a suitable name for the system.This come up 'no such msql command' I have tried changing to /var/www but still get the same thing. Any thoughts please. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing Mandrake on 9.1 on ppc
Can anyone tell me the "successful" way install mandrake on a macintosh? I can't do this to save my life and I can't tell what my problem is. It seems my issue is with the install display which I don't have the first clue how to fix. Even if I do the install via text-installer, when I go to boot up my display is still all messed up. Can anyone tell me a good way to fix this if there is such a way? I am trying to install this on a bronze G3 Laptop. I have had the same issue installing on my blue and white desktop as well. Lovell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing programmes
If you want to open konqueror with root priveleges, you can simply: goto konsole>su>konqueror This opens konqueror with root priveleges. It's not safe, so be careful! On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 07:58:22 -, Noel McG. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "SnapafunFrank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 6:58 AM > Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing programmes > > > Noel McG. wrote: > > > > >Hello, > > > > > > I am trying to install a programme called Mambo > http://www.mamboserver.com/ > > >on a linux box. I needed Apache, PHP and MySQL on first apparently. > > >I loaded them from Mandrake CD's and got Apache running and a page up in > a > > >browser. I did not get as far as enabling PHP or MySQL. However when I > > >tried to Mambo in /var/www I found the I was unable to extract the > > >compressed files to it. 'Permission not allowed to write to this folder. > > >Create a new folder' well more or less. I then logged in as Admin and the > > >same thing happened. > > > > > >Now I also have a LAMP programme, xampp, > > >http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html that seems easier to > set > > >up. So I removed Apache, PHP and MySQL from the system and tried to > > >install xampp, the set up instructions gave a sequence [tar xvfz > > >xampp-linux-1.4.11.tar.gz -C /opt] to enter once logged in as su root. I > > >did this and it came up with cannot find file. The tar is on the > desktop. > > > > > > > > Did you cd to the desktop containing the file first ? ie: > > > > $ cd ~/Desktop > > $ tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.4.11.tar.gz -C /opt > > $ cd /opt/xamp[TabKey] - There is usually a README file within the > > uncompressed directory to advise before you continue. > > $ ./configure ( if required ) > > $ make ( if required ) > > Change to root: > > $ su > > Password > > # make install ( if required ) > > > > >Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? I find it odd that when logged in > as > > >admin or su that I seem denied access to some files/folders. > > >Incidentally I am very new to this so things need to be spelled out step > by > > >step. > > > > > >Thanks for any help. > > > > > > > > > > > I don't mean to over simplify things believing you are unaware of the > > procedure, it's just that it is easier to include the lot whilst I got > > the time. > > That's OK. Do I take it that this is as su root in a terminal window? > Before I was just clicking the tar on the desktop and following the install > instructions that Mandrake brought up. > > Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing programmes
- Original Message - From: "SnapafunFrank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing programmes > Noel McG. wrote: > > >Hello, > > > > I am trying to install a programme called Mambo http://www.mamboserver.com/ > >on a linux box. I needed Apache, PHP and MySQL on first apparently. > >I loaded them from Mandrake CD's and got Apache running and a page up in a > >browser. I did not get as far as enabling PHP or MySQL. However when I > >tried to Mambo in /var/www I found the I was unable to extract the > >compressed files to it. 'Permission not allowed to write to this folder. > >Create a new folder' well more or less. I then logged in as Admin and the > >same thing happened. > > > >Now I also have a LAMP programme, xampp, > >http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html that seems easier to set > >up. So I removed Apache, PHP and MySQL from the system and tried to > >install xampp, the set up instructions gave a sequence [tar xvfz > >xampp-linux-1.4.11.tar.gz -C /opt] to enter once logged in as su root. I > >did this and it came up with cannot find file. The tar is on the desktop. > > > > > Did you cd to the desktop containing the file first ? ie: > > $ cd ~/Desktop > $ tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.4.11.tar.gz -C /opt > $ cd /opt/xamp[TabKey] - There is usually a README file within the > uncompressed directory to advise before you continue. > $ ./configure ( if required ) > $ make ( if required ) > Change to root: > $ su > Password > # make install ( if required ) > > >Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? I find it odd that when logged in as > >admin or su that I seem denied access to some files/folders. > >Incidentally I am very new to this so things need to be spelled out step by > >step. > > > >Thanks for any help. > > > > > > > I don't mean to over simplify things believing you are unaware of the > procedure, it's just that it is easier to include the lot whilst I got > the time. That's OK. Do I take it that this is as su root in a terminal window? Before I was just clicking the tar on the desktop and following the install instructions that Mandrake brought up. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing programmes
Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am trying to install a programme called Mambo http://www.mamboserver.com/ on a linux box. I needed Apache, PHP and MySQL on first apparently. I loaded them from Mandrake CD's and got Apache running and a page up in a browser. I did not get as far as enabling PHP or MySQL. However when I tried to Mambo in /var/www I found the I was unable to extract the compressed files to it. 'Permission not allowed to write to this folder. Create a new folder' well more or less. I then logged in as Admin and the same thing happened. Now I also have a LAMP programme, xampp, http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html that seems easier to set up. So I removed Apache, PHP and MySQL from the system and tried to install xampp, the set up instructions gave a sequence [tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.4.11.tar.gz -C /opt] to enter once logged in as su root. I did this and it came up with cannot find file. The tar is on the desktop. Did you cd to the desktop containing the file first ? ie: $ cd ~/Desktop $ tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.4.11.tar.gz -C /opt $ cd /opt/xamp[TabKey] - There is usually a README file within the uncompressed directory to advise before you continue. $ ./configure ( if required ) $ make ( if required ) Change to root: $ su Password # make install ( if required ) Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? I find it odd that when logged in as admin or su that I seem denied access to some files/folders. Incidentally I am very new to this so things need to be spelled out step by step. Thanks for any help. I don't mean to over simplify things believing you are unaware of the procedure, it's just that it is easier to include the lot whilst I got the time. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing programmes
Hello, I am trying to install a programme called Mambo http://www.mamboserver.com/ on a linux box. I needed Apache, PHP and MySQL on first apparently. I loaded them from Mandrake CD's and got Apache running and a page up in a browser. I did not get as far as enabling PHP or MySQL. However when I tried to Mambo in /var/www I found the I was unable to extract the compressed files to it. 'Permission not allowed to write to this folder. Create a new folder' well more or less. I then logged in as Admin and the same thing happened. Now I also have a LAMP programme, xampp, http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html that seems easier to set up. So I removed Apache, PHP and MySQL from the system and tried to install xampp, the set up instructions gave a sequence [tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.4.11.tar.gz -C /opt] to enter once logged in as su root. I did this and it came up with cannot find file. The tar is on the desktop. Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? I find it odd that when logged in as admin or su that I seem denied access to some files/folders. Incidentally I am very new to this so things need to be spelled out step by step. Thanks for any help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installing mandrakelinux
On Friday 11 February 2005 05:11 pm, Gentoo Linux User wrote: > AybOwan! > > can any body say the way v can install mandrake linux using a network > cdrom/file system/iso (cd-rom connected to a remote computer in the > same network). > > pls help me... Sure, just look into the /tools directory in the CD. There's a tool to make a boot floppy for network install. Setup the source in the remote pc using ftp or httpd, boot the pc you want to install, enter the ip number and the path of the installation cd on the remote pc... and done! -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 20:51:21 up 12:13, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] installing mandrakelinux
AybOwan! can any body say the way v can install mandrake linux using a network cdrom/file system/iso (cd-rom connected to a remote computer in the same network). pls help me... -- ... ts! Preparing today for Linux tomorrow! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] installing using network cdrom/iso file(s)
AybOwan! this is my first question to the newbie list. i have a small network with 1 cdrom. are there any methode to install mandrakelinux via a network cdrom or iso file(s) -- ... ts! Preparing today for Linux tomorrow! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing a bootloader after the fact
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 Jan 2005 15:43, Trey Sizemore wrote: > I installed Mandrake 10.1 via ftp on a second drive configured as a > slave. It would be accessed in a multiboot environment using a boot > manager like GAG. So I didn't install a boot loader thinking that GAG > would handle this. > > But when GAG identifies the Mandrake / partition on this drive and I > attempt to boot from it, I get an error stating: "Boot sector not found > or invalid." > > So my question is, without reinstalling, can I go back and install a > boot loader on the / partition of the Mandrake install on the second > disk? > The usual method for restoring a bootloader is to boot from CD1, and when the install/upgrade screen comes up hit Esc, then type 'rescue'. From there you can use a menu entry to restore it. I presume the same method would work for you. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB+Q3mkFAvMr/nNX8RAuzQAJoDN04Sb84JJ6bh9kzmlO4KHJ1SXACgghvZ nBVpnJ7O6Ymos4482pHZvU4= =UtlK -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
[newbie] Installing a bootloader after the fact
I installed Mandrake 10.1 via ftp on a second drive configured as a slave. It would be accessed in a multiboot environment using a boot manager like GAG. So I didn't install a boot loader thinking that GAG would handle this. But when GAG identifies the Mandrake / partition on this drive and I attempt to boot from it, I get an error stating: "Boot sector not found or invalid." So my question is, without reinstalling, can I go back and install a boot loader on the / partition of the Mandrake install on the second disk? Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. -- G.K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday" 10:41AM up 30 mins, 0 users, load averages: 0.05, 0.14, 0.15 FreeBSD salamander.thesizemores.net 5.3-STABLE i386 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing only the kernel.
Mike; If you'd follow up on the information you got in your "What Is URPMI?" thread, you'd be able to "urpmi kernel" and have a selection of kernels to install (which would install next to whatever kernel you're currently running.) Everything from kernels optimized for memory above 1 gig, 4 gig, or 64 gig, or optimized for multimedia or motherboards with multiple processors. The easiest way to do all of this is to install some urpmi sources (in other words, mirrors from which to download these kernels) using the easyurpmi site (http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ , then follow directions). Then open up the Mandrake Control Center, click on Software Management, then Install. After you get a listing of the packages available in the left window, search for "kernel" by typing it into the box, then selecting "search". Voila, you've got a list of the various pre-compiled kernels available. If you see one you like, put a check in the box next to it, and select "install". The software takes it from there. I think you originally asked about patching the kernel. Sorry, I can't help you there. If you're wanting to compile from scratch, you'll need to google for instructions. That's beyond this list, and is not necessarily for the faint of heart. Cheers; Glenn On Monday 24 January 2005 09:15 am, Mike Chalmers wrote: > Will someone tell me how to install only the kernel from www.kernel.org? > > From, > > Mike Chalmers > > _ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ -- 17:20:24 up 2 days, 1:07, running Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk Registered Linux user #324360 All my friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing packages and their dependencies from a http site
Dear All I would like to know how to use urpmi to install a package from a http site and with the respective dependent packages online at the same http site. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing only the kernel.
Mike Chalmers wrote: Will someone tell me how to install only the kernel from www.kernel.org? From, Mike Chalmers I am not sure what you mean by "only the kernel". What you can download from www.kernel.org is the source code for the kernel. You then have to configure it for your system, compile it, and install it. It is not like installing the compiled kernel from a Mandrake RPM. The advantage is that you can fine-tune the kernel for your hardware. The disadvantage is that you don't get any of the patches that Mandrake applies to the kernel source. It is also a bit more work, takes more time, and a bit more knowlege. If you feal you want to try this, then the first step would be to track down and read the HOW-TO on compiling your own kernel. (Hint - you should find a link to the HOW-TO on the www.kernel.org web site.) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing only the kernel.
Will someone tell me how to install only the kernel from www.kernel.org? From, Mike Chalmers _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing kbluetooth
On Saturday 15 Jan 2005 22:08, Andy Yankovich wrote: > Sorry if these questions are so basic. Maybe I do not belong in the Linux > or perhaps the Mandrakelinux operating system. What do you think? Because I > do not understand *anything* about programming, should I not use 10.1? > Please be honest about this because I hate to bother you all with such > basic questions. We've all got to start somewhere. I don't do "programming" either. I'm a truck driver :) I've been on Mandrake 10 about a year or so now... You'll get there, but it just takes a bit of time to learn and be patient. I managed it much easier because I run a Linux and a Windows machine side by side and I find that the Linux machine can manage a lot more a lot easier so I am glad I have changed, but at the same time there are things on Windows which I cannot do without and have not yet got the ported software working. Give it time :) Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing kbluetooth
> What does the label say on those CDs? > If they are 10.1 Community Edition it may be worth upgrading. Since I am > still using 9.2 I'll let others tell you how worthwhile it is. Be very careful upgrading from 9.X to 10.x. There is some hardware that 9.X will configure and 10.X will into spasms with, in particular IBM Thinkpads. Also consider that for some hardware notably IBM Thinkpads you can install the DVD version and apparently the CD version. The apparent comes from the fact that the CD/DVD reader used in Thinkpads only reads 99.9% of any given Mandrake CD correct which is enough most times for Mandrake to install and run but NOT run correct. An issue that is guaranteed to drive you nuts trying to figure out what is wrong. The issue with trying to install 10.X DVD in Thinkpads is that there is apparently some screwup in driver selection so an error message appears saying place 'Auxiliary Driver Floppie' in floppy drive. These 'Auxiliary Drivers' are located on the DVD and must be coppied to a NEW floppie which will accept 1.72 MB of data by the dd comand. If you attempt to use old floppies which would not accept 1.72 MB of data the drivers will NOT work. The assumption here is that you have a floppy and a DVD drive and a DVD drive. If you do NOT have BOTH then use some other method for installation. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing kbluetooth
On Saturday 15 Jan 2005 10:08 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: > When I start 10.1 I get the message "you may replace bluez's pin > helper program with kbluepin; it is located in /user/lib/kdebluetooth > now". > > How EXACTLY do I do this? > > What did it do and what will it do after the change? It's bluetooth, the short range wireless thingy that talks to mobile phones, (and other stuff, but mainly phones.) If you don't use it you can very safely ignore the message. The pin helper is the program that asks for a six(?) digit number when pairing with a device. kbluepin will just ask for the number with a nice window. > Sorry if these questions are so basic. Maybe I do not belong in the > Linux or perhaps the Mandrakelinux operating system. What do you > think? Because I do not understand *anything* about programming, > should I not use 10.1? Please be honest about this because I hate to > bother you all with such basic questions. 1. that's not a basic question. As of 9.2, bluetooth was bleeding edge technology in Linux. (It may be more mainstream in 10.1) 1a. We really don't care how basic a question is. This is the Newbie list - many questions here are basic. We're happy to help. 2. You don't need to know anything about programming to use Linux, any more than Windows. 2a. What knowledge you need, you'll pick up over the next few weeks without noticing. The average time between someone appearing on this list as a total newbie, and answering a question themselves is about a month. 3. You need to know _less_ about computers to use Linux safely and securely than you need to use Windows safely and securely. 3a. No viruses, little or no spyware, software designed to be secure from the ground up and fantastic support. > I am using a $12.99 set of six CDs. I have ordered the "packaged" > 10.1 from MandrakeStore. When they arrive should I delete what is now > installed, and then install the MandrakeStore CDs Will that be > preferred? What does the label say on those CDs? If they are 10.1 Community Edition it may be worth upgrading. Since I am still using 9.2 I'll let others tell you how worthwhile it is. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing kbluetooth
When I start 10.1 I get the message "you may replace bluez's pin helper program with kbluepin; it is located in /user/lib/kdebluetooth now". How EXACTLY do I do this? What did it do and what will it do after the change? Sorry if these questions are so basic. Maybe I do not belong in the Linux or perhaps the Mandrakelinux operating system. What do you think? Because I do not understand *anything* about programming, should I not use 10.1? Please be honest about this because I hate to bother you all with such basic questions. I am using a $12.99 set of six CDs. I have ordered the "packaged" 10.1 from MandrakeStore. When they arrive should I delete what is now installed, and then install the MandrakeStore CDs Will that be preferred? Thanks again. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installing new versions - keeping settings etc
On Monday 27 December 2004 04:58 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 27 Dec 2004 09:52, Edward Holcroft wrote: > > So would this explain why when I upgraded to 10.1, I suddenly coudn't > > sync Kontact/KMail with my Palm although there was no problem syncing > > with Evolution? > > Also - if you do get this sorted with the help of the kde-pim list, please > report back so that others know about it. > > Anne Hi Bill, I can share my experience oh this. I installed my mdk10.1 over 9.2 retaining /home . Everything went smoothly. When I run kmail, it instantly recognized the old mail directory. It asked me whether I want to use it and convert all the emails (yes, it changed the directory from /home/Mail to /home/.Mail CMIIW). I said yes.. and voila, I have all the setting from previous kmail. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 08:48:49 up 1 day, 10:12, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installing new versions - keeping settings etc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 Dec 2004 09:52, Edward Holcroft wrote: > So would this explain why when I upgraded to 10.1, I suddenly coudn't sync > Kontact/KMail with my Palm although there was no problem syncing with > Evolution? > Also - if you do get this sorted with the help of the kde-pim list, please report back so that others know about it. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBz9zfkFAvMr/nNX8RAtuXAJ44JYaVFN7pN6WnUFetMD1OWSZVzgCeKoqG utDKwhXD+AA5utAPEf+YUtA= =HBEF -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
Re: [newbie] installing new versions - keeping settings etc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 Dec 2004 09:52, Edward Holcroft wrote: > So would this explain why when I upgraded to 10.1, I suddenly coudn't sync > Kontact/KMail with my Palm although there was no problem syncing with > Evolution? > I don't know how that works, Ed, but it could be relevant. The kde lists are quite helpful, and not very high volume. Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBz9yykFAvMr/nNX8RAlC/AJ9ACS7oeirO3H6oOIRSrzlDapTe8gCfVokp ZafuQpQWhyAkSeUOnRpagsk= =/Evn -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
Re: [newbie] installing new versions - keeping settings etc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 Dec 2004 09:50, Anders Lind wrote: > On the kde-pim mailing list it was noted that the developers do not like > the change that was made by Mandrake, because it makes it non-standard, so > yes, Mandrake must have made the decision. > > --- > > That sounds weird that they do, but not implausible since there should be > no problem to go in and change it for rpm's, however if you compile it > yourself then you shouldn't experience this at all. > > /Anders I expect that they thought there was a good reason, but it's not altogether apparent. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBz9vZkFAvMr/nNX8RAszWAJ4pCfJLgBxX1S5avEqcxFBBSvlWPQCfWvzW Y6MibK63Y3MLZ62P1DM3baM= =MBa+ -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
Re: [newbie] installing new versions - keeping settings etc
So would this explain why when I upgraded to 10.1, I suddenly coudn't sync Kontact/KMail with my Palm although there was no problem syncing with Evolution? ed On Monday, 27 December 2004 11:42, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 27 Dec 2004 09:38, Anders Lind wrote: > > Very likely - but he's using kmail ;-) > > > > --- > > > > But Mandrake doesn't decide where kmail is storing its emails? > > > > /Anders > > On the kde-pim mailing list it was noted that the developers do not like > the change that was made by Mandrake, because it makes it non-standard, so > yes, Mandrake must have made the decision. > > Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installing new versions - keeping settings etc
On the kde-pim mailing list it was noted that the developers do not like the change that was made by Mandrake, because it makes it non-standard, so yes, Mandrake must have made the decision. --- That sounds weird that they do, but not implausible since there should be no problem to go in and change it for rpm's, however if you compile it yourself then you shouldn't experience this at all. /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installing new versions - keeping settings etc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 Dec 2004 09:38, Anders Lind wrote: > Very likely - but he's using kmail ;-) > > --- > > But Mandrake doesn't decide where kmail is storing its emails? > > /Anders On the kde-pim mailing list it was noted that the developers do not like the change that was made by Mandrake, because it makes it non-standard, so yes, Mandrake must have made the decision. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBz9j4kFAvMr/nNX8RArLiAJ9tuucLaMxMjeSnmMwRK57w00IbcgCglJJJ 9f0vLuXIyupIZot6i42cX2Q= =ARk5 -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
Re: [newbie] installing new versions - keeping settings etc
> Very likely - but he's using kmail ;-) --- But Mandrake doesn't decide where kmail is storing its emails? /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installing new versions - keeping settings etc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 Dec 2004 09:19, Anders Lind wrote: > Bill, your mails should have been saved OK, but somewhere (can't remember > whether it was 10.0 or 10.1) Mandrake changed the structure, so that > instead of the mails being in ~/Mail they are in ~/.mail. You may find > that the old mails are still there, just not visible. > > --- > > Isn't that depending on which emailclient one is using? > > /Anders Very likely - but he's using kmail ;-) Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBz9dQkFAvMr/nNX8RAtbUAJ0bQ2+AvJsCG0prKRsaNsRvpnEVswCfZQaE 0eo5+k32oURuIOq3oKdcAXU= =gERJ -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
Re: [newbie] installing new versions - keeping settings etc
Bill, your mails should have been saved OK, but somewhere (can't remember whether it was 10.0 or 10.1) Mandrake changed the structure, so that instead of the mails being in ~/Mail they are in ~/.mail. You may find that the old mails are still there, just not visible. --- Isn't that depending on which emailclient one is using? /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installing new versions - keeping settings etc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 26 Dec 2004 14:17, Bill Winegarden wrote: > Hi, > Merry Christmas or happy holidays to all on the list. > A quick question that arose from my last installation. I would like to know > the best way to save emails, desktop settings etc. when installing new > versions. > When I installed 10.1 Official I tried to copy my Mail directory and > my .kde>share>apps>kmail directories thinking that they would restore all > my emails. > When I copied them over to /mnt/win_d (fat32 partition) there were some > errors about some files not copied. > There were no essential emails so I proceeded with the installation. > My kmail directory structure was saved but the actual emails were not. > > What is the the recommended method of retaining emails? Also, is it > advisable to retain desktop settings considering that KDE (my choice) is > constantly being upgraded to new versioins? > Bill, your mails should have been saved OK, but somewhere (can't remember whether it was 10.0 or 10.1) Mandrake changed the structure, so that instead of the mails being in ~/Mail they are in ~/.mail. You may find that the old mails are still there, just not visible. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFBz9IbkFAvMr/nNX8RAh4yAJjfyiZi6f3lU8FgIw/dWy552w46AKCL3hD3 wX9V3xkDyKUWBXOY7QMufQ== =9Kyw -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
[newbie] installing new versions - keeping settings etc
Hi, Merry Christmas or happy holidays to all on the list. A quick question that arose from my last installation. I would like to know the best way to save emails, desktop settings etc. when installing new versions. When I installed 10.1 Official I tried to copy my Mail directory and my .kde>share>apps>kmail directories thinking that they would restore all my emails. When I copied them over to /mnt/win_d (fat32 partition) there were some errors about some files not copied. There were no essential emails so I proceeded with the installation. My kmail directory structure was saved but the actual emails were not. What is the the recommended method of retaining emails? Also, is it advisable to retain desktop settings considering that KDE (my choice) is constantly being upgraded to new versioins? Thanks, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Installing Mdk 10.0 on primary slave
Title: RE: [newbie] Installing Mdk 10.0 on primary slave Install in "expert" mode, and that will give you more options, including partitioning, and bootloader installation. Marcus -Original Message- From: Cameron MacDonald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 December 2004 04:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installing Mdk 10.0 on primary slave Hi all- I'm having trouble installing Mandrake 10.0 on my machine I just built. I have Windows XP on primary master (160G), and I want to put Mdk on pri. slave (80G). I've used these install disks on my old machine (with XP on the master also) and had no prob. When I boot from CD, I choose "install or upgrade", then I get a black screen with "Mandrake 10.0, etc" at the top and "Alt-F1, Alt-F3, Alt-F4" choices at the bottom (which don't respond when keyed). It never loads into memory or goes anywhere. Any help? Has my install disk failed? (Step-by-step would be appreciated.) Thanks, Cam MSI motherboard AMD AthlonXP-M CPU Maxtor HD 160G & 80G Viking 512 MB RAM --- This e-mail is intended only for the above addressee. It may contain privileged information. If you are not the addressee you must not copy, distribute, disclose or use any of the information in it. If you have received it in error please delete it and immediately notify the sender. evolvebank.com is a division of Lloyds TSB Bank plc. Lloyds TSB Bank plc, 25 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7HN. Registered in England, number 2065. Telephone No: 020 7626 1500 Lloyds TSB Scotland plc, Henry Duncan House, 120 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 4LH. Registered in Scotland, number 95237. Telephone No: 0131 225 4555 Lloyds TSB Bank plc and Lloyds TSB Scotland plc are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and represent only the Scottish Widows and Lloyds TSB Marketing Group for life assurance, pensions and investment business. Signatories to the Banking Codes. ---
[newbie] Installing Mdk 10.0 on primary slave
Hi all- I'm having trouble installing Mandrake 10.0 on my machine I just built. I have Windows XP on primary master (160G), and I want to put Mdk on pri. slave (80G). I've used these install disks on my old machine (with XP on the master also) and had no prob. When I boot from CD, I choose "install or upgrade", then I get a black screen with "Mandrake 10.0, etc" at the top and "Alt-F1, Alt-F3, Alt-F4" choices at the bottom (which don't respond when keyed). It never loads into memory or goes anywhere. Any help? Has my install disk failed? (Step-by-step would be appreciated.) Thanks, Cam MSI motherboard AMD AthlonXP-M CPU Maxtor HD 160G & 80G Viking 512 MB RAM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] installing kernel from rpm fails
my apologies is this is a repeat - i'm getting connection refused from http://archives.mandrakelinux.com I need some help - today I was installing a new (older) kernel - it all looked good until it failed at the end with these messages: bootsplash not found in /boot/initrd-2.6.3-19mdk.img lilo failed: Fatal: open /dev/sda: No such device or address error: %post(kernel-2.6.3.19mdk-1-1mdk) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 bootsplash is installed (and working) I don't understand why lilo's looking @ /dev/sda because that's my usb SD card reader/writer I'm trying to install an older kernel than my current one (2.6.8.1-12mdk) because i'm having a few problems mounting flash cards, and i found this message in dmesg today: nfs warning: mount version older than kernel Here's the full output when i try to install a new kernel using urpmi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]$ sudo urpmi --noclean kernel-2.6.3.19mdk Password: ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-2.6.3.19mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kernel-2.6.3.19mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...## 1:kernel-2.6.3.19mdk ## Looking for deps of module ide-mod Looking for deps of module ide-probe-mod Looking for deps of module ide-core Looking for deps of module ide-disk Looking for deps of module reiserfs Using modules: ./kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko Using /tmp as temporary directory. /sbin/nash -> /tmp/initrd.dLAEY6/bin/nash /lib/modules/2.6.3-19mdk/./kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko.gz:55.7% copy from /tmp/initrd.dLAEY6/lib/reiserfs.ko(elf32-i386) to /tmp/initrd.dLAEY6/lib/stPgI9QF(elf32-i386) Loading module reiserfs.ko Contents of RCFILE: #!/bin/nash echo "Loading reiserfs.ko module" insmod /lib/reiserfs.ko echo Mounting /proc filesystem mount -t proc /proc /proc echo Mounting sysfs mount -t sysfs none /sys echo Creating device files mkdevices /dev echo Creating root device mkrootdev /dev/root echo Mounting root filesystem with flags notail,noatime mount -o notail,noatime --ro -t reiserfs /dev/root /sysroot echo 0x0100 > /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev pivot_root /sysroot /sysroot/initrd umount /initrd/sys umount /initrd/proc echo Initrd finished Creating filesystem with size 428KB and 163 inodes tune2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) Setting interval between check 0 seconds bootsplash not found in /boot/initrd-2.6.3-19mdk.img lilo failed: Fatal: open /dev/sda: No such device or address error: %post(kernel-2.6.3.19mdk-1-1mdk) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 -- random quote: To be or not to be, that is the bottom line. pgprgr3iXOdAe.pgp Description: PGP signature
[Solved!! Nevermind!] Re: Re: [newbie] Installing Java VM
Sorry to bother you twice. I got java VM running. Thanks for the help!! Best regards vegard > I know this is asking alot, but could you write down in more details how > you did the prosedure you described below. I'm not so good at this. > Anyway, thanks for the tips. > > Regards Vegard > >> On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 07:29, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: >>> I can't get sun microosystems java vm to work with my mozilla 1.6. I >>> get >>> the installation to work and there are no error messages. But when I >>> browse the internett at java sites, it doesn't work. I've tried several >>> times and googled for the answer. >>> >>> is there anybody out there who made java vm work? >>> >>> Has: mdk 10.0, kernel 2.6.8, mozilla 1.6 >>> Regards vegard >> >> I did mine by hand the hard way - which I like even better than the >> Kaffe version of JavaVM that comes bundled with 10.0 OE >> >> I created a dir in /usr/src for the jre binary I got from Sun; then >> edited the /etc/profiles.d/jre shell scripts to point to the new dir; >> then put my plugins in their proper places >> (/usr/lib/mozilla-1.6/plugins, /usr/local/firefox/plugins and so on) as >> well as renamed the necessary softlinks in /usr/bin to point to the >> proper binaries...works like a charm - but a bit of work... >> >> -- >> stephen kuhn >> mobile: 0410-728-389 >> illawarra and regional new south wales >> --- >> GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives >> 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses >> Registered Linux User # 267497 >> >> Windows: Where do you want to go today? >> MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? >> Linux: Are you coming or what? >> >> --- >> Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't make eight cats pull a sled >> through the snow. >> >> >> > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Installing Java VM
I know this is asking alot, but could you write down in more details how you did the prosedure you described below. I'm not so good at this. Anyway, thanks for the tips. Regards Vegard > On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 07:29, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: >> I can't get sun microosystems java vm to work with my mozilla 1.6. I get >> the installation to work and there are no error messages. But when I >> browse the internett at java sites, it doesn't work. I've tried several >> times and googled for the answer. >> >> is there anybody out there who made java vm work? >> >> Has: mdk 10.0, kernel 2.6.8, mozilla 1.6 >> Regards vegard > > I did mine by hand the hard way - which I like even better than the > Kaffe version of JavaVM that comes bundled with 10.0 OE > > I created a dir in /usr/src for the jre binary I got from Sun; then > edited the /etc/profiles.d/jre shell scripts to point to the new dir; > then put my plugins in their proper places > (/usr/lib/mozilla-1.6/plugins, /usr/local/firefox/plugins and so on) as > well as renamed the necessary softlinks in /usr/bin to point to the > proper binaries...works like a charm - but a bit of work... > > -- > stephen kuhn > mobile: 0410-728-389 > illawarra and regional new south wales > --- > GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives > 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses > Registered Linux User # 267497 > > Windows: Where do you want to go today? > MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? > Linux: Are you coming or what? > > --- > Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't make eight cats pull a sled > through the snow. > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Java VM
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 07:29, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > I can't get sun microosystems java vm to work with my mozilla 1.6. I get > the installation to work and there are no error messages. But when I > browse the internett at java sites, it doesn't work. I've tried several > times and googled for the answer. > > is there anybody out there who made java vm work? > > Has: mdk 10.0, kernel 2.6.8, mozilla 1.6 > Regards vegard I did mine by hand the hard way - which I like even better than the Kaffe version of JavaVM that comes bundled with 10.0 OE I created a dir in /usr/src for the jre binary I got from Sun; then edited the /etc/profiles.d/jre shell scripts to point to the new dir; then put my plugins in their proper places (/usr/lib/mozilla-1.6/plugins, /usr/local/firefox/plugins and so on) as well as renamed the necessary softlinks in /usr/bin to point to the proper binaries...works like a charm - but a bit of work... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't make eight cats pull a sled through the snow. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Java VM
Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: I can't get sun microosystems java vm to work with my mozilla 1.6. I get the installation to work and there are no error messages. But when I browse the internett at java sites, it doesn't work. I've tried several times and googled for the answer. is there anybody out there who made java vm work? Has: mdk 10.0, kernel 2.6.8, mozilla 1.6 Regards vegard Vegard; Go to this site, http://java.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=9719 download and install the rpm version of Java, then follow the steps at this page http://java.com/en/download/help/linux_install.jsp#install-pkg exactly, paying attention to the version number of Java that you have downloaded. When it comes to making symbolic links for your browsers, you can follow the java instructions or open Konqueror and browse to the Java folder where the plugins are located, drag and 'link here' the plugin into your browser's plugin folder. If you have multiple browsers that you like to use, drag and link a copy of the plugin to each of the respective browser's plugin folder and again 'link here'. Lanman Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Java VM
On November 19, 2004 13:29, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > I can't get sun microosystems java vm to work with my mozilla 1.6. I get > the installation to work and there are no error messages. But when I > browse the internett at java sites, it doesn't work. I've tried several > times and googled for the answer. > > is there anybody out there who made java vm work? > > Has: mdk 10.0, kernel 2.6.8, mozilla 1.6 > Regards vegard I haven't finished installing it myself, so I can't vouch for it, but try Blackdown Java: http://blackdown.org/ This is a Linux port of Sun's Java tools (community source, not open source, unfortunately; there doesn't seem to be an open source Java that has moved beyond version 1.1). They currently have 1.4.2, and working on 1.5. I saw mention of a Mozilla plugin, but again, I haven't tried it yet. HTH -- Ron ron dot hunterduvar at shaw dot ca Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to have the same opinions are granted under the GNU GPL :^) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing Java VM
I can't get sun microosystems java vm to work with my mozilla 1.6. I get the installation to work and there are no error messages. But when I browse the internett at java sites, it doesn't work. I've tried several times and googled for the answer. is there anybody out there who made java vm work? Has: mdk 10.0, kernel 2.6.8, mozilla 1.6 Regards vegard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing 10.1 from HD- questions
I'm downloading the DVD-ISO and am going to copy its contents into an empty partition. I plan to add a line to the boot loader pointing to that partition. 1. I have two paths to vmlinuz in the isolinux directory, alt0 or alt1. Does anyone know which I should point to, or how to determine the correct one? 2. When I tried to do this using a floppy with a grub image, I kept getting an error showing file not found. It was also showing Filesystem type ext2fs partition type 0x83. But I have, according to MCC, Journalised filesystem ext3 (0x483). Do I need to reformat in ext2fs for the installation, or should the install kernel support the ext3 partition? Couple of reasons behind all this -- CD burner not working in linux, and I have maybe just enough room on the old MS partition (burner works under their windowing OS) for 1 CD-ROM ISO at a time. Not worth fixing CD burner if the new install will do it for me, and certainly not worth rebooting six times and twiddling my thumbs while the CD burns. Thanks, Fred Now if I could just remember why I made a 14 gig root partition last time. 121 megs used. H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing 10.1 Official without ISO cds
> > > KMail has a reply-to-list feature. Just hit the L key, or you > > > can set up a toolbar icon. Useful for keeping my blood > > > pressure under control.-- cmg > > > > I knew about the reply-to-list, but not the L key. Thanks for > > the tip.-- > Actually, I didn't know about the L key thing myself until earlier > today when I was answering your question and looked at the options > in the Message toolbar heading; I've always installed the > reply-to-list icon in the toolbar. -- cmg It's been awhile since i used Kmail, but i think you can program the whichever key you want to be list reply. I thin i had it set up so that the "normal" reply to key was actually the reply to list key. If there wasn't a list, it would default to the sender. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: 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
Re: [newbie] Installing 10.1 Official without ISO cds
On Saturday 30 October 2004 03:59 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 30 October 2004 02:37 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: >>> snip > > Greg: > > KMail has a reply-to-list feature. Just hit the L key, or you can set up a > > toolbar icon. Useful for keeping my blood pressure under control. > > -- cmg > > I knew about the reply-to-list, but not the L key. Thanks for the tip. > -- > /g > > Greg: Actually, I didn't know about the L key thing myself until earlier today when I was answering your question and looked at the options in the Message toolbar heading; I've always installed the reply-to-list icon in the toolbar. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing 10.1 Official without ISO cds
On Saturday 30 October 2004 02:37 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Saturday 30 October 2004 12:07 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > List resend > > > > You guys with gmail addresses are a pain in the neck ;-). I know you > > cannot change the reply-to setting, so I only blame you for using the > > system, not setting it up properly. This is the third time in the last > > twenty-four > > hours > > > I have had to resend a reesponse to the list that I found in my sent > > after not seeing it show up on the list. In every case, the poster was > > sending from a gmail address. > > Greg: > KMail has a reply-to-list feature. Just hit the L key, or you can set up a > toolbar icon. Useful for keeping my blood pressure under control. > -- cmg I knew about the reply-to-list, but not the L key. Thanks for the tip. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing 10.1 Official without ISO cds
On Saturday 30 October 2004 12:07 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > List resend > > You guys with gmail addresses are a pain in the neck ;-). I know you cannot > change the reply-to setting, so I only blame you for using the system, not > setting it up properly. This is the third time in the last twenty-four hours > I have had to resend a reesponse to the list that I found in my sent after > not seeing it show up on the list. In every case, the poster was sending > from a gmail address. > Greg: KMail has a reply-to-list feature. Just hit the L key, or you can set up a toolbar icon. Useful for keeping my blood pressure under control. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing 10.1 Official without ISO cds
List resend You guys with gmail addresses are a pain in the neck ;-). I know you cannot change the reply-to setting, so I only blame you for using the system, not setting it up properly. This is the third time in the last twenty-four hours I have had to resend a reesponse to the list that I found in my sent after not seeing it show up on the list. In every case, the poster was sending from a gmail address. **Original Response Below** On Saturday 30 October 2004 09:15 am, Paul Smith wrote: > Is it possible to install Mandrake 10.1 Official without the ISO cds? > Or should I wait until the ISO cds are available for downloading? You can either download the entire distribution tree from an ftp mirror and install from hard disk, or you can install directly from the dist tree, which will only download the packages you are installing. To do that, there is a floppy image that will boot and start the installation process and you just point the installer to the location that contains the distribution tree. There are seperate floppy images for each kind of install you might want to do, hard disk, network, cd-rom (for machines that cannot boot from cd). There is also a small boot.iso which combines all of the features of the various floppy images. Just burn it and boot from it for any kind of install. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing 10.1 Official without ISO cds
On Saturday 30 October 2004 16:15, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Well HarM, I've got a T1 connection here, so the download of exactly > 302 packages took about 15 minutes, at a server uploading at about > 400 kB/sec (average). But YMMV. Mine maxes at 60Kb download...so that's simple arithmetic:) Thanks. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing 10.1 Official without ISO cds
On Saturday 30 October 2004 16:09, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > Kaj, > How long did it take at which (average) download speed? > > That's what's been stopping me until now...the prospect of > looking at a useless box hogging my bandwidth for a week or so. Well HarM, I've got a T1 connection here, so the download of exactly 302 packages took about 15 minutes, at a server uploading at about 400 kB/sec (average). But YMMV. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing 10.1 Official without ISO cds
Thanks, Greg and Kaj. How long will it take to be possible to download (for free) the iso cds? Does somebody know? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing 10.1 Official without ISO cds
On Saturday 30 October 2004 15:52, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Saturday 30 October 2004 15:15, Paul Smith wrote: > > Dear All > > > > Is it possible to install Mandrake 10.1 Official without the ISO > > cds? Or should I wait until the ISO cds are available for > > downloading? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Paul > > The aboslute easiest way is to use the iso's. They are not > available for download yet, but you can get them (4 CDs) here : > http://linuxcentral.com/catalog/?prod_code=L000-296&id=C1CQEBKnWD3C > 6 > > But, here is what I did : > > 1. As root, edit the file "/etc/mandrakelinux-release" and change > Community to Official. Save it. > > 2. Download kernel-2.6.8.1-12mdk form a mirror .I used : > ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/official > /10.1/i586/media/main/ > > 3. Install it alongside your old one. Re-boot into the new one. > > 4. As root : "urpmi.removemedia -a" > > 5. Go here : http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ > > 6. Define your sources for 10.1 Official, and proceed as > instructed. > > 7. As root : "urpmi.update -a && urpmi --auto-select". > > 8. As root : "rpm --rebuilddb && update-menus -a -n && udpdatedb" > > That's all. When comparing my new rpms to the ones on the mirrors, > it seems that I run 10.1. Official. > > I actually don't know if step 8 is required, but it won't harm. > > HTH > Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, How long did it take at which (average) download speed? That's what's been stopping me until now...the prospect of looking at a useless box hogging my bandwidth for a week or so. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing 10.1 Official without ISO cds
On Saturday 30 October 2004 15:15, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > Is it possible to install Mandrake 10.1 Official without the ISO > cds? Or should I wait until the ISO cds are available for > downloading? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul The aboslute easiest way is to use the iso's. They are not available for download yet, but you can get them (4 CDs) here : http://linuxcentral.com/catalog/?prod_code=L000-296&id=C1CQEBKnWD3C 6 But, here is what I did : 1. As root, edit the file "/etc/mandrakelinux-release" and change Community to Official. Save it. 2. Download kernel-2.6.8.1-12mdk form a mirror .I used : ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/official /10.1/i586/media/main/ 3. Install it alongside your old one. Re-boot into the new one. 4. As root : "urpmi.removemedia -a" 5. Go here : http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ 6. Define your sources for 10.1 Official, and proceed as instructed. 7. As root : "urpmi.update -a && urpmi --auto-select". 8. As root : "rpm --rebuilddb && update-menus -a -n && udpdatedb" That's all. When comparing my new rpms to the ones on the mirrors, it seems that I run 10.1. Official. I actually don't know if step 8 is required, but it won't harm. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* --- -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing 10.1 Official without ISO cds
Dear All Is it possible to install Mandrake 10.1 Official without the ISO cds? Or should I wait until the ISO cds are available for downloading? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing mplayer...
On Thursday 07 October 2004 00:14, Vlada wrote: > Hi! > I have a problem with instaling mplayer.tar on Mandrake 9.1(don´t know how > to do that). > > > After unpacking ( tar -xf mplayer.tar )there are 7 files: > rp9codecs.tar.bz2 > MPlayer-1.Opre4.tar.bz2 > win32codecs.tar.bz2 > essential-20040427.tar.bz2 > font-arial-iso-8859-2.tar.bz2 > qt6dlls.tar.bz2 > skins.tar > > What should I do with these files? > Can someone tell me(in detail) how to make program work. Don't bother trying to compile mplayer. It is way easier to install a precompiled binary. Go here http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Follow the instructions to add on line sources for 'plf', 'contrib' and 'updates' (if you do not already have an update source. Make sure you pick sources for 9.1 Copy the commands it gives you into a root terminal. (Tip : - Copy/paste in linux is highlight/click mouse wheel ) Then using your Mandrake Software install GUI install mplayer and mplayer-gui All the other stuff will get installed automatically. 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
[newbie] Installing mplayer...
Hi! I have a problem with instaling mplayer.tar on Mandrake 9.1(don´t know how to do that). After unpacking ( tar -xf mplayer.tar )there are 7 files: rp9codecs.tar.bz2 MPlayer-1.Opre4.tar.bz2 win32codecs.tar.bz2 essential-20040427.tar.bz2 font-arial-iso-8859-2.tar.bz2 qt6dlls.tar.bz2 skins.tar What should I do with these files? Can someone tell me(in detail) how to make program work. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Speedtouch USB
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:37:32 +0100, Ben Mayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a complete newbie to Linux, having finally made the plunge from a > lifetime of Windows I must admit Im utterly perplexed with how difficult it > is to get my modem working. I would really appreciate some guidance for a > complete bozo. > > I have downloaded the binary file from > http://www.speedtouch.fr/support_fr.htm and have decompressed them. So my > question is: How to install the files? I have 2 .eni files(KQD6P1.eni and > KQD6P2.eni) on my desktop. There is no readme file to go with it so what > happens now? Once I have installed these files. What do I do next? Ben, Frequently, it is quite a pain to get SpeedTouch modem working fine under Linux. (I was not successful with that.) So, the best thing to do is to buy an ethernet modem, as the installation (under Linux) of ethernet modems is trivial. Regards, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing Speedtouch USB
Hello, I am a complete newbie to Linux, having finally made the plunge from a lifetime of Windows I must admit Im utterly perplexed with how difficult it is to get my modem working. I would really appreciate some guidance for a complete bozo. I have downloaded the binary file from http://www.speedtouch.fr/support_fr.htm and have decompressed them. So my question is: How to install the files? I have 2 .eni files(KQD6P1.eni and KQD6P2.eni) on my desktop. There is no readme file to go with it so what happens now? Once I have installed these files. What do I do next? Thanks for any support. Ben - Javelin Complete Online Marketing Results www.JavelinComplete.co.uk t: 020 7727 2226 m: 07973 909 637 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing USB flash drive
On Saturday 02 October 2004 04:00, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > Harm: > Save wear and tear on your nervous system. Why not use KMail's "Reply to > list" feature? I'll just have to change my habits and hit instead of . Seems a bit topsy-turvy though.I have to change my habits because some others suddenly change the rules of the game:( Hah, I wish 'em hairs in their spring rolls.>:) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing USB flash drive
On Friday 01 October 2004 06:08 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Friday 01 October 2004 22:50, Paul Smith wrote: > > Thanks to both. My flash drive is already working under Mandrake 10. > > > > Paul > > Sh*t, sent my mail wrong:( > > Could somebody please write a plugin for mailers so that gmail users stand > out red&flashing.or maybe shoot the gmail developpers:( Harm: Save wear and tear on your nervous system. Why not use KMail's "Reply to list" feature? -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing USB flash drive
On Friday 01 October 2004 22:50, Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks to both. My flash drive is already working under Mandrake 10. > > Paul Sh*t, sent my mail wrong:( Could somebody please write a plugin for mailers so that gmail users stand out red&flashing.or maybe shoot the gmail developpers:( -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing USB flash drive
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 22:42:41 +0200, H.J.Bathoorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have just bought a USB flash drive. Could somebody here please give > > me some directions how to install it? The documentation of the drive > > is all for MS Windows. > > Just shove it in the USB port, if you're using KDE and lucky you'll get a new > icon on your desktop pointing at the device. That would be click&run:) > > Other wise you'll have to mount it manually: probably as /mnt/removable. > It all depends how you're system is setup..but you needn't install > anything, it should all work. > If it doesn't, come back and we'll talk you through:) Thanks to both. My flash drive is already working under Mandrake 10. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing USB flash drive
Dear All I have just bought a USB flash drive. Could somebody here please give me some directions how to install it? The documentation of the drive is all for MS Windows. Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installing gtk+
Well I found the rpm on rpmfind.net. I will try to install it when I get home. It requires me to insert the second cd and I can't do that from work. I will let you know what happens later on today. Thanks, Ã On Aug 19, 2004, at 6:30 PM, Thereidos wrote: W liÅcie z czw, 19-08-2004, godz. 22:00, lmcilwain pisze: Hello all it looks to me like I may still be having a problem with dependencies. In the end my ultimate goal at this time is to install gaim and xmms on my mdk 10.0 machine. Right now I am working on gaim and the with that I needed to install the following dependencies pretty much in this order since even those depend on each other: glib pango atk gtk+ I got glib installed with your help "thanks". I was able to install pang with no problems (so I think, I didn't get any errors) I was also able to install atk with no problems (so I think, I didn't get any errors) Now I try to configure gtk+ and I get the following error: Configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.4.0 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.4.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. Any ideas ? Is this possibly cause I installed glib in /usr as the prefix? Check them with pkg-config : $pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0 atk pango It should display three version numbers in order of typing. If any of these numbers is smaller that required by gtk+ then you'll have to upgrade. If any is missing (probably atk and pango if you have installed it in /usr/local) you'll have to find it's .pc file and add it's path to pkg_config_path variable in ~/.bash_profile. It'll probably look like that (including our last changes to this variable) : PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig Once again if you don't want to reboot the system do : $export $PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig This will add new path without removing the previous one. Also, a useful command is : $pkg-config --list-all (you can use it with grep) : $pkg-config --list-all |grep glib (for example). Hint : when you'll be installing gtk+ use --prefix=/usr. -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux User No. 362185 GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installing gtk+
W liście z czw, 19-08-2004, godz. 22:00, lmcilwain pisze: > Hello all it looks to me like I may still be having a problem with > dependencies. > > In the end my ultimate goal at this time is to install gaim and xmms on > my mdk 10.0 machine. > > Right now I am working on gaim and the with that I needed to install > the following dependencies pretty much in this order since even those > depend on each other: > glib > pango > atk > gtk+ > > > I got glib installed with your help "thanks". > I was able to install pang with no problems (so I think, I didn't get > any errors) > I was also able to install atk with no problems (so I think, I didn't > get any errors) > > Now I try to configure gtk+ and I get the following error: > Configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.4.0 atk >= > 1.0.1 pango >= 1.4.0) not met; consider adjusting the > PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment if your libraries are in a nonstandard > prefix so pkg-config can find them. > > Any ideas ? Is this possibly cause I installed glib in /usr as the > prefix? Check them with pkg-config : $pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0 atk pango It should display three version numbers in order of typing. If any of these numbers is smaller that required by gtk+ then you'll have to upgrade. If any is missing (probably atk and pango if you have installed it in /usr/local) you'll have to find it's .pc file and add it's path to pkg_config_path variable in ~/.bash_profile. It'll probably look like that (including our last changes to this variable) : PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig Once again if you don't want to reboot the system do : $export $PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig This will add new path without removing the previous one. Also, a useful command is : $pkg-config --list-all (you can use it with grep) : $pkg-config --list-all |grep glib (for example). Hint : when you'll be installing gtk+ use --prefix=/usr. -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux User No. 362185 GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] installing gtk+
Hello all it looks to me like I may still be having a problem with dependencies. In the end my ultimate goal at this time is to install gaim and xmms on my mdk 10.0 machine. Right now I am working on gaim and the with that I needed to install the following dependencies pretty much in this order since even those depend on each other: glib pango atk gtk+ I got glib installed with your help "thanks". I was able to install pang with no problems (so I think, I didn't get any errors) I was also able to install atk with no problems (so I think, I didn't get any errors) Now I try to configure gtk+ and I get the following error: Configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.4.0 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.4.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. Any ideas ? Is this possibly cause I installed glib in /usr as the prefix? THanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing WinXP 64 replaced grub MBR
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:01:47 -0400 Lanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Guy; Boot from the install CD, press F1 when you see the option, and at > >the command prompt, type "rescue". You'll see a new menu with an option > >to restore Lilo. It'll take about 2 seconds. Exit the menu with the >reboot option and remove the CD from the drive. That should fix things >nicely. Lanman and Hoyt, thanks for the pointers, Linux is back. I went the rescue root, which installed lilo. After booting up Linux, I tried "grub-install /dev/hda", but it gave me some message like "unable to detect BIOS drive for /dev/hda7". /dev/hda7 is where my 9.2 Linux is installed. So I started up the GUI and did it through the Mandrake control center. That reset my menu.lst to a default, but fortunately I was smart enough to back up my real one. Any idea what the GUI is doing differently from grub-install? -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing WinXP 64 replaced grub MBR
On Monday 16 August 2004 16:55, Guy Rouillier wrote: > Ack, trying again, this message was returned to me because the > subject "Get grub mbr back after Windows XP Install" was interpreted > as a sympa request. > > I installed the new XP64 beta on my eMachines AMD64 laptop. It > reclaimed the MBR from grub. How can I get the grub MBR back on > without doing a complete reinstall? Can I start up the install CD, > drop to a command prompt, and run grub-install? The Mandrake version > that has the grub I need is 32-bit Mandrake 9.2. Thanks. > > BTW, this laptop has no floppy drive, so I can't boot from that. I > have another computer, so I could burn a bootable CD. I think XP > takes a backup of the boot sector; perhaps I could just use dd from a > command line from the 9.2 install CD? Insert CD1 and when asked select upgrade NOT install this may install lilio instead of grub I dont recall if you have a choice but you should. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 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] Installing WinXP 64 replaced grub MBR
Guy Rouillier wrote: Ack, trying again, this message was returned to me because the subject "Get grub mbr back after Windows XP Install" was interpreted as a sympa request. I installed the new XP64 beta on my eMachines AMD64 laptop. It reclaimed the MBR from grub. How can I get the grub MBR back on without doing a complete reinstall? Can I start up the install CD, drop to a command prompt, and run grub-install? The Mandrake version that has the grub I need is 32-bit Mandrake 9.2. Thanks. BTW, this laptop has no floppy drive, so I can't boot from that. I have another computer, so I could burn a bootable CD. I think XP takes a backup of the boot sector; perhaps I could just use dd from a command line from the 9.2 install CD? Guy; Boot from the install CD, press F1 when you see the option, and at the command prompt, type "rescue". You'll see a new menu with an option to restore Lilo. It'll take about 2 seconds. Exit the menu with the reboot option and remove the CD from the drive. That should fix things nicely. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing WinXP 64 replaced grub MBR
Ack, trying again, this message was returned to me because the subject "Get grub mbr back after Windows XP Install" was interpreted as a sympa request. I installed the new XP64 beta on my eMachines AMD64 laptop. It reclaimed the MBR from grub. How can I get the grub MBR back on without doing a complete reinstall? Can I start up the install CD, drop to a command prompt, and run grub-install? The Mandrake version that has the grub I need is 32-bit Mandrake 9.2. Thanks. BTW, this laptop has no floppy drive, so I can't boot from that. I have another computer, so I could burn a bootable CD. I think XP takes a backup of the boot sector; perhaps I could just use dd from a command line from the 9.2 install CD? -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing on Compaq Presario 900 laptop
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:02:19PM -0700, Jason Riker wrote: > Todd, > > I've had success installing Mandrake on both the Presario 710 and 2110. > The only problem I had was ACPI and MDK10 has corrected that nicely, > although Fedora has slightly better ACPI support (fans respond more to > system) for my 2110 laptop. > > I think you'll be very happy with your Mandrake install. Especially if > you participate on the mailing list as well as in #mandrake on IRC. Thanks Jason, I was hoping some issues may have been addressed in more recent releases. If I have any problems I'll be sure to post them. Todd > On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 07:11, Todd Slater wrote: > > My compadre has a Compaq Presario 900 with DVD and WinDVD is all mucked > > up--it keeps giving a "create overlay failed" error. I googled and tried > > a bunch of things to fix it, to no avail. I could get DVD's to play > > using PowerDVD, but it's just a trial and costs $50. > > > > I suggested installing Mandrake for playing DVD's, but I'm having second > > thoughts because my experience with Compaq several years ago was a > > nightmare of non-standard, Compaq only crap. > > > > After googling some more on the Presario 900 and linux, I see that it is > > possible but might require some work. Most of those docs were for older > > releases--RH8, MDK 8.2-9.0. I'm just wondering if it might be easier now > > with a newer release, and if anybody here has gotten MDK running on one > > of these "machines". -- Name that tune #8: I walked down there and ended up in one of them coffee houses on the block, I'd get on the stage and sing and play, the man there said come back some other day--you sound like a hillbilly, we want folksingers here. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] installing a screensaver in KDE
Got my hands on the matrix screensaver. I put KMatrix.desktop in /usr/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers. Control center does not pick it up until I create the link in /usr/share/applnk-mdk-simplified/.hidden/ScreenSavers In works than, but later on (few days later the link dissappears). All those links there get recreated. By what process? How do I make this permanant? I keep having to recreate this link manually. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing on Compaq Presario 900 laptop
My compadre has a Compaq Presario 900 with DVD and WinDVD is all mucked up--it keeps giving a "create overlay failed" error. I googled and tried a bunch of things to fix it, to no avail. I could get DVD's to play using PowerDVD, but it's just a trial and costs $50. I suggested installing Mandrake for playing DVD's, but I'm having second thoughts because my experience with Compaq several years ago was a nightmare of non-standard, Compaq only crap. After googling some more on the Presario 900 and linux, I see that it is possible but might require some work. Most of those docs were for older releases--RH8, MDK 8.2-9.0. I'm just wondering if it might be easier now with a newer release, and if anybody here has gotten MDK running on one of these "machines". Todd -- If those in charge of our society--politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television--can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. -Howard Zinn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing a .jar file [SOLVED]
Dnia pią 23. lipca 2004 18:09, Marco Verheul napisał: > On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 02:57, Dan Gordon wrote: > > On Thursday 22 July 2004 03:38 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: > > > On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 11:20, Thereidos wrote: > > > > Dnia czw 22. lipca 2004 00:44, Todd Slater napisał: > > > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 12:34:13AM +0200, Marco Verheul wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > > > I want to install a platform independent font viewer (Opcion). On > > > > > > their website ( http://opcion.sourceforge.net/help.htm ) they > > > > > > say: > > > > > > > > > > > > Execute Opcion Font Viewer > > > > > > ... For Linux users use the command "java -jar Opcion_v1.1.1.jar" > > > > > > in console/terminal/shortcut. > > > > > > > > > > > > When I fire that command in the command line, I get: > > > > > > > > > > > > "bash: java: command not found" > > > > > > > > > > > > I have Java installed and tested. It's there. Does anybody know > > > > > > how to install/use these kind of applications? > > > > > > > > > > Java is probably not in your path so you'll have to give the full > > > > > path to its location; on my machine it's > > > > > /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_01/bin/java. You could probably set up a link > > > > > in ~/bin or /usr/bin if you wanted. > > > > > > > > > > Todd > > > > > > > > Or simply add /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/bin (or whathever java version > > > > you have) to your PATH variable in ~/.bash_profile... > > > > You could also do > > > > export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/bin > > > > > > Sorry guys, but I'm missing the point here. I have java installed in > > > /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_05. > > > In /home//.bash_profile I added the path. It looks like this: > > > > > > PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_05/bin > > > > > > I did the check with Mozilla if Java was running and it did. This is > > > all I did. Now i downloaded Opcion_v1.1.1.jar and it is somewhere in my > > > downloads directory. What should I do to use it. Should I place it in a > > > java path (if so, where exactly)? Should I type the command "java -jar > > > Opcion_v1.1.1.jar" in the command line? > > > > > > I'm afraid you have to spell it out to me... > > > > Open a terminal and cd to the directory where the file is and type, > > java -jar the_name_of_file.jar > > HTH > > > > Regards, > > Dan Gordon > > Dan, > > I did that, but probably I had to reboot my system after installing > java... This time it works like a charm! Thanks. > > Cheers, Marco For the record: If you have made any changes to ~/.bash_profile you simply needed to log again to your account (logout, login)... -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing a .jar file [SOLVED]
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 02:57, Dan Gordon wrote: > On Thursday 22 July 2004 03:38 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 11:20, Thereidos wrote: > > > Dnia czw 22. lipca 2004 00:44, Todd Slater napisał: > > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 12:34:13AM +0200, Marco Verheul wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > I want to install a platform independent font viewer (Opcion). On > > > > > their website ( http://opcion.sourceforge.net/help.htm ) they say: > > > > > > > > > > Execute Opcion Font Viewer > > > > > ... For Linux users use the command "java -jar Opcion_v1.1.1.jar" in > > > > > console/terminal/shortcut. > > > > > > > > > > When I fire that command in the command line, I get: > > > > > > > > > > "bash: java: command not found" > > > > > > > > > > I have Java installed and tested. It's there. Does anybody know how > > > > > to install/use these kind of applications? > > > > > > > > Java is probably not in your path so you'll have to give the full path > > > > to its location; on my machine it's /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_01/bin/java. > > > > You could probably set up a link in ~/bin or /usr/bin if you wanted. > > > > > > > > Todd > > > > > > Or simply add /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/bin (or whathever java version you > > > have) to your PATH variable in ~/.bash_profile... > > > You could also do > > > export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/bin > > > > Sorry guys, but I'm missing the point here. I have java installed in > > /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_05. > > In /home//.bash_profile I added the path. It looks like this: > > > > PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_05/bin > > > > I did the check with Mozilla if Java was running and it did. This is all > > I did. Now i downloaded Opcion_v1.1.1.jar and it is somewhere in my > > downloads directory. What should I do to use it. Should I place it in a > > java path (if so, where exactly)? Should I type the command "java -jar > > Opcion_v1.1.1.jar" in the command line? > > > > I'm afraid you have to spell it out to me... > > Open a terminal and cd to the directory where the file is and type, > java -jar the_name_of_file.jar > HTH > > Regards, > Dan Gordon Dan, I did that, but probably I had to reboot my system after installing java... This time it works like a charm! Thanks. Cheers, Marco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing a .jar file
Dnia czw 22. lipca 2004 00:44, Todd Slater napisał: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 12:34:13AM +0200, Marco Verheul wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I want to install a platform independent font viewer (Opcion). On their > > website ( http://opcion.sourceforge.net/help.htm ) they say: > > > > Execute Opcion Font Viewer > > ... For Linux users use the command "java -jar Opcion_v1.1.1.jar" in > > console/terminal/shortcut. > > > > When I fire that command in the command line, I get: > > > > "bash: java: command not found" > > > > I have Java installed and tested. It's there. Does anybody know how to > > install/use these kind of applications? > > Java is probably not in your path so you'll have to give the full path > to its location; on my machine it's /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_01/bin/java. You > could probably set up a link in ~/bin or /usr/bin if you wanted. > > Todd Or simply add /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/bin (or whathever java version you have) to your PATH variable in ~/.bash_profile... You could also do export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/bin -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing a .jar file
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 12:34:13AM +0200, Marco Verheul wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to install a platform independent font viewer (Opcion). On their > website ( http://opcion.sourceforge.net/help.htm ) they say: > > Execute Opcion Font Viewer > ... For Linux users use the command "java -jar Opcion_v1.1.1.jar" in > console/terminal/shortcut. > > When I fire that command in the command line, I get: > > "bash: java: command not found" > > I have Java installed and tested. It's there. Does anybody know how to > install/use these kind of applications? Java is probably not in your path so you'll have to give the full path to its location; on my machine it's /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_01/bin/java. You could probably set up a link in ~/bin or /usr/bin if you wanted. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing a .jar file
Hi all, I want to install a platform independent font viewer (Opcion). On their website ( http://opcion.sourceforge.net/help.htm ) they say: Execute Opcion Font Viewer ... For Linux users use the command "java -jar Opcion_v1.1.1.jar" in console/terminal/shortcut. When I fire that command in the command line, I get: "bash: java: command not found" I have Java installed and tested. It's there. Does anybody know how to install/use these kind of applications? Cheers, Marco -- Registered Linux user #268279 -- * This message is composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * * Running Mandrake 10.0 * -- "Tell me, Brother Baldrick, what exactly did God do to the Sodomites?" "I dunno, but I can't imagine it was worse than what they used to do to each other." - EB & Baldrick, "Blackadder's Christmas Carol" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 10 withou internet conection
Dnia pon 12. lipca 2004 23:57, Ary Kaplan Nakamura napisał: > I want to install Mandrake 10 in a computer that doesn´t have internet > conection > Can I download the upgrades and then upgrade Mandrake 10 from a CD? > Thanks > > Ary Kaplan Nakamura Yes... -- Cezary "Thereidos" Morga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GG# 169903 ; ICQ# 328700565 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 10 withou internet conection
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 12, 2004 03:57, Ary Kaplan Nakamura wrote: > I want to install Mandrake 10 in a computer that doesn´t have internet > conection > Can I download the upgrades and then upgrade Mandrake 10 from a CD? > Thanks > > Ary Kaplan Nakamura Two ways; copy the updates from the CD to the hard drive and add the directory as a local source, or add the CD as a source and just keep updating it. If the updates file gets so large that it won't fit on a single disk that could become a problem. You won't be using "Mandrake Update" in either case. If you use the rpmdrake graphical interface just keep it set to show "all files by update availability." Any new versions will be listed there. It's even easier from a terminal, urpmi -a -c -f && urpmi --auto-select Good luck; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.7-1.sds.16mdk 16:05:30 up 3:21, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.02 RAM wasn't built in a day. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA8xADZqvqlrLPr5YRArlVAKCT+/wh0lZcTVNNHrh25ustYkKjHwCgm78e xDDOCGF/YM/RaL/dzs+6Bm8= =ei7K -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
[newbie] Installing Mandrake 10 withou internet conection
I want to install Mandrake 10 in a computer that doesn´t have internet conection Can I download the upgrades and then upgrade Mandrake 10 from a CD? Thanks Ary Kaplan Nakamura Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing Mandrake - was "switching from fedora core, need some advice"
On Monday 12 July 2004 02:57 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: > On July 12, 2004 11:48, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Monday 12 July 2004 12:40 pm, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: > > > ok, this is getting a bit off topic, but... > > > > > > how do i "make it bootable with the cdrom boot image"? i found the > > > "raw tree for Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official" and i'm assuming i can > > > download it, keeping the dir structure intact, then burn it to dvd with > > > the "cdrom boot image"...? > > > > I believe that to make a CD or DVD bottable, you hae to specify a boot > > image, which I believe should be that exact size of a floppy disk image, > > so you can use one of the floppy images in the images directory to make > > the DVD bootable. Alternatively, you could create the DVD archive, and > > then use a boot floppy to get started. > > > > Another thought, if you have the bandwidth to copy the whole dang tree > > down, you might want to consider an ftp install. > > Or if the OP has that much bandwidth, and enough space, what's wrong with > doing an hard drive install using the boot.iso in the images directory? > That image is about 8 MB. A CD-RW current for the version of Mandrake > wanted is all that's needed. That and knowing where the tree is on the > drive. > > It's the quickest and easiest method since you don't have to wait for > network slowdowns or switch disks or put up with speed bumps from optical > drives. > > That's the method I use for most customer's systems I assemble. I got sick > of paying for blank CD-Rs. > Agreed, in fact I believe I even suggested this a few posts back. Not to continue the OT, but to further highlight the strength of Linux in general and mandrake in particular, if you download the whole tree, one could also make their own DVD iso with the MakeCD script found in the misc directory of the dist tree. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing software
Allan Peak wrote: How do I get Mandrake to install packages from the web? Currently, it just installs from the CD-ROM. Allan; You'll find a wealth of information about Mandrake-Linux at this site. http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org/ Your particular problem is dealt with here; http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeSpecific and here; http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi When you've finished with those two pages, you'll be wanting to go here; http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Enjoy! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing software
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op woensdag 30 juni 2004 13:03, schreef Allan Peak: > How do I get Mandrake to install packages from the web? Currently, it > just installs from the CD-ROM. Hallo Alla, Go to http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php to setup urpmi ronald - -- Registered Linux User 163597 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA4qARoPgG5kUDwJIRAoZBAJ9jtEa+mGE66dHGHaIOvTXuLMVdLwCggD0H gX52WGOc2tzQZYT1ZyvIGHQ= =75jf -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
[newbie] Installing software
How do I get Mandrake to install packages from the web? Currently, it just installs from the CD-ROM. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing OS 10.0 Problem
On Monday 28 June 2004 04:26, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hoyt Bailey > Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 8:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing OS 10.0 Problem > > > On Sunday 27 June 2004 16:25, Dmitri wrote: > > > > I've run into the same problem continuously when trying to install > 10.0. > > Here's the situation: > > > > Downloaded ISO img of mandrake 10.0 disk 1 and burnt to disk. > > Restarted computer with cd in drive and it boots into the installer. > > A few seconds into the install (right after it finishes detecting the > USB > > devices) when it tries to install/make a ramdisk, i get the following > error: > > > > Command error= 0x51 > > <4> end request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 1351356 > > Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 337827 > > > > > > The numbers vary after "sector" and "logical block," but the error is > > respectively identical every time. After a while, in the graphic > interface, > > an error box pops up stating that there may be a hardware problem or a > bug in > > linux. > > > > I've tried downloading a new copy of the ISO img and tried that and > the same > > thing happened. Then i downloaded a copy of the ISO off of a different > server > > and it happened again; same place, same problem, same error. I've > tried > > burning the ISO in mandrake and windows. No matter what, i get that > same > > error and the install stops in the same place. > > > > Dmitri > > > > > > > Maybe you should begin suspecting the HD. > -- > Regards; > Hoyt > > > > What is hde? on my system it is the first sata disk. That would help in finding where the error is from. > It should be the 5th virtual disk on your system. -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Installing OS 10.0 Problem
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hoyt Bailey Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 8:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing OS 10.0 Problem On Sunday 27 June 2004 16:25, Dmitri wrote: > > I've run into the same problem continuously when trying to install 10.0. > Here's the situation: > > Downloaded ISO img of mandrake 10.0 disk 1 and burnt to disk. > Restarted computer with cd in drive and it boots into the installer. > A few seconds into the install (right after it finishes detecting the USB > devices) when it tries to install/make a ramdisk, i get the following error: > > Command error= 0x51 > <4> end request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 1351356 > Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 337827 > > > The numbers vary after "sector" and "logical block," but the error is > respectively identical every time. After a while, in the graphic interface, > an error box pops up stating that there may be a hardware problem or a bug in > linux. > > I've tried downloading a new copy of the ISO img and tried that and the same > thing happened. Then i downloaded a copy of the ISO off of a different server > and it happened again; same place, same problem, same error. I've tried > burning the ISO in mandrake and windows. No matter what, i get that same > error and the install stops in the same place. > > Dmitri > > > Maybe you should begin suspecting the HD. -- Regards; Hoyt What is hde? on my system it is the first sata disk. That would help in finding where the error is from. Tony. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing OS 10.0 Problem
Dmitri wrote: I've run into the same problem continuously when trying to install 10.0. Here's the situation: Downloaded ISO img of mandrake 10.0 disk 1 and burnt to disk. Restarted computer with cd in drive and it boots into the installer. A few seconds into the install (right after it finishes detecting the USB devices) when it tries to install/make a ramdisk, i get the following error: Command error= 0x51 <4> end request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 1351356 Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 337827 The numbers vary after "sector" and "logical block," but the error is respectively identical every time. After a while, in the graphic interface, an error box pops up stating that there may be a hardware problem or a bug in linux. I've tried downloading a new copy of the ISO img and tried that and the same thing happened. Then i downloaded a copy of the ISO off of a different server and it happened again; same place, same problem, same error. I've tried burning the ISO in mandrake and windows. No matter what, i get that same error and the install stops in the same place. Dmitri Try cleaning your CD-ROM drive. If that doesn't work, try burning the CD at a slower speed. It sounds like the image you have downloaded is ok, but the drive is having a hard time reading the CD you have burned. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
