[newbie] Re: Lost KDE login

[Russell Butler]

Russell Butler wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday 28 Jun 2005 13:45, Russell Butler wrote:
>>
>>
>> This rings faint bells - I'm sure that error has been discussed
>> before, so google should be able to find it.  Try something like linux
>> recognise ".png icon".
>>
>> Anne
> 
> Thanks, Anne
> 
> No joy thus far on that.
> Error is: Couldn't recognise the image file format for file
> '/usr/share/icons/drakconf.png' at /usr/lib/libDrakX/mygtk2.pm line 248.
> 
> and no luck googling bits of that message, either.
> 
> Russell
Just to keep the archives complete, solved by downloading complete DVD
and reinstalling. Fortunately I had learnt to make a separate /home
partition so fairly painless.

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[newbie] Re: Win2k is hijacking my network

[Thomas Backlund]

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Saturday 02 Jul 2005 12:23, Lee Wiggers wrote:


All of a sudden a rogue win2k box on my net is assuming master and
screwing up assigned ip's.

Anyone know how to unfang the pos?  I have a gun, but the box is my
brothers.



Check your /etc/samba/smb.conf.  Make sure that the "master" entries are set 
to yes, and raise the value in "os level = ".  The default is 34, I think, 
and at that the boxes will fight it out.  HTH


Anne


Set "os level" to 65 and it will outrank every M$ box and win every 
fight, atleast for now...


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[newbie] Re: Lost KDE login

[Russell Butler]

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Tuesday 28 Jun 2005 13:45, Russell Butler wrote:


Hi all

Sorry for what will probably be very simple, but I can't find a working
solution other than a reinstallation, which I would like to avoid if
possible.

Acer laptop, just installed Mandriva 2005LE Mini.

I did not notice that the AC adapter was unplugged, and everything
crashed. After this I could not log in to KDE. Moved .Xauthority, and I
now log in to a shell and can run "startkde" but would like to go
straight in to the desktop.

For some reason MCC fails - "unable to recognise a .png icon" that's
paraphrasing the error,

Any and all advice gratefully received.



This rings faint bells - I'm sure that error has been discussed before, so 
google should be able to find it.  Try something like 
linux recognise ".png icon".


Anne

Thanks, Anne

No joy thus far on that.
Error is: Couldn't recognise the image file format for file 
'/usr/share/icons/drakconf.png' at /usr/lib/libDrakX/mygtk2.pm line 248.


and no luck googling bits of that message, either.

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[newbie] Re: OpenOfficeWriter problem

[Russell Butler]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 Jun 2005 13:18, Russell Butler wrote:
> 
>>Some templates are saved under ~OOo/share/ and you may not (as user)
>>have write permissions to that directory.
>>
> 
> It's in my home directory - I found it and checked the permissions, all of 
> which look fine.
> 
> 
>>Can you "Save As" under a new name and edit the new copy?
>>
> 
> Tried that - same problem :-(
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions
> 
> Anne
Anne,

Which version of OOo are you using?

If the file is not confidential, if you like to send it to me off list,
I can try opening it and saving as a document format (rather than
template) and see if that helps. I have OOo 1.1.4 and 1.9.104 available.

Regards

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[newbie] Re: OpenOfficeWriter problem

[Russell Butler]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 Jun 2005 12:37, Paul Kater wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, June 14, 2005 12:22, Anne Wilson said:
>>
>>>open the template under > Templates > Edit and simply change the name,
>>>saving it with a new name.  I can't do that.  For some reason it says
>>>that the text is read-only.
>>
>>Very strange! Can you open the template as a new document (file -> new
>>... )?  
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
>>Perhaps you can then use the new document, based on the 
>>template, and save that as a new template.
>>
> 
> I tried that as well, but got the same message.  I should have said that the 
> business card uses a table for layout, so it could be something to do with 
> the table settings, but it's far from obvious where the problem lies.  I 
> did all the work on it last night, and could edit the fields then without 
> any problems at all.  What worries me is that if I have to start again from 
> scratch to make the second one it's extremely doubtful that I could make it 
> exactly like the first.
> 
> Anne
Hi Anne

Some templates are saved under ~OOo/share/ and you may not (as user)
have write permissions to that directory.

Can you "Save As" under a new name and edit the new copy?

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[newbie] Re: Font anti-aliasing not working on Mandrive LE 2005

[John Zoetebier]

John Zoetebier wrote:

> I have installen Mandriva LE 2005 on 2 different PCs.
> Both have the same problem : anti-aliasing is not working anymore.
> One OC has a Prosavage K133 and the other has a ATI Radeon 9200 video
> card. All other graphics work fine like movies or pictures.
> It's only the fonts that look coarse.
> I have tried all kind of different configurations under KDE fonts, but the
> fonts stay the same.
> Mandrake 10.1 worked fine, so is this a problem with the new Xorg font
> system ?
> 

Font anti-aliasing seems to be working now.
However it seems you have to reboot ypur PC (or X server).
These are the settings for my system:
- switch anti-aliasing on
- leave exclude range off
- use subpixel RGB hinting, style medium

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[newbie] Re: Mouse wheel not working in Mandriva LE 10.2

[John Zoetebier]

John Zoetebier wrote:

> After upgrading Mandriva LE 10.2 from Mandrake 10.1 the wheel on my mouse
> is not working anymore.
> It is a wireless Microsoft USB wheelmouse.
> Worked fine in Mandrake 10.1 with some ACPI options like:
> append="noapic nolapic devfs=mount acpi=ht"
> 
> With the above settings the USB mouse did not work at all in Mandriva.
> So I changed it to:
> append="splash=silent"
> 
> Mouse is working now, but not the wheel.
> Wheel on PS2 mouse is not working either.
> 
> I looked in Xorg.0.log and found these error messages at the top of the
> log file:
> 1)
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
> (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
> (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> 2)
> (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x5964) rev 1, Mem
> @ 0xe000/27, 0xff5f/16, I/O @ 0xc800/8, BIOS @ 0xff5c/17
> (--) PCI: (1:0:1) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x5d44) rev 1, Mem
> @ 0xd800/27, 0xff5e/16
> 
> However Xorg seems to have detected my ATI Radeon 9200SE graphics card.
> Any ideas ?
> 

Suddenly the wheel is working again :)
The only thing I remember having changed is in MMC change font size to 10 in
stead of 12.
This may have changed the Xorg settings and as a side effect the mouse is
working now.
After rebooting the PC I discovered that the wheel was working again.
It am just guessing though

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[newbie] Re: keyboard

[Russell Butler]

Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:

Thanks Russell - I think I have it correct now.  Things slowly falling 
inot place.  part from my spelling!


I note you are using Thunderbird, try Edit-Preferences-Composition and 
there is a check box there for "Check spelling before sending" I pick up 
lots of my typos there.  :-)


HTH

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[newbie] Re: keyboard

[Russell Butler]

Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Can believe I have this wrong again!  Went into MCC but can find the 
corect palce to change to whatever I am supposed to have.  Chose US Intl 
but obviously need just US!


Hi Rosemary

Does "Hardware - Keyboard" work?

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[newbie] Re: KDE or Knome or ?

[Anthony Brooks]

Angus Auld wrote:

> I've noticed the same thing here with Kaffeine too Nate. Once you call up
> the program once, it will run in the background, even if you exit the
> program. I have to kill Kaffeine in KDE System Guard in order to get it to
> exit. I notice that it is eating approx. 30% to 50% cpu cycles too. I
> would have to assume this to be a bug. Anyone else out there seeing this?
> Any solution besides not using Kaffeine?

I guess I should add myself to the kaffeine problem. I was looking at the
cvs snapshot of kaffeine and noticed a memory leak patch dated May 2nd. I
wonder if the problem still exists on a cooker box.
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[newbie] Re: "NTLDR Missing" Error -- Dual Boot

[Frank L]

I'm not sure what I did, but I just tried re-installing everything on the 
same drive and it seems to work.

Thanks.

-- Frank


"Michel Leunen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in 
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> Frank L wrote:
>> I just did a fresh install of XP Pro and Mandriva 10.2.  Everything 
>> seemed
>> to work fine, but when I tried to start XP I got the error message "NTLDR 
>> is
>> Missing" "Press Ctl Alt Del to restart".  If I try to restart Windows I 
>> get
>> the same error message.
>
> I don't think this is related to your fresh install of Linux.
> Did you by chance format the windows partition with Fat32 system? If
> it's the case, look at this it could help you:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q255220&ID=KB;EN-US;q255220
>
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[newbie] Re: mandrake 10.1 on hp pavilion 7935

[Thomas Backlund]

Michael Dancy wrote:
So I installed mandrake 10.1 on my HP Pavilion 7935..
AMD 1300 256mb ram.. the usual crappy hp machine.
 

It has onboard memory and I can’t seem to find a ‘video card’ in the 
selection that will work.

I keep getting an error and when I run the test to check it out.. it 
just blanks out.

Any ideas?
 

Since I blew out the proprietary info on the C drive..  and cracked it 
open.. I can’t tell what kind of card it is.

Even the HP site isn’t specific.
 

I’m not sure if this is going straight to a forum or to someone.. so any 
advice would be appreciated.

The HP docs here:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?cc=us&docname=bph06799&lc=en
tells you it's integrated graphics, so you need to check out the
chipset, wich is VIA KL133.
If you then check out the Via site here:
http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=40&STypeID=3
you will see that it's the chipset also known as Apollo KL133
If you look here:
http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=5&ArticleID=68&P=5
you will see that the integrated graphics is named:
"KPLE integrated graphics" and the Northbridge is VT8364...
Unfortunately here the fun seems to stop as I can't really find
any proof that the xorg will support your card with any specific driver,
but you should be able to use the standard VESA driver...
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[newbie] Re: 2005LE can't find hardware modem

[Thomas Backlund]

Mike Adolf wrote:
On Friday 06 May 2005 07:37 pm, ET wrote:
On Friday 06 May 2005 06:46 pm, Mike Adolf wrote:
After doing a network install of 2005LE, my modem is not detected. (I
also have a broadband connection but need my modem for faxing).  Windows
shows it on COMM 3, and a modem query in XP returns the following:
ATQ0V1E0 - OK
AT+GMM - +GMM: V90
AT+FCLASS=? - 0,1,1.0,2,8
AT#CLS=? - COMMAND NOT SUPPORTED
AT+GCI? - +GCI: B5
AT+GCI=? - +GCI: (B5)
ATI1 - 212
ATI2 - OK
ATI3 - V3.210-V90_2M_DLP
ATI4 - Creative Modem Blaster Flash56 DI5601
ATI5 - B5
ATI6 - RCV56DPF-PLL L8571A Rev 36.00/36.00
ATI7 - OK
Why can't Mandriva see it?  Mandrake 10.1 found it!
/dev had no entry for /dev/modem, so I created an s-link to /dev/ttyS2
(com3).  It did not help.  How do I start to solve this problem?
Mike
was your 10.1 install by chance the powerpack and your le2005 install
download?
powerpack has the drivers for some winmodems that the gnu version will not
have

Thanks for the reply, but the Modem Blaster is not a winmodem.  It has a 
hardware controller.  My 10.1 was a 4CD set (official) purchased from CD 
Then it may be one of those that are only supported by linuxant drivers,
wich AFAIK are on the Official CD4, but due to licensing cant be in
the download edition...
discount site.  LE was installed by downloading boot.iso.  When booting from 
it, the install is done over the broadband connection.


Please post the output of "cat /var/log/dmesg" and "lspcidrake -v"
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[newbie] Re: fstab queries

[Olive]

WauloK wrote:
When my PC boots up, I get the error:
May  2 20:25:54 starbug mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad
superblock on /dev/hdb1,
May  2 20:25:54 starbug mount:or too many mounted file systems
Here's the entry created by Mandrake:
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 notail 1 2
And the other question: Why are all my Windows partitions on my other
drive mounted as accessible only to ROOT? I chmodded the mount points
to 550 but when you mount them, they change back to 500. So I can't
access the files.
Any clues?
Thanks!
The permission on a mount directory have nothiong to do with the 
pêrmission on the mount point . They are determined by options in 
/etc/fsab. If you want everyone to be able to read your windows 
partition; use umask=000. See man mount to have more information.

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[newbie] Re: Beware

[Jonesy]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:32:29 -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] disseminated the following:
>
>>Let all be aware, I just received a post that purported to have 
>> come from my ISP. wanting me to verify my registration information.  
>> DO NOT fall for this blatant lie.  Don't even visit the site.  I am 
>> positive it was phony because no ISP would send out such a poorly 
>> format difficult letter to read.  Although my isp is earthlink, that 
>> doesn't mean you AOLers won't get one from aol.  Don't be stupid.  
>> Don't fall for this trick.
>
> Jeez, and I thought I'd left all the virus/scam warning/hoax e-mails
> behind years ago when I dumped WinSux.

Phishing is cross-platform.

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[newbie] Re: Partition 2nd hard drive

[Olive]

Peter Watson wrote:
Hi folks
I've just installed a second hard drive and was about to partition it with 
fdisk so I had a peek at the man page, it recommends using cfdisk instead.

Has anyone got any pointers on whether fdisk or cfdisk is preferable? I've 
only used harddrake before but this time I want to use the CLI.

fdisk is preferable at my opnion. You have more control on what you do. 
Note cfdisk is not really a "command line program" it is a menu driven 
program

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[newbie] Re: [Cooker] Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird and Nvu

[Philippe Landau]

Frederic Crozat wrote:
Hi guys, 
hello Frederic, how are you doing under the new flag :-) ?
following marketing decisions, we are switching from Mozilla application
suite to Firefox/Thunderbird/Nvu.

-firefox, thunderbird and nvu will move from contrib to cooker main. I
try to integrate all currents patches/features which are in mozilla to
those packages (which will mean doing work 3 times instead of one :()
you know i liked these 3 because i thought they
have the greatest backing in open source world.
but now i see that mozilla.org is dragging their feet,
the big deficiencies and hundreds of important bugs
for example in thunderbird are mostly being ignored,
even when privacy is exposed by webbugs in spam etc.
nvu on the other hand is, while still very much lacking,
is currently the best free wysiwyg web editor.
now my question: i have all 6 easyurpmi sources,
but software manager does not find NVU in 10.1.
do i have to install it from somewhere else ?
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[newbie] Re: OpenOffice Beta 2 Installation Mandrake 10.1

[Russell Butler]

SOTL wrote:
Hi All
HELP!
I am attempting to install Open Office Beta 2 m02 on a Mandrake 10.1 
system and I have a few questions as I do not understand the 
installation instructions.

A copy of the installation instruction along with my questions follows.
Reply sent to ooo-users, Frank
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Re: [newbie] Re: ark & rar

[Q.H. Wang]

Many thanks Anne. I really don't realize it's the problem of replying posts 
directly to me, not the list. I thought it has caused some other problems. 
Now I'm clear.

Bests,

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Re: [newbie] Re: ark & rar

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 11:52, Q.H. Wang wrote:
> > Q, if you delete your "reply-to" address, it would be easier for
> > people on the Mandrake/Mandriva lists to respond to your posts.
>
> Hi Miark,
>
> Many thanks for your suggestion. Now I have removed my address from the
> "reply-to". In fact I don't realize that. What problem does it cause?
>
This, and several other issues that cause problems, are explained on 
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette

Do take the time to explore the Community TWiki, while you're there.  There's 
a huge amount of useful information, although you may have to browse the 
index to see where it is.  The search facility is a bit primitive, but it 
does bring up a list of pages where your search term is mentioned.

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[newbie] Re: ark & rar

[Q.H. Wang]

>
> Q, if you delete your "reply-to" address, it would be easier for
> people on the Mandrake/Mandriva lists to respond to your posts.
>

Hi Miark,

Many thanks for your suggestion. Now I have removed my address from the 
"reply-to". In fact I don't realize that. What problem does it cause? 

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[newbie] Re: KIOSlave and Bluetooth phone

[WauloK]

The other problem is, every second time I click on the (K) bluetooth
icon in the system tray, the program crashes.
Pairing is not working either and TFM instructions don't fix it.

On Apr 6, 2005 1:17 PM, WauloK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone set up KIOSlave to connect to a Bluetooth phone?
> I have a Motorola A1000 which I'd like to upload/download images,
> documents and other files with.
> My KDEBluetooth can detect the phone and connect to it, but I only get
> the options of OBEX-Push and a couple other things, but not
> OBEX-kioslave.
> 
> Do I need to install a package for this?
> 
> I'd like to browse the phone's directories and install applications. I
> believe I can use the OBEX-push to install applications, but I want to
> browse.
> 
> TIA
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[newbie] Re: KDE /K3B problem

[Russell Butler]

Derek Jennings wrote:
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 13:59, Russell Butler wrote:
Derek Jennings wrote:
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 11:16, Russell Butler wrote:
Hello all
I have Mandrake 10.1 on 2.6.8.1-12mdk win4Lin kernel
installed (dual boot with Win) and mostly use KDE. since a recent
re-install I had been using the graphical login page, and I noted that
it would not retain the "faces" settings.
Mandrake Control Centre> System>Display Manager
Select the 'KDM' display Manager
derek
Thanks for the suggestion Derek, but still the same behaviour.
Is there any way to edit an .rc file or something, or at least debug
what is happening?
I am not entirely a newbie, but have not learnt my way around debugging.
k3b --help doesn't seem to offer a verbose mode and no help from k3bsetup.
Russell
KDM configuration is in /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc
It is well commented.
derek
Sorry I realise I didn't make it clear that it is the k3b error which is 
my main problem. The zombie process seems to interfere with other 
programs, especially trying to start mcc

The "faces" one just appeared at the same time and I thought it might 
give a pointer to the source of the trouble.

Thanks
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[newbie] Re: [Wine]To su or not to su

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> h:\ maps to your home drive. Or, mine does. I used winetools-2.1.0-jo
> to set up wine. See what else is in ~/.wine/dosdevices.
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Re: [newbie] Re: KDE /K3B problem

[Derek Jennings]

On Tuesday 05 April 2005 13:59, Russell Butler wrote:
> Derek Jennings wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 April 2005 11:16, Russell Butler wrote:
> >>Hello all
> >>
> >>I have Mandrake 10.1 on 2.6.8.1-12mdk win4Lin kernel
> >>installed (dual boot with Win) and mostly use KDE. since a recent
> >>re-install I had been using the graphical login page, and I noted that
> >>it would not retain the "faces" settings.
> >
> > Mandrake Control Centre> System>Display Manager
> > Select the 'KDM' display Manager
> >
> > derek
>
> Thanks for the suggestion Derek, but still the same behaviour.
>
> Is there any way to edit an .rc file or something, or at least debug
> what is happening?
>
> I am not entirely a newbie, but have not learnt my way around debugging.
>
> k3b --help doesn't seem to offer a verbose mode and no help from k3bsetup.
>
> Russell
KDM configuration is in /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc

It is well commented.

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[newbie] Re: KDE /K3B problem

[Russell Butler]

Derek Jennings wrote:
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 11:16, Russell Butler wrote:
Hello all
I have Mandrake 10.1 on 2.6.8.1-12mdk win4Lin kernel
installed (dual boot with Win) and mostly use KDE. since a recent
re-install I had been using the graphical login page, and I noted that
it would not retain the "faces" settings.
Mandrake Control Centre> System>Display Manager
Select the 'KDM' display Manager
derek
Thanks for the suggestion Derek, but still the same behaviour.
Is there any way to edit an .rc file or something, or at least debug 
what is happening?

I am not entirely a newbie, but have not learnt my way around debugging.
k3b --help doesn't seem to offer a verbose mode and no help from k3bsetup.
Russell


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[newbie] Re: amaroK does not see xine

[Paul Smith]

On Apr 4, 2005 11:01 AM, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have just installed amaroK 1.2.3, but it does not list xine as an
> usable engine, contrarily to the previous version. Is this normal?

Well, it does see xine if one installs

amarok-xine

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Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

[Rosemary McGillicuddy]

On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:49, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> SnapafunFrank wrote:
> > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
> >> Warnings well heeded.  I am almost too scared to do anything in
> >> Mandrake now - no just kidding.
> >>
> >>
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda
> >>
> >> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865.
> >> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> >> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> >> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
> >> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> >>   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> >>
> >> Command (m for help): p
> >>
> >> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> >> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
> >> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> > Please understand my notes to your table here. Is this what you were
> > after? Strictly your call here.
> >
> >>   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id
> >> System   [ Franks approx partition sizes ]
> >> /dev/hda1   *   1236418988798+   7
> >> HPFS/NTFS   [19gig ]
> >> /dev/hda22423486519623397+   5
> >> Extended [20gig ]
> >> /dev/hda524233186 6136798+  83
> >> Linux[6gig] ~ [ This is your root partition ]
> >> /dev/hda648084854  377496   83
> >> Linux   [350MB ]
> >> /dev/hda748554865   88326   82  Linux
> >> swap  [82MB ]
> >> /dev/hda831873326 1124518+  82  Linux
> >> swap  [1.1gig ]
> >> /dev/hda93327480711896101   83
> >> Linux [12gig - wow, wish I could afford this much]
> >> ~ [ This is your /home partition ]
> >>
> >> Partition table entries are not in disk order
> >>
> >> I can breathe now I am out of fdisk!
> >>
> >> regards
> >> Rosemary
> >
> > OK Rosemary, I need to study this a little but for now see what I see.
> >
> > You have a 40gig hard drive:
> >
> > You have 7 ( note ~ seven ) partitions:
> >
> > You have only 1 primary partition ~ you ought to have 3 but not
> > essential: more about this later.
>
> Not realy. You can have up to 4, but if you use an extended partition,
> it uses 1 primary partition "slot".
>
> > You have only 1 ( one ) logic partition ~ you are allowed up to 16 last
> > I heard:
>
> Each partition in the extended partition is a logical partition. This
> system has 5 logical partitions in the extended partition.
>
> > You therefore have 1 ( all you are allowed I believe ) extended
> > partition ~ it is within this partition that you have your logic
> > partitions:
> >
> > You have 2 swap partitions ~ no idea why you have two when one is enough
> > especially when one of them appears huge.
>
> About the only reasion for the second swap partition would be if using
> Software Suspend. You need a swap partition a bit larger then your
> physical memory to hold the currend system state when you suspend to
> disk. But I don't think too many people are using it yet. But 1.1G does
> look a bit large. On the other hand, the 82MB swap partition is realy
> too small to be usefull...

I wonder if this happened at the attempt to get the mouse going ...  
>
> > Generally the rules here are:
> >
> > No more than 4 primary partitions with only one of them being made an
> > extended partition in which you can have up to 16 logic partitions.
> >
> > You can have as many swap partitions as you like though usually one is
> > enough.
> >
> > Partition numbering is:
> > primary 1 ~ 4 ( includes the extended partition )
> > With LBA partitions numbering 5 ~ say 16
>
> Logical partitions, not LBA. LBA is a way of accessing a hard drive, not
> a partition type. (Logical Block Allocation if I remember right...)
>
> > The only partitions you have correct here are:
> >
> > /dev/hda1 *  [ Your WinXP partition and the * means it is bootable ]
> > /dev/hda1 [ One of  your swap partitions and I say this is correct
> > because it appears to be of the correct size ~ Usually no more than 1.5
> > times your RAM size if it is under 512MB ]
>
> I think you mean dha8 here, and not hda1.
>
> > Now lets take your df printf: [ printf is syntax for echo or in other
> > words ~ what you see returned to the screen when you issue a command
> > seeking info. ]
> >
> > FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> >
> > /dev/hda5 5.8G  1.7G  3.9G  30% /[ My rough math for
> > the above table isn't to far off here afterall.]
> >
> > /dev/hda9  12G  170M   12G   2% /home [ You must work out
> > what you really will be using here because this is far to big at
> > present  ~  only 170MB of 12000MB used so far.]
> >
> > SO.
> > Your WinXP partition does not get mounted when you boot up ~ you may
> > prefer this but fstab has it entered.
> >
> > Your hda6 part

Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Okay - first up:
during the install, I selected the partitions that Mandrake preselected - 
which is what I was advised to do, probably at linuxquestions or another 
forum, or possibly on the installation process itself.

These were:
hda5 (5.8Gb, /, ext)
hda6 (368Mb, /mnt, ext3)
hda9 (11Gb, /home, ext 3)
If this was incorrect, then so be it - I was simply doing what I thought I had 
been advised to do.  There was also swap there somewhere.

I seriously wonder if all this questioning is worth it - your time, and my 
limited knowledge.  I simply want a system that works.  If I have made a 
mistake, okay, then fix it if can be fixed simply, or reinstall.  It seems 
the fix is not simple, and I believe it is time to reinstall.

I am sorry if this disappoints you ... and I am sorry if I have wasted your 
time.  I acknowledge that I probably stuffed up when I attempted to install 
the mouse, however, there were always problems with stalling, even at the 
first install attempt.  I see on other forums that Mandrake is reputed to 
have problems with USB devices.  That may be disputed here - I don't know.

I do know that I need to have a system that works, and if i don't fully 
understand why it didn't, then I can live with that.  I hope you can see my 
point.  I read recently - on the local LUG mailing list I think - "that some 
prefer to wrestle with linux, than actually use their system"  I *don't* fall 
into that category.

I really am deeply appreciative of your efforts to help, and of other listers 
- but am beginning to wonder if it is going anywhere.

Regards
Rosemary
Rosemary,
 While I would love to take this through to the end, in this case, you 
are probably right about a re-install being the best fix. If I were 
sitting in front of your box, I could probably get everything sorted out 
in less time then it would take to install. But doing it over the list, 
it will probably take at least a few days. I would enjoy the chalange, 
but it is probably not in your best interest. If you had more Linux 
experence, and wanted to learn system repair, that would be different.

 Now, when you re-install, you will want to save your /home partition, 
(hda9) and probably your extra data partition (hda6).

One thing I would do different - you will want hda6 to mount on /data or 
/mnt/data. You do NOT want it on /mnt. If you want, you can just tell 
the installer to leave it alone, and we can help you create a mount 
point for it later.

Mikkel
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Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

SnapafunFrank wrote:
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Warnings well heeded.  I am almost too scared to do anything in 
Mandrake now - no just kidding.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
  (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 

Please understand my notes to your table here. Is this what you were 
after? Strictly your call here.

  Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  
System   [ Franks approx partition sizes ]
/dev/hda1   *   1236418988798+   7  
HPFS/NTFS   [19gig ]
/dev/hda22423486519623397+   5  
Extended [20gig ]
/dev/hda524233186 6136798+  83  
Linux[6gig] ~ [ This is your root partition ]
/dev/hda648084854  377496   83  
Linux   [350MB ]
/dev/hda748554865   88326   82  Linux 
swap  [82MB ]
/dev/hda831873326 1124518+  82  Linux 
swap  [1.1gig ]
/dev/hda93327480711896101   83  
Linux [12gig - wow, wish I could afford this much] 
~ [ This is your /home partition ]

Partition table entries are not in disk order
I can breathe now I am out of fdisk!
regards
Rosemary
 

OK Rosemary, I need to study this a little but for now see what I see.
You have a 40gig hard drive:
You have 7 ( note ~ seven ) partitions:
You have only 1 primary partition ~ you ought to have 3 but not 
essential: more about this later.

Not realy. You can have up to 4, but if you use an extended partition, 
it uses 1 primary partition "slot".

You have only 1 ( one ) logic partition ~ you are allowed up to 16 last 
I heard:
>
Each partition in the extended partition is a logical partition. This 
system has 5 logical partitions in the extended partition.
You therefore have 1 ( all you are allowed I believe ) extended 
partition ~ it is within this partition that you have your logic 
partitions:

You have 2 swap partitions ~ no idea why you have two when one is enough 
especially when one of them appears huge.

About the only reasion for the second swap partition would be if using 
Software Suspend. You need a swap partition a bit larger then your 
physical memory to hold the currend system state when you suspend to 
disk. But I don't think too many people are using it yet. But 1.1G does 
look a bit large. On the other hand, the 82MB swap partition is realy 
too small to be usefull...
Generally the rules here are:
No more than 4 primary partitions with only one of them being made an 
extended partition in which you can have up to 16 logic partitions.

You can have as many swap partitions as you like though usually one is 
enough.

Partition numbering is:
primary 1 ~ 4 ( includes the extended partition )
With LBA partitions numbering 5 ~ say 16
>
Logical partitions, not LBA. LBA is a way of accessing a hard drive, not 
a partition type. (Logical Block Allocation if I remember right...)
The only partitions you have correct here are:
/dev/hda1 *  [ Your WinXP partition and the * means it is bootable ]
/dev/hda1 [ One of  your swap partitions and I say this is correct 
because it appears to be of the correct size ~ Usually no more than 1.5 
times your RAM size if it is under 512MB ]
>
I think you mean dha8 here, and not hda1.
Now lets take your df printf: [ printf is syntax for echo or in other 
words ~ what you see returned to the screen when you issue a command 
seeking info. ]

FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 5.8G  1.7G  3.9G  30% /[ My rough math for 
the above table isn't to far off here afterall.]

/dev/hda9  12G  170M   12G   2% /home [ You must work out 
what you really will be using here because this is far to big at 
present  ~  only 170MB of 12000MB used so far.]

SO.
Your WinXP partition does not get mounted when you boot up ~ you may 
prefer this but fstab has it entered.

Your hda6 partition doesn't get mounted so we need to discover which 
directory this relates to. [ See below ]

This partition was being mounted on /mnt before we disabled it.
Mikkel
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Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

[SnapafunFrank]

Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 17:09, SnapafunFrank wrote:
 

Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
   

Warnings well heeded.  I am almost too scared to do anything in Mandrake
now - no just kidding.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
 (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 

Please understand my notes to your table here. Is this what you were
after? Strictly your call here.
   

 Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
 [ Franks approx partition sizes ] /dev/hda1   *   1
  236418988798+   7  HPFS/NTFS   [19gig ] /dev/hda2 
 2423486519623397+   5  Extended [20gig ]
/dev/hda524233186 6136798+  83  Linux
  [6gig] ~ [ This is your root partition ] /dev/hda64808
  4854  377496   83  Linux   [350MB ]
/dev/hda748554865   88326   82  Linux swap   
 [82MB ] /dev/hda831873326 1124518+  82 
Linux swap  [1.1gig ] /dev/hda933274807   
11896101   83  Linux [12gig - wow, wish I could
afford this much] ~ [ This is your /home partition ]

Partition table entries are not in disk order
I can breathe now I am out of fdisk!
regards
Rosemary
 

OK Rosemary, I need to study this a little but for now see what I see.
You have a 40gig hard drive:
You have 7 ( note ~ seven ) partitions:
You have only 1 primary partition ~ you ought to have 3 but not
essential: more about this later.
You have only 1 ( one ) logic partition ~ you are allowed up to 16 last
I heard:
You therefore have 1 ( all you are allowed I believe ) extended
partition ~ it is within this partition that you have your logic
partitions:
You have 2 swap partitions ~ no idea why you have two when one is enough
especially when one of them appears huge.
( Don't mind me rambling on here ~ I'm working out loud.)
Generally the rules here are:
No more than 4 primary partitions with only one of them being made an
extended partition in which you can have up to 16 logic ( LBA ) partitions.
You can have as many swap partitions as you like though usually one is
enough.
Partition numbering is:
primary 1 ~ 4 ( includes the extended partition )
With LBA partitions numbering 5 ~ say 16
The only partitions you have correct here are:
/dev/hda1 *  [ Your WinXP partition and the * means it is bootable ]
/dev/hda1 [ One of  your swap partitions and I say this is correct
because it appears to be of the correct size ~ Usually no more than 1.5
times your RAM size if it is under 512MB ]
Now lets take your df printf: [ printf is syntax for echo or in other words
~ what you see returned to the screen when you issue a command seeking
info. ]
FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 5.8G  1.7G  3.9G  30% /[ My rough math for
the above table isn't to far off here afterall.]
/dev/hda9  12G  170M   12G   2% /home [ You must work out what
you really will be using here because this is far to big at present  ~ 
only 170MB of 12000MB used so far.]

SO.
Your WinXP partition does not get mounted when you boot up ~ you may prefer
this but fstab has it entered.
Your hda6 partition doesn't get mounted so we need to discover which
directory this relates to. [ See below ]
Your hda8, in my opinion is just wasted space at present.
Please try this:
Go K>>Configure Your Desktop>>Partitions  and tell me what you see
there. If there is more there than /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda9, ( should at
least be /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda8 ),
 then please make a note of what partitions are there AND what there
sizes are, ( Usually in megabytes ~ [ MB ] ), as this will save having
to work out partition sizes using the
 number of blocks reported by the fdisk command. { Went back and did
that anyway but am still curious ]
Another thing to do is to mount that /dev/hda6 partition to find out
what it is. So do as su:
# mkdir /mnt/hda6
# mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6  [ If this gives you errors then stop here
and let me know what those errors are. ]
# cd /mnt/hda6
# ls
Look at any directories listed here ( other than lost & found ) and tell
me what they are please.
Not trying to crowd you so will stop here and await your replies.
   

Okay - first up:
during the install, I selected the partitions that Mandrake preselected - 
which is what I was advised to do, probably at linuxquestions or another 
forum, or possibly on the installation process itse

Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

[Rosemary McGillicuddy]

On Monday 28 Mar 2005 17:09, SnapafunFrank wrote:
> Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
> >Warnings well heeded.  I am almost too scared to do anything in Mandrake
> > now - no just kidding.
> >
> >
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda
> >
> >The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865.
> >There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> >and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> >1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
> >2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> >   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> >
> >Command (m for help): p
> >
> >Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> >255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
> >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Please understand my notes to your table here. Is this what you were
> after? Strictly your call here.
>
> >   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
> >   [ Franks approx partition sizes ] /dev/hda1   *   1
> >236418988798+   7  HPFS/NTFS   [19gig ] /dev/hda2 
> >   2423486519623397+   5  Extended [20gig ]
> > /dev/hda524233186 6136798+  83  Linux
> >[6gig] ~ [ This is your root partition ] /dev/hda64808
> >4854  377496   83  Linux   [350MB ]
> > /dev/hda748554865   88326   82  Linux swap   
> >   [82MB ] /dev/hda831873326 1124518+  82 
> > Linux swap  [1.1gig ] /dev/hda933274807   
> > 11896101   83  Linux [12gig - wow, wish I could
> > afford this much] ~ [ This is your /home partition ]
> >
> >Partition table entries are not in disk order
> >
> >I can breathe now I am out of fdisk!
> >
> >regards
> >Rosemary
>
> OK Rosemary, I need to study this a little but for now see what I see.
>
> You have a 40gig hard drive:
>
> You have 7 ( note ~ seven ) partitions:
>
> You have only 1 primary partition ~ you ought to have 3 but not
> essential: more about this later.
>
> You have only 1 ( one ) logic partition ~ you are allowed up to 16 last
> I heard:
>
> You therefore have 1 ( all you are allowed I believe ) extended
> partition ~ it is within this partition that you have your logic
> partitions:
>
> You have 2 swap partitions ~ no idea why you have two when one is enough
> especially when one of them appears huge.
>
> ( Don't mind me rambling on here ~ I'm working out loud.)
>
> Generally the rules here are:
>
> No more than 4 primary partitions with only one of them being made an
> extended partition in which you can have up to 16 logic ( LBA ) partitions.
>
> You can have as many swap partitions as you like though usually one is
> enough.
>
> Partition numbering is:
>  primary 1 ~ 4 ( includes the extended partition )
>  With LBA partitions numbering 5 ~ say 16
>
> The only partitions you have correct here are:
>
> /dev/hda1 *  [ Your WinXP partition and the * means it is bootable ]
> /dev/hda1 [ One of  your swap partitions and I say this is correct
> because it appears to be of the correct size ~ Usually no more than 1.5
> times your RAM size if it is under 512MB ]
>
> Now lets take your df printf: [ printf is syntax for echo or in other words
> ~ what you see returned to the screen when you issue a command seeking
> info. ]
>
> FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>
> /dev/hda5 5.8G  1.7G  3.9G  30% /[ My rough math for
> the above table isn't to far off here afterall.]
>
> /dev/hda9  12G  170M   12G   2% /home [ You must work out what
> you really will be using here because this is far to big at present  ~ 
> only 170MB of 12000MB used so far.]
>
> SO.
>
> Your WinXP partition does not get mounted when you boot up ~ you may prefer
> this but fstab has it entered.
>
> Your hda6 partition doesn't get mounted so we need to discover which
> directory this relates to. [ See below ]
>
> Your hda8, in my opinion is just wasted space at present.
>
> Please try this:
>
> Go K>>Configure Your Desktop>>Partitions  and tell me what you see
> there. If there is more there than /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda9, ( should at
> least be /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda8 ),
>   then please make a note of what partitions are there AND what there
> sizes are, ( Usually in megabytes ~ [ MB ] ), as this will save having
> to work out partition sizes using the
>   number of blocks reported by the fdisk command. { Went back and did
> that anyway but am still curious ]
>
> Another thing to do is to mount that /dev/hda6 partition to find out
> what it is. So do as su:
>
> # mkdir /mnt/hda6
> # mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6  [ If this gives you errors then stop here
> and let me know what those errors are. ]
> # cd /mnt/hda6
> # ls
> Look at any directories listed here ( other than lost & found ) and tell
> me what they are please.
>
> Not trying to cro

Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

[SnapafunFrank]

Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Warnings well heeded.  I am almost too scared to do anything in Mandrake now - 
no just kidding.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
  (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 

Please understand my notes to your table here. Is this what you were 
after? Strictly your call here.

  Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System   
[ Franks approx partition sizes ]
/dev/hda1   *   1236418988798+   7  HPFS/NTFS   
[19gig ]
/dev/hda22423486519623397+   5  Extended 
[20gig ]
/dev/hda524233186 6136798+  83  Linux   
 [6gig] ~ [ This is your root partition ]
/dev/hda648084854  377496   83  Linux   
[350MB ]
/dev/hda748554865   88326   82  Linux swap  
[82MB ]
/dev/hda831873326 1124518+  82  Linux swap  
[1.1gig ]
/dev/hda93327480711896101   83  Linux   
  [12gig - wow, wish I could afford this much] ~ [ This is your /home partition 
]
Partition table entries are not in disk order
I can breathe now I am out of fdisk!
regards
Rosemary
 

OK Rosemary, I need to study this a little but for now see what I see.
You have a 40gig hard drive:
You have 7 ( note ~ seven ) partitions:
You have only 1 primary partition ~ you ought to have 3 but not 
essential: more about this later.

You have only 1 ( one ) logic partition ~ you are allowed up to 16 last 
I heard:

You therefore have 1 ( all you are allowed I believe ) extended 
partition ~ it is within this partition that you have your logic partitions:

You have 2 swap partitions ~ no idea why you have two when one is enough 
especially when one of them appears huge.

( Don't mind me rambling on here ~ I'm working out loud.)
Generally the rules here are:
No more than 4 primary partitions with only one of them being made an 
extended partition in which you can have up to 16 logic ( LBA ) partitions.

You can have as many swap partitions as you like though usually one is 
enough.

Partition numbering is:
primary 1 ~ 4 ( includes the extended partition )
With LBA partitions numbering 5 ~ say 16
The only partitions you have correct here are:
/dev/hda1 *  [ Your WinXP partition and the * means it is bootable ]
/dev/hda1 [ One of  your swap partitions and I say this is correct because 
it appears to be of the correct size ~ Usually no more than 1.5 times your RAM 
size if it is under 512MB ]
Now lets take your df printf: [ printf is syntax for echo or in other words ~ 
what you see returned to the screen when you issue a command seeking info. ]
FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 5.8G  1.7G  3.9G  30% /[ My rough math for the 
above table isn't to far off here afterall.]
/dev/hda9  12G  170M   12G   2% /home [ You must work out what you 
really will be using here because this is far to big at present  ~  only 170MB 
of 12000MB used so far.]
SO. 

Your WinXP partition does not get mounted when you boot up ~ you may prefer 
this but fstab has it entered.
Your hda6 partition doesn't get mounted so we need to discover which directory 
this relates to. [ See below ]
Your hda8, in my opinion is just wasted space at present.
Please try this:
Go K>>Configure Your Desktop>>Partitions  and tell me what you see 
there. If there is more there than /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda9, ( should at 
least be /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda8 ),
 then please make a note of what partitions are there AND what there 
sizes are, ( Usually in megabytes ~ [ MB ] ), as this will save having 
to work out partition sizes using the
 number of blocks reported by the fdisk command. { Went back and did 
that anyway but am still curious ]

Another thing to do is to mount that /dev/hda6 partition to find out 
what it is. So do as su:

# mkdir /mnt/hda6
# mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6  [ If this gives you errors then stop here 
and let me know what those errors are. ]
# cd /mnt/hda6
# ls   
Look at any directories listed here ( other than lost & found ) and tell 
me what they are please.

Not trying to crowd you so will stop here and await your replies.
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[newbie] re: newbie df

[Rosemary McGillicuddy]

Warnings well heeded.  I am almost too scared to do anything in Mandrake now - 
no just kidding.


[EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *   1236418988798+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda22423486519623397+   5  Extended
/dev/hda524233186 6136798+  83  Linux
/dev/hda648084854  377496   83  Linux
/dev/hda748554865   88326   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda831873326 1124518+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda93327480711896101   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

I can breathe now I am out of fdisk!

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[newbie] Re: LDAP server

[Anthony Brooks]

Derek Jennings wrote:

> Install the drakwizard package and then start Mandrake Control Centre
> There will be a new server section.
> In there is a wizard to set up LDAP for you.

Thanks Derek for the reply. I should of been a little more specific. I'm
still running 10.0 on my server. I do have a 10.1 box that I noticed the
LDAP server wizard but 10.0 doesn't have one. I just need some help getting
started. Reading all the google posts and faq's just left me confused :) 
Your postfix mail server configuration page was a great guide when I was
setting up my postfix server. I was looking for something like that for
LDAP.
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[newbie] Re: MySQL DB Connection to Open Office

[Russell Butler]

SOTL wrote:
Hi All
Well I have ascertained that the principal reason that I am unable to connect 
to a DB using OO is that Java is not installed in OO. Java is installed on 
the computer but the OO-1.9 installation did not recognize this so now the 
first issue is how does one install Java into OO.

Since there is a principal reason there must by necessity be as least one more 
reason which I am sorry to say is another installation issue of software into 
OO. It also appears that even though there are drivers for JDBC installed in 
OO-1.1 which is also installed on this box that OO-1.9 does not recognize 
these drivers existence so again the question is how does one go about 
installing these drivers into OO.

The issue is not where to down load Java or the drivers or which Java and 
drivers are needed but in how to install both Java and the JDBC drivers.

Would appreciate a little enlightnment of how one goes about making these 
installations.

Thanks
Frank

Hi Frank
Have you tried Tools-Options-OpenOffice.org-Java ?
On my installation OOo 2.0 Beta (1.9.79) this found my installed JRE, 
and gives the option to add others.

HTH
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Re: [newbie] Re: mp3s to wav/cd burning

[JoeHill]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:48:59 -0600
Mikkel L. Ellertson disseminated the following:

> > # mp3 functions
> > function mp3ren() { for i in *.mp3; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr ' '
> > '_'`;done; }
> > 
> > function mp3dec() { for i in *.mp3; do lame --decode $i `basename $i
> > .mp3`.wav;
> > done; }
> > 
> > First one removes spaces in the filenames and converts to LC, second
> > converts to
> > WAV.
> > 
> > Watch the line-wrap and the back-ticks :-)
> > 
> > 
> Wouldn't something like:
> 
> function mp3dec() { for i in *.mp3 ;
> do lame --decode "$i" "`basename \"$i\"  .mp3`.wav" ;
> done; }
> 
> handle names with spaces in them?

Oh, probably. You would know better than I. I copied these bits of code from the
Deadman.org site IIRC. Personally, I like my MP3 files to be renamed anyhow, for
future CLI functions. Filenames with spaces are a pain in the arse.

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Re: [newbie] Re: mp3s to wav/cd burning

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

JoeHill wrote:
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:15:52 +0100
Björn Lundin disseminated the following:

What do people use for making music cds from mp3s?
if you like the cli, make wavs with this script,
You do need sox and mpg123.
from there burn the wavs as usual 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mp3_lisa]$ cat /home/bnl/music/tools/mp32wav
#!/bin/bash
# mp32wav
BASENAME=${1%%.mp3}
mpg123 -b 1 -s $BASENAME.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 -
$BASENAME.wav

LAME has always worked very well in this regard for me, I have these in my
.bashrc
# mp3 functions
function mp3ren() { for i in *.mp3; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr ' '
'_'`;done; }
function mp3dec() { for i in *.mp3; do lame --decode $i `basename $i .mp3`.wav;
done; }
First one removes spaces in the filenames and converts to LC, second converts to
WAV.
Watch the line-wrap and the back-ticks :-)

Wouldn't something like:
function mp3dec() { for i in *.mp3 ;
do lame --decode "$i" "`basename \"$i\"  .mp3`.wav" ;
done; }
handle names with spaces in them?
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Re: [newbie] Re: mp3s to wav/cd burning

[JoeHill]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:15:52 +0100
Björn Lundin disseminated the following:

> > What do people use for making music cds from mp3s?
> 
> if you like the cli, make wavs with this script,
> You do need sox and mpg123.
> 
> from there burn the wavs as usual 
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mp3_lisa]$ cat /home/bnl/music/tools/mp32wav
> #!/bin/bash
> # mp32wav
>  BASENAME=${1%%.mp3}
>  mpg123 -b 1 -s $BASENAME.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 -
> $BASENAME.wav

LAME has always worked very well in this regard for me, I have these in my
.bashrc

# mp3 functions
function mp3ren() { for i in *.mp3; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr ' '
'_'`;done; }

function mp3dec() { for i in *.mp3; do lame --decode $i `basename $i .mp3`.wav;
done; }

First one removes spaces in the filenames and converts to LC, second converts to
WAV.

Watch the line-wrap and the back-ticks :-)

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[newbie] Re: mp3s to wav/cd burning

[Björn Lundin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What do people use for making music cds from mp3s?

if you like the cli, make wavs with this script,
You do need sox and mpg123.

from there burn the wavs as usual 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mp3_lisa]$ cat /home/bnl/music/tools/mp32wav
#!/bin/bash
# mp32wav
 BASENAME=${1%%.mp3}
 mpg123 -b 1 -s $BASENAME.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 -
$BASENAME.wav

# And the use is:
#
# mp32wav file.mp3



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[newbie] Re: One minor change - One major pain

[Mr. Geek]

Well, after a few hours of file-by-file comparison, I finally found the 
 right icon. Turns out that it's called 'menuk-mdk.png'. A quick 
renaming of the icon I prefer (no, it's NOT the Windows 'Start' button!) 
and the problem was solved.

Now, only 4 or 500 more icons to go, then I have to resize them to 6 
different sizes and it's all done! Phew! Glad the hard part's over!

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Re: [newbie] re: SSHD

[Duncan Anderson]

Mrexecutive wrote:
Hello Duncan,
I tried doing:
chkconfig --add sshd
but its telling me No such file or directory any idea what im  doing wrong?
I am logged in as su also :(
 

Hi
Try specifying the full path:
/sbin/chkconfig -- add sshd
or else, when you use "su", do it like this:
su -
The minus sign means that it will set up root's environment correctly,
so that /sbin and /usr/sbin are in the path.
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RE: [newbie] re: SSHD

[Mrexecutive]

Hello Duncan,

I tried doing:

chkconfig --add sshd

but its telling me No such file or directory any idea what im  doing wrong?
I am logged in as su also :(



-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Duncan Anderson
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 1:54 AM
To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com
Subject: Re: [newbie] re: SSHD

Mrexecutive wrote:

> Hello Guys,
>
>  
>
> I installed SSHD but forgot how to start it or can someone show me how 
> to put it in the autoexec file for linux so it does it upon start up?
>
>  
>
> Sorry im a newbie!
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
Go into the Mandrake Control Centre (Configure Your Computer) and go 
into the System section, then go into Services - Look for sshd and 
enable it.

Otherwise, from a root command prompt, type



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Re: [newbie] Re: Nokia 6800 connection

[Bryan Phinney]

On Monday 14 March 2005 16:23, Amy wrote:

> Indeed, my model does not have bluetooth. I would be using the data
> cable to connect it up. Do you have a program you use for things like
> contact book backup, loading pictures on your phone, etc?
>
> Part of the reason I'm asking on the list is that I am having trouble
> getting answers out of Google. I've tried, but my googling skills
> apparently suck and I can't get anything I can make heads or tails of.

I use kdebluetoothd for everything that my phone does.  I have made 
connections with the stock Nokia software under Win using my work computer 
but the Symbian OS can be used with Linux, just not quite as elegantly.  So, 
contacts can be sent and received from the phone using standard .vcf format.  
>From KDE Contacts, save one of your contacts in vcf format and you can then 
send that to the phone and from there, you can save it as a contact in the 
phone.  You can also send from the phone to your computer, again as .vcf and 
then import it into KDE.  For pictures, you simply send the picture to your 
phone or from your phone and it comes down or goes up as an image.  Same 
for .mid files for ringtones, etc. kdebluetooth comes with a file transfer 
agent using bluetooth that is very adequate.

None of this is material to you since you don't have bluetooth.  IR works as 
well on my phone but I haven't done any IR under Linux since my desktop 
machines don't have IR connectors.  I haven't ever used a data cable so I 
don't have any info about that, when I went shopping for a phone, I was 
specifically after bluetooth for obvious reasons.  However, according to my 
reading, your model has very limited PDA functions, so possibly you won't 
need to go as far down that path.

Try here:
http://devidal.tv/~chris/nokia_6800/

And, there is a Linux/Win tool called gnokii that is specifically for 
connectivity of phones and Nokia 6800 is supposed to be supported.
http://www.gnokii.org/

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Re: [newbie] re: SSHD

[Duncan Anderson]

Mrexecutive wrote:
Hello Guys,
 

I installed SSHD but forgot how to start it or can someone show me how 
to put it in the autoexec file for linux so it does it upon start up?

 

Sorry im a newbie!
 

 

 

 

 

Go into the Mandrake Control Centre (Configure Your Computer) and go 
into the System section, then go into Services - Look for sshd and 
enable it.

Otherwise, from a root command prompt, type
chkconfig --add sshd
cheers
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[newbie] re: SSHD

[Mrexecutive]

Hello Guys,

 

I installed SSHD but forgot how to start it or can someone
show me how to put it in the autoexec file for linux so it does it upon start
up?

 

Sorry im a newbie!

 

 

 

 

 

Re: [newbie] Re: Nokia 6800 connection

[Amy]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:34:57 -0500, Bryan Phinney
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 13 March 2005 18:16, Amy wrote:
> 
> > If anyone else is reading this, and has any experience with Nokias
> > directly, I'd appriciate it if you'd comment and let me know. Thanks!
> 
> I have a Nokia 6600.  It has IR and Bluetooth.  I have used bluetooth quite a
> lot and the connection to Linux is fine.  I can send files, receive files,
> contacts, etc.
> 
> However, IIRC, your model does not support bluetooth so the only connection
> method that I can see would be via cable.  Also, Nokia's software is usually
> freely available though it only works with Windows.  You should be able to
> find a lot of howto's for Linux by Googling.
> 
> --
> Bryan Phinney

Indeed, my model does not have bluetooth. I would be using the data
cable to connect it up. Do you have a program you use for things like
contact book backup, loading pictures on your phone, etc?

Part of the reason I'm asking on the list is that I am having trouble
getting answers out of Google. I've tried, but my googling skills
apparently suck and I can't get anything I can make heads or tails of.

Thanks!

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Re: [newbie] Re: Nokia 6800 connection

[Bryan Phinney]

On Sunday 13 March 2005 18:16, Amy wrote:

> If anyone else is reading this, and has any experience with Nokias
> directly, I'd appriciate it if you'd comment and let me know. Thanks!

I have a Nokia 6600.  It has IR and Bluetooth.  I have used bluetooth quite a 
lot and the connection to Linux is fine.  I can send files, receive files, 
contacts, etc.

However, IIRC, your model does not support bluetooth so the only connection 
method that I can see would be via cable.  Also, Nokia's software is usually 
freely available though it only works with Windows.  You should be able to 
find a lot of howto's for Linux by Googling.

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Re: [newbie] Re: Nokia 6800 connection

[Amy]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:21:23 -0600, skunge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Amy wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I want to connect my Nokia 6800 phone to my computer to put my own
> > images on it (the ones that came with it suck, and the ones I can
> > download are over priced for what they are), and I was wondering if
> > anyone's been able to connect a mobile phone to a computer running
> > Mandrake in order to upload pictures and sounds to it? More
> > specifically, has anyone gotten the Nokia 6800 connected correctly?
> >
> > I'm tight on money at the moment, and so I'd like to avoid spending
> > money on a data cable that's going to do me no good. I haven't had
> > much, if any luck, with what I saw on Google, and I didn't see
> > anything about connecting mobile phones in the list's Wiki.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help!
> >
> > Amy
> I can't speak to Nokia from experience, but I've gotten Samsung and
> Sanyo phones connected to Mandrake with bitpim
> (http://bitpim.sourceforge.net/). The bitpim site only indicates one
> Nokia phone model known to work, but states others may work, though they
> are untested. You'll need a USB cable made for your phone, and it looks
> like you can get one here:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5755884150&category=20366
> 
> I bought my cable on eBay, and it worked like a charm. The eBay
> knock-offs are about $50 less than the cable the phone vendors sell.
> 
> Good luck!
I can probably get the data cable I need through work, and only pay a
couple to a few dollars more than the cost of the cable you linked +
shipping. Maybe even about the same taking my employee discount into
consideration. Though, if I hadn't caught the subtext of the coupon
Nokia gave me when I registered my phone, I might have bought it from
them. They charge $49.95, and I have a coupon for $10 off, but it
requires me to spend $50 or more, and that usually doesn't round up
five cents. *shrugs* I'll look into the one at work though, thanks.

If anyone else is reading this, and has any experience with Nokias
directly, I'd appriciate it if you'd comment and let me know. Thanks!

Amy

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[newbie] Re: Nokia 6800 connection

[skunge]

Amy wrote:
Hey guys,
I want to connect my Nokia 6800 phone to my computer to put my own
images on it (the ones that came with it suck, and the ones I can
download are over priced for what they are), and I was wondering if
anyone's been able to connect a mobile phone to a computer running
Mandrake in order to upload pictures and sounds to it? More
specifically, has anyone gotten the Nokia 6800 connected correctly?
I'm tight on money at the moment, and so I'd like to avoid spending
money on a data cable that's going to do me no good. I haven't had
much, if any luck, with what I saw on Google, and I didn't see
anything about connecting mobile phones in the list's Wiki.
Thanks in advance for any help!
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I can't speak to Nokia from experience, but I've gotten Samsung and 
Sanyo phones connected to Mandrake with bitpim 
(http://bitpim.sourceforge.net/). The bitpim site only indicates one 
Nokia phone model known to work, but states others may work, though they 
are untested. You'll need a USB cable made for your phone, and it looks 
like you can get one here: 
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5755884150&category=20366

I bought my cable on eBay, and it worked like a charm. The eBay 
knock-offs are about $50 less than the cable the phone vendors sell.

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Re: [newbie] Re: Forum post

[Christopher Taylor]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:45:07 +, Anne Wilson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Monday 07 Mar 2005 13:59, Christopher Taylor wrote:
> > Anne,
> >
> > Thanks for getting back.  I had a problem last night and had to
> > re-install 10.1.
> 
> Unlike windows, you probably didn't need to.  However, there are times when,
> as a newbie, it's frankly the easiest option.  I did it a couple of times
> myself ;-)
> 
> > This time I selected everything available (game
> > station, work station, servers, etc.).  After installing, I went to
> > the control panel and went to Samba mounts.  I searched for servers
> > and the Windows pc was found.  Somewhere along the line it asked me
> > for a user, password, and domain.  I put this in and was able to mount
> > the two harddrives.  At this point I would have to say the problem is
> > solved.  I did not really add a Samba user, I just put in my regular
> > login info when it asked.  Is there anything else I should be doing?
> 
> This means that the windows box is acting as the server and you are the
> client.  That's fine until you want the Mandrake box to allow the windows box
> to see something.  Leave it for now - but don't wait until it's too urgent -
> and we'll help you get a basic samba set up when you need it.
> 
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> 
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Thanks.  RIght now the Windows box is headless.  It's just there so I
can access my old pictures and files.  From time to time my wife wants
to get on it to use Photo Impact.  At some point I may get a monitor
for it and give it to my son (8 yrs old).  At that point, I'll also
get another hardrive for this computer and back everything up there. 
I will probably keep Windows on that one as that is what he is
learning on in school.  Its only a 500MHz so everything is slow.  It
should be ok for what he'd need though.  It has Open Office and can
connect to the internet.  I don't see any need for it to see the Linux
box.  Who knows that the future may hold.

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Re: [newbie] Re: Forum post

[Anne Wilson]

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On Monday 07 Mar 2005 13:59, Christopher Taylor wrote:
> Anne,
>
> Thanks for getting back.  I had a problem last night and had to
> re-install 10.1.  

Unlike windows, you probably didn't need to.  However, there are times when, 
as a newbie, it's frankly the easiest option.  I did it a couple of times 
myself ;-)

> This time I selected everything available (game 
> station, work station, servers, etc.).  After installing, I went to
> the control panel and went to Samba mounts.  I searched for servers
> and the Windows pc was found.  Somewhere along the line it asked me
> for a user, password, and domain.  I put this in and was able to mount
> the two harddrives.  At this point I would have to say the problem is
> solved.  I did not really add a Samba user, I just put in my regular
> login info when it asked.  Is there anything else I should be doing?

This means that the windows box is acting as the server and you are the 
client.  That's fine until you want the Mandrake box to allow the windows box 
to see something.  Leave it for now - but don't wait until it's too urgent - 
and we'll help you get a basic samba set up when you need it.

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Re: [newbie] Re: Forum post

[Christopher Taylor]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 13:26:10 +, Anne Wilson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> 
> On Friday 04 Mar 2005 01:27, Christopher Taylor wrote:
> > > If you have already edited it, post a copy here.
> > >
> > > Have you added samba users yet?  Again, ask if you need help.
> > >
> > > Please also make it clear which windows version(s) are running on the
> > > other boxes - there may be slight differences in what's needed.
> > >
> Hi, Christopher.  Sorry for the delay - I've been away.
> 
> > Here is the contents of the file.  Sorry so big. I removed all lines
> > starting with "#" to try and reduce the size.  Should I have sent as
> > an attachment?
> >
> >
> >  [global]
> >  workgroup = MSHOME
> Check that this *exactly* matches the entries on your windows boxes.  Case
> sensitivity has messed up a lot of networks.  If you can, change the network
> name on all boxes to lower-case.  The reason for that is that windows doesn't
> always do what it says it's doing, and you need to be absolutely sure that
> the network name matches.
> 
> >  server string = Samba Server %v
> >  message command = /usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s
> If you don't use winpopup you can get rid of that one.
> 
> >  printcap name = cups
> >  load printers = yes
> >  printing = cups
> >  printer admin = @adm
> >  log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
> >  max log size = 50
> >  map to guest = bad user
> >  security = user
> >  encrypt passwords = yes
> >  smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
> >  unix password sync = Yes
> OK
> 
> >  pam password change = yes
> You probably don't need that.
> 
> >  passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *Re*ype*new*UNIX*password* %n\n \
> > ;*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
> >  username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
> I believe you only need that if you are mapping user names that you can't
> match across systems.  I'd comment it out unless you are certain you need it.
> 
> >  socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> OK
> 
> > /usr/share/samba/scripts/smbldap-groupshow.pl %g|awk '/^gidNumber:/ {print
> > $2}' dns proxy = no
> I doubt if you need that.
> 
> >  [homes]
> >  comment = Home Directories
> >  browseable = no
> >  writable = yes
> 
> > ;[printers]
> > ;comment = All Printers
> > ;path = /var/spool/samba
> > ;browseable = no
> Only needed if you are sharing printers across the network.
> > # to allow user 'guest account' to print.
> > ;guest ok = yes
> > ;writable = no
> > ;printable = yes
> > ;create mode = 0700
> > ;print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r   # using client side
> > printer drivers.
> > ;use client driver = yes
> > [print$]
> >path = /var/lib/samba/printers
> >browseable = yes
> >write list = @adm root
> >guest ok = yes
> >inherit permissions = yes
> But it probably doesn't make sense to have this enabled if the other bit
> isn't.  My printers section is:
> 
> [printers]
>   comment = All Printers
>   path = /var/spool/samba
>   browseable = no
> # to allow user 'guest account' to print.
>   guest ok = yes
>   writable = no
>   printable = yes
>   create mode = 0700
> # =
> # print command: see above for details.
> # =
>   print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r   # using client side printer
> drivers.
> #   print command = lpr-cups -P %p %s # using cups own drivers (use generic
> PostScript on clients).
> # If you install drivers on the server, you will want to uncomment this so
> # clients request the driver
>   use client driver = yes
> 
> [print$]
>   path = /var/lib/samba/printers
>   browseable = yes
>   write list = @adm root
>   guest ok = yes
>   inherit permissions = yes
>   # Settings suitable for Winbind:
>   # write list = @"Domain Admins" root
>   # force group = +@"Domain Admins"
> 
> but I do share printers.
> 
> > [pdf-gen]
> >path = /var/tmp
> >guest ok = No
> >printable = Yes
> >comment = PDF Generator (only valid users)
> >printing = bsd
> >printcap name = cups
> >#print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf file path
> > win_path recipient IP &
> >print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf "%s" "%H"
> > "//%L/%u" "%m" "%I" "%J" &
> > lpq command = /bin/true
> >
> > ;[tmp]
> > ;   comment = Temporary file space
> > ;   path = /tmp
> > ;   read only = no
> > ;   public = yes
> >
> >  [public]
> >  comment = Public Stuff
> >  path = /home/samba/public
> >  public = yes
> >  writable = no
> >  write list = @staff
> > ;[fredsprn]
> > ;   comment = Fred's Printer
> > ;   valid users = fred
> > ;   path = /homes/fred
> > ;   printer = freds_printer
> > ;   public = no
> > ;   writable = no
> > ;   printable = yes
> > ;[fredsdir]
> > ;   comment = Fred's Service
> > ;   path = /usr/somewhere/private
> > ;   valid users = fred
> > ;   public = no
> > ;   writable = yes
> > ;   printable = no
> > ;[pchome]
> > ;  comment = PC Directories

Re: [newbie] Re: various issues

[Rosemary McGillicuddy]

On Tuesday 01 Mar 2005 19:25, SnapafunFrank wrote:
> Mr. Geek wrote:
> > Russell Butler wrote:
> >> Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
> >>> Maybe I am being unecessarily  negative about linux.   But it
> >>> does seem that one has to work inordinately hard to achivee some
> >>> basic functions.   I have reverted to Kmail simply because I can't
> >>> get links to browser to open from Tbird.   It seems this may a Tbird
> >>> problem rather than Mandrake or linux.  Nonetheless - fixes
> >>> suggested, other than command line, which is beyond me as a newbie,
> >>> don't work.  I guess of course, that it's possible   that I am
> >>> entering text incorrectly.
> >>> At the moment I understand why linux has the reputation that it
> >>> has.  I *do* appreciate all the help I've had.
> >>>
> >>> Wondering about going back to windows 
> >>
> >> Hi Rosemary, I hear your frustration. The curve is pretty steep at
> >> first.
> >>
> >> A couple of points about CLI : Don't forget the Tab completion in the
> >> shell. If you start typing a link or a command, then hit Tab, it will
> >> show you the possible completions, and as you work along will fill
> >> everything in, correctly, because it only allows correct syntax.  Not
> >> a cure-all, but stops a lot of typos.
> >>
> >> The other feature of the konsole shell that I find can avoid typos is
> >> to highlight something you know you want to type, for instance a file
> >> found by "locate" then do Edit (from the menu in the top border) - Copy
> >> If you then do shift-insert it will paste the copied data into your
> >> shell. Can also work eg from browser links. I use it setting up my
> >> urpmi sources from http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/.  Saves a lot of
> >> potential errors.
> >>
> >> Saw this link a couple of days ago on MDK Expert list:
> >> http://www.bytecave.net/anders/guide/mpguide/TroubleShooting.html#Firefo
> >>xFromThunderbird
> >>
> >>
> >> Have a look, it may solve your T'bird/Firefox linking problem.
> >> Certainly worked for me, and (I hope) not too complex for a newbie.
> >>
> >> HTH
> >>
> >> Russell
> >
> > Actually, as long as you have the "gpm" package installed, you can
> > select (ie; highlight) text from virtually anywhere, move your mouse
> > into your shell, and either click (do not rotate, but depress) the
> > wheel on your mouse or simultaneously click both left and right
> > buttons at the same time. Whatever you had previously selected will
> > now show up in your shell.
> >
> > HTH's!
> >
> >
> > Mr. Geek
> > Registered Linux User #190712
>
> And a working example of that to get you using it because it is just
> great and easy: Open your konsole and :-
>
> $ slocate 
>
> As stated above : place the I bar cursor at the end of the last
> directory that contains the file name you want to go to : left click
> depress and hold : move the I bar to highlight the whole file name [ all
> the way to the left of the page ] : release left click.
>
> Now without doing or moving anything :
>
> Type " cd " and hit the space bar once : click the middle mouse button :
> and hit the enter key :
>
> Because you are inside a CLI your typing will default to the current
> command prompt automatically and your pasting will also default to the
> same command prompt line. No typo's:
>
> Now this example is only a exercise and I leave it to you to find the
> many uses it has when you are within the CLI.
>
> Enjoy, man, isn't Linux fun at times.

Thanks for these tips - added to my collection.  Yes - it's fun to try and 
learn ..
Rosemary


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Re: [newbie] Re: Forum post

[Eric Huff]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 20:27:18 -0500
Christopher Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Here is the contents of the file.  Sorry so big. I removed all
> lines starting with "#" to try and reduce the size.  Should I have
> sent as an attachment?

It's better to post as text than an attachment.  Not sure about
sympa, but some listservers don't even allow attachments.

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[newbie] Re: Forum post

[Christopher Taylor]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:18:35 +, Anne Wilson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Christopher, I just looked at your forum, particularly about the Samba
> problem.  I did see that someone advised you to use LinNeighborhood (this is
> one of several options for viewing shares) and assumed that I had missed
> something in the thread.  Neither LN nor anything else will help you if you
> have mistakes in your /etc/samba/smb.conf.  If you have not edited that file
> yet make a backup file (cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.orig)
> before you edit.  There's a lot of really useful comments in the file, but
> you will want a slimmer working copy.
> 
> If you have already edited it, post a copy here.
> 
> Have you added samba users yet?  Again, ask if you need help.
> 
> Please also make it clear which windows version(s) are running on the other
> boxes - there may be slight differences in what's needed.
> 
> Anne
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Here is the contents of the file.  Sorry so big. I removed all lines
starting with "#" to try and reduce the size.  Should I have sent as
an attachment?


 [global]
 workgroup = MSHOME
 server string = Samba Server %v
 message command = /usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s
 printcap name = cups
 load printers = yes
 printing = cups
 printer admin = @adm
 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
 max log size = 50
 map to guest = bad user
 security = user
 encrypt passwords = yes
 smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
 unix password sync = Yes
 pam password change = yes
 passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *Re*ype*new*UNIX*password* %n\n \
;*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
 username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
/usr/share/samba/scripts/smbldap-groupshow.pl %g|awk '/^gidNumber:/ {print $2}'
 dns proxy = no 
 [homes]
 comment = Home Directories
 browseable = no
 writable = yes
;[printers]
;comment = All Printers
;path = /var/spool/samba
;browseable = no
# to allow user 'guest account' to print.
;guest ok = yes
;writable = no
;printable = yes
;create mode = 0700
;print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r   # using client side
printer drivers.
;use client driver = yes
[print$]
   path = /var/lib/samba/printers
   browseable = yes
   write list = @adm root
   guest ok = yes
   inherit permissions = yes
[pdf-gen]
   path = /var/tmp
   guest ok = No
   printable = Yes
   comment = PDF Generator (only valid users)
   printing = bsd
   printcap name = cups
   #print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf file path
win_path recipient IP &
   print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf "%s" "%H"
"//%L/%u" "%m" "%I" "%J" &
lpq command = /bin/true

;[tmp]
;   comment = Temporary file space
;   path = /tmp
;   read only = no
;   public = yes

 [public]
 comment = Public Stuff
 path = /home/samba/public
 public = yes
 writable = no
 write list = @staff
;[fredsprn]
;   comment = Fred's Printer
;   valid users = fred
;   path = /homes/fred
;   printer = freds_printer
;   public = no
;   writable = no
;   printable = yes
;[fredsdir]
;   comment = Fred's Service
;   path = /usr/somewhere/private
;   valid users = fred
;   public = no
;   writable = yes
;   printable = no
;[pchome]
;  comment = PC Directories
;  path = /usr/pc/%m
;  public = no
;  writable = yes
;[myshare]
;   comment = Mary's and Fred's stuff
;   path = /usr/somewhere/shared
;   valid users = mary fred
;   public = no
;   writable = yes
;   printable = no
;   create mask = 0765

[HPPhotoSmart|HPPhotoSmart]
printer = HPPhotoSmart
comment = HPPhotoSmart
 printable = yes
browseable = no
create mode = 0700
writable = yes
guest ok = yes

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Re: [newbie] Re: various issues

[SnapafunFrank]

Mr. Geek wrote:
Russell Butler wrote:
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Maybe I am being unecessarily  negative about linux.   But it 
does seem that one has to work inordinately hard to achivee some 
basic functions.   I have reverted to Kmail simply because I can't 
get links to browser to open from Tbird.   It seems this may a Tbird 
problem rather than Mandrake or linux.  Nonetheless - fixes 
suggested, other than command line, which is beyond me as a newbie, 
don't work.  I guess of course, that it's possible   that I am 
entering text incorrectly.
At the moment I understand why linux has the reputation that it 
has.  I *do* appreciate all the help I've had.

Wondering about going back to windows 
Hi Rosemary, I hear your frustration. The curve is pretty steep at 
first.

A couple of points about CLI : Don't forget the Tab completion in the 
shell. If you start typing a link or a command, then hit Tab, it will 
show you the possible completions, and as you work along will fill 
everything in, correctly, because it only allows correct syntax.  Not 
a cure-all, but stops a lot of typos.

The other feature of the konsole shell that I find can avoid typos is 
to highlight something you know you want to type, for instance a file 
found by "locate" then do Edit (from the menu in the top border) - Copy
If you then do shift-insert it will paste the copied data into your 
shell. Can also work eg from browser links. I use it setting up my 
urpmi sources from http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/.  Saves a lot of 
potential errors.

Saw this link a couple of days ago on MDK Expert list:
http://www.bytecave.net/anders/guide/mpguide/TroubleShooting.html#FirefoxFromThunderbird 

Have a look, it may solve your T'bird/Firefox linking problem. 
Certainly worked for me, and (I hope) not too complex for a newbie.

HTH
Russell

Actually, as long as you have the "gpm" package installed, you can 
select (ie; highlight) text from virtually anywhere, move your mouse 
into your shell, and either click (do not rotate, but depress) the 
wheel on your mouse or simultaneously click both left and right 
buttons at the same time. Whatever you had previously selected will 
now show up in your shell.

HTH's!
Mr. Geek
Registered Linux User #190712
And a working example of that to get you using it because it is just 
great and easy: Open your konsole and :-

$ slocate 
As stated above : place the I bar cursor at the end of the last 
directory that contains the file name you want to go to : left click 
depress and hold : move the I bar to highlight the whole file name [ all 
the way to the left of the page ] : release left click.

Now without doing or moving anything :
Type " cd " and hit the space bar once : click the middle mouse button : 
and hit the enter key :

Because you are inside a CLI your typing will default to the current 
command prompt automatically and your pasting will also default to the 
same command prompt line. No typo's:

Now this example is only a exercise and I leave it to you to find the 
many uses it has when you are within the CLI.

Enjoy, man, isn't Linux fun at times.
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Regards
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Re: [newbie] Re: various issues

[Mr. Geek]

Russell Butler wrote:
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Maybe I am being unecessarily  negative about linux.   But it does 
seem that one has to work inordinately hard to achivee some basic 
functions.   I have reverted to Kmail simply because I can't get links 
to browser to open from Tbird.   It seems this may a Tbird problem 
rather than Mandrake or linux.  Nonetheless - fixes suggested, other 
than command line, which is beyond me as a newbie, don't work.  I 
guess of course, that it's possible   that I am entering text 
incorrectly.
At the moment I understand why linux has the reputation that it has.  
I *do* appreciate all the help I've had.

Wondering about going back to windows 
Hi Rosemary, I hear your frustration. The curve is pretty steep at first.
A couple of points about CLI : Don't forget the Tab completion in the 
shell. If you start typing a link or a command, then hit Tab, it will 
show you the possible completions, and as you work along will fill 
everything in, correctly, because it only allows correct syntax.  Not a 
cure-all, but stops a lot of typos.

The other feature of the konsole shell that I find can avoid typos is to 
highlight something you know you want to type, for instance a file found 
by "locate" then do Edit (from the menu in the top border) - Copy
If you then do shift-insert it will paste the copied data into your 
shell. Can also work eg from browser links. I use it setting up my urpmi 
sources from http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/.  Saves a lot of potential errors.

Saw this link a couple of days ago on MDK Expert list:
http://www.bytecave.net/anders/guide/mpguide/TroubleShooting.html#FirefoxFromThunderbird 

Have a look, it may solve your T'bird/Firefox linking problem. Certainly 
worked for me, and (I hope) not too complex for a newbie.

HTH
Russell
Actually, as long as you have the "gpm" package installed, you can 
select (ie; highlight) text from virtually anywhere, move your mouse 
into your shell, and either click (do not rotate, but depress) the wheel 
on your mouse or simultaneously click both left and right buttons at the 
same time. Whatever you had previously selected will now show up in your 
shell.

HTH's!
Mr. Geek
Registered Linux User #190712

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[newbie] Re: various issues

[Russell Butler]

Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Maybe I am being unecessarily  negative about linux.   But it does seem 
that one has to work inordinately hard to achivee some basic functions.   I 
have reverted to Kmail simply because I can't get links to browser to open 
from Tbird.   It seems this may a Tbird problem rather than Mandrake or 
linux.  Nonetheless - fixes suggested, other than command line, which is 
beyond me as a newbie, don't work.  I guess of course, that it's possible   
that I am entering text incorrectly.
At the moment I understand why linux has the reputation that it has.  I *do* 
appreciate all the help I've had.

Wondering about going back to windows 
Hi Rosemary, I hear your frustration. The curve is pretty steep at first.
A couple of points about CLI : Don't forget the Tab completion in the 
shell. If you start typing a link or a command, then hit Tab, it will 
show you the possible completions, and as you work along will fill 
everything in, correctly, because it only allows correct syntax.  Not a 
cure-all, but stops a lot of typos.

The other feature of the konsole shell that I find can avoid typos is to 
highlight something you know you want to type, for instance a file found 
by "locate" then do Edit (from the menu in the top border) - Copy
If you then do shift-insert it will paste the copied data into your 
shell. Can also work eg from browser links. I use it setting up my urpmi 
sources from http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/.  Saves a lot of potential errors.

Saw this link a couple of days ago on MDK Expert list:
http://www.bytecave.net/anders/guide/mpguide/TroubleShooting.html#FirefoxFromThunderbird
Have a look, it may solve your T'bird/Firefox linking problem. Certainly 
worked for me, and (I hope) not too complex for a newbie.

HTH
Russell


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[newbie] Re: gimp2.2 urpmi

[Russell Butler]

Josenildo Marques wrote:
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 10:12 +1100, Russell Butler wrote:
Hello all
Trying to update gimp 2 to 2.2, on MDK 10.1 system
I have uninstalled 2.0, urpmi gimp2_2 downloaded from Charles' site OK,
but trying to run it I get:
symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/gimp-2.2: undefined symbol:
gimp_enum_set_value_descriptions
Seems to be libgimp version has not updated?
( /usr/lib/ contains libgimp-2.0.so.0 ) For some reason urpmi seems to
have failed me.
Any help please?
Russell

I had the same problem.
Just urpmi libgimp2.0 and it'll work.
Charles told me he is going to changes the requirements as soon as
possible.
Thank you gentlemen, had a bit of fiddling with rpm -F to get it set up, 
but running now.

Russell


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[newbie] Re: I want to migrate to Mandrake

[Teilhard Knight]

- Original Message - 
From: "Miark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] I want to migrate to Mandrake


On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:59:35 -0600, Teilhard wrote:
I cannot set wireless Internet in computer1. Now computer2
which uses the  same wireless adapter than computer1 (SMC2662W)
has Internet and works just  fine. Neither machine lists the
adapter in Hardwaredrake.
They probably do with usbview.
The protocol in  the machine where
the adapter works is wlan(0). If I go to Mandrake Control
Centre (Configure your Computer) and I select "Manage
Connections" it  doesn't give the driver the connection is
using, so, I cannot know what to  try in the computer1. I know
(If I am mistaken please correct me) that this  device is an
Orinoco device. Well, none of the Orinoco drivers work in
computer1.
Yes, I've had the same experience. I have a a USB wireless
adapter that uses prism_usb, but I cannot set up the driver
manually using it. I doubt it's a driver problem, though.
To end, the adapter SMC2662W is an USB adapter, and
I am using  Mandrake 10.1.
Ah. I hid a similar problem. I installed a wireless USB NIC on a
machine, then had to reinstall 10.1 after a nasty power outage.
After the re-install, I had a very tough time getting it to
configure.
What I ended up doing was using Mandrake Control Center to set it
up as a LAN connection (not WLAN!). It spotted the USB NIC fine.
Then to get it working on my network, I used a small app called
wlanfe which allows you to configure the wireless connection.
That got it completely working. Then, once it was working, active
connection, I went back to mcc, added a real wlan connection, and
mcc found it just fine. I can't remember if I set up the wireless
stuff at that point or had to go to manage connections after
that. But that was the basic procedure: add it as a lan
connection, get the connection actually working with wlanfe, then
re-add the connection as a wlan connection, and optionally
configure it with Manage Connections if need be.
Thanks a lot for your feedback, Miark. I got me the Wlanfe little program
and I proceeded to follow your example, but I simply do not have an idea of
how to configure the wireless nick as a lan nic. When I am in the MCC I get,
for lan, the choice of configuring my Ethernet card and configure manually.
I have tried to avoid configuring the Ethernet card because it is completely
identified as an Ethernet card and I do not see the way to end with a Wlan
device instead. Well, then I go to "manual" configuration and it is the same
story as for trying for the wireless nic instead. No driver works at all and
the Wlanfe simply remains idle. Is there any way you can help me by
describing with more detail what you did? Your help will be greatly
appreciated.
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[newbie] Re: Using rsync with web files

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:16:41 +, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it possible to use rsync to have a web file like the one below
> 
> http://www.perce.de/LaTeX/pstricks-add/pstricks-add-doc.pdf
> 
> always updated on my computer?

I have just noticed that wget does that.

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[newbie] Re: new MDK installs get to reboot in rw mode then "PERMISSION DENIED"

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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It would appear that on Jan 26, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say to et:

> IF however, somebody is willing to try to help me debug the problem I
> experienced when I tried to do a clean install from the powerpack cd set
> of MDK 10.1, I will cheerfully clear out my live storage archive space
> on the partition I normally mount at /theBigTmp (I've had temporarily
> restored linux systems {slackware 8.0, Redhat 9, MDK 8.2} boot and run
> there before...) 
> 
> Filesystem   1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdc1015401436  11586784   3032292  80% /theBigTmp
> 
> And see if a new clean install confined to /dev/hdc10 will duplicate the
> problem I had when I tried to install it to /dev/hda4...
> 
> Are you willing??

Please pardon the delay in my response I allowed my personal life to
intrude and didn't get to use my computer (except to efile) for about a
month...

Thing is, while several attempts to install from the same powerpack set
of mdk10.1 to the {primary} non-dos partition /dev/hda4 failed to yield
bootable results. I was (once I cleaned it out) able to make a clean
install to my "theBigTmp" backup storage {logical drive in the extended
dos} partition at /dev/hdc10 And once it existed it only took tar and a
little editing to make a restored mdk10.1 to work on /dev/hda4... ??? ...

I'd appreciate any clues to why the installer didn't like /dev/hda4 but
had no problem with /dev/hdc10 

fdisk reports:

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *   1 638 5124703+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 6391217 4650817+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda31218316215623212+  83  Linux
/dev/hda43163486513679347+  83  Linux
/dev/hda5 6391021 3076416b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda610221148 1020096   83  Linux
/dev/hda711491217  554211   82  Linux swap

Disk /dev/hdc: 61.4 GB, 61492838400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7476 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1   *   1 261 20964516  FAT16
/dev/hdc2 262358626708062+   5  Extended
/dev/hdc33587553115623212+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc45532747615623212+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc5 262 366  843381   83  Linux
/dev/hdc6 367 427  489951   83  Linux
/dev/hdc7 428 792 2931831   83  Linux
/dev/hdc8 7931400 4883728+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc914011522  979933+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc10   1523347015647278+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc11   34713586  931738+  82  Linux swap

In any case thank you one and all for the helpful suggestions.


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[newbie] Re: upgrade 8.2 to 10.1: Error, some other host already uses address 127.0.0.1.

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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It would appear that on Jan 26, Richard Urwin did say:

> I may be way behind the boat here, but it sounds like the entry 
> in /etc/hosts for 127.0.0.1 does not use the same hostname as you have 
> selected for your machine.

Please pardon the delay in my response I allowed my personal life to
intrude and didn't get to use my computer (except to efile) for about a
month...

I saw in another thread some very good reasons to do a clean install (my
original choice anyway) over updating even upgrading mdk 9.1, never mind
8.2... the things with udev were sufficient for me to return my focus
toward a clean install...

Which I have accomplished!

In any case thank you one and all for the helpful suggestions.


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[newbie] Re: How to program shell scripts?

[Jonesy]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:36:30 -0600, Avi Schwartz wrote:
> Paul Smith wrote:
>
>>I would like to learn how to program shell scripts. Could someone
>>here please recommend me a good site with information to start with?
>
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
>
> http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/
>
> http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

And, start reading:   comp.unix.shell

...which really ain't just about Unix.

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RE: [newbie] Re: unsupported scanner

[steve.goodey]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kaj Haulrich
> Sent: 14 February 2005 10:25
> To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: unsupported scanner
> 
> 
> On Monday 14 February 2005 11:10, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
> > >e can select a related
> > >model of the same make and get it running.
> >
> > Canon 3000F - and I had wondered about using related driver.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Rosemary
> >
> 
> Seems to be a USB scanner.  In your place I would give it a try with 
> xsane.  Eventually, try Vuescan from Hamrick Software.
> 
> Kaj Haulrich.

Tried xsane, but it says this scanner is not supported. Will try another
model just in case and also will look up Vuescan. Thanks for the
suggestion.

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RE: [newbie] Re: Error in autoinstall "Oops, no root partition"

[Bambang A. B. Sarif]

Thank you for your reply.

I have 80G harddrive and 1G memory. I need to install two operating 
systems (two linux distros) in the workstation. So, 60G will be
allocated 
for mandrake while the rest for the the other.

I tried to remove the partitions part and put the following:
   'partitioning' => {
   'auto_allocate' => 1,
   'clearall' => 1,
   'eraseBadPartitions' => 0
 },

But this configuration gave me the same error. 

Btw, I used the partition information from auto install disk I created 
when I finished installing mandrake manually without any problem.

Regards,

Bambang

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From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Brooks
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 4:07 PM
To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com
Subject: [newbie] Re: Error in autoinstall "Oops, no root partition"


Bambang A. B. Sarif wrote:

> I followed the instruction in the following web site: 
> http://members.shaw.ca/mandrake/drakx/HTML/index.html
> However, the installation failed at the partitioning steps with error 
> message: Oops, no root partition at
> /usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps.pm line 204
> 
> I tried with auto_allocate => 1 (at 'partitioning') with the same 
> result. Is there anything wrong with my auto_inst.cfg file? Because 
> everything was fine if I did the installation with what I called 
> semi-automatic installation (in which I load the list of packages from

> floppy and perform
> everything else manually).

Looking at your auto_inst.cfg, do you have enough room for the
partitions its trying to create? According to your file, its trying to
make: 43G / 2G swap 2G /tmp 2G /var 10G /export/tools total around 60
GB. Depending on your memory in the computer and what you have planned,
that's probably not a good partition scheme anyway. Anyway, I would
start there...looking at the size of the harddrive and what partitions
are trying to be created.
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[newbie] Re: Mandrake 10.1 Web Server - allowing access

[Anthony Brooks]

Tango Echo wrote:

> Install went fine using the "Higher" security level.
> However, I am unable to ssh into the box even though
> the service is running.  A quick look into the
> hosts.deny and it's set for ALL.  Changes to this file
> only seem to be reverted back thanks to msec.
> 

Make the changes to the hosts.allow not hosts.deny

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[newbie] Re: Error in autoinstall "Oops, no root partition"

[Anthony Brooks]

Bambang A. B. Sarif wrote:

> I followed the instruction in the following web site:
> http://members.shaw.ca/mandrake/drakx/HTML/index.html
> However, the installation failed at the partitioning steps with
> error message:
> Oops, no root partition at
> /usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps.pm line 204
> 
> I tried with auto_allocate => 1 (at 'partitioning') with the same
> result.
> Is there anything wrong with my auto_inst.cfg file? Because everything
> was fine if I did the installation with what I called semi-automatic
> installation (in which I load the list of packages from floppy and
> perform
> everything else manually).

Looking at your auto_inst.cfg, do you have enough room for the partitions
its trying to create? According to your file, its trying to make:
43G /
2G swap
2G /tmp
2G /var
10G /export/tools
total around 60 GB. Depending on your memory in the computer and what you
have planned, that's probably not a good partition scheme anyway. Anyway, I
would start there...looking at the size of the harddrive and what
partitions are trying to be created.
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Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:54:09 -0500, Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Is there some way of downloading at once all the files on a
> > > http address? For instance, consider the following address:
> > >
> > > http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/
> 
> If you use Firefox, I use an extension called downTHEMall! which
> works kinda like FlashGet in Winblows. It'll give you a list of
> downloadable items, and you can check them one-by-one, or specify
> by extension or type (such as "images"). Quite handy. I used it
> today for the very same purpose.

Thanks, Miark.

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Re: [newbie] Re: unsupported scanner

[Rosemary McGillicuddy]

   

Seems to be a USB scanner.  In your place I would give it a try with 
xsane.  Eventually, try Vuescan from Hamrick Software.
 

Yes -it is USB.  My priority just now is Internet access, which is 
proving elusive!
Thanks
Rosemary

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Re: [newbie] Re: unsupported scanner

[Kaj Haulrich]

On Monday 14 February 2005 11:10, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
> >e can select a related
> >model of the same make and get it running.
>
> Canon 3000F - and I had wondered about using related driver.
>
> Cheers
> Rosemary
>

Seems to be a USB scanner.  In your place I would give it a try with 
xsane.  Eventually, try Vuescan from Hamrick Software.

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Re: [newbie] Re: unsupported scanner

[Rosemary McGillicuddy]

e can select a related 
model of the same make and get it running.
 

Canon 3000F - and I had wondered about using related driver.
Cheers
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[newbie] Re: unsupported scanner

[Kaj Haulrich]

On Monday 14 February 2005 01:50, you wrote:
> >No, scanners use *sane* (Scanner Access Now Easy) as a backend.
> >You'll have to install that in order to scan.  Furthermore, look
> >here to see if your scanner is supported :
> >
> >http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl
> >
> >Then, urpmi Charles' xsane & xsane-gimp
> >
> >Enjoy
> >
> >Kaj Haulrich.
>
> Checked that page and scanner is unsupported.  Does this mean I
> will never get it going, or just that it would be a fiddle to do
> it?
>
> Thanks
> Rosemary

What scanner would that be ?  -  Sometimes one can select a related 
model of the same make and get it running.

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Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

[Miark]

> > Is there some way of downloading at once all the files on a
> > http address? For instance, consider the following address:
> > 
> > http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/

If you use Firefox, I use an extension called downTHEMall! which
works kinda like FlashGet in Winblows. It'll give you a list of
downloadable items, and you can check them one-by-one, or specify
by extension or type (such as "images"). Quite handy. I used it
today for the very same purpose.

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[newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

[Yvan]

Hello Paul,

I think w3mir will do what you want. Should be included in the Mandrake
distribution

On 11.02.2005, you wrote:

> Dear All
> 
> Is there some way of downloading at once all the files on a http
> address? For instance, consider the following address:
> 
> http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Paul
> 
> PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list.
> 
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Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:24:52 +0100, Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is there a way of selecting the files to download by its
> > extension, i.e., can one download only rpm files, for instance?
> 
> As far as I remember one can add the option :
>  --restrict-file-names or some such (I don't have access to the
> manpages right now), but it should be doable.  Try man wget if
> you've got the manpages.

The following works:

wget -r --no-parent --accept *.rpm http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/

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Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

[Kaj Haulrich]

On Saturday 12 February 2005 23:45, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:13:54 +0100, Kaj Haulrich 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Well, Dennis, I do have a urpmi source set up for contrib
> > > rpms, but it does not have gwget. What urpmi source for
> > > contrib rpms do you use?
> >
> > I've got it here:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/offi
> >cial/10.1/i586/media/contrib/
>
> Thanks, Kaj. It is strange, but the mirror I use does not have
> gwget.
>
> Is there a way of selecting the files to download by its
> extension, i.e., can one download only rpm files, for instance?
>
> Paul

As far as I remember one can add the option :
 --restrict-file-names or some such (I don't have access to the 
manpages right now), but it should be doable.  Try man wget if 
you've got the manpages.

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Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:13:54 +0100, Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well, Dennis, I do have a urpmi source set up for contrib rpms,
> > but it does not have gwget. What urpmi source for contrib rpms do
> > you use?
> 
> I've got it here:
> 
> ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/contrib/

Thanks, Kaj. It is strange, but the mirror I use does not have gwget.

Is there a way of selecting the files to download by its extension,
i.e., can one download only rpm files, for instance?

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Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

[Kaj Haulrich]

On Saturday 12 February 2005 21:22, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:57:48 -0600, Dennis Myers
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It is in "contrib" if you have a urpmi source set up for the
> > contrib rpms, just do the su  passwd   and "urpmi gwget". HTH
>
> Well, Dennis, I do have a urpmi source set up for contrib rpms,
> but it does not have gwget. What urpmi source for contrib rpms do
> you use?
>
> Paul

I've got it here:

ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/contrib/

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Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:57:48 -0600, Dennis Myers
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is in "contrib" if you have a urpmi source set up for the contrib rpms,
> just do the su  passwd   and "urpmi gwget". HTH

Well, Dennis, I do have a urpmi source set up for contrib rpms, but it
does not have gwget. What urpmi source for contrib rpms do you use?

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Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

[Dennis Myers]

On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:35 pm, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:34:22 -0500, JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Thanks to all who replied me. Is there a GUI for wget?
> >
> > urpmi gwget or gwget2
>
> Thanks, JoeHill. Could you please tell me where from can one get the
> rpm for gwget?
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
It is in "contrib" if you have a urpmi source set up for the contrib rpms, 
just do the su  passwd   and "urpmi gwget". HTH

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Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:34:22 -0500, JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thanks to all who replied me. Is there a GUI for wget?
> 
> urpmi gwget or gwget2

Thanks, JoeHill. Could you please tell me where from can one get the
rpm for gwget?

Regards,

Paul


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Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

[JoeHill]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:31:46 +
Paul Smith disseminated the following:

> > > Is there some way of downloading at once all the files on a http
> > > address? For instance, consider the following address:
> >  So, either
> >  wget -r . http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/
> >  or
> >  wget -r . ftp://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/
> > 
> > ...whichever suits your purpose.
> 
> Thanks to all who replied me. Is there a GUI for wget?

urpmi gwget or gwget2

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Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:42:52 + (UTC), Jonesy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is there some way of downloading at once all the files on a http
> > address? For instance, consider the following address:
>  So, either
>  wget -r . http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/
>  or
>  wget -r . ftp://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/
> 
> ...whichever suits your purpose.

Thanks to all who replied me. Is there a GUI for wget?

Paul

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[newbie] Re: E-mail program with the possibility of deleting attachments

[Jonesy]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:27:33 +, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 11 Feb 2005 19:24, Ian wrote:
>> On Friday 11 Feb 2005 16:58, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> > On Friday 11 Feb 2005 14:07, Ian wrote:
>> > > On Friday 11 Feb 2005 11:39, Paul Smith wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > I am looking for a good e-mail program with the possibility of
>> > > > deleting attachments out of the messages. Is there such a thing? I
>> > > > have happily used Mozilla Thunderbird, but it does not have the 
>> > > > above mentioned feature.
>> > >
>> > > Kontact does that .
>> >
>> > How/where?
>>
>> Click forward, the attachments show at the bottom of the mail.simply
>> hit delete. Well, it does here..
>
> Ah, yes.  I've done that.  I thought the OP meant the ability to delete an
> attachment on stored messages.

In pine, whilst view the message, use ">" to view a list of all attachments.  
Select and "D"elete the one(s) you wish.  _Then_ , backout to the message 
body view and "S"ave the sucker into the same folder (or, some other - as 
you wish).  You'll be warned that the saved message will not contain the 
attachment(s).  "Y"es, you understand.  Bingo!  The message is saved anew, 
and the old message -- the one you're viewing -- the one with the unwanted 
attachment(s) -- is marked for "D"eletion.

Takes *WAY LONGER* in the telling than in the doing!

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[newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

[Jonesy]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:49:54 +, Paul Smith wrote:
>
> Is there some way of downloading at once all the files on a http
> address? For instance, consider the following address:

 man wget

 
 `-r' 
 `--recursive' 
 Turn on recursive retrieving. 

 GNU Wget is capable of traversing parts of the Web (or a single 
 HTTP or FTP server), depth-first following links and directory 
 structure. This is called recursive retrieving, or recursion. 

 When retrieving an FTP URL recursively, Wget will retrieve all
 the data from the given directory tree (including the subdirectories 
 up to the specified depth) on the remote server, creating its mirror 
 image locally. 


 So, either
 wget -r . http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/
 or
 wget -r . ftp://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/

...whichever suits your purpose.
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Re: [newbie] Re: A little light in the EU darkness

[Kaj Haulrich]

On Saturday 05 February 2005 23:58, Björn Lundin wrote:
> Anders Lind wrote:
> > I am perhaps treading in on MandrakeOT-domains here but I do
> > get the feeling that the dane doesn't like EU ;o)
>
> And still they joined in '73 I think. However the most EU hostile
> (within EU) country in most polls are Sweden, which should ring a
> bell to Anders, I guess :)
>
> > /Anders

Correct. Denmark joined in 1973 after a very marginal "yes" 
referendum.  And we still keep our distance from much of the EU 
rigmarole like military, police, monetary and environmental 
matters.  I don't know how Sweden fares, but last I looked they 
still have their own currency.  The brightest of the Nordic states 
however is Norway and Iceland, who are still free countries.

Luckily, the EU is about to self-destruct.

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[newbie] Re: A little light in the EU darkness

[Björn Lundin]

Anders Lind wrote:

> I am perhaps treading in on MandrakeOT-domains here but I do get the
> feeling that the dane doesn't like EU ;o)
And still they joined in '73 I think. However the most EU hostile (within
EU) country in most polls are Sweden, which should ring a bell to Anders, I
guess :)

> 
> /Anders

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Re: [newbie] re sagem

[mx-7]

Hi Dave,

Sorry here are the command:

1. eagleconfig to configure the USB Modem
2. Choose your encapsulation via country no.
3. Input your login/password
4. Select whether your ISP support encryption login.
5. eagle ctrl -w to initialized the modem
6. startadsl

Good luck

Regards,
Christan


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> hi christian
> i put in the commands you did and came up with the following
> bash: eagleusb: command not found
> any suggestions
> 
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[newbie] re sagem

[id1davewp]

hi christian
i put in the commands you did and came up with the following
bash: eagleusb: command not found
any suggestions

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Re: [newbie] re sagem modem

[mx-7]

Hi Dave,

Sorry to response so late. Do you need more information about the installation?

Regards,
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> please contact me regarding the instalation you did with the sagem modem
> 
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> 
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[newbie] re sagem modem

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hi christian
please contact me regarding the instalation you did with the sagem modem

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Re: [newbie] re sagem

[mx-7]

Hi Dave,

I have successfully managed to get connected. I have found that the
connection wizard corrupts the config file, however you should do the
connection wizard absolutely. Then afterwards, you just need to go to
your Konsole and log as root with following procedures:

1. Type eagleusb config
2. Select your Country with related encapsulation.
3. Enter your login & password
4. Type eagleusb -ctrl to initialised the USB Modem, or you could skip
it and type: startadsl

No matter what it connects and does not even desynchronised. I didnot
even install a newever version of the driver. For those who got their
modem desynch, you have wrongly input the encapsulation for your ISP,
that's all.

Regards,
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On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:22:29 +, Dave Needham
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi christian
> i use the sagem dsl modem and have it working 100%
> i just added these ip addresses to the settings in control panel for my isp
> tiscali
> first dsn 214.74.112.66
> scnd dns 80.225.252.178
> third dns optional 80.225.252.178
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Re: [newbie] Re: installation problem

[Erylon Hines]

On Monday 31 January 2005 12:20 am, Cyber Killer wrote:
| Cyber Killer wrote:
| > Elwyn wrote:
| >> The later versions might have new drivers that are causing problems.
| >>
| >> When I've been trying to sort these little problems out with PCs I try
| >> changing the hardware around just in case...
| >
| > OK I'll try, but, I've always been using XFree4 and never had any
| > problems :-P
| >
| > I'll say how it came out in a couple of days
|
| OK, I switched the gfx cards (I borrowed a GF4 Ti from a friend) and
| guess what? It didn't work :-(
|
| Replacing all my hardware one by one is a way of getting to the problem,
| but I was hoping that someone may have a better solution. Even if I'd
| find the part that is causing the problem this way, replacing it is out
| of the question right now (ca$h problems ;-P ).
|
| Anyone has any other ideas?

Drop back to a 2.4.x kernel.  The 2.6 kernel seems to have a lot of problems 
(on Mandrake and Debian, anyway--'course Deb says it isn't ready for stable).

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Re: [newbie] Re: installation problem

[Elwyn]

On Monday 31 Jan 2005 08:20, Cyber Killer wrote:
> Cyber Killer wrote:
> > Elwyn wrote:
> >> The later versions might have new drivers that are causing problems.
> >>
> >> When I've been trying to sort these little problems out with PCs I try
> >> changing the hardware around just in case...
> >
> > OK I'll try, but, I've always been using XFree4 and never had any
> > problems :-P
> >
> > I'll say how it came out in a couple of days
>
> OK, I switched the gfx cards (I borrowed a GF4 Ti from a friend) and
> guess what? It didn't work :-(

Oh dear. The B word springs to mind. At least you tried it...

>
> Replacing all my hardware one by one is a way of getting to the problem,
> but I was hoping that someone may have a better solution. Even if I'd
> find the part that is causing the problem this way, replacing it is out
> of the question right now (ca$h problems ;-P ).
>
> Anyone has any other ideas?

Sorry, not at this time.

Elwyn


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[newbie] Re: installation problem

[Cyber Killer]

Cyber Killer wrote:
Elwyn wrote:

The later versions might have new drivers that are causing problems.
When I've been trying to sort these little problems out with PCs I try 
changing the hardware around just in case...

OK I'll try, but, I've always been using XFree4 and never had any 
problems :-P

I'll say how it came out in a couple of days
OK, I switched the gfx cards (I borrowed a GF4 Ti from a friend) and 
guess what? It didn't work :-(

Replacing all my hardware one by one is a way of getting to the problem, 
but I was hoping that someone may have a better solution. Even if I'd 
find the part that is causing the problem this way, replacing it is out 
of the question right now (ca$h problems ;-P ).

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Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM -- SPOKE TOO SOON

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Miark wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:25:14 -0500, Miark wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:17:57 -0600, Mikkel wrote:

Miark wrote:
Does Powershell set TERM to any value? If it sets it to a
terminal type  that isn't defined, there is hope...
If TERM isn't defined, you may be able to add something to
.bashrc -  something like (untested)
if [ ! $TERM ] ; then export TERM=xterm ; fi

An "echo $TERM" replied "dumb" so I thought it did define one,
but I tried your trick in .bashrc and voila! It works!!

Okay, false alarm. During my test, I opened powershell _from_
konsole, so it worked because konsole exported TERM. When I opened 
powershell from the XFCE launch bar directly, it failed.
So I'm back to square one.

Miark
Well, that is easy to fix.  Change it to:
if [ $TERM = "dumb" ] ; then export TERM=xterm ; fi
One thing to keep in mind - if Powerterm is setting TERM to dumb, then 
it probably does not support some of the terminal functions of xterm. So 
some programs may not work correctly. There really is a terminal 
definition called "dumb", with its own description of terminal 
capabilities.

On looking at this, I realized that I didn't explain what the first and 
second versions do. I usually try to explain when I post on the newbie 
list...

On the first version, the "[ ! $TERM ]" test checks to see if the 
variable $TERM has a value. the ! before $TERM basicly inverts the test, 
so you execute the commands if $TERM in not set. So if $TERM=xterm, 
$TERM=dumb, , or $TERM is set to anything else, you do not change it.

On the new version, "[ $TERM="dumb" ]" says check if $TERM is set to 
dumb, and if it is, change it to xterm.

The export TERM=xterm does two things in one command. It sets $TERM to 
xterm, and exports it so that the value stays set after .bashrc is run. 
If you do not export the value, then it is lost as soon as the script exits.

One other point - this will only work if you are using bash as your 
shell. This is the default on MDK, but you can change it. If you do, 
then .bashrc is no longer run when you open a terminal window...

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Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM -- REALLY SOLVED!

[Miark]

> Well, that is easy to fix.  Change it to:
> 
> if [ $TERM = "dumb" ] ; then export TERM=xterm ; fi

_THAT_ did it!! Hurray!

> One thing to keep in mind - if Powerterm is setting TERM to
> dumb, then  it probably does not support some of the terminal
> functions of xterm. So  some programs may not work correctly.
> There really is a terminal  definition called "dumb", with its
> own description of terminal capabilities.

At this point I only really care about less, clear, and
MicroEMACS, and they all seem to work fine so far, so I'm
happy as a proverbial pig.

Thanks much!

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Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM -- SPOKE TOO SOON

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Miark wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:25:14 -0500, Miark wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:17:57 -0600, Mikkel wrote:

Miark wrote:
Does Powershell set TERM to any value? If it sets it to a
terminal type  that isn't defined, there is hope...
If TERM isn't defined, you may be able to add something to
.bashrc -  something like (untested)
if [ ! $TERM ] ; then export TERM=xterm ; fi
An "echo $TERM" replied "dumb" so I thought it did define one,
but I tried your trick in .bashrc and voila! It works!!

Okay, false alarm. During my test, I opened powershell _from_
konsole, so it worked because konsole exported TERM. When I 
opened powershell from the XFCE launch bar directly, it failed.
So I'm back to square one.

Miark
Well, that is easy to fix.  Change it to:
if [ $TERM = "dumb" ] ; then export TERM=xterm ; fi
One thing to keep in mind - if Powerterm is setting TERM to dumb, then 
it probably does not support some of the terminal functions of xterm. So 
some programs may not work correctly. There really is a terminal 
definition called "dumb", with its own description of terminal capabilities.

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